Litchfield enquirer., 1837-02-23

.,,,, sor;o,,a abolition sklrnloh. The House, :,, HrJe, to cut of J. O. Adams, reversed the "rdcr of the States, and began at Wisconsin. Mr. Corwin, of Ohio. presented a few aboli- tion petitions. NIT Siaoe Oi vermont Wno sast Year passed as the father of the aboli. t;orists. but whom Mir. Adams this season has now altogether eclipsed, presented a whole score from men, women and children, not onIv in Vermont, but from New York, and H. linois. Many came from minors under IA years of age. CThe boys might as we'll be studying their arithmetics.) In presenting this, he said something about somebody hav- ing said, the other day, that minors were not feeuen. What! said Mir. Dixon H. Lewis of Alabama, commonly called the greatest man in the House, because he IS the Daniel Lam- bert ofthe House-and he is man whose tal- ents are far above mediocrity, too, who would make a frure, if he took the trouble-What, said he, did the gentleman say, the petition CTS were not freemen? Cook out, Rhode Islanders, you are not ytreemsn in the eye of your law, though as aohite as freemen Gre.)- faucied that here we should have row." and that should be blessed with something to make letter of, but Mir. Slade said Mo-" and though MT. Afford, the new member from Georgia, who has just come from the Chattahoochee, where he has been killing Indians-a fiery and high mettled steed, by the way, whom we shall make Bucephalus of. if we find some Alexander to tame him though he popped up, and champed his bit little. vet all passed off with only the furry of crow" At five o'clock, there were not members enough in their seats to make a |" row." and therefore adjourned, and came homeward.-N. Y. Express.
 WASHINGTON, Feb. IA. Now the abolition battles are over, we have peaceable times here. The House and the Senate have been engaged all day on the Ap- nronriation Bills. The Tennessee Volun- teers, whom Gen. Gaines called out last sum- mer, now want their pay, and they have a pretty bill against the United States of Amer ica, which, if Uncle Sam ever pays, will a. mount, I am told, to a sum bordering upon $5OOOOO. ....-. ...
 The Cumberland Road Bill has been up in the Senate. Three hundred thousand dol lars are wanted this year. We have spent about six millions upon this road already 1 I ever watch the votes upon this measure, because it tests the principles of the admin istration, and of the public men who support it. The Van Buren party in the North and South tell us they are opposed to all "mag- nificent schemes'' of internal improvement. In the Southwest, over the Mississippi, they
 have not vet made up their mind what to do. In the West, they are decided advocates of
 internal improvement. Now as MT. Benton
 is " man of principle" how do you suppose
 he votes? Why, against this Road to be
 sure No-no-for ever since he has been in
 Congress, he has voted for it, and this year he
 snatches out of the Treasury 300,OOO more.
 That humble worshipper of his, D.. Ni1es Q,
 Connecticut, votes for it too Yes, the very
 man who votes away from Connecticut her
 interest in the Public Lands in the Vest
 who grudges his people their share of the
 surplus, who is for knocking down the Tariff
 Ssc. Connecticut must see to this.