Litchfield enquirer., 1872-02-08

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 Attention is called to the advertisement Of the ssWhite Star Line" of steamers for Liverpool in another column. For fuller information call on G. Eaton Jones of this place.
 Gov. Scott of South Carolina makes as bad an exhibit of the State finances as could well be. An increase in the public aebt of over eight millions, in single year. from Nov. 1870, to Nov. 1874, is ad- mifted- Perhaps the Ku Klux exhibit is trihe more barbarOus than the foregoing, but is 1t moro disgraceful ..4.-
 The Hartford Insurance companies have p&ld foR taxes in Pennsylvania alone, for the last year, $SS. .4SI. .96.. The Oonuecti- cut Mutual pays nearly S16,OOO. ,...t
 If they can pay that amount for the privilege of doing business in Pennsylva- mia. how pauch tax can they afford to pay Connecticut on their premium notes?
 There was a queer contact in the elec- tioa Co fill a vacancy in 8 Philadelphia Senatorial Dist, last week. There was no Democratic candidate nominated, but '.Aleck" Mcclure ran as an anti-Adminis- tratiOn candidate. He came within 75O votes of an election, and claims that even that majority was obtained by fraud.
 The Congressional committee inyestiga- ting New Orleans affairs have taken evi- dence showing that Collector Casey fur nizhed the gunboat for the seeding State Senators who were trying to delay the or g4zizztion Of the legislature Queer bus ines. for Government official to be in. The Tribune also publishes letter show ing that Casey was the successor specially desired by Perry Fuller, of fragrant mem cry.
 \ gushing NOrthfeld correspondent of the Winsted Herald suffers typographical torture in the following aggravated form Our Episcopal friends have no regular service nov, and numbers of them are 3rMwa within the charmed circle of which SuK paiplt ls the center. We see the cl0aH-she little cloud-int the far-Oif hori- zCa. and we wait, expectant wait the gTMtEful pattering of the drops, which Preelade the cOpiOHs showers. iie s
 I. TsrwiIliger . sinner above all legis lAtive clerks. The investigations of the New York Senate Committee strip the prOOf-rsadfng disguise of the 20 per cent commission allowed him by the firm to whom he gsve the public printing. very efeetnslly. Another swindle has come to light in the percentage allowed one South. wick vhO disposed of the printing of the New York Insurance department. Is mol this percentage gouge a very. old and very common practice of legislative clerk in other legislatures than that of New Yoxkq .-. ...s.,., .fsgs
 The appointment of Mir. Legate, dis reputably mixed up in the old Andrew Johnson impeachment business, and prob ably guilty OfbribingSenators, as gevernol Of Washington territory is not creditabl, to the Administration. But the Presideu can urge in his justification that Legatei appointment was recommended by a pe titiOn signed by sll the State officers ol Kansas. the Republican State Senators and hy maay of the Republican members Of the State House of Representatives.
 Biggs was himself again. at the Edu. eatiOnal debate in the House. Friday. He didn't believe in education. They hadn't any to speak of in Delaware and he could prove that his State was twice as moral as Mansachusstss. This he proceeded to do hy showing how many persons had been PEoseeahea for crime in that State. MT. Hear replied thAs 50 per cent of thei, criminals were of foreign birth, and in, variably voted the Democratic ticket Riggs considered this explanation an mi waxrantaiile attack on the citizen q foreign extraction. Several Southerl members supported Riggs, and the Hous. was in roazs of laughter through tn, whole debate. Riggs is very am.isinl bat isant he rather expensive ? a <
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