Litchfield enquirer., 1836-10-27

q. sS in the childish habit of whiting whatever may be cut with knife, or breaking every thing thar can be broken, whether it be ( valuable statue or
 s c stone ss c,O So %nssS % one nay into the attOneys room, into our courts of justice, or the halls of our unis verstiess there they stare one in the ace notch after some flight of marble steps in front of privase man. sion or public building in breaking or marring which the ingenuity of grschief has not been dispayed.- Travel the turnpike roads and scarcely mile stone will be found left entire the letters and figures are to be pecked out, the top broken off, Let there be piece of statuary accessible to the multitude, and pay the forfeit The habit seems to be national one. and So much the worse. Foreigners remark and rdi- cuie lt-then why not correct it?
 Sights about BnEayo-" Bufa,o" saws the editor of the Northampton Gazette, who has just returned from an excursion West "has an air peculiarIv forei0n aoGnt a U. On me docks you hear as many languages spoKei aS yo1 would on the slips in New York. The morning left the city, met, for successive miles, people going in with their produce of various kinds to sell. There were Swiss women with immense bask- cts on the!r heads and girls riding astrde of market horses Men of foreign accent were driving oxen, at- tached to the load by ropes about their horns. Wo- men were seen working in the potatoe fields, and the most masculine spectacle noticed, was one of the tender sex of German extraction, driving load of wood to market She was seated upon the top of the ioad with herlower extremties dangling over sides stan succession of Indians especially young sqawa in the streets of Buffalo, with uncovered heads and hlgh cheek bones and broad, tawny countenances. with their blankets like the Roman toga, wrapped gracefully about their person."
 Surplus ReUenuc.-1t is said, on competent author-
 y' that the President will recommend repeal of the law dividing the surplus revenue among the States W We wish he would do so it would be characterize
 tic feature in his cap which he would wear gracefully Alter signing bill which he had not the courage to know he hadhe waits until the contest for President
 IS over, and then recommends a repeal of the law let nm try the experiment" and he will hear from
 the States whose property that money is in voice as
 loud as roaring Hon. IF the surplus money is safe
 IS not stolen or squandered among specuatcrs it must be handed over to the peope-itis thers-N. r. Star.
 Clinton and Van Buran-A venerable citizen of New ork and an intimate friend of the late Govern or Clinton, heard say that the most interesting event he had ever witnessed, and one that no time In that great man'slife. | z
 His friends were around him; he knew that the cold hand of death was upon hn-he felt that he was hls whole lite had been devoted he satisfied with the past but he iooks with trembling anxiety to the
 future. for the destinies of his beloved country He mos lntrigues, and in quitting this scene of life, he well knew that he left behind him those who in the mad pursuit of their own selfsh debased ends will stop at no means in their power however unholy. In closing some most eloquent, inspiring remarks upon these subjects, he turned to his friends, and with look and in tone of deep solemnity added, leave
 
 ware. implore you, of Martin Van Buren. He is a bad cold and selfish man; nothing will stop him in his wcksd @ career fit be necessary to secure his ends. pendent Democrat.
 We copy the following from the Louisville Journal, as p1oS"iy correct account of Col. Johnsons mat. rmenlal relations to the late Hrs Johnson, in order to g1ve one more opportunity to decent citizens of the United States to consider whether they will vote for True slate ofthe casc-We have received several letters from abroad, inqniring whether Col R.. M. Johnson actually married the motter of his yellow ture.' Having obtnined the necessary information upon the subject, we can give correct response to
 The Col. lived for some years with his woman oue of state of wedlock, during which time she had sew erai children. At length, while he was at Washing- ton city, officiating as member Of Congress. she be- Church f admission as a member er PThe church M re ected her application of her indecent and unlawful connection with Col Johnson, and informed connection subsisted On the Coonels return home, she laid the whole matter before him, and strongly urged him either to make her his wife or to permit her led he appealed to clergyman to join them in the es- tate of matrinony;; The clergyman. knowing such a union to be forbidden under heavy penalties by ths ance of the ceremony. The Col unwilling to be thus baf1ed, invited several of his neghbo-s to his house, and among the rest notorious the vclnity of
 
 and his woman stood up before them, each holding prayer book, and went through the marriage ceremo- ny. The Church was then satisfied. that she was to all ntents and purposes Col Johnson's wife, Accord ngly they received her as a member of their body. md she continued until the time of her death-tTwo pr three years ago.1 t-.'..
 The Money Market.-When the Treasury order was ssued requiring the public lands 10 be paid for in spe- :ie 1t was reasonable that the specie drawn from the Western Banks and carried to the Land Office, would soon be returned to the Banks, where it tcould be a. gain called for to pay for more land. and that so no great addition to the specie in the west would be re- luired The Globe has repeatedly taken this view of the subject It has turned out however that this was almost the whole specie by land buyers, reinforced themselves for the emergency by refusing to oan and by calling in all their available resources especially gene generally ordered home sr in specie Ordinarily the Western Banks have need of hut little specie. heinz seldom called upon to pay it.. This order placed them in the very focus of demand. To resist this demand though specie is from ten o twenty per cent pre- mium above drafts on New-York and other funds which but few months ago were valued above spe' nobody has claims on them. The Banks could not come suddenly into such attitude, without causing universal distress; Their emissions must have been ed to % circulate. As specie cannot be obtaine in the of the land offices 1t IS sought TOT az greater distances, and in this way an urgent demand on all s ,he BaeRs ks a course somewhat like that taken at tne west ana thus money pressure IS created excee0ngiy seve[e' which has broken down the pces mDnsy vs r,ons the power of extoring enormous rates ot usanee. and put active business men upon the rack In the
 midst of unexampled prosperity, with @ more s2ecls Oy for it, with the world in debt to us, we gre visited with paralyzing scarcity of money. We lay the respon- Inu WA ahSNnSffo Ed