Litchfield enquirer., 1871-02-23

sas Tlffsbaifg i @ District in Penn sylHnnias aasc Rined the Tyler platoon. TbsS Wera lkS S4ise repudiated by their : e0l4 dtuents. and were never permitted to .darken the doors of Congress again. Err. ir enca6eded in being app6inted and. : @e1nrmed scbgye d'afaires to Denmark. nt Tas.alsa nominated. for ssome such pIsCe m South America. buBrehe Senate re- Gfeqte1 ahim.S ,Affer Gangress adjourned, aIHiaR appoipted ihim tagaia seither to the ss1&zne Dr. non4e 0ther place, and he went off aWl@pnf beings confirmed, but when the Senate met at the next session, he, was again rejected, and had to come home. ge were in Washington for some time - t69krds the close of tlie 27th Congress, in Febfuat1 andsMmch, 1843 .The day be. fore the end was reached, the President 1 snnt to the Senate the names of Henry A. E Wise as Minister to France, and of Caleb Cushing as Secretary of the Treasury. Whatever may have been thought of the policy of sending such an cratic creature as Wise to represent this nation at the court of France, there could have been no doubt nor question in regard to the emil
 nent qualifications of Mir. Cushing for Sec- rstary of the Treasury, but the Senate re- iected them both. Mir. Cushing, at that
 
 not far from where the Patent Office now is. Although we could not agree with him m the course he had taken, and, as one of his constituents, could not consistently support or vote for him, yet our personal reianons were always pleasant, and during our stay m Washington at that time, we were Tree to make use of his house at any hmes to look over the newspapers, of which he took vast number, or to write letters home for our own. As Mr. Cushing had no family, and kept few servants, his quar- ters were very convenient for the purposes of newspaper correspondent.
 On the third of March the Senate and House were in session till midnight That evening we met Mir. Cushing at his resi-. dences and about eight o'clock we started together in carriage for the Capitol The Senate had been in executive session for several hours, and it was known that warm debate was going on in regard to the confirmation of MT. Wise and MT. Cush- ing. When we got as far on Pennsylvania avenue as the National Hotel, there were many people on the side walk and at the doo1 of the hotel, who appeared somewhat demonstrative and excited. The carriage was stopped, and Mir. Cushing asked us to get out and enquire what the stir was about. We did so, he remaining in the carriage We entered the hotel, and meeting a gen. tlaman whom wa knew, ,oekod him the cause of all this noise and excitement. "Why," said be- ''hayn't you heard the glorious news? The Senate has rejected both Wise and Cushingr' For Wise we cared noth- ing, we were glad he had been rejected. But we did regret sincerely the rejection of Mr. Cushing. Therefore it was with rath- CT heavy heart that we went back to the carriage, and broke the news to him that both he and Wise had been rejected. He remained silent for few moments, and then said 'T will not go to the Capitol to- night Please ask the driver to take me back to my house." The next morning the 27th Congress had passed into history.