Litchfield enquirer., 1857-08-27
News of the Week.

driven from church in consequence of his course in regard to the beating of slave named Anthony, by his master one Col. Netherland an elder of the church. This Col. Netherland, whose brutality is 50 disgustngly shown has been elected delegate to the Secession Convention called by Dr. Ross and other Pro-Slavery ministers of the New School Pres hyterian Church, to meet at Richmond on the 27th inst. ltappears that slave, formerly belonging to the children of Dr. Ross, was owned by Col. Meth erland and was sold in 1S56 to be sent to Missis- sippi. Rather than go down south, the negro ran of to the woods, and remained concealed for more than year, until found and brought back l.y some hunters. He was then handed over by Col N with his chains on. to the trader who bought him, who took him back of the church. in field ani there in the presence of crowd of spectators beat him with over 330 blows. laid on with a leahern strap nailed to board, while the slave was tied down on his back, naked and blindfolded The trader whip ped him to make him confess who had harboretl him and probably would have beaten him until the next morning had not such an excitement been caused by the first installment of scourging. But this was not the worst Col. Netherland owned an old grey-hared slave, who had nursel him in infancv and suspectng that he knew more about and who had harbored him than he chose to tell, he handed him over to the negro trader to be taken to neghboring county, and there bea- ten. at discretion. to make him confess
 The trader took the old man to place called Bean Station, in the next county tGlanger) ana i there. on Sunday ill stable on public highway stripped and tied him naked on plank, strapped his feet to post anu tied his head forward to a brace, and then whipped him with handsaw. till the landlord of the tavern after hearing in silence tfe intiicton of 300 blows with the saw went to him and told him to stop. The trader became very Crv at this interference and told the landlord that hc had sent boy to get bundle of whips to scourge the negroes back when the flesh should be too much cut up with the saw ; and finally finding he could not go on, he tumhed the negro into the wagon, in disgust at the Bean Station people. and vent to Rutledge.
 Therereupon the Church Session mildly requested Col. Netherland to come forward and show he was not responsible for the outrage. He refused to do and told Mir Sawyer to leave. He feared lest the Church. should be divided and resigned the care of this church with its most righteous elder and came away.
 1 Rufus Choatc in of his speeches. introduced the following unique picture of a New England sum- nler, to illustrate the idea that rreguarty is not ruin Take the New England climate in summer you would think the world was coming to an end Certain receEt heresies on that subject may have had natural origin there. Cold to-day; hot to- morrow mercury at 80 in the morning with wind at southwest and ill three hours more a sea turn wind at east thick fog from the very bottom of the ocean, and fall of 40 of Fahrenheit. now so dry as to kill the beans in New Hampshire: then
 floods carrying off the bridges of the Penoscot and Connecticut snow ill Portsmouth in July and the next week a man and yoke of killed in Rhode Island. You would think the world was ! twenty times coming to an end! But don't know I how this is g, along the early rain and the latter rain fall each in its seed time and harvest do not fal the sixty days of hot wealth CT are pretty to be mcted out to us The Indi- an Summer, with its bland southwest and mitiga ted sunshine, brings all up and on the 25th of No- vember or thereabouts, being Thursday, three mil lions of grateful people. in churches or around the family board give thanks for year of health, pen- ty and happiness.
 The Insurance Companies appear to stand very well. The H,na at ll9 to l25. The Hartford at 1l2 to l20, Charter Oak l15 to 125 The Hartford and New Haven Railroad is quoted at ll9 to l2o The Providence and Fishkll at ? to 5-the preferred stock D to 50. Hartford Bridge Company 13S to i 150.
 In official table before us of Insurance Compa- nes doing business in New York State, notice that the City Fire Insurance Company of New Haven is set down as having nett surplus of S35, ,7O0- the IEtna Hartford. 23,O70. the Charter Oak Hart ford S1S.467 the Hartford Fire S13, ,579. The lar gest nett surplus recorded is that of the Franklin of Philadelphia. The amount is Sl 257 479 while the capital is only S700, GOO. The largest surplus in Massachusetts IS the Manufacturers of Boston. amounting to 36S.96l. Tine largest in Rhode Island is the American of Providence, and the largest in Connecticut is the City Fire of New Haven. We see none reported from any other New England State.
 Mrs. Harriet Thomas of Bethany. came to her death suddenly. this morning, in Dwight Place Her husband and herself came into town this morn ing in carriage, and whilst stopping in front of Mir. Samuel Peck's house, U Dwight Place. as Mrs ! T. hrd aighted from the wagon and was standing between the wheels enGeavorinG to get an article under the scat of the wagon the horse became rest i've supposed from the bite of flies, and made sud den plunge to one side The dress of Mrs. T. caught and she dragged some rods The horse was stopped and the lady taken up when she almost inn mcdiatey expired She taken to the house O Mir. Benjamin liighy, and Dr. Austin was called On examination, several wounds found on lcl head and neck. One of those on her head appear cd as though caused by the horses foot striking he, on the forehead, as he plunged along. This wound probably caused her d,ah. Her husband was stan l. ing by at the time, but unable to restrain the horse Mrs. Thomas was D years of age.
 { A MT. Rilsway, who in 1SiO was in business , in New York as joiner. became involved. and oh- tlnel discharge under the insolvent law He then went West. and established himself in Colun. bus in the plough making busincss.-Having. dur
 ing the past year. received payment of S9.00O ot a railroad company, he revisited New York with
 the intention of finding the old creditors or their representatives and squarng his accounts He was alle to find but of the original creditors living Go whom he paid the deht of forty seven years standing. He also paid the children of one of his other creditors whom he succeeded in finding. Mir. Ridgcway represented his distlict in Congress for six years
 1 -Counterfeits were flooding New York on the Lee. Mass. Bank last Tuesday evening" and about | 5000 of spurious 5s circulated in every possible place where bills could be changed The large ho- tels asrong the sufferers tire theatres suffered every grocery. liquor store and cigar shop nun- dated with them, until at last, suspicious were aroused and several arrests were made The Tolice have already arrested forty persons male and female, and still OF the search for more The bills arc we'll calculated to dec eivcthey are cn red paper and pretty fair imitation of the issue of that bank, but close examination several defects are noticeable
 Two painters while engaged iu painting tke West Side School house in Norwich. on the 18th inst were precipitated distance of 40 feet, [by the giving way of the scatfoldng on which they stoodl to the earth. and both of them seriously ard one it is apprehended, fatally injured Their names are Henry Harris and - Crocker. Mir Harris in his fall, struck upon a picket fence, breaking a nursber of his ribs, and his breast and one of his lungs beng pierced by one more of the pickets. Though still living, it is hardly possible for Jim to recover The other man Crocker had his thigh bone badly broken, and his hip badly injured. it har o1>,1l