Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-03
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

n6y- When Hon. Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, becomes member of the United States Senate on the 4th of March, 1861, seven of the mem bers of that body will be natives of New Hamp- shire Messrs Chase, Grimes, Chandler, Hale, Clark Fessenden and Wilson. All of these are Republicans. A pretty good exhibition of the sons of that State, when one considers that the population is not much above 100000. . Bennett of the New York Herald wishes to buy paper mill competent to supply his wants, l5000O sheets per diem.
 nA.Col. Lander, having finished up that "lit- tie affair." of Pryor and Potter, has started West for the inspection of the work on the government roads across the Rocky Mountains.
 per The Editor of Bells Life in London is delighted with that distinguished parsonage. Mr. John Morrssey, who has lately arrived in Eng land. His mug is all over that of puglist and there is a look that 'convinces one at once that he would prove tough customer to any one." Morrissey bet $3,OOO on Sayers
 Ba~Mr. Buchanan was 72 years old on Mon day; and Mir. Douglas AZ.
 neLFred Douglas, the eloquent negro, has gone to France The American minister at London refused him passport, but the French consul at Newcastle gave him permit to visit France, which answers the same purpose -
 D9r Politics are lively at Washington. Post master Cook of Chicago, offered at the dinner table the other day, to bet $5.O00 that Douglas would lose Illinois if nominated for the Presi- dency Judge Cotton of New Orleans, immedi- ately offered to take the bet, but Mr. Cook de- clined because he did not know him. After wards he grew abusive of Douglas, when Logan of Illinois pronounced him " a lying thief from Chicago" Cook subsided and turned away, ev- .idently deaf to the remark, though every body else in the room heard it.
 BsS~ The Charleston Mercury publishes Owen Lovejoys great speech on slavery. The seed sown on stony ground will bear fruit some of these days.
 B@- The republican "Wigwam' at Chicago will be l80 feet long by loo broad, costing 5000. In the centre of the front on Market street will be dome surmounted by a large ea- gle and shield supporting flag staff. The arch itect has very pertnently represented a banner floating in the breeze, inscribed with the senti- ment: 1rrepressible and Undivided ]"
 A1- W. w. Leland, of hotel fame, who was lately expelled from the Texas Democratic con- vention because in 1856 he voted for Fremont in New York, has hung out his banner amour cling himself a standing candidate for Congress. in his district, and come north on a visit to his friends.
 Sg~ Henry D. Redfeld has been appointed cashier of the Phoenix bank at Hartford, in place ofMr. Bunce, who has been appointed president. Mir. Redfeld was formerly discount clerk.
 John McConkey, we'll known steward of the Plymouth Rock steamboat, came near losing his life last week, in one of the ''quakng bogs." near Stonington. He was out on a trouting ex- cursion alone and happening to leap from a fence found himself immersed to his shoulders with no foundation for his feet By keeping his arms extended on the surface, and initiating the treading of water, he managed, after much exer- tion, to regain the fence in an exhausted state His first reflection as he sat the fence, and con- templated his besmeared and dripping appear ance, was that he must be smart man who, having passedeall his life on the Sound, should come 80 near being drowned on dry land.