Litchfield enquirer., 1858-02-18
-state Items.

-'rhe South Americans of this State have called convention for the nomination of State Officers, Sc tc bv e,d ill Hartford on the 24th install of which they have a p.rfect fight to do.
 -TLc Springfield Republican says that large he of iron ore has been foun,i on the premises of Chester Loring,.in Sheffield, which is supposed to cover about four acres. The bed ha been leased to gentleman from Canaan, Conn. for tive years, at SlUUO per annGm.
 The body of an unknown man was found at the lower end Of East Water street. New Haveu ,n Sunday morn. He was seen about the steamboat wharf during Saturday. His head was considerably bruised and it is supposed that he got intoxicated and fell down upon the stones. and expired.
 Six persons have l;cen sentenced to state iris on at the present term of the Superior Court in Fairfield County.
 The Re-issusd Bills of the Bunk of Hartford County have at last been accounted for The bills, (which had been supposed to be burnt) came into the hands of an individual who has now made voluntary confession of the fraud
 The individual referred to is Walter s Carter O. Middletown, editor of the Argus, who was clerk in the treisstlly office from the ist of June 1855 the 1st of May. 1854, portion Gf which time he was Register in the Ranking department. He con fesses. as We understand it. to taking soncwler in the vicnty of SSG00 of the bills supposed to have been burnt
 The statute of limitations provides that criminal prosecution must be commenced within three years from the mission of the offence. That time ha- vlng sxrreh Mir Carter uf Course escapes the legal penalty, but is accountable for the money taken
 The Hartford Press adds s,me details of the affair. learned in personal interview with the accused Tie following extract is not only interesting, but instructive
 r 5. Since the above was placed in type. we have had all interview with MT. Garter and from nm learned all the facts connected with the matter It Is the old story of specuatng in stocks, which
 has ee 50 many to ruin. He tells s that when he entered tue 1refsu office he was barely twenty years of age and of course without the fixed habits or principles uf persons more advanced in life His associations brought him in contact with men who were constantly dealing in sto ks and knowledge of their g,,ns induced him to invest his savings. then amounting to over thousand dollars in a similar manner. His first operations were success fni-his money soon doubled, and ia short time again doubled and his successes seluced him into mere extensive operations. What he conceived to be a favorable opening for inv, stmcnt of about SeUo, occuFre one day when he had not. the mo- ney, and he used the funds belonging to the State this w~s his first offence
 In this way, fr Ill time to time Fe was led on un Ill he lad used fr $ UO0 to SI00 70 Of the funds o the state, balancing his a,c count by his own mem- olandltm check, which, of course he expected to make good. He excused himself to his own con scence by saying - the banks pay interest on this money, and if only put back what 1 take. there will ,c harm done--I may .s we'll have the sise of the money as the banks
 Things went on in t.is way until the first Monday in April 1854 With it came the state election and the success of men whom he knew would displacc nm rom the position he then held, and an expo- sure was sure to follow unless tic funds were re- placed Stocks had gone ont of sight, and he had lost ali he had akenarld then for the first time he gan to appreciate the fact that ke had committed crime What to do he did not knnw--once he went to New York to take the steamer for Europe but the steamer saied. be was not or board and he again returned tn Hartford The rest ;s already known to the public It was to make his account sooi where discovery would soon be made if things were left as they then were that the bills of ike bank were distracted and used
 No other person is implicated in the least-he takes the whole matter upon himself
 So far as is in his power, Mfr Carter has made res- titut,on to the bank, having assigned to them all Ills assets of any character whatever,
 This is the stury-it was told us with evident sim 'cerlty and we have TO doubt of its truth It car rles wish 1t its own comment, warning all to ab- stain from the first departure from the path of rec titudc.
 FIRE IN WArErBrRY-A fire took place on the morning of the Sth inst, between two or three o'clock In the joincrs shop b, longing to pt Ches ter Curtss. at the foot of Field Street. which was speedily consumed, together with several chests of joiners tools and other useful materials including quantity of flumbcr The loss is computed at about $500, upon which there was no insurance-not by the owners fault, however. inasu1uch as no insur ance company would take the risk
 The American says
 '' What adds to the poignancy of this unluckv af- fair is the reflection that the fire was the work of a ds sstardly nccndary; and as the Cartain is one ag wall o,.sok ,:+: the motive was evidently not that of private pioue but sheer villainy.e - 1XckNDIARlsM IN ANsoNIA- On Tuesdav pipbt last, at about 10 clock says the A,nerieanl ser want girl living in the family of Dr. Colburn, hay ing occasion to go to the well for n nail of wafer thought she light in the barn. and informed the Doctor At first he imagined she had been de- ceived by the reflection of the light from the bouse but very prudentiy going to the barn 10 satisfy him seif he found a lighted candle stuck in the hay nov on the seconn floor, and nearly burnt down to the hay. few moments more and the barn and probably the house, would have fallen prev to the incendiary's torch.
 THE WATERBURY, BoGus.-At the recent exam;na tiou before the U. S. Commissioner at Hartford. on the charge of counteretng three cent and ten cent pieces, Cowd and Thompson were bound over to an pear for trial at the next U S District Court to be held in New Haven, on the 4tl Tuesday of this month
 Mr. Perkins of ,Woleottville, was discharged, no evidence appearing against him.
 The evidence on the examination was strong and explicit two of the persons under arrest having turned States evidence. One of tie named Wm. Dunbar, thinks he made the tools and dies produced in court.
 The dies were made to make bogus three cent pieces with .Mr Cowd has talked N itb mo seyeral times, about going into this business The first time did not tell him yes Saw him very oft en, and he always talked of this scheme of money making: Cowd said 10 one could hurt me for ma king the dies and that he would bear the br,nt of the affair. After while consented to make the dies with the understanding that should have no more to do with the thing. Cowd promised me he would take the dies to New Y, rk and have the three cent pieces strntk, and that should soon have roll of bills as big as my wrist in my. pocket every day. $ 2. . ..- '