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Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04
Correspondence of The Tribune.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 80, 1877.

L WASHtNGTONsJan oOS AOa|'
The Wings have finally succeeded in draws
ing the fire of the enemies of Gen. Taylor
The FIRE has been slumbering. 1t has broken
out and I rejoice to say that the masked
conspirators will have to unmask now before
the public, and show themselves in their true
character, as defamers of the men who fight
forour country. The towards ran from 81 40
till they ran over the Rio Grande. They theh
bounced upon Mexico but eyencrippled Mexi-
CO would have whipped them but for Gen.
Taylor, who warded off the blow: They are
now trying to detract from the fame of their
deliverer. A coward is always ungenerous. y
The Hsu-e was all day occupied to-day on
Gen, Taylor. The whole matter is easily sta
ted! The Wings moved vote OF thanks to
Gen. Taylor and his brave men for the glorious
battle of Monterey. The Loco-Focos moved
an amendment, casting doubt upon the wisdom
of the armistice; or in other words, they mo-
we'd to condemn Gen. Ia, Tor Ter his conduct
al Monterey. This the Wings opposed, 1t f.
nally passed the House by vote Of lO3 to g.
Il Resolutions calling for Gen. Tayior's cores
pondence was then offered. Upon these Mr..
Ashmun of Mass. made an eloquent speech,
and moved an amendment, calling for the cor
respondsnce relative to the restoration Of Santa
Anna by Mr.. Polk. Mr.. Douglass defended
the President. Without any decision, the
House adjourned in the greatest confusion.
The Senate, when | left the Capitl, had
come to no decision on the Ten Regiment bill,
upon which they have been engaged all day.
Another Correspondent says:
Mr. Ashmun, In an eloquent and we'll de-
liyercG speech, defended the conduct Of Gen.
Taylor. aud poured hot shot into the Admins
tr. ton tor its unjustifable attack. 1t was an
attach. he said, which had been contemplated
for months.
He ssokc If the new order which has been
issued from the War-Office. and which appears
in the lnteligencer Of this morning, iorbiddinX
any officer of the Amy to write Letters home
for publication. on penalty Of dismlssion from
the service. Thistoo, was expressly intended
as menace and punishment OF Gen TAYLOR
During the whole Summer the Executive organ
has published letters fram officers in the army,
to jusifyetlIe conduct Of he Administration IN
the war, and to glorify the Executive, Tins
has been done, without comment and without
rebuke The Unauthorized publication OF
defensive letter from Taylor however is at once
proclaimed high treason, because it exposes
the irobecilty Of the War Department..
This "Drmocratic" Administration ls at
tempting to prosecute Gen. Taylor into the
Presidency probably thinks, from its own
experience, it is the greatest disgrace that can
happen to him.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

Al meeting held by the Wings Of Torring-
ton al Richards Hotel. Wolcottville, on the
9th ut., Col. Jannah B. Phelps in the chair,
and Mr.. Willard Hodges, Clerk. the following
gentlemen were appointed delegates to the
Congressional Convention. with the power OF
appointing substitutes. viz; Geo. D. Wadhams,
Charles B. Smith, Jabez G.. Curtiss and Willard
Hodges. rs
To the Senatorial Convention: Darius Will
son, Jannah B. Phelps, Alonzo Whiting, and
Noah Drake Jr. with the right Of substitution
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WAsH1NGroN, Jan. 81.

II is rumorcd that the Mexican Congress had
accepted the United States proposition for
peace and authorized the appointment Of peace
commissioners to meet similar commissioners
from this Government. II was not supposed
that any movement will be made against San
Luis,.b that the mountain passes be retained
and Vera Cruz be reduced. if possible, by land
attack on Scott taking command. The tow
boat Phenix having in tow the ships Manches-
ter and Ironsides and bark Leontine, exploded
her boiler at the South West Pass below New
Orleans, on the 2lst inst. killing twenty per-
sons, and wounding number of others.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

U-At meeting of the Wings of coiebrook,
held the a5th ult. the following gentlemenwsre
appointed delegatesto the Congressional Con,
vsntion osborns Stillman. Asa White, Saml
Gone and Peter corbin. d s5. se,3 e5
The following are the Senatorial Delegates
appointed; Edward Darlington. Jared Dsming,
Hiram Baldwin, and Jehn Marshall. ss. 4
The following resolution was offered and
unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That we have undiminisAed conf
denes in The Hon. Truman Smith, the able
representative in Congress from this district,
and we should be highly gratihed with his
denomination.
$50 OSBORNE sTILLMAN, cAaiHaaR.
DE SrsLLAFAN, CLERK, s
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

N +. JOHNSON, formerly Editor Of the
New York Evangelist. died CA the 10Th
mat. Al the hospital Ia Richmond. Va,
OF, dropsy. He was attended in his last
moments by seveTal ministers nfthe Cos,
pei and brethren Of the Sons Of Temper,
Hnee, OF which Order he was member
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AN IRISH REPLY,

When lord Peterborough was Lord
Chief Justice, laboring bricklayer was
called as witness, when he came up 10 be
sworn his lordship said TO him:
Really, witness, when you hsve TO ap-
pear before this court, il is your bounden
duty 10 be more clean and decent in your
appearance"
q. Upon my lif.." said the witncss,n il
yoar lordship csmes to that, Pm thinking
Pm every bit as well dressed as your lord
ship"
"How do you mean sir9" said his lord.
ship, angrily. s-4tt2s-z r.,
"Why, faith" said the laborer, you
come here IN your working clothes, and I'm
comc in RiHe."
Never in twenty three years, since we
became connected with The press. has il
beecn so Difficult, 10 get our papers for
ward, through the mails, with anything
like promplness and regularity. wildcat
the same time we are forbidden under
heavy penalties, from awaiting ourselves
Of other means of transmission. more
prompt. more regular, and therefore
more dcsirable-[ Journal of Commarce
Pistols J~ the GausrnmeM.-We under
stand MIR. Eli Whitney is nov manufact'
uring one thousand Colts Revolving Pts.
tolls for the manufacturer. Tho demand
for these pistols for the Mexican war IA
such that II cannot be supplied in New
York, as almost every officer secures one
for personal use, before no goes unl 10
..cxlend the area offr-edom"
IN. u. Palladium.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

Gs-We regret TO learn that Deacon N. c.
Bates of Salisbury, was thrown from his wagon
on Friday last. and so much injured that he
6isd the next morning. Dea. D. formerly re-
sided in Litch6eld, where be has many friends.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

DRowNED-ln the Waterbury river, near the
Cold Spring Factory. on Monday morning. Mr..
William Benedict, late Of thisvillage. aged %.
tie was skating, aud was carried DER the dam
into the water below.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

9FImmediately on the receipt of the last
foreign news, Flour rose in New York to S.
per barrel, bu, had receded trifie at :he last
dates.
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

AS-The Exhibition OF beautiful Dioramic
Views; sc. will be repeated this "wednesday
evening at the U. S, Hotel OF course there
will be a full house.
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N+.Tbe Administration, saws a Wa.

nFThe Administration, says a Wash.
ington correspondent of the N. Y. Express,
fell better in the security of twenty eight
millions of dollars in Treasury Notes this
day authorized by the two Houses Of Con.
gress. Pay day is aever thought Of by
those who are putting this Government pa
per mill at work. The President a. least.
feels pretty well assured that he will leave
a heavy incumbrance upon HE successors,
and the embarrassments. if they are 70 fall
upon Wing Administration, will no doub.
quite reconcile him to the work.
HydrophoJis among attls.-I. is stated
in the Rockland county Messenger, that
hydrophobiashas exhibited itself among the
cattlein different paris of Haversiraw. We
have heard OF no less than eight head, two
oxen and six cows, which have been shot In
consequence OF their madness; how many
others have been bitten by mad dogs yet re.
mains TO DO seen.
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p, o9-Noyes Billings il the loco candidate fol
Congress in the ID District. Can't come in.
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e1-TAs Army Bin passed the Senate on the
lst inst 1870, =. ..... y
Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1847-02-04

hand, and said that its PRONUNCIATION
alarincd the friends OF the MEASURE at
the South, because it might drive their
friends ut the North, upon whose aid
they relied 10 carry il, from its support.
Disdaiuing 10 attain his object By indi-
reciinn he frankly declared il, and, al
though numbers in both houses Of Con
gress from his own section of country
were constrained by their own sense of
the injustice and unconstiiutionalily Of
the measure tow against II, members
enough from the free States we're found
to vote for ii,---to carry it. s,.s.,-..
Texas was annexed as a slave State,
and the overthrow of a protective tariff,
aud war with Mexico. have thus far
been the consequences. 1t has extent Of
territory enough TO make five or six 9th
or States at large size. The President.
in has Message to Congress, 'congraiu-
latcs them CA the success which has thus
attended our military and naval opera
iions,' and says, we ha We acquired mill
tary possession of territory larger in ex-
tent than that embraced in the original
thirteen States Of the uni0n.' Are other
slave States carved out of the territory OF
Texas, or Of other foreign territory Noqui-
red by conques, or by treaty, tOsbe here
after admitted into the Uninn.
The people Of the free StatSs have al.
ways been told by their brethren Of the
slave States, that slavery was ea,iruly a
State Institution. and thai the general
government had nothing TO do with II :.
| II has been conceded that this was tho
true exposition oflhe matter. But has Il
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
The young Wife.

"Mend --mend-mend every week comes
this old clothes basket full Of ragged lrocks and
shirts and stockings. 1t Is enough to exhaust
ones patience to be forever darnng and mend
lngW Thus pettishy calculated the young wife
and mother as she sat down late one Saturday
evening to do her weeks mendng. She had
probably been brought up in idIeness, with all
indulgent mother to set every needed stitch
in worn garment: or perchance she had worse
than ldled away her time in reading novels, new
er even dreaming of the sober realities of do
nestle life,-or perhaps she had spent her
time at the piano or drawing tabe-employments
agreeable and useful at proper times, but which
alone can never make profitable or comfort
dffusing mistress Of family, Really, thought
|, as looked on her vexed conntenance, she
has one thing yet to earn,-that to labor with
pleasure she must be "instant in season and out
of season." aud cultivate the habit Of thinking
more of the comfort her abors will thus secure
to her loved ones, than of the toll ITSELF Wind
ham County Democrat.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
Il rli9tous.
The Pea Of Iron,
BOLD STROKES OF TRUTH.

When Bishop Latimer was en- his trial, he al
first answered careessly. But presently he heard
the pen going behind the tapestry, which va:
taking down his words-Then he was careful
what he said. There is an AII-recordng per
behind the curtain Of the skies, taking down oul
words and acts for Judgement
1t is pen Of iron. "The sin Of Judah i,
written with pen of iron, aud the point of
diamond" 1t graves deep its records on the
impcrishabIe tablets of eternity-a record o.
every thought word and act.--How ought we
live, since we can almost hear the all-recordinI
pen going every hour, since we know that cver|
day we are filling page in the books that shal
be opened at the judgement, and the record i
imperlshable as eternity
"A rich landlord in England once perloymec
an act Of tyranca injustice to a widowed tenant
The widows son, who saw it, became a painter
and years. after succeeded in placing paintin!
of that scene where their oppressor saw it. A.
his eye fell on the picture, the rich man turned
pale and trembled, and offered any sum to pur
chase it, that he might put it out Of sight |
every scene of wickedness through which maj
passes, should be painted, and the painting
hung up about him, so that he wonld always SCI
the portrait of himself with the evil passions ex
pressed on his countenance, and himself in tn
very act of wickedness, he would be wretched
Such a picture-gaIlery there is, and in eternir
the sinner will dwell in it; for every feature ant
lineament of the soul, in every feeling and aC
of wiokedness, is portrayed imperishably an
VIII be exhibited to the gaze of the universe fol
ever
By the discoveries of modern science, tn
rays of the sun are made to form the exact POI
trait Of him on whom they shine. We are a
living in the sunlight of eternity which is tram
erring to plates more enduring than brass tn
exact portrait of the soul in every successive a,
with all its attendant circumstances
Interesting to the antiquarian, is the momel
when he drags out from the sands Of Egypt son
obeIisk, on which the pen Of iron, and II
point of a diamond have craven the portrait
the attitudes, the dresses, and the pursuits Of me
who lived and died 5000 years ago. But moi
can utter the interests of that moment WHIT
from the silence Of eternity shall be brought O
tablets thick-set with the scuIptured history of
sinful SOUL and men and angels, with the sim
himself, shall gaze appalled, on the faithful pc
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11

mong class of persons who are determined to main
tain the supposed interests of sect, slavery or no
slavery; and where we have one such man we may ex-
pect to gain two on the of humanity consistency
and justice. As abolitionsts, claim to plant our
selves on truth and to depend on its potency to bear
away from before its onward march the systems of
ror and oppression in the and and shall we bend to
temporizng time-seving spirit, and fear to proclaim
the whole TRUTH lest these lovers of sect should vacate
our ranks. I trust we have no wish to drive these
brethren away but if they will not bear the open light
of TRUTH they will do us about much good soldiers
in army who will not stand the blaze of the cannon
Will these friends just look over the account once
more and if the fault is not in themselves, instead
of US! Yours, for the Truth as it is
II. FOSTER
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
5fGoraI GeotI)tn9s.
Times Beautiful SOIiIOQuy.

Old call you me? Ay when the Almigh-
ty spoke creation into birth, was there. Then
was born. Mid the bloom and verdure of Par
adise, gazed upon the young world radient with
celestial smiles. | rose upon the pinions of the
first morn, and caught the sweet dew drops as
they fell and sparkled on the boUghs of the gar
den. Ere the foot of man was heard sounding
in this wilderness, gazed out on its thousand
rivers flashing in light, and rejecting the broad
sun, like a thousand Jewels upon their bosoms
The cataracts sent up their anthems in these
solitudes, and none was here to listen to the new.
born melody, but The iawns bounded over
the hills and drank at the imped streams, ages
Lelore an arm was raised to injure or make them
afraid For thousands of years the Morning
Star rose in beauty upon these unpeopled shores,
and its twn-sister of the Eve, famed in the fore
head Of the sky, with no eye to admire their
rays but mine Ay call me old Babylon,
and Assyria Palmyra and Thebes, rose, -four
ished and fell, and behed them in their glory
and their decline. Scarce melancholy ruin
marks the place of their existence; but when
their first stones were laid in the EARTH | was
there Mid all their splendor, glory and wick
ednesF, was in their busy streets, and crum-
bling their magnificent palaces to the earth. My
books will show a long and fearful account a.
gailst them control the fate of empires
give them their period of glory and splendor ;
but at their birth, conceal in them the seeds of
death and decay They must go down and be
humbed in the dust-their heads bowed down
before the rising glories Of young nations, to
whose prosperity there will also come date, and
a day Of decline. pose my wings over the
earth, and watch the course and dongs of its
inhabitants, call up the yiolets upon the hill,
and crumbIe the gray ruins to the ground |
am the agent of Higher Power, to give life
and take it away. spread silken tresses upon
the brow Of the young, and plant gray hair on
the head Of the aged man. Dmples and smiles,
at my bidding, Turk around the lips of the in
noccnt child, and 'urrow the brow Of the aged
with wrinkles Old, call you me ? ay, but when
will my days be numbered? When will Time
end, and Eeternity begin? When will the earth
and its waters-and the universe be rolled, and
a new world commence its revolutions! Not
I'LL He, who first bid me begin my flight, so or.
ders IT. When his purposes, who called me in
to being, are accomplished, then, and not till
then-and no one can proclaim the hour-I too
shall 90 to the place of all living.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
The Present and the Future.

Every morning as we 60 forth to act, we lay
the moulding hand upon our destiny and every
evening when we have done, we have left death
less impression upon our character We touch
not chord but what vibrates in eternity not
wire but that reports at the throne of God
Let it teach the value Of we'll formed charac-
ter, while in the transition or formation state
Our characters will be our temporal and eternal
attendants. If good, they will follow US like
friendly angels through our life, shed light in our
graves and initiate our immortality. If bad
like evil angels, they may accompany us in life,
haunt us in DEATH and torment US in eternity
American Pulpit
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
Improve To-day,

To-day only is yOurs the past has slipped
away like quicksilver through your fingers, bear
ing on its stream its testimony to be deposited
in the presence of God against YOU or for you
The future is nonentity-it is not-and there
fore it is not ours, Hence, the present is the
ntcnsest moment of our existence; it is big
with eternal and rreversabe results; it rolls away
laden with mems souls to separate in twain on
the right and left of the judgment throne, car
rylng some to glory and others to shame and
everlasting contempt To-day is the beginiug
of an arc that completes its circle in eternity, its
zenith heaven, and its nadir hell and your soul
must eliminate in joy with the one or sink into
a starlass aphelion ofwo and night with the other
The past is gone, and no eloquence can recall il
the future is not come, and no insurance can
guarantee 1.-THE present alone is yours "work
therefore while it is called to-day"
Life is the season God has given
10 scape from hell and rise to heaven;
The day of grace fleets fast away,
And none its rapid course can stay.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
Slavery and the Poor LabOring Man.

Do Northern aborlng men ever reflect that
Slavery is a most deadly war on their interests,
and systematic attempt to bring labor down to
the lowest possible price NotonIy does slave
ry degrade labor, but in proportion to the extent
to which sIdUe-labor is made to supply the wants
of community, just in that proportion is the de-
mand for frce-labor superseded aud Its value
Deprecated Selfinlerest therefore, should
prompt the laborer-every man who gets his
living by the sweat of his brow-to vote down
slavery as an institution which tends to degrade
him to the foutng of a slave, as well as rob bis
labor of fair compensation. See how the slave
holders reason on this subject, and how they
talk of so "organizing" save-labor as to out-do
and put down the labor of tyeeMenl We copy
an extract from paper called the "Southern
Planters Political Economy"
"Slavery, as it now exists in the United States,
is calculated 10 exert great influence upon our
policy and future prosperity. A new and pecu-
liar sort of labor is through Slavery thrown into
the Uuitcd States, that it is hard to calculate
and of which the effects are difficult to estimate
Three millions of people, or laborers, whose
wages are what they eat and wear only, working
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
Pleasure is Cheap,

Did you ever study the cheapness Of pleasure?
DO you know how little it takes to make null
ttudc happy! Such trihes as penny, word,
smile, do the work There are two or three
little boys passing along-gye them each a
chesnut, and how smiling they look; we'll be
bound to say that they will not be cross for an
hour A poor widow lives in our neghborhood
who is the owner of half dozen children =
send in half peck of apples and they will be
happy. A child has lost his arlow.-aII the world
to him-and he nouns sadly; help him find it
or make him another. and how quickly will the
sunshine play upon his sombre face.
boy has as much as he eau do to pile up
load of wood; assist him few moments or
speak few pleasant words to him, and he for
gets his task and works away without minding
it. Your apprentice has broken mug, or cut
the vest too large; or he has cleft an out" or
"pied stlcklUI )" say ''you scoundreI," and he
feels miserable, butremark, 81 am sorry; try to
do better in future" and he feels great deal
better. You have employed man-pay him
cheernIy, and speak kindly to him, he leaves
your house with contemed heart, to light up
his hearth with smiles Of gladness As you pass
along the street, you meet many a familiar face
Say Good morning." as though you felt happy
and it will work admirably in the heart of your
nelghbor.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-02-11
Popular Errors,

When children we used to be told that pork,
beef, &c. killed in the old of the moon, would
shrink in the pot and if in the ncw it would
s'oeli and great many good, honest farmers,
reIigiousy observed her waxing and waning
quarters for their periodical packing. That
some meat shrinks while other swells, is fact
too notorious for cavl but that the moon is to
be praised or blamed for this agency, we most
fully deny The true cause of these changes
is to be found in the manner of feeding the an
finals before slaughterng An animal that
has been long and well fed, till the fat cells have
become fully charged with solid matter, will, on
exposure to boiling water, absorb portion of it,
and consequently swell the dimension Of the
flesh while that which has been hastily or but
partially fattened will diminish in cooking from
the abstraction Of the juices which occupied the
cavities or spaces between the lean ibres-
This is the whole secret of the shrinking and
swelling Of meats. 1t will thus be perceived that
one carcass of equal weight may differ materially
in value from another of nearly the same appar-
ent quality. This difference in value is equally
manifest in the quality Of fish and poultry
Eggs from well-fed hens are also much more
rich and substantial than those which are produ-
ced by hens sparsey fed The latter will in
variably be found meagre, watery.