Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-12-06

sued to every one HUNDRED saiions. 10 lieu OF
the eight quagts of beans allowed by the exc
isting regulations.
4. These regulations will not extend to the
cases provided for by the act DC Congress Of
March r. 1919, entitled " An act 70 regulate
the pay Of the army when employed on ia
tigue day. in which no discretionary snthOr-
ity Is vested in the President, nor to the me-
cessary supplies for the Hospital department
OF the Army.
Simultaneous Temperance Meeting. The
American Temperance Society have issued
cirt ular recommending the meeting Of all the
Temperance Societies in all the cities, towns
and villages lhr0nghOuts the Union. ON the
same day, (the 28th Of February next) to stir
mp the nation in one grand and united effort 10
advance the cause Of Temperance. The New.
York State Society have come out with their
cordial approval OF the measure, and have
commenced preparations for carrying into
full effect this Recommendation Of the national
society. What prodigious impulse win be
given to the reform hy this Simultaneous
mOvement.-C Canada GGz.
From The Nantucket Inquirer
+" o no, they neVeT mention il, the name Is neUer
heard" ~
NANTUcKET.-Commu as well as in
diyduals, not unirequently have to smart I'm
der the lash Of neglect. This is particularly
the case with respect TO Nantucket. Atown
compactiy built. with 5000 inhabitants enga-
gtd in commercial enterprise that spans the
whole earth. employing aiarge capital, a mol
titndp. Aeet "f ships manned by 1000 seameD
iha. bring more real wealth into the nation
than ten times their number employed in any
other business that such place should be
unknown in its own country, IS. not to say
provoking, mt least very humiliating. Yet it
is true, and why
The sources from which its true history
ought to be learned. are silent or worse than
silent on the subject. GcogFaphers and the
publishers Of maps are ignorant ofus. As a
consummation Of their ignorance. it may be
seen that, 10 attempting to swell the list ofthe
large tO,Ons, they rake out scores Of title. in-
significant, back woods, log hut settlements,
whose population can be guessed up to two
thousand or twenty-five hundred, while the
fortieth town in population, and probably the
twentieth in wealth in the Union, is passed
over,-not neglected, but unthonght of,-nOt
omitted, but unknown. We ask any person
that has by chance heard our name, and by
another chance may read these lines. what
The answer, we venture to say is, that it is
a little. miserable, sandy, fishing concern, sit
uated somewhere, possibly on Cape Cod, con-
tanning, it may be, two or three hundred peo-
pie, subsisting precariously by hook and Iine."
The President Of the first College in Amer
lea once asked poor wight who had been
detained here by the ice, after the expiration
of a winters vacation, ''Why did you not
come by land, sir 2" The same President
would undoubtedly be able to give better
description of many an unheard Of Mahome-
tan village than Of our poor. sandy, God for
gotten spot though the latter has beyond
doubt. lighted his way to classic lore. for
which he is 50 justly honored. Even the
late DR.. Morse, being at loss, without doubt,
for something else to say about us. most cru
ditely observes, "there is not single tree Of
natural growth ON the island, "a fact (which
by the way is not a fact.l about as character
istic Of the place. as it would be Of the dome
of the Boston State House, or Of cylinder
in carding machine.