Litchfield enquirer., 1838-01-11

I Of the people to become acquainted with the principal
 incidents connected with the late seizure and burning Ofthe steamboat below Buffalo, we have given full de- tails on the preceding page. After al though savage enough, we very much doubt whether the transaction was any thing like so aggravated as is represented
 Up to the present time, so far as we can learn the name of only one person is given who lost his life; nor are any given who went with the boat over the Falls Later accounts too state that the boy who was repre- sented to have been horribly murdered is still alive and entirely unharmed; he was taken to the Canada shore, and since returned. It is very strange indeed that there should have been SO many on board, and lost or murdered and yet nobody know any of their names, or since discover that any body is missing Brutal and revolting humanity as the act undoub. edy was, we do not yet believe it was half as bad as has been represented Else, why not some one come forward and lament the loss of relative or friend
 4" LOWe" Candda the Patriots appear to be entirely 1 queIled, and the whole country is quiet again.
 Wh0t 'OtH Me Tories say nOcc ?-Thc papers in the service of the locofocos have since the election in Maine in October last been endeavoring to make their readers believe that the Wings had not succeed ed in electing majority 1.-the Representatives to the Legislature. These assertions must now be put to flight. Last week the legislature met-and on the first ballot Elisha H. Allen (whig) was chosen Speak, CT, he having 100 votes, Mir. Han ory) g., and one scattering-clear whig majority F. In the Senate, Mr. Littlefeld (tory) had l3 MT. Boutelle (whig) g. scattering2. Whg majority in joint ballot g to 13- Will the locos still have the hardihood to claim it? The weather has been mild for the last two weeks that the Hudson River is now open to Albany and hooe. ,l,,o, 1l- ~ necticut River is also open nearly to Hartford. Massachusetts Legislature convened last week. Myron Lawrence was chosen President of the Sem l ate, and Robert C. Winthrop Speaker of the House the former by nearly unanimous vote, and the latter receiving 295 votes out of 300. ItDO more Steamboats losi-The Black Hawk steamer burst her boiler the 27th ut on the Mssis sppi short distance above the mouth of Red River The pilot and engineer instantly killed, and several others badly wounded Had on board S9O,OOO in spe- ce, belonging to the U. S. of which IS 900 was lost- On the 2oth the steamboat Vcksburg was burnt on her way down to New-Orleans near Baton Rouge, and burnt to the waters edge together with ITO bales of cotton. No lives los the boat being near the shore in a fog.
 MT. Editor-I am an old-fashoncd Jackson demo. crat, and have for many years been in the habit of attending the caucuses of the party whenever could make 1t convenient l attended last year, and was then glad to find MT. Beers, and MT. Woodruff, and Mr. Seymour, and also that true blue new-light MT. Justice Boles and was right well pleased to hear them spout about the democracy equal rights, the bright prospects of our cause, and all those good things so cheering to one who had been many years in the mi norty attended also the caucus of Monday eve ming of last week-but instead of finding all my old and neo friends there, found but meagre number, and among them none of the silk-stocknged rufled- shirted democrats whom found last year, except his Honor the Judge ot Probate. No Beers no Wood ruff, no Seymour, no Boles was there to harangue about democracy-nor were any of the lawyer-stran- gers there tn give favorable reports from abroad no, nobody to enighten our minds or give us sweet counsel except that pink of stability whom you some times call the 18th deputy. Now do tell me, MT. Ad ams, for can learn of none of my party, what all this meant? Are all these gentlemen preparing to go oyer again into your ranks, which sincerely believe they forsook either to obtain secure office? Iknew that some of the frank and file" were desertng our party, but in hopes the officers would stand their ground little longer. At any rate am determined still to be A DEMOCRAT. lWe really cannot answer the questions of our loco foco friend, and would advise him to call personally upon the gentlemen and get their answers. Some of them we think would be candid enough to give their reasons unless "upon compulsion