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Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17
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RRGS CN.GO8 0D JASON WHITING SHELDON OSBORN OLIVER GOODWIN !DAVIDC. SANFORD SETH P. BEERS. ROBBINS BAYFIELD,
 STEPHEN DEMING.
 SHELDON OSBORN ,of Haiwinton,
 General Agent.
 AGENTS OF TUE COMPANY. Lrman W. Cutler, Watcrlown; Daniel Bs 9rinsmade, Washington David c. Sanfcrds New Milford, Rufus Fellcr, Jr Kent Rich. ard Smith, Sharon; Frederick Kellogg, C"in- wall; Josrph l. Gaylord, Goshca William NJ. Burrait, Canaan Donald J. Warner, Sal isbury s. D. Nor,hway, and John Dewe.l, Norfolk, Henry Jones, New Hartford ;- George D. Wadhams, Torrinefon L,wis smuh, tlarwin,on John c. Ambler, Be,hlem; John Abernc,hy and George E. Forest. Wood. bury David c. whiilesey, New Preston Reuben Rockwell, Colchrook; John Hinss dale, Winsted; s. Y. Si.John, New Canaan 1; E. Talmadge, Plymouth Persons wishing 10 get their buildings in' sured can apply to either of the Agents, or to the Secretary.
 J. G. BECKWiTEf, President.
 JAsaN WiIflNG, Secretary.
 L:,chfcld, July 1854.
Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17

DLANCHARD'S ScythSs, Silver and Cast D Steel Scythes, Patent .Snaihes, Sc at < June 1Oihi ED. MCNEIL'S.
Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17
NEOrgah Horses.

THE MESSENGER AND BLACK HAWK H ORSES owned by the subscriber will stand EI the coming season at my larm, two miles south wes, from Goshen Center
 Goshen, May 20, 1854. a.
Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17
The Blood Horses

VE7ILDAlR MORGAN and ZENITH will w stand the ensnipg season at the stable of the subscriber in Wolcottyile:
 WILDAIR IS dark chestnut, four years old this spring, weighs 1000 lbs.-was raised by Epsph- roditus Seymour of fBrattieborough. Vt. and is of as pure Morgan blood as any Hotse raised in that State.
 It has been reported that Otp ZENITH is dead. This is a mistake; the old blind Horse is still alive and in good health..
 Terms for Wlldair. S5 and $s; Zenith, $S and S5.
 There will also be nt the same stable Zenith May 1854. A J. FRENCH.
Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17
EMELlNE Boorn
Order of Notice.

DAVID E E. soe.n. Order of No'''s' State ef Con necticut, Litchfeld County. &. Litchfeld, May l0th, A D. 1854. TTPON the petition of said Emeline Booth of O Torrington, Ct, praying for reasons therein set forth for divorce, now pending before the Superior Court in and for Litchfield County, to be holden on the third Tuesday of August, A. D. 1854.
 It appearing to and being found by the sub. scrbing authority, that the said respondent is residing out of and ia absent from this State-- gone to parts unknown to the petitioner. There fore, ordered. that notice of the pendency of said petition be given said respondent by publishing this order in The Litchfeld Enquirer news paper printed in Liichfeld, six weeks success IyeIy. commencing on or before the 18th day of May, 1854.
 FREDERICK D.. BEEMAN, 3 Clerk of said Superior Courh A NNATTO, Bath Brick, Window Glass, the best quality, just received by
 F. D. MCNEIL. DALLARD'S Hair Dye, Thomps0n's Eye ID Water; and Godirey's Cordial It
 F. D. McNEfL'S. DLA1N and Figured CashInere Shnwls- French table Covers; oiled silk, &c. just received by F. D. MCNEIL. DRlSTOL Brick bust--a superior article fot D securing; for sale by F. D. MCNEIL. GNAST Steel Spades, Shovels, Hoes and
 ED. MCNEIL.
Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-17
PEJV.NEO 4 Co.,,
TWO HUNDRED

DALM LEAF FANS in store and for sale
 at the cheapest store in town. 9T Only three cents each. ALVOnD ec CO' Wolcottvllle, July l7, 1854.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

tW-A Kansas emigrant, under date of
September 18th, writes (through friend) to
the Springfield Republican, that he and his
party are encamped on the site selected by
the first emigrants from Boston. 1t is on
Kansas river, about fifty miles from its june
ton with the Missouri, and is variously call
ed Lawrence, New Boston, Yankee Town,
&c. The writer says:
"The site is as fine rs any can be in the
world, on n gentle slope about mile from
the river. On the summit the prospect of
the praires and the river bottoms is beauti-
fully in the extreme. This town will doubt
less become the capital of the territory, and
will be the centre Of an extensive trade,
not only with the interior of Kansas but with
the Santa Fee country. The supplies for the
Government forts in Kansas last year amount
ed to 100000. Provisions are scarce and
high; flour SS; corn 81 per bushel; hams IL
cents. If you have friends intending to come
here, advise them to wait until the Govern
ment survey is made, and they can then Sc
cure lands, water-powers, or whatever there
is, cheap enough to satisfy them. There is
no inducement to come here this fall. think
nearly half ofour party will 60 back, not be-
cause they dislike the country, but on account
of the hard-shps to which they are exposed,
and the small inducement there is to remain
at present If the hands were now in the
market, and we could be sure of retaining the
improvements we make, 1t would be differ
ent"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

NEwsPAPERs.-There were in l775 thirty
five newspapers in the United States in 1910,
357: in 1928, 852 1850, 2,526-circulating
annually nearly five hundred million of copies.
OF the newspapers in 1850, S55 were whig,
and 742 democratic.
At the present time, the newspapers of the
United States probably exceed 5000. When
the census was taken California had only one
newspaper. AT the present time California
has some forty or fifty. Oregon has now
some twelve or fifteen. The increase since
1850 has been very large, although not what
it would have been had not rags and paper
risen in price so. Beardsley of Albany has
Just patented a machine for making paper
out of bass wood shavings. He says his ma
chine will enable publishers TO buy paper in
less than years for four cents n pound
Should he succeed and we believe that he
will, the newspapers in this country in 1860
will be over five thousand about three times
as many as in the whole of the rest of the
world.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

A MEDICINAL PEN.-A recent invention of
a somewhat novel character is attracting at
tention in Paris. tits an electro galvanic pen,
called the medicinal pen. By the union of
two metals capable of producing voltaic
current, which is excited by the moisture of
the hand, it dffuses a healthful and curative
influence over the body of the person using it,
acting chiefly on the nervous system. M.
Jules Lecomte, somewhat celebrated
French writer, speaks Of it in this wise:
"If all the benefits anticipated by the in
vcntior are realised, this would be valuable
discovery. Would it not indeed be convent
ent to take care of your health, while fatiguing
yourself over the desk, the instrument of ex-
hausting labor, thus becoming endowed with
the magic virtues of the spear of Telephus,
which had the power to heal the wounds it
inflicted But this is not all. In quieting
our nerves, excited by bad music, for example;
in calming the irritation created by the read
ing or hearing of wretched piece of compo-
sition, the medicinal pen would leave anger,
impatience and criticism at the bottom of the
inkstand, and its galvanic point would only
dstil honey and good nature"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

RAILWAYS IN NORTH CARoLINA.-At a
convention at Salisbury, N. c., on the I'd inst,
resolutions were adopted in favor of a gen.
eral system of internal improvements, and of
the State subscribing for two.thirds Of the
capital stock of such works as are calculated
to develope its resources. They also declared
it expedent to construct main trunk line of
railroad from the most eligible point on Beau
fort Harbor through Onslow to Salisbury,and
thence west by the most practical route to
the Tennessee line; and that the Legislature
be urged to pass an net authorizing the North
Carolina, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad Com
pany to run from the town of Wilmington,
and Manchester Railroad, through the town
of Charlotte to the Tennessee line.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

APoLrTrcAL INoUEsr:-The New Orleans
Delta, whose Democratic leanings are so
well known, indulged last week in a political
inquestfover the body of dead Administra.
ton. Promising that il merely set down
facts, wrote history, and recorded events, and
averring that the very reverse of unkindness
or exultation mingled with the motives Of
the narrative, and at the same time giving
President Pierce credit for the purest motives,
and for honesty and patriotism, It is forced
to regard his Administration as entirely do
funct. Its article thus commences;
awe trust we shall not be regarded as sio-
lating the charitable maxim Par Mortius,"
in the reflections which the recent election re-
turns SO naturally provcked. The duty of
the Coroner is painful and disagreeable, but
an important and useful one. 1t is for the
benefit of the living that the dead must be
dissected, and the hidden causes of sudden
death laid BARE Thus, like caamities may
be prevented and guarded against
"Such are the considerations which induce
us, 'in sorrow not in anger to hold an in
quest on the body of the present Admin
stration, whose demise we regard as approach
ing as nearly to a fixed fact as any occurrence
in history.
"The philosophical problems to the posi-.
bllity OF annihilatlon, can have no more stri-
king illustration than the fate of the present
Executive. If the theory of decentralization
be correct and the vitality of the moribund
has passed into some other entity, It must be-
long to class of animalcnla, too diminutive
to have ever come nnder the observation of
the most powerful microscope which has yet
been invented. The Picayune's oscillarie
must be mastodons, by the side of such pig
my 'infusorie,' as could alone embody the in
finitessimal vitality that escaped from the
corpse Of President Perce's Administra-
ton"
We presume we do not err then in saying
that in the Delta's opinion, Gen. Pierce is po-
litically, "very dead" We beg to add nm
opinion of our own, that his cabinet are as
dead as he is.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08
A TRUE PICTURE.

The Richmond Examiner commenting up
on the speech of Geo. d. Prentice, ESQ.,, of
the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, at dinner given
him at Memphis, lately, thus graphically de-
scrbes the wav Editors are often served by
the politicians whom they have made "euer-
lasting great men," often out of very "scanty
materials:"-
Mr.. Prentice's testimony in regard to the
ingratitude of political friends is fully cor
roborated by all other editors who have de-
voted their days to the service of party
Most of the politicians of our time owe their
chief Importance and influence to the press.
The recipe for manufacturing great man out
of the most scanty material is exceedingly
simple. An individual unknown beyond the
limits of his school district, is seized with an
ambition to serve his country, his whole
country. He makes known his aspirations TO
some two or three editors of his party, who
obligingly present his "claims' to the public;
one of them writing the commendatory notice,
and the others copying and endorsing it. In
this way his name in n few days becomes
familiar to thousands who never before heard
of it; and being thus initiated into the grand
council of the party, he, in brief space of
time, becomes its nominee for office. Of
course, in spirit of patriotism, he accepts the
nomination; protesting, however, that he takes
it us Richard took the crown, "albeit against
his conscience and his will" He enters upon
the canvass. He draws upon his editorial
friends for all the munitions of war required
for the campaign. He complies speech or
circular from few articles of theirs, and
thus makes his opinion known to the voters
of the district. The election day comes, and
he is made one of the honorables of the land
by the "vountary suffrages of the people,
The result is ascribed by the editors afore-
said, to the machless ability and eloquence
of their candidate. He thus acquires n noto-
riety which he turns to advantage in his as
prations for higher office. His friends con-
tinue their laudations through the press, and
in few brief years he fancies he is "lord of
all he surveys" He then demands of one
editor some unreasonable service, which is
refused; whereupon he becomes his active, un-
relenting foe. He finds another editor-one
of his benefactors-in the hands of his sheriff,
unable to discharge debt which he contract
ed in canvassing for him year or two before.
He (the lucky politician) is an unconcerned
spectator of the sight. He would not con-
tribute five dollars to save his benefactor
from the debtors Jail. Feeling himself Sc
cure on the house-top of fortune, he is willing
to aid in kicking down the ladder by which
he ascended.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08
g DUKE OF RICHMoND's SPEECH"


Mr.. Editor,-In the "Post" of the Gath
utimo, you published an "extract from
published speech made by the Duke of Rich
mond, a distinguished British Statesman, at
n public dinner given him at Montreal, Cana
da;" and in which he freely unfolded the
plans and designs Of the Sovereigns of Eu-
rope, in general, and the Roman Catholic
Church in particular, in regard to their united
efforts to subvert our government. Some
persons are of the opinion that that speech
has been forged by the Know Nothings, and
desire you to give your readers such evil
dence as you possess of its authenticity.
fully believe every statement that the
Duke made with regard to their designs
against the liberties and institutions of the
United States, and daily observation conclu-
sively proves that such IS their policy, whe-
ther the Duke of Richmond made that speech
or not.
take the position that there are more
powerful combinations against us, and that
we are threatened with greater dangers now
than our ancestors were previous to the rev.
olutionary war. Old England was then our
principal enemy, and she only attempted to
take away our political privileges, without
interfering with our social, moral or religious
rights. Now, the crowned heads of Europe,
aided by the Roman Catholic Church, are
waping war of determination against our
political rights and privileges, and also against
Free schools, Sabbath schools, the observ-
ance of the Sabbath, and the reading Of the
HOLY Bible! This should arouse and unite
all patriots and christians, and cause them to
flock to the standard of the great American
Party, who are striving to arrest and drive
back that corrupt and unprincipled horde Of
foreign paupers and criminals, and place the
government of our beloved country in the
hands of native-b0rn American citizens.
Some men oppose the Know Nothing
movement, from the fact that our Constitu-
ton guarantees to all our citizens the right
of worshipping God according to the dictates
of conscience. "a tree should be known by
its fruits" A code of religion that does not
teach common morality is no religion al all,
and cannot claim protection under our laws.
Look at the Mormons at Nauvoo, with their
dozen wives, their swindling, stealing, and
counterfeiting, and in defence of their wick
edness and crimes, even committing murder,
and all in the holy name of religion! No
man of 'sound mind and memory" and
icon science void of offence" will pretend to
affirm that the trainers of our Constitution
contemplates protecting any such gross i'm
morality-such wholesale villainy and ras-
ealty, under the sacred garb of religion!
ROUGH AND READY.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

eY- A tclegraphc despatch from WASH
ington, to the Baltimore Patriot, announces
the absolute failure of the banking house of
Messrs Selden, Withers & Co., and also
that fears are entertained that the Spanish
Minster-who was thrown from his carriage
a day or two since-will not recover from
the injuries then received.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

HORRIBLE SuIcIDE.-The Dayton (Ohio)
Express notices shocking suicide of young
man, who, in a temporary fit Of insanity, laid
himself engthways on the rail, and the loco
motive wheels traversed the entire length Of
his body, smashing him fiat.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

sB The Hon. David s. Reid and the
Hon. Asa Briggs have been elected U. s.
Senators, the former for the short term, the
latter for the long. Mr.. Reid was elected on
Friday; Mr.. Biggs on Saturday last. Mr.,
Reid received 80 votes to IS for Mr.. Barring
er, and four scattering; Mr.. Biggs 81 to 69
for Hon. Geo. E. Badger.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

THE NEXT PREsIDENT.-The Cincinnati
Gazette thinks the next President "wil be
found west of the Alleghenies, amid the
millions of American Freemen who live in
the valley of the Mississippi"
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

sSg- The Louisville Times states that
young gentleman or that city has been ten
dered colonel's commission in the Rus
sian army, and that he will probably leave
the United States about the first OF March,
in company with several other kentuckians,
for St. Petersburg, unless something else
turrs up nearer home,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

~ Adversely, disease and death are stern
preachers, yet they are the ministers of the
Almighty; they have voice which fingers in
the heart long after the time when il was ut
tered has passed---a voice which, like Eolian
notes, rises and falls in its instructive and mel
anchoy cadence over the cob and flow of
liie's scenes, when long, long years have roll
ed away into the passing distance.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

HIGH PRICES AT THE SoUTH.-A private
letter from Darien, Ga, says that potatoes are
selling there at the rate Of four dollars per
bushel; butter at thirty-seven cents per pound
and apples at three cents apiece by the dozen,
and small at that.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

THE CROOKED TREE.-Have you noticed
that tree in the corner of the yard! When
very young it was bent down to the earth
and lmbedded there. 1t then shot up again,
but it is now deformed. The sun may shine,
the dew and rain may fall but the tree will
never be straight. So bad habits once fixed,
are hard things to root ont
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

eaB- The Austin Texas Gazette contains
the letter from Governor Pease in relation to
the deposit by the Pacific Rail Road Compa-
ny Of stock Of doubtful character in lieu
of the 100000. The terms of rejection are
decisive md final
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08
TIE LIZ 4:

THE POST is published every Friday at 81 per year,
,vabIe in advance 3d. If payment is delayed unth
ne expiration Of the year. .,-
advertisements will be charged VI per square
f 10 lines or less the first insertion, and oO cents Tor
ZACH continuance liberal deduction made to those
bo advertise by the year. ~ Persons sending adyer-
tisemonts must mark the number Of times they desire
them inserted they will be continued until orbid anu
charged accordingly Ia a.
For announcing the names OF candidates ior ONCE 30
Cash. -, .- o.,
Iob work, such as Pamphlets, Minutes Circulars,
Cards Blanks Handbis, &C, will be executed in good
style and on reasonable terms.
Obituary notices IL lines charged at the regular
advertising rates. , -.
All communications intended to promote the private
ends or interests of Corporations Societies. SCHOOLS or
individuals will be charged as advertisements so
All letters addressed to the Proprietor post eaio, VIII
be promptly attended to. -, ..,,u
Persons at a distance sending us the names OF iour
solyent subscribers will be entitled TO NTH copy grats
No communication inserted unless accompanied by
the name OF the author.
t- Office on Main street, next door to the old jack
son Hotel
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

Ho! For KANsAs.--The Tuscumbia, Ala,
Enquirer sayG
"Agentleman from Georgia passed through
our town few days since, with number Of
negroes for Kansas. He has spent several
months in this Territory this year, and gives
a glowing account of the rich production of
the soil in Kansas. The land there, he says,
produces from twelve to sixteen barrels of
corn per acre."
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

sY- Mrs. Swisshelm says that women
have great and grievous wrongs. Among the
number is the neglect which allows them to
live and die old maids. Sensible woman,
that.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

eW- The N. Y. Dutchman says, in max
ing love in an orchard, be careful of one
thing, and don't kneel where "the cows have
BEEN" We once knew young man to "blast
his hopes for life" by not properly weighing
this axiom.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

OF Lieut.. Steptoe it is thought, will re-
ceive the appointment of Governor of Utah,
in place of Brigham Young. He has with
him in the region Of Utah, considerable
United States force, to assist in sustaining
his authority.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

Our SENrINELs.-The United States is
represented at Madrid by Frenchmdn, at
Genoa by an Italian, at the Hague by Ger
man, at Naples by a Scotchman, and by an
Irishman at Lisbon. Hebbc, Russo German
represents us somewhere abroad-we forget
xyhara
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

GEm.-We love to see woman treading
the high and holy path Of duty, unblindcd by
sunshine, unscared by the storm. There nre
hundreds who do so from the cradle 10 the
grave, heroines Of endurance, of whom the
world has never heard, hu. whose names will
be bright hereafter, even beside the brightest
angel.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

aid of n German exodus, and Chinese exo-
dus and of more other exoduses than we have
time to enumerate, il has risen to half mil
lion year. The result is that we miist do
something TO protect and vindicate our ma
tionality. II we do not, it will be destroyed.
The infusion OF five millions of foreigners
into our political system every ten years will
subvert it; and the question is what action is
required.
Had the foreign residents been content
with moderate exercise of the privileges
which our laws confer upon them, we sup
pose the great movement on which we are
now commenting, would have been postponed
for few years. But they have not; they
have introduced religious controversy into
our political contentious. They have demand
ed public Office as right. They have insist
ed upon the political prescription of Ameri-
cans for denying this claim. They have FORM
ed clans for the contros of the polls; and they
have organized themselves into bands through
whose misconduct perpetual disorder and tu-
multi disturb our streets, and our prisons are
filed.
The root Of all these evils is the premature
conferment upon foreigners of the right of
suffrage. The holding of Office is only con-
sequence of that mistake. Whenever the
American party shall obtain the power of cor
recting these evils, we hope they will use it
with moderation and justice, but with energy.
They should go at once to the root Of the
matter, and either repeal the naturalization
laws or extend the period of residence to ut
least twenty-0ne years.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

ew- Look you, stranger-if ever you find
yourself whistling in printing office and any
compositor tells you to whistle louder, don't
YOU do il.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08

It's stated that David Tallmadge, of Lam
caster, Ohio, formerly great stage proprie-
tor and mail contractar, has failed for $780,.
600.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-08
THE POST.
ATHENS, FRIDAY, DEC. 8, 1854.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. %

In the election to-day for State Senator
the Independent candidate, supported by the
Know Nothngs, was elected over the demo-
cratic nominee by 2300 majority.