Litchfield enquirer., 1861-03-07

reason why he did not visit Baltimore was be- cause he had not been invited to do SO; and be. sides, he received dispatches and special messa- ges from high sources, urging him to go imme- diately to the Federal Capital His advisers were at first censured, because he went through Baltimore without stopping but on learning the facts, it has been generally conceded that he did right. His presence in Washington early on Saturday, was highly important, as the result has shown.
 GEN Tw1das' treason, it seems, is not likely to result in so easy an acquisition of all the Fed eral property in Texas as may have been sntici- paed. Capt Hill, in command of Fort Brown, has positively refused to eyacuate that post, or to surrender the Government property in his charge into the hands of the Texas Commission CTS. It is further stated that Capt. Hill had ta- ken the responsibility to order achievements from the Ringgold Barracks, in order that he may make an attempt to retakc the Government property on Brazos Island. It may happen that the first collision between Federal and State troops may after all take place in Texas, as such a collision may be considered imminent
 THE NORTH CAROLINA ElEcrioS-Forty-seyen counties have been heard fron, electing forty eight Union and twenty-five secession delegates. The majority against convention, thus far is about 5000. Gov. Reed is beaten in Rocsipc- ham. The majority against the conyontlen will be decreased by the returns yet to come in and perhaps overcome.
 SECESSION IN VlRGIsrA.-A report gained ere dence this morning that the Virginia conyen- tion had adopted the ordinance of secession, A despatch sent to Richmond eiici.sd the follow ing reply :-
 Ric4mond, Saturday, March 2.-Pest assured thIs convention will no! vote YirCinia out Of the enon, notwithstanding the ryfasuI of Ccngres. to accept the compromise VI,
 It is well to knew that the action of tbs y:r- gin!s convention must in any event go to tie peeIle 1hey will surely give secession it, 4H's'ns-Co1n Aaregtiser c,r Saturday,.
 IMPORTANT DncEs,oS.-T'ho Supreme Court has just confirmed judgment for 9I ,50o. against the city of Hartford, for an injury received hy De a!anche.te? frola defect in a sidewalk. t was dec!1ed iii tAis case that the cit Yas ii ,a sr de. fscts in the sidewalks, though the rroprietols were bound to make the walks and keya them in repair. u is not stated that ths ci.y has a remedy against te o~nIr Of the adjoining rre,..- ises
 TIE NEW TARIFF DrI. X IAw-The President was in great doubt for some t.4a as to whether he would sign the new tariff Li.l He said lie had examined s:sne cl its most iT,o5Gti.t uros, and hs resaiG>;l iv very imperfect a,t. loosely drawn bill. lie yielded luweyer, to tl., porsuazous of some Of his Pennsylvania f.ieats, and Saturday signed it.
 Tug SEtE E&TARY oy W4n lss published an of ii@ial order dis:sysng Gen. 1'wiss5 from ;h Army, for treacAeTy the tlsg c. .ri. ccantry, in having surrendered, ol Gelas2I os ,ha aatay,- :;ts of Texas, the military yos4s cnl ether pro perty of the United States in his department. and under bis charge.
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 a=s-3> 4 letter from Paris n the Lon.Go4 Amer ican says:
 "Anerioa here is the ruling theme of the hour. There is but ons feeling expresses; hy tl3a ! Farsians or Iorei znera, aad that s of regret d | the unfortunate state Of affairs in the Cnioa- l Tie French take almost as lively an interest in the affairs of the Great Republic as the A.neri- cans themselves and the Enclishgnen have for gotten tiler old praudices snl unite ia lam mt 1 ing tie thrcatcnea fate of & kindred people, Nearly all symPathizc with ihe Union cause, aud | there arc many wlo will leave Paris, if hostiu- ties oo!aileRce, 10 offer then services to the m tica. The Constitution must be preserved is ths prevailing sentiment among all classes of Americans. and they arc ready to leavethe g2;e- ties Of Paris to defend it."
 Isa- As to Jeff Da7;s's tsreat to invade the 1 North, the Boston Transcript says: We have not yet snIelt Son hGrn powder; hat certainly none Of us can deny, in view of the theft Of United States forts and the plunder of the United States mint, that we have felt South ern stsaI."
 s=:'" Tho Eonaparte- Patterson trial came to an end on the l2th February, and the decision was expected to Ee given on the 10th. The de bison will probably be that the marriage in this country was contracted ls,itinatcIy and in @Dt q faith, and tat the issue thereof was entitled to the name of Bonapa;te, but that the tribunals of France had right to and did subsequently annul the marriage and that therefore the Amer ican family have DO right to the succession of the Ia e Prince Jerome as lawful heires5 there to. The \. i. Times Paris Correspondent re- lates an incident in which an American citizen appears somewhat disadgantageously: "A man by the name Of Goull, describing himself as fer mer Secretary to the American Legation at London, aHd as a Son of t'e deceased Judge Gould, volunteered to write the Prince Napoleon a letter, espousing his side of the question: and | against the American family In the interval between the two Fridays on which the case was | up for hearing, 1t was arcertansd by Mir Heryar that Mir. Gould wrote his Litter from the prison Mazas, in this city, where he was confined fr forgery. that he had already been condemned by the Police Co7rectionneNe, in 1859, to ore months imprisonment and that his letter to Prince Napoleon was, perhaps cover to q de- mand for the Princes lntercession in his favor before the tribunals. You may judge the effect of this discovery on the adverse party, for it will be recollected that the letter was introduced as an important piece Of evidence u their favor The Prince Napoleon and lis lawyer, M. Alton. wished Mr. Gould and his letter at the bottom | CT in question. and N. Berryer, although fairly entitled to make 8 point of t against his adyer- sary, had the magnanimity and the good taste to