Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-17
WAsHlNGToN, March 4.

Mr. Clay's Land BiH.-This measure is of vast magnitude, desired by the whole nation, yet resisted by the single will of the Presi dent, although at one time recommended by himself, and this because it is a measure of Mr. Clay! Conversins the other day with a whole hog man. surely" said l, "yOu can not approve his hostility to MT. Clay's Land Bil-herc is a great benefit to be conferred on alt the states, which will amount to hun dred thousand dollars year even to little Delaware and little Rhode Island, and more than half million piece to N. York, Penn sylvanta and Virginia. And then how just is this distributions! The old thirteen states in cured debt of one hundred and thirty mill ions, which was based on the security of the public land, partly voluntary surrender on the part of tie old states and partly com mon conquest, and common purchase from Indians and from France, with the common funds. Now that the debt has been paid off by the common purse, and the pledge is free, to whom should it return? Can any thing be more plain The new states, in which the lands are situated, come in for their share, and fifteen per cent over. Is not this sufi- ciently generous ?" The person of whom have been speaking, although warmly pres
 
 policy cf reliering aH the States, especially the snan ones from taration. They now pay their taxes cheerfully, but by being thus relieved, they will lose that good habit, and rely alto. gether upon foreign aid. But, sir, this is not foreign aid-it is their own. You admit there IS vast surplus. Do you wish it to accumulate and remain idle? That you know is out Of the question. Then who is to get l this vast sum? Do you see no alarming con sequences from placing it at the disposal of the "government ?" A guardian might as well tell young man who had been brought up to good trade and industrious habits, and who was earning his living, to let the hun dred pounds remain where 1t was, in saf hdnds. lest, peradventure, the possession might lessen his capacity for earning his sub sistence in future." My friend, in. the course or our colloquy, was forced to acknow ledge al last, that General Jackson ,uss hostile Co Mr Ctay's biN, and that ,0as enough!
 The history of the human mind can hardly furnish an example of such humiliating sub serviency. The fashion of the courliers of d certain despot. in holding their necks awry because the monarch had twist in his, was less degrading. The money arising from the sale of the public lands, in five years from thi. time, will be immense. Let us recOlect thal our population is stih increasing in geOme. trical ratio, doubling on the whole in twenty years; but our territory, our land, is no! in. creasing. The old settled states increase in a less proportion than the new, consequently the increase in the latter must even exceed the geometrical progression.
 High Lis.-The Duke of St. Albans, hay ing been attacked with the small pox. his wife, the celebrated Miss Mellen, afterwards Mrs. Coutts, instantly quilted his house. and re- moved to Highgate. So alarmed was she, that she would not suffer the messengers eom. ing from the Duke to have any inlercourss Sc with the servants about her person. The de sertion of her husband at such time as this IS fair specimen Of the conduct of those it English high life.-Albany Adv.
 1 The Legislature of Mississippi has chartered a sta, bank of Sl2 GOO. Psdg"G the faith oflhe state ! a guarantee.