Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-01

The Austrian expedition for polar dis coveries seem to have been on the whole more successful than most enterprises of that dismal description. They claim to have discovered new island, or conti- nent, about 200 miles north of Nova Zem- bla. By means of sledges they pushed their exploration of this country to lati- tude 30.
 The Redemption Agency organized by the Treasury department finds it impossi- ble to attend to notes of small denomina- tions sent in, and has suspended tempor- arily the redemption of amounts they could not attend to. There seems to have been no sufficient provision for the addl- tional labor thrown on the the department by this law.
 The government secret service detec- tives employed at Washington are turning out worse scoundrels than the fellows they were set to detect. One Nettleship is Q specimen biood-sucker. He had $6, a day, salary; B per day for subsistence, beside heavy Sinc1dentals; and, in addi- tion, has been drawing for three years past salary of 8 day as an inspector in the New York custom house.
 New York Republicans have done well in renominating Gov. Dix. He has proved an excellent executive and deserves the mark of confidence the convention ac- corded him. In one matter we are disap- pointed with our New York friends They denounce the revolution in Louisiana, but have not word to say of the fraud and oppression that have caused the revolu- tion. That may be good partisanship but it is very poor patriotism.
 The railroad war in Wisconsin seems to have resulted in complete victory for the grangers. The last bit of railroad uncov- cred by judicial injunction to compel obedience to the Potter law, was section of the Milwaukee and St Paul road suppos- ed to have been organized under d close charter. A careful examination, however, shows that no such feature now exists in their act of incorporation.
 In his attack on the present New Ha- ven school board Dr. Carmody tCatholic) claims that member of the board receiv- ed $1,0O0 from Lippincotts < Go. for in- troducing their books into the New Ha- ven schools. Dr. Bacon ''calls for an in- vestigation." He has done that once be- fore, if we recolIect.
 The report that the Spanish Bourbon claimants had united in the support of Don Carlos pretentiors to the throne seems improbable on it's face. If there is any restoration it must evidently be of the family of the late Queen, not of Don Carlos The former are too we'll aware of their advantage to compromise them selves with the Carlist movement.
 Senator Schurz made very sensible speech at St. Louis, last week. While condemning the present usurpation in Louisiana, he thought 1t would not do to allow its overthrow by armed force. He spoke in severe terms of the lynching out rages in Louisiana He also said, ''It Is to be hoped that by this time the people of the south have learned that those who disgrace them by deeds of bloody violence are their worst enemies and that 1t is their duty to protect. not persecute the ne groes.'
 The World argues that the right of rev olution is one that applies to the case of Louisiana, and justl6es the action of the insurgents there. Local revolutions in states are just as inconsistent with the sovereignty of the national government as a revolution against the authority of any city, town, or county would be inconsist- ent with the sovereignty of the State gov ernment. Armed strife in or between the various states of republic like ours is utterly inadmissable even in cases where, were the states independent republics, revolution would be justitiable.
 In the October Scrlbner Dr. Holland ayers that "not one author in twenty can live on his authorial earnings. We have altogether too many men who are still drudging for the bread that feeds them and their families, though they have done good marketable literary work all their lives" This view, not a popular one, is. no doubt, the correct one. i good part of this is owing. as the editor of Scribner maintains. to the want of an international copyright. It is so much easier for pub fishers to steal the product of some Eng Gshman's brain than it is to pay the Amer ican author fair price for his work, that most of our literature IS really foreign.
 On Monday next our citizens gre called on to vote upon constitutional amend ment giving all such towns as now have but one representative, and who have population of 5000, one additional repre- sentative. There are, We believe, but four or five towns that will be affected by this change. Bridgeport, Meriden. and Derby arc the chief sufferers from the present arrangement. There can be no doubt of the passage of this amendment Towns of 20, 900 inhabitants, like Bridge port, cannot justly be refused an equal representation with towns of less than thousand inhabitants, merely because the latter were organized earlier than the for mer.
 The New Haven Palladium gives the following account of a patent self-regis- tering and ballot-canceling ballot box on exhibition in that city, last week:
 The box contains a self-registering ap- paratus which indicates by a pointer ey-