Litchfield enquirer., 1841-09-16

he will never succumb to treachery. The
Wings will never agree that the fruits OF
victory SO arduously achieved, SO dearly
purchased, that the hopes and expectations
Of this great people shall all be sacrificed to
aid the individual schemes of q cabaI, lnslg-
niticant in talent and weight, and yet more
contemplate in numbers. Nor could Hem
~ Clay, full as is his measure of Glory, be
by any other means, farther endeared TO his !
country, that by the ribald abuse of men,
lately his friends, who never commenced
their abuse Of him, until they had forfeited
their professions and betrayed their princi- |
pies"
Dividing the Surplus.-The portion of the
surplus revenue that fell to the lot of New
Hampshire by the act of 1886, was by an act
of the Legislature divided among the several
towns in proportion to their population. 1t
was disposed Of Ivy the towns in various
ways. In some 10 support schooIs-in 9TH
ers to build roads, town houses, &C. But In
Portsmouth every proposition to appropriate
the share belonging to that town to any pub
lie purpose was voted down,and the sovereign
people determined that it should be divided
among every man, woman and child equal
| ly. Accordingly, as we learn from the
Journal, a census of the inhabitants was ta-
ken, and last week the division was made
The sum to which each individual was enti-
tied was 1894. There was great rush for
the spoils, but many, it seems. were sadly
disappointed, about one hundred and thirty
trustee writs having been issued to secure the
payment If old scores.
Modest GM EncourGging.-"I If the Presi-
dent goes in my wake, will give him." said
| John C.. Calhoun, in the debate on the veto,
go cheerful and Welcome support"
A melancholy Prospect this! Follow in
John G. Calhoun's wake! What zig gag,
round about aud wheeling there would be
here. "Boy," said Master to a darkee,
just beginning TO plough, "Boy, you see that
COW yonder on the other side OF the field
work is vol DONE" OF the boy started,
and soon he caught up with ,theaow. She
moved off, after her DO filloa4ed s1Sbw in the
corner of the fence, now in the Ne of the
| field now here and now there; when down
| came the master, angry as you please
"Why. boy, what the deuce are you about ~
Following the COW, sir, as.you told me TO
do" replied thesboy. Andsso it would be
here. We should pitysthe President, really,
if he accepted Calhoun's offer, and sought 10
follow in his rake. II would be far worse
than the boy following the COW! >,
! BUFfALo, Sept. 6.
Capture of Lett have the satisfaction of
informing you that the desperate LETT was
this morning captured in this city by Con-
J stables Gates, Pierce, Smith, Best and Bot
tum, and is now safely lodged in jail. In
formation was last night communicated to
Gates, that he was seen to 60 on board the
Daniel Webster, one of the steamboats, laid
up, and " hich is moored some distancesup
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by the police to meet at the boat at the
same time from different ways, when they
made rush into the cabin, where they
found him quietly eating his breakfast with
J a man named y iHtn"l 10 a state room, seized
his bowie knife, and threatened death to
the first man who laid hands upon him.
One of the consta bles quietly told him that
they had come to take him, and take him
| they should, either dead or alive. While
one was in the act of Selling him, he made
a pass with his knife, but his arm was ar
rested by the others when he was disarm-
cd ironed, and safely secured.
1t will be recollected that he wa, was tried
during the last year ut Oswego for an at
tempt to destroy the steamboat Great Brit
ain, when she was filled with passengers on
one of her usual trips. He was convicted
on the clearest testimony and sentenced to
imprisonment in the State Prison, and while
on his way there under charge of the Depu
ty Sheriff, escaped from the car in which
he was conveyed. He has since been at
large, Notwithstanding the efforts made to
rctake him.-JournaI
The following tsays the Palladium! is the letter of
Mr.. Bolts, the member Of Congress from Va, which
has been the subject Of much comment in Compress
and out OF 1t. II was addressed to the Coffee House
al Richmond by IKE, and then forwarded to the
new administration organ, the Madisonian in which
paper was published instead Of being suppressed
"August l6 1871. i
Dear Sir-The President has finally resolved TO We /
TO the Bank Bill. will be sent in to-day at twelve
O'Clock. Il is impossible to tell precisely on what
ground It will De placed. He has turned and twisted
and changed his ground often in his Conversations
that it is diff to conjecture which Of the absnrdi.
ties he will rest his veto upon.
IN the last conversation reported, he said his only
objection was to that provision which presumed the
=, me States where no opinion was expressed
re mad no objection to the location Of branches by
the directors IN the absence OF dissent expressed bnt
whenever 1t was expressed, the power TO discount
promssory notes must cease, although the agency
Mght continue, tor the purchase and sale of foreign
exchange. However, you will see his message
U9r Captain Tyler is making desperate effort to |
set hln,selfup with the Loco Focos but he be head
"a YET; ana regret to say it will end badly for him.
ne WIN oe an object OF execration Of both parties;
with one Tor vetong our BILL which was bad enough |
and with the other for signing worse one but Re
70 hardly entitled to sympathy He has refused to |
sten to the admOntion, and entreaties of his best
friends and looked only to the whisperings Of ambi.
iected around him.
The veto will be received without n word. laid On |
me taoe, and ordered to be printed. Tonight we