Litchfield enquirer., 1858-01-14


 aid having stated that Ex-Gov aeary, of Kansas, supports Buchanan Kansas policy, Mir Geary writes to the Herald denying it and sending copy of his message vetoing the act authorizing the Convention because 1t was not provided that the Constitution should be submitted to the people. The act was passed over his veto Dr. Gihon, Gov. Geary's Sec retary says in his bo,k that the bill referred to was prepared with much cunning and care by certain prominent United States Senators in Washington, and sent to Leccmpton with orders for It's adoption without alteration amendment" The Adminis. traton papers refused to publish Gearys veto These disclosures show that tke ProSlavery men at Wash ington havea along intended that the Constitution should not be submitted to the people,
 Rev. Mathew Hale Smith. Esq.,, resided for six months previous to Thanksgiving at Stamford Ere. pairing, on Thanksgiving morning to leave for New York Mr. Knowlton. his landlord attaches his goods for arrears of rent Mir. Smith releases his goods. and. in turn, sues for a'vexatious law suit, laying his damages at slOOo alledging that no rent was 1 due.
 That fell disease, the cholera, has once more made its appearance in England and there can be no doubt, if itb true to its antecedents that it will visit the shores of America during the course of the approaching summer. Should it do so, 1t will again find us unprepared. and the usual mortality and panic will be the result Six months previons to the outbreak of 1853, we warned the authorities of its approach and urgently advised the adoption of meas ures calculated to arrest it's progress and dsarm it in measure of it's power, Our warnings, however were unheeded and mourning community were insulted by the mockery enacted by short-sightcd and incapable officials in the great activity display ed to check the progress of an epidemic which had gathered, i's victims, expended its power and was already mpidly on the decline c-Montreal Hrald
 The pews in Rer H. Ward Beechers Church in Brooklyn were rented on Tuesday evening last, The premiums lover and above fixed prices paid for the best seats were from $50 to $50. thus making the rent of the best pews the lower floor sl00 to $l70. The premiums were kept up even on the dhcspest seats, SD that the premium on some, was about as high the fixed price. Compared with the rates of last year, the income from the rents is large ly increased.
 THE FIRST SILK MANuFAcrrRED IN THE UNITED STATES, MT. T kohn, a merchant of .hs city who deals in ribbons fiinges &c.. has put up some val uable machinery in Thralls building near the rail [ road station. for weaving silk. He showed us a piece of silk yesterday containing twelve yards, which was made by this machinery and which he claims is the first piece of silk ever made in this country IL is very he wy, made of double thread and is plaid of five colors. It is certainly suc- cessfnl experiment. MT. Kohn has machinery for producing six hundred different patterns of figured silks and he intends to do goud business at silk ! making. He also intends to make ribbons Mr. bert Sugden, who snperintcnds the work is an ex- perenced and competent weaver. and he has proc 1 ed ftdm England certain portions of the machinery used and directed the work in putting it up. The piece of silk shown us is neighths of yard wide and 1t is thought to be worth $2 yard. though it can probably be sold for less -Lartord T,mes.
 To Me Editor ef the v r Tribune:
 | SRI cut the obove slip from the Tribune of Dec Fist. On reading it I called witness to the stand
 my nlother-who, though vcrging- Coward four score years. has ali eye still undnmed. and a natu ral force but little abated She is grand daughter of Col Jed.diah Elderkn who with his conpeer Col. EIipualet Dyer. prominent lawyers at Wndham, Conn.,. during most of the last Ealf of the eighteenth century. Col Elderkin took great in terest in the manufacture Of silk He had farm a | few miles from WindhaW. where he grew the mul- berry, and had quite an extensive cocoonery He pr. cured loom and weaver from Europe, and my mother distinctly remembers seeing pieces of silk more than sixty years ago. Col. Elderkin had | tn silk made into dresses for his daughters. Silk handkerchefs were made in considerable numbers. From causes not now known to me- the manufac- ture wAs diseontnued; but to this day silk thread is made. think, at Mansfield, in Connecticut was myself at the house of my maternal grandfather at Windham, twenty-five years ago, and then exanl- ined many of the ptpers of Col. Elderkin. ard se- lected out portions of his correspondence with differ 1 ent persons in reference to the silk culture and manufacture In my removal firm New York; the have been mislaid. but the subject interested me at the time. and the article from the Harttord Times brought it vividly again to my recollection It $ greatly to be hoped that this enterprise of Mir koon may be successful. If he may not claim l the honor of having woven the first web, he may still have claim to tue greater honor of being the first successful pioneer in enterprise which may in some degree relieve from dependence on the silk-looms of Europe V,Iy truly your friend, 1 WI. W. CAMPBELL
 Cherry Valley. Dec 25, 1857.
 The bonds of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad amount to $2 lO7 ,730. There $l 542, 539 9s of common stuck and $500 900 of preferred stock at the date of the last report October 24th. 1857 The road from Providence to Water bury is 1223 miles long and cost with its equipment S4 2G2. 519 g. At the date of the last report of the bonds and some of the preferred stock had been pledged merely but at present. it s safe to call all the bonds and all the preferred stock issued the S411 S84 so of floating debt reported at the late annual meeting would exhaust the unssued stock and bonds If the road should ultimately pass into the ownership of the bondholders they would get it at half its cost but at present only the net earnings pass into the control of tl Trustees of the bondhod CTS. and the fee of the read continues heretofore in the old company. Reviving bushes, may rescue the road from being sacrificed to tie bondholders. Thomas $. Williams, Wm. H. Imlay and D. f. Rob inson are Trustees ior the Connecticut bondholders | FAT CATTLE E Bancroft of East Windsor Hill, exhibited iu Hartford lately pair of fat cattle and fatted heifer that remarkably fine specimens of stGck The cattle fastet. by the Shakers. from whom Mr. B. purchased them. They are five years old and weigh 4300 lbs. The heifer is full blood Durham she is three years old. and weighs in the vicinity of 1900 lbs. It is expected she will weigh full HOO lbs when dressed She has taken the first premiums at two State Fairs-one from our own State Society, and the other from Massachusetts i; and she is said by all who have her. to be the fattest eifer in this State She was formerly ownrd l by $. w Bartlett of East Windsor, by whom she was fatted and f.om whom Mfr. Bancroft purchased her