Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-01-10

mated and happy in conversa;ion-loving all
and beloved Of all who know her, Every
"happy new year" offered, am sure came
from the heart Of her guests. JAMES MADr.
SON owed something of his greatness to his
wife. sr---.. .,.a..
The venerable Ex-President ADAMS receiv-
ed his friends also publicly, but in manner
much more private than the President. This
Nesior and Ulysses Of the House IL enjoying
pretty good health and loses none of his great
Intellect. .s 4is .-e sts 2.
In SENATE-JanuaryS 8.
The Senate then took up the special order
of the day, the bill to reduce and graduate
the price of public lands, the motion of Mr..
Clay pending, viz: "That the bill be re.
committed to the Committee on Public Lands,
with instructions to restrict the right to pur,
chase the public lands at the reduced price
of one dollar per acre, and of seventy five
cents per acre to actual settlers, at these pri.
ces, to quantity not exceeding 100 acres."
The debate was continued until after o..
| clock, p. M. and the question was divided;
and, having been taken first on the recon.
mitment, there were for the motion yeas %,
nays 20, as follows: .-....-~
Yeas-Messrs. Buchanan, Calhoun, Clay,
Of KY, Clayton, Crittenden, Davis, Foster.
knight, Mexican. Merrick, Morris, Miles,
Pierce, Prentiss, Preston, Rives, Roane, Rob.
bins, Ruggles, Smith, Of Indiana, Strange,
Swift, Williams, of Me.-23. -
Nays-Messrs. Allen, Benton, Brown,
Clay, of Ala. Fulton, Hubbard, King, Linn,
Lumpkin, Lyon. MOuton, Nicholas, Norvell,
Robinson, Smith, of Ct, Upton, Walker,
Williams, of Mi, Wright, Young-2O.
The question was then taken on the in.
structing clause, (leaving blank in the place
OF" 16O acres, ." and it was carried.
House Of Representatives., Jan. 3.
CONTESTED ELECTION IN WISCONSIN.
The House proceeded to the consideration
Of the report Of the Committee on Elections
to whom was referred the order ofthe House
on the subject Of the right to seat in the
House as the Delegate from the Territory Of
Wisconsin"
The committee submitted the following:
Resolred, That James Duane Deity is enti-
tied to seat in this House as delegate
from Wisconsin Territory, and that George
w. Jones is not so entitled. a3t
A debate followed, in which Messrs, Tho
mas, Cushing, Randolph, Fletcher, of Mass.
Tillinghast and Crazy participated when
The previous question was put and car
ried, and the main question, viz. on concur-
ring with the report Of the committee. was
decided in the atiirmntive-Yeas 167-Nays
Is. So the House coneurred in the report Of
the Committee on Elections, and decided that
Mr.. Doty is. and Mr.. Jones is not, entitled to
a seat. ~
Mr.. Doty thereupor appeared, was sworn,
and took his seat accordingly.
WAsHINeToN, Jan. 4 1889.
Mr.. Rives to-day completed the dissection
Of the Secretary of the Treasury" the Pre-.
sident's catspaw and financial pnpprt,'' as
he calls the IS distinguished Head Ut the
Treasury Department" 70 quote Mr.. Cush.
man, the p. @. member from New Hump
shire. Never Was q man more roughly or
more severely used up than the honorable
Secretary was by the member from Virginia.
have never before known Mr.. .Riyes TO bo
so severe. He dealt ont to the Secretary and
his friends shower Of Pnfthian arrOws--alt
of which seemed to take effect. Mr.. Rives
accused Mr.. Woodbury., in the plainest Ian
guage, of acting the part Of the deceivcr.
and of practising deception SO low that the
least skilful and most worthless nccromanccr
would have been disguised with il. Mr.
Woodbury.. too, Mr.. Riyes calls political
juggler, and q man who has been guilty of IL
fraud--an officer. too, who has connected
himself with The " Monster Bank" and Old
Nick Biddle," after denouncing both Bank
and President in the most studied terms of
censure and abuse. The worthless rags
Of the Rag Baron Biddle, - 90 often denounc.
ed upon the floor of the Senate, and in the Of
fetal paper. he says, have not only been used
by the Government officers, but their yulue
and use commended over all other currency.
Mr.. Rives proves that the Government, in
more instances thnn one, has connected itself
with the monster, and therefore concludes
that its professions of Divorce IRE insincere
and hypocritical. There are on deposit in
the U. 8. Bank at Philadelphia, three hundred
thousand dollars Of the public money altogcth-
er, independent of the sums connected with
the sale Of U. s. Bank Bonds. The MUCK
abused Bank, therefore, he considers as the
fiscal agent of the Government, and as such
should be recognized publicly, and not used
and denounced. The Secretary of the Trea-
sury gets hard knocks on all sides. In both
wings Of the Capitol he is condemned, and T
am quite sure that majority Of the members
| Of Congress ut heart believe him guilty or
ment. Mr.. Rives to-day spoke of the Secre-,
tary in language almost as earnest as Ed
mund Burke, in his far famed speech asking
for the impeachment of Hastings. There.
are many here who demand the impeach-
ment Of Mr.. Woodbury. upon the ground, of
a wnnton violation Of duty as an officer Of
the General Government. Eternal Justice
they say condemns him, and if you sIackep
/ that, they say, with Burke. that you weaken
the bonds OF society. giving to law and we'll
tempered authority a fatal wound that NO
balm can cure, and that no time can restore.
/ The PatriOts.-A letter in the Army and
| Navy Chronicle, dated Monroe. Michigan.
Dec. l5ih, after giving account of the iava-
sion near Windsor. u. c. by body Of pa
triots about 200 in number, adds the follow
| ing respecting the fate of those who after the
| skirmish. bctook themselves 10 the woods.r
4 The $50 who took TO the woods have been
from that time hunted like wild beasts, aud
are literally sused up" Of that number 46
are in prison 10 Canada. and many of them.