Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-12-24
News Of the Week.

nave the monument to Ethan Allen com Ilt.cd be-
tore winter, but unexpected hirGrances have delay
ed the work and it will nut he finished Till tie
roXt seasun But besides the monument provided
for by legislative en cteht, the purpose is to
have CHARACTERISTIC colossal statue, executed by
artist OF genius, placed ON tie top Of the column.
Leave was obtained Of the Legislature to have this
token Of Individual respect for the memory of the
hero surln"unt tie public memorial of the state
The cost OF such Statue will be 81 QUO and sub
scriptlon Is NV in most successful operation. Mr.
Warren Root OF this place tul the present has it in
charge. The subscriptions are limited to one d,l
lar from each in iividual save that heads of tani-
ie, are allowed to give at that rate for mcmbtls OF
their families that need be hindcrcd fl
Joining in work grateful to the feelings of Ven
monitors To save time and expense, all sulscrip
lions are paid as they are subscribed. As
the Olnouat is raised, and that could be done in IL
week if persons enouS could b called upon in that
time. the Committee will place the execution of the
statue III progress: ST. that when the monumental
column is raised the Statue Can be elevated to its
place aso-thls avoiding inr;h.r delay, and Il heavy
additional expense.
Aychc Expeditons Lord N pier has. by liz
>tiucilum vi Lord Ciarenu"n, placed IN the hands
OF Secretary Chss, nunIhtr OF medals " hirh her
m"jrsty's government desires to present to the
officers and men engaged in the several expr;ii-
lions which have been flled out in the United
States for the recovery OF Sir john Frank III and
his companions Her maesly's government d.
reefs Lord Napier to express the high sense hich
they entertain Of the Zeal aud devvedness of the
parties who volunteered in these enterprises, and
their earliest hope that the citizens Of the United
States, who shared the Same dangers. may b. per-
united to accept the honorary recognition as
the officers and men of her mdj-sty's service em-
pIoyed IN the Cause Of the Arctic discovery.
The house of decayed old miscr named Brook
inss, in Gardener. Ne. burnt last Sunday
night When the ashes were siited two quarts of
melted gold and silver were found Meanwhile the
miserable man rushed trantically among the bysttn-
ders, begging them to kill him.
The Bangor Union has the most romantic item
of the season, attack by wolves upon stage
coach. only twenty miles from that city;
"On Wednesday night last, Mr. Mitchell was
driving a mail mud wagon the back Calais route,
from Bcddngt"n to the next stopping place, twenty
miles from this city being without passengers, his
team beset by pack of wolves, about dozen
in number, and fierce and noisy As they pressed
h;ud upon him, he let go the contents of his rifle,
which laid out one of the hungry crew, and for the
time checked their pursuit. This providentialy
the stopping place. upon arriving at which the
driver is said to have been pretty well overcome
with excitement and fright. Wolves and bears
very plenty the back route and very audacious
Among the curious discoveries lately made in
inc region OF DaISlo1, IL lOt Oh NeDuClldlIltZZils
Bank Notes is mentioned Ivy Mr.. Lotus He was
exploring the ruins of Warka. by some supposed to
be = Ur of the ChtlGecs, when one day he met with
a number of small brick tablets, covered both
SIDES with minute characters, There were t.'rty of
them in the locality, perhaps the strong box of
some Babylo money lender CT note shaver. vary
ing from one to three inches in length. Many 9th
erS, were irrevocably damaged or broken. Sir Hen
~ Rawnson found the larger ones to be notes issu
ell 10y the government, for the convenience OF circu
I.%.,
weight of gold and silver, and r,deemable at the
royal treasury. They bear the names of the kings
Nabopallaser, Cyrus. &c '26 to $40 b. G. The
precise day Of is is given in every instance The
smaller tablets to be private notes OF hand
Acknowledgements of Indebtedness.
These writings are Of course. in the wedge
shaped characters that prevailed in all those an
cicnt inscr ptons of that part of the world. and
which has been but recently deciphered. Bricks,
tablets, and cylinders of burnt clay, &c served for
paper and the records of these ancient dyn;fstics,
laid up in the palace of kings in temples and in H.
brarics, have withstood the destroying influences
of time and come to us legihle and fresh from the
ruins of burnt cities after the long lapse of , 90
5000 years.
CosT Of DIsINHUMArl"N.-I, cost the city OF
New York 81 .799 I" remove tie bdy Of General
Worth from Greenwood cemetery to the nnnu-
mrnt erected to his hon'r near Madison Square
the liquor bill WAS 800, the catafnlque cost
81, 1913, and the war.horse led behind tie hrarsr
was hired al livery stable for So, said to have
been his third appearance the stred OF drceasrd
generals
Decay Of THE INDIAN RAcE.-Mr A. H. Red
field Indian Agrh, for the Upper Missouri. has
transmitted To the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
his animal report. From it we Learn that several
Of the tribes in that region have suffered terribly
from the small pox during the last year. Mr..
R.df.Id found thirty drsar.rd lodges near Fort
William. the owners of which had persisted by
small pox. few years since. the M'ndans
themselves numbered five hundred lodges.
now they cannot count over triy or sixty The
aboriginal inhabitants Of this cnuntry are rapidly
passing away. The close of the present century
will, IN all probability. witness their almost t"ta
axtiariinn 1t is estimated tina, they now number
but ab"u. five hundred thousand in all Nurth
AMERICA
A sale of 800 barrels Of sperm oil for n1anufac-
turing purposes, at 81 05 per gallon has recently
!, made in New Redford.