Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-08
MT. Northway Aeasn.

|, we g1ve the ioAOWlng pafuculaf1 in relation to Mir. Northways disappearance which we omitted last week, for reasons then stated. that we preferred not to give currency to rumors, but only authenticated facts.
 1t appears that MT. Northway spent the night or ms departure from Norfolk, in Winsted, that there he attended Masonic meeting and after wards "Rare-bit supper" (whatever that isl and that he there had extra pockets sewed into his coat for carrying the money he had with him. This was the first suspicious circumstance that appeared like premeditated flight.
 Upon arriving at New York from Boston, he took his carpet-bag, which he intended to haoe found, to the Metropolitan Hotel, and sent oase' baggage, with which he intended to go West, to Held's Hotel, (the old United States.'
 On Sunday afternoon he left the Metropolitan, taking the key of his room with him, aud pro ceeding to Held1s hotel, obtained his baggage and left in the o'clock train for Philadelphia. Upon the cars, he seems to have met MT. J. c. James, of Ohio, to whom he communicated his business relations, his social and political standing, but does not seem to have informed him of his intended flight.
 At Philadelphia he took rooms with Mfr James at the Washington Hotel, where Mr. N register ed his name as s. D. Northrup; Portland, Me. !"
 MT. James afterwards returned to New York, and reading in the papers, of the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Northway" at once sur missed that his late companion must be the man who was the cause of the excitement, and who was now on his way West. He immediately communicated this fact to the proprietors of the Metropolitan Hotel and to the police, and all doubts which may have existed up to this time as to his fate, were thus at once put to rest.
 With this brief notice then of his disappear ance, which we deem due to the public and to his many friends, who have been SO terribly shocked and pained by his supposed murder, and to whom his conduct is still inexplicable if not inexcusabe, we dismiss the painful subject from our columns.
 Hardly man in the county has previously been so esteemed and beloved as Mir. Northway; man of singularly genial and winning manners thorough, energetic business man man of high standing socially and politically; we should as easily thought of any one of our Ltchfield Divines leaving us as of Ais absconding, and we may well throw the mantle of hope and charity over his distressed family and his own unhappy Positionby attrbuting it all to some secret heart bitterness, or some unknown disappointme ents he may have suffered, or more likely than all to some temporary alteration of mind, which might easily befall so sensitive and nervous a tempera- ment as his and from out of which, as he recov. ers he may again return to his home, where he has so much personal interest, and where hearts still beat and bleed for him, as those only ol devoted and deserted family can.
 We learn of no movements made as yet tc follow him, which, under the circumstances, VIC must at least consider strange and unaccountable Since the above was in type we have received the following additional intelligence of interest concerning Mr. Northway, from a friend in Nor folk. It will be seen to-; confirm. our views res. pecting Mir. Ms temporary insanity.
 "The report that Mr. Northway was intoxicat. ed in New York is undoubtedly untrue. Moth. ing unusual was noticed fiji disappearance by two or three gentlemen who knew him and saw him but few minutes before 6 o'clock, the hour the train leaves for Philadelphia.
 "The present agents of the Company with which MT. Northway was connected, state that nothing is wrong in his accounts, and no probable reason can be given for his strange going off. Mr, Northway has been strongly attached to his fam. fly and connections, and that he should have given them no intimation of his purpose, when he allowed several circumstances to afford an easy trace of the western route he has taken is one of the most difficult things to account for It is thought by some of his friends that his mind must be deranged, and such we learn is the opin. ion of an eminent physician of this County who knew him, and who on hearing the circumstan- ces of the case has so stated in letter to a friend at Norfolk"
 WATERBURY.-Whosoever is so unfortunate ol fortunate as to be detained overnight, by the breaking of bridges or other perilous providences by flood or fortune, at Waterbury, will find g genial reception, comfortable bed and warm breakfast at the hotel known as the Scoville House, kept by mine host Brown, who does everything up in his own peculiar manner, and in strict accordance with his name, and who never gives up" looking after the interests of his friends and guests. We know, for we've been there Speaking of Waterbury reminds us of the pleas ant call we made therein, upon the venerable Nes tor of the profession the hale and hearty editor o the Americaa Seated in his pleasant sanctum we listened to, and, we hope, profted by the nara tivsef his lifel long experiences, and we reverent ly doff our beaver in deference to his larger ex perience and kindly counscls.- And speaking o Waterbury, reminds: us also of the active and efficient superintendent of that name, who pre- sides over the interests of the ,Naugatuck R. R who when bridges breakssets them up again, and who always turnsup at the turning point of the game. Life is Q game on the N. R. R., but not withstanding many shufles lover shakey bridges. we believe it was never yet played out" TypoGnApH1cA1. ERRORS will occur in the best regulated newspapers. Last week our types made melancholy joke on a melancholy sub feet. They killed man instantly in New Mil