Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-27

moving and operating upon masses of men. Tn our country, one of the arts of the cun- ming politician is to adopt some popular name for his party, and, sticking to that, lose sight of principles with impunity. No bolder or more barefaced imposture was ever practised upon a betrayed and deceived people, than the assumption of the title of "Democracy' by the leaders of the administration parry Analyze their principlcs--examlne their con, duct-mark their actions, they will be found invariably opposing democratic sentiments in relation to civil government. And yet they cling with the pertinacity ot leeches to the name of Democrats They think there 1 is a power in that name which carries the people with them. They are as cunning as they are deceitful. Where is their Democ- racy! Is it in supporting executive power in aiding the usurpations of the federal au- thorities-in upholding protests-in contend ing for the Responsibility of the President and his officers-in subjecting the will ofthe Legislature to the will of the Executive! Throughout the long series ofthe usurpations and outrages of the late Executive of the na- tion, these patent Democrats never uttered syllable of disapprobation. They suffered blow after blow to fall upon the rights of the people, without voice of complaint. Can the people be misled with such rank hypoc- racy much longer? Can they fail to detect the daw under his borrowed plumage! We should hope not. The reign of imposture has been long enough. It is full time that De- mocrats and Republicans should be known and recognized by their principles, and not by any name which men may adopt to suit their own purposes.-AlerGndriG Gazette. From the Philadelphia Gazette.
 The line of battle ship Pennsylvania now on the stocks at our navy yard, under shel- ter that cost $45, 1000, is one ofthe most splen- did fabrics that were ever destined to float on the ocean. Her length on deck is 225 feet, which is 27 feet more than half way from Fifth to Sixth street, in Chesnut street, and her breadth 65 feet, which is eight feet wider than Chesnut street opposite the theatre, in- cluding the footways. She is large enough to carry two thousand men, which is larger number than the whole American army that fought and gained the battle of Chippewa, and greater than the population of a consid- erable sized town. She is of the burthen of 5000 tons, and could, if loaded with flour, carry the moderate cargo of thirty thousand barrels, enough to supply bread for fifteen thousand people for a whole year. She is to carry 14O guns, g pounders, so that every time she discharges full broadside, she will dispose of precisely ton of bullets, to help to make iron pebbles for the bottom of the ocean, unless she happens to hit the enemy. She will draw 2S feet of water, and thus find it difficult to navigate in shoal rivers. One of her anchors, which is to be seen in the yard, and which is said to be the largest one in the world, weighs 1l,697 pounds, which is some- thing more than five tons, and will require some merry piping at the capstan to get it apeak Her water tanks are of iron, mostly in the shape of large chests, capable of hold ing from l to ? hundred gallons, but having proportion of them of other shapes, adapted to fill round the sides of the ship, so as to leave no space as happens with casks. The number is probably l5O, as far as we could judge from looking at them, as we did a day or two since, under the guidance of some of the polite and attentive officers stationed at the yard.
 A friend has just informed us that the lar- gest anchor in the British dock yard at Ports- mouth, in 1882, weighed something less than 10000 pounds, at which time there were on the stocks three ships nearly as large as the Pennsylvania.