The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-18

past uenSuteU themselves IN tnelr HOOP q
Goats, to leave them off, and never wear
them more. Yea, charge you to do it, you
that are under my Watch and Care, and now
publicly warn you, to turn from these Vani
ties. have told some of you in private. hut
you have refused to follow my Counsel; and
think 1t my duty to tell you of it again.
MILITIA.
Hdmi!ton's opinion Of TIE Militia System 40
gears ago.
In 1887, when our militia were few in num-
Der compared with the present time, Alexan-
der Hamilton observed, THE project of dis
cipIining all the militia in the United States,
is as futile as it would he injurious, if it were
capable of being carried into execution. A
tolerable expertness in military movements,
is business which requires time and prac-
tice. 1t is not day, nor week, nor even
a month that will suffice for the attainment
of it. To obi 6 the great body of yeoman-
ry. and other Glasses nf citizens, to b. under
arms for the purpose of going through militia
ry exercises and eVoiutlOns, as often as might
be necessary, to acquire the degree of per-
fection which would entltle them t. the char
acter Of a well organized militia would be a
real grievance to the people, add serious
public Inconvenience and loss. 1t would
form an annual deduction from the produc-
tive labor of the country, to an amount
which calculating upon the present number
of people, would not fall far short of mil
lion pounds. To attempt a thing which
would abridge the mass of labor and industry
to SD considerable extent, void be unwist. ::
and the experiment if made could not sue
coed, because it could not Icing continue-
Little more can be reasonably aimed at, with
respect to the people at large, than to have
them properly armed and equipped: and 10 or
der to see that this be not neglected, it will
be necessary to assemble them once or twice
in the course of year."
True Pith.-The force of language is ant
to be much in ured by the multitude of words
The following is not only entirely free from
that fault, but on the other hand, NAV be
considered a rare specimen Of aconc and
pthy style.
A respectable farmer, not forty miles from
this place, has the singuIarly happy talent of
not saying word too much. young man
wishing to obtain his consent to marry his
daughter, called upon him one day, when he
happened to be in the field ploughng with
his oxen. 1t was past all doubt difficult
matter for diiiident man to breach, and the
hesitating lover, after running parallel with
the turrOw several times round the field. and
essaying with all his courage to utter the i'm
portant question, at last stammered OUT.
-Ive-been thinking Mr.. -, that-that-
as how-I-i-I should be gI-gl-gIad to
Observation-Disclosures your daugh-
ter"
FARMER.-' Take her and use her we'll
lch0a hGiC, cE."-Berk. inner.
The Dutchman's Shower.-Our steady rain
has been interrupted by two or three DAYS
good weather. and pleasantly cold. We have
found good description of the previous
month"; in the Dutchman's weather Journal
" Had dunder shower for. tree weeks, and
then it set in for settled rain. '-Salens Ga.
preacher hearing the cry of an infant a
mons his congregation, commanded that thu
child should be removed--observing at the
same time that crying child in place of
worship, was like the tooth ache-there was
no cure but having it out.
americans and English TdrS.--I have
thousand times observed one peculiar trait 10
the character of seamen. Whenever Eng
Ish sailors are in an American port, or Yam
KEGS in an English place, they are sure to
quarrel-but put the same men in French
or Spanish seaport, and they will unite most
firmly against the common enemy. have
often been amused at the promptness and a
lacrity with which theEnglish sailors uniform
ly espoused our quarrels on the coast of
South America.-WithOut stopping to count