Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-12-24
THE NEW HAVEN BAsKs.-'rbe Banhs of - :,

OUIINg inc II cent LIOuDISS, IMAM lnOS0 OF
New Haven. Like all other Banks, they had to
take in sail with all their might when IN. squal
came on. but they did it with such a reasonable
regard to the necessities of customers. that no fall
ures OF any Importance occurred, although at the
date OF the suspensions, with aggregate capit"l
OF $4,000 900, their aggregate circulation was re.
dnced to about S5O0.0OO. They paid specie for
all demands one day longer than New York and
Boston did. and resumed in full simultaneously
with New York. For their circulation they paid
SPECIE during the period OF nominal suspension
BY the renewal Of customers notes when necexsa
ry. during the period of collapse, they not only
saved them from disaster, but enabled many of
them. including several large manufacturing es,ab-
lIshment>. to keep along with their business as
Usual They are now IN very snug condition,
with sufficient Ioos. capital for all undoub,ed pa.
per. They have suffered comparatively few losses
ny bad debts. Fhe stock Of nearly all of them is
In The ne'ghborhood of par some Of them above
par ~ Journal IF Commerce.
AN IMPORTANT CoRREcT.os-Some Of the pa.
p"rs ann"unc- that :. Tx. President Pierce and
Lady have gone to Madeira in III. Powha,,an.
Justice to political opponent, whose moral char
"rtrr we have never heard questioned, induces us
tn c"ni' ailrt the Impression which mivht br crea
ted by TN" unexplained announcement The Ex-
Prr-dent has gone off with his own legal wife,
and not, "s The paragraph nigh. imply, with any
strange woman.-Iroridrnce Journal.
Senator Benton says Il e Washington cores
pendent "f the Boston Journal. may be seen riding
down the Avenue on horseback every pleasant AZ
trrno"n. having drv"trd his morning to literary
I"h"rs. He confidently expects; to finish both Of
his great works next summer. bringing his
- View" down 10 thu Pierce administrator.
For more than two years Mr. George d.
flx.-.- "A:
written his editorials by an an,anuens.s. his hands
being pnraiyz,d to such degree that he Cannot
uoe them.
1t is said tina, William II Aspinwal Of New
York, sent home Il painting The other day-h
genuine MurIo-which was appraised at the Gus
ION House al thirty Thousand dollars.
Ga,dner Fnrniss Renewing his Correspondence.
The New Orleans DeH Of the 7th. IN speaking
o; the # Gardner Fnrnls. says it is informed
that since the return of Mrs. Woodmau to her
alhtT. he has again written To her, in his own Pc.
cuiar Style threatening to publish other letters Of
hers unless she should retrac, the statement, CON
Iainrd in her nffi,nvil.'
In reference 10 the alleged di>coniin,ancr of the
FurnSS suits against the Eren,ng Post and other
New York papers. the Delta. which Is published
II the re>d nee ,,f the Wondnlans. and ought to
h- well informed, observes:
We had been in hope that these suits would
be proSr"utrd not from any unkmd feeling to-
wards our New York contemporaries. but in order
that he world might lie Satisfied prrcf>ry r"w
much in jury MIR Furnlss'> valuable reputation h"d
suffered from the publication Of SO much less than
the truth "
Rne's Rtform-Congressmen Speeches to be
PRINTED as Spohen-Mr. Rivrs, The publisher 81
the Congressional GLobe. has created much dssa,-
~. l. l.. Il
Houses Of G ngr-sS, bv the announcement thai.
from the fist day of this session. it is his intrn-
lion to print the drb"t-s they are .poried
Heretofore II has been the custom to send the r-
port OF d speech to the rooms OF the gentleman VIII"
made the speech. that it might receive such coz
rectIons as might b- thought necessary But this
custom has been jtct-d to enormous abuse.
Some gentlemen " rite in whole par"gr. phs. but
this Is excused on good grounds. Others again
strike out whole paragraphs. which cannot be rX-
c"sed on any grounds, especially wien the speaker
has waited until the reply ELECTED by his speech
has Eeen made. and then strikes out those para
graphs which have been subjected to sevare ami
Inddver>Ipns. thus leaving the last speaker reply
ing to statements which have not hsen made
Frequently also very piqnani passages which have
h-rn n"'lc"d III trrgr"phlc reports. cahnot he vrr.
fed trom the columns OF the Globe. This custom
has often been praised, a> it prevents an nnenvia-
BILE no,olI-iy attaching itself to severe rrsnn',-
ties. But now. th"trvrryhing which is said must
appear IN print just ii is said, the fear of APP
prarIng before the public as brawling will keep
down many an undlgnlfird expression. which
would be made. it i, were possible. as before To
keep it from going beyond the chamber.-Corres-
pondence IF Bo,lon Traveller.
LATER FROM JTAH.-Mr. Joseph Maj"u, a
FIR, 1ch IT, der on Green river. arrived in Kansas
L.:
Utah and the Maintains
His accounts confirm our previous advices con-
c--ning the hostility and The ontragps Of the Nor
nous. Mo- Gen,ie' is any longer safe in the
Valley
lie reports that nearly all emigrant trains are
suffering from Mormon drprrda,ion>-their w"g-
ons being burned and cattle stolen.
Brigham Young is txhnrting his followers I"
resist to tii- last extremity, and if nvrrpnw-r-d by
the government troops. to flee to the mountains
and trfrnt themselves.
He reports that the army is huying up all the
stores it can procure He says the army has plrn-
~ of provisions for the winter. if they can only
sufficient force to project them from
the M"rmons; but. scattered as they are on the
route, he fears many will be- cut IF.
Mr.. Maj'a had made laroe contracts for -four at
Salt Lake City for his winter trade. but send
ing his train after it they refused to let him have
it, lest the army might he supplied by him. and
sent him back with 400 pounds for his own use.
Large Quantities Of grain and forage we're stored
at Fort Bridger, which were burned by the Nor
mons to prevent lis purchase by the government
They bad ols" buried all the grass on the route
beyond Fort Brdger
Snow three feet deep in the mountains. and
the country was covered as far east the Blue
river.
Buffalo We're very abundant. and s far down as
the Little Blue river. quite near the settlements.
Lieutenant Gunnson mys,eri"usfy nnrdrr-
ed the plains of the far West. some months
ago. as many supposed. by the Indians The
authors of the foul deed are doubtless indicated
in thu following extrac, from Mormon pa phet
published in Sydney, New South Wales. entitled
- Method.sm Prrs,craft Exposed ;"
" Let the reviewer 90 back to school. study his
Bible. and learn to know that the moral law of
the Lord will be established in Zion. Utah q as
it was fnrmrriv. and any man who does not keep