Litchfield enquirer., 1829-02-05
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LTTcIfFIELD, FEBRUARY 5, 1893.

q the United States on the subject of causing the
 Transportation of mails to be stopped on the Sabbath
 he first part Uf the Tepsrt bearing internal
 fbeiRg drawn ,s y the chairman of the cunmit'ee,
 oI Johnson, is devoted tO the iHnPorfGnt discussion"
 f what is the Sabbath days whether Il s'he rst or cyentI day of the %seek whether the Jews and scV-
 n,l-,lay Baptiss should be regarded as correct m hc;r ohserynnce of the SabLath, or whether the .lr;s,an s;alba,l. should be set apart as day of cs, but as all this reasoning does not throw much
 vht Upon r,c subject, have omitted it As to the s,ncuson at which tue report arrives, thai it IS not
 xpedient to stop tho mails un Sunday. we presume h grea, rropurtiuu ofie business part of the coinnu-
 ,v al least will sanction il; and cannot see that ; 1sliikcy to do a great deal of harm. .f9 0P The House Of Representatives have not yet eported upon .his suhjec's N nP Tn our rrcccdimg columns, will be found some a,ercstng intelligence from the theatre ot war m Eu- robe Russia, it is evident is experiencing many oi .hose sad reverses which she inflicted some years ago ,,pon Bonaparte and his troops ih their flight from Aluscow. So far from spending the winter !" Con- -.xStinople as he anticipated, Nicholas is withdrawing
 ,s troops from before the hesieged 'rtresses Of the Turks. and efeciing rapid and dsastfous retreat into his own domuions. Varna is yet in procession of the Russian troops, but inc Turks appear dcermi- n, ,o rcpossess il, at the risk of nnrh hood andtrc eurc This they will probably do as soon as they can c,, o heir n,ercoursc from ihe iBteriors as great idepen,lance cannot be had upon supplies by sea- Oe of the London papers says. that the l"ss'as ad init ,l,a, IIussein Paeha. who pursued the troops m pcrson, ca,,sed fhem loss of eight hundret men, and the greater part of their baggage. Greater dis as,.rs ,eir them before ilisria; ansL the rains and uninterrupted snuw storms (the Russian accounts will
 not acknowledge the averaging Turkish scimetar as ,he causc) omrced them raise the siege During ,ie retreat to uischoya, suerHgs must have been great indeed when letters admit that all their cattle per,sl,e e greater lart of the artillery s os and inc troops have been exposed to the greatest priva ,;ons." The accounts received are mostly unofficial, and are doubtless esggeraled-bu that the Russians have suffered immensely, admits of no doubt From Greece, ti.ere is nothing new. Wheat had declined considerably tn the London matket.
 REss.-Prolal,ly some of our readers may wish to Lc kept infNped of the proceedings of this congrega,ed wisdom of the naiion but the fact 's little is doing worthy af republication. The qncst'"n of slavery wiihin ,he District of Coiumlia has bee" pu, to ress for the present session e bill t"r the "r- cupa.;o, and organsaton and government oi the Or- egon Territory issdisposed Of; and the Washington ,apers present the dull deta that such and such days petitions were presented from Connecticut by Messrs. Merwin; Ingcssdl and Plani," bat give 10 Glue ly which we aFrsye at the hanes, or nature
 and object of tkc pesII6nerssh aressaia Eassiuiioa was debated, in which Messrs. WcIAifg, Bartlett Wilde, Everett. Bstes, Camlreling, Weems, Will liarns, Vance aud Barney took part" Now ali this may answer very well ill the columns of daily papcr located a. Wash;ngion-but for a weekly print to copy them would indeed be "siale. fiat and unpro- f,ahie." Within fcw days, however. we have ol'- sersed that the elements Washington wele gather- ing LIackness, and that the subject of re,rcnchment, drought forward hy ihosongh-gong 'reiormcr' from Kentucky gvesa ule racinvss to the proceedings oi the House Of Representatives. This suljec, wpro- baLly bring the old controversy respecting Adams and Jackson-for the Jackson folks allege that the administration party have used the public stationary far clectoneerng purposes, and the Adams party are not lehind hand in throwing the allegation back "Pon the assaisanis-and if MessTs. Randoph and MDuf- fi-, and Burgess and Wright should become engaged in the discussion, the fnutth of March would arrive before much business could be acted on.
 4nserican Colonisntioa Socisty.--The annual meet ing of this national association held in the city of Washington on the l7th uit. Hon. Bushrod Wash- ingion, President of the Boani, acted Chairman, and Rev. R. R. Gurley. secretary. The meeting was addressed by several of the distinguished men of the nation. Mir. Secretary Clay, MT. Charles Fenton Mercer, of Virginia, Mir. Siorrs of New-York, and others, and the designs, objects and benefits Of the soc,riy rourlsayed in lively aud animated colours The Report of the Board of Managers represtnicd sne society as in very prosperous condition ihai the great object which had in view, the civilization of bcngited Africa, and the removal of such oftle CO., iored population, particularly in he southern states as have been emancipated frone eslayesy is in fair irain for ultimate accomplishments The report pro- ceeds state that the African Prince Abduhl Raha- wished to go out colonist; that two thousand
 dollars had already been subscribed to enable him to scie himself advaniageously; and that the society anticipated great benefit ,o their cause from having him suitably localed in Africa.
 4 resolution was adopted 10 erect monument 10 the memory of the late Rev. J. Ashmun, both in this canntry and in Liberia.
 Silas Wright, Jr. Esq., at present q Representative in Congress. has been elected Comptroller for the State of New-York, in place of Wm L. Marcy, ap- pointed Judge of the Supreme Coufi i; and Greene