Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1860-01-19
POLITICAL.

sCdlS eSihSu d SOpS VI tIS 1elSHHioho u
with which to refute Democratic professions at
home by reference to the columns of that paper.
The thing worked very well in the last Presiden-
tial election, and now when the club has sent on
the money for new year, the letter was return
ed with the Endorsement The Richmond En-
quirer does not want subscribers in Indiana
The Coa'ant says, the Baltimore Patriot and
St. Louis Ecening Ne,cs are using their utmost
influence to have Edward Bates of Missouri,
nominated as the conservative candidate for the
Presidency. His friends in Missouri think he
can carry that State. An Opposition Conven-
ton meets in that State, February 22d, which
will nominate him as the first and only choice in
Missouri. No other Opposition man can get
half the votes in that State that he can. The
Opposition members of the Maryland Legisla-
ture have been urged to meet and put Mr.. Bates
in nomination, in order to place him prominent
ly before the public. He is the only Opposition
candidate that has any chance of carrying a
State below Mason and Dixon's line.
Among the Democratic candidates for the
Presidency, Mr.. Hunter seems to have retired
from the list, Governor Wise having rather run
ahead of him in Virginia The most prominent
names names now are Guthrie, Breckenridge
and Douglas
Some Democratic politicians predict that the
Charleston Convention will make no nomna-
ton.
Some think there will be four candidates be.
fore the people for the Presidency-the Charles
ton nominee, Douglas running as an indepen.
dent, the nominee of the Union party, probably
Bates, and Seward, nominated by the Chicago
Convention.
Douglas has carried Indiana for the Charleston
Convention. He already has. Ohio and Illinois
unless his opponents should give the seats in that
body to delegation lately elected by an Ad-
mnistratian Convention.
The Governor of Minnesota recommends in
his inaugural Message that the present banking
law, in whose provisions the people repose no
confidence, be repealed, and that one of some
neighboring Wisconsin, for instance
long tried and trustworthy be enacted in its
place. This would give currency which will aid
business, and relieve Minnesota from much of
the troubles into which she fell through the inse-
cure law now on her statute books
At the Garrison abolition convention at Buffa-
10, n. Y, the other day, resolutions were adopt
ed congratuating the friends of the slave that
the New York Herald had become safe and
Jealous medium for the transmission throughout
the South of the most powerful and eloquent ut
terances against the slave SYSTEM" and thanking
James Gordon Bennett for espousing the cause
in this hour of its trial
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-THE Iowa legislature yes
terday reelected James Harlan U. S. Senator
by %, to 50 for A. c. Dodge.
The Herald of Freedom of Lawrence, Kansas, has
expired. 1t was established as free state paper
and once had large circulation at the East, but
its influence was sold to the national adminstra-
ion and it lost its list of subscribers and as the
administration had no more use for it, it has come
to an untimely end. The only paper now pub
lshed at Lawrence is the Republican, staunch
and able advocate of free state principles, which
has every appearance of being well sustained
The suhjoined, which has been introduced into
the legislature of Virginia, ought to be styled
" A resolution of popular ignorance
&C Resolved, That the Committee of Schools and
Colleges inquire into the expediency of reporting
bill prohibiting School Commissioners through
out the Commonwealth from subscribing to any
teacher male or female, who halls from the north
of Mason and Dixon's line, unless they shall have
resided in the State of Virginia for at least ten
successive years previous
The VOICE OF PENNsYLvANIA.-Resolutio ap-
proving the firm and dignifed course pursued by
the Pennsylvania representatives. in Congress, who
have opposed the faithless and corrupt national
administration in the protracted contest for speak
err, and declaring that Pennsylvania remains true
to the constitution and the Union, treating the
threats of dsunion with contempt and scorn,
passed the Senate of that state On Friday, by
party vote of 10 to II. They also passed second
reading in the House by IS to 81, and were read
third time, but pending discussion on the
third reading the House adjourned.