Litchfield enquirer., 1840-07-16

The Fourth of July has this year been celebrated with uncommon sp'endor in great number of places but, unlike those in former years most of them have been party celebrations-in some places by the ocos but much more generally by the wings These cele- brOtions have been attended too by an uncommon ar ray Of talent and character. Instead of ;he usual sophomorical display of rhetoric, most distinguish ed, most eminent and best public speakers have been the orators of the day. Preston, Crtenden, Tall madge, Webster, Wise, Proffet, and others in the whig ranks; and Buchanan, Banks, and others, in the loco-foco have figured the orators these casions. There has been, however far as we have been able to observe, wonderful difference in the assemblages While to hear the whig speakers such
 Is the enthusiasm at present, there have been thou sands to hear the loco-focos there have been only hundreds. Such was particularly the case in Pough- kecpsie and Hudson, N. Y. and in Barre, Mass. In Barre, the locos gave out that they should have a grand celebration, and the great MT. Bancroft would nsly9ra enhsP taEfeir % %aceera. y notice that they too would have celebration and n- Vited Mir. Webster to address them. He attended, and instead of hundreds, he dfsw thousands of his fellow citizens around him. Nor was the contrast much less striking in Ponghkeepsie, where Mcssrs. TaIlmadgc, Preston and Wise addressed the assem- bled multitude to the number of 9 or 10000 In Hud- son, MT. Crittcnden drew an immense assemblage around him. And in all these. and numerous other places were the thousands animated with the pros. pcct of triumphant victory for the whg banner in the approaching presidential contest.
 In Hartford New. Haven, and Bridgeport the whies celebrated the day with considerable ecat but no- where, 60 far we have observed have the locos of this state had much of gathering at Poquannock and Cheshire were celebrations but they lacked the spirit (except the ardenn manifested at the whie cele- hrations None eotld be raised in this county, and poor ehop-faen Cotton had to % abroad Not even an indignation celebration could be got up in his pro- bate district.
 0r At the log cabin celebration in Goshen on the 4th we observed people from about twohirds of the towns in the county, wit: Gnsheu Ltchfield Cornwall, Canaan, Norfolk, Sharon, Salisbury Wash. ingon, Warren, Winchester New. Hartford, Torrng. ton, Harwinton, Plymouth, and Be,hIem People may have been present from the remaining towns, but We did not observe any. Not drop of ardent spirit. any thing stronger than lemonade and small beer, was allowed by the committee of arrangements to be carried on 10 the ground The eanso of tenn. peFance did not suffer there |
 lIohsSsHnd.-NO returns from the election in this | E'nte as yet. Another week will probably bring us the results m the Orleans and Baton Rouge dis. trlrts-the former of which anticipate will he l wMg. and the latter loco. The Red River district is also uncertain.
 Indiana appears 10 be all in cOmmotion for the cleo. irons In August. Gen. Howard, member of congress l is the iocoOco candidate for Governor, and Judge 1 Bigger the whig candidate; and they are both very busy m canvoSsing the siate IL seems to be conce- ded on all hands that Judge Bigger cannot obtain the whole Harrison strength of the state against Gen. | lloward-nevertheess there will be spirited contest md close vOte member of congress is also to he chosen in place of Gen. Howard; ana in that district a close and spirited contest is also expected.
 A good many hard contests are to take place during the next month at the west and south, which may have considerable influence upon the still greater con ftct which is to take place in November next
 S,range Morement.-It is stated in the Raleigh pa. pers that both of the U. S. Senators from North Caro- lina Messrs. Brown and Strange, will resign their ssats at the close of the present session of Congress They are both Van Buren men; and it is said their 6esign in resgnng s. that they may take the stump go through much of the state as possible previous to the election und harangue the people upon the mea- Of the admnstra ton-endea vorinc 10 make the worse appear the better reason." They will doubt less be met at all points by the whgs, and thus mos, zeal0us and embttered campaign be carried on.- What the result will be, we have means of judging Both parties are sanguine. But goes the election m August, so it goes, probably in November unless Gen. Harrison is more popular than any local whg candidates We think, however, it is foolish move ment on the part of the Senators-tley are now firm 'n their seats, and they certainly leopard them by thus resignng, when they might as well traverse the state as Senators as to do it merely as candidates. But this is not our concern-the whgs may gain two Sen atoss by the means.
 THE GOLD NS-ACKNOWLEDGED.
 The Washington Globe, the organ of MT Van Bu- ren (says the last IIarord Paro;,l has at last conde scened to notice what been said in the opposition papers about the Gold Spoons used upon His Demo cratic nlajesy's table. That oracle of truth says
 "Thc Presidents Spoons are silver, gilled or vnsh- ed oUer Ufh God. and not the solid metal, which Mr. Van Buren would for the pockets of the Peo- pe."
 This Gold that Mir. Van Buren would reserve for the People we presume is the same which Benton told us would foU sp the Mississippi. and which the Globe in 1896 promised should. in six months after Mir. Van Buren was elected. he found glistening through the ntersces of the long sken purses of the honest yeomanry For ourselves we should rather see than hear tell of this Gold. and we doubt not it is so with the people. They are tired of pursuing an emp " shadow-a miserable humbug.
 In relation to Van Buren's Spoons, comment is un necessary In the Ia anouape of cotemporary. they