Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

and influential deMocrtttlc JouIual. It IS con- fession wrung by the extremity of torture from Northern democrat, who sees his party brought, step by step, to condition of complete subservi- epcv to sectional and arstocratic monopoly
 "By cottonizing and sugarizing together in Congress and Convention, the South, by unity of action, melted by unity of interests, have so far controlled Presidents and party issues, as to put the democracy of the North, East and West m false positions before the people,. The result has been to drive the democrats from the free States out of Congress. not being able to stand on Southern platforms and cope with the North ern opposition Erery turn of ne Souahe7w Muuab screus upon the Northern democracy has decimated their number, until now, so lar as the democratic party is ccncerned' the oouth nave undsputed control in both branches ot Congress. "It tore down towering Democratic majority in the House it has nearly obliterated the Dem ocratic majority in the Senate-a majority that stood triumphantiy against all opposition for nearly fifty years. Lecompton sent Senator Jones, Senator Wright, Senator Shields and Sen, ator Pugh into retirement, and substituted Black Republicans in their places. It will soon end the days of Senators Bigler Bright and Fitch and leave Douglas the last Democratic Senator in that body from all the Free States
 the sole survivor of his race Douglas is the last commissioned on the list and if the present Southern dynasty is to be perpetuated, Tn GA he will be the only Democratic Senator representing any portion of the great confederacy North of Mason and Dixons line At present the South have the President Vice President and Cabinet Does any one doubt that? The South have q majority of the Supreme Court. Does any one deny this? Dy their late action in the Senate. they have control of our Foreign Relations. our Commerce. our Post Office Department. Territo ries Naval Affairs, Judiciary. etc. And still the SouA are Myeateuing to dissolre he Union hecause Mev gre pe,secuted people! The lit tle State of Florida which has not one half so many voters as Hamilton county, is honored with the chairmanship of two Senatorial Com mittees-Post Office and Naval Affairs-while Ohio. with more voters than Florida, Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia. put to rether has nothing And yet it is the South who are continually ranting against SECTIONAL 1sMv
 Hsg The bill for the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Wyandott constitution passed the House of Representatives on We'd nes1ay last by the decisive vote of "A yeas to 8 nays, only three democrats from the northern states voting against it. Its passage through the Senate, is of course. doubtful but it is to he hoped that the present session of Congress will not close without the consummation of so desi- ra@le aresnlt of this long agitated question. Kan sas is bound to come in free state and nothing can be gained by the slave power by post ponement of the day of it's admission. M~ The Senate of New York have passed a bill providing for the construction of 8 new City Hall in Madison square.
 pssT The marriage which took place some three years since between Maria s. H. Tucker of New Haven. and Alfred w. Upham of New on the ground of bigamy, and Miss Tucker has recoytrel s2 eco damages. Upham was latey 1 married again.
 rsA., John |. Fitch of Bridgeport has been appointed mail route agent on the Hcugstonc railroad from Bridgeport to PittsEeld, in place of Col J. H. St. J ohn, deceased.
 aGs~ The Sumner family of Great Barrington are bound to have a hand in President making 1 Increase, the father is delegate to the Balti- more convention; Samuel B. is the substitute for the Charleston affair and Charles A. an l other and worthy son, is g delegate from Cali iornia to Chicago.
 pa-Dr. F L. Bssell (son of Capt Lyman Bissell U. $. A., of New Haven,) has accepted l the ourgeonship of the Liverpool packet t W eb- l ster, and sailed a few days since. He has been studying, the last three years, with Dr. r. A. Jewett, of New Haven.
 nAJames w. Sheal,an, Esq.,, the editor of the Chicago Times. is now in New i Iork revising the proofsheets of his Life of Judge Douglas which will be published in about three weeks by the Hampers. It will make a volume of between five and six hundred pages, and will present a sketch of the Senators career, accompanied with extracts from his speeches on the important questions that have been agitated in Congress turing his legislative career.
 RG-The Rev. Amos F. Lawrence for nine years pastor of the church in South Britain, re gnsd his charge on the first of April, to take effect on the olst of July.
 es-Theodore Hyatt, the man who would be martyr to the Senate, lives like fighting cock in the Washington city prison tarng stump tuously every day on the very choicest food of the market, washed down with Longworth $ Sparkling Catawba. Once Il week, he gives Il dinner party to his friends of the Senate anu House. Further, we are informed by his Jenk- ins that his barber waits on him at ten o'clock every morning with powder, cologne water anu almond soap his boot black is also in attend ance, who touches off his patent leather boots with beautiful polish, and the trusting prisoner sleeps as soundly when darkness comes as if he was rocked in all imperial cradle, guarded by thousand protecting angels"
 ssss- MT. Sturgeon has declined an invitation rom the oonsresa esational Union to participate Ill It's anniversary exercises in May. lie writes to lr. Thompson that it is quite impossible for him to leave home at present for America, and adds |" have been nearly seven years without a rest, and am hoping this year to make little Journey upon the Continent. must then come home again, and if God shall help ne, stick to It for another seven ycars.'
 Des-Joseph Smith, Jr, has been installed as prophet of a large section of the Alornons
 nea- The recent conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Providence appointed Rev. sydney Dean to the pastoral care of the church in fawtucket, k. |. Mir. Dean represented the third Congressional District of this State in the thIrty-iourth and thirty-6lth Congress.
 8&ss-A Canada paper, thinking the New York He'"a hard up for presidential candidate, since It mas successlvely dropped Duchanan Scott and Douglas, recommends that it take up the Prince of ales That wl do for the HeraAi is great on a whaler," winch is in the marine vernacu- |