Litchfield enquirer., 1868-12-03
PERSONAL. GOSSIP FROM WASH.
 INGTON.

The Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Democ7at, says the National Intel. Hgencer, is about to die, and tells a number of stories concerning the proprietors of that journal, President Johnson and oth- ers-thus:
 THE END OF THE NTELLIGENCER.
 dislike newspaper talk, when there is any excuse for avoiding it, but among the results of this election will be result sig nifcant to Washington and journalism the fall of the National Iatelligencer.
 The National LateAigencsr, of old an es- teemed organ of estimable men, has fired it's last mercenary shot upon the progress of the nation and the race. using the caui- tai city as port-hole. It is pavement talk that 1t is in debt fifty thousand odd dollars to one Polkinhorn, retired job printer, who has foreclosed upon it, and the sequel lies in Bulwer's intorrogatory, What will he do with it?'
 "The ostensible owners of the LnteUioeu- cer are Snow, Coyle $ Go. MT. Snow is a gentleman travelling between New York and Washington. MT. Johnny Coyle was clerk and confidential cashier in the office of that better lnteAigencer owned by the brothers-in- law, Gales 6 Seaton.
 The latter were high-toned' English men-to use pro-slavery phrase-who took no Eote of money and never kept an account between themselves. Each man drew from the common fund enough for his wants; they spent nothing for intelli- gence, rather disdained news-like some of the British reviews-and pensioned off their old servants, took care of them when sick, and otherwise attempted to engraft of <1,o limitations of patronage common to En- glish estate owners. The result was that the Inte4igencer obtained respect and lost money, except for the charity of Congress. Its proprietors failed once in publishing the debates in Congress, and when they went to retire at last. MT. Johnny Coyle, who seemed to have large residuary &C., count, staggered the heirs-at-law with its remarkable amount, and became the work ing head of the new concern.
 POlkinhorn used to be 8 local job prin- ter, as have said, and he owned the build ing in which the LateUigencer was printed He took no rent, advanced money, and at last, when the Pennsylvania, Indiana and Ohio elections were over, his purse strings refused to unloose. By consequence. as the French idiom would put it, the L,teHi- Sencer must stop or find buyer, and the mystery of MT. Johnny Coyle must be solved or remain a mystery. How and where has MT. Coyle obtained thirty thou sand dollars year to spend, when the h. teIlgencer has never made cent?
 LOVE IN THE WHITE HOUSE KrroHEN.
 "I was hearing plentiful gossip upon sold' Washington the other day, from an old lady resident, when she alighted upon this anecdote of romance, associated with the official term of John Quincy Adams. Mrs. Adams was. naughty woman, and her fayorite nephew was one Ben Johnson Hellen, a young law student or lawyer. Hellen going often to the White House, saw there as a domestic or servant of his aunt very beautiful Irish girl. Mrs. Ad- ans suspected nothing of his susceptibil- ity, till one Sunday night it was reported to her that her nephew was escorting the beautiful 'Biddy' home from church. She upbraided the girl severely, who replied that she could not prevent MT. Hellen from following her in the street The young man was debarred from seeing the girl for Q good while, till one day she disappeared. MT. Helen had married her. She lived in retirement in this city many years, and her children rank among the most excellent and reputable citizens here. Of these there were half dozen. distinguished for their appearance and character. Clifton Helen, one of them, was for while law partner of General Thomas Ewing. One of the girls married Attorney Fant of Rich mond. The father Is dead If living he would be Septuagenarian. I save this piece of Kitchen Cabinet history, and be- queath it to that promised Jenkins who shall swoop upon the old clothes of anti quity some day, and trace the holders thereof down to their button makers. Mrs. Hellen is still living in this city, stones throw from the general Postottice, and her children were staunch and splendid Un- lonists during the war, worthy to rank with the legitimate Adams family. Mrs. Adams never forgaye her nephew for loving her housekeeper, and the event cast shadow upon that administration. But who is the worse at this distance-rather, who is not better that all this occurred?'