Litchfield enquirer., 1860-03-15
PERSONAL AND POLITTCdL.

nsA= Mrs. Senator Thompson of New Jersey was the only lady in Washington who braved the aus
 terites of Lent week before last, by giving 6 dancing party. Postmaster General Holt enter tained the members of the Congressional Post Office Committee at dinner on Thursday.
 H@-A special edition of one of the Hon. Abe Lincons speeches has been printed, and 5OOOO copies of it sent off South under the frank of Mir Douglas. It bears this caption:
 /, Douglas an enemy to the North. Reasons why the South should oppose Judge Douglas. His duplicity exposed, Speech of the Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, delivered at Cincin- nati Sept. l9, l859,"
 a-Ihe Ecening Postspeaking of Gerrit Smith s suit against the Fifth Avenue Hotel Committee says:
 As there were thirty members of the Con- mittee, all abundantly able to pay Mir. Smith, should he recover damages, will receive about Sl,500,000-a very snug sum. Rich as he is al, ready, and with his well-known benevolence, he will of course appropriate this large amount to some of the many philanthropic objects to which he is devoted. A part he will perhaps give to the Temperance Society, but the greater part, we have no doubt, would be expended either in the rescue of fugitive slaves, or in the establish ment of free African colony somewhere out side of our borders This will be making use of the money of the Committee in way not much to their taste, but it will not be the first time that men have been obliged to do good against their will Thus far the Committee have not accomplished much, and if through the interven- tion of Mr. Smith, they should be made instru- mental in delivering some one or two thousand victims of bondage, they will not have existed
 in vain."
 sD~1n the case State cs.Albert Barnes ofsher- man, which has been on trial at three different terms of the Superior Court in Litchfeld Coun- ty in all which instances, the jury have failed to agree upon verdict, settlement has been effect ed, by each party paying their own costs, and the suit is withdrawn. For the last two years, this case has elicited much interest and feeling in Sherman, New Milford and adjoining towns, and to very great extent, public feeling has been with Mr. Barnes, who has been looked upon as a persecuted individual, and who Kas always, to a great degree, enjoyed the confidence and esteem oi uio iCiioW tOWuSulcus HI L6StttlOuy WucrGOI, and to remunerate him in part for the expenses he has been compelled to submit to in defence of this suit, he was surprised by the appearance, at his house, one evening about week since, of more than two hundred of the best citizens in all that section. The occasion was one, we are told. of great pleasantly, and the party, it was found on retiring had left behind, not only abounding expressions of sympathy, but purse of between S20O and $300 in cash. E. .,.
 BeL Hon. Clark B. Cochrane, M. c. from New York State, who was reported insane, has returned to the State Asylum at Utica, after brief visit his family. It is not thought prob able he will be able to resume his duties in the House the present session, although his uti- mate recovery is looked for.
 neA. Cornelius 0. Felton, just elected Psesi- dent of Harvard College is the twentieth gen. tleman who has filled the office during the two hundred wears that have elapsed since the Uni- yersity was founded. Four of the expresidents survive, namely: Josiah Quincy Edward Ever att Jared Sparks and James Walker