Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-04-25
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shortly take place in the cabinet at WASH
ington. 1t is said that Messrs. Forsyth and
Woodbury. will be sent on foreign missions
that Mr.. Poinsett will take the place of the
former, and Mr.. Kendall, of the latter that
Mr.. Grundy will be appointed Postmaster
General, and Mr.. Stevenson, present Minis
ter to England, will take his place. We give
the rumor as it was received by letter from
Washington, without vouching for its accu-
racy, which may be questioned"
That changes in the cabinet have been in
contemplation, we have been satisfied tor
some time past. That there exists at this mo-
ment, much trouble and difficulty respecting
the arrangements connected with those chan.
ges, we are sure. There are two interests
now at work which come in immediate con-
flict with each other. One is what may APP
propiately be termed 0ristocr0tic Democrats !;
the other the ultra Loco FOcO Democrats
To the former it is believed the habits and
feelings of Mr.. Van Buren, incline him the
latter, however, are backed by all the influ-
ence of the retired Chief of the Hermitage.
1t is said that, both parties are exceedingly
pertinacious. Hence the augmentation of
difficulties.
1t is supposed that during the present year.
there will be four foreign embassyships va
cant, viz. France, England, Russia, and
Spain these will be to be filled, and in addi-
ton, the special embassy to England. We do
not doubt Mr.. Forsyth will receive the APP
pointment to the latter mission. Nor do we
doubt that it is at present in contemplation
to offer Mr.. Woodbury. one of the four, about
to become vacated. IF he is left to choose,
he will undoubtedly make choice of that in
other words, the one in which he will be call
ed upon to spend the least, and can save the
most.
Mr.. Poinset, we do not doubt, will be trans
lated to the State Department. He appers to
be the favorite Minister of Mr.. Van Buren, ;
and probably accepted the place he now fills
on the same conditions it had previously
been offered to Mr.. Riues-one of which was,
to take the State Department, which he was
informed would become vacant soon thereaf-
ter. Mr.. Grun3y, we do not doubt, is to have
the Post Office Department, that being the
post which, it is said, he has long had his eye
upon. Mr. Kendall, we suspect, now hangs
between one of the foreign embassyships and
the Treasury Department. The aristocratic
Democrats are for sending him abroad, as
sort of honorary erile-the uAros are for pla-
cling him at the head of the Treasury Depart
ment The interest that succeeds in deciding
the question, will no doubt determine the fu-
ture policy of the Administration. The for
mer party, it is thought wish to give the
Treasury seals to an ex-senator of South
ern State. Who will be selected TO fill the
War Department, it is difficult to conjecture.
If Mr.. Van Buren, can reconcile it to himself
to have two members of his cabinet from his
own State, probably Governor Marcy will be
chosen to direct the operations in the field of
Mars.
As to Mr.. Sievenson's taking the Attorney
Generalship, we hardly think it probable
1t is intimated that there are other difficulties
existing which cause embarrassments. The
claims of aspirants to the candidacy of the
Vice Presidency. That Col. Johnson is to-
be dropped, has long since been decided on.
Mr.. Forsyth, Mr.. Stevenson, and Mr.. King, of
Alabama, have all been named. The two
former gentlemen, it is believed, urge their
claims very strongly, either through friends
or otherwise. With the determination of
the question between these two gentlemen,
probably is connected that, of who goes into
the Treasury.
Mr.. Cambreleng will most certainly have
foreign embassy ship offered to him.
These, though speculations, we suspect do
not vary much from the actual existence of
things at this moment. Before finally ar
ranged, they may, however, be somewhat
party are to predominant at the expense of
the people in outfits and salaries.
Lamentable Accidem.-As the train of pas
senger cars on the Boston and Worcester
Rail Road was leaving town at O'Clock, on
Saturday morning, James F. Curtis, Esq. the
of the Road, took seat in
one of the cars, for the purpose of examining
the effect upon the road, of the heavy rain Of
the preceding night. As the train approach.
ed Washington street, Mr.. Curtis's attention
appears to have been attracted to something
in the state of the road, which he wished to
examine more particularly. For this pur-
pose he suddenly put his head some distance
out at the window. At this instant the car
reached the bridge, by which Washington
street passes over the Rail Road, and he re-
ceived a fatal blow on the back and side Of
his head, from one of the iron pillars which
support the bridge, between the two tracks
of the Rail Road. The train was immedi-
ately stopped, and he was taken from the car.
and conveyed to his own house, in state of
insensibility. The most efficient and skilful
surgical aid was afforded, with the least pos
sible delay, but in about an hour after the
accident he EXPIRED Boston Messenger.
Planting Mulberry Cuttings.-I prefer cut
tings of one bud, for although some may fail
to grow. think the same number of buds if
planted singly. will produce more trees, and
generally finer ones, than if planted double
or with two buds on each cutting. The
ground being prepared much the same rs for
corn, lay it off in burrows three feet apart,
with small one horse plough, stick the cut
tings in the bottom of the furrow, the bud on
the south side, and the top of the cutting re-
Ginning to the N. say As deg. and cover the
bud half an inch to an inch-and if this COW
ers the top of the cutting the better. If a
handful of white sand should be dropped in
and the cutting stuck through the sand, It
would be of great service in making the cut