Litchfield enquirer., 1860-12-13

An amendment to the constitution, rsaalrnyr ing the nght Of the States to regulate their ig- ternal institutions; making stronger urovis;o-.~ for the rendition of fugitive slaves reue~lif.sr !he present obnoxioas fugitive slave law. iegtr ing g out such provisions as an extra fec to tke cn,teu otates Commissioner in case of a con- victlon, and giving the slave right of trial bv Jury before the United States Courts and ,,.,.. y hibiting the, States from passing laws to oi,~ struct the execution of it.
 planter from the interior of South Carolf. na, who owns a large number of sIayes ssvs that such compromise, would, he thinks. satis- Y majority of his State, if the leaders and tke press would only inform the people of its pro- from home, and says the people are wild Eth the disunon sentiment, all produced bv th@ politicians. He says he knows the State xouId vote against re-opening the slave trade, if the question were submitted to them now. ehe will go out of the Union inevitably on the l7th. but he thinks that when the experiment has been tried, she will come back, and that e,eTv man who helps to produce the present revoIn. tion is signing Ais own death warrant. aa a great revulsion of sentiment must take place ss soon as calmness prevails again. He riyes many interesting facts concerning the state of affairss He is member of the Legislature, and also of th8 State Convention, but is strong for the Unions He says that what flow conssrvaL tives thereate in the State gre completely ovss- whelmed aud rendered powsrlsss by the popu-
 lar revolutionary current.
 Look out for counterfeit fves altered from ones on the. Quinsigamond Central and City Banks or Worcester, Mass, the Southbridgo Bank and Hampshire Manufacturers Bask of Ware, Mass, and on the Greenfsld Bank of t4reenheld, Mass. Counterfeit twes are also in circulation on the Shelburne Falls Bank and the Bank of Middlebury, Vt, made up from Ina same plate of the counterfeit of the Bank of Litchfeld Co. ofthis State The following extract from the corss,ops. ence of the St. Louis Democra may account for the origin of many of the most startling ru- mors 'ao. from Kansas. The correspondent, wri- ting from the "seat of war" says
 Two hundred United Statos troops were mistaken on "Wednesday last for Montaomsrys
 men, and at the sight of them all the farmers ran away and deserted their homes. They soon found out their mistake, however, and rsturned to their farms.
 -",'Une man, with team of four horses. saw . fopagiug party of the United States troops num- bering thirty men. His alarm was So sudden and great that he cut one of his horses cut of hIs team and broke for the settlement. like Tam 0 Shanter with the witches after him. bearing the news that the robbers were coming. In an hour or two the troops quietly rode in with the remaining horses of the team. and the poor farmer was terribly ridiculed for his fright"
 A gentleman who arrived at Washington on "Wednesday night, from Georgia, states that .n agent of Sharps rife manufactory in COnnecti- cut has just contracted with the authorities of that State for two thousand five hundred rifles, sixteen hundred of which have been delivered within a few days, Assurances were given be. fore he left the State that five thousand more rifles would be immediately ordered. by bill which would pass the Legislature within three days.
 person lately seeing an advertisement stat ing that bank note of S2OO had been fovnd, | immediately equipped himself very spruceIs, and applied to the finder who was the Rev. Mir. H., not far from lsesworth, and on being asked if he could rcco!lect the number, etc. replied that he could not but if it was the note bs had lost. there was the name Harvey on the back. The ] Rev. fRder then gave him the note to look at, ~f.ich after glance, he politely returned. de- c'arng that ii did not belong to him. ApoIo- E=5:sg- isc took his leave. and the next day sene a!e ot h5s @sat=sle-z.zs, whom he had In:or med If Gg= a-sF6 c-= --is- -Gd xho received l. if n -e,s z-a-,--.-l~5,'z. NJ lL