Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-06-20

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claimed their own preference for one of these
candidates, and who are weekly trumpeting
the praises OF the one, and piling the pYra-
mid Of calufnny upon the other, expect that
they are strengthening and consolidating the
opposition to the present administration
Do they expect that their earnings and
wranglings about rival candidates will make
the nomination more unanimous? Do thew
suppose that notwithstanding all the morbid
irritabiliy which this party wrangling is cal
culated to excite, that the pitifuf quackery of
National Convention will heal the whole?
We must say that we pity the ineffable con-
ceit of those editors who imagine that they
can enhance the popularity of their fayorite,
| by placing his name in glazing capitals at
the head of their paper, before he has been
nominated by any proper authority or that
they can forestall the decision of National
Convention, by singing hOsGnnas to Henry
Clay or huzzGs to general Harrison. Clothed
in the little brief authority of welding a
goose-quill sceptre in such a way as their
opinion will be most likely to prove accepta-
Die to the present party caprice of their few
patrons, they play such fantastic tricks as
make their opponents smile at their vanity
and foolishness, and their judicious friends
regard them with mingled pity and disgust.
They only bring odium upon themselves and
the profession they ostensibly follow, while
ny tuO1G luuotCu OulClOuSIiCSS duU ODLTuStVC
temerity they weaken their own party by TO-
menting dissentions, and give their enemies
reason to say, 'aha! aha SO would we have
it to be- All the papers which have assum-
ed the prerogative of nominating their can
didate, have also pledged to abide by the de-
cision of the National Convention. Now in
asmuch as it 10 painfully evident that the
Wing party throughout the Union is divided
in its preference between Mr.. Clay and Gen.
Harrison, why will not these officious edi-
tors, instead Of writing as though they were
ex-ofticio committees Of nomination, be mod
est and prudent enough to refrain from ma
king the breach of disunion still broader and
more fatal, by constantly obtruding upon the
public their preferences for the one, or their
preiudices against the other!
For ourselves we will say that we deem IL
neither just, expedient nor polite, to join in
the common editorial clamor against those of
our own party, whose wishes in reference to
the presidential candidate may disagree with
our own. And while we most fervently
wish that all the component portions of the
Wing party could think and act in unison
on this subject, we certainly can see no prob
ability of compelling each other to do SO by
incessant recrimination and abuse. But irT-
asmuch as we all expect to support the nom-
inee of the National Convention, and as it is
yet undetermined who he shall be, we con-
fess ourselves incapable of discerning any
political wisdom in the course of those edi-
TORS, who, having perched themselves upon
the lofty pinnacle of their own conceit, are
shouting the claims of their favorite candi-
dates in genuine electioneering twang, with
all the puff and pedantry of mountebank,-
and the unmeaning and boistcrous foquaci.v
OF an auctioneer. We beg to be excused
from joining IN this chorus of discord,' and
would wish to remain silent until the full
voice of the National Convention shall give
us the true watchword Of the electioneering.
contest
Horrible Duel-The coroner was called on
yesterday to hold on inquest on two bodies
which were found near the road to the Bayou
st. John. about mile from the borders ofibe
lake. The following are all the particulars
we have obtained An individual coming
from the Lake by this road, heard stiflcd
groans at some little distance in the wood,
and having followed the sound in which.
MES of death who had been wounded by ma
ny strokes Of poignard. Not being able
to render any assistance, he hastcned-tb give
information to the proper authorities, who
despatched captain Younes to make inquiries
into the fact. On Capt. Youne's arrival at ,
the spot the man was dead. This strange cir
cumstance excited the suspicion of there hav-
ing been duel, and on examination Sec
ond body was discovered still holding in its
hand poignard, which was wrenched from
its grasp with great difficulty. The two bod
les were brought into town, and on examina-
ton it appeared that the first had received
three strokes of a sharp instrument (appa.
rently a little larger than stiletto); one had
opened the principal artery of the left arm !:
another was on the left shoulder blade; three
were in the right breast-one of which had
entered between the third and fourth ribs and
penetrated the lower lobe of the right lung;
another wound not so deep was between the
orbits. This man appeared TO be very strong
and muscular. about IS years of age and Of
dark complexion. He had on a pair of
white twilled Russia duck pansaloons, with
white cotton draws underneath. Around his
neck was twisted sailors cravat of a red
dish color. %+As
The second man had received five deep
wounds inflicted with a poignara In the righs
breast, and one with the same instrument in
the left side, which had pierced the heart
through and through.
The parties to this double assassination.
as far as we could ascertain, were Spaniarf
and an Italian, fruit dealers, who had dispu-
ted in the course Of their business,-N. o..
LouisiGnian. ~4
Agful Explosion. learn, says the Ha-
gerstown Mail that on Wednesday evening
last about dusk, the store and dwelling house
Of Mr.. Rush, in Hancock, was much DANA
ged, if not entirely demolished, by the explo-
sion OF a half key of powder in the store
room. There were Is persons in the house
at the time, all of whom. except two were
more or less injured --seven seriously. An
endorsement on the Peoples Line way bill
says it is thought that four Of the persons in
jured viii hardly recover 4stN