Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-16
MLGCELLANE0ES.

ing to observe with what pertinacity people cling to the idea that their Representatives at Washington can send them anything they please free of cost. During our visit here at the Fed seral Capital, we have learned some curious facts relating to this subject. A New York member has letter from one of his constituents. asking him to forward all the Patent Office reports since leS7; another had a request for a full set of the Japan Expedition; one wants Herhdon's Brazil Report :; another desires some good daily news paper from Washington another wishes com plete set of Wilkes Exploring Expedition :, one actually desired the member from his District to forward a hive of bees, which the applicant un- ,derstood was among the articles of the Patent Office. .s..., s,..s94fs-..f4. .s...g.ss .-.,t Now the following matters ought to be under stood by the people: a,ta s,.a .i .s
 ,i 1. Every speech that Member of Congress sends to his constituents he has to pay for, at prices varying from five dollars to ten dollars per thousand and where constituency of ma ny thousand electors. expects to receive hfstri- button of speeches, all around several times dur ing session, the expense becomes quite seri- ous matter. If persons write to their Represen- tative to distribute speeches and political tracts they ought to send the money to pay for them.
 I'd. All documents, reports, &c., ordered to be printed by any Congress, are distributed to the members of THAT Congress, and succeeding menl- sbers can only obtain them like other citizens by BUYING them. Members are daily receiving let 'ters asking for the Patent Office Reports printed by order of the last Congress. Those who were members of that body, may have some of those Reports left over but the new members have none, and the new Reports will not be PRINTED till next summer.
 3d. Such costly works as the Pacific Rail Road Report; the Japan Expedition the Wilkes Exploring Expedition the Brazil Expedition, &c, can only be obtained by the present mem,- bers, by purchasing them at tie bookstores, and no member has any greater facilities for obtain ing them, than any private citizen.
 4th. It is understood that no SEEDS, &c, will be distributed from the Patent Office this year. Nor,oak Gazeae.
 The Sydney HernM gives mn account of the rescue of two European girls from Fraser Island, believed to be the only survivors out of all the passengers wrecked in the Sea Belle. They were taken from the natives of the Island on the 22d of October; were found sixty miles inland The Rerald says The girls appear to be about the respectiveages of fifteen and sixteen years their appearance is heart-rending their bodies, ema- ciated from long suffering and exposure to the weather, are covered with coating of hair the skin, stained by their torlnentors to assimilate with their own, had become spotted and wrink- led, as if from old age the nose had been fat tened by force the limbs distorted, and the va- cant stare of idiocy has left these poor creatures in appearance human, and although enabled grad ually to recognize such things as they must have | been in the habit of seeing hourly before they fell into the hands of the natives their acquaint- ance with their mother tongue is, as vet, appa- renty quite gone." Other Europeans are beev- cd to be prisoners of the blacks on Fraser Island.
 The funeral of J. w. Pitt Kinan, one of the last of the pure descendants of the ancient kings of Hawaii, the dynasty conquered by Kameha- nfclia the Great, took place at Honolulu on the 27th Dscsnlher.s keoua, the great grandmother of Kinau, is reputed to have possessed the high est chief blood according to Hawaiian genealo- fy.ef The funeral drew out large concourse of spectators The stock of Aliis is dwindling down to Q mere handful.
 They have first rate ghost down in Fair IIa- vsh--talI, headess, dressed in white " with long hair hanging down to his heels '-scaring indi- yiduals who are out late O. nights spreeng and sparkling. If it has no head, where does the long hair hitch on , e.s..r ,,'a}r.l. rsf =.
 The disunon proposals of the South Carolina legislature do not meet with a brilliant success Texas laid thom on the table Virginia talks them over, and that's all |; while Maryland is only restrained by state courtesy from contemp- tuously passing over them without the compii- .msnt of Q reading. e' hj'a'. 2ts e ..lstS ss-ti.s. li A,R.tts -.teis@ I.tsa.-
 At q late meeting of the New England Anti Slavery Society, resolutions were reported by Ar. Garrison, denouncing the Republican party as "slaeisaiy snbserrieat to tie Union." sa '-'r
 Mir. Greeley. who is featuring in the North West, writes that Douglas will be nominated at the Charleston Convention. The Democrats will Do obliged to do it. ss7 ,Q7tg 'si .'1 .i .sfsj1L. -~s fti :, stt,s'' Y a~sf fN't tT 5'
 A. T. Stewart $ Go. the great dry goods firm are advertising for more clerks. The New York Herald, for political effect, said they were dis charging their clerks at' '.'' .' a T. f'
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 Hon. Daniel Ulman of New York city, forn- srly an American has joined Republican club.
 Mir Speaker Pennington has refused to receive visits on political topics, on Sunday. {"
 The New York HeralN now acknowledges that the southern trade of New York City is as great as it ever has been. That bubble has been pricked .;I 3,.e 4s fssaes s...,-. P. .s,at5. H.a '-..