Litchfield enquirer., 1859-06-23

position will involve the discussion of important questions, including that of blockade and as how fart his belligerent right should be exercised. l AN OFFER FOR THE ERIE RA1LRoAD-A proposi- tion has been made by certain parties to lease the Erie railroad for ten years, on the following terms To pay the bondholders $1 ,6OO GOO for the present year 100, 900 for the next year 2,OOO,O 900 for the tbrd year and 2, 300 900 per annum for the mainder of the term. The latter sum would be sufficient to pay the interest the entire debt and a dividend on the stock The parties offer to give securities to keep the road in repair and to be sub ject, once year, to the investigation of commit tee, under the instructions of the creditors ot the company
 One of the great questions at issue in the Tennes- see election is the s Banks.'' The Democracy have uttered the principle that all the Banks are wrong and unconstitutional, and that every dollar of pa per money is fraud on the community Is not :. the Democracy consistent party The De- ken up.
 PRETTY Coop! A correspondent of Minnesota paper, writing from Pke's Peak, says that the mi ners are very much discouraged in that region, from being compelled to dig through solid vein of silver, four feet thick, before they reach the gold.
 YALE CoIIEGE-The ad lress of Edward Caring ton, of Coebrook, the class orator presentation day at Yale is spoken of as creditable production The students held their usue pow-wow Fin the eve ming and went through an incredible mess of fool cry: but the Neps says nobody could see where the laugh should in. The Germania Band who came from Boston for the purpose. furnished the most enjoyable feature
 It is said that in Garibalds corps there are many volunteers-sons of the noble families of Italy. ceHnts marquises and dukes, fighting for independ- ence as common soldiers. When such men shoul der the musket, there is reality in the desire for independence. A..-
 It is reported from Dubuque, Iowa, that one Ma son Clarke, who had been letter writer from the Pikes Peak country had been actually torn in pie tremities were fastened to many mules drawing in different directions Ezra Allen another of these I writers, was shot.
 f1 Another 'great man. is gone. Dr. E. Brown, well known in this vicinity (oo we'll known by some) as the ''great scrofula doctor,' died at Hartland, Vermont, May 23d, of dropsy, aged 4O He was formerly of Northampton, Mass, and when there weighed 450 pounds, and at the time Of his death he weighed 512 pounds Waterbury Anercan.
 The following comfortable opinion is expressed by the able and intelligent London correspondent of the Nat. Inelligencer If as he thinks the sen l tment of the age is 'pacifc,'' it would be very strange that general European should take place without more provocation than there is at | present
 "A feeling is increasing in strength every day l that a general European war is improbable; that England, Russia and Prussia will remain neutral that France and Piedmont will alone contend against Austria, and that the contest will be confined to It. ally. No one can foretell, however what is incri- bed upon the next page of history that will be tuned We think the character and the spirit of the age are decidedly pacific, but we must not in dulge our optimist speculations too far. | One of the firm of A. T. Stewart, New York re- gently deceased, gives seven nephews and nieces | each 1000, half sister $5000O0, besides ma king several other handsome donations. The Rochester Union of June 18th, contains an account of certain stealing operations of one N H. Bradley, Agent of the Union Knife Company of Naugauck. Notwithstanding a large salary, it ap- pears that he has been very extensively engaged in places where he sold his goods in purloining pack ages of Knives, &c.,. and re-selng them again to | other customers He pleaded guilty to one charge in Rochester, says the Union, and it alleges that still other accusations lie against him, which it will be dangerous for him to appear and meet. FIFTH AVENUE HoTEL.-The great Marble Palace Hotel on Fifth Avenue, opposite Madison Square, New York, is nearly done at cost of S1,144, ,OOO | and it will be opened Aug. 1st. The building cost l S40O, 900; ground s35o 900; furniture S2O0 GOO steam plumbing, and gas fixture $55 900; mirrors | $3000O-and forth. In splendor extent and COT ycnience, it surpasses all other hotels in the | world
 | Among the Americans now in Paris are Senators Seward and Clingman, Mrs. Marcy and daughter | (the family of the late Gov. Marcy) Mrs. Henry Hills, Mrs. Jonathan Sturgcs and family of New York.
 The Worcester Spy publishes extracts from letter from Hon. Charles Sumner dated Paris May 31, in which he says:
 At last, feel happy in health which, if not en- tirely assured yet is such as to allow me to walk naturally, unconsciously, and without pan unless when strike into my old gait, which, you may re- member, always the fastest of the fastest I hope that have not lost this that Icanno get lit back again. One must have been for three years an invalid to know the happiness in my new found | strength"
 The Detroa Free Press has made the discovery that | Chere are now no voters in Michigan. This happens from blunder in the legislature in drafting the registry bill, passed at its last session The law provides that person shall be allowed to vote un less his shall be duly registered, but makes no provision for registering until October next. the law to take effect immediately upon it's passage it follows that all voters disfranchised until De- tober.
 The S. Louis Republican of the 18th says that Mor itz Steinback of the jurors in the case of Miss Fife C. Carstang against MT. Henry Shaw for breach of promise of marriage, has made affidavit that, before being impanneled the jury he stated that he did not understand English sufficiently to try the matter that he never agreed to the verdict giving to the plaintiff $100000, but thought that the jority ruled and consequently did not object and that he believes that the verdict unjust and the damages excessive. This puts another aspect