Litchfield enquirer., 1858-06-10

1t will be seen that Ltchfeld county is by far the
healthicst county in the State.
The Ladpendna sums up the present state of the
revival follows:
The GENERAL REvIvAL.-The revival still contin-
ues, and in many places with urabated interest In
fact districts not before affected by it are lust
beginning to be visited and reports from out-ctthe
way places, from which news of passing events is al
ways slow in reaching us, are just coming in. But
taking the whole work together the revival is
| ing. This decline, however, is natural 1t is not
to be expected that intensified state of religious
interest as has been witnessed since last fall should
lie perpetual Such phenomon would be unlike
ything ever before known in the annals of the
the Christian church and if by forced measures the
revival could be made always to continue in such
form the present, the result would be undesirable
because unnatural. The divine influence that has
passed over the country is already without parallel
in itshistory, and will mark the past year and the
present in all coming times But while the revival
terest which it exhibited a month two months
ago, it has by no means lost its undercurrent of
power The wave has, as yet, lost only its crest,
and is still rolling with majestic swell over the
whole land statical statement of the number of
conversions since last October has appeared in some
of the daily papers, giving the total thus far, at
about 200, 900. The exact number, of course, can
never be given !; and how the present approx
mates to the truth, it is impossible to say.
Jack Powers, of San Francisco, wagered $500
that he could ride hundred and fifty miles in
eight consecutive hours, the horses twenty-five in
number to be of California mustang stock large
concourse of people went out to witness the feat,
which was easily perfurnemed in six hours and for
tv-three minutes, with apparently little fatigue to
man or beast. He changed horses seyenty-two
times rode horse twenty miles during the
At no time did he require or accept assistance in
mounting. The average consumption OF time for
dismountng and mounting was seven seconds. The
quickest time was 2:1S. At the termination of his
one hundred and fftieth mile, he gave whoop,
sprane OH to another horse and dashed around
other mile to show that he not a used-up man.
It was rather profitable operation to Powers. he
won his bet of $500, and by agreement was allow
ed one-half the admittancc money, amounting to
Sc, 000 which made total OF 6,5OO or about
thousand dollars an hour.
&Ehe plethora of money in New York is we'll shown
by few paragraphs in the money article OF Inter-
dent
pleasant quarrel, without coffee and pistols,
mains unsettled between two city dry-geods FIRMS
One party insists upon the settlement of bills with
monev deducting the interest and the other party
insists that he shall do no sych thing but must give
notes.
A well-known very respectable dry-goods jobbing
house in this city, sent their check on Saturday for
one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in settle
ment of recent purchases of merchandise preferring
thus to do rather than give their notes as usual.
Bank president called upon prominent COM
mission house, and offered to discount lot of paper
amounting to about one hundred thousand dollars,
at four per cent. per The offer was declined
A demand loan on United States treasury notes
was paid off on Monday by the borrowers, where the
rate of interest was only three and half per cent.
per annum. The check, which we had the pleasure
OF seeing, was for over a halt million Of dollars.
The market still continues exclusively pethorlc,
although the Government has absorbed $4,000
for the reissue of Treasury notes that have been re-
ceiyed for duties and Cancelled. This new issue was
raised four and half per cent, and was negotiat