Litchfield enquirer., 1860-07-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITIGAL
 D0 Horace Greeley comes out with ascath- ing letter in the Tribune addressed to Ex-Gov Washington Hunt-who has lately been doing whatever he could to blacken the character of his former associates and to embrace the foulest images of negro propogandism. We trust the excellent rap on the knuckles he receives from Mr. Greedy may be sancti6ed to his spiritual and temporal good.
 THE CONFESSION OF J. s. HARDEN.-The Tren- will be published this week. The writer com mences with his childhood, and goes on to give description of his life until he began to teach school at or near Blairstown his manner of life while teaching; his appointment as colporteur; ]; his license to preach describes the people among whom he was thrown, and the influences surrounding him tells of his success as preach CT: gives a sketch of his first acquaintance with the Dorland family describes his courtship and marriage tells how, where and why he poisoned his wife gives his flight, travels. arrest, &c. A number of essays of his own, and letters to friends while he was in prison, will be published with the confession, and the whole will make a work of from fifty to seventy-6ve pages
 Harden's father who will publish the work, has employed few general agents for its sale.
 p~ The editor of The Cincinnati Times, while on jaunt recently had his attention call ed te venerable person who it was alleged was probably the oldest man in the United States. His name is Solomon Pangborn, who says he was borriin the city of New York, then small town of five or six hundred houses,i in l725. He is consequently l35 years old. Shortly after his fofh River, not far from Fort Johnson, whither he removed. The old gentleman resides at Rising Sun, Indiana, where he has relatives in comfort able circumstances. He complains that for the last year or two his health has been much inn paired and that he is so old medicine fails to improve his condition as it might in younger person. He is perfectly resigned to live as long as God will permit him but says that he would have met the fate common to mortality with a similar resignation many years ago. His sense of sight, as we'll as that of hearing, is much i'm paired, and he moves about with difficulty, al- though he still contrives to help himself, and uses neither crutch nor cane.
 Rs1~ Some Nova-scotian, dealer in grind stones, has prepared specimen of his wares for presentation to the Prince of Wales One side of the stone bears this pregnant legend : For the Prince of Wales. Our Hopeful King. l860." On the other side is the business card of the donor. An artificial leg or two, a few glass eyes, and perhaps an invoice of assorted cofins, will be cheerful and appropriate gifts wherewth to welcome his Royal Hi ghness, and the artificers in these goods ought to be on the alert Perhaps he may have an axe to grind.
 eas~Mr. Joseph Gales, of z'he Washington National AateNigencer, died on Saturday evening. Though an invalid for some time, his death was sudden and unexpected at the time. He was the senior editor of 7he heteHigence,' and in the 75th year of his age.
 peg- Mayor Wood is following up his plan of obtaining control of all the departments The New Workers might have escaped all this tyran- ny by uniting on candidate in opposition.
 Sar One of our exchanges calls the proposel joint-stock Democratic ticket of this State he Succottssh 1ichet''
 pea- Among the objections urged against Lane, the democratic candidate for Vice Presi- dent, by the citizens of Dubuque, Iowa, are the following: l. He spells God with little Q; 2. He spells barracks, ba,ran: B. He spells dirt with two Is I. When ill exico he dated letter, Very Croose;' 5 and last, he can't keep hotel.
 EeA- Henry Clay Dean. reverend whose pety stepped out when he was chosen chaplain to the U. s. Senate several years ago, and who has since been paying heavy debt of gratitude by all kinds of dirty work for the party-is now am- bilious to run, for Congress in Iowa, against Judge Curtis. He feels that he has been ESQ much slandered, sir, aye. sir" that several thou sand votes, even if they be on the wrong side of majority. would not come aniss. In late speech to the democracy of Mount Pleasant. Gowa) he said:
 "I have been abused more than any other man. My private life has been abused-aye sir, my whole private character has been turned up aye, sir, my children have been driven from school, because was democrat. Aye, sir, everything have on Gods earth, except the virtue of my wife. has been attacked and So help me God, if that's attacked. blood will how' Great sensa- }ion, in the midst of which, some daring fellow exclaimed 70 Golly! Amt VIC glad he told us?"]
 EeA. Ex-Presdent Pierce has written letter of sympathy to Ben. F. Hallet, and says he wishes the party could all unite on Breckinridge and Lane, but as they won't, he does hope the plan of union electoral tickets will be carried out. Nothing else he says will save the party from total defeat.
 nea- In New Jersey in 1856, there were l4 newspapers for Fremont, 6 for Fillmore. IA for Buchanan, and II neutral Now, P go for Lincoln, 2 for Bell, 10 for Douglas, 4 for Brock inridge, and IA are undecided or neutral.
 saeIt is estimated that the Breckinridge ticket in Ohio will poll upwards of 3O,OOO votes The Republicans there expect to gain one mem- Der of Congress. We are glad to learn that John Sherman, Hon. J. A. Gurley J. M. Ash ley and Thomas Corwin will probably be re- nominated without opposition.
 Bg- The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, the able and faithful Representative in Congress from the Ninth District of Indiana, met with an enthusi- astic reception at the hands of his constituents on his recent return home from Washington.
 DG- The New York Herald says: "Lincoln is virtually elected. Breckenridge and Douglas have elected him between them, and all that Old Abe has to do now is to select his cabinet and get his things ready for ajourney to Washington"
 nea- MT. Douglas visited Bunker Hill before leaving Boston. Friday evening, and was greet ed by 4O00 of the people of Charlestown, to whom he made his speech on popular sovereign ty with appropriate variations His little speech at the commencement dinner is his first without allusion to self-government or popular sovereign ty and closed with the happy remark that though he was.not son of Harvard, he certainly should after the kindness of his reception, "claim to be friend of the family"
 Ha In the course of his remarks at the Cam bridge dinner the other day, the Hon. Edward Everitt thus complimented the Governor of Massachusetts:
 His Excelency the Governor who has ad- | Sn noh d all