Litchfield enquirer., 1861-04-11
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THURSDAY. APRIL II, 1861.

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 THURSDAY. APRIL II. 1861.
 ! NEW HAVEN, April 2.
 Dear Eaqmrer.-The long silence of your
 New Haven correspondent must not be ascribed to negligence of his duty us faithful chronlcler Tor Me Enquirer of all important local events, for It mo news is good news" this city has had most happy exemption from important occur rences for many months. The usual number of casualties and crimes and deaths has indeed furnished items of certain sort for the city pa- pers, but take it for granted that your readers have not the ghoul-like craving for bloody sub- jects which the denizens of the towns demand to have gratifed by their newspapers. So have only to say of New Haven that she is in a high degree of prosperity business is active,-with greatly everstocked, labor is in fair demand, new buildings, roads, bridges. &c. are progress ing on all sides, and none of the manifold woes which were to have befallen Northern cities i'm mediately upon the secession of South Carolina have yet made their appearance. The workmen who have been thrown out of employ instead of of organizing themselves into armed bands to cut the throats and seize the property of their masters, are waiting quietly for revival of trade or preparing to go where they may expect to find more steady or lucrative employment The capitalists whose income is temporarily diminished by lack of Southern custom do not regard themselves ruined but wait leisurely, knowing that in spite of their spunk the South very soon must need their goods, and will never be able themselves to manufacture them. So that bloody carnival of agrarianism, and mob violence and Communist ascendancy, which has been declared the inevitable result of free so ciety, may be regarded as postponed sine die, notwithstanding the hypocritical groanings and crocodile tears of Democratic newspapers, which by exaggerating the extent of the commercial depression, and discouraging the hopes of work ing-:nen for speedy employment, are doing their best to bring about the evils they affect to dread. The effect of these lamentations, how ever, is most pernicious, for laboring men are led to regard these sympathic crocodles as their only true friends, and with them to lay all the blame of their present ills on the Republican party In a close district like ours the dscon- tent of few unemployed men may turn the scale and it can hardly be doubted that English is sent to Congress this year in place of Wood ruff Various other causes have conspired to bring this about. English has been pouring out here, that in order to secure nomination, he pledged himself to spend $l0OOO on his cleo tion Morever very great dissatisfaction and dis gust prevails among the Republicans of New Haven on account of the appointment of Hen ry s. Sanford "of Connecticut as minister to Belgium. This man is known to be political and personal associate of the Ingersolls to have repudiated all connection with the Republicans, and to belong to family some members of which were actively engaged last fall in trying to defeat Lincoln. Yet when Connecticut sent as her candidate to Washington gentleman of known ability and fitness, backed up by all the Republican influence of the State without a single dissenting voice, that candidate was re- jected, and this Henry s. Sanford was suddenly appointed in his place! The Republicans here justly regarded this an insult not only to their ergy in conducting the canvass loses us the cleo ton, all may know to what cause to ascrbe it. Speaking of appointments suggests little gos- sip about our local offices. N. D. Sperry, prominent candidate for the office of Postmaster, and will probably get it. J. F. Babcock, Editor of the Palladium applies for the Custom house, with Marcus Merriman for his rival; the latter has been hard working and efficient party man, whose services have never been rewarded by any office, but Babcock is personal friend of Lincoln, and undoubtedly has the inside track. It will be amusing to see the paper which has been for years deriding the Regis ter as the recipient of '" Federal pap" conducted by man who derives his support from the same abundant locteals. Pending the allotment of the varions offices and on the eve of a State election there has of course been publicly ex- pressed no word of dissatisfaction with the course of the Administration toward the South ern Rebellion, but have reason to assert that the sentiments of nearly all the Republicans of this region are for taking inamediate and actice measure to defend the government property, and restore our national prestige in the eyes of the world by any expenditure of force, that may be necessary. The coming evacuation of Fort
 Sumter is bitter pill for them to swallow, but if Pickens be also abandoned, the party will be ruined here, and I venture to predict that Con nectcut will never again elect Republican Ticket. On the other hand, if we may but h ve stirring news of the stars and stripes engaged in
 battle for the maintenance of law, whatever may
 be the issues of the conflict at first, the patriot ism of citizens will be kindled, their enthusiasm aroused, and men of all parties will be eager to sustain the administration, not only with their
 votes but with their personal services. Only ask us not, Mir. Lincoln! to stultify ourselves by defending in you the vaclation and imbecility which we have been cursing in Buchanan, and
 we will give you steady and reliable support. " VI Ma. EDrroR.-In looking over the educational Journal for March. I find sad evidence of the ef- feet of our present political troubles upon the educational interests of the country. Twenty six well established and popular semnaries for