Litchfield enquirer., 1837-01-12
THE ENQUIRER. LlrCfiFIELD, gANUARY is, issz.

upon the subject of giving the management Oi th's fund to the people e s sOns, instead of the civil au- thoty proposed by the committee of the legislature, when, before they were put in type, the NeE-Eiaven Palladium Eame to hand containing the following, which we adopt in lieu of Ouf owns--
 "THe 1faftfotd Regency men, and thcrdependants through the State, were much chngrncd by the pursued by the legislature on the subject of the surplus revenue. Orders had gone out from head quarters that the money should be retained together and kept under the control of the pariy; and MT. Van Buren was opposed to the distribution among the States, SO are his followers here opposed to its distribution among the towns. The Governor in his message gave them | the pitch, and all the faithful expected nin in the chorus. The funds to he kept in charge of the Regency to be used in all proper ,uays to the power in the hands of the GnOinEed It was found however, that this would not do-the rascally wings were for dividing it among the towns-many of the representatives instructed that efec and the Regency, becoming alarmed, fell into measure which they hated, but dared not oppose The grand Committee sat long upon it, and finally brought forth bill much like what they wanted os they could get through the House. They provided for the money to go to the several towns but they meant to keep the control oft Ly the criI authority, which is, of course, appointed by the party! They therefore pro- vded the principal to be managed by an agent ap- pointed by the Selectmen and cUil auhority and the interest to be appropriated at least one half to schools and the residue to the support of paupers- The party had several caucuses to keep their men up to the mark and to force them to vote for tho bill reported and resist all amendments. The ayes and noes* on the amendment which gave the appointment of the agent manage the fund the towns instead of the civil authority. shows this plain enough. The Speaker (Cleveland,) Johnson, Woodruff Wightman, Miles, Welles and company voted to give the appoint ment to the civil authority, and for this MT. Barber calls them democrats. while Boardman, Hungerford, Rockwell, Bulkey, Sterling, Burrall and others voted to give this authority the people of the several towns and for this MT. Barber calls them 0ristocrats! !"'
 *The following are the yeas and nays upon this question, far it respects the members from the County of Ltchfeld:
 Yeas-Messrs. Goodwin, E. Jones, Burrall, Simons, Baxter, c. Jones, Clark, Miles. Baldwin, Johnson Converse, Cowles, Kasson, Wech, Phelps, Walton Sterling, Whiting, Gilett, Hayes, Lernlnon, Cutler
 Sa Nays-Messrp. Woodruff; Lord, Allen, Stevens, l Hine, Potter, Brohwell, Ensign, Bssell, Peck-1O
 Absensees-Messrs. Abcrnethy, Smith, Titus, Ba- con-4.
 The editors of the Register say they "were ngrcen- bly, entertained on Tuesday last t27h 9J in listening to the remarks of the speakers in our Legislature on the Surplus. :. * On the side of the rici aristo- crat, who wished to have the money appropriated for
 sB % he Tsan3 Sy yk%g R ssus S othsrsand on the side ofthe people and equal rights were Wighman, F; 3. Johnson, J; Clark, }. Martin, Woodruff, Speaker Cleaveland and others"
 l How much truth there is in the above statement. the reader can discern by reading the conclusion of the debate on that question: which he will find in the Hast weeks Enquirer:] We are the more surprised fkn TaNfa reverse, so much so as to astonsh those who heard them-forit was supposed that the patent democrats would be too cunning to contend as they did go open
 for the interests of the rch and so directly in viola the Register intended to screen these pretended de- mocrats, Cleveland, Wighman and others, hy antici. paring the censures they deserved and throwing them upon their opponents.-N. HGUen PdllGd.
 The number of deaths in Har.tord the past year, exclusive of West Hartford and the Aims House, was l35. In NesO- -Hauen, during the same period, exclu- sve of East Haven and Westville, was BOP. The po pulaton about equal in the two places.
 Disiressiag SRip,rreck-On our preceding page we insert m account of ono of the most appalling ship wrecks on record, which took place off New.York Earbor last week. We have not copied the names of the suerers for the reason that nearly a of them were foreigners would not interest any one here-- In one instance the of the husband wife and six children are given being lost in another. the "husband, wife and four children -others. "husband wife and two or three chldren'-and so on-sweep- ing off probably whole families. A MT. Ellsworth and son, of Poughkeepse, were among the lost. The dis tress and agony on board must have been of the most dreadful and heart.rending character.
 l Gen. Santa Anna has reached Lexington, Ken on | his way to Washington He is considerably out of health and accounts state that he will remain in that place until he recovers to be able to travel by land. While at Louisville he was struck by young man whose brother fell at the massacre in Texas and is said that Santa Anna is in constant appre- henson of being murdered by some of the friends of the butchered Americans in Texas He will doubt less be at Washington the "Lion of the day'-"t the observed of all observers The Surplus.-The following is the upportionment among the several States of the Surplus Revenue re- maning in the Treasury the 1st of January lnst.' as made and declared by the Secretary of the Treas- ry It will be seen that Connecticut gets OCer m',o" of dollars! And yet, when the bill as proposed by Mr. Clay and advocated by his whig friends, was be- fore Congress- Messrs. Benton and Wright and other Van Buren Senators opposed and attempted toshew by figures and other means that ther9 would be no surplus to divide. And we have heard it said that MT. Wright proposed bet to of the whg Senators (Mr Ewing we thinlD of considerable amount which was taken, that the surplus, if any, would be nearer ten than twenty millions! And yet, with the reserva- ton of 5OOOO00 meet extra expenses, it is over FoRry-rwo HuEraoNs!! What financiers must these l Van Buren Senators be!