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Litchfield enquirer., 1842-06-09

At a { urt Of Probate holden at Nesc. ford.
,oithf and for the district Of Ne,0- Milford, on
the 24'h day Of May, 1912:
Present, Nathaniel Perry, Esq. Judge.
DETER r. LEVINGS, of Sherman, in,
Il said district, having assigned his estate.
to Walter b. Ferris in trust for the benefit
of his creditors by an instrument in writing
bearing date, May "a, 1912, pursuant to the
provisions of an act entitled "an act in addi--
tiou to an act entitled AN nc: against Fraud.
ulent Conveyances," and deposited the same
in the office of this court for record, and the
said Trustee has accepted the trust Of execu..
ting the same: 1t is therefore, ordered. by
this court that commissioners to receive, ex.
anime, and adjust the claims of the creditors
of said Levings, be appointed at the Probate
Office in said New Milford ON, the 18th day
of June, ls42, at o O'Clock ia. the forenoon.
and that all persons interested may be noti-
fed thereof, the Trustee will cause this order
to be published in newspaper printed in
Litchteld, and post copy thereof on the
public sign-pOst nearest the place where the
said Levings' dwells, in said Sherman, and
one other public place.. A true copy Of
record. ! NATHANTEE PERRY, Judge.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-28
TYPOGRAPHICAL.

They must have most miserable printers in
the United States Gazette Office. The trag-
ment of our article in that paper of Tuesday, was
outrageously butchered. We beg the editor to
print the concluding sentence again, aoith has
comments. They made nonsense OF 1t. The
" grammar king" himself could not object to It's
correctness of photography and punctuation, as
it appeared in the Madisonan.
We are daily misprinted desgnedly-ma-
lcously-by some of our unprincipled enemies,
and then they say we write "n nonsense" etc
But we do not believe the editor of the Gazette
capable of resorting to any such trickery. Be
sides we have several hundred subscribers in
Philadelphia.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-28
THE APPORTIONMENT -CAUCUS
LEGISLATION.

The Apportonment bill was supposed to be
on the verge of settlement, when Mr.. Halsted
started the new question which has originated
the debate in which the House is now engaged.
Though the discussion is one calculated to
elicit probably many novel views on the con-
structon of the Constitution-whichm must prove
in,eresting-yet as it tends to retard deci-
sion of the main question, of the apportionment
of the Representatives, we deprecate its in
ception, and still more its prolongation. every
important subject-and there are many which
must engage the attention Of the present Con-
gress-is fated to be clogged with incidental
questions-no powers of foresight can predict the
final settlement ofany of them. Weregret, under
all circumstances, the exerIion OF an ingenuity
which delights in aggomerating topic on topic,
and refuses 10 view one subject unless relieved
by others in the back ground but if the move
made in the House is, as reported, but the die
tate of secret caucus, it becomes the duty of
every patriot to resist the discussion of which
there is no probable termination, and urge the
decision of the main questionable apporton-
ment. We have had too much caucus legisla-
tion--it is time to strangle that anti-republican
system.
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MORE OF THE CAUCUS SYSTEM.

We wish to call the attention of the country
particularly to this subject, IN order that the
People should be awakened to knowledge Of
the mode in which Legislative affairs in the
main are conducted at Washington.
We have already spoken of the intolerant
and dictatorial character of Caucus action. We
cannot employ language of too strong nature
on this subject When we assert that this sys-
tenn is directly antagonistical to the indepen-
dence of the legislator, and that through his sub
servience to party resolve of party majority,
thus bound and degraded by secret pledges in
secret midnight meetings, it attacks the most
vital interest of the representative district
or even, in case of Senator, of an entire
State, we assert nothing more than the truth
And this is particularly the case with the small
er States In Caucus they are treated as onl,
so much make weig bt unless, what but seldom
happens, tho representative of the less poten
tial State from the possession of unusual tai
ents and powers Of management, is enabled tc
WELD remarkable degree of influence. We
will illustrate what we mean by ready ex
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CONGRESS.

On Wednesday the consideration of the Ap.
portionment bill was resumed, aud the amend
ment Of Mr.. Halsted was debated by Messrs
Stanly, Goggen, and Coiquiti. The first men
toned gentleman advocated the amendment,
and the two last opposed it. The speeches
especially that Of the last member-were diver
sifed by digressions on the relative policy of the
district and the general ticket systems. The
main point of the discussion was the constitu-
tional right of Congress to interfere with the
manner of holding elections in the States. as
proposed by the amendment offered by the di-
recton of the Committee on Elections.
The debate was further continued by Messrs.
Arnold, Davis, of Kentucky, Summers, and J. G
Floyd, of N. Y, on the question, both direct
and incidental, as above stated
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ENGLISH ARMY.

From the Army estimates, moved in the
House Of Commons, by Sir Henry Harding, Sc
cretary at War on the 7th Of March last, we col
ect the following account of the present amount
and distribution Of the British military force:
The number of officers, non-commissoned officers,
and rank and file which it was proposed to MAINTAIN
for the service of the United Kingdom of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland Exclusive of the troops employed In
the East Indies,) for the ensuing year was 49, f2o-
The number employed in the East Indies, and paid
by the East India Company 26 GAO; SO that the
total amount of force for the ensuing year would be
1872 500 men, This number was composed OF 1851 o6
rank and file 5,8O5 officers, and 0,6H non-commls
stoned officers. There was therefore, an addition to
the force for this year compared with last year OF
,447 men. This increase was accounted for IN the
following manner: The Royal Canadian Regiment
amounted to l,l0O men, the ST. Helena corps to 40
and there had also been an augmentation OF the Sd
West India Reg ment amounting to 23O making
total of 100 in addition to the estimate OF last
wear; but, after deducting about 600 men, which de-
would arise from the working Of the depos, as
xplaned in the second page of the votes the real IN
crease appeared to be about 100 men, The pressure
on the troops for the last four years had been such
that he thought it necessary that means should I've de-
vised for relieving them. There were 80 hattalions
of infantry abroad in addition to % in New South
Wales in India, and in China. The total number
was 1903 leaving only IS at home. 1t was impossible
that the IS at home could carry on the relief of the 10
abroad AZ of which serving in tropical climates
When the revolution 10 Canada broke out in 1887
there were only nine battaio ns 1900 men strong in
North America, and l9 were there, exclusive of
two battalions of Guards, and the Royal Canadian
Regiment, 900 men strong. In India, New South
Wales and China, there now 20 battaons in
stead of 25. This was increase of Ia batlalions
more than existed four years ago. Looking, there
fore, to the state of reliefs the committee would,
doubtless be of opinion that it necessary by some
expedien to remedy this state of things He there
fore proposed to the Government that of the de-
pots should be increased to six companies of 100 men
each, and that they should be sent abroad TO SIX
healthy stations; for instaDceto Gibraltar, Bermu-
da, Halifax, or Quebec the Mediterranean and
that there they should take the garrison Duty the same
as the service companies
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From the Phil. North American.
DIJTJES TO THE COUNTRY

No matter what party may be in the ascendancy,
or who may be the incumbent of the Executive char,
the honor and welfare of the country require that all
the wise and wholesome measures of the Admnstra
ton should be sustained. The obligations under
which we lie to our common country can never be
rightfuy superseded by any other alliances; and the
duties which they impose can never be cancelled by
any mere party services which we can render.
There is moral sense in the community which re-
quires every and every party to look to the public
good and which will visit abandonment of this
duty with reprooch and sorrow No apparent sue
cess in disregard of this principle ultimately avail
its authors. 1t will be acquisition that in the end
will turn to ashes 1t will be expedient which will
inevitably return to plague its inventors Every wise
and salutary which administr alton may
PROPOSE and which political hostility party dscip
line may crush, will have in its very ruins self-re-
dressing and avenging power. True wisdom lies in
sustaining the right, without the slightest regard to
any temporary influence, it may seem TO have on the
object of private party interest No purposes can
advance successfully by steps which an enlightened
and liberal candor pronounces wrong Let, then, the
great obligations of patriotism take their proper place
and exert their rghtful control. These obligations
if obeyed, will pave the way TO success where it is
merited and frown upon it where it is not There il
virtue in pure and lofty motives which always re.
deems It's trust. "There is Providence that shapes
our ends, rough hew them how we may"
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From the Ndtchez Free Trader
A LITTLE BUSINESS.

In former times the President signed land patents
with his own hand But ,hey increased to such a
vast amount it WAS found impossible for him to do it,
and an act was pas ed allowing him to appoint spe
cial Secretary TO sign them, with salary eff sou
duty that employed the whole time of the person So
appointed. This Office is of great Importance to the
people of Mississippi, for without it many ofthem Will
get their patents for five years after entering tract
of land. But agreat Kentucky politician in Congress
"a Judge ut that--anxious to immortalze himself
and to carry out the great Wig doctrines Of retrenct
,nent-has proposed to abolish the office The same
man. too voted to dsirbute-in other words to throw
away to be squandercd by State Legislatures, from
three 10 fire millions of the public money and he
would carry out Whig principles by aboshing an in
dis, ensabe fifteen hundred dollar office! tbs piful
DIS wondrous pitlful." We are glad sec that Mr.
| Thompson rcbuked and lnmpooned this miserable
game Of lavishng thousands and boarding up PEN
MES
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THE NEW SET OF BOOKS.

The Globe is making noise about Mr.. Web
ster's 's new set Of books" The Globe knows
well enough that the five clerks who opened
them made false entries and fled. Yet there
were no Swartwouts, Prices, &c. among them
We ask the Globe what extravaganza the Exc
cutive has been guilty of? The conduct OF
Congress is a different matter. The Executive
is as much and as unjustly opposed by the ultras
in Congress as it is gratuitously abused by the
Globe All we do remember piece OF ex-
travagance, to say the least of it. We allude to
the printing of the Census. Mr.. Weaver, clerk
in the State Department, (not appointed by Mr..
Webster) contracted to give it to the editor OF
the Globe, and the Globe agreed to give Mr..
Weaver several thousand dollars for the job.
This is all to come out of the Treasury. But
will the Globe have it entered in Mr.. Webster's
"new set of books?"
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From The Portsmouth (Mdss.) Memoria,
MIR. CLAY AND THE PRESIDENCY.

We regret to perceive that concerted effort is
making in different ion. of the country, to bring
forward Mr. Clay the next Wing candidate for the
Presidency. This movement is very ill-timed and
premature and can be of no service either to Mr.
Clay the Wing party 1t is altogether too soon to
agitate the nomination for the Presidency before the
present incumbent of that office has fairly entered
upon the second year of his term and it is certainly
the part of prudence to wait the action of events,
before the party pledged to any Presidential can
ddate The vigorous efforts which are already made
in certain quarters, to bring Mr.. Clay into the field,
look like an attempt to foresall public opinion, and
to force him upon the party under every contingency
The personal friends of Mr. Clay must, however,
member that the Wings profess devotion to the inter-
ests of the country, and that the claims Of any man,
however great they may be, are of little moment in
comparison with the advancement of those interests
The premature nomination of Mr.. Clay Ia some
quarters, has called forth from the Madisonian the
following article
The Memorial" copies our article headed
Mr.. Clays Aspirations."1
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Sir Sometime during The last winter there appeared
in the National Intelligence, letter from the Hon.
Mr. Kerr of the Senate, addressed 10 portion of the
Maryland Legislature in reply to an inquiry made OF
the Senators of Maryland, in relation TO the appoint
ment of General Wool as Brigadier General of the
United States Army. If my memory me
rightly MIR. Kerr, in the letter in question, denounces
as factious any attempt on the part of the Senate to
compel the President to appoint none but their poiti
cal friends to Office by rJecting all nominations
where the nominees did not profess their creed. l
wish you would hunt up the letter, and republisb, in
your prosecuted paper, much of it explains the
views of the honorable Senator of The correiatire
rights of the Executive and the Senate. think il
would furnish magnificent commentary upon the
recent doings of that august body.
Give us but light The People want
A DEMOCRAT.
Our correspondent, we suppose, gives the
substance of the letter.
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THE TYSON REJECTION.

We owe deep apology to Mr.. Buchanan,
for our omission of his name on yesterday in
our editorial, headed, "Tyson's Rejection. -
In pairing off the delectables Of the Senate, W e
overlooked his name, and thereby neglected to as
sign him poitial bed -fellow. We fear that in
this we have done him greatinjustce, as he might
have preferred Mr. Mangum, or Crttenden, or
some equally extreme ultra, whose language
and feelings and sentiments, would have been
more agreeable-but he must excuse us upon
our assuring him, that no disrespect was in
tended him, and allow us for the sake of
better consort, and ally, to pair him off with Mr.
Clayton, of Delaware. To the fraternity then,
which figures in such close co nmunion in the
vote on Mr.. Tyson, we add
BUCHANAN AND CLAYTON.
sob! happy they, the happiest of their kind,
Whom tender stars unite and in one fate
Their lives, their beings, and their fortunes blend y"
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-04-28

HI Mr. ISRAEL E. JAMES is collecting for us in the
South and Southwest, assisted by FL M Lewis, }. X.
Whipple o. II. p. Stem, Benz Gardiner, Chas. S.
James, Chas. E. Muslin, and ID. X. Muslin.
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We were UNEXPECTEDLY gratiied, yesterday, by
seeing the Hon. J. w. JONES' of Va, in his seat
from which he has been detained for some time
by severe indisposition. He is barely GONZALES
cent-but is able, with some exertion. to attend
to his business on the Committee of Ways and
Means in the House.
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MR.. CLAY.

The Woodve Republican devotes column to
the nomination Of Mr.. Clay and Gen. Scott, for Pre-
sdent and Vice President, and announces that It's
influence" shall be exerted against Mr.. Clay
Vicksburg Wing.
The Wing, of course, opens its battery, such
as it is, against the Republican. But we have
nothing to do with ''that thunder"
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ENGLISH FINANCES.

The following extract, from the speech of Sil
Robert eel, on the 18th Of March, shows the
estimate of income and expenditure of the Eng
lIsh Treasury, for the year, beginning April 5
lS42, and ending April 5, 1843:
"For the year ending the. 5th April, take
The Customs to be G22, 500 900
Excise l34500J0
Stamps 100000
Taxes 100000
Post Office 500 900
Crown Lands 10000
Miscellaneous $50 900
making total estimate of the revenue for the year
1913 OF AZ, ,OOOl. The expenditure, now that the
house has sanctioned the votes the army and navy
can be estimated with greater accuracy. The inte-
rest on the debt will be 24627 COOi terminable an
nuities, 4O76OO the interest Exchequer bills
722 OOOt-lnaking the total change for the debt, 49,
AT OOOl. The other charges the Consolidated
Fund including the civil list, which take to be $780,
OOOl, are SO numerous, that suppose the house will
considering the task before me, excuse from going
through them detail but take them 1863 O00L,
making total charge on the Consolidated Fund OF
81, ,OOOl The votes for the army, if ultimately
sanctioned by he House, will be 6,6l7 " o., the ma
Wy, 67l3OOOt the ordnance, 2 084 OOOt and miscel-
laneous chargeable upon the annual grant, $780,
OOO The vote for Canada is, and the present. is for
the volunteers, 1884, OOl think it understood
that when that charge should a corresponding
sum should be expended on Qualifications. there
fore, take it at lO8,OOOl. The charge for Oh upon
the Whole is 6.5,OOOl. For the present year, which
may be divided into two parts that's l75,OOO to de-
fray the arrears of expenditure for the year that has
terminated, and the vote of 5OO,OOOL. to meet the
charges necessary provide for the expense during
the year ending the 9Th of April, l843 The total
estimated expenditure for the country then, will be
5O,8l9OOOl. The general result, then is, that the
estimated expenditure for the year ending 5lh April,
l843, is f5O8l9 600
The estimated income AZ, $50 900
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PRINcE GEORGES County, Maryland,
April 25th, 1912.
TO THE PEOPLE AT LARGE.

TO THE PEOPLE AT LARGE.
GENTLEMEN am happy in saying that we have
now in charge of our Naval affairs, gentleman ev-
cry way qualified for the faithful discharge of those
high and honorable functions that should always de-
volve upon great and lofty minds His of ordi
nary stamr-t is shaped fashioned, and suited to
the accomplishment of great and real naval orms.
One that will make gallant and honorable little
Navy home of truo delight where manly enter
prise and nobeness of soul will preside in all their
primeval excellence.
All those little jcalouses and misunderstanding
SO common of late years, will be removed, and judi
cious, active employment will be given to all con-
cerned, whereby brolherly feeling, and aghtfor-
wardness Of purpose in the chase of honorable fame
will be the result; and not those bitter acrimonious
feelings incident to life of neglect and exile from
SO glorious and praseworthy a profession This
branch of the public service has been shamefully neg
lected and nothing but troubled spirit have
prevailed therein for years past.
| But the day has arrived when the strong ann
Of power will clear it of its encumbrances and infuse
into its vitals life and vigor to maintain those
principles, by which alone it expect to float in
a sea of usefulness and honor.
|
rlcan citizen, than the welcome that our "broad
stripes and bright stars to be and acknow-
lodged and respected by all the world The thought
is glorious, and none but an American appreciate
Alright the joy and pleasure derived from the sight Of
oul national flag, waving in proud triumph over the
heads of naval lars in foreign waters. Often, ay
oflen has my heart bounded with true delight at the
sight of our sacred flag unfolded to the breeze far
! far from my native home and much loved country
The firm and decisive onset made upon the spirit Of
Oppression" which has long ruled 10 triumph on
board our ships of war; is ofitsef enough to encicle
the head of our worthy Secretary with wreaths Of
lasting honor and immortal glory
| Weakness and indecison parts Of the cha
racter of Mr. Secretary Upshur, and the naval SER
superior powers of mind.
The Navy under the administration of this supe
| rior intellect, will soon ascertain that she has
at her head and 'front.' one who is determined to lop
off the useless branches and make hat the People
desire, a real Nary, and not floating battery of dis
contened spirits.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Pripate-Give Ibis an insertion in your very
useful paper, and thrash the enemies of cause
naked through the brers; don't cease the lash, but
lay it 90 full and pentifuy, and we will support
you with all our might and main GU ahead, and
fear nothing.
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T AND.--A person owning obout 9 acres of wood
IL land situate in the Northwest Branch above the
AdeIph mills adjoining the property OF the Dick ia
is desirous of dsposing of it for family carriage
Application may DO made to
ap9 JNO' bAhOhof L.
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OFFICIAL.

APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT,
by and Usth the adulce and consent Of the Senate
ABRAHAM TaUE, Naval Officer for the District of
Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, vice John Sws-
sey, whose commission has expired.
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f2,569.OOO
Leaving a deficiency Of

Reckoning the pound sterling at 81 "a, the
annual expenditure of England is equal to two
hundred and lorty-six millions Of dollars. The
expenditure of France, if we recollect rightly,
is about two hundred and twenty or two hun
dred and twenty-five millions of dollars. But,
then, three-fflhs Of the whole revenue of Eng
land, as will be seen, is absorbed by the interest
of the national debt, and the charges of its ma
nagement while the French public debt is,
comparatively, very inconsiderable
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Did not the Wing party pass two bills at the extra
session having for their object the restoration of the
currency ~ Orleans Bee

No, indeed The object was to get the We
toes, and they got them. They wanted the We
toes to help them break with Republican Pre-
sident. They wanted TO break with him be-
cause he would not prostitute his office to secure
Mr.. Claws election in 1914. Well, in breaking
with him, they broke their own necks, and they
must blame themselves. If they had entertain
ed the most remote desire to produce "reslo-
ration of the currency" they would have passed
Mr. Ewing's bill, and presented that to the Pre-
sldent.