Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-16
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- ees ee fSAiN VI rIIday 1extcnQeQ oyer nedfIy al iof this State aud did considerable damage ii
 sarious localities In Norwalk, new schurcl ledlfee, nearly completed, vas blown sentirel. down. and the steeple of another church wa. broken off few feet from the top. At Stam ford, the car house of the N. Y.&N. H. R. R was partially demolished and one of the church es some1hat injured. In Danbury, the steepls of the N E. Church vas also. broken, of som, fifteen or twenty feet from the top. Several barns and. eut-houses were blown down through out ths. State, but without doing much damage.
 lnsNew Tesk, the injury done to buildings and to shipping was immense, but what ssemii most wonderful of all, no lives are reported lost At Brooklyn, great damage was done. Inthe latter city, the end of the four story brick School House, in Hicks Street, blew down. and the building being set on fire was completely de. stroyed. Losss s2o,0OO. The end of the build. ing fell at o'clock in the morning. An hour later and somel 300, ehildren would have been in attendance and very many lives would have been lost Thestsepls of the Reformed Dutch Church, in Harrison st. was blown down. A Church in President St. vas unroofed. The vessels in the rivers dragged their anchors and during the morn- ing n9fsHy baats between New York and Brook iyn were running, except those of inc Fulton Ferry Two fachooners were driven ashore at Governors Island.
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 At Philadelphia, 2 number of houses were blown down aud two men were killed. It was also very severe at Baltimore, and Washington.
 Along the Hudson River many buildings were unroofed: |: ..s esss.s,-s1s ---5 <
 Dr. Grants place at Iona was, we regret to learn, injured to the amount of Sl0000.
 At Boston nospecial damage was occasioned.
 On the sapnd the wind blew hurricane. and only one boat fiom Boston CThe Fall River boat) succseded in reaching the dock.
 The gale saf Friday. blew of part of the church roof % that one side of the roof will have to be renewed. <. '.-.=
 IS CoscR Ess, On Thursday the Speaker an nounced the standing committees of the House The following are the positions occupied by the Connecticut members: Mir. Loomis, expenditures in the treasury.departnent {chairman) and mile- age; Mr.. Woodruff post-ofices and postroads Mir. Burnham patents, and Mr. Ferry, revolution ary claims, and roads and canals
 The committee on contested elections.i is com- posed olive Republicans, three Democrats and one soath ATFsgican. TFsgi .fr.,-'.
 The organization of the House is completed and all in the interest of republican triumph in the Presidential campaign, stands as follows :-
 Speaker r-Wa Waliam Pennington of New Jer sey. Clerk John W. Forney of Pennsylvania. sergoant+ata rms-Henry w. Hoffman of Mary land. Doorkaeper-George Marston of New Hampshire. Postmaster-Jonah l.. Lucas of Illinois. Printer-John Defrees of Indiana
 The appropriation bill was passed on Monday in the Senate, with an amendment abolishing the Franking privilege, but this proviso has not yet been adopted by the House. and from present appearances, seems not likely to be. .'
 On Friday Mir. Ferry our representative in the House, took the floor to reply to assaults upon the Republican party, and according to the tele- graahc reports, was an able effort We shall try to give some extracts from it, whom ,ws re- ceive the speech entire. 4f l THE Demecfatic State Convention convened yesterday in Hartford, and nominated on the first ballot Thomas H Seymour for Governor by vote'of 3os to l22 for Jas. T. Pratt For Lieu tenant Governor, Jas. E. English of New Haven. For Secretary of State, N B. Stevens of Nor folk. For Treasurer, Thos II. c. Kingsley of Franklin. s>s..-sss 's
 MRa. HENRY WARD BEEcnER was driving to New York in her wagon, Wednesday afternoon, to meet Mr. Beecher on his return from Spring field, when her horse became frightened and ran violently down. Hicks street, Brooklyn. Be- coming unmanageable he dashed against the curbstone,. throwing Mrs. Beecher violently against the stone steps of the Long Island bank. Her right temple was severely cut and her face badly bruised. Sheewas taken up inseusible, but soon recovered her consciousness. She com plained of internal injuries and appeared to suf- fer much, and there were serious apprehensions as to the amount of injury she had sustained. Two children apd a nurse were with her, who were only slightly injured Mir. Beecher reach cd home few hours after the accident.
 Mrs. Beecher seems to have been more seri- ously hurt than was first supposed, by the up setting of her carriage, in Brooklyn, N. r., last Wednesday. Hopes arc entertained, however, of her recovery. ..5 s.: @g
 THE TRIAL or IIAn1rr IN V1RGINIA.-The testimony for tue defense, in the case of Hazlitt on trial at Charlestown, Va, was closed on Thursday. The court then adjoined till 10 o'clock Monday, to give the counsel time to pre- pare his argument. No doubts are entertained as to the conviction of the prisoner, as the testi mony given, Thursday morning, was unfavorable to the defense. a .=s~.- 5.
 -JunGE CHARLES IsGERsolL of the U. g. court for the district of Connecticut died at his resi- dence in New Haven, Tuesday evening, aged 63 His diffculties, commencing with. an attack of gout or rheumatism in the stomach and chest, assumed a more complicated and serious form and baf3ed the skill of the best physicians. A prostratiug feyer. and at last brain Arrangement were added to his disorder. He was one of the most firm, upright and impartial judges, and in