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roubled, and indulge in fearful forebodings.
The town is filling with miners who are flock
ing here from all parts ofthe state, en route
for Frazer river. Our farmers arejiow busy
gathering in t heir crops, hurrying their
grain to market, that they, too, may be off to
the new El Dorado of the North, not stop
ping to connt the cost of an Indian war, or the
effects of a Northern winter in those high lati
tudes. The calm and reflecting believe that
these new miies cannot be worked but about
four mouths in the year, owing to the higli
water and the winter’s cold and snow.
The immense fisheries and forests of im
penetrable trees will attract many of the
hardy sons of the Pacific to locate in the
north, while the farmer, w ho cannot purchase
u title to his farm, nor own the land which lie
himself has been tilling in California, will go
north and locate where lands can be had a t
government price, and an easy market be
opened to them on the Pacific.”
A SINGULAR, WILL.
Tlic Journal and Courier copies from the New Ha
—-reft Probate Records, the following JVItl :
** III the name of God, sole Governor of all
worlds, Jesus Christ, the Holy Ghost, the
twelve Apostles, Saints, Thrones, Powers,
Virtues, Angels, Archangel, Cherubinis, and
Seraphims; Amen. I, David Ogden, of New
Haven, in the States of Connecticut, being in
uucommon good health and spirits, and in my
right mind and wits, do in the following man
ner make tliis^cay last will and testament. Im
primis. My body, this' mass composed of flesh,
blood, arteries, bones, caftileges, fibres, and
God wot not all besides, I commit, when drest
in my best suit of black .clothes, to its deep,
dark, silent grnve-pr’tte a.disiaal-hgusc I am to
(lwel in, yea verilyfa mournful one ; therefore,
tliedaess for mdnriiing is the most proper one
for me. Thus let this body be dressed for its
coffin, which I pray to be made of sound ma
hogany wood, ami not ornamented with brass
nails and tin plates telling my name, age or
death—my head will tell these things to the
inquisitive in the grave. When this mass of
corruption is thus (quipped, let it be borne on
the shoulders of four sturdy youths to its long
hom!, the narrow grave, whom I would should
be rewarded for their trouble with a decent
pair of gloves each. By thejway, should Da
vid Edwards the Sunday next after my exit
conceive either my death or my life to merit a
sermon, a short sermon, prayer, or a few hymns
to be sent up to the throne of an all pitying
and merciful God, prythee, let it be done ; and
for his trouble and good services in this solemn
basinets, give him my best wishes for his wel
fare, accompanied with a compliment of £3.4,
New York currency. Item.—My soul, God
grant, if I have any, or ever had, it may wing
its flight to heaven, be placed conspicuously
among the stars, fly on the wings of the wind,
feed the beasts of the field, the birds of the
air, the insects of the earth, or the fishes of
*■ the cqulous deep waters ; upon the whole, 1
give my soul to God, Item.—It is my will
and pleasnrc that a monument worth £10.0.0,
be erected in the burying ground in New Ha
ven to my memory, the inotto and epitaph for
which I leave wholly to the discretion of my
worthy friend and brother, Pierpout Edwards,
Esq.
To my sister Polly Cozens Ogden, I give,
grant, bestow and bequeath all my worldly
concerns—goods, chattels, lands, tenements and
hereditaments which I whilst an inhabitant of
this planet was in possession of, in fee simple
or otherwise, to her and her heirs forever, she
first paying, satisfying, and cancelling all law
ful dues, debts, and demands against the same ;
also, paying to Susan Edwards, my lovely niece,
the sum of £20.0.0, New York money, to be
laid out for a mourning dress for her the said
Susan. I appoint, constitute, and make Pier
Siont Edwards and David Daggett, Esqs. of
\’e\v Haven, and Aaron Ogden, Esq. of Eliz
abethtown, in New Jersey, Executors of this
my last will and testament.. Witness my hand
and seal. Dated at New Haven this 12th day
of February, 1189. DAVID OGDEN.
Gerritt Smith wrote a letter to the Dress
Reform Convention” lately held in Western
New York, apologizing for his non-appearance
ns a speaker, and" adding : “ I atu 61 years
old—my life has been full of labors. I have
felt all the older since ray terrible fever last
Full. I trust your meeting will be a good
one. Oh, when will woman have too much
self-respect to indulge iu this dress foolery ?
How ashamed would she be of man were he
to indulge it? and were he to put on hoops,
and dress his hair and deck his neck and cars
with jewels ? In spite of her vanity, woman
holds herself in very low esteem. She docs
not think of comparing herself, in dignity, with
man. The comparison would put an end to
this trifling with herself, and to this sad and
shameful self-degradation.’’_
A down town druggist did a neat thing the
other day. It seems that a certain lady con
cluded that she hnd seen quite enough of the
trials and tribulations of this world and made
«p her mind to seek a better, where domestic
discord and all worldly affairs were forgotten,
u where the wicked cease from troubling,” etc.,
and accordingly sent to Mr. Druggist for a
supply of arsenic, to be used, as she averred,
in killing rats. The druggist, smelling a mice,
weighed out forty grains of calomel and label
ed it “ poison ” The woman, without suspi
cion of the real contents of the paper, return
ed to hor hoffie. The next morning, the time
■he had apjiointed for the commission of the
act, having arrived, she deliberately went to
her drawer, opened the paper, divided its con
tents into two equnl parts, and swallowed one
of tho portions. Severe pain began to ensue,
-——when the inmates of the neigboriag tonemeuts
were startled by piercing screams emanating
fixup her abode, and among the foremost rush
ing to her assistance was her husband. She
gave him an accouut of what she had done,
and pointed to the remaining 20 grains lying
Upon the table, which he without saying a
word, immediately swallowed, and prepared to
jip.yflpn The scene which followed can be
belter imagined than described—twenty grains
of calomel being " no joke ” We are happy
to state, that tho following day they were
both well, with the exception of being quite
pale and weak. But for the shrewdness of
tho very worthy druggist, the Coroner would
have boen plat fifty dollars, more or less, and
ourselves the cbnuicler of a “ Shocking Double
Suicide.” QmSr world this 1
Philadelphia Gazette.
During a fire in Rev. Mr. Bottum’s house !n
Derby, on Thursday evening, a child was rescued
from a bed where it lay. the fire having approached
within two inches of its feet, and tliebedFtcad, which
was iron, had become too hot to be comfortably han
dled.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGHAPfl.
[From the Albany Atlas and Argus, Angnst Gtli.]
Just at the moment when everybody appear
ed to give up all hojie of the success of the at
tempt to lay the Atlantic cable, the electric
spark flashes from the wire with thftannounce
ment that it is done !
The experiment is successful ! There may
be some incompleteness, and some casualty n ay
yet occur to disappoint the views of the pro
prietors. But the deed is done* The work
lias passed from the category of experiments to
the record of the great achievements of the
nineteenth century. Looking back at the few
years which have passed since the first essay
to bend this ethereal messenger to tinman uses,
one is astonished alike at the magnitude ot the
conception and the vastness of the application
that has been given to it..
It is not merely a force that is made to reach
from continent to continent—not merely au im
pulse of unknown power—not merely a flame of
lire passing unextiuguished llirongh thousands
of miles of ocean—not merely the lightning of
heaven bowing beneath the waters of the earth
—not merely a mute sign or au idea—it is a
syllabled word. It is that articulated language
which distinguishes man from all the rest of
created things, and is the stump of his reseirfb
lance to God.
Looking at this embodiment of that all-per
vading and creating spirit, one is reminded of
thp magnificent and mysterious language of the
Evangelist: “ In the beginning was the Word.
“ and the Word was with God, and the Word
“ was God. In Him (the Word) was light—
“ and the light was the life of men. And the
“ light shineth in darkness and the darkness
“ comprehendetli it not.” It was in this form
that in the beginning “ the spirit of Got! moved
“on the face of the waters.” It was this that
from chaos to night brought forth the light and
the divine order of Nature
We know the infinite distance which sepa
rates the immaterial from the material world—
the mortal from immortality- Bat it is when
some such human miracle as this is performed,,
that we are taught to realize the greatness'of
the agencies of God, and to judge how narrow
is our finite horizon, even expanded from this
new height of knowledge, compared with the
infinite of which He is the center and the cir
cumference
[From the Baltimore Exchange, August ulh.J
Whether Dr. Dionysius Lardner did or did
or did not demonstrate, to the entire satisfac
tion of himself and others, the utter impracti
cability of crossing the ocean by steam, is a
matter now of no consequence whatever. That
quite a number of very learned aud very scien
tific gentlemen did express such an opinion—
that they shook their wise heads, aud shrugged
their wise shoulders, and wondered that men of
sense could be found to embark in enterprises
so chimerical—the columns of the public jour
nals, at a period by no means remote, sufficient
ly attest. J3ut the feat was accomplished nev
ertheless, and paddle-wheels and propellers
now ride the waves-—whose movements Maury
has traced, and whose bulk and height Fara
dy has measured—in scorn of the elements, and
in contempt of the philosophers. An undertak
ing scarcely less momentous, W3 take pleasure
in recording to-day- The magnificent idea of
establishing electrical communication between
this Continent and Europe has been realized.
The submarine cable, perfect in its continuity,
and capable of transmitting messages from
shore to shore, is a fact accomplished. It has
buried its huge length in the salt ooze of the
ocean plateau ; it crowns the peak of mountain
ranges, and creeping down their rugged sides,
lies placidly iu deeps whose awful solitudes no
living tiling has ever yet disturbed- And i.ow.
very soon—perhaps to-day—the first “ All
hail” will pulsate through two thousand miles
of wire, to he caught up, and repeated, almost
at the same moment of time, thousands of miles
inland, by two nations, widely separated from
each other, but exchanging greetings in the old
familiar tongue. At a period when repeated
failures had chilled the ardor of the most san
guine, and while electricians and men of science
were predicting the utter impracticability of
carrying oat the project with the means and
appliances adopted, come to us tidings of its
perfect success.
[From the Washington Union.]
It would seem from the. telegraphic announce
ment in another columu, that the laying of the
Atlantic cable has been successfully accom
plished, and that the greatest and boldest pro
ject of the age has been finally achieved. A
girdle has been put upon the ocean, and a con
stant stream of intelligence, rapid as lightning,
swift ns thought itself, will soon connect the
two continents with each other. Since the dis
covery by Columbus, there has been no attempt
of man so audacious, no project of science so
bold, aud no event in history so important, as
that which we chronicle this morning. The
mind can hardly realize the fact of a means of
instantaneous communication having been es
tablished between two worlds, so long unknown
to each other, separated by waters so vast aud
by perils of transit so prodigious aud proverb
ially formidable.
The presumption of Xerxes when he under
took to chain the sea, and lashed it with thongs
when it refused to be bound by his shackles ;
or of Canute, wheu he forbade the tide to rise
in his presence, docs not seem more preposter
ous than this modern attempt to span the ocean
with a cable ; and from none of its feats docs
science rise more sublime over the presumption
of ignorance than in eonficentlv projecting, in
perscveringly prosecuting, and triumphantly ac
complishing this most stupendous of its under
takings.
Bcffai.0, Saturday, August 7. 1858.
Upon receipt of the uews of the cable’s being
successfully lauded, a strong desire took pos
session of the people of Buffalo to celebrate the
event in a manner becoming its importance- A
committee was appointed, and to-night was set
apart for the celebratiou. It is the proudest
day Buffalo has ever seen. The buildings ou
the principal streets are brilliantly illumiuated,
and boufires are blazing on almost every corner,
while guns are firing and bells ringing every
where. Bands of music are also parading the
streets, which are literally packed with an ex
cited and joyoTis throng.
Iu the midst of the proceedings, Gov. King,
accompanied by the Canal Commissioners, ar
rived from the trial of steamboats on the canal;
they were met at the dock and received by the
Mayor and Council, and escorted through the
Main streets to the American Uotel, where
speeches now are being made appropriate to
the occasion.
In view of the success of the telegraph cable
enterprise, and the practicability of steam navi
gation on the canal, demonstrated by the trial
just had, this day will long be remembered by
the citizens of Buffalo as an epoch from which
to date the commencement of its new growth.
CYRUS W. FIELD.
If nmlying and unconquerable energy, en
thnsiasra and faith which no temporal rever
ses—no matter how desperate in appearance—
could cool, a patience and perseverance wnich
laughed at obstacles and over-rode the billows
of disaster ; if these attributes, added to a
noble object and a keen, practical knowledge
which enabled him to follow it to success, en
title a man to the plaudits the world, Cy
rus W. Field, the prime agffit in the connect
iug of the two continents by the sympathetic
bands of electricity, is worthy of the highest
honors that are at the disposal of mankind.
And he has already received them His name
will be oftener spoken to-day than that of any
man living or dead. Wherever the telegraph
carries the news he will be honored, applaud
ed, and rejoiced over. Eveu the croakers and
doubters, whose habit it has been to sneer at
the enterprise as quixotic and impracticable,
will toss up their hats—if they have not al
ready done so—ring bells, fire camion, build
bonfires, and otherwise celebrate the success
ful conclusion of this gigantic labor
When the cable broke last year, and almost
every one said it was a useless expenditure of
money and time to try again, Mr. Field paid
no heed to the counsels of the conservatives,
but declared his firm belief in its final, com
plete success. As he had been personally in
strumental in eliciting sympathy for the object,
both here and in England, so now, by constant
and unwearied exertions, he succeeded in re
storing the confidence of the two governments
in its practicability- When, this year, a sim
ilar disaster twice befel the fleet, he never fal
tered in his faith, and on the third trial suc
cee 'ed.
We publish this morning Mr field’s very
interesting “ log,” kept during the laying of
the cable It will be seen that a constant
communication was kept up between the Nia
gara and the Agamemnon, so that each vessel
knew whereabouts on the ocean the other was,
at what rate sailing, the number of miles paid
out, &c. The two ends are now landed, and
constant communication is kept up through the
1'iie. Mr- Fi Id was horn at Westfield, Mass,
and is extensively and favorably known as one
of the largest papier dealers in New York.
Some five years since ho became interested,
with other New York merchants, in the laying
of a submarine cable between the United
States and England* The “ Atlantic Tele
graph Company” was formed, of which Mr
Field was first simply director, but afterwauls
vice-picsident and general manager- It was
through his efforts alone, that the “New
York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph
Company,” was chartered for the purpose of
laying a cable across the Gulf of <S’t Law
rence, to connect with tiic Atlantic line when
that should be completed. Alone he visited
England, and raised the necessary means for
both projects ; and now, in the final triumph
of his pet scheme, he has realized more than
ordinary men ever dare to hope. for. Ilis work
is the most gigantic ever undertaken and ac
complished in civilized times—Courant.
The following despatch was sent to his fam
ily by Capt- Hudson of the Niagara, on his
arrival aLjriiiity Bay, after haviug success
fully laid *-iC telegraph cable :
Trinity Bay, Angnst 6th.
God has been with us. The Telegraph Ca
ble is laid without accident, and to Him be all
the glory. We are all well.
Yours, affectionately,
WM L. HUDSON.
The poet of the Springfield Republican gives utter
ance to his feelings as follows :
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.
A track for the lightning through the billowy deep.
Where sunlight and starlight ne’er venture a ray ;
Where occan-wrrcked, sea-buried vovagers sleep.
In uodisiurbed silence as day follows day ;
Over wave-watered mountains, o’er ocean-washed
plains,
In darkness and silence this track winds its way,
Away, far away frormearth’s tumult and toil,
Alone, all alone, forever and aye.
No eye shall behold, save the All-Seeing Eye,
When once it has passed to its watery bed,
This highway for llio lightning—onc6 drawn from the
sk "—
A highway laid out thro’ the sea ’mong its dead,
No breath from the heavens, shall ibis pathway e’er
know,
No (lowers shall spring into life at its side.
No forests wave over it, no hedge near it grow.
One traveller only, and he without guide.
A brilliant winged courier—brilliant and fleet,
No lour-foi.ied courser can measure his pace,
No fire-fed iron hurse e’er so complete,
Can compete thus with time and annihilate space.
A flash and a click and he speeds on his way,
Regardless of distance, unconscious of lime,
A flash and a click, and a thought here to-day
Is a word of to-day in a far-distant clime.
Hurra for this rew lightning track through the sea,
This thought-forry under old Neptune's rough tide.
Hurra for the courier who rides the lone way.
And hurra, too, for those who have taught him to
ride !
May fortune attend him and prosperous gales,
May his spirits ne'er flag, and his nerves never tire ;
And the \va ery deep tell such wonderful tales,
As ne’er yet have been told about Telegraph Wire.
That the legal profession was not alwnys
regarded with that degree of respect and hom
age which it deserved, we have long been
aware. The following enactment of the Gen
eral Session of the General Court of Connect
icut, in -May, 1129, shows that in those days
the people of New England were disturbed
with apprehensions lest they might have too
much of a good thing. It is copied from the
original record by a correspondent, and has
never, we believe, been in priut before :
“ Whereas, Many persons of late have ta
ken upon them to be attorneys at the liar, so
that quarrels awl lawsuits ate multiplied, awl
the King's good subjects disturbed. To the
eDd, therefore, that said mischief may be pre
vented, and only proper persons be permitted
to plead at the Bar, as well in behalf of our
sovereign Lord the King, as of his good sub
jects, &e.
“ It is enacted, That there shall be in the
colony, eleven attorneys, and no more, viz.,
three in the county of Hartford, and the other
four counties to have two each.”
The law in question further provides, that
each county court shall appoint the number of
attorneys to which the county is entitled, one
of whom, in each county, shall be appointed
[ “ King’s attorney.”—Eve. Post.
Plain Speak^c on the Stump.—That un
worthy son-in-law of Colonel Benton, William
Carey Jones, having gone out to St. Lonis to
assist in the defeat of Frank Blair, and at
tacked him with personal virulence, Mr. Blair
thus alluded to his assailant in his closing cam
paign speech:
“ Not content with letting loose their wes
tern pack, after those five Richmonds had
been driven from the field, here, comes another
man, a Mr. Carey Jones, who hails from Wash
ington—who has a roving commission to visit
Ceutral America and other distant countries,
because he had infamously slandered his broth
er-in-law, Fremont, during the last campaign,
and who now, in order to entitle himself to an
other office, at the bidding of the Prcsiuent,
makes an attack on me, which is paraded in
the Republican, and circulated in pamphlets
throughout the city. I don't conceive it to be
my province to take this man by the throat ;
for, although I might benefit the public by
acting ns executioner of nil the vermin the
administration keeps, yet this man—irhn alter
nates between mania a potn and the litchen of
the White House, I leave for his own vices to
destroy•”
Treatment of Witnesses.—The English
lords of the bench decided at Westminster,
about a month ago, that it was a principle of
common law that a counsellor, in questioning
a witness, should address him in ordinary tones,
and in language of respect, such as is employ
ed by one gentleman in conversation with an
other ; that such lawyer has no right to ques
tion the private business or moral character of
a witness, anv further than it is apparent they
absolutely affect his reliability or touch the
case in hand ; and that a witness is not bound
to answer questions put to him in an insulting
and bull doggish manner. If forced to answer
by the conn, be will have his remedy in action
for damages.
Cksxikkkzkikiswixæ
Litchfield, Conn., Thursday, August 12, 1858
To Cobrespondknts.—“ Roderick” and “M.” next
week.
g?F°Thc Atlantic Telegraph Cahle. contrary to the
public expectation, has been successfully laid, and
telegraphic signals are now passing from the old
world to the new. The eahle was landed at Trinity
Ray from the Niagara on Saturday last, and at Va
h-ntia Ray from the Agamemnon on that or a prece
ding day. It will lie some days probably, perhaps
weeks, before tlio line will be ready for public com
munications, but of the success of the enterprise
there seems to he no doubt. It is an event of mo
mentous importance to the world, and will be cele
brated on both sides of the Atlantic with illumina
tions, bonfires, ringing of liells, and other public re
joicings. We give in the preceding columns a few
extracts from leading journals, as expressions of the
public sentiment in relation to this wonderful aebiev
ment. Most of the telegraph offices throughout the
country were brilliantly illuminated on receiving the
first intelligence of the arrival of the Niagara at
Trinity Bay, and in all the large cities guns have
been fired in honor of the event.
(jff°We copy on our first page the annual show hill
of the Litcbfield Agricultural Society, the 18th An
nual Fair of which is to lie held on the 22d and 23d
of September. There are a few errors in the regula
tions, list of premiums offered, &c., xs we publish
them, which are corrected in the show hills and
pamphlets which the Secretary will distribute
through the county. Every suitable effort will be
made to render the Fair this year interesting and at
tractive.
givp’We have seldom lieen more agreeably enter
tained than in listening to the Lecture on Siam hv
Mr. George Bacon of New Haven, on Monday eve
ning. His description of tropical scenery and tropi
cal life, and especially his narrative of his own ob
servations at the capital and the court of Siam, were
in the highest degree interesting and instructive,
and were duly appreciated by an intelligent, but too
limited an audience.
Wo hope to hear Mr. Bacon again during the sea
son, in a lecture on Japan or other eastern countries
which he has visited
JIFTabk Rkn.iam'N, Esq., will give his Lecture on
Fashion, at the Court House this [Thursday] eve
ning at 8 o’clock. Owing to sickness, Mr. B. was
unable to fulfil his engagement here last week, but
he is now in the village, and our citizens may anti
cipate a rich entertainment.
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{ST” The accident at New Milford which we rela
ted last week, is said to be the first which lias ever
occurred on the Housatonic Railroad attended with
loss of life on the part of the passengers. This
speaks well for the good management of the road
and the character of the officers and employees
The Bridgcpoit editors think the censure on the
Company passed by the jury of inquest uncalled for
and unjust, and enquire if the track was not suffi
ciently protected, why the people in the neighbor
hood had not preferred complaints to the Rail Road
Commissioners ? or why the Commissioners them
selves had not seen the danger, and required the
proper guards ? Very pertinent enquiries, surely ;
and yet the neglect of Commissioners to do their
duty, or of the people to complain, can never justify
a Railroad Corporal ion for neglect on their part. We
cannot think so very respectable and intelligent a
bo<ly of men as Dr. Williams and bis associates on
the jury of inquest, living as they do in (he neigli
ljorbood of the accident, would pass censure without
reasonable cause.
The Lecompton Constitution'has been rejected by
the people of Kansas, by a vory large majority. The
returns of the election on the 3d inst., are not all
received, but enough to render certain the result.
All honor to the independent freemen of that abus
ed Territory ! They w ill soon appear, we doubt not,
at the doors of Cong.ess with a new Constitution,
and their admission as a Free State cannot long be
delayed.
|ff°We understand that Mr. Justice Kilboum, af
ter a patient hearing the testimony in the perjury
cases last week, has bound over Ephraim C. Atwood
(the husband in the divorce case) for trial before the
Superior Court, and discharged Gilbert Atwood and
Henry Spencer.
The other three individuals complained of have
been discharged withou^a hearing.
fg”Mr. Natlianfel A. Bacon of New Haven (father
of Mrs. L. W. Bacon of this village) was badly bitten
by a dog on Monday morning, but, we are pleased
to learn, not dangerously.
JiFFmncis P. Blairjr. the emancipation candid
ate for Congress in the St. Louis district, Missouri,
UaB been defeated, and J. R. Barrett (dem.) elected
in his place. The vote in the district stood—
Barrett, 7.057
Blair, 6.631
Breckenridge, (American,) 6,858
The vote in St. Louis city and county is 5,681
larger than at the last Presidential election, or than
it ever was before. Of course there must have been
an unusual amount of illegal voting ; and it is an
nounced that Mr. Blair will contest the seat of Mr.
Barrett on that account. The St. LouisNews,(Am.)
in its notice of this election, says :
“ The vote polled in St. Louis yesterday was enor
mous ; and we have met with no one yet who does
not declare his belief that gigantic frauds were per
petrated. Whether ballot stuffing and double voting
were resorted to, we know not ; but certain it is that
the door was left wide open for any frauds of the sort
and immense sums of money were levied on Federal
bag holders to ‘ carry on the campaign.' Messrs
Russell, Majors, & Co United States Contractors for
Utah, were assessed S50C0, and it was paid. And ev
ery Federal office holder was required to yield up
some of the ‘iiersuadcrs.’ ”.
The other members elected from Missouri to the
next Congress, are—Thomas L. Anderson, John B.
Clark, James Craig, Samuel H. Woodson, John S.
Phelps, and John W. Noel, all “national democrats,”
though two of them, Anderson and Woodson, were
elected to the present Congress as Americans.
Fire in Falls Village.—The barn of Chauncey
Bunce of Falls Village, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday evening last. A span of horses, a large
quantity of hay and grain, farming tools, &c., were
destroyed, making a total loss of $1000 or more.
The fire is supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary, though the classical Editor of the Repub
lican charges it to the “ besom of destruction, not
yet satisfied with the amount of casualties by Rail"
load,” &c., during the past week.
Mr. Bunce was insured in the Litchfield Mutual
Office for $425.
Fide in Waterruby.—The main building of the
P>rass Ruling Works of Messrs. Brown & Brothers in'
Watevhury. was destroyed by fire on Friday morn
ing last. Hie building was 225 by 130 feet, built of
wood, and when wrapped in flames, presented a snl>
’ lime and terrific spectacle. The adjacent buildings
and lumber yard were exposed, but there being no
wind, the engines were successful in preventing the
spread of the fire. Nothing was saved from the
building burnt. The American estimates the loss at
S100.000. upon which there is an insurance of $20,
710, as follows: A’ltna 86,080; Hartford $5.797;
Hartford City $3,044 ^Phoenix $8,043 ; Springfield
$2,740. A large number of hands are thrown out of
employment by tin’s calamity. The enterprising
propiietors will doubtless rebuild their establish
ment without much delay.
jSTThe New York Bar are well represented among
the visitors to our village this season. Messrs. Ed
gar S. Van Winkle, Charles Butler, and Win. Curtis
Noyes, have their summer residences here; and wc
noticed the arrival last week of Judge Woodruff of
the Superior Court, and our venerable friend the
Hon. Truman Smith.
ggT’Tlie National Magazine for August is received,
and, as usual, is well tilled with useful and enter
taining reading. Only two dollars a year. Carlton
& Porter, New York, publishers.
g?j”John Ducr, Chief Judge of the Superior Court
in the City of New York, died on Sunday morning
at the age of 72.
fff°A game of wicket is to be played at Waterbnry
to-day between West Wilisted and New Britain clubs
commencing at 9 o’clork.
fltfThe married ball players of Waterbnry, not
satisfied with tlieir defeat, have challenged the boys
to play another game on the 18th inst. at 9 o'clock.
At the recent Commencement of Union Col
lege, New York, the honoiary degree of Master of
Arts was conferred upon Goodwx Kit.tiuunk, Esip,
of Hawkherst, England, liiis deg’-ee'has never be
fore been conferred by Union upon a foreigner, ex
ccpt in a single instance.
(gTTlie College Journal of Medical Science, pub
lished at Cincinnati, and conducted by the Faculty
of the Eelcctic.Collcgc of Medicine, is a work of much
value to the medical student. It is issued on the 1st
of eveiy month in numbers of 48 pages, at the very
low rate of one dollar per annum. No physician
who reads it, can fail to obtain much valuable infor
mation in the Bciencc of medicine, though he may
not endorse all the theories of its conductors.
gffThe name of the man murdered at West Corn
wall on the 30th ult. was Roraback—not Roorback—
though we believe the name is written both ways by
individuals of the same origin. Hie latter name of
late years has a somewhat suspicions signification,
and the public are incredulous of “ Roorbacks.'' A
correspondent of the Republican gives the following
particulars of the affair.
It seems that there had been a bad state of feel
ing existing between Elisha Roraback and Edward
Harrington for some time past, the former a resi
dent of this town, and the latter a laborer who
worked for a neighbor near by.
They had quarreled in the afternoon and Har
rington told Roraback that he “ would stab him be
fore night.” They had been drinking pretty free'y
when they arrived in the village.
After staying here a short time they started for
home, probably about eight o’clock, P. M. ami
when they had got just outside of the village an
aifray occurred between them, when Harrington
drew a knife and stabbed the other, inflicting a mor
tal wound. He lived about three hours. On Sab
bath morning a post mortem examination was held
and it was found that the knife had penetrated, I
think, the right oracle of the heart, near the apex,
nearly three-fourths of an inch.
Harrington was arrested, and a court of inquiry
held, when he was indicted and bound over for
trial.
The murdered man leaves a wife and five chil
dren, the oldest about fourteen years old. He was
formerly a resident of Sharon. The knife used was
a heavy jack-knife with a blade about throe and a
half inches long, and the blow was struck with
fearful precision It was astonishing how lie could
live so long as he did. . .
Such a tragedy which has been enacted in our
midst, is rendered more dreadful by the recollection
that the unfortunate man died drunk, with the aw
ful assurance before him and before the world, that
“No drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven."
Harrington hag a wife at Monteiey, Mass., but no
children. He is a fine looking young man of 24, and
evidently conld not have been induced to commit
the crime of murder except under the influence of
strong drink or provoked passion. He is a native of
Massachusetts, where his mother now resides.
gj^Our Torrington snake correspondent will he
obliged to yield the palm to the Winsted Herald.
Senator Trumbull has gone to Illinois to stump a
gainst Douglas. Negotiations are in progress in Il
linois for uniting the Douglas democrats and Ameri
cans. Crittenden favors it. The '’resident lins re
moved the postmaster at Quincy, for being a Douglas
man. He was appointed in May last for four years.
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Jrs:.:,:;1'"-?bnyR- ciai,,iine to be brothers^
17 vears of nl’710 st.atc<l that they were 16 and
1< years of age respectively, but were probably old
er, entered the house ,q find Ellsworth in Wind
sor, one day last week rl.tin * v, „ * .. »
dinner in the rear of the W,use fnH 1
three hundred dollars worth ot j,.’„elry monevTc6
amonp: which was a gold watcnwln»#i *«# °!'eL’ j* I
of $100. The rogues were arrested'^ SUSS?
taken to Windsor, bound over to appem Lfore llJi
Superior Court, end were brought to jaw i„ n?i«
City by Deputy Sheriff PI,elps. While * 1
tlie jailor s office, waiting for the door to Is;'mi.
locked that leads to the cells, one of the boys siiiC
ped his band from tlie hand-cuffs by which he was
fastened to his brother, and 1si\h finned and left
the office in a great hurry. They Crossed tlie street
themselves in the barns in the vicinity
of the jaiDcmd although a vigilant search was Im
mediately instituted, they succeeded in escaping.
One of them wnkfound on a haymow by constable
Sage, who was knotted down l>y the boy with tlio
iron hand cuff which-he wore on his wrist—and
again escaped. This ohv was arrested on Sunday
morning last about three tidies west of Collinsville
by Deputy Sheriff Carrier, of, that place. He still
wore the hand-cuff, and had Suffered much from
hunger, having subsisted on berrW for several dava
He is now safe in jail.—Hartford l 1
At a sale of twenty-five si arcs cf N>y n„d N H
Railroad genuine rtmik. at auction inNoy York, on'
the 2d inst,, the stock brought $50 per shah, wlilio
thirty-seven shares of the repudiated stock Svjd st
$1 per sliare. This is ,the first trial of the genuine
and fraudulent stock (compared) since tlie Schuyler
over issue.
Tlie custom house officers have seized <40,000
worth of sugars in New York, and $12,000 worth in
Pi'ston, for being undervalued, with intend to de
fraud.
. Hon. John McT.eilnn of Woodstock, died on the
1st instant, in tlie 03d year of his age. He had Just
boon chronicled as tlie oldest living graduate of Yale
College. At the communion of the first Congrega
tional church in Woodstock on the 1st Sabbath itt
•inly, he was admitted to the church on profession
of his faith. Among liis surviving children is the
wife of Prof. Siiiiman, Sen. of New Haven.
Two wills have just been recorded in Philadelphia
which the Ijt&jcr copies as follows: Tlie first one—“I
will and bequeath all money and effects owned by
me to-or his heirs.” The other is still more
brief and reads thus :—“ I will every thing to my
wife absolutely.” Those wills, though brief, are as
vali 1 as if whole quires of paper had been written over.
The Waterburv Journal says that place i» fast re
covering from the prostration suffered in consequence
of the financial revulsions of last fall. The manu
factories are gradually increasing their force and ad
ding to tlie working time ; the cotton factory situate
about a mile and n half east of the city, is alsmt
starting up, under the superintendence of Mr. Wm.
B. Cargill; the Tuttle Co. who were recently burnt
out at Union City, are making arrangements to reo
pen business in the building formerly occupied by
the Waterbury Buckle Company., and a new com
pany is putting up machinery preparatory to com
mencing the manufacture of spoons in the old Brown
& Elton factory “outcast.” Altogether the prospect
is fair that in a twelve-month from the crash of ’67,
the factories w'1! be doing nearly as much business j
as before. Every effort consistent with safety has
been made by the manufar turers to lighten the bur
den of those in their employ during this season of j
depression, and their kindness will long be remem
bered by the thankful recipients.
The following extract troni a speech deliverer! ny
Mr. Green at a Buchanan meeting in St. Louis, wifi
enable the reader to form an iden of the character of
the principles just now contended for by the Pro
Si.’ivory Democracy : —
When did you ever hear Washington talking
about “ freelabor!” When did you ever hear of
Jefferson talking about “ free labor?” When did
you ever bear any man but a demngoguo talking
about it? (Cheers.) If you arc Washington Dem
ocrats, and Jefferson Democrats, yon will spurn the
new isms which have been raised up in this latter
dav.
We suppose Washington and Jefferson gave pretty
conclusive evidence of tlioir attachment to " free la
bor” when they urged the adoption of the Ordi
nance of '87. which forever prohibited slave labor
from encroaching upon the vast North Westein Ter
ritory.
Vice President Breekenridge shows his sense in
tl,« fitiiowuis A-iimiilu of the Republican Party r
“ The Republican party is the strongest organi
zation in the Union, unless the Democratic party is
stronger. It is the only great living organization
that has withstood, or can withstand the Democrat
ic party. It is a powerful, a compact, a hopeful
organization. coo Republicans don’t
mean to change their name or their issues ; they are
too strong, too powerful, too confident for that, and
yet you are invited by some Kentuckians to go in
with them and form a people’s party: 000
Don’t depreciate the strength of the Republican
party. Its principles are deeper and broader, ami
its purposes more resolute than any thing on the
surface would indicate. Don’t underrate their
power. ’ ’
Tub Mahhiac.b Cv.hf.moxv ayoxc Si.aa ss.—A la
dy writes to the New Orleans Crescent from the City
of Memphis, giving the particulars of the marriage
of one of her own slaves, Lewis, to a slave belong
ing to another plantation: “At 10 o’clock, ho
(Rev. Mr Collins) came in. and they soon followed.
First, Lewis and Caroline Lawrence, with two bride
maids, and grooAsmen, took their places, and Mr.
C. performed the service beautifully—the whole ser
vice of the Metlio list church, (very much like our
service) but it made me ve>y sad indeed when, in
stead of the words, * until death do part ye,’ ho
used the words, ‘ unless you are unavoidably separated.’
The Hartford Press says, one day last week, a la
dy called at Pease & Foster's store, No. 370 Maine
street, and bargained for two pieces "Af cotton cloth
which she wished to take home, and for which she
would pay in the evening if Pease & Foster could
send to her house, 111 Pleasant street, and enquire
for Mrs. James H. Wright. A clerk called as di
rected, and discovered that no such person lived at
any such number," and that the name of Wright wag
wrong. She was found, however, two days after,
and instead of paying for the cotton, obliged the
firm to send to her house for it. The transaction
reached Mr. Daniels and officer Chamberlin, and
was so similar to that practised by “ Mr, Strong.”
that they determined to call upon her. and did so,
Tuesday. Their business being made known, the
lady admitted that she had some furs, but that sho
bought them on jSjsylum street. They did not take
her word for that,, and insisted on seeing them. Sho
finally consented TO go up stairs after them, and
Chamberlin, with a gallantry which he often dis
plays, accompanied her, although sho protested it
was not at all necessary for him to do so. The furs
were found stored away in a trunk in the attic, and
taken down stairs, when Mr. Daniels identified them
as his. The real name of the lady is suppressed on
account of the feelings of the friends, etc., etc., and
“ the affair” adjusted.
The Hartford Times of Saturday evening says,
David O'Hearn. aged about 23 years, a laborer at
the Woodruff & Beach Iron Works, on Commerce
Street, was that morning crushed to death beneath
a heavy plate of iron. O’Hearn was one of twelve
men who were rolling out of the casting shop a cir
cular piece of cast iron, called a heater or drying
plate, eight feet in diameter, three-quarters of an
inch thick, and weighing about 1200 pounds. They
had rolled it as the door, and when It struck
the door gil1,^^ffi!l(mly canted towards O’Hearn,
and strange enoifgh, every man except O’H., let go
their hold, and the* plate fell directly on him, and
crushed him to death.
The store of Tobias Kohn, Hartford, was entered
Sunday night the 1st Inst. It is supposed the bur
glar entered by a front cellar door, adjoining tha
premises, which gave him access to the door on the
side of Mr. K’s. establishment, and that thia waa
burst open. T' e robber made an extensive haul of
valuable silk goods, amounting, as Mr. Kohn think*,
to $4,000.
A fire broke out in Rathbono’s Livery and Board
ing Stables, back of the old Merchant’s Hotel, Nor
wich, on Wednesday night, July 28th. Fourteen
valuable hones, with carriages, wagons, sleighs,
harness, &c., one dwelling-house and three bama
with contents were burned, also one house was
much injured. Loss estimated from six to seven
thousand dollars. The dwelling-house was Insured
at the /Etna office for $800, aDd one horse and car
ring e for $300, the remainder uninsured.
The Free-Lovers at Beilin Heights refuse to ac
cept the offer of the citizens of that place to pur
chase their property nt a fair valuation. They de
cline to leave the place on any pretence.
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