Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-30
Our Hartford Correspondence.
ARrFoRD, Jan. 27, 1862.


 ME. EDITOR :-One certainly ought not to make promises and then break them; and yet I ion't know bat that in the case of my promise to write letter for the ENQUIRER, this rule would be more honored in the breach than in the ob- 'ervance. At all events, your readers would es- cape an inaiction for there is nothing new or noteworthy to gossip about.
 Our City, (she Capital, was about to write, but respect for the feelings. of our New Haven friends prevents has really been devoid of a sensation since the late Political Conventions so wisely and so harmoniously agreed upon Tick ct that will unite the loyal sentiment of our State in one solid phalanx next Spring, unless the Deming horse controversy and the question of the loyalty of our Postmaster can be dignifed into one. The first is really knotty question for professional horsemen and amateur judges of the proper courtesies between givers and recipi- ents, donors and donees, to speak legally.
 It seems that last Fall, hen, owing to the se- ductions of General Butler as to the allurements of the ample pay of a U. 8. Colonel, our wor. thy Mayor changes his mind, ('' ride the Hart ford 7imes' ' recanting his secession letters and speeches of las. Spring, and took to the tented field in all the majesty of two hundred and forty lbs. avordupois, his friends, acting on the idea that " there is more joy in heaven over one sin ner that repsnteth than over ninety-nine that need no repentance" tyou must look up Mis quotation Usrbsdim--I hurent ame1 determinsd to get hin IL horse. Postmaster Cleveland was active, and for his valuable services in raising and collecting the fund, charged only the mode rate sum of one dollar. The money being used fine black horse was purchased and passee over to Col. Deming, the more public p-esenta ton being delayed, as the Postmaster was enga ged in preparing an eloquent address to the Col and replete with erudition upon the history 0 horses in general and Bucephalus in particular D. filled with the patriotic sentiments the Post masters utters, ottener than he practices, iu ths Judgment of the Patriots League. We'll, Col D. rode his own charger, greatly to his satisfac tion, until one day galloping up the hill toward his camp, the unfortunate fact became apparent that the quacraped was WhistIe,;-I believ. that's the word-meaning an extremely unpleas ant noise like the escape of strains that the hors makes when exercised violently. Col. D. sen the horse back to the Livery Stable, and bough stud for himself. The Postmaster's addres passed into oblivion, and horse men discusses tho question as to whether the difficulty con stituted unsoundnessor not. Others queried wheth CT it vas comame i fam to treat gifts costing nea 400 dollars in that way. Meanwhile the paper are filled with innuendoes and communication pro and con, while the horse continues to riot o the rich feed of Clapp & Sharp, at - dollar per week, for some one to pay. This is all tha there is to the Horse matter to this present.
 Our Post Office still stays in the Times build ing as of yore, and Senator Dixon is still i doubt as to whether the allegation that tha sheet is disleya1, is well made. He thinks it i said that Eaton and Burr are misguided men but doesn't really thiuk that they sy1npathiz with rebels or, secession. Ill-naturcd peopl darkly hint that he has hopes of receiving ai from strange sources in the matter of his cleo tion in the next Legislature. At all events hi course is rs.her singular, as tits alcn;tng man who were as warmest friends before.
 The sens storial canvass begin to grow intercs, ing, and the little heaps of earth that mark tn track of a mole, arc not unlike the slight indica tlons that occasionally peep out over the state c the movements of politicians. In the city, ever thing is quiet, but in the county, you see tha things are working. Col. Ferry will be warml pressed in very many parts of the State, and i rather the f'vorite, should say, of Union mel who believe that Senator Dixon was opposed t. a Union movement; the alleged fact together witl his course in the Hartford Post Office makes Un ion Democrats fancy he values the friendship O Eaton more than he does theirs Col. Ferry's en tire success asa soldier in contrast to somany 0 our State appointments, commend him yer strongly to many who were not entirely please before /; he is certainly very much stronger thai he was four weeks ago. It is rather early t. speculate on the result, yet Dixons friends ar the most active-Ferry's the most numerous, a far as can judge.
 The friends of ofSecretary Welles are quite pleas ed at the complete and thorough vindication 0 hls Career in the purchase of merchant vessel for the pavy, furnished in his special repor'. I IS asingular fact, by way of comment upon tn, malicious attack of Hale in the Senate, that tn, War Department, after being swndled in ever possible way in the purchase of transports, from the Cata!ine case down to the last before tn, Burnside expedition sailed, finally were driven i the purchase of the vessels for that expedition, t. the employment of the very plan of Mir. Welles substituting Rowland and Aspinwall for Geo. D Morgan !; and the commissions of H. and A. fo th:s. alone amount to twenty-five thousand dolls Another fact, by the way, within my own know ledge, is that the parties who sold Morgan tn, Bienrille have written to Sec:y Welles, offering bonus of tueatyfce Aousand dozlars to get the ' vessels back. Thers isn't the slightest shadow o doubt but that the Morgan arrangement in it. ressleSas Of the mast substantial benefit to the Government. But Geo. D. Morgan made twice the Presidents salary in few months, and is this right? IS the question honest farmers will al once ask. If were. compelled to answer this question Yes or No, should say No. But the fact is that the transactions with Mr. Morgan were not one single negotiation with this exorti.