Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-22

ing on trial.
 0r The School Commissioner the Comptroller, and the Treasurer of the state will not be forgotten were appointed by the legislature of 1896 visit the various banking institutions in this state, and to make report to their solVency, their manner of doing business &c. &c. It will not be forgotten either that all of these gentlemen s0loried officers, paid by the state liberal amount for attending to their particular du- ties; that the Commissioner in particular receives S125O gear and has expenses paidthe highest salary of any officer known to our laws. Now what will the people think when they are told that this committee composed of the three gentlemen above named-bro't in bill against the state of nearly $l1O0 for travel
 ling about the state and looking into the vaults of the Bank? True, they spent weeks in the business, but we understand they charged about $5 per day for this extra duty, while at the same time the Commis sioner was receiving his $4 day for attending to his duties experimenting the School Fund. Nine dollars per day from the people, besides attending to onesown affairs, is quite snug sum these hard times! Won der how much of this extra $5 per day goes to the helping of the "journeymen shoemakers" and "poor mechanics of his neighborhood?
 Loco Foco Indignation.-One evening last week, uIteE Ol had vetoed the bill repeating the charter of the City Bank, the loco-focos ot NewHaven got together and had grand after getting up the steam to proper pitch, made egy of his Excelency the Governor, carried it to the Green, and set fire tot l. What beautiful commentary upon the boasted " de ! mocracy" of the day is this Gov. Edwards has for three years past been the subservient tool of the party'-making the most obnoxious appointments to favor them-when To! as soon as he shows the least spark ofindependence in thinking and acting for him. self the cry goes forth from the subsidized press, and is caught up by the ignorant and deluded populace- down with him. burn him in effigy! and il he dares to show himself in public proclaim him "traitor to his party!" Huzza for liberty and equal rights! The Times of Hartford denounces Gov. Edwards in good set terms for his independence in endeavorng to arrest the mad career of the RoyaIsts this de- nunciation is echoed by muhtudes ofthe little whif- fets of the party elsewhere with much confidence as if they dared to breathe word of censure before getting their from the Times--it accuses him of being "a pampered aristocrat" "a political traitor" &c because in one act of his life he has ventured to go counter to the high behess of John M Niles. Cid Wees, and the nest fofice holders around Hartford We are not the apologists of Gov. Edwards-we bear no great love or veneraton for his political character as exemplfed since he has been the Executive fthe sate or in his former offices of Senator in Congress &c.-we express no opinion as to the correctness ot his decision in the act for which he is strongly de- nounced by his fiends-but we desrse and loathe the caterwaungs of the Times and other kindred prints because the Governor ventured to exercise the prero gatve with which the constitution and laws have n- vested him, and put to flight the harpies which are fattenng upon the community.
 It is Chauncey F. Cleveland of Hampton who is as- socated with John c. Palmer of Haddam as Bank Commissioner, instead of J. N. Pryor, who was first appointed by the House. All the whig papers speak strongly in condemnation of the principle of appoint ing two persons of the same political party to nvcsti- gate the affairs of tho School Fund. The NewHaven Palladium says
 "At the call of the whig presses, the Legislature Commissioner of the School Fund; but they might as well have appointed the commissioner himself, for the committee is composed of but two, and both ot these are his political ends-an unusual course altogether -one of them should have been whg. But they may do their duty, it may be said and so might the commissioner himself. This operation of the majority more jealous than ever on this subject It should not be suffered to rest until proper committee has been appointed '" Beautiful specimen of Tory Lierature.-lt will be remembered that last year an immense number ot Justices of the Peace were appointed by the egisla- ture, especially in the city of New-Iiaven probably "upon the principle which sometimes governs farmers, that when potatoes are small and inferior they put more in hil' friend of ours bought piece of land few days ago. and had occasion to send to New Haven to procure an acknowledgment of the deed of conveyance He has shewn it to us, and its in the words and figures following Uerbatim, except that we have substituted *"*" for the name of the person ma- ing the acknowledgment. Don't it make beautiful epereance?
 "New Haven County New Haven May 24,h 1887 I this instrewment to be hur free act and Deed
 l r Leverett Grswold Justice of Pease" @r We are indebted to the Hon. Mr. Tomlnson for a copy, with couple of fine accompanying maps, of the Report of a Geological Reconnaissance made in 1885, from the seat of government, by the way of Green Bay and the Wisconsin Territory, to the Co teau de Prairie an elevated ridge dividing the Mis- souri from the St. Peters River, by E. w. Feather stonhaugh" It is valuable document to the Geolo- gst and Mnerologis and is at the service of any sc entifc gentleman who wishes to peruse it.
 Destructiue Flood and Loss of Lite-The New York papers of Saturday last contained long of most distressing flood which occurred in Balti- more on the night of the 14th inst. A little past md night the alarm was given that the stream known as Jones' Falls, which takes its rise II or l2 miles from the city, had overfowed its banks and pouring its waters into the streets and alleys and filling the lower