Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1860-07-05
PERSONAL AND PoL11TczL.

B PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
- Joshua R. eJewett Of. CRANKY, now about
W years OF age. is supposed to be the oldest
ireemason this State now living. Hewas in
ltlated in January 1871, was made Royal Arch
Mason at Hartford IN 1917, and q, Royal and
Select Master m $50, and has ever been zeal
ous and active member of the Institution.
HELPER IN THE SENArE.-A pretty good
" sell" was perpetrated in the House the other
day by some of its members, who professed to
have just returned from the Senate, and asked
every one they met if they " heard of the ex-
element in the Senate" "Why, no." would be
the reply, what was it :" The greatest ex-
element of the season-far ahead Of the Has
kin affair."" continued the reporters "Well,
what was it," eagerly asked the hearers "Why,' y
responded the REALTORS, Just as the chaplain
of the Senate was opening with prayer, and got
as far " oh, Lord, thou art our ,Helper-to the
amazeme1lt of the Republicans every Democra :
ic Senator drew his Bowie-knife, and exclaimed
in a loud voice, Where Ia he?' -
A@>George E. Pugh, soon to be the ex-Sena-
tor from Ohio, talks of entering upon the prac-
tice of the law in Illinois, The Chicago Press
and Tribune says, 1--WE hope he will come, be-
cause we knead doughfaces out here"
BaE The House Of Representatives on We'd
nesday has somewhat surprised, but neverthess
we doubt not, gratifed the great majority of the
country by its most emphatic censurc of the
corrupt course of President Buchanan and Sec
Rotary Toucey. The affirmative vote of GA, to
lay the resolutions of censure on the table, was
composed exclusively of democrats, while all
the South Americans present, together with
Messrs. Adrian, Clark of New York, Davis of
Indiana, Haskin and Morris of Illinois, voted
with the Republicans in the negative.
RESIGNATION OF Mr.. BLAIR OF Missouri
Hon. f. P. Blair who was admitted to seat in
the House few days ago, over J. R. Barrett,
the sitting member, has resigned, to take effect at
the end of the present session of Congress.
The election in Missouri for members of Con-
gress will take place in August, and Mr.. Blair's
resignation will create vacancy in the St. Lou
is district, which will be filled at the same time
that the members of the Thrty-seventh Con-
gress are chosen. Mr.. Barrett will be the De-
mocratic candidate for the vacant seat and for
the Thirty-seventh Congress, and MIR. Blair will
be his opponent.
garIn conversation with Southern polti-
clans, Senator Seward is reported to have said :
Somebody in Virginia offered $4,000 reward
for my head, to be given to the South, but the
Republican Convention at Chicago gave it over
to you acihtom compensationE' That was very
fair for the Great Irrepressible."
R1-The London Illustrated Times gets Amer
lean politics even worse mixed up than the
Spectator. See:
1.-The Baltimore Democratic Convention has
nominated Mr.. Bell for the Presidency. Mr. Ev-
erett has also been nominated. The Republicans
of Chicago have nominated Mr.. Lincoln. The
Illinois Convention have nominated MIR. Hamlin
and Mr.. Maine as Vice Presidents"
pay- In long article on the manner in which
even the enemies of THEODORE PARKER have
mentioned his death, though they could not ap-
prove his principles, the Springfield Republican
makes this remark:
Especially is it not in good taste for Mr..
Wendell Phillips to put himself forward as
chief mourner and principal eulogst on this oc-
cason. The Christian people of this country
have many unpleasant memories of what Mr..
Phillips has said about other great men-quite
as great as Theodore Parker, quite as learned,
and quite as good. Not content with the early
dissertation OF the graves of Websteran Choate,
he loses no occasion to pick their bones. When
a man like Wendell Phillips, who has said more
bitter things of men living and dead than any
contemporary orator, and said them with a keen
er enjoyment rises to endorse the virtues of
Theodore Parker, and to pass him over to nos
terity as model Christian, it would be wonder
full if the Christian world should turn up its
nose impatiently, and eXcaim something too
much OF this" God help the man who exactly
fills the ideal of Wendell Phillips? God pity
the memory that finds in him unqualified and I'M
limited approval! The saddest commentary on
the departed reformer that we have seen is the
fact that foul birds that feast themselves and fat
ten upon the names of the great and haunt with
restless wings the graves which the world hon.
ers, fold their pinions over him, and go to roost
upon his tombstone"
B3~The New York Times, referring to Mr..
Lncoln's abstemiousness in letter writing, says,
"he evidently has no taste for the happy dis
patch which disposed of Mr.. Clay in 1874 or
the .11ur rerborum under which Gen. Scott suc-
cumbed in 1852"
I'VE venture to say" declares the Cincinnati
Gazette" that there is not in the whole West a
man who stands higher in popular confidence
than Old Abe Lincoln. He is a man of the
people. He has risen by the force of his own
! enerfy from the position of fat-boatman to the
honored head of the Illinois bar. He is man
WnOm no OBSTACLE cOuld ntlmlQale, no Qeleal
check, do misfortune embitter. A man whose
life is synonym of honesty, capablity, and en-
ergy. is Abe Lincoln"
The VorE OF THE HorsE.-The New York
Journal of Commerce gives the following state
ment the vote of the House of Representatives
should the election Of Pres dent devolve on that
body. It is mistaken we believe, in dividing the
vote Of Louisiana, as the only American from
that State has turned Locofoco, and its vote will
be given for Breckenridge. But we leave the
statement as it is presented.
BREcKENRIDGE. LINCOLN. DOUGLAS.
Alabama, Connecticut, Illinois,
Arkansas, Indiana, ...-
California, Iowa, BELL.
Delaware, Maine. Tennessee.
Florida, Massachusetts,, Tie between
Georgia, Michigan, Bell and
Mississippi Minnesota, Breckenridge
Missouri, N. Hampshire, Kentucky.
Oregon, New Jersey, Maryland.
South Carolina, New York, North Carolina.