Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-05-19
Correspondence Of the Boston AYas.
WASHINGTON, Nav Z.

course this afternoon between Wise aud
Stanly. After the races were completed, and
as ~ Spectators were leaving the grounds,
Mr. SIabv, who vas on horseback, in riding !
bv hlr. Wi e. who was also mounted, iosted |
him-acc: :eutaIIy, Mr.. S. s,ys, in conse- !
cuence ofthe rrfrtctnrn. IS OF his horse. As
soon as Wise recovered his seat, he rode af- |
ter Stanly and struck him over the head with !
q rattan, with such force as to break the rat. |
tan ia pieces. Mr.. S. saiG-"I brushed |
against you unintentionally." "Then you
are excused" answered Wise. "Do you
strike gentleman behind his back !" asked |
Stanly.. "Damn your was the reply Of
Wise" take the blow, with the coward !
which l gave you the other day and nuke
the most of them" Persons then interfered,
and separated them, telling them that that
was no place to settle the quarrel, and they
went home Mr.Stanly's face was badly cut.
This affair must result in duel. Things
have gone 10 such extremities, and there is
so much deadly hatred between the parties,
that there is no possibility of any other ter
mination. The severe law which Congress
has passed against duelling will not prevent
it, for there are various ways of evading it,
some one of which will be adopted.
have Just been Informed that resolutions
have been received in Washington from the
real and pretended legislatures of Rhode Is
land, each asserting its right to the legitimate
government. They are directed to the Pres
ident Of the United States, to the President of
the Senate, and to the Speaker of the House.
The resolutions coming from the legislature
elected by the disorganiZers bear the seal of
the State, which must, of course, be forged,
as it has not gone out of the possession Of the
right owners.
proceed to give you some extracts from
Poindexter's report on the New York Custom
House. az
First, as to carriage and labor. The sys-
tenn adopted by Geo. A. WATSON, the public
store. keeper and owner of the privileged
carts, SO called, was to charge the full price
of load on each package-and thus the labor
which other carts would perform for fifty
cents was charged to the Government at
rates extending from So to even S. load.
This system of charging accounts for the
enormous sum of 1894, 43O 90 paid to Geo. A.
WATSON for cartage and labor orthree years
1t is stated that WATSON, besides the sums
obtained in this way, without any voucher
other than mere general charge, was made
also Deputy Collector, having no duty to
perform, at salary of 81 500 per annum-
that he received $l,767 80 over and above
the legal fees, for attending trials on siezed
goods at Baltimore and elsewhere, without
being required to specify any item of expen-
diture that he distracted large amount of
goods from thespublic store, and made use of
the Custom House coal for his own use, and
employed the time Of large number of Ia
bOrerS in and about his own premises, whose
hire was paid by the public.
The next item examined is the prices paid
for stationery. Atable is given showing the
comparative prices paid under Hoyt, under
Curtiss, and the market value according to
the testimony of David Felt, statoner. The
prices. under Curtiss, are cheaper than I'M
der Hoyt-and the prices fixed by Felt are
generally 90 per cent. cheaper than under |
Hoyt. The item of steel pens may be no.
ticcd to give specimen of the extravagant |
expenditure carried OMIT amounted, in the
three years Of Hoyt's administration, to$6,- J
255 10. The price Of these pens. charged in
the bills rendered and paid by Hoyt, ranged
from $9 per groce to 1922 per groce. The |
dispositions DapA Felt, E. J. Emo, and Josiah
Hayden. large dealers in the article of steel |
pens are referred to, to show the standard
price, per groce of the descriptions used at
The Custom House. If purchased in boxes,
which Is the most convenient mode of sup
plying clerks, Qhe cards being entirely USE
less,) it will be seen that the first class of
"Gillot's Magnum Bonum'' pens could 10
supplied at $4 80 per groce on the card, or
one-half that sum in boxes and the " com
mercial" pen at So per groce on the card, or
$l so in boxes. Taking the average of their
prices, and considering that nineteen.twcn-
tehs of the pens supplied to the Coustom
House are Of the latter Glass; it will appear
thnt. at these rates. the sum appropriated by
Hoys, while in office, would have supplied
the enormous quantity Of 432.237 pens ma
king an average of about 1900 pens for each
constant writer per annum.
In the bill for FEBRUARY, 1871, there is an
item l card Perryan pens, extra fine, $l2,"
being 81 50 per pen.
In the bills rendered by O'Hern and 9TH
ers, the article of writing sand is charged at
the rate OF from 80 to SS3 so per peck when
it Is in proof, by the deposition of David Felt
that he supplied the same, if taken by the
bushei, at IL l-2 cents per peck, or 80 cents
per bushel and if taken by the single peck,
ut 20 cents and at these rates he testifies
that his profits would be 200 per cent.
During the three years Of Hoyt's time
Where was paid for writing sand the sum of
1902 30. which, if purchased at the custom
AIRY rates, according TO the deposition of Mr.. |
Felt, would have supplied the quantity of
four hundred aud four bushels and three
pccks.
=" Abstract paper" or blue-laid English
nnperlai," IS charged at the rate of from 300
to $l44 per ream its value being in the
Market from $50 to $47 so per ream. elm
post.0ook paPer.". which is worth in the
marker $lo per ream, is charged in the Gus
tom House bills at from $40 to $40 per
ream; and deny paper, ruled to pattern,
which may be purchased at $ll per ream,
is usually charged to the Custom House at
$4O per ream. The ordinary qualities of
paper are advanced in price, on general
scale, about 100 per cent.
Jonathan Thompson, in 1925, received in
10 the Custom House duties to the amount of
&l0, I04, S27 54-at an expense Of collection