Litchfield enquirer., 1833-08-01

transferred from ee Bank Of the United Sales and is Branches, and placed in State Banks. hsays-" An agent has been appointed hy the Secretary ot the Treasury, ander the direction the President, certain from the State Banks, tn ihe principal cities on what terms and ia what they are willing so perform the ssvviceSno rendered by the Bank of the United S,ater ifthe government should think proper ,o remove the deposites." We should imagine the government had tried snch schemes enough. large amOun, is osU dae 10 it from local banks which had received deposits in payment of lands dSc. in states where no Brnwch of the J. s. Bank was loca,ed.- The President however has such invelerae hos,il-
 y 10 this insatoa that he will doubuIess do all in his power to cripple ii in whiting up it's busi.sess pre parstory so i,s final dissolution,
 The steam Eoai Chancellor Livingston beloupi ,o Boston, and plying about lhe larhOr, last week run upon the shoals and rocks of Hangman's island with large party of pleasure on board. Several unsuc- cessaI attempts made sO eel her o with the as sisiancs of the steamer GeB. Eincoim bu, she was i nally abandoned to the underwriters. She was iOsu- red for $lS.0OO and it was expected s would prove nearly total less. e
 Another triai f,r libel was had n, Ncw-York as week against the famous Ex-Sherif Parkins, the E,u lishman. The plaintiff. Mir. Thomas Taylor, laid his damages ai $25,OO0 Mr. Parkiaa employed no co"n. sel, but plead his own case win much efficacy and point. The jury returned verdict o six cents elar ages and six Several other suits are bapg ing over him.
 Union COiiege.-The commencement was held a, this insiituiiOn "Wednesday of last week. The de- gree of A. B. was conferred on 70 young gentlemen graduates o the seni0r clnas and on two others The exercises were interesting. hut melancholy feeling was thrown the audience from the circnmstance Of one of the members who to take part in them having been drowned that morning in the Mohawk.
 Commencement in Washington College, Hartford, | takes place this day.
 report was circulated last week south of Prince ion N. ). that the cholera had broken on, in the a rary institution at that place. We are glad to learn that the New-York papers contradict the report as entirely destitute of foundation.
 Beat khis 1.-The wife oI John c. Tompkins of this town, Thursday last added her husband's world. y wealth by presenting him with pair of boys-one weighing ID. 10 oz. the other ib. oz. making an aggregate of18 lb. IA oz.-Com.
 The President of the United States left asineton Tor Old Yoint Comfort, Va. on Friday last, for tho
 FOR TEE LITCHFIELD ENQUIRER.
 For ye haue the poor ai,cays soh yom"-Jess Christ
 --Yes, and what do we do with them? do we trent them as though they were human beings? chl- dren ofone common parent, and entitled to tie com. mon bounty of Providence, with ourseiyesg No: in many instances they pu, level with the beas.s we prepare for the slaughter. In this ,own and in ma " Others both in this and other states se poor are set uP al auc6oa, and actually struck o to the low est bidder. However much the people oftIe northern and eastern states mhy deprecats the slave-holtng system of she Souths they guilty ofa traffic equally inhuman and equally disgracefnl. Where is the diff ference be,weea selling fellow mortal to be slave to anotier and in setting up the towHs poor to be struck off to those who will keep them eheapes. ?- Yetthis frequently done. PubIic.sprised rhcs so called, will give bid. for the sake of saying the town some expcnse. And do they not know that the cheap CT man agrees 10 keep shem. the less comfortable he will keep ihemf Observation will tell them that tis is the ac-asd will the assertioH on the a,- shority of what have seen repeatedly aIai the food and clothing town paupers, where this system is in operation, will not compare with the food and clothing of the culpri,s in the Wehersfeld prison! Good God shall our fathers and mohers brothers and sisters, who from various causes have unfortunately become poor, be treated asahough they were gully Of man. slaughter. robbery, and heft2 Christian friends ave you satisfied with this way of treating the poor the maimcd, and the blind7 We are all of uslable 10 be- come poor: and f we have friends 10 support us, liabe to become public property and virtually sold at auction. True il may be said that there are over. seers in every iowa. whose basiness it s to see ,et
 the poor provided for. But is this security a. gainst waDii will they be present at every meai?- No: and fthe poor make any complaint, they are si- enced by the contradiction of those who are appointed to he Lords over them; and ihus week after week may pass away, and they he led with miserable fare, while the oyersecrs know nothing about i. ftie reader is at all suspicious that this s hint let him visit some of the poor-hOuses and he will find that i, has mean. ing.
 But have said more than I intended. My feelings arc wounded to ihe honest poor provided with ssch scany provisions. Will sbose who support them sit uncoRcerned at their Luxurious boards !! hope the public will ever to this matter and that in talk
 ing change of the poor they will do as ey would he done by. J.B. lTEMS-sELEcTnO.
 General John Ce0ee, who bore a distinguished part h of the battles oi the war of l8I2 and was a, one period second in command to General Jackson. died on the 7ih inst. Florence Alahama ae lie age ef62. His death was fly coasBmpiioB, eonractsd during visit 10 Washiss,on last winter.
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