Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-07
From the N. Y. Independent. EARLY HISTORY OF A TRAITOR.

A COLLEGE "REMINISCENCES.
 The class of 1929, in Yale College, two years in advance of mine,) was the finest body of young men that ever saw in college. Prominent in it were Elijah H. Mills, oson of Daniel Webster's immediate predecessor ia the United States. Sem ate,) .aciie princeps, but dying very young, Hen. " A. Boardman, D. D., Joseph Eldridge, D. b., Edwin R. Gilbert, D. D.; James W. McLane, D. D., Daniel Ullmann, Francis Gillette, Hate Senator in Congress,) T. Adam Spence, (late Representative ill Congress,) and many other men of mark.
 There was one of the class whose name cannot be found on the list of graduates. or on any an nual catalogue after 1927. He was and still is handsome little fellow, looking very small in his class, who, with few exceptions, were full of man. ly growth This youth hailed from a great state of ''the chivarous sunny South,' bright-eyed, dark compleNioned, and ardent as Southern sun could make him. In the early part of 1898, there was a mysterious trouble in that class Watches, breast-pins, seals, pencil.cases, pen. knives, jack-knives two-bladed knives. four blad- ed knives, etc., etc., etc., and lastlv sundry sums of money, "lying around loose'' in students rooms disappeared unaccountsbly. The losers looked goomily at each other, and suspiciously at others, Something must be done. They finally constitu- ted themselves volunteer detective force, set their trap-baitcd with thirty five dollars in good bank-notes-and soon caught the thief Hecon. fessed. On opening his trunk in his presence, they found it nearly full of missing vaiuabes- jewelry. pocket-cutlery, and horlogery enough to stock a Chatham-strcet store. He begged pitt fully not to be exposed they looked piteously at his handsome young face, and relented at tho thought of blasting his opening life. He had been universal f:,vorite, the pet of his class; SO they agreed not to inform either the city magis- traes the Faculty ofthe University, but ordered him to ''clear out" at once and forever. He went instantly to good President Day, obtained a cer- tfcatc of honorable dismission, and vanished. That little thief is now Senator in Congress, advocating and justifying and threatening the robbery of forts, and the stealing of the military cutlery and hardware generally of the Federal Government, without any more color or shadow of pretex than he had for his like operations on his tellow-students just thirty-three years ago. A third of a century has not made, and can never make, any change in such an originally born rascal.
 Had those early filchings been mere thought less, boyish escapatie, a momentary yielding to 1 temptation while in great want, they would not deserve mention now but they were systematic ed theft, ,long continued accumulated, ,and hoarded offerings from trustful bosom friends. Had the fellow not at length reproduced his private morality in public life, would have al. lowed the secret of his early crimes to remain in the hearts of the few who then knew and now re- member it. D. FRANCIS BACON.
 Hea- A correspondent of the Steele, Paris, the government organ of France, writes from Tunis, Algiers, as follows :-
 Our College of philosophers at home, may, and probably do accomplish great deal for the cause of science, but the Americans are the peo. pie to turn these discoveries to practical accounts. Many of the modern inventions in use here are American, and one American chemist, Dr. J. c. Aver of Lowell, supplies much of the medi. cine consumed in this country. His Cherry Pec- toral, Pills, Sarsaparia, and Ague Cure, consti- tute the staple remedies here, because they are of easy application, sure in their results, and have the confidence of the people, While the science of medicine is carried to higher perfec. ton in our own country (France) than any other, it strikes Frenchman as a little singular that an American Physician should furnish the medi. cal skill and remedies for our Principal Pro- vince,
 ReA- Mir. Ashmore, one of the seeding South Carolina members, is anxious to retain his priv elege of franking. He has addressed letter to Acting-P -Postmaster-G General King, asking if he still possesses the right to exercise the franking privilege, and stating that he has some 1,2O0 documents upon which he is 10th to pay postage. MT. King replied that according. to the theory of the Administration, South Carolina was still in the Union, and hence he has, right'to frank un. til the first Monday in December next. If, how ever, he regards South Carolina as out of the Union, it is question with himself whether ho can consistently exercise that privilege, the use of which would be an admission that he does not Tn his conscience consider that she is out of the Union, and that he is still a member of the Con- gress of the United States.