Litchfield enquirer., 1865-01-05
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ANY CONGRESSMAN poR SALE!- Washington correspondent says:
 Several members of Congress have each re- ceived q letter from person offering tn pay their election expenses ii tEey will appoint hir son a cadet to West Point. hey are all signed by the same person. and are entirely alike. Tho different members of Coilgress to whom the letters were sent look upon West Point Academy as too sacred to bs approached in an. such way, and that mel it and worth are alone the qualifications which should be considered In the appointment of cadets. Here is the let ter: ss-...
 NEw YORK Dec. :, 1864.
 DEAR Sra {: You have, am informed, an az pointment of a cadet to West rvint. My soll desires to enter the army. where many of his near relatives have served and died. eL Your eleciion. expenses have been large. Can E have the appointment and be permitted tn refund to you, for party uses. euch portion :, thereof as you may name. Tru yours.
 The young man eau at once remove into your district.
 s A GRowL AT JEFF.-Thc Augusta Chronicle, regarded as Gov. Browns organ. says: It is very evident that the centraliz ,tionists in COngre s are determined to crush out State Rights principles during the present session. ii 3 possible. lhese princi pies embUdy the very rights we are fighting for, and if the privilege. and liberties we are struggling to defend iron, fees are wrenched from Us under the plea oi military necessity, by those who profess to b. E friends. we are fallen upon evil times indeed IT Congress dareS to take any further steps to wares drspotism, it will be high time for State Executives 10 speak out in the name oi their respective common ealths and take me l. sures to prevent any unconstitutional laws from being put in force in the States over whose destinies they preside, ani the interests o whose citizens they ares bound to watch over and protect.
 THs WEALrHIEsr MAx-Ax ANNUAL INcox, CT $6.O0O. .OOO -Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods nsbob of New York. has the largest in come of any man in America. or (proba bly) ir the world. He has lately paid an income tal of $260, ,00O!-on Q net income of fue million doltars.
 This would be the interest at per cent. 'o over eighty millions. We know of no case mong the wealthy men of Enslapd that snr passes or equa.s this and we suppose Stewar, is the richest man living.
 Mr. Stewards annual business is thirty mill Ions. and his pro6ts-as appea rs by his tax are i've millions year. lie owns fourteen millions in real estate. Moses Taylor, who pays taxes on an income of $500, ,UOO, cau scarcely be called wealthy maa in compari sou with Mir. Stewart.
 The political reason why negroes should vo. in Louisiana, Wsadall Phillips puts in nu shell:
 'sGiye the negro the ballot, and he don't as you to protect him he can protect himself Let mo see Q man to-day. in the streets of Bo. ton, Ire d on the humblest Irish boy in tn city, and will give that boy tue twelve pa pers of Boston and Henry Wilson for his pat ron, in week. Why? Because every Irish man has . vote, and therefore it would not d to infriaEs his rights. So it will be with th negro in Louisiana and South Carolins Civ him the ballot, and the demagogues of bot parties will be eager to show him respect.
 Orders have just been issued relieving Gvn 0. 5. Ferry, U. 5. V., from the command ( the Juniata District. and assigning him to dut as military commander of Philadelphia. Mai JohnL. Morgan, 2lst Penn. Vols. has bee assigned to duty as commanding officer of tn Juniata District, hY order uf Mai tsen. Cad waldsr. The Philadelphia Inquirer speaks i, complimentary terms of the appointment a 2 Gen. Ferry as military commander or Pni,a dslphia, and slys Che is firm anu enerye,i. officer, and his administration will be, doubles marked by success"
 s., 4 man who was employed in saving ;woo with . circular saw, at Wheeling, on natul day, proceeded about his work us usual, Lu hnd scarcely put the saw into rapid motion when 1t suddenly parted, one half living n rapd passing through is-bfcast and head cutting the unfortunate man in two--th. tw, x parts of the body falliug to the floor in oppC SaAdisaetlans.