Litchfield enquirer., 1860-09-27
PERsoNAL AND poLI71oAL.

neA The California mails bring the report of . speech made by A.sW. Weeks, at Sacramento, which seems like everything grown in Califor- mia, sui generis. Here is specimen of it:
 ]" It is scarcely necessary that should speak of Lincoln personally, for there are hundreds here within the sound of my voice who know him, and know him well. They know him to ss high-minded, honorable, and honest one who, in all the walks of life, has shown himself to be every inch a man--and that is six feet four of him. Laughter and applause.7 He is Dan who, under all Circumstances and in every posi- tlon, whether driving an ox-team over the plains o1 Illinois, or beating Stephen A. Douglas in . campaign in that State-for he did beat him whether doing any or all Inf these things, has G none It nobly, and has done it ably. [Applausel u rnen there is one other candidate-Haunibal M aamin--of whom wish to say a word, as came from his State, and have the honor of personal acquaintance. Major Gillie savs that nS mas got an old speech that delivered some Hom1; m tns city, years ago. in which abused ,1han anhni Well, l don't know but I did for +o i;a i;, ,oeionged to the Democratic party used ;t ~ nG iihe the devil. [aughterl had to-do ~. now plead the statute of limitation in re- fa.u so .i''t speech It is four years ago since nlaue l,, aha ne can't draw it on me now. But, to tle sup)ecG: l have known Hamln from nv youth up When but sixteen years nid [ s,a,:t out and stumped the State of Maine with h;, that is, he made the speeches and held ,he horse. lGreat laughter and applause.1 He was a Democrat then, and myself beloneed to that old party when it scas party"
 bg- Gov. Wise, of V rginia, has written m. otIer letter.ot only twenty-three printed lines for wonder. Somebody had said that Wr Breckinridge petitoned for the reprieye of John Brown- Gov, Wise repes the charge with Lis usual lmpetuosity on small occasions. His mo. nomanla returns to vex him in the winding n,, of the document. It is time," says he. @tLat the slave states were ready for the royolutior which is coming inevitably, with the burmese to take from them not only their personal pronerty Tn m negro slaves, but their political property in this glad and glorious Union. Let neither cIas. ot rights be invaded, Jtgh first, and don't let tho ,h,aueis ,l' seize the power to disarln you" The letter IS, as usual, from Wise, but quite other. wise.
 MaT Under the heading Noble Conduct of the Republicans" the Peoples Press ia Doug las paper of Milwaukee, pays deserved com pllment to the Republicans of that city in the l following: 'O
 "1he reception of Senator Seward in tbi. city had for weeks been looked forward to will, the greatest interest, and no efforts had becu spared to make 1t one of the largest and most imposing affairs of the kind which hal ever ta. Ken place III the State, and We have no doubt if would have been all that was anticipated, had it not been foregOne in deference to humane scu. tIment toward the sufferers by the calamity which
 has fallen heavily upon our city But the par. tsarls of the distinguished Senator have won n greater triumph by their forbearance tan they 1 could have achieved by the most successful pub. lie demonstration. What makes this conduct or the committee most praiseworthy is the fact that the immediate sufferers were almost exclu. sively of their political opponents
 eGz5~ Col. E. L. Snow, the well known Temper- ance advocate, died at his residence in New ork on Sunday evening after brief and pain ful illness, in the 55th year of his age The de- ceased was the founder of the order of Sons of Temperance, and the E. L. Snow Social Union. and formerly edited Temperance paper called 1Ae C'yrm. He was man of large heart and generous impulses, and staunch defender orthe rights ofman, irrespective oftr,ed or color. IIis death has left a void in a large circle of warla and devoted friends
 Rs4g'On the steamboat express train oyer the New York Central Railroad between Utica and Albany, on the 2Olh inst, an enthusiastic Dgup. las man, meeting Republican friend from the " est, proposed to canvass the train with him. The result was as follows Lincoln 9G; Doug las B; Breckinridge, 9; Fell and Everett. l2 doubtful, IS. Lincoln over all, Is.