Litchfield enquirer., 1835-02-12


 sister that he would by his industry soon Bs ' enabled to buy cOrneF lot near her, and build On it a good hOWsr, when he would marry the object Ofhis attachmente.~and with this view, he labored day and night until he had by him about eight hundred dollars. He was disap- pOinted--became extremely peDsive-quit all euployment-standing for hours gazing out upon the spot which he had selected as his future YesdeDce.
 His brOther-in- law, with whom he lived, endeavOred tO persuade him to resume his wOrk-he said that he would go to England; that he had something of grea: importance which demanded his presence, and in the fall of 1888 went to New York for the purpose of taking passage from that port. During tho winter he returned, saying that he found the papers filled with notices Of his contemplated enterprise, and that he could get no captain to take him on board. In the spring of 1884, he again wenf as far as Phiadrlphia-put np at the mansion house, kept his room, or else would stand for hours on the porch, engaged in deep thought, without speaking [" any one. After few days he returned to Washington. and said that he found that his purpose 0f go- ing over to England was known, that none of the captains would consent tO take him on board, but that he would soon have vessel
 
 would put all things right. About this time he became very quarrelsUmr. and his rrlA- lives were afraid iO keep him in the hnnse.- His brOther-in-law endpavored to persuade him tO go tO work, which he obstinately re- fused to do, saying that his hands would do no more work, that others might work, but as Tor hItn. he would soon have money enough.
 At length he committed an assault upon his sister, for which he was handed over to the oc 6cers of justice. and Judged in jail. Ihe case ,oos carried 5. .fore the Grand Jury at its late session. tchich has just closed, and affer nn er- Gmination q ,oitnesses ,cho kne,O him. the Grand Jury refused to find bU against Jim, on Me ground fhis insaniiy.-U. $. Itie.
 A correspondent ofthe National Intelligent cer. thus accounts for the pistols used by Law renee missing fire, though the caps exploded:
 "I have pair of percussion pistols in my possession. For week after bought them lc"uld not make them go off. The porous sion cap would explode, but the charge would not ignite. After relecting for some time as to the cause, discovered it. The powder had not traversed the lube leading to the cap. In order to be satisfied that was right in this conjecture. !. made repeated experiments. l nonred the pow der slowly into the barrel of the pistol; and before ramming it down. | shook the barrel well, in order that the pow der might penetrate through the small tube leading to the percussion cap. The charge never failed to ignite with this precaution, which repeated several times. I then load ed my pistols as had formerly done; nut. iiag the powder and ball in together; ram ming both d"wa hard, hut without shaking the barrel. The charge did not ignite more than twice in twenty trials.
 This peculiarity of the percussion pistol is well known by those who are in ths habit of using tHem. but I presume not generally known ny others. It has evidently not been known by the infatuated individual in this case"
 This explanation proves-hrst, that the President is indebted fer his escape to the ig- n0rance alone Of the wOnId be assassin sec. "nd, that has purp"se must hQue been aL his o,cn for If there had been others concerned in the ! base attempt, some one of them would have known of this peculiarity of the percussion pistol. and guarded against it. THE POST. OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
 ln the debate on the Post Office Report, 1 in the U. s. Senate, last week, MT. Calhoun made some spirited remarks, which are wor- thy of extensive circulation:
 He hoped some Senator would present a resolution giving some character to these de. vei"pements. He lsteued to the report with sorrow and the deepest modification. He had been twenty-two years connected with this government. and in all that time the charges of corruption against all the depart menfs of the government, that he had ever heard, were not equal to the disclosures here made. The exhibition would disgrace the r"itenest ages of the Roman Republic. He hoped every Senator would be called on m his place to say whether he sanctioned it. l The guilt of the Department was unquestion- able. and it remained to he seen whether any Senator here would defend it, and identify himself with it. If he could. and ,he public sentiment could bear it, and the President could bear it. and the people would submit to it, there was end t0 freedom. He hoped some gentleman would look into inc subject, 1 and propose some resolution suitable to the occasion.
 Alter some remarks by Messrs. Cuthbert and Benton. the South Carolina Senator re- | suued bis Remaa ks :-- .-s,,.' .,5- s' ''l
 Mr. Calhoun replied, that he was strf,Tiisrti I that honorable gentleman should make this l passy fs7stiOn. The minority themselves 1 dld nor think so. Who ever dreamed of fmak- ing tt party question? Ifany party wished 1 to identify themselves with these corruntions, let them step forth. Here were volumes of l documents which not one. hundreCith part of the people would read. and :hey must receive 1 an impression with regard to them from that | we did here. What he said was, that ihe peo- pie should know the opinions of Senators here on this subject; and how were they to koow HAsNNA AwnA At..s. f =