Litchfield enquirer., 1861-04-04

DEATH OF CHIEF JUSTICE SEAw.-Lcmucl Shaw, the venerable ex-chief justice of the su- preme court of Massachusetts, died at his resi- Ience in Boston, on Saturday morning His health has been such for some time that it was not unreasonable to anticipate his death ct any moment, but when the event came it was never theless sudden and startling. His disease was of the heart, and has recently been at times quite painful and attended with fits of mental abcra- ton. He got up as usual, Saturday morning, and was dressing himself and conversing with one of his sons, when he dropped down, and expired al- most instantly. He had reached the great age of 80, having been born at Barnstable, January 9, 11S1 his father being Rev. Oaks Shaw. Hegrad- uated at Harvard in 1860, was admitted to the bar in 1904, and remained in practice in Boston till he was appointed chief justice of the supre- me court of the commonwealth in 1880, which offer he held until September last. He had pre- viously represented Boston several years in the legislature, and member of the corporation of Harvard college for thirty years. He was twice married, after remaining single till about forty. His last wife survives him, and four children, Oaks Shaw and Mrs Melville wife of Herman Melville, children of his first wife, and Lemuel Shaw, lawyer in Boston, and Samuel s. Shaw by his second wife.
 Judge Shaw has left an snviable reputation. He was distinguished alike for the research and thoroughness with which heexamined every sub ject brought before him for decision, for the stern simplicity and purity of his style, and for an unswerving and unsuspected integrity Springfield Repudlican.
 NOVEL MODE OF CoERCIoN.-At Philadelphia, when the Spring Garden Saving Fund O., sus- pended, a German who had deposited S5o for crippled child six years old, to remain till he became of age, took the child and its mother to the bank, and made formal demand for the re- turn of the deposit. The cashier explained his inability to respond to the demand, when the fla ther replied, every we'll; we cannot then support the child, and will leave him with you" He forthwith sat the child on the counter, and with the mother immediately left. The child, as soon as his father and mother disappeared, started such yell as was calculated to arouse the seven sleepers, and before the parents had got square from the otie, messenger came running after them with the information that if they would re- turn and take the child away, the $50 should be paid. The two returned, and the officer was as good as his word.
 FIGHT WITH HIGHWAY RoDBERs IN MEXICO. The stage from Mexico to Vera Cruz, contain ing two Americans and five other passengers, was attacked by band of twenty robbers - The Americans, one being Lieut.. Dye of the army, fought the robbers two hours, killing five and wounding seven of them. The balance fled. The Americans were both wounded, and are now at Vera Cruz.
 hy- Andrew Johnson, the Union Senator from Tennessee, is something above medium height, with look of sturdness and muscular 'orce. His face is round in outline and is strong y marked. It has an iron look, which is not essened by his steady and gleaming eyes, nor by the heavy mass of black hair which covers lis head.
 s@-T Jeff. Sherlock, the present United States surveyor for the port of Cincinnati, has been rendered the position of consul from the Southern Confederacy" for Northwestern States by Jeff. Dayis the office to be located t Cincinnati,