Litchfield enquirer., 1860-11-08
PERSONAL AND. POLITICAL.


 AN AGED PArRIARcH-The venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher has just passed his eighty-sixth year. He still walks the streets, suffers no dis ease but the inirmities of age and exhibits cheerful spirits, thongh, at times, wandering miRd. Daring the past summer he visited seven of his ten surviving children.
 k6eRalph Farnhsm the revolutionary veter- an, is and long has been an inveterate smoker We fear the bad habit will be the death of him yet. He is only los.
 p6rRev. Henry Ward Beecher has received five hundred invitations for this Winters lectur- ing tour. He has as yet accepted but twenty five.
 sar Col. Frederick w. Landar, the overland road man and Potter's second in the Pryor-bowie knife affair, was married at San Francisco, last month, to Miss Jean Margaret Davenport. the popular actress, who has saved>up some S75,C0O of her hire. Ess- That old Gay Whig organ. the Common ,reah. Frankfort, Ky, after avowing it's editors individual belief that any State that will has 8 that
 {" If the people of South Carolina, Alabama, or Georgia, desire to secede from the Union. in the name of the Constitution let them do so.- Let them form Republic, an Empire, or any | thing else they may fancy. Let them inclose themselves within Chinese wall if they want to. and here is one who will contribute his mite toward furnishing the requisiterocks. Let them do what they please Let them do it as they please, and when they please, with one solitary condition viz: that their seperation shall be final. Their absence would be an incalculable and invaluable relief to the balance of the peo- 1 ooft thnSo k,l ". IL, large quantities of quadrennial gas and noise and confusion and stuff'
 | ses- Col. Curtin while en route from Concord N. H., to Boston, was enthusiastically received at Lawrence, Oct. 27. For five minutes he ad dressed the people with much point and spirit He pledged Pennsylvania for Old Abe by seven tyfve thousand majority. Great enthusiasmp vailed.
 kas~ An Indiana correspondent of the New York Times gives the following stumping feat of Owen Lovejoy:
 His famous jury trial is the most daring and brilliant exploit in the annals of popular or atory. Being in Egypt he empanneled and swore twelve men out of his audience, and pro ceeded to defend the Republican party on gen eral Democratic indictment. in due legal form Nine of his men were Douglas men, but being l to answer on their conscences and the jury re turned unanimous verdict of Not Guilty. The speech ditl make a number of converts.
 gsiy- A hitherto democratic Dutchnian, O Ripley county, Indiana. gives the following req son for voting the republican ticket: " links leaves de democrats long time ago, but every year dey pulls de wool oher mine eyes, and go goes nit dem agin; but dis time dey pull it St tam far tlGt see rigAtob G'etop. Dat ish " votes de republican dicket.'
 EHs- Great excitement exists in Virginia be- tween the secession faction, headed Ey Gov Wise, and that of the CIionists, under Gov Letcher. Gov. Lctcher is determined to put down all revolutionary proceedings and maintain the supremacy of the laws. There is no doubt that the Union sentiment n the whole SUutE largely prepondcrates among the masses. A leading politician writes from Virginia as follows "Goy. Wise has raised the standard of trea on and revolt. His speech utterly demoiishcs hin! and his whole former reasoning. Aiesars. Letcl- er Bolts, Rves, Segar, F!onruoy and Goggin, all are against Gov. Wise.
 l ssa The Atlanta. t;a., .4merjc,,n declares , that the bare prospect of Gsu.,ion has reduced !le pgice of cotton ten dollars per bale thus los ing i've miliiona to the cotton planters, that all the southern banks have closed doors. that dis uni n would raise Corn and bacon to famine rr- ces, and it therefore concludes l3ll wio are in favor of civil war, starvation, ruin, dtsoation robbery. arson, murder, and the utter destruction of the south, should go for disanon if Lincoln is elected
 SsAt- Senator Iverson of Georgia, has pub lishcd d letter declaring that any Southern mnn who would accept o:lice from Republican President, ought to be condemned and ostra cised hy universal public sentiment and that he would vote asanst the confirmation of every Southern nominee.
 aea- There was legal defect in the bonds oi Isaac V. Fowler, so that the government seen, in fair way to lose the entire Sln5GC0 cn,bez zled from the New York Post Office.