Litchfield enquirer., 1834-01-02
THE OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS.

Ertrdct ofG Letter from Washington. The opposition in Congress is composed of odd and discOrdant materials. There is Webster with one idea of government. and Calhoun, his aniipodes from Alpha iO Omega of Poltics-but yet an ally now. Clay leads off the light armed troops, and skirmishes on 1 every point,-wbile Webster rolls up the big l artillery from his brazen park. But go into the house. and what a combination of queer
 materials is there. Chiffon roars with louder than a stentor's voice. Wilde is hut visor'd cavalier who plays from point to point-but 1 yet gallant cavalier in all. Clayton raves and roars asd Hghtsand cuts. Burgess holds his talons ready to Poance npoarsOme luck
 less wight. s9ts 4s2s
 i Jupiter toaaas never lrhundered more and
 louder than Mir. McDuGie can. Crockett has
 his leeling eye and witty speech. As for
 those who live by chopping logic, there is Binney,-there is Hardin, of Ky. and there is Davis also. with his storm -aIiaying voice
 with all the learning of Everett and Adams at l their aid. And how many men from how many parties--and from what quarters !-l From old Massachusetts with all it's Feder- alism,," and from South Carolna with all it's Notification and Anti-Unionism." From the Lion,s den of Tennessp.,to the Thermo- pylR oflitile Delaware. Opposition in short of all hues, classes, causes and character, but yet an opposition Formidable in intellect and number,-Wiah large masses driven off from the very administration they exerted them- selves to rear.
 From the Correspondence o he Portiand AdOersiser. MEN AND THINGS AT WASHINGTON. Almost all the members are in their seats. Benton ishere. with his broad face, and stout l figure, yet s tearing a passion to tatters."-
 Grundy wears his pleasant phiz, and losses his spectaces more joyously than ever. Clay is as fat as Missouri Buffalo, and he is laden
 with the presents of his northern tour, and showing his cloak, made in half an hour, and given him by the citizens of fTroy. Albany.
 Riuss has become quite Americanized by summers residence in Virginia. No quiz zing glass. no golden headed cane, no French airs, learnt in the saloons of tbe Tuileries, are practised now. But there are some seats va
 cant. Poor Buckner is swept of by the chol
 era-and little did he think that such and sO soon would be his end. when he was over ear
 nestly debating upon the Western lands.- { And the accomplished and amiable Jok,son is
 gone too, sud gans,s alas. in such a way the
 victim of such a melancholy explosion as in-
 stanily carried him to death. Clay, this
 morning, pron0unced over him a beautiful and pathetic enlogium, unpremeditated and unarranged. but yss touching and eloquent, as flowing frOna heart alive to every gener- ous emotion.
 And in the House we have stranger materi. als and stranger combinations of character.- John Quincy Addms is there to the left of the Speaker, in his long frocks coat, and unpre- tending airs. see the eagle head of Burges nodding among the crowd. The Tecumseh- killer is also upon the spot, as gracious and m nnla aIunn f0a ncnR nAnSu u~A every mao friend. And there is David Crock et too, whom have been eyeing these ma ny minutes, to take his guage and measure" ," David, " the observed of all observers" W hose brief request to vote this morning, called, at once, the, House t0 silence. aud drew upon him every eye. And there Is Suiherland too, with his, busy face-and then there are the new c0mers as yet unchronicled by Fame, hut all struggling forward in search of empty puifs of honor, to die at last, and then to be forgotten
 Washington has put on some new and fa- vOrabie appearances since was here in May. The avenue is now all paved. The side walks are excellent and of magnificent hreadth.-- Many new houses ara going up. The Presi- dent has lost the old hoard fence, that sur rounded his white Palace. and has an excel lent fence in it's stead. The House of Repre- senta,ives has changed its front--and with much wisdom t0o-fnr it is now a splendid amphitheatre, more cnmmodiUus and yet more heauiiful than ever. and better fitted, as all agree. fOr the pnrpose nf legislatiOn. kA TAe. Gale. .-Ik AseOmea nur. dnty to record twu of the most tFeniendous storms that with one or twn exceptions, are 0n record. one on Saturday night last, and the other on Monday night. suppused tb have been most severe on the latter night -Amnchmored damage was dune to the buildings in this vicinity. The tide is said to have been within six inches of the un- preeedented high tide three years ago.
 l Great damage has been done to the ship ping in the Bay. and fata! consequences to sea-
 meU. and many of those residing near the
 beach. The tide rose several feet above the
 Delaware Breakwater. sweeping oF several
 houses that had been erected thereon, and
 carrying them completely over the beach, by
 which several lives were lost, besides five Or
 six dead bodies which have come on ashore
 on the beach since the sturn.
 Amo6g the distress that has come to our
 knowledge from thoss residing adjacent to
 the shore. is that of black family residing in
 Slaughter Neck, consisting of man, his wife,
 grandmother and i've children. all 0f whom
 were drowaed bat the man. His statement is 1 truly distressing; he could not speak for scv-
 eral hours after his arrival at the nearest house. aAm.u.a aN- T. .