Litchfield enquirer., 1879-04-17

The Southern newspapers are complaining as usual. of the injustice of the Northern press in commenting s0 severely upon the assassina- tIOus and murder0us street-hghtS continually occurring ID the late slave States. They aver that those savage scenes are individual, not representative that every American commit ui1y is disgracod by them that they are enac- ted in Boston and New York, Chicago and Cincinnati. as we'll as in Richmond and Atlan- ta. Mobile and Orleans. Stabbing and shooting cases are, unhappily, too common in every city Of the Republic !. but they arc for mCsg pzrt among very different class in the NOgth from what they are in the South Here the men who use deadly weapons are, well-nigh without exception, either ignorant foreigners CT notorious Tuiflans. characters known to and watched by the Police, while there they are men Of position and influence, lawyers jour- naIisss. physicians, Judges, office holders, and tke like They who take part in affrays in the North have never been heard of usually except through the records of crime. In the South they are very apt to be called and regarded as gentlemen they are members of old and dis unguished families, leading men iu the con- muuity. It Is this which eXcites opposition to, and destroys faith in the South. Vulgar mur- dcrs among an unrecognized class would not iuIure her materially. It is the murders and murderous assaults by and upon those she des iguzres as her best citizens that do her irrepar- able harm If influential Southerners do defy hE, IeE them take the consequences let them be punished 4s the law demands, as they would be punished were they poor and uneducated. In the South, a man who has any position or azfecedenIs is very rarely, if ever, made to suf- fer fu< his crime If men like Capt. Cox or Col BufOrd were hanged or sentenced to pris- s0 fox life, and the sentence carried cut, the South would be revealed in a new aspect, and inspire belief ID her instituting new and bet Ter order of things. But this is hardly to be expected Her public opinion certainly sus- tAinS the ouirages she allows to be committed she has herself alone to blame for the unenvi able light in which the North, nc more than civilization al large, regards her at present. S- r. TTnse<.
 Tie Indian Chief Moses, accompanied by several other savages, stayed several days in a San Francisco hotel on their way to Washing stOa- Moses is described as an Indian of the FenImOre Cooper type, physically, but his pic<urcsqueaess was spoiled by suit of civil IErd clothes and stiff, white hat. The Chron- lc8e reporter found the party in their room. Moses was sitting properly on a chair, but one chief hay on the bed, with his feet on the pii- lsW, xn1ther sat in a bureau drawer, and a third TecIined in a marble wash bowl, until an accidental turning on of the water convinced him that he had mistaken the use of that art- cae of furniture Young Chief" the writer adds. ''be&rs striking resemblance to Theo- dIEe FIlf0n, and sea sickness, of which he is anything but well, makes the resemblance ex- &ct; and. singuiarly enough, Howlish Wampo s veEy far counterpart of Henry Ward Beer1er!"
 COBRETT AND TALLEYRAND.-At last this modem Judas and l got seated by the same fire sale Iexpecged that he wanted to expostu- Late with me on ihe severe treatment he had met al my hands had called him an apos- tz1e, hypocTile, aud every other name of which hc was deserving I therefore leave the reader ta imagine my astonishment when 1 h1s@nd him begIu with cemplimenting me on my vii and learning Having carried this SF~eass of fatteFy as far as he judged it safe, A@ .zked me, with a vast deal of apparent