The Litchfield County post., 1829-01-08
LITCHFIELD TOWN COUNCIL.

At the annual meeting oi the Town Councll ol the town of Litchfeld, on Monday the 5th inst. the board, (conssting of 30 members) after very pert- nent address b the Hon. $. F. Beers, voted, searly unanimously that ardent spirits should be furnished for the board on the occasion. The bus- ness of the meeting was conducted with the utmost harmony, and the members separated apparently sat- isfed with the vote which they had taken.
 MEMBER OF THE BOARD.
 [We are highly gratifed tha, so respectable body of men as our Town Council are found marshaled in the ranks of those who are hreastng the tide of the prevailing vice, in'emperance it argues highly in fa- vor of their philanthropy as well as moral recttude, and we hope their eAamf fe will be the means of 'ndu- cng others t 'ourE not, taste not, handle not, of the accursed thing.' The march ofpubiic opinion is steadily onward, and we hope and confidently trust that the time s speedily approaching, when dstille- ries will be destroyed, and those who are now enga- ged in manufacturing a slow, but consuming and deadly poison, will no longer find market for a bev- craze which palses the faculties both of the physical and moral man. But to bring about this desirable re- formation it is necessary to do something more than merely talk in favor of it; good practical effort like the above recorded, will effect more than all the fnespun theores upon the banefuI consequences orntemperance that were ever drawn from the brain of the most astute mnra'ist.]
 MR MADISON ON THE CoNsTlrUTIoN.-Ino next we shall publish Letter No. I. of Mr. Madison on the Constitution, ,and the remaning as we can make room for it. We know not what effect these letters will have upon the ant-arf men at the south. who have declared the Tariff to be uncopStiutiOnal, and who are this moment threatening dissolution ofthe Union unless ii be repealed well as those at the north opposed to the existing duties foreign imports; but the testimony of of the tramers of the Constitution in favor of the constitutonay of protecting domestic manufactures, cannot but exert great influence on the minds of those who willing to listen calm reasoning and sound logic
 STEALING NEwsPAPERs-There are certain class of men infinitely culP pablo, if possible, than newspaper borrowers i've refer to those who are in the habit of taking their neighbors newspapers from the place where they may be deposited for their CTS, without returning Hhem. Now whatever these people may think of the of this practice, h is species of pilterng in the utmost degree mean and despicable, and one in which no strictly honest man will indulge. Whatis there in the composition of newspaper that renders it less crime to Ich it from the owner than take any other description of property privately and with, felonous intent? The same degree of cupabily should and does attach it. self to ones who plays ght-fngered pranks with a newspaper, if he should puro;n other riflng arti- ces of equal value. Nay, more-for he not only thieves from the the which the paper act ually cost, but also deprves him and his family of the valuable information, well as amusement, which they would have otherwise obtained from perrsal of the sheet: thus not merely stealing a mans property, but taking from him his mental aliment, hch is doub- ly reprehensibie. Besides, people generally wish 10 preserve regular fife of their papers, but they are in this manner deprived of doing it, and part of file papers is to them the the broken volumes of any work. We have douh, but whst this article will meet the eye of some ofthese 'ight-ngered gen. try who may take 1t into their heads to lay thievsh hands upon this number of paper for their town and behoof," to the injury of a subscriber if so we hope they will consider it paIpabIe hint, and regulate their practices accordingly EDITORIAL MovEMENTs.-O. E. Williams, Esq. off the Connecticut Mirror, has resigned the editors chair to Jonathan Edwards, Esq who is hereafter to conduct the editorial department ofthat paper. The Republican Advocate, heretofore published by J. B. Capp, has been transferred to J. B. EIdridge who has changed the name of the paper to CoDnec- ticut Centinel," and declares himself Jacksonian
 hr. Benedict, editor of the NOrwalk Gazette, has established new paper at Fairfield, entitled the Saugatuck Journal" and has now two presses un- v his conuol.