Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1830-02-04

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last the enc half OF half a century. Sir, I
will stake any thing short Of my salvation,
that those who are malcontent now will be
more malcontent three years hence than
they are at this day. l have ne favor for
! this Constitution. I shall vote against its
adoption, and shall advise all the people OF
my district to set their faces--aye-and
their shoulders against il. But if We are
to have il--let us not have il with its death
in its very face with the .facics hypO-
Cr0tic0-lhe Sardonic grin Of death upon
its countenance."
LANDLORD AND TENANTS.
The last number of Mr.. Angeles Law
Intelligencer' contains an article on this
subject, of practical utility, to both lessor
aud lessee ofCstates. There arc but few
men, who give or receive leases that exa-
mine infinitely into the nature of the con-
,rnct they engage in. The tense is too
frequently drawn carcl essly, and binds both
parties contrary to their will and intention.
What lessee ever supposed that his cove
nant 10 surrender the premises in as good
order and condition as he received them,
made him an insurer against tempest or
FIRE? There is not man scarcely in the
country, who holds lease for years, that
believes be would have to rebuild at his
own expense, if the house he hired should
be accidently consumed by fire. Yet the
law compels him to, if by express stpula-
ton, he agrees 10 redelver the premises in
good order aud condition. There are but
few who think themselves under legal liza
L. c>, nj OF
after i, is consumed by fire yet, il the
lease does not expressly provide an ex-
emption the law holds the lessee answers
bic. We find no fault with the law; 1t is
probably on correct and equitable princi-
pies. II lessons and lcssees understand
these legal liabilities, it is well IL man
is willing to hire house for ten years, and
to pay rent for the same after it shall be
destroyed by tempest or fire, he certainly
has a right to, and the contract may be g.
quilable between the parties. But 1t IS
hard case for man to be compelled to
pay rent for n house which has been burnt
down, when he did not expressly so COW
enant aud agree.
The law on this subject is we'll settled,
although not generally understood. The
principles are laid down in the case OF
Fowler, CT. al. US. Bolt, ct. al. 6 Mass. %,
in which Sewall, Judge said, that lease
for years was sale fthe demised prcmis-
cs for that term; and that unless in the
case of an express stipulation for the Pnr-
pose. the lessor does not ensure the prem
Uses against inevitable accidents, or otheE
deterioration. That the rent is in effect
the price, or purchase money to be paid for
the ownership of the premises during tho
term; and that their destruction. or any
depreciation Of their value, happening
without the fault Of the lessor, is no abate-
ment of his price, but entirely the loss of
tho purchaser. When there is no cove
nant on tho part Of the lessor to insure a
gainst fire, or any engagement to repair
The premises, in that event, or any other
casualty, by which they may be impaired
or DESTROYED, the accident becomes the
misfortune Of the lessee, and he IS not en-
cuscd from the rent
The law being so, lcsSces should ccrta'h-
ly know it.-ProU. Journal.
| SMALL THINGS! OycrhauIing bundle
Of papers the other day. we met with or'ci
notices of the following "small things
: worth, in aggregate, perhaps, much more
than the value of all the -four or tobacco
exported!
7'ocks. The Boston Palladium states
that the business OF making 'acks - carri-
ed on very extensively in Abingdon Mass,
about twenty miles from Boston, by patent
machines which turn out the best, il is said
tha, arc made. Nearly one hundred per-
sons arc constantly employed By the en-
tcrprising proprictors of the machines
Messrs. Eliu and Benjamin Hobart, and
the manufactured article is dispersed and
approved all over the United States
Some of the handsome and perfect tack
are so small that one thousand weigh only
an ounce. Great quantities arc used IL
Boston, aud still greater are regularly ship
ped thence in coastwise packets. Nuss''
iron is necessary for this manufacture.