Litchfield enquirer., 1860-06-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


 again next day.
 | NEWS OF THE WEEK: IN CoNGREss.-Mr. Sumner on Tuesday de- livered his first speech since his return on the } /" Ba,barism of Slavery" It was more forcible, more scathing and more eloquent even than the famous speech for which he received his famous ) blow from Southern chivalry. Senator Chest } nut of South Carolina, made an indignant re- ) sponse, but said with great condescension, that they did not purpose retalating upon the Senator again with their former arguments. 4 acoult1,a't De reN!
 Il IT IS NOW SAID that there are no well authen- ticated cases of cattle murrain outside of North
 Brookfeld Mass. Even those in Hillsboro', N
 H., are doubted by some.
 UIcKs the murderer of the Captain of the
 Oyster Sloop, has been sentenced to be hung. July 18th.
 IErER V. DANIEL, one of the justices of the
 U. s. Supreme Court, died at Richmond, Va.
 Thursday.
 SOME EXCITEMENT has been caused at Jewett f City by the introduction of some cattle into that town from Pelham, Massachusetts, One of
 the cattle was killed and found to be diseased
 but whether with pleuro-pneumonia or not, there was not decisive evidence.
 !, HARD TINES IN kANsAs.-Owing to the ex
 treme drouth, the entire wheat crop of K ansas has proved failure. Tho loss casts a gloom, over the Territory. A correspondent informs
 the Lawrence Republican that in his opinion
 there is not one family in twenty, south of the ,} Kansas Valley, in which pound of -four can now be found, or where any is likely to be seen
 for year to come.
 THE NATIONAL MEDICAL. CONVENTION is hold
 ell at New Haven this week. Great prepara-
 tions have been made to give the Doctors wei
 come reception. Certainly they have a ,carn.
 one, this weather.
 A grand banquet will take place at tho State y House Thursday night; an excursion to East
 Rock will be made Friday morning; and the citizens generally have the latch string out The > convention is held annually by turns in each of u the States of the Union, and this is the second time that New England has been honored with
 it's presence.
 5 THE CosN. MEDICAL CONVENTION met last week in Hartford. There were sixty members present. Dr. Ashbel Woodward delivered an ' able address which will be published. The fol- 5 lowing members were elected officers for the en- suing year:
 President-Dr Ashbel Woodward of Franklin [ Vice Prest-Dr. J. c. Beckwith of Litchfeld. , Treasurer Geo. o. Sumner of New Haven.
 Secretary-Dr. P. NJ. Hastings of Hartford The visiting delegates were handsomely and hospitably entertained by the members of the Hartford Medical Society.
 LATER FROM EURoPE.-The accounts from Ma !, ples and Sicily of the movements of Gen. Gari- , baldi and the insurgents, conflict as usual. The
 most direct accounts, however, assert that the P insurgents were gaining strength daily. The
 provinces were in full insurrection, and 5000
 Sicilians had joined Garribaldi, whose force will now number some 12,OOO men, we'll armed and g provisioned.
 After the Garbaldians had landed, they met their first engagement at Calatalnis, where they
 were repulsed by the royal troops. The en-
 gagement was not, however, decisive, as the
 volunteers made retreat in good order. The + Garibaldians next rallied at Alcamo, pushing on Il still towards the city of Palermo. They were largely reinforced, and meeting the royalists at s Eopps, defeated them. Pushing on, they en-
 trenched themselves around Palermo, which was
 at last accounts on the point of surrender. The l. commandant at Palermo had been unable to be Q reinforced from the impossibility of withdraw. ,- ing troops from other points. The government e had issued proclamation making liberal prop ositions to the people and granting general amnesty, but it had no effect. Popular mani
 festations were taking place everywhere; the
 regular troops were even showing signs of sym.
 pathy with the popular cause and the cause of royalty was discouraged. CATTLE DIsEAsE.-The following statistics are F. from the report of the Massachusetts commis- e sioners to the legislature Animals killed, dis Q eased, 1855 animals exposed, pronounced sound and killed-cows, l89 heifers, three years old, 6l heifers, two years old fl oxen, S5; steers, years old 54; steers, two years old, "A; year. y lngs, 54 calves, l07 bulls, 9; animals not de- scribed, 33; total, SAP. The appraised value of . all these animals, sound and diseased, is s2O,- d 432.S3. It is estimated that the number of ani- l., malls diseased exposed and suspected, is as fol
 lows North Brookfeld, $50; South Brookfeld, 22O; West Brookfeld, 60; Oakham, 50; New [, Braintree, 255 Sturbridge, 50; Spencer, 50 e Hubbardston, 50; Pelham, 10; total l055." '- At Mount Vernon, the ladies are already busy g with their improvements. One of the out-build- Iings has been converted into workshop, and the huse piles of lumber show that the work of ; improvement is going on. The old tottering . portico to the house, under whose protecting roof Washington has go often walked, is to be 7 removed, aud give way to a.fac sin'is of it in e the shape of new and stronger one. It will }, not be the same one, however, and many memo + ries and interesting relics will pass away with + the change.