Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-03

| " they have overcome the majority which wns given to MT. Bishop. two years ago. We hear most en cnuraging accounts from Litchicld county. The right determination is aroused there. The camp fires burning. No part of the State will give good an account of herself, when the great day of | battle omes.-Couront.
 tat ... l TIE TARIFF Quvnrids s-Jhe House of Rcpresen. tatves. Saturday. by tlie decisive majority of 128 to 8a voted to allow the introduction of bill re. viSng and increasing the tariff Two-thrds being required leave Vas not granted. Sectionaly the vote stood F
 1 Free States-Yeas. III; Nays. 20 | Slave States-Yeas. IF: : Nays .66 l This is most remarkable division The Pres- fent leclr that the government cannot be carried without more Revenue. and that this can only he obtained through an increase of the tariff In ac- corance with this official reqnsition wi ich is form ally hark ed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Administration ea'le in the House (where only can a Revenue bill orginate) asks leave to introduce i and that leave is srefsed-seyenty-seye of the eighty votes to refuse being given by profes ed supporters of the Administration
 WAsnIsGTox Feb. 23.--Mr. Hqle's hombsIell thre~n into the Senate last evening has done terri ble execution to day The Tariff appropriations, Loans Treasury Notes thirty million bribery and corruption schemes and all other questions. have been crowded from their stools by the realTearance of Kansas with her gory locks
 Mcssrs Brown ahd Davis of Miss. Clay of Ala,
 
 iann of La. have given notice to the country that they not only repudiate tie squatter sovereignty platform with which they cheated the people, and elected Buchanan hut they shall in future deny the right of the territories to lcsslate slavery out of their limits and demand Congressional intervention to keep it there. They have constructed the follow ing new plank in the Democratic platform, that un- der the Constitution and the Drrd Scott decision property in slaves in the Territories must have ae- Gll,te and positive protection hv Congress, if sroh nrotection is denied by Territorial legislation either through action or unfricn'y action As to the States only the right of retaining fuoitive slaves and the right of transit are claimed at present.
 Donglas. Frederick Stuart and I'ugh repudiate the doctrine, the former declaring that part em- 'Tacing it can carry single State north of Mason and DiXon's line.
 1 Mason and Jeff Davis informed Douglas that no man with his squatter sovereignty platform can ob- tain either an electoral or any other vote south of 1 that line.
 The Senate have passed their rost-ofice bill by a vote of 30 to 25, raising the rate of single letters 1 from three to five cents raising the postage on newspapers carried out of the county to cent a paper; and refusing to abolish the franking priv- ege The House has yet to act upon it. | LARGE COLLECTION Tn the Methodist Church Or Mcr lintocks.) corner of Twenty second street and Fourth avenue, Sunday evening" collection was taken mp for the benefit of the Missionary Soce ty connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the result over S6 900. In tie morning, 1 church. Addresses were delivered by the Rev. Dr. McCiintock, the Rev. Dr. Durbn, and the Rev. MT. l Foss.
 TIE NEW HAVEN HousE.-We understand that Mr. Ives, the present popular and successful manag CT of the New Haven House. is about to leave that post, Mr S. w Allis, for twenty three years land
 lord of the Tontine, having taken lease of the New Haven.
 THE SEQUEL OF TIE BENNETT CAsE.-We learn that the tenant of Dr. Bennett noted house has re- ceived rather rough treatment It seems that since the decision of Judge Waldo 2; wing Mrs. Bennett divorce and awarding to her tile of s4 900 that the Doctor has managed to part with his visible pro- perty, and that the 10th of last month he trans ferrcd his life interest in his real estate together with his rents. &c as appears by town records. The next day of his creditors put the sheriff in search of security for debt-the sheriff finding that the Doctors fine horses and carriage gone and that the buggy said to be owned by others, he pro- cceded to look for secreted property. At last he found Snugly packed away under the barn floor va rious articles, such vases, statuary, crockcry | wearing apparel &c., which he took a few days afterwards Another creditor desiring to secure his claim actorized the tenant in the Doctor house. thus stopping him from paying his rent. At about the same time the Doctors nortagee notified the tenant that the rent must be paid him and not to Bennett Of course the only safe way for the ten ant to pursue to wait until the Court should de- eide who should receive it. On the 9th of Februa- ry. the time of trial Dr. Bennett appeals the case and does not allow its trial before the Justice and then on the same day serves, in his own name, summary process upon his tenant to eject him from his house. declaring the lease to be violated by the on-layment of rent. The tenant after considering the various experiences he had suffered under Ben nett, concluded that he did not fancy many and- lords-that his lease not worth fighting for that he did not particularly desire to cucumber him. self with lawsuits and therefore he gladly accepted the Doctors version Of the violated lease and moved out of his house, leaving him to pay his own costs.
 Journal and Courisr.
 Miss Sarah Platt, very accomplished and amia- be young lady, at Gaylord's Bridge, while sitting by her fathers fireside, Tuesday evening" acci- dentally set fire to the sleeves of her dress and be- fore the flames could be extingushed her whole per son was enveloped in sheet of fire. She rushed from the House into the street and threw herself in to pool of water in the road, and rolled in it, but too late it is feared to her life, which is now in imminent danger.
 Mrs. stow's Ministers Wooing'' is reprinted in London in monthly parts, soon as it appears in the Atlantic Monthly. d The wheat statistics of Wells Commercial Express show the accumulation of flour and grain at Chicago in the last seven days to be only little over OOOOo bushels against 200 600 in the corresponding week of last year. while the amount of flour and wheat in store is equivalent 6 O00 bushels against ,2&3, 900 at the same time last year.
 Barnum's lecture on the Art of Money Making has proved an extraordinary hit in England. All the wits and writers go to hear him, and the vast St. James Hall, London, is crammed every time he re- atr hic Ho hoc1 ne