Litchfield enquirer., 1838-02-08

- "saS SkSC4AAtiE0 ICfUAAlCup utlo otAa4 very calmly and very cooilv-that he was not to be drawn into a disctIssion-that he defended the Bill because he thought it right that while he believed the original policy was bad, and would check it as soon as It could be done consistently with public peace and public good-he believed it was now a kind of necessary evil, which he should be glad to remedy as soon as it could be reme. died consistently with the public good. Here ended little collision which gave infinite amusement to such men as Benton and those around him, who feed and fatten upon the reputation of the country and misfortunes around them. But let Henry Clay and Dan- iel Webster be the sworn enemies of each other rather than walk in the footsteps of ev- cry man and into the support of every meas ure of those who are only to be commanded in order to obey.
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 1888.
 This is the last letter but one which you will receive by Express Mail, as the Express Mail north of Washington is to be abolish ed on and after the lst of February. The Regular and Express Mails will then arrive at New-York at the same time-all express ses South stopping at this city. The Regu- lar Mail and the Express Mail will leave here together, at 6 o'clock A. M., and arrive in New-York at II or 12 o'clock P. M. An- other improvement will be made between New-York and Washington anon, and that will be to increase the speed between Phila- delphia and New York, or-by leaving Wash ington at 4 A. M. instead of 6 A. M,. and ar- rive at New-York at 9 or 10 o'clock in the evening, instead of II and l2 as now.
 Senate.-The Secretary of the Treasury laid upon the table report in answer to the Resolution of Mir. Webster, calling for infor- nation in regard to the Commonwealth Bank of Boston. The report acknowledges the fact, that fishing bounties and pensions wealth Bank, but says the payment was VOL untary. Before tine reading of the report was finished,
 MT. Webster stated to the Senate, that he had this morning received an affidavit, which proved the incorrectness of the report from the Secretary of the Treasury. MT. Web- ster read the affidavit, and it declared that it had solicited the payment of a pension in some other funds than the bills of the Com- monwealth Bank. The answer was, that payment must be made in those funds or in nothing. The affidavit further states, that another solicitation was made, accompanied by an appeal to pay half of the pension, amounting to $63, in specie-$l3 only was requested, and was refused. Take this or take nothing, was the answer.
 The Mississippi Election called forth to- day two or three able speeches from three of the ablest men in the House, namely :-Mr. Legare, in behalt of the sitting members Mir. Mason, of Virginia, against them, who by the way, is one of the few Virginians in the House of Representatives, who reminds a stranger of Virginia in the days of her pris- fsn., hry Mr. cf Maine IUhC, also made strong and able defence in be- half of the claims ot Messrs. Prentiss and Word. His speech was mainly in reply to Mir. Legare, and if less interesting in manner, he certainly was no. less able ill natter The House listened to both with equal atten- ton. Mir. Prentiss has the floor tomorrow. He began his speech this evening, but reluc- tantly gave way to motion of Mir. Wise to adjourn. The first sentence he spoke drew crowd around him, and chained the atten- tion of the House. Those who had replied to him, he said, had left the edifce which he had erected in his own detcnce where they had found it. They had not touched the completed frame, but had taken out a brick and decided that brick was not a house, and thus declared by taking away brick here and brick there, that brick was not a house. They had said that because a thread was not a cable, while taking thread from his whole argument, that his claims were not good. Let them make fair work upon my whole argument. as they have not done, and then I will meet them. Here an followed.
 The pre-emption Bill was up in the Sen ate until near7 o'clock this cvening-long speeches were made in its favor by Messrs. White and Walker, and a very able speech in opposition by Mir. Davis of Massachusetts, and by Mir. Clay of Kentucky-Mr. Webster said few words explanatory of his vote, and Mir. Clay of Alabama, aud Mir. Young again raised themselves in behalf of the measure. The evenings debate was quite spirited, and elicited great number of re- plys, retorts, and rcjoinders. MT. Webster and MT. Davis voted in opposition, as you will see by the yeas and nays which send you below. The two Senators, however, were very courteous towards each other, and agreed to disagree in perfect good temper.- MT. Young, of Illinois, could find no excuse why Yankee should vote in opposition to this Bill, and as reason why all. Yankees should vote in favor of it, he told an anecdote of a Boston man who went to the West to seek his fortune: Arriving somewhere in the Far West, he was told that the Public Lands were public property. and that the public could plunder them at pleasure, fell the forests, tear down, build up and do just what they pleased. This Boston man, said MT. Young, returned to Boston, formed a Land Company, went back to the West, and cut down timber from the Public Lands, got rich himself and helped his friends to become rich also. MT: Young gave this man as an example of Yankee in the West, and tho't while Yankees in the West made their for tunes so easily, Yankee Senators from the North ought not to oppose the Prc-emption Bill.