Litchfield enquirer., 1857-03-19
News Here and There.

I fThe entire North tremb'es at the overthrow of lhcr rights by the decision of the Supreme Court, l "Like the naurmuring sound that goes before I The whirlwind onthe deep; l Or the growl of fierce watchdog,
 But half aroused from sleep.
 1 The daughter of wealthy New York merchant residing at Tarrytown, N Y. has fit to marry her fathers coachman, young Irishman with very ,ich brogue-and very red whiskers. The parent outraged at the proceedings, locks the young lady up and Patrick appeals to law, and out a stra of habeas corpus. This Tarrytown, which is the court end of New York suburbs, seems quite alive with family jars, just nov. And another suit between grass widow and her husband, is going on regarding the possession of child The parties being wealthy the lawyers expect rich picking, matter which is the winning nag. - =. s-
 -McKim, the murderer of young Norcross at Al tona, Pa, has been arrested in the vicinity of the town of Wilkesbarre, Pa. He had been concea1ing himself in tho gorges of the mountains, and was hunted ,wn by three citizens armed for that purpose They followed his trail till they came upon him in q hausted, and setti his back against a rock, he stood at bay, with revolver in each hand. As the party of psrsuers approached of them called on him to surrender, at tkc same time mcnacng him with rifles. McKim replied with defiance, and fired his pistols in rapid succession It was the anxious desire of the party who attempted the arrest to cap ure the murderer alive in order to the reward which unusually large. But they were compel led to fire in self defence, and McKim fell, disabled by rifle 5A.. H. WIS then secured and conveyed to Wilkesbarre. His wound is sefious, but net ne cessarily fatal None of tie rary who effected the capture were hurt. The capture created much ex- citcment iu Luzrene county. The assassin is reteiv ing medical attendance, and if possible, will speed fly be conveyed to Atona in the locality where the bloody deed was committed.
 It is said that the New York Central Rail Road Con pany now pays $40, ,OCO per annum for the priv ilese of crossing the Niagara suspension bridge. and this bridge costing over s5oo,oOO pays an annual dividend of 20 per cent
 There has been quite an excitement in Albany, arising from tho fact of the proprictors of one Of tho slaughter houses in that city having cut up, salted and packed down. the carcasses of the cattle drowned in the late flood. The Board of health of health of Albany visited the slaughter house in question, and describe the there witnessed as disgusting; in the extreme. The Board of Health af terwards held meeting, declared the meat nuis ahcc and dangerous to tho public health and order cd that the police should destroy it forthwith.
 An editor at Cincinnati has been assaulted and robbed of SIS His contemporaries all express great sympathy for him, but hardly know what to make of his having so much money about him.
 A Michigan paper says One farmer sold over two hundred pounds of Maple Soger from his wagon
 in streets yesterday, and it is beginning to come in quite plentfully at fifteen cents per pound.
 Two attempts were made on Friday by convics, t, kill the agent of the State prison Auburn, N Y. One assault was made with hammer, the other with 8 knife. Fly the prompt interference of the keepers no injury was done to the agent. Fears of other difficulties entertained. Twenty seven of the conv' cts belonging to the same shop where the difficulty occurred are now confined in their els.
 An explosion took place, the 10th, at Land Hill Cullicry, Wombwcl on the South Yorkshire Railway, England One hundred and sixty-six per sons in the pit at the time Sixteen were drawn I'D alive anI others lcmaine1 for certain death the interior of the pit having taken fire. Engines had arrived and the mouths of the shafts were stopped , up, to cxtinguish the flames Thirteen dead bodies had been eound in the main tramways, but it would be days before the pit could be safely entered to search for the rest. The pit had le-n worked l but two years
 The proposition is seriously made by the Rich- mond Enquirer and seriously entertained ill Nir- ginia to sell the GOO negroes of that State into slavery, thus lding thchselves of population they dislike, and putting twenty millions Of trliars into the State Treasury
 | The ut,a pro-slavcry faction at Washington. having succeeded in keeping Lecomptc on the bench now have taken in h.. d the removal of Geary Ac- counts from Washington state that this is warmly pressed upon the President and from his treatment of others who have done him good service in the Presidential cavas is thought he will throw Gearv overheard and supply his place with some frceater. l -A little girl, twelve years of age. was lately murdered by tiher and womal by being barLar- ously tied to plank and her arms pnioned and then suffered to remain in that position The father and the have been arrested in conseoucnc of the coruner's verdict.
 l The Winter at Newfoundland has been ren,arka ply mild and open the bay of Johns freezing over only twice. and neither time strongly as to inter fcre even with the rowing of the boats Fish left on the decks of ships remained without freezing, and even had to be salted in order to be preserved Thomas Shoemaker of Lcavanworth lately Re ccivcr for the Territory and who was dismissed on account of his being Free State man, has been brr-