Litchfield enquirer., 1872-04-25
The capital Commissioners: Gov Jewall

II New York architect. The style is mod ern secular Gothic; the cost is estimated at SsO0.000. Dr: Bushnell remarks that I the building will look sslike a shad, seen endwise. And 2 very cheerful symbol the shad is, and one long since endeared to the Connecticut legislator. Unless the new ediice could be made to look like . "speckled trout" we can't conceive of anything more popular and appropriate
 RAILROAD COLLISION. There were two railroad collisions in the county, week be- fore last On Friday, two railroad trains on the Housatonic collided mile and 8 half below Merwinville, but no one was seriously injured. On Saturday, train on the Conn. Western was turned on Q side-track by a misplaced switch and mashed up freight car. The editor of the Conn. Western News was on hand to report the disaster We judge that he wili watch the next collision from a con- venient rail fence rather. than from a pas senger car, if he is allowed any choice in the matter.
 One of the most cheerful features of these political times is the extreme readi- ness of the Democracy to make thew departure" whenever they can gain any thing by it. Our readers will not have forgotten the lamentable vail raised by Messrs Eaton, mgersol ct d., over the recount that exposed the New Haven fraud, last year. It was unconstitutional, and all that. Now, however, MT. Pond was defeated in the Hartford Senatorial District by only seven majority, and the Democracy are demanding recount in one or two towns in that district. Let them have it by all means; but where, oh where, is the constitution, this year?
 The immigration from abroad does not come so largely from Ireland as formerly. The Palladium gives the following facts regarding it: 4r
 The official returns of immigration for the first three months of the present year show the rapid increase of the German element over all others From the 1st of January to the 31st of of March, 12, ,497 persons arrived here from the German States against 8, 948 from Ireland, 7,554 from England, and 1888 from France During the wsr of 1870-71 the immigra- tion from Germany fell off largely; but 1t has now increased, and in larger ratio than that of any other country There is . very noticeable increase in the number of skilled laborers who are coming in. The majority of the immigrants, of all classes, are between the ages of fifteen and forty, and there is marked dispro- portion between the numbers of the males and females-the total of the former being IS, ,316, and of the latter 8,8S4
 Our readers will recollect the murder of Geo, W. Watson, of Hartford, in Brooklyn, recently, by woman named Fanny Hyde. She claims that she had been seduced by him and that in fit of uncomfortable frenzy she shot him. There is no claim that the murder was committed in self-defence, only that Wat son had used insulting language. The fact Ofthe prisoners buying the pistol was proved and the circumstances under which she used it show reconciliation. Watson's friends aver thatitwas a ablackmailing case, and that the story about seduction is a part of the plot The case was tried, last week, and the jury disagreed, standing ten for acquital and two for conviction.
 Whatever the truth may be of Mrs. Hyde's story she is undoubtedly guilty of murder. If the girl who attempted to blackmail New York minister lately had begun by shooting him, we do not see why she might not have triumphantly ac- ] quilted. o' .'' --'' '''-'.- ''''
 A LETTER TO A LAYMAN, about the Bish-
 ops Declaration on Baptism, by 0. s.
 Henry, D. D. Published by Pott,
 Young & Co, New York.
 This tract purports to be the first of Q series, 'sfor the Church and the Age, " and is written by the rector of St. Michael's church in this place. It treats of the de- claration of the Bishops of the Episcopal church, during the session of the of the last General Convention, regarding the the meaning of the..word ''regenerate" in the service for infant baptism. The use of this word they do not consider as im- plying that ga moral change in the sub- iect of baptism is wrought in the sacra- ment." Dr. Henry holds, in the first place, that this Declaration is of no bind ing authority on churchmen, that it is an expression of personal opinion by such bishops as signed it, and no more. He fur ther thinks that while many might hold that spiritual change eiswronght by baptism, the bishops conld readily agree that no stmoral" change is wrought by it. s'Pressed to say something they said all they could say" but such g declaration tsettles nothing shuts up no old debates, and opens many new ones" He then goes on to express his own views of baptism. He does not consider it necessary to sal vation nor confound regeneration" with ssconversion, although he does not deny that those who receive it may thereby be- come the recipients of some further and I peculiar grace not bestowed upon the whole human race. k
 l Dr. Henry seems to hope that there 1 may be revision of the prayer book, and has little respect for 'sthe Philistinism that makes an idol of the Prayer Book as tt is.'" His view seems to be that theology has it's dead issues as we'll as politics, and that many of these now. en- cumber the Prayer Book. He looks up- on the adoption of the new Hymal as a l step in the right direction, and suggests many other changes that commend them selves to common sense ct once, and