Litchfield enquirer., 1837-10-26
ion, which by the way commences seven

i sion, which by the way commences sevel
 weeks from tomorrow. | Mr. Wise informed the House, at nine o' clock, when the General Appropriation Bill
 was up for defraying the expenses of the Ex 1 tra Session, that the gold was all gone-tha the members of Congress had emPtied th' last keg of mint drops-that the Secretary o l the Treasury had falsified his promises m 1 promising to pay the members in gold-thal he himself had taken compassion upon one of Gke Loco FOco members of the House, and out of pure compassion, had given him ten dollars in gold for ten dollars in silver One member. he said, had his back saddled with forty pounds in silver-gold he could not get and he only had his choice between shin- plasters and American half-dollars! Other members had received their pay m the bank rags of the District Banks, and others in Vir- ginia Bank notes, and in drafts upon distant and broken Deposit Banks. L,. ..
 The gold bubble, thus you see, has burst in six wecks-during short session. This event is looked upon in Washington, as the consummation of the golden Humbug. The Golden Age has departed, and the Golden Calf has been molten into silver. The silver and the cinders-the hot lead and the sparks, shin -plasters and paper-kites are all that IS left. The members who received their pay in advance are the only persons who can hold up their long silk purses of open net work, through the interstices ot which the yellow gold is to shine and glitter. To have seen the consummation and the full measure of glory of the reign of Humbug, you should have been in the House last night and thls morning. a., sls. :, 4. ;,
 MT. Cost Johnson, of Maryland, addressed the House until 10 P. M. and amused the House with an amusing account of his vlslt to the Sergeant at Arms, to get his per diem and mileage pay! Nothing better than Dis- trict rags was offered him. He asked for bread, and they gave him stone.
 In the Appropriation Bill, the sum of ten thousand dollars was appropriated tor MT. Rush, for the purpose of deffaying his ex- penses to Europe, as the Agent of the Govern
 ment for receiving the Smithsonian bequest. ! MT. Wise made motion 10 reduce 1t to hVe
 thousand dollars, instead of ten, which was
 carried. He said he had no notion of pay
 ing a man ten thousand dollars for abusing
 the Wings, and writing letters from England
 on banking. t.<f A .,.3 -.
 During the evening the Bill for making an appropriation of $1 100000 for the further prosecution of the Florida War; was passed. This makes, I believe, nearly ten millions
 which has already been appropriated for kil-
 ling sixty or seventy INDIANS. The golden humbug, and the Florida war humbug, are very much alike. ..j.
 Many of the members have left the city, and doubt much whether or not quorum 1 can be found in either branch of Congress tomorrow morning. Less than twenty Sen-. l ators did all the business done in the Senate last night. Mir. Webster saw at one this
 morning, watching carefully the Bills and
 motions before the Senate. s ...-.....
 The House, think, will do no business to-
 morrow. The object of meeting at EIGHT o. clock is to leave by the cars at nine. The business already done, therefore, is most pro- bably all that will be done. Cambreleng flourished away at midnight about keeping the members of the House until l2 Monday night. But Cambreleng's flourishes are voc et DrctereG nihI-EcpreSS.