Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-03
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 RETURNING TO SLAvERY.-We find in the proceed ings of the North Carolina 1" House of Commons, fol January 3, lpublished in the Raleigh Standard, o the next day,) the following
 The bill for the relief of Emily Hooper, of Libe ria, was then read
 Mir Norwood stated that Emily was the daugh- ter ofa man who held station of consequence in the Republic of Liberia He came to this State pur- chased her freedom and carried her to Liberia. Her parents being dead she most anxious to return to the service of her former mistress at Chapel Hill The bill to permit her to do so
 MT Bsnbury thought there was constitutional objection to enslaving free African at present in Liberia. If he thought there was not he would be An favor of the bill.
 Mr. Norwood replied that she was at present a tree woman who voluntarily wanted to return to slavery but who would become the property of the State by returning here To remove this, and vest in the person of her former mistress was the ob- ject of the bill.
 Mir Benbury still thought that the act of Con- gress as well as the Constitution prohibited such measure.
 "Mr. Kerr would vote in favor of the bill no act of Congress referred to this case She not of pure African blood, native of Africa, and m re- turning to slavery in this State she did not come within the act of Congress prohibiting the slave trade. He considered this case as giving high tes' tmony in favor of the institution of Slavery m thls State when woman, after experiencing the b'ne-
 ts of liberty, begs permission to return as the slave of her former mistress.
 "The bill passed it's second req ling"
 THs GRnAr GRANDFATHER OF SLE1eu-RrDEs.- Seven hundred and fifty persons, drawn by one hundret and twenty horses, rode from H"lyoke to Springfield and back on Saturday, the 5th They were the employees in the Hoyoke Mills, and were accompanied by their Overseers and the agent of the company The teams were deco" rated with flags and evergreens and the grand procession pass through the principal streets of the town, exchanged happy greetings with the thousands that drawn to wit mss the spectacle, and created great excitement wherever it went Northampton, (Nass.,) Feb. 16h.
 FAfrHTUL AND LAB R1oUs CLEReYNAN-Rev. Mses Howe, who was formerly settled in Ports mouth, N. H., but who for the past f,rrteen years has been the chaplain of the New Bedford Port So- ciety, has, during that period, preached ? PIP mons. attended ,260 funerals married 930 couples, placed on board of whale shins sailing from that port packages containing 5.211 Bibles and 15 228 Testaments settled voyages for seamen, the proceeds of which amounted to over $265, 800, has received and expended for benevolent purposes $ 252 95 be- sides visiting the sick and attending to the other ordinary duties Of pastor. During his whole min istry of about forty vears he has preached 1868 mons, married I.5A couples, and attended more than 1000 funerals. A record of ministerial labor which is almost unparalleled.-Cons Jour.
 Aunt Betsey said many good things; among the rest that a newspaper is like wife, because every one ought to have one of his own.
 In one of the schools of New York, last week. a mischievous urchin took an opportunity to deposit soft wax the benches of all the boys and on the chair of the teacher. It wasn't long before the schoolroom was as fullof ' waxed-ends as a shoe- makers shop.
 Some curious statstican has found out that in one street in Northampton, within distance of two- thirds of mile, there thirty-five marriage.ble females. of beauty rare and accomplishments fine.
 Personal revenge prompted some wretch in Shutes- bury, Mass, to enter by stealth the bedroom of FL len daughter of Henry stowell and after a,lminis- tering to that young lady and another sleeping girl sufficient choroform to stupey both, to cut several deep gashes on her forehead chin, and breast She awoke an hour or two later, bathed in blood, but cannot imagine who committed the deed
 The Treasury Department has notified the execu- tor of the late Col Benton of a judgment against the deceased rendered in 1826 in favor of the Uni ted States, for S7 900. The Government claims pr orty in payment. The executor will appeal to Con- gress for relief the ground of ins vency of the estate the estate being hardly sufficient to pay the bills owing for necessaries furnished to decedent's family.
 ,.Alvan P. Hyde is nominated for Congress in the Hartford district by the Democrats. His opponent L0Omis is an old classmate in College.
 The Missionary spirit of former days se ms to have been awakened in Ahdover Theological Semi nary. No less than one-thrd of the present Senior class have devoted themselves to the work of preach
 
 There are g persons in Essex who are over 80 years of age.
 Bayard Taylor says the hot houses of the Cz,rs, in latitude 60 north contain the finest collection of tropical plants in Europe. Palm trees are sixty feet in height, and there banks of splendid or chards, The hot houses are about mile and half iu length.
 The Michigan Legislature has "put it's foot in it. by voting land to Mrs. Rogers for producing four little Rogerses at once. Mrs. Job Burnap of Sumpter County who has borne nine children at four births puts in her claim for more prairie, and there is telling where this business will end unless the stakes are put down somewhere.
 Two hunting parties went from Saratoga to the northern woods this winter, one. comprising four persons and the other seven. The first killed and saved eighty deer and one bear. The second, seven- ty-sx deer, four partners, one otter, three minks five martens and one fox, besides catching 506 pounds of fish, 300 pounds of which are brook and lake trout One brook trout caught weighed three pounds and twelve ounces.
 The Army Register for 1859 shows the U S. Ar
 my to consist of ten regiments of infantry. four of artillery, one of mounted rifemen two of cavalry. and two of dragons; in all about l6,000. The grand aggregate of the militia is 2,724, ,426.
 It is stated that friend in New York have made profit of $l00,00O by manufacturing steel hoops for ladies skirts.
 Two male members of the Second Congregational Church in this village were "suspended" by vote of the church on Monday evening last for Spiritual heresies. The gentlemen thus under suspension are unquestionably and indsputably two of the most upright and sincere men in this community. There is stain but that of the heresy alluded to can pos sibly attach to either Winsted Herald. The oldest couple in Vermont is said to be living In Hardwick, the old gentleman being 97, and his wife 99. the two having lived together in wedock tor 69 years. The old lady says she can now dc more housework in day than half of the girls in town, and her works prove it.
 A father is imprisoned in Washington for hsrbor ing his own child The father is free negro-the mother a Slave-and the child came hame from Z