Litchfield enquirer., 1832-05-17

. GoSpSstseStsV A&-StS StltpSASN sent administration of the General GovsFnmsnt. con vened in Washington on Monday of Iast week, and continued tn session through she week. 1bsrs were upwards of 300 delegates n attendance, from nearly every State in the Union. ThOse from this state are A. N. Skinner, Oliver E. Williams, Allen Harris, F.. Fuller, George Perkins, A. F. Gilman, Theodore SiII, Henry Merwin, Roliu Sanford, c. M. Emerson, D. Burgess, David Gallup, s. s. Stocking, and w. Gimanl The Convention was organized by the aP- pointmeRt of the following officers:
 William Cos, JohnsoO, of Maryland, Pyssident.
 William Lush of New-York,
 Charles ,. Faulkner, of Virginia, Vice-PSesi-
 Wm. F. FesseRden, of Maine, dsnts.
 George w. Burney, of Ohio,
 George P. MOIleson, ofNew-Jersey, Secreta-
 Joseph K. Angell, Of Rhode-Island, vies.
 The proceedings of the Convention are given in some detail in the National InteIIigencer, but at pre- sent we have not room for them.
 A letter from Washington of the 8th inst. to the Editors of the N. Y. Daily Adv. says-" Whatever may be the immediate result of the coming PresI- dential election, the assembling of so many young men, from dffereat and distant parts of the United States, inspired they are with love of country, aud awakened as they be by the corrupt misr.e ofhe present administration, cannot be otherwise,
  Several of them waited on the President yesterday with friend. The Presidents curiosity led him to inquire how 90 many young men from the same state happened to be in the city at the same time I The was, they came to consult about the Presden- iial Election, with other young from other states. The President snpposng they met to advance his eec- ton, treated them with marked attention. When his inquiry was answered. he sad he was 60 busy that he did not pretend to read the newspapers much, and that he only looked into them to see what was the progress of the Cholera
 More Homstanism.-It will be seen by the following letter that Mir. Arnold, Member of Congress from Tennessee, has by some unknown and concealed ruf. fan been threatened with being whipped for expres- sing his opinions in the House of Representatives It will be remembered that this Mir. Arnold, during the first session of the last Congress contested the seat of Mir. Pryor Lea account of intormaty and corsptos on the part of some of tho officers who conducted the election in his distrctby party vote however, Mr. Lee was suffered to retain his sea,.-- Mir. Arnold appealed from the decision of the House the people ofhe district, who decided in his favor. He has always been m object of peculiar hatred, and has been hunted down with ferocious vindctiveness by the Jacksonians in Tennessee. But the letter. here it tis-addresscd to tho editors of the National In,elligencer:
 House of Representatives, May 8, l832.
 "Gen,lemen-As was passing, this morning. from my boarding house, on Pennsylvania Avenue, to the bookstore of Messrs. TbompsOn & Hon,alas, between Gadsby's and Browns Hotel, I was accosed by . man of rufan appearance, who required me to stop. did 90. He approached pretty near. discovered he was very much agitaed. His lip quvered, and he turned very pale. He asked me t my name was Ar mold told him t was. He said, ''Then you are the man who abused my friend Houston 90 severey.'' He was going on to say something else; but the in. stant saw the subject he had broached, demanded to kaow his natne. He replied, !" His name was Herd." and added, Major Herd." told him I knew nothing of him, and intended to have nothing to do with him. fortunately had walking cane h my hand, and kepti. in position that he saw could strike as soon as he could He wore cap, and had large stick in his hand. | think it was an orange limb, headed and feruled. Turned my back upon him as soon as could do it in safety. AsI walked of, he said he intended to whip me, and that he scOuid do t yet, by God" He did not pursue me as discover ed. do not wish to ask to he protected by my con- sttuiiona privilege, but think due to the Amer- can people that they should know the state of things a this place. therefore submit these facts, and ask you to sve them 10 the public through the columns of
 Very respectfully. your obedient servant,
 THO. D. ARNOLD, N