Litchfield enquirer., 1858-03-04
State Items.

result of the Democratic caucus in that city Friday night, was most significant event. It may well oe called THE FIRST GUN FROM CoNSnTIctr.' A majority of the Democrats of the City of Hartford
 in their primary meeting, have decided against inc Lecomlton swins,le They have decided that the principle for which Stephen A. Douglas is contend ing-that of allowing people to accept or reject their own constitution is a correct one With such men, the rights of the majority arc of mere value than the dictates of party. We arc r.jetce at such step It is one advance towards the establish msnt of the right.
 The example of Hartford will he followed by those Democrats that agree with Mir Douglas. through out the State. They will be encouraged to rally and manfully stand up for the rights of the majority Tie Convention to assemble tl.is week, will be wholly composed of Post masters and Custom House Officers with their hangers "n and camp followers There will be some independent men present who will oppose LecoRpton and its ra<cal:tics.
 Mir. Secretary Toucey has been defeated in his own town. The Democracy of Hartford are think ing and acting and judging for themselves inde- .pendently of Administration dictates. Mr. Bu- chanan will learn, that if he pcrscveres in his Le- compton outrage, he will not leave a corporal's guard of followers in any Of the free states. We think, too, that Messrs. Arnold and Bishop will have their eyes open by and by. to see that they have voted and voting against the wishes of an innaense saority of tAeif constituents After the. votes they have given against the rights of the ma. jority G Kansas, let them present themselves again for the sufrages of their districts, if they dare We look for some strong expressions of popular opinion in the Convention of this week.
 A German. about thirty five years of age, named Chas. Ro,hweiler, was run over q, the Bridgeport Depot. Tursday afternoon, and had both of his legs cut off He was attempting to get on board of the Housatonic freight train while m motion. He has since died.
 From the various notices in the Hartford pa- Pers of articles manufactured from the Charter oak' We have, says the Middl-town Sentinel. by cose calculation, ssti.paed it's diameter at one acre and fourteen-sixteen,hs of an acre.
 "A LEN OF THiEvEs BROKEN Up.-The store o' "m. Blacklnan, in Ferry street, Was broken open last Sunday nigh, by colored man named John. Brown, and drmijohn filled with rum: sev. era' oot''es' a lot of tobacco, pipes, Soap, and numerous other small articles taken therefrom An entrance was effected by plying open the store door With an iron bar, stolen from Stevens. fish
 market opposite. Browen was arressed and brought hrfore the Police Court on Tuesday. and sent to Jail for 20 days for stealing the bar, with the understanding that ke would be arraigned yes- sefo"y on hilarge of burglary and stealing from Mr. blackman's store. Accordingly, Mir. Brown was brought before Judge Collier, yesterday mor- nng' to answer to the charges::above made. Bow en is resident of Ferry street, and lives in the same house with MT. George Brown. and Samp- son and Hosea EAston. all members, of the coored fraternity Officers Mott and ChauS,er,ia had curiosity to examine the premises of these individ. uals, and yesterday morning proceeded to make search. They found numerous articles secreted about the premises, among which was quantity of bar soap, whole ham, some haijozeD ham bones, lot of cigars, and numerous other luxu- res of life. The posse were arrested; and Brown supposing that he and his fellows had been be. 'rayed by his colored brother Bown, made con. fession' He confessed that they had stolen the hams from Woodruf's smoke-house on Market st. some time since, and they had also entered Oliver raf'>h's sausage shop on State ret, and helped themselves to all the newIymade sausapes they wanted. (Alr' Woodruff missed the hams soon after they We're stpIen.) They had also stolen, al, two dlleret times, two half bartels of flour from Carlos Glazie.'s store State street, and one of the party managed 10 help himself to respectable looking coat from one of the State street clothing stores, which he had at the time of the ares |,
 There are other drpreda,ions alleged to have been committed by thi, gang of darkies which will oe brought to light when their trial comes of on Saturday. Meanwhile the quar,e,,e are the hab. 'tants of the Pearl lsiret mausion.-Couram
 The extensive oyster keg manufactory, &c.,, of Julas Brooks, Esq. situated near Brooks. S,a. 'ion, on the Canal Road, was .eniirsly destroyed by fire on Tuesday evening. Loss about to S0. 900, on wch there was no insurance, We exceedingly regret that Mr Brooks should have been so unfortunate.
 # -fhe number of births in Cornwall curing the l yeas iso7 was 3o marriages ,-lhe parties be- Ing O. more mature age than is usually the case
 'ne males averaging over B years and the females
 over Sl. Number of deaths, 27.
 f -" the town of Putnam for the year 1887, the
 nu noer of marriages was 8 births 30; deaths lst. five 0f whom. were between the ages ef $ and 9l. ..s s
 I The ladies' saloon 2, the Railroad Station J House, New Haven, is amos, continually bsse, ,iby ffnale thieves and pickpocke,s, where the, lassaLwha'sser ths careless may put d,wn for a