Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-12

his resignation as President of the Board of
 Directors Of this Bank; therefore,
 Resolced, That his resignation is accepted, to take effect this day.
 Resofred, That it is with great regret that we accept the resignation of Mir. Beach, whose name has been identified with this Bank from its or ganlzatlon and we desire to express our high sense of the value of his services during an unin terrupted period of nearly half century and our fervent wishes that the best blessings of Heaven may rest on the remainder of his honorable and useful life.
 George Seyms having rendered his resignation as Director of the Board, it was accepted and John L. Bunce was elected Director, to fill the vacancy of Mr. Seyms.
 The Board proceeded to ballot for President when John L. Bunce was unanimously elected President for the current year.-Couront
 IT appeared on examination of the Chinaman who murdered Capt. Leete and his brother on the Guilford sloop, that he had quareled with the captain, and that he showed so revengeful dis position that the captains father had warned him that Jackalow would yet be the death of him, aud urged him to discharge him. When the messenger went to Guilford with the news of the crime, the father of the murdered man started up, before word had been said to him "Jackalow has murdered my two boys: I knew he would y Jackalow has involved himself in a maze of contradictions in his account of the matter, but makes no confession of the crime.
 MEssRs. DooL1rTLE's carriage shop, Pleas ant Valley, was burned with its contents, April oth The lumber shop, with years stock of carriage lumbfr, was also consumed. Mir. C. Doolittles horse was also burned. Loss about $6 6,O00--insurance $1 800.
 A BOROUGH MEETING is to be held at Danhn.v on Thursday, to consider the proprietY of fur. nishlng the borough with water from Kahanzs brook, about mile from the borough limits. A 1 fall of 200 feet can be obtained and a never failing supply of water, at the estimated cost of $26,0O0
 A YOUNG couple in St. Louis were robbed the 1 other night of money and clothes, by some vii. lains who administered chloroform. The room had been so thoroughly sacked that the plunder- ed pair were obliged to remain in bed till the plundered pair were obliged to remain in bed till the neighbors brought them some clothing THE Hudson River R. R. Co., now runs a spec ial morning tram to carry the New York morn ing papers. It leaves at 3:20 A. N. and reaches Albany at 7:45. This brings all the breakfast tables between New York and Albany within reach of the New York dailies.
 A MR STocKwEIA and Miss Rooney arrived in Springfield on Thursday at minutes to l2, went to Cooley's hotel and got spliced, ate din- ner and left town on the l2l3 train south. 1 THE body of Mr. Corbin, who had been missing for several days from Putnam, was found in the Qunnebaug rver on the 3Oth ut It is supposed that while in state of intoxication he drove off the abutment at Bundy's Bridge The horse and wagon were found week previous to the finding of the body.
 TIE thirteenth annual meeting of the Ameri- can Medical Society will be held on the first Tuesday of June, in the city of New Haven, in- stead of the first Tuesday of May as formerly.
 Two young men were seriously injured in New London, Wednesday evening, by the premature discharge of a gun-one had an arm broken. and the other was badly hurt about the head and face.
 J. M. CASE, workman in Sharpe's rife fac, tory, at Hartford, in fufi}lment of lost bet on the election. amused his friends on Friday by wheeling barrel of crackers from the state house in Hartford to the state prison in Weth- ersfeld, and back time l.lO and l.l5, distance little over three miles each way
 THE Norwalk democrats, failing to find use for their powder in the result in their own state fired it through 100 guns in honor of Rhode Island, on Thursday.
 HE two democratic rowdies, Lines and Bag. ley, who assaulted the wide awake club of Wa, terbury, Monday evening, have been ordered to pay a fine and costs of S7 each on two indict- ments, and to remain in the county jail for 60 days for each ofenss. HENRY WARD BEEcHER preached sermon on Sunday evening last, to very large assembly His text was Encyclopaedia. He said, during his discourse, that while he was ab- sent from the city, short time since, he read in the newspapers that the Trustees of Plymouth Church-his own church, where he had labored for thirteen years, and where he had hoped to have produced good, sound fruit--had refused to allow Wendell Phillips to deliver his Plea for the Dissolution of the Union" And although no man differed with Mir. Phillips more widely on this subject than he did, he would say Mr. Phillips was scholar, glorious orator, Man and he was proud to call him friend. He did not, could not believe the paragraph at the timei but when he came home and found that it was true-a fact-he blushed so that he could feel it his boots. An old lady, at the close of the dis course, said to her companion, "Aint he jawed 'em orfully ?"-1ribuae.
 | A YOUNG man calling himself Gordon, or Nor. gan, has been arrested in New Haven, where he has been playing the telegraph game-that is filling out fictitious despatches, leaving them at houses and collecting 50 cents for the same Some 200 of these blanks were found on him He is now behind 'the wires" of the county jail with bis 'circuit cut off,"
 ,I A MAN named Thomas Clark being drunk laid himself down to sleep on the track of the railroad near Pittsburgh, Penn. A train passing snon after toro him in niere; ag st t5