Litchfield enquirer., 1860-02-23
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. The Springfield Rspubican's Washington cor respondent says of the assault upon Mr. Hck- man "- .E."
 | q believe the effect of the sensation will be simply to put northern members upon their guard | in future. Mr. Hickman is in very feeble con- ditlon. His effort on Monday in the House on | the occasion of the notice of Brodericks death has laid him up for day or two. He bleeds quite freely at the lungs, and doubt if he lives to see another Congress. He cares nothing for | the insult of Edmundson, and says nothing about | it. He was not harmed, and though Edmundson | Hickman has no disposition to exaggerate the offense. Any serious attempt upon his person or life will doubtless be resented by the use of deadly weapons, as he can not trust to his physi- cal foroe."
 He also says that Mir. Seward only waits an oc- casion to deliver, and scatter over the whole country, speech that will make decided sen sation. He will not retraet a single step, though he will explain some of those statements that have been so much belied.
 l Cassus M. Clay delivered splendid speech at Cooper Institute, New York, on Wednesday evening" He retracts nothing, yields to no tim idity, plants his standard, and as Col Benton said of himself, fights for funeral" He said in closing:
 Men of New York have stood here and by this cause through all the days of my youth-all the days of my manhood-crushing out the aspi- rations of ambition, which in a good purpose is God given inspiration, which lifts us up above the beasts which eat, drink, and are merry, and tomorrow die !-iniuyed by the black map-de- spised and ignored by the white man-faithful to one aspiration, the liberties of mankind and the union of these states What now to me are the rose colors of life! These frosts which never strength, amid I know not what tarrtdrs- Tor tne body and the soul, to stand there to my dying day! Sheltered under the same old flag of our | fathers of '76-the Constitution of 99!-each stripe with the ages paling into brighter gal axy of stars in the language of Daniel Web ster-inscFibed with no such miserable interroga- tory," What is all this worth? ?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, Slavery first and Union afterwards" far less Slavery with or without the Union" but bearing his own glori- ous and immortal sentiments, for the which and with the which, in filial pety walk backward and cover up his late political nakedness Lib erty and Union, now and forever, one and in- separable.'
 Governor Banks is quite sick at the Revere House, Boston. He is confined to his room. Stephen Whitney, the merchant prince of New
 York, who died on Thursday last at the advanced agv of s4 years was a native of Derby, Ct, and commencing in New York as grocery clerk he became shipping merchant in the China and Liverpool trades, and retired from active busi- ness thirty years ago, with a. fortune which has since accumulated to Ss,0O0,OOO. He built him residence on Bowling Green, in the days when that locality was considered the court end of the town, and although all his old neighbors had long since left him, he steadily refused to give way before the encroachments of business, and died as he had lived, in his old house.
 It cost Virginia just $933,25 to feed drink and smoke MT. Memminger, the disunon com missioner from South Carolina, during his few weeks stay at Richmond The legislature has ordered the bill paid and that's the end of it.
 The students of South Carolina college, at Columbus, have come out, in suits of grey kerseys of southern make. It is to be hoped they are paid for. Macaulay was buried in Westminster Abbey, not with kings and knights of the Garter, not even with Stephenson or Telford, but in Poets Corner, or the south transept of the Abbey. He lies at the foot of Addison's statute, and close to the grave of Isaac Barrow, one of the great Trinity of Cambridge men, Macauley's own col lege. The historian lies not far off Camden-al- most the father of English history-not far from what remains of May, the historian of the Long Parliament, and near to the remains of Johnson, Ganick, Sheridan, and Clifford, the Tory editor of the Quarterly Repiew He lies facing the statute of the poet of ''The Pleasures of Hope" at whose funeral the noble historian helped with wise selectiop) to bear the pail.
 When MT. ADAM BLACK, M. F., commenced the new edition of his Enc1opodia BsiHanmica, Lord Macaulay felt so strong an interest in the undertaking, and so warm regard for his old friend the publisher that he said he would en- deayor to send him an article for. each letter of the alphabet. This generous offer, the noble his torians failing health and various arocations prevented him omrealizing; but he sent i've articles to the Encopedsa- memoirs Of A.1er- bury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson and "ilian Pitt the last being the latest finished prodac-- ton from his pen. Asany publisher woala nave been glad to give q ,0oo for these consriou'ons' their beng nrs nnrressented as free-wil offering to Mr RlacL ;s fact so, honorable to both parties, esnecially to the nobledonor, that it deserves to '. ,,ub;cly known and recorded. ~ ! The Rev. II. T. Lewis of the Methodist Con ference, wa, was recommended by his physician to