Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-07
General News.

necessary 10 oe Hdoe py the cHdrches, Hot only 10 keep the Treasury supplied as in fofrner wears, but to make mp lhe alarming deficiency of the pasi few months. The receipts for November were $l540O, The Journal of Missions for January makes the following painful statement :--ss The monthly payments of the Treasary average abou, $3O.0 900: and they cannot be materially reduced without serions detriment to the work which we are doing. But the monthly receipts for tke foul first months of the year, to November 3Oth, have been only about f,oelue thousand dollars, or $40 900 for the whole time. The receipts for the first four mouths of last year about $64, 900. Thi. statement shows very clearly whither we are dfIfting."
 = Samuel Lawrence, the absconding treasurer of the Lowell and Lawrence mills. some years ago settled upon his wife $50 900, the income of which is the support of his family in their present crisis
 RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, 1s57.-There were 29 ia. tai railroad accidents in the United States during the year 1857, besides two three ny which mum. bers were wounded. The number of persons killed by these go railroad accidents was 63 and of wounded, lSi. A melancholy record, and the greater part of it needless and inexcnsahe.
 Of these g fatal accidents on railroads, those causing the most serious loss of life were the col. lision on the Pennsylvania road, March 18th, when five persons were killed and six wounded : the Illinois Central, March 18th, four killed and eight wounded the Michigan Southern, April 18th, five killed the Marietta &S Cincinnati road July list, four killed and twenty wounded, &c. We have no :. Norwalk' railroad massacre to chroni. cle for 1857.
 By steamboat accidents, during 1857, no less than 23O lives were lost, on the inland waters and bays of the United States
 MAYOR T1EMANN AMONG THE PEoPLE.-On New Years morning Mayor Tiemann, accompanied by Jonas N. Phillips, esq, entered the Governor $ room at the City Hall. to receive tho cong ratua- lions of his friends. When the doors were opened 1he crowd poured through in a steady stream to lhe west room, where they saluted the Mayor. and then passed out through the west door, and SC down to the Park. There was no confusion, and everything passed off in the most admirable man- ner It is estimated that during the fonr hours that the reception lasted, there must have been about I5.000 people who congratulated the Peoples Mayor. This large body was composed of respec- table citizens of every calling. and among them Peter Cooper, esq.,. who seemed to take peculiar pleasure ia the proceedings.
 -The Victoria Bridge across the St. Lawrence, at Montreal, which has been in course of erection for several years, Is a wel-known enterprise to the American people. When completed it will be the longest and finest bridge in the world. It is to be two miles long. Total amount of masonry in the bridge will be about 3,0O0,OOo cubic feet which, at I3 I-2 feet to the ton. gives total weight of about 223, ,O00 tons Fourteen of the piers are completed. and it is expected that eight iIure VI ill be finished next season, leaving only two to erect in 1859. The total weight of iron in the tubes will be lO.40O tons. The tube connect ing the northern abutment with pier number one is now com ple.ed. The material for the second tube has reached Canada, and preparations are Tn progress for the dispatch from Eng land of eight more tubes early next year, so as 10 insure thell erection during the summer The bridge will cost about five million dollars.
 The Miners Ditch, now being built in Tuo lnmne county, California, is expected to be com pleted within few months. It will he sxty-n miles ng, nine feet in the bottom, fifteen feet the surface, and will run a stream of water three feet in depth. The Sonoma Democrat says it wi! bring river of pure, clear water to the very hill tops. Throughout the region watered by this ditch, mills will spring up to be run by water pow er-quar,z, saw and grist mils-and, after supply. ing every want of the miner, it is expected thai there will be water to spare for gardens and dool yards.
 
 who was massacred al Delhi, was man of supe. rior abilities, and greatly beloved for his many excellent qualities. He was little more than 4O years of ape, many of which have beom spent in the missionary service. On account of ill health he spent the summer of 1851 in this country, but it was with grea. difficulty that he could be de- ,ained from his labors until his health was re- stored. In August of that year he married his ond wife,Ta lady universally esteemed. He em- l. D,ck Tos fnIn stk the exppc tation that his grave would be in India, the theme of his thoughts.
 The Legislature of Missoursns have refused to grant charter for University, to be under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The reason is, that the Methodist Episcopal Church is opposed to slavery.
 SOUTHERN REFlNEMENr.-The Richmond South which declared recently that "intimacy " with southern gentlemen had made senator Douglas quite decent man, and removed the rugged vul- gartes of his early educa,ion," gives us an illus tra,ion of it's idea of southern refinement in the following gentlemanly and chivalrc attack upon Charles Sumner:
 But one fgure- head in the [Senate] chamber arrests the attention in the picture we have here of the pain-looking, substantial, better order of American politicians. It is that of large, tall senator, who sits the main entrance. His posture is oi the most inImitabge conceit, with his head raised, his eyes elevated and resting on pleasant vacancy, his body turned superciIiously away from the neighboring senators, and without the least sign of attention to betray his con- sideration for anything that is passing around him. This huge coxcomb. with his hair so tenderly parted, and his big, white hands so constantly en- gagged in sroking himself, still smiling and talk ing the Iickspittles that surround him, is that pampered, ken marked hound, Charles Sumner An application of the hide wou take ost the lofty airs of maryrdon he affects I. would purge the coneeii immediately 1t is fair bet for any one to take, that at the first stroke of the lash the hound would take refuge under his desk, and lie there yelping for mercy"
 COMMODORE PAULDESG.-Hiram Punlding comes honestly by his skill in arresting unlawful espedf tions. His father was that celebrated John Paul Ging, the Peekskili farmer, who was one of the three csptors of M.ior Andre. Hiram was born