Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-08

aro pearer Hoin ou'slo0 eAe party. He would have none but live, red-hot republican. The standard of republicanism must not be lowered In reply to question, MT. Paine stated that it was true that he had said, and he now repeated it, that if the convention at Chicago nominated man outside of the party, he would neither vote for him there nor at home. The delegates from the northern part of Ohio are understood to en- certain very nearly the same sentiments
 Dr. w. J. Keitt, the brother of MT. Keitt of South Carolina, who was murdered by one oi his slaves at Pilatka, Florida, last week, had re- sided in Florida about six years, and was at the time of his death one of the State Senators He was living alone on his plantation with his slaves about three miles from town, and had been in i'll health for some time. The murder is supposed to have been instigated by slave sold South, from one of the border States, as pun. ishment for an itching for freedom and there | is belief current that this slave had infected his notions into the minds of all on the planta- 1 ton. ,- ~>s-S ,>' t' Douglas gets only deep curses from the South for circulating in that section, by the tens of thousands, Lncoln's speeches to prove that he is an enemy to the North" A correspondent of the Washington ,Star writes that "a more vii. lainously abolition ineendiary document than this same was never essayed to be scattered broadcast throughouta slavehoiding state.'
 George Saunders of New York, of Ostend conference and Cuba annexation notoriety, has opened house at Washington to feed and drink all Douglas wire-pullers. His motto is said to be -' Eat and drink. gentlemen, for to morrow we die" .--' '. 1 The clergyman who opened the Iowa House of Representatives with prayer the other day supplicated that the day might "soon come when the blight of human slavery would not rest upon our happy land" Upon the conclu. sion of the prayer, Judge Clagget of Keokuk sprang to his feet and exclaimed, in an angry in- donation of voice: "Mr. Speaker, protest against this thing of praying about negroes in this House." (Rap! rap!! rap!!! went the Speakers hammer, with call to order but Clagget went on with his raving) Nr. Jennings chimed in with Clagget, and for a time the de- mocratic side was in the utmost confusion, while the republican side enjoyed the scene.
 l The number of signatures to the petitions for law to prohibit flu .itive slave hunting in Mas sachusetts presented to the present legislature is l32lS from Qh towns.
 l Another cane for Edmundson of Virginia, in appreciation of his knock-down argument upon
 dr. Hickman, has been forwarded from Bedford Va, inscribed, To Hon. H. A. Edmundson, the man who whipped one of the eighteen million"
 The Democratic Treasurer of Warren county Illinois, is an absconding defaulter to the amount of s2l ,4ss. Democratic editors don't mention it.
 Petitions have been addressed to the Lcgisla- ture of Ohio, asking then, to appoint day of fasting and prayer to atone for the sin they committed by apprcpriating five thousand dol lars for drunkenness and debauchery in that treat given to the Legislatures of Kentucky and Tennessee.
 Thomas II. Ford elcctod Printer to the House, is Republican lawyer of Mansfield, Oho--in 1855 elected Lieut.. Governor of that State by $ large majority. He is lawyer by profession, but we believe, was formerly print CT. He was active in the canvass for Fremont in le56
 The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail of Tuesday last says: Last Saturday we devoted to the famos large number of copies of Surgeons Sermons and the pile was graced with copy of Graves Great Iron Wheel which Baptist friend pre- sented for the purpose. We trust that the works of the greasy cockney vocferator may receive the same treatment throughout the South"
 At present the main stay of Speaker Penning ton is the page who stands upon the right, q youth of fine appearance, and something near ls years of age. This page was first appointed to office by Speaker Boyd, and has ever since con. tinued to discharge the duties of "page to the Speaker" among which is now reckoned the du. ties of prompting the Speaker in discharging his business. He stands near the Speaker and di- rects him in an undertone how to put every mo- tion, and how to decide points of order as they arise. "Thaddeus' is known to all the politi clans of the country as the most remarkable par liamentarian of his age living With the con- struction of the rules of order he is perfectly ia. miliar, and every precedent he has at his fingers ends.
 Gerritt Smith has commenced suits for libel agains some of the members of the Fifth Aven- l ue Democratic Committee of New York. for ac- cusing him of planning invasion, treason and murder with John Brown. He claims $50,000 The Bu6ab Express says that Young Ameri- ca not long ago undertook to have a surprise party at the house of Dean Richmond. In full feather, with eatables and drinkables and music, the selfinvited guests, to the number of two hundred, drove up to Deans door, rang the bell, and prepared for rush in. But they reckoned wrong. Dean answered the bell in person, and of course blocked up the entrance. He politely asked the business of the leader of the party. He was informed that it was surprise par ty." He assured them that he was not surprised at all was not surprised at anything now-a- days; did not intend to have party that night when he wanted one, he would make proper pre- parations, and bid the guests himself. He wish ed them pleasant "good night" and closed