Litchfield enquirer., 1876-01-27

The leading opponents of the new jail are tke editor of the New Milford Ray and James McMahon, Esq, of that place. We have 50 often heard their opinion of Litch- field that it is with a certain degree of grim satisfaction that we hear tbeir opin- ion of each other. We extract the follow ing from an article in the last Rray: Last spring. we gave offence to Judge McMahon, whose name appeared among those of the Litchfeld County members of the Legislature that offered themselves for sale, by publishing a letter which showed, if it was truthful-as we believed then and believe now it was-that he had been guilty of fraud Tn the ''ready to be co,aUinced" matter. We did not say half we might have said, and he should have been grateful to us for what we withheld, rather than offended at what his own statement compelled us to publish; but he was not; and has since been our bitter foe, threatening, we have been told, to make us all the trouble in his power.
 To this style of eulogy, Mir. McMahon himself. if we are any judge of style, replies with an energetic quarter of @ column in the Winsted News, from which we make the following extract:
 The Ray man sees ''the handwriting on the wall" and knowing that his subsbrib- CTS are constantly deserting him, begins to rave and make low filings and silly at- tacks on some of our townspeople, but it does him no good and only increases the contempt and disgust which decent people began to entertain toward him, his com- panions and his paper, some time ago.
 P. s. Since printing the above, we are in receipt of card from MT. McMahon which will be found in another column and which makes square charge of att tempting blackmail against persons con- nscted with the Bay.
 Last weeks Winsted Herald gives pleasant account of the Nautilus Club meeting at Lakeville. It seems that they propose chartering schooner, next sum- mer, sailing to Philadelphia with their wives and lady friends to the number of one hundred in all, lodging aboard ship while there, and then sailing back again, all for the moderate sum of $25 per head. MT. D. F. Stillman, of Lakeville, is commodore Ii. e.. does the chief swear ing); and J. H. Vaill, editor of the Her aid, is chaplain G. e., takes the short end of the moral lever). The Jonah of the ex- petition is not yet elected, but we nom- mate for that position the Poet who con- tributed work eighteen stanzas (deca- meter acatalectic) to the Lakeville cele- bration. A thing of that calibre fired off on shlp-board would sink the best schooner that ever went out of Bridgeport Harbor; even the Winsted Herald stag gers under the weight of it. Success to the expedition and it's chaplain and may their provisions stay where they are want ed, and not be hoisted overheard in small parcels, with infinite labor and sorrow, by individual excursionists.
 Dr. Holland is tremendously conserva- tive, but not quite stationary after all, and the frankness with which he acknowledges his mistake in heretofore objecting to the removal of the Bible, as a reading book, from the public schools, is wholly admi- rable. Indeed, those who carefully and candidly consider this matter cannot but acknowledge the logical weakness of the popular Protestant position on that ques- ton.
 Clubbers have written us to know why the Feb. No. of Harper's Magazine is not forthcoming. We see by the papers that it has been delayed, We believe by the non-receipt of the opening chapters of novel by 'Geo. Eliot" so that it will not be out till about the 1st of Feb. . MT. Tucker, of Virginia, may enjoy making long speeches, denying that the United States is not a nation, but it is a waste of time. The "corpse" has got we'll and needs no more coroner's inquests.
 In part payment for what he deserves for beating Joe Hawley, Fate has located Congressman Lander's seat in the House of Representatives between Mormon and negro.
 The judge of the Waterbury city court has decided that schenck beer is not in- toxicating. Queer decisions are common in liquor cases.
 Gen, E. M. Lee, formerly of Gnilford, is in trouble about $2O,OOO he received when an official in Wyoming.
 The Democratic State convention is to