Litchfield enquirer., 1872-01-18

There was quite sensation in the Mi
 issouri legislature, last week, over a res,
 iution which passed the Senate directin : the State Treasurer to pay certain Stat bonds in currency which purport on thei face to be payable in coin The part
 fayoring the measure claim. that the ir sertion of these words was unauthorized. I There seems to be an unusually disc,
 derly lot of Democrats in the New Mexic
 House of Representatives. Taking ad
 vantage of a row ending in an adjourn
 ment, one day last week, they made ne,
 organization, elected new Speaker. uu
 seated Republicans ahd carried matter
 with high hand.
 Gov. Jewell will probably be re-nomi mated for Governor by the Republicans O this State. The renomination of MT English is yet in doubt. If the Convention Insists, we presume he will "accept.. Otherwise, either MT. Nathaniel Wheeler W. D. Bishop, or William H. Barnun will probably take his place.
 | ts gsE -------- e.t .-t The Louisiana muddle is to be investi gated by House committee. Yarmouth IS decidedly ahead at latest accounts. His supporters have a majority of both Houses and the President refuses to de. clare martial law. The Garter faction is evidently subsiding.
 The investigation at the New York Chs tom House continues to develop shameful abuses of greater or less magnitude It IS rumored that the President metitates a clean sweep of the officials, and thorough reform of the abuses of that standing nuisance. t+'
 A. Oakley Hall has practically resigned the mayoralty of New York city, Gen. Cochrane, president of the board of alder men, performing the duties of the office. The good results of this movement are at least two 1st, the city is rid of Hall l; I'd, the legislature will not be compelled to patch up charter with undue haste in order to effect the immediate removal of rascally officials.
 We believe there is no question that the opposition of the Pension department to the allowing of claims not presented Ill season is well founded. Not only is there vast field opened for fraud in cas- es where great length of time has ex- pired, but the large arrears involved make the pensioners the fayorite game of class ot agents and and attorneys into whose pockets those arrears, if obtained. are sure to go.
 Senator Carpenter comes out in oppo- sition to Civil Service Reform, and prom ises to make speech against it in the Senate. He calls it, 's:the latest popular deltlsion" and objects to having the ap- pointing power vested in a ''board of schoolmasters. We should judge that not only is the schoolmaster needed in the departments, but that particularly dull lot of pupils in the Senate Chamber need some such assistance.
 The Catholic Total Abstinence Union hold national convention at Baltimore on the 22d of February. We believe that there are several Catholic TemperanceSo- cieties in this county and that they are doing much good. There is no class of our population that suffers so seriously from the use of intoxicating drinks as the Irish immigrants. Every town should have it's Catholic Total Abstinence Socie- ty. .'.''a'f. '''
 The Republican National Committee met at Washington, last week, and agreed to hold the Republican national convention for nomination of president and vice-president at Philadelphia, on the first Wednesday in June. Reso- lutions hostile to Civil Service Re- form were presented by MT. Gorham, the gentleman so extensively repudiated by California Republicans, few years since. The resolutions were not acted upon, al- though MT. G. seemed to think they met the views of the Committee.
 There was quite funny little passage at arms between Massachusetts and the Crest of the world in the House, Thurs day, regarding the expulsion of Roger Williams, Of course the Bay State was wrong, but it isn't quite big enough yet to acknowledge it. About the funniest part of the affair was the set to of Messrs. But Ter and s. s. Cox. We rather think that even the ghosts of the Puritan Fathers must have smiled at the idea of Tammany Cox and Ben Butler quarreling over their memory. Io -a.t... ... -,fts+l!. -.....
 The editor of this paper thanks various newspaper correspondents for their kind notices of his appearance at the Wolcott- vile Woman Suffrage Convention, last week. The Sentinel reporter who says we ''snorted with appreciation" and the Index chap who stated that we wore a night-cap on that occasion (or ought to have worn one, we forget which,, were
 aistaken; but the villain who assured the Hartford Post that we expressed a desire tp run for the Legislature is malicious
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