Litchfield enquirer., 1837-03-02

|. reienty, that cave of HoIus that always lash es SyitR 2 storm. where Adams sits like Boreas
 and Anster. or Eurus ever rages, today was bnsbed and calm, for almost all it's mem.
 hers were off eating cheese. Eloquence was IvheIn1ed in cheese. The strife of words was
 ouelIed in a strife for cheese. Alas for Mr.
 Adams, and Mir. Clay, and Mir. White, and MT. Calhoun, and MT. Bell, that they are on such terms with the President that they can. not go to eat cheese. An, MT. Calhoun, fl you had only been as sly a mouse as Mr. Van Buren, you would have been to-day un- der the Presidents wing instead of him, nib- bling cheese. l did not see this monstrOus cheese at all. l met its fragments in many fists upon the avenue, as 1 ran down. snuff'd it in every breeze. rushed with the crowd to get bit, and even with look would have been content, but alas, unhappy me I got no cheese. smashed my hat in vain pushed over negro, and jammed up bonnets II pushed and Wrestled, and struggled in the crowd. and maddened at last with despera- ton, mounted the very shoulders of the mass for cheese. But it was gone! all gone Nought but a few struggling suspicious crumbs were left when reached the table on which it had been spread. Col. Benton had a lump, on which he was expatiatlng. on how my mouth watered for that lump ot l CnoGSS. 10 LtiC utly VI my SN""A ~ S~~A~ ~
 member, got no cheese. l dare say if Mrs. Trollope, that wicked woman, had been in Washington to-day, she would have made terrible story ofthls mode of celebrating the birthday of the Father ot his country by eating cheese! She would have held us up as horrid people, and set all Europe in d roar of laughter because we assembled in the mansion of our beloved President to eat cheese. The People have done but little else since the official an- nouncement first appeared in the Globe, but to talk of, and think of this eating ot cheese. True, the crowd was immense, and not so se- lect as one may see m the lalace o1 ot' James, when King William gives a levee.- True. blacks and whites and mulattoes, and boys in rags and men in regimentals, min gled, a speckled concourse together-but then, this is free country, you know. True, the boys stormed the East Room, mounted the walls outside, and rolled through the in- side with dirty feet over Turkey carpets, and were there reflected in Parisian mirrors-but this is free country you know.
 The finale of this cheese party, which the President has given us, did not stop to see. Gen. Jackson is very feeble, and he retired long before the multitude were in. But few saw him, of the mass that came. This is the last of his appearance ill the mansion allotted to the President of the United States. wish him happier and a quieter home in the fie:- lnitage than he can have had here, where he has had so many leeches to bleed him, and to bleed the People under his care. Mir. Van Buren will, without a doubt, reform court eti- uuette amaZingly-and, sure l am, he will never give us another feed at cheese.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 1857.
 yTy1-- 1l,1 Lo, $ha +@y,io If discussion to-day in the Senate, but the Sen ators who have addressed the Senate, have wandered off all over the earth-and salt has been the least of the topics talked about. MT
 Davis of Mass. in long and able speech, sci forth the manner in which the reduction pro-
 posed would affect his State-and after him
 came many others, who branched off about all things, and something besides.
 The indications of things, you tell me, is all
 you have room for, and all your readers wish
 to read. To them, then, will confine my self Mir. Calhoun abides by the Comprom-
 ise, and, therefore, opposes this reduction pro- i, posed. MT. Brown of N. c. does not cOnsid CT the compromise binding, but only to be respected, and, therefore, he votes for the re-
 duction of duty on salt. Mir. Rives has moi
 heard Mir. Davis or Mir. Webster say that they looked upon the Compromise as bind
 ing, or as bargain-indeed, MT. Webster
 has said it was not-and therefore, as the rev. enue must be reduced, he shall vote to take
 of the duty, as proposed. MT. Strange as sents to the same creed-and Mir. Wright says in reducing duties, he shall go with as little hesitation among the duties over 20 pel cent, as among those that are under From this it appears that the Southern Van Burer Senators do not look upon the compromise as at all binding. Tine four Senators from
 Arkansas and Michigan, who were parties to the compact, certainly do not This one fac
 then is clear from these indications, that tht ,clols Tariff IS 0s much an ope,, question as i
 erer aUas, and that a aoiU noD De agitated tiL
 1942. do not, however, believe there will
 be any legal action upon it this session. Even if the Senate should reduce the duty on salt, which is but barely possible, the ac
 could not be debated upon, and voted upon al
 this late hour of the session in the House. The great Tariff battle is to be fought the next session of Congress. MT. Van Buren, i |, is clear, intends to make it an open question and to profit by the agitations upon it.
 5 In the debates to-day, we have had on' 8 passage atarms. MT. Calhoun was severe up = on this agitating policy of Mir. Van Burei' {. and said that by it, he intended again to op s en the conflicts of tho North and the South s that his friends could not be sincere, as the, f had just proposed action at this late day ofthl : session, when it was impossible to act-tha = MT. Wright had voted for the high Tariff o !! 1928, and so had Mr. Van Buren-that as Mir s Van Buren had denoupced MT. Tazewell ir ] 1928, so he would now denounce the South = He, therefore, called upon the Southern Sen . ators to abide by the Compromise, and no : again throw open the Tariff question, 1T NNh YnIN l4l.. NY