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Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

A SPREAD EAGLE ToAsr.-At Prents Center, Me on the 5th, the following was the second regular sentiment s
 Onr Nation-Begotten midst the storm of the sixteenth century, its infantie movements were dim and distinctly seen on board tbe May Flower, on the rock of Plymouth, at Jamestown, on the Plains of Monongahela, and on the heights of Abraham ; the capricions squalls of it infancy were heard in the tea party of Boston, in Faneuii Hall on the plains of Concord, Lexngtonsand Bunker Hill ;lin his boyhood he ran ,bare-fcoted and bare-headed over the fields of Saratoga Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth and Yorktown, whipping his mother, and turning her out of doors; in his youth he strode over the plains of the boundless West. and called them his own, paid tribute to the desputs of Barbary in powder and ball. and spit in his athers
 face from behind cotton bales in New Orleans hip ped the Mistress of the Ocean, reyelled in the halls of the Montezumas, straddled the Rocky Noun tains, and with one foot upon the golden sand aud the other upon confsh and lumber, defed the world in his manhood, clothed in purple and fine linen, he rides over continent in cushioned cars, rides the ocean in palace steamers, sends his thoughts on the wings of lightning to the world around, thunders at the door of the Celestial En- pire and at the portals of distant Japan slaps his poor old decrept father in the face and tells him to be careful how he peeps into any of his picaroons and threatens to make sheep pasture of all the land that joins him. What he will do in old age, God only knows. May he live ten thousand years, {. and his shadow never be less.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23
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 From the N. Y. Tribune

We have. recently travelled thousand miles
 Westward from this city to Indianapolis, which
 may be regarded as the present center of the Corn-growing and perhaps also of the Wheat growing portion of the Unon.-- Observation fully confirmed the worst accounts we had re- ceived of the deficiency of the Harvest. We were of course obliged to take the testimony of others, with regard to Wheat and Oats, but we had the evidence of our own eyes assto the deplorable meagcrness of the Corn crop. In Western New York, in Central and South Western Ohio, in Eastern and Central Indiana, we saw more Corn that will yield less than over fifteen bushels per acre, while great deal growing on rich, mellow soil will fall below even five bushels. From ali parts of Ohio, Indiana aud Illinois, except very narrow belt of dry, warm soil on the shore of Lake Erie, onr ac- counts indicate similar deficiency. Iowa had but third of Wheat crop, no Oats at all, and is likely to have not more than half Corn crop . Michigan and Wisconsin send better accounts but only from Minnesota and Kan sas have we assurance of full Harvest, and even in Minnesota the Oats are deficient. The Slave States participate but slightly in the general disaster, while New Engand, Eastern New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania have nearly or quite average crops. Very little of the Corn we have seen is yet fit to cut up, and frost within the next week would damage it most seriously, while a warm, growing fortnight would greatly improve it. We consider every days general exemption from frost henceforth as worth at least Que Million Dollars to the Country And making full allowance for the fact that while failures and disasters are bla- zoned, good average yields attract no atten- tion and provoke no comment, we are confident of being within the truth in estimating the Wheat and Corn crops of the whole country as twenty per cent below the average. while the Oat crcp is deficient by thirty to forty per cent
 The Census for 1840 and that for 1850 show the following aggregate production of each of these staples .t .4 r ,..
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

IS Ex-Governor Pennington, of New Jersey, is Ii hom'nation for Congress. The Republicans every. where seem disposed to bring forward their ables men. With such men as Corwin, Thadeus Stevens, and Pennington in the House of Representatives that body will be restored in degree, to its ancient standing.
 ES Charles B. Sedgwick, of Syracuse, h,s beenl nominated by the Republicans of onondago county
 for Congress, and is spoken of by the Tribune as one ol the aolest men in the State He is son of ste- phen sedgwck' formerly ot Cornwall in this county ana grandson of Isaac Baldwin, formerly of this yil lage.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23
The New-York Tribune, in an article on the petty personal squabbles which dividing the Republi-

The New-York Tribune in an article on the pettv personal squabbles which are dividing the Repubi-
 can strength in Massachusetts, gets of the following: ~ We cannot comprehend the passion for q seat in congress What is it to be an Honorable member we will telfthe reader what it is It is to live in mean hotels and pay magnificent bills: it is to be ooged to breath bad air to sit in an uncomfortable seat to be bored by long spet ches, to be pofuned for pamphlets to aterdto the business of other peo DIG, negiectlng ones own to exist in a perpetual fuss of frsnkng to watch your district much more closely than yon watch the Kingdom of Heaven; to miss your nights rest, to besandered to be bother ed, to be importuned. to be embarrassed. to make speeches listened to by nobody to frank until your arm aches, and to miss the greatest grower in the distrlct at last Others are proptiated. but he ia offended He has the soul of forty conventions huh. Dlng' boiling and bursting in his manly bos6m. He appeals to committees; he is the flea of convenions
 he Is the man who goes out when he is wanted and who comes in to vote and speak when he is not wan
 ted who growls when he should grin, is cross when he shoud be amiable; is always in the way. and al ways hard to get out of the way and who caps the climax of his absurdty and botheration by getting up party on bis own hook, or by going over bodily and with all his baggage to the unfortunate enemy
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

Edward Tucker. the engineer of the train of cars on the New Haven railroad, that went through the bridge at Norwak some five years since, caus- ing terrible loss of life committed suicide by sev- night. The terrible accident of which he was an instrument, has preyed upon his spirits ever since, and undoubtedly led to his unhappy end. He has 6 wife and children at Troy.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23
G9s GittB6eb Gnquirer. Litchheld. Conn. Thursday, Sept 2s 1858.
THE STATE FAIR

TheTeader is referred to the advertisement in an- other column of the Connecticut Agricultural socie ty The Annual Fair, it will be seen, is to be held at Hartford, commencing on the 18th of October and continuing four days Extraordinary exertions are being made to make this the most attractive of any of the Fairs since the organization of the State Society. About seven thousand dollars are offered
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Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

| YALE COLLEGE. College Term commenced on Thursday last. The Palladium learns that about 13O applicants have been admittedS to the Freshman class. The number applying this year was unusual ly large. of whom much larger proportion than u. s"al were rejected, the Faculty being obliged from year to year to raise the standard of preparation quired for admission. If all were admitted now who possessed the preparation required five years ago. the class would be larger than the College could
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

Dr. Parsons sent up from his drug store in Port land Me, on the 18th ult., at o'clock P. M. a small India rubber balloon attached to which was his card, with this note '.The finder will confer favor by addressing A. Parsons Co.,, stating where found, date Portland Aug. 18th, 1858. On Satur- day the next) morning, at o'clock-and it very likely fell several hours before-the balloon and card were found by MT. Stiles Curtis, in Windhanl, Green Co, N. three hundred miles from its start
 ing place the evening before 5>
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

It is true was born in Connecticut and mv mi. h league Tn Vermont, a little further north. have, no reproaches to cast upon either State cut is glorious old Commonwealth she furnis he'd more men in proportion to pppulati on than any oth
 CT State to the army of the Revolution sSa .h. eones of her sons slain in batteon evefy coptested held from Quebec to Charleston M mAintcn6ncs Inf the liberty we enjoy, and to make good the decara a,on @ 10 which they pledged their lives the fortunes
 ana thelr sacred hpnors that the colonies wer md of right ought to be free and independent Stat. their patriotism their devotion. aud i'm ir bravery, ina crisis which tried mems souls. Y. love old Connecticut love her ragged rocks h is barren bills anosher sterile .soil-fOr from ih, ID, sprung much ofthe pure blood of the Retolutiu,,- and an love her as the home of my boyhoOd. G,d
 bless her forever ' ' S~ "0"
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

MIR. EDIroR-I send you another of the Revolu. tonary Letters, concerning the Canada campaign of -6, and the unsuccessful assault on Quebec in which Montgomery fell. It is written by Captain Mott. who was himself on the ground, and exhibits great patriotism and much earnestness of feeling. He alludes to the conduct of Schuyler in failing to furnish supplies, and seems particularly opposed to the policy which was pursued in the campaign. His statements regarding the attack, &c., are verified by history, and his words aken the more interest as we recollect that he himself an actor fin the scere. RoDERICK.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

DEcENT.-The Bridgeport Farmer speaks of the Hon. Edward D. Morgan, the Republican candidate for Governor of New York "hpocrtacal scamp. We believe MT. Morgan is universally esteemed in New York as one of the most respectable merchants in thatcity This low blackguardsm is contempti- ble in any journal, more especially in generally so we'll conducted as the Farmer
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

A man by the name of Benjamin Brown, of Cole brook, was killed on Wednesday while hauling logs with bis team. By some means he got entangled in th, chain, and was thrown down under the cart. The wheels passed over him, injuring him so badly flat he lived but few minutes. His body was car .hat way ii. \ wagon, discovered the accident. He is,yes family in Colebrook Rum was tue cause of the accident
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

solon Robinson, of the New York Tribute, the
 author of Hot Corn is to deliver the address at the State Agricultural Fair, next month
 l The Hartford and New Haven Railroad Company
 have declared dividend of five per cent, payable October lst.s atso
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

An Illinois paper says q there has been an i'm mense ,ise of whiskey since the commencement of the Douglas campaign" There may have been a rising of the price. but guess there has been a going down of the article itself.-Pruace
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

My-A little girl belonging to German fam ilysvsidibgi in Andover, fell into well day or twossipce,, while playing around it, plunging head foremost. Her little brother missed her, aud looked into the well and seeing the water move, ran souie ten rods to the house for his mother, and when she arrived at the spot the little girl was clnging to the stones of the we'll, with her head out of the water. She was res cued sufe, but one moment more would have been too late. ~
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

There is married lady in Salem, in good health, whose weight when in full dress is only seventy model housewife, performing all her household dn. les, rom choice, without assistance Erchanqe s.
 There lives in Madison, Indiana, an aged female relative of ours,-a descendant of the Marshes and Buels of 'Litchfeld,-who left this village many years ago. whose weight has never exceeded seventy five pounds She is the mother of six or eight chill dren, and has a large number of grand and great grand children. In her early married life she not only performed her household duties, but spun and wove the clothing for her family She. is now ea years old, and can thread her needle and read the finest print without glasses
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

1S eour merchants it will be seen from our ad- vertlsng columns are opening lots of new and desi rable goods and our citizens can be quite as advan tageously supplied here with whatever they need as in any other market. Litchfeld has never had a enterprising set of tradesmen than at present Patronize them, fellow citizens just as far as you can pay-and no farther.
 Our milliners are also ready to dispense to their customers the latest fashions out
 We do not learn whether our Wolcottville friends are doing any thing this fall or not The West Go shen Harts are selling largely.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

Gg@ The New-Y York Buchanan Democratic Conyen- tion assembled at Syracuse on Wednesday last, and after somewhat excited session, nominated the following very respectable ticket ..,
 Amasa J. Parker, of Albany, for Governor.
 John Taylor, of Tioga, for Lieut.. Governor
 S. Piper, of Niagara, for Canal Commissioner
 E. B. Donnelly, of New York, for Prison Inspector. In consequence of the division of the anti Buchanan forces into three parties there is chance thae this ticket may succeed by plurality vote, though we think the Republican, cn full vote, will carry the election, they did in 1856 under similar cir cumstances. Gov. King then beat Judge Parker by plurality of more than 60, GOO votes
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

fg The September Term of the Superior Court for this County, Judge SEYMOUR presiding, commenced on Tuesday. The docket contains only about two hundred old cases, and one hundred and fifty new ones. The grand jury will be in session this week on the Cornwall murder case and if atfue bill be found, the trial will take place during the present session of the Court itf.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

EYWe published in our last the testimony in the Litchfed Bank Injunction case as taken by the Re- porter for the Hartford Courant The correspondent of the New Haven Courier gives fuller report, and sometestmony additional to what given in the Cour- ant, but nothing perhaps of much importance except single sentence in the testimony of MT. Hollis ter, which is in reply to the witness Sturgis and in these words: |" I had no connection with the charter originally, as director or stockholder knew of no sale.' We have also seen letter from Mr. Peet in which that gentleman says 6 never sold a charter for the best reason in the world-I never owned one to sell had supposed that charters be- longed to the public" Our correspondent would perhaps have been less severe on Messrs. H. aid P if he had these disavowals which we give just as we find them, and have disposition to criticse or comment upon them, or upon any of the testimo- ny. Indeed, for the good of innocent parties who have been roped in, and for the credit oi our viii lage, we earnestly desire that those who have the present management of the bank should redeem it from its embarrassed condition, and the odium at tached to it's bogus operations and we are assured that the prospect of placing if upon good footing have materially improved within the last few days and that the loss by tle 'Beeman debt will be ye- ry little if indeed it is not fully secured Never theess we trust the Bank Commissioners will never allow resuscitation except they shall be able to sure the public that "all is right" We want every yestige of bogsism removed and true bona fioe and known stockholders to control its affairs.
 Wewill only add that while Messrs. Moves and Noble seem to disagree to what should have been done with the bank, they are both actuated solely by the desire of doing their duty alike to the stock holders and to the public, They occupy position o great responsibility and the people of the State expect them to discharge their duties faithfully, without fear or favor.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23
Total. .. .... $65, 953, 279

In other words, Wheat Corn, and their pro- ducts Flour, Meal, Pork, Bacon and Lard form the bulk of the exportable produce of the Free States, comprising two-thirds Gin popula- tion trade and wealth. of the American U Unon; and it is now probable that, instead of export ing nearly Seventy Millions worth of these dur ing the ensuing year, we shall not be able to spare half that amount Can any one doubt that our Imports must be correspondingly re- duccd or not paid for, and that the aggregate capacity of the West to pay for Goods, and in fact the entire commercial activity of the Free States, must shrink in proportion Let our importers, jobbers and merchants give earnest heed to these facts.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

ls Nearly all the democratic papers throughout the country speak of MT. Morgan, the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, as having made a fortune from the sale of liquor The Hartford Post nas the manliness thus to retract the islander:
 We were mistaken in our statement in saturdo,,s issue, that MT. Morgan the Republican nominee for dovernor of New York; made his money in the Ii. qucr business MT. M was formerly large opera
 o' n sugar coffee and tea in New York and our in. fol mant, who has known him for A number of ve.rs says that never, to his knowledge, has he sold a gallon of liquor. We gladly make the correction, Iof we have no wish to injufe Mr. Morgans chances Q. an election by giving publicity to any thing false
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

senator Douglas in his Ottawa speech, tauntcd'z T senator Trumbull with being Connecticut clock. J peddler. Mir. I. thus ,eplies y
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23


 CALHOUN ON THE TELEGRApH--In speech of John C. Calhoun, in the Senate of the Uni ted States, March 18th, lS46, on the bill for terminating the occupancy of Oregon Territory, after using many weiglhy objections to an ap- peal to arms for the settlement of the question, Mr. Calhoun drew vivid picture of the mar velous progress of the arts of peace, in which occurs the following beautiful passage
 "Within the same time man has chained the very lightning of heaven, and brought it down and made it administer to the transmission of human thought, insomuch that it may with truth be said that our ideas are. not only trans- mitted with the rapidi5y of lightning, but by the lightning itself. Magic wires, are stretch ing themselves in a 1 directions oyer,the earth, and when their mystic meshes. shall a length have been perfected, our globe itself will be endowed with sensitiveness which will render it impossible to touch it on any point and the touch not be felt from one end of the world te the other. And this work is as yet but com menced it is but the breaking of the dawn oi the worlds great jubilee. Itpromises a day ol more refinement, more intellectual brightness, more moral elevation, and consequently of more human felicity than the world has ever seen from its creation"
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

lB The New Haven County Agricultural Fair will be held at Waterbury on the 9th and 7th of October
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

MASSACHUSETTS There are three State Tickets in the field in Massachusetts. The candidates for Gov ernor are Nathaniel P. Banks, Republican Erastus D. Beach, Democrat /; and Amos Adams Lawrence, American. MT. Lawrence, it is said, will decline ; and we trust there can be reasonable doubt of the reelection of Gov. Banks though every thing has been mighty unsartn in Bay State politics for the past few years.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

The fall term of Williams College opens with an accession of ss students largest number in any year since the college was founded.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

Of course, these are but rongh approxima- tions to the true aggregates but the proror tion maintained between the returns of IS4O and those of 1850 prove that they are within the neighborhood of the true amounts. As suming their general accuracy, the following table will indicate the magnitude of the pres ent deficiency
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

Now the value of these amounts to the grow CTS may not exceed One Hundred Millions of dollars, but their value to the country is at least double that sum. Our Railroads, Ga nals, forwarders, shippers, &c., are deprived of business which they were prepared to do, and in default of which their earnings and profits for the next year must suffer deplorably. We consid,r the country at least Two Hundred Millions poorer than it would have been if our crops had proved good.
 This deficiency is.likely to exert balcful in fuence on no: only our Domestic but our al- ready depressed Foreign Trade. The Official Statements Show that we exported during the years ending on the lst ofJuy 1856 and 1851 respectively, (those up to July last not having vnt rromnIgatrd \ as follows
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

MAINE The election in Maine has resulted more favorably for the Republicans than could have been anticipated. Their Governor lMorrelD is reelected by some ten thousand majority and all the six Re- publican candidates for Congress elected, and large majority of the members of the Legislature are of like political faith. The Congressional delegation is as follows:
 l. Daniel E. Jones. { A. Freeman H. Morse B
 2 John J. Perry. 5. Israel Washbun ir
 3. Ezra B. French. 6. StephensC. Foster
 The State Senate is unanimously Republican, and the House at teast two to one the same way, which secures we suppose the reelection of the Hon. Wm Pitt Fessenden to the United State Senate.
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

In other words, our total Harvest of Wheat, Oats and Corn for the current year will fall be- low what might have been reasonably expect ed as follows:
 Wheat, bushels, .......... 30 100000
 Oats, do. .......... GO, ,000 900
 Corn do 200 GOO GOO
Litchfield enquirer., 1858-09-23

A SPREAD EAGLE ToAsr.-At Prentis Center Me on the 5th. the following was the second regular sentiment ts5a. -+f ttt
Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-04-06
Arrival OF THE HAMMoNlA.

CSC bAI LAlEh thOh EOhOfE.
NEW YORK, April 2.-The steamship Hammonia
the 2oth March, arrived here TODAY, bringing With
departure.
On the 10Th oonsols were quoted at s6i, money e6i
ed.
The hamponis also brings later news from Bonn.
bay, which arrived there on the Goth ult. The only
:nportsnt Item was the contemplated attack on Lucf
DOW on the 10Th of March. ">N
King Dude bad proclaimed himself King Of Ipd,a.
and ordered the Insurgents not to 6ght With the Eng
ish, but dsper.e In bands Of 40 and SO, ,cour the
reads, and kill the English wherever the, could.
Mann Singh had saved, from Lucknow, about 40 or
30 Eug!ish or Anglo. Indian women and children.
Several small actions bad occurred, la which the
rebsle we're Invariably defeated.
The Rajah Of Anijhera had been hung.