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Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

eE The Washington correspondents describe with much graphic power the scene and debate in the U s Senate a motion to take up the ILbmest+ad Bill. Seward of New York dwelt at length on the Republican principle of giving land to the Iandess and of furnishing the free laborer who needs it a farm and home. Toombs of Ga. replied with his usual vehemence and bitterness, calling Seward demagogue and sneering at the Republican idea of favoring free labor. He especially accused tho Re publican Senators of cowardice--of skukng the is sue of Cuba and of shivering in their shoes at its mere name Wade of Ohio sprang to his feet when Tcombs had finished. The Tribune correspondent says:
 "The first sentence went straight to the core of the subject, and all the rest followed it. You sheer at the Homestead bill because it gives land to the landless, do you? What is your pet measure {? Sealing niqyrs for he nqserlfss We go to the try upon t-Land for the Landless us. Niggers for the Niggerless! "
 This reply filled the galleries with laughter and applause. Even Toombs shook his fat sides at the thrust
 This statement of Wades gives striking descrip- ton of the difference of the two parties. in as few words as possible. The pet measure of Toornbs and the Southern Democrats is the revival of the slave trade" nggers for the niggcrless D The Republi- cans prefer rather 'land for the landlcss' One wishes to increase the wealth of an ovargroWn naughty aristocracy. already made rich through the enforced labor of oahers The other desire to furn- ish the poor free laborer with the means of support and place for his labor. Which is the best side, and which the hest principle?
 Freemen of Connecticut, which do you say Land for the landless, niggers for the nigger- less ?''
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

For tine Press DR. TERRY and the public are entitled to the inflow ing facts-My mother, Mrs. W. G. Whpple of Ware house Point has tor about eight years been afflicted has been exceedingly troublesome. Having consulted several physicians one of them deserIyedy eneni min vsed her to have it removed by the knife. From con wrakness. suffering and apprehenson the state TOT of the knife mother determined put herself under the care of pr. Tetry. With applications for tour days of the Doctors magical remedy, in about two weeks from that time it came ont bodily From this time the general health rallied, the breast rapdy nes cd and now auQurs for mother long lite. advise the affiicted to apply to pr. Terry without delay
 WM. c. WHIPrLE. Warehouse Point, Conn. arBear in mind that Dr. Terry never fails to remove all Cancers that are brought under his treatment.
 Consultation free at my office, No. IS Pleasant street corner of Winthrop. where specimens of Cancers that have beeu removed by the above remedies may be seen J. B. TERRY. Hartford. Conn.,. Jan. 12, 1s56 70
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17
wHo's H1r.-1awyer Clarke of the winsted Her

Who's HIr.--Iawyer Clarke, of the Winsted Her.
 aid, thus " lets of in his last number:
 The fostering evils which have by degrees grown up under the caves of the Court House at Litch-
 field. fostered we know not how far by men whose selfrespect, if not their oaths, should teach them better, are theme of remark on the lip of every man who visits Lchfield and pays any attention to the processes by which suits there prosecuted, and won and lost. Of the practises of attorneys we say nothing; but it is notorious that when import ant cases to be tried. there men, hangers thereabnuts whose sole business it is to hire them selves for consideration to the respective itgants and who undertake therefor to direct not only pub
 lie opinion, but to prejudice and influence by every i sidious and outrageous art the minds and decis- ions of jurors. We say there are hangers-on about Litchfeld who make this rascaly and outrageous business their sole and profitable vocation and these creatures not only tolerated but well received while pursuing their abominable practses, Men at Litchfeld, both inside and outside the bar, know we'll enough the truth of these statements and to whom they refer If they would have the Litch- field Courts redeemed from utter contempt and exe- craton. they should lestir themselves to wipe away this deepening shame.
 The evil here spoken of has been already pretty thoroughly "wiped away" and brother Clark is complaining of what has been rather than what is is likely to be in the future. Lobbyism about the Court House here has had its day.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

TIE LITTLE YELLOW SPoT, CoNNEcr-DE coor.,,- A considerable number of years ago. happening to be in Paris on the 4th of July, with many other Americans, we agreed to celebrate t the day. by dinner at the Hotel Meurice. There were seventy two of us all. We had but one guest This was M De TocqueviIle, who had rendered himself fa- nous by his great work upon Democracy in Ameri- ca During the festivities of the evening" after the 10th had been removed, and speechifying had com menced. some gentleman alluded ea pqssant to the fact that he was born in Connecticut -" Connee-de-coot /! exclaimed M. de Tocuueyille as he suddenly rose with the enthusiasm of French man. Wy messieurs I yill tell you vid the per- mission of de presidente of this festivul. won vely leetal story and then will give you von grand sen timent, to dat little State you call Connect decoot Von day ven vas in de gallery of de lIous. of Rep resentatf held yon map de Confederation in my hand. Dere von leetie yellow spot dat dey call Connectd de-coot found by de Constitution, he was entitled to six of his boys to represent him on dat floor But when made de acquaintance pcrsonelie vld de member find dat more than tirtv of the reprcsentatif dat floor was born in Connect-le- coot. And then ven vas in de gallery of de House of de Sendt, find de Constit uton permit Connect de coot to send two of his boys to represent him in dat legislature But voncc more ven make de ac- of de Senator was born in Connect-decoot. So den, gentlemen I have made my little speech now will gif you my grand sentiment:
 Connect-de coo the little yellow spot dat make de clock peddler, de school master, and de Senator. De first gif you time de second. tell you vat you do vitl him. and de sird, make your law and your civilization n''-and then he resuming his seat amidst roars of laughter he again. and with that peculiar gesticuaten which characterizas all French men in moments of excitement he shook his finger tremulousIy over the assembled cenfieres and ex- claimed at the top Of his voice, "Ah gentlemen, dat leetle yellow State you call Connectde-coot is one very great miracle to me-. .r
 Y. r Sp;a Of the Tnna.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

HoLLowAY's OINrMENr AND PILLs-The skta dis eases to which the boa Usaat and ot ndolent hab- iis are peculiarly subject. well those scorbntic affections caused by superabundance of salt diet and the hardships and prvations of seamaus life, are readily removed by Holloway's Ointment The dis6g- urng blotches pustules pmpIes, etc, arising from sup pressed perspiraton obsructons the secretve or gans also immediately oblteraed by this purifying and beautifying agent It has no equal means of clearing the complexion and relieving the skin of dis. celebrations and excrescenses. The Pils, they carry of all inward impurities, important auxiliary to the Ointment in such cases.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

RECENT DEATHS The Hon. Aaron V Brown. Postmaster General. whose dangerous illness we noticed lasttweek :ded at Washington, at half past ten o'clock on Tuesday morning He was .lelirious occasionally, at which times he called for "the bi." alluding to the defeated Post Office Appropri ation Bill. For quarter of an hour previous to his death he was conscious and took leave of his family. His funeral was to take place yesteadav
 and the remains were to be taken to Tennessee for interment. He was appointed postmastea- General by President Buchanan two years since and has discharged the duties of the Department with ener gy and efficiency. {,i+ Hon. John Marron. for many years the faithful Assistant PostmasterG General, died very suddenly in Washington, on Friday night of last week. He was at his post in usual health during the day.
 Charles Sampson, of the publishing firm of Phil. lipe Sampson $ Co.,, died on Thursday. at his resi- dence in Brooklne, of consumption. He was Al years of age.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

Coop InEA.-There is to be Fair at New Brit ain to-day, at which all persons who have horses. castle. steers COWS, calves, sheep swine, poultry seed corn. potatotoes apple and pear fcons &c, to sell or exchange, are requested to bring them for exhibition. This meeting is called by Mr. Elihu Burritt. in imitation of an English custom and its object is to enable those farmers who have cattle &c to sell or exchange to bring them to central point on day fixed. so that in an hour or two he who wishes to buy, sell exchange, can better satisfy himself than in several days hunting about the country for what he needs
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

fgP It is still true that not single adminis:ra- tion paper in the State, so far as have seen or heard and we exchange with them all, has published the fact that their candidate for lieutenant governor
 R. H. Winslow is of the firm of Winslow, Lanisr X Co.,, Wall st. brokers with only summer residence for a few years past in Westport. Men who have the honor of Connecticut at heart speak in terms of the strongest indignation of this attempt to farm out the dignities of the state. It is perfectly we'll
 known in we'll informed circles. (and the assurance originally came from men of his own party1 that Winslow nominated because he was willing to pay literally for thu privilege and the corrupt and desperate managers of the Buchanan party knaw that an honorable contest would overwhelm them with defeat-Hartford Press. -r
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

fg" The most astounding impudence of the sea- son is manifested in paragraph from the Wash ington correspondence of the N. Y. Herald which the Hartford Times copies. heading it ' The Defeat of the Post Office Appropriation. A Game Played by the Black Republicans. The whole country knows that while the House positively refused to in crease the rates of postage it did pess the appro- priation bill without objection and the Senate would have done the same but for the rage of the Bu- chanan Senators upon finding that the House would not submit to their dictation and would not raise the postage. Senators Toombs, Mason and Bayard talked the bill to death the former ohecting to the second reading until the hour of 12 arrived snd Mr. Mason moved that the Senate adjourn sine die.
 The npprupriotion biN defeaed by administration nsn because the raes of postage not raised The dishonesty of the Times is too easily exposed by the facts to be of any use to its desperate cause. <,
 %' Hartford Press'
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

TIE GouLpv TRAGEDY-REcovERy OF MOST OF TIFF WorNpED learn that Mr. Francis Gouldy. who, with nearly all the members of his household. was assaulted by his son Francis, in October last while in frenzy. has far recovered from his in- jures to be able to attend service Sunday last at the Thirty fourth street church, of which he is a member He had however, to be supported by a friend He will never recover his normal yigor.- large piece of his skull was removed by the sur geon. His face is under partial paralysis from the results of the wounds. month since, Mrs. Goul. dy, who was enciente at the time of the tragedy. gave birth to daughter. and has already recovered from her confinement. All the other members of the family except the servant who died at the City Hospital, have quite recovered.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

Seventy years ago the Democrats drew line around the States, and said to the slave trader "Thus far you may go and no farther" This was the Jeffersonian proviso. Thirty years age they rubbed out part of the line and said to him, "You may go into lands south. but not into lands north 7 This was the Missouri Compromise. Five years ago. We will leave it to the settlers to say whether you shall come in or not' This was the Nebraska bill
 Now they turn humbly to him and say. <" Go where you please; the land is all yours the National Flag shall protect you. and the National troops shoot down whoever ressts you.' This is the Dred Scott decision Journal
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

N. Peterson X Brothers. of Philadelphia. have commenced the republication of Scott's Waverly Novels in cheap and attractive form-one volume prised nz6 volumes. and sent, postage paid, to any part of the United States for fue doars We advise every admirer of these inimiable novels who is not already the owner of them to send on his V forth with to the publishers. 3O6 Chestnut street. Phila- delphia. and procure this edition. No library is complete without the Waverly Novels
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17
Notice

ITS hereby given to all persons liable to pay taxes II in the town of Cornwall, that the subscriber, having received the Rate Bill made on List of 1888. together with warrant for collecting the same. which by vote of said town is made due and payablS on Friday April irst and at the Store Of H. C' Gregory, on Saturday, April 2d and at the Store If Pratt Foster, April 9th at the Store of Jolis Beers, April 9th at the Office of the town clerk, April 7th at the Store of John B. Douohtv. Inrii 8th from to on each of said days-for tbe pure pose of receiving payment of said faxes. All per- who neglect this notice may expect to pay ecs
 Dated at Cornwall, March 15, 1859. at-l7eSAf
 JOHN CROSS, Collector. :.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

W,Ths Administration press continue says the ksw u&vss dearaaI, their attempts to get up feel fng sb0t Dtste expenses, and thus direct the at tenti0n 0 the voters from the nomentoW political questions to be decided by their votes. next month"; But their clamor meets with no response from the people It falls siil-born on the air. No one talks ca the subject in the street. one thinks about 1t at home The seventy-fye thousand pamphlets scattered broadcast Connecticut, by the aid oi .e money of Wall street broker, the columns of double-barrelled figures in the Administration pa pers do not awaken doubt or excite any apprehen- sion in the mind of single opponent of the Admin issration. Why is thisa Simply because there has been and can be complaint of rccklessness or i'm providence in the management of our State finances.
 Our people are intelligent people, especially as to money matters and they have watched the disburse- ments from the treasury sufficiently close to know that every outgo has been necessary and legiti-
 nate one. Indeed the Democratic grumblers them- selves admit this. They do not mention and cannot pp,eption asingle expenditure which shows the Re pubiicans to be unfaithful managers of the State iunds or to- be speculating for their own advantage upon the property of the State Of course therefore an empty clamor. without any defined charge, and without the shadow of promise of retrenchmenf ol reformation, passes like the idle wind.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

MURDER AND Sr1cIDE.-HARTFoR Monday, 14th inst -Chrstopher c. Colson, for many years fish dealer in this city, was divorced from his wife in January last Saturday noon he met her at his brothers house. when he drew large knife and cut her throat killing her instantly He was arrested shortly afterward and committed to jail
 After committing the deed he partook of a large dose of opium which combined with a sudden stop page of liquor caused his death this afternoon thus ftly closing one of the most cold blooded murders ever committed in this city.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

eB Two young women were shot, Saturday night in beer saloon in New Haven kept by their father, eight shots Icing taken from the head of each The man who fired the pistol was arrested and locked up The good people of New Haven, who suffer these i- quor saloons to live and flourish in defiance of law will have sad account to render for the moral des- olations which they might have prevented by shut ting them up.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

CocoAINE.-This is the name of choice Hair Oil
 manufactured by Joseph Burnett Co.,, the celebra- ted Boston dealers in pcrfumery. If we can credit the commendatons which the ladies give it, this is a most desirable article for promoting the growth and preserving the beanty of the hair It is for sale at Edward Goes who has also the Kalston. Flor- mel. and other articles, prepared by Burnett & Co., for the toilet.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

The number of persons naturalzed here yester- day, was 53. Many of them came from Westport. !" An American Democrat" writes to us from that town, referring to the unusual sight presented when the crowd started to come over. He says:
 "Mr. Winslow, the Loco candidate for Lieut. Governor. pays nearly all of their entire expenses His money is to be freely used in Bridgeport and for the % nurDose of making Soters He hopes in t6s way to aid greatly MT. Bishop, thereby laying the Administration, and it's supporters, under obliga- tions to him. and thus serve himself also. To the Loco party of Conpccticut belongs the credit of talk ing up Wall street speculator and of introducing Wall street tactics into the politics of this State They have nominated Winslow, man who has hardly gained residence in this State, stranger comparatively to the people, who, as yet has done nothing to deserve their confidence and esteem, and whyf The only reason which can possibly he at all satisfactory, is that Winslow is of wealth. and that his money is to be used freely to make voters and for corruption funds. -Br:dgpot &aaddrd
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

the New Hampshire Patriot, writing from Wham- poa under dateof Dec 20, says ..,.-.-.----1
 "You and your readers will remember the name of Silas Burrows of New York. which for some time was encountered in almost every newspaper and heard on every tongue, through the admiration awakened by his generous, patriotic enterprise of erecting noble monument at his own expense, over the grave of the mother of Washington. The work remains unfinished. commercial reverses having be- fallen the designer and inccptor, or for years the name of Silas E. Burrows has been neither printed or spoken. I supposed he was long since dead, and that his monument and memory would perish to- gether. But he still livs; and though his great object is suspended. it is not abandoned. but only adjourned until he can recuperate his fortunes. I met him in Hong Kong. where. with two sons, he is conducting commercial enterprises, and sails back and forward hetwecn China and California with as little thought you in taking the railroad for Bos- ton An old man and lame, on the other side of the globe. so far from his monument even. as we'll at home, it was touching to the heart to find him here. with one object, thought, last effort, remembering the Mother of Washington when he himself had passed from the memory of the liv
 ing.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

o. 8. Ferry is stumping his District vigorously, and the utmost efforts will be made to give him a splendid majority. It should be stated, however, that MT. Richard H. Winslow, the Wall street brok CT, whom the Democrats nominated for Lieut.. Gov ernor in order to get at his money chest Aas already Congressional District oomsl and he is expected to give $6OO0 more to aid the Democracy in the State at larpe, He evidently thinks the people of this State can be subsidized. On the first Monday in April he will discover that Wall street gold won't do everything !-Neo Hara Pstadiam.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

The Little Rock fArkansas) Gazette gives 8 synop- sis of bill passed by the Legislature of that State for the expulsion of free negroes ..
 They have until January 1860 to dispose of their property. and make other arrangements for leaving If they do not go then it is made the duty of sher ifs to seize them and hire them out to the highest
 bidder for one year giving them the nett proceeds of their labor to enable them to leave the State The bill provides that such free negroes as desire to re. main, may choose mastcrs-tEe County Court hay. ing them appraised. and the master or mistress they have chosen paying half their value into the com mon school fund of the county"
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

fE The sixth lecture in our course was delivered on Monday evening by Rev. L.-W Bacon, subject Jernsalem as it Was and is it Is A subject always interesting and rendered doubly so on this occasion by the fact that the lecturer had himself trod the streets of the holy city, and fingered among the scenes of which he spoke This gave life and sririt to his somewhat minute geographical descriptions which were Illustrated by maps and charts.
 The localities round about Jerusalem to which q sacred interest attaches account of their ton with the daily life of Christ were pointed ont and their identity discussed and we looked out npon the city, lying. in all its old magniicence, from those northern hills whence it's enemies so many times assaulted it.
 We are glad to add that the lecturer was greeted by full house. es@s-<-.~
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

In Horsetown, Shaster county, California, Benja- He crushed to death by the falling of bank of earth, under which he was digging for gold dust
 In New Haven, of consumption, 9th inst, Mrs. Cynthia J., wife of Mir C. +. Patt, and daughter of Capt. Horace Smith of this town, aged S7. Her re- mains were brought to Milton for interment.
 In North Canaan. 24th ult., Myron M. Beckley, eldest son of John A. Beckley, Esq, aged 2l. All who knew him mourn his luss
 In Plymouth. 2d inst Sarah, wife of Ransom Blakeslee, Esq, aged 78.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

A tombstone up in Berkshire County has the fol- lowing inscription
 POLLY RHOADES Died September 7th, 1855 86 years old,
 being the
 Widow of Five Husbands
 1st, David Rockwell,
 2l Capt Alpheus Underwood, 3d. Dea. Amos Langdnn,
 4th, Hezekiah G. Butler,
 9th, James T. Rhoadcs. The Winstcd Herald, in publishing the above professes its inability to discover from it, whether the "widow" survived her fifth husband.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

tE"A democratic celebration of the anniversary of Jeffersons birth day is to come of at Salem, on the 2d of April. As the Declaration of Independence and the Ordinance of 1787. are the greatest monu- mcnts to the memory of this illustrious Statesman, and seem to be rcpudated by the democracy of the present day, we suggest that they be read by the Salemites at their celebration.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

UNION CONVENTION 16th SENATORIAL
 CONVENTION
 The electors of the several towns composing the 18th Senatorial District who are opposed to the pre- sent National Administration, requested to send delegates to Convention to be held at Fenns Hotel in Woodbury March 23d, 1859, at II O clock A. M, tor from said district to the approaching session of the General Assembly. Each town is requested to send four delegates ac- cording to custom in this district.
 Woodbury, Feb. IS, 1859.
 WILLIAM COTHREN ! Senatorial
 LEHMAN w. CUTLER, Dist Committee.
Litchfield enquirer., 1859-03-17

lot of 436 slaves belonging to Pierce Butler sof Philadelphia, formerly the husband of Mrs Fanny Kemble was sold at auction in Savannah last week. for the sum of $500 2O5, being an average of 716 < head They were sold, the Savannah News says. mostly in familes' The 't mostly'' is distinc- ton with considerable difference.