Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-04-30

LOes for tie Peopls-h IL highly amusing TO see, at
certain periods of the year, what amazing regard
for the people is found among that class OF politicians
who, It they do not possess " all the decency" and
"al the talents" of the country, certainly according
to their own account, have all the Democracy and all
The patriotism. 1t is on this ground that they ma 0
the friends Of the poor, and their advocates and pro-
tectors against the rich-the manufacturers who
ploy the poor and pay them for their labor. We have
seen great many instances, in which this loue is
manifested, and it is most often developed in theiH
nomination to Office, or a some public largess, contr
we'd and enacted by the executive power, for heres-
late instance referring to that pink of Locofoco per-
lection, the Honorable JOHN M. NILES. Let US show
The honorable gentleman, having been cheated out
of the election Of Governor of this state, was looking
his masters at Washington for sop to soohe his
troubled spirit, and fill up the vacuity in his pocket,
where all his delicate sensbilities are concenered-
1t soon found that of the SubTreasurers ae
Boston had been using Uncle Sans money in some
splendid land speculatons at Boston, and when called
to refund, instead Of the yellow boys, under the
hard money, sub.treasury system, he made over to
Uncle Sam quantity Of land and water, situated in
some Ell dorado in the vicinity of Boston. 1t became
necessary in the Of events, to appoint apprai-
sers on the value Of this land and who fit for this
honorable employment as the honorable JOHN M.
NILES so he was appointed accordingly; and he
went to Boston, and made speeches before the Bay
State Association by way of confirming his quaIfca-
tons as sand appraiser and dined and sugped with
ToUL and he tai ked large about The porty and the
bright prospects in Connecticut and "stubble feIds,'
hs and h6@ ye bad bee ees "d thu
&c. &c and after uenty.t days trauel and travail
he appraised the land Now, how do you think he
s1 b his 5 the people and heir
it: 1t is copied from the official document at Wash.
ngIt 1M where w gnc Ee sam is made debtor to
July IL to August g. and one day since, in pre-
Travel, a2o miles, at 40 cents, So!
sos
So much love for the people, in only % days
Only ten dollars day. beside travelling expenses ct
forty cents e and those charged tor about twenty
miles further than he went and this too independent
of coach hire and other incidental expenses al Boston,
which Uncle Sam, the poor "sof easy cushion, has
footed up and discharged. The two other appraisers
engaged with him only got 800 piece; but then
never been U. S. Sinnaturs nor candidates for any
Governorship,-not even their own. Now is not this
pure love for the people? Is it not disinterested be-.
nevolence? Should not JOHN M. NILES be made
Governor Will not the poor working man tell his
crying for bread, that JeHN W. NihEs is patriot who
pa not his his LABOR o " ~ben Re
zen? o, most surely He is the friend of the work
ing men, who earn for him ten dollars DAY. and the
enemy Of all those who do not think MIN worthy Of
year !'-N. Haren Herald.
A FEMALE VorER.-The New-York Express saws
that woman dressed in a bottle green frock and
light pantaoons, who called herself John Mackav.
was committed, the morning after the election, for
voting in the 18th ward She reports herself to be-,
from Hartford, CT.
A FACT WORTH REMEMBERINe.-Mr Rantoul lec-
tured four times in Providence, and once in South
Kingston and in East Greenwich Last August the
Wing majority in these three towns was 546 It ia
now 9lS; being net gain of 800, and more than q
third of the whole gain in the state. Mr.. Rantoul is,
we understand, in great demand, the Wings in quite
number OF states being anxious to hear him.
Boston Atlas.
BRooELyN.-The Wings OF. Brooklyn have elected
their Mayor SWIFT, by majority of 1885, (last fall
their majority but 4s on Senator and 81 on the
Assembly tickeD-and they have carried their Coun-
Gil ticket in six out of the nine wards. In Brooklyn
the voters have fair chance, and the Wing gain,
shows what would have been the resulin New-York
with an equal fair chance.
Let it not be forgotten that Connecticut, which now
gives clear Wing majority of FoRry-F1vE HUNDRED
votes, states which gaze he, Electoral
cote to Martin Van Buren, This election, therefore,,
insures to General Harrison a net gain of SIXTEEN
VOTES in the Electoral College-Boston Atlas.
FIRE IN NEw.YoRK-Two LIVES LOST! About
o'clock on the morning Of the 18th, fire broke
in the of 81 and SO Edrdge street. Several
buildings and large amount of property were con-
sumed and, most melancholy to add, two of the fire.
men-Mr J. S. Wells, assistant engineer,) and Mr..
Glasco secretary Of Hose Co. No. 49, were killed;
and several others wounded. The unfortunate suffer-
engaged in extinguishing the fire in the
frame building No. 97when the whole gable end Of the
brick house No. 10 Is of the approved modern con-
strucon, viz. of the least possible thickness and with
bricks gutess Of mortar, tumbed on TO the slender
roof, and buried them beneath the ruins.
Hartford Courier.
COLLECTOR BANCROFT AND Mr.. RANTou1.-These
political missionaries returned to Boston after the
Connecticut election, with the most woul looking vi
sages imaginable. No two ntruding puppies kicked
out of kitchen, with their tails between their legs,
ever looked more contemplate. Our informant saw
these men in Boston. The Custom House january
admitted that it was useless to contend against the in
fuence of old Tippecanoe.-N. Y Times.
CAUGHT BY A WILD BEAsr-A boy, on Friday last,
attempted to steal into the menagerie at Troy New
York, by crawling under the canvass. He happened
to enter directly beneath the cage ofthe Leopard and
the animal seized his arm drew it in through the bars
and lacerated it severely with his claws and teeth
The keeper interfered or the boy would have been
killed.
Harrison in Georgia.-ln Georgia, the Opposition
State Rights party, whose first inclination appeared
to be to stand neuter throw away the vote of the
state upon Troup have resolved to support Harrison;
and we have heard, says the Richmond Wing, the
very high authority of John MCPHERSON Berrien quo
ted for the opinion that union of the opposition of
yronld in he etat EorH