Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-05-14

much Consuming of time as an exchange
Time is ship which never anchors; while /
am aboard, had better do those things thai
may advantage my landing, than practice such
as shall cause my Commitment when coms
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THE SECRET SERVICE FUND.
This fund has always been appropriated
BY Congress, and its application has been
LEFT, by the law, to the sole discretion of the
President. The New York Telegraph says
that the largest expenditure ever made by
the American Government. in this way,
since the Revolution, was in 1919, when
John Henry, supposed to be British agent;
received from Mr.. Madison $4,000 in two
drafts on the Treasury, one of $4,000 and
the other Of one thousand. Before he left
the United States, he purchased Of the Count
de Grillon, then at Washington, an estate in
Languedoc, France, for 100000 francs, Of
which the amount received from our GoyE
ernment was supposed TO have been part,
Mr.: Madison sent Message to Congress
informing them Of the plot, and also with
the message, series of letters between this
John Henry and Sir James Craig, Cover
nor-Geheral of Canada, and his Secretary,
MIR. Ryland. ~ 30
Henry made these disclosures in consel
quence, as he alleged of "the perfidy and dis
honor of those who first violated the condi-
.ions on which he received their confidence"
and on the ground of retaliation. The pa
pers he communicated were voluminous,
and Congress thought them so important as
to Print 5000 copies, appearing to believe in
the authority ofthe documents.
Henry was an Englishman, and had been
a Captain in our army Of 1898. .t
The British Minister at Washington
Mr.. Foster, disavowed the whole affair in an
official letter to the Secretary Of State, who
also made a report to the President, that thS
department was not in possession Of any
names Of persons in the United States WHO
had any way countensnced the project SRs
vieys Of Mr.. Henry, '
The aflair made great sensation at Tho
time, but the author of ii left the county i'll
a few weeks after his communications had
been made public, and sailed from New Yqtk
ou the 10th Of March, 1919, in the ship
Wasp, for France. His subsequent ca2esft
we have not yet been able to trace,
During the revolution large SANS vsf8
expended for secret services, and in l776 tho
amount appropriated for those purposes was
Of late years the amoun4 exnended has
been xery trifling.-- BsIsir.ers Xsnrr,caa. a
T MACHINE FOR BRAfpfNe STRAw.--ThS
New York Journal of Commerce thug
describes machine invented for thiS
purpose. f, . x.x =.
Elisha Fitzgerland, d mechanic Of New
York, has invented machine called the
"T'uscan Straw Braider," 1t is 80 small
and beautiful that it would be an orna|
ment to a paflor, and so simple in IT'S
management that child coutd attend q
dozen or twenty OF them with ease.
Having a quantity of the short straws
which are imported from Tuscany, put
into a receptacle, il selects one at a time
and adds Ii 10, the braid, at the same
time cutting off the refuse end of the
one ~hdse place, II supplies, and form,
the braid with its iron fingers, much bet
| Their than could ever be done by the mos
experienced braider in Tuscany, and
with such speed that one machine would
I do more work in day than fifteen OF
1 twenty operatives. If q straw is too
large the machine rejects It, and il by
accident straw ismissed; it stops OF 1t
self.
asrws clip the following paragraph from .hs
New York correspondence Of the Norwalk
Gazette. ~
Suppose you have heard of John
Cotton Smith, the noisy; pompous,
ruGied shirt, Con necticut John Cotton.
Well, he has appeared on new theatre
of political action. After his sore dc
feat in your Congressional District last
Spring he concluded it would be better
for him 10 emigrate to more Democrat.
&c Cline. And accordingly he came 10
this city, where very many aspiring
young men 90 c0ngregate. His fame
had probably proceeded him; but be
that as II may, the National Reformers
would not suffer man Of so great genius
TO remain in obscurity. They nomina-
ted him as a candidate for the Constitu-,
tional Convention, and he only failed OF
his election by some $4,000 votes. Do
not be Jisheartenod. Mr.. Smith. Your
genius "will out" one Of these days.
Besides, all of eurigood citizens! did not
know that you were in favor Of nrgro s,f'
Jrege, or you would have received lar<
ger vote. ..-
The young white girl who recently,
eloped from Now Haven to this City and
married the colored barber Of the steam-
er New York, but subsequently returned
with her father to Windsor. Conn, has
again leit her home clandestineiy with
her husband, who is employed on one OF
the North River boats.-Nese York Tn
buns.
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Mn. CLAY.-We learn from the Ken
lucky Observer that Mr.: Clay reached
Ashland on the 28d ult, id excellent
health. a
Body FS.and.-The body Of . VOWS man