Litchfield enquirer., 1829-07-23
No. -WHOLE No. l62.

cora tN. He Statesmen, in cOmmunica-
 ton advocating the claims of ignorance 10
 office, relates the following anecdote: A Speaker ofthe New Hampshire House
 Ot Representatives, in former times; wiier New Hampshiro's Legislature set in the old one story town house, .having grown
 'mpatient at the Rigponcy and Jysgueacv and impeHiacncy of the nensba.Er fro.,
 H-sssin making motions, called upon
 nm once upon a time to reduce a certain
 motion to writing" It was motion of
 some 4 or 5 lines if written down. The
 member with great promptness, though a
 little embarrassed, stepped briskly to tie ta-
 bles and took pen, and paper, and begin |scratching away with great rcadiness.--.
 Whether he began to tho right or to the ieR of the paper nobody knows. He laid
 about him with the pen and ink. and itiade
 a loud and quick scratching, and displayed great clerkship in handling the quill. The house meanwhile sat in expectation. The Iroguish Speaker called on the ss eeDtleiIl,ssn from H., for his motion sn soriting." He from IL. not having made any headway on
 his paper, continued to scratch, in hopes
 that the House would go about their busi-i iness,s and give him occasion to be over. looked as to the motion. The Sneaker guessed at his policy. Some time eiapseE The member stroked back bis eyected kaiiT., and scratched with his pen. The House began to take the joke. The Sneaker de. manded tho motion in ,orif;ng.'' The member put the ink forth with great vehe., mence, but still was unready to answer the caA. The House began to laugh; the member grew desperate !; tue Speaker waxed merciless--demanded of "tie gen- Ileman from H." that he would ss please to submit his motion in sOsiting." The House were loud m their merriment; and the ke- roic member, instead of saying. Ike an honest farmers of old times, .s ! know nolll-s ing of your goosequilI. ' were not kept in my day instead of ' handling pens, and spelling -books, [ was < handling the axe, or the gun, in two ,cars < --let the clerk figure down what | sav5 '' or rather what mean !''-instead of say. ing this, with the dignity of common sense, the. old Dandy affected to be learned. and. to know how to write and spell, and an fllheI ai.. SUAsOquence was, he was ,augned nn out the House l; and actually W dson. t sa as pen ,lSd and i4k daGa aqa Venture upon s< gain during the session. ? 5s 4gsv.t
 A mechanic promised to do piece Of work for me at certain9inle called tt he time--it was not done--he had forgotten it, but promised to do itat 10 o'clock the next day called agsin--it was not done -" could not possibly get 1t done. .'--I discharged him, and left what he had d0na towards it, on his hands-I engaged an other mechanic to do the same pieceof work at a certain tine--called at the time it was not done---I discharged him.--- These mechanics had violated their word, disappointed me, (by which l sustained loss, in money and time, and lost cus- tomer.--So much for sOasst ot pssnctualiy.
 went to another ihechanic-he prom- ised to do the work at 2 certain time called for it at the time---was ready for me. This mechanic enjoyed the con- seriousness of having kept his word, per-
 formed his contract, and done justice to
 his customer, by which he secured not on-
 ly my work in future but my good will.
 which gained him many more customers---'
 So asuch for paactaaI;ty.
 tis but ten years since the occurrence
 of these things, but during the interval \
 have marked the progress of these me- chanics. A crisis towards which the af- fairs of all three had been gradually ap- proaching, had just been reached ;-The two first lost their business, their little property has been squandered, they have iost their characters, and their large and helpless families are suffering for the neces- saries of lifs-if you would know their persons, seek for them in the grog shop
 their name, on the records of insolvency.
 The last has retired with comfortable in- dependency to large farm--is blessed by his family, admired by.his friends. and possesses the good will ofall.-BaM Fats Original Anecdots.-Some years since, one of our supreme judges was privately re- primandiug an attorney for bringing sevo-
 ral small suits into the court over which he
 presided; remarking that 1t would have
 been much better for the parties in each
 case, had he persuaded his clients to leave
 to the arbitration of some two or three lhonest men. Please your honor" Fe- torted the lawyer, "w we did not choose so trouble honest men with them. -W. Afrs Il Aaecdote.-A singular sort of nlan, ,nOt l .wenty miles from here, scnt fOr magsss
 trate to write lis will. Altar mentioning q