The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-31

tainly there is no state better able to pay a fair price for such services than this state is.- We hope for the honor of the state, and for the benefit of the edititorial corps, that a change will speedily be effected in this par ticular. We are friends to prudence and econ omy in the public expenditures, but we do not wish that this prudence and economy should cost too much, by operating against the honor of the state. w.. remember that in a certain legislature in N. E. the sum of two dollars per day was thought by certain mem bers to be too large compensation for servi C4s rendered; and with vast patriotism and zeal a bill was introduced to reduce the a. nOunt|tO @l,5O per day. The time occupied in debating the subject cost the state more than would have been saved by the bill in ten years. The friends of the bill ,hOweS CT, knew best how much their time was worth; and had they asked penny a aday for their lesis- lative services. many an individual who knew them best, would have honestly declared the public losers, by paying them even that small SttLDs \ uG O0SC tS hVS NAoNSy P"A""~S A~ ~ lation to the printers, for however unworthy they, personally, may be of state patronage if they faithfully perform what the legislature orders them to do, they are in that respect worthy oftheir hire."
 Representatives in Mass. are elected in num- bers proportioned to the population of the different towns. The city of Boston has a legal right to send seventy representatives to tho General Court; but as the city authorities were unwilling to draw from the city treasury the sum necessary to pay the legislative ser vices of seventy members, they wisely voted to elect but thirty.-The amount paid from the state treasury to the representatives IS made a specific charge against the towns which elect them, apportioned to the number elected by each town.-On the 10th inst. the election was held in Boston, and five different lists of candidates were in circulation, deslg- hated as the amalgamation, the republican, she federal, the Free-bridge, and the Brokers tickets-containing in all the names of 10s condolences JIG bCSNbt OA AAIo NASNSASA "NS that eight oulyof :hc thirty were chosen, and these eight were on the amalgamatiOn and one other ticket. On the l7th another effort was made to complete the number of repre- sentatives contemplated, but so spirited were the efforts of the different parties, that ma iority of ali the votes was not obtained for any one of the candidates. The time for choosing representatives being expired, the city of Boston will have but eight votes in the lower house, less number than many, of the large inland towns will have. It is supposed the House of representatives will at the ap- preaching session consist of about 800 mem- bers.
 The National Intelligenccr of the 18th inst. contains long and interesting letter from Rev. Javed Sparks, editor of the N. A. Re- view. to Judge Story, relating to Gen. Wash ington's manuscripts and papers, which MT. Sparks is now examining for the purpose of making selection for the press. The let s ters and documents which have never yet s been published are very numerous, and have 5 been preserved in good order.-The whole X number of large folio volumes, arranged with remarkable exactness, copied with elegance and care, and written throughout in an uni form style of pcnmanship, amounts to forty { four. The whole was executed under the immediate care of MT. Richard Varrich, who was employed during the close of the Revo- lutionary War, as recording Secretary to the Commander in Chief; and who, with the aid of three assistant Clerks, was employed two and half years in copying these papers. The originals are carefully preserved and filed. so that there are duplicates of all important letters and papers referring to the revolution. . The whole letter from Mir. Sparks is high iy interesting article, and in these dry times : will be read with much pleasure by every person oftaste and patriotism. We shall en- deavor to give it to our readers in our next.
 Dr. Wm. Adams, Of Schenectady, N. Y. aged s7. arrived in this village on Friday last, having borne, without much apparent fatigue,