Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-11

IS very impressive. Washington IS Htle superior to Albany, and both are dull places. Wretched as are the newspaper reports, they are more interesting than the original speeches; trifling as arc the ae- } counts of Washington, they do more than
 justice to the things they describe; all men
 here loom at distance above their natural
 height. To this place, as to mountains,
 distance lends enchantment." Green is decidedly in bad odor with the i Jackson party, and it is said that had not 1 Mir. Webster by his resolution driven the
 party into phalanx again, they themselves would have attacked Green. He will not be the "government organ" long. MT. Mo cDuffie is small man, very careless ly dressed, has brown hair, fresh complex
 ion, prominent nose, and good eye. lie
 is much respected by all parties, and per- haps possesses more influence than any one
 in the House. can learn nothing detln- ite of future political movements. Cal ] houn and Van Buren hate each other with
 unmixed sincerity Van Buren is the pres
 ent lord of the ascendant. Of cue thing
 De certain-thore is large, unfinching
 and undiminishng party in the opposition,
 with good spirits and hopes and Henry
 Clay is its present favorite. Van Buren
 may carry the day, but he will not gain his
 suit by default.
 Mi!itia.-The committee, to whom was
 referred so much of the Presidents mes-
 sage as relates to the organization and dis- cipline of the militia, have submitted their
 report to the House of Representatives, from which we take the following extract: In relationto an efficient organization off
 the militia, so much desired, because it is
 SO essential to the safety of this great and growing Republic, the Committee are of opinion that the system which is least com plax in its general character and machinery, the most simple in its details, and with greatest case most habitually familiar should be preferred, because it would generally be most effective its operations. In the arr rangement of such q system, the Commit-
 tee propose to hold subject to militia duty
 able-bodied free white male persons, be- tween the age eoftwenty-one and forty years old. Adopting twenty-one and forty years
 as the commencement of liability to enroll-
 n,ent, and forty years ofage as the termIn-
 ation of service, will not only reduce the
 number of the militia of the United States,
 already embarrassingly numerous, but will
 leave undisturbed the relation which legal ly exists between master and apprentice, guardian and ward, and parent aud child, a relation which ought not to be disturbed on any but occasions of pressing emergen- cy. Nor ought any person be held to the
 performance of service to tho government,
 but such as are admitted to a full particle
 patton of all its benefits and imnlunities.-E Intimately connected with such a system of organization, should be considered classification of the militia, which, by it's operation, would annually exhibit detailed for actual service, portions of the militia competent in number to meet probable ex- agencies, and whose service in the field would be most efficient, while their absence from the bosom of society, and from the pursuits of husbandry, would be least inju- rious to their immediate relations and their country in general.
 An indispensable requisite in forming an eff cient militia is knowledge of the cor- rect theory and practice of the use of fire arms, as well as the certain means of acqui- ring them. The committee, however, re- spectfully protest against the policy of compelling individuals enrolled for militia service to furnish arms, as such compulsion would, in effect, amount to a capitation tax; unequal, and often extremely oppres- sive in its operation, it would be unconsti- tutional. They suggest that number of arms, equal to the whole number of the mi- litia of the United States, between twenty one and thirty years of age, (of which the first or junior class is proposed to be com- posed,) should be furnisbed by the United States, for tho use of that class, as eally as practicable, leaving the expedicncy of so furnishing the other or senior class to the decision of time and future experience.- An increase of the annual appropriation for arming the militia is therefore respect- fully recommended.
 To cary into successful effect the grant of constitutional power which authorizes Congress for disciplning the militia, the committee propose to hold out inducements to the several States and territories in the Union, to organize and require, by legis- lative enactmen,s of the Legislatures of the States and territories respectively, an an- nual convocation of commissioned officers and sergeants, to be encamped in their re- SNective States and Territories a Snnr;6aJ