Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06

elect representatives who would check these expenditures-and now they hGue checked them, with interest! If affords great satis- .faction'' to the people of Connecticut to be robbed of their money, in this manner, we greatly mistake their sentiments on the sub- ject.-Haryord Courier.
 VESTED RIGHTS.
 The Times and Register are quite in rage with Gov. Edwards, because he has not re- nounced the old fashioned idea of "rested rights" We should like to know what is meant by vested rights in standardization to other rights, and what rights are not vested. By what but vested right does man hold his house, or his farm! Is it not because the government under which he lives, secures to him the right of holding this property as his own. The native Americans held this coun- try in common, and to what but the regu- lations of civil society is it owing, that any individual now has an exclusive interest in part of it, and by what rights save such as is derived from the laws of civil society, can that property be devised 10 his children.- Is not all property, real and personal, held and transferred under the same laws, and arc not these "vcsted rights" just as much as those created by grant from the Legisla- ture and are they not equally dependent upon the faith of government!
 It has long become an established rule in civil communities that the property of indi- viduals cannot be taken for public purposes without compensation, and why does not the same rule apply to property invested under charter of incorporation ?-one company of men erect bridge under charter for that purpose another company contracts ca nal or turnpike road and third compa- ny embark in manufactory, or in bank These all act under the authority, and up- on the faith of the government; and it is the same government which secures to every cit iZen his personal safety, and his private earnings. To our comprehension these are all rested rights," and of equal sanctity j; and we see nothing in these rights incompat- ible with any democracy except that which leads to the destruction of all private proper ty. Ifmy neighbor has expended one thou sand dollars in the purchase of Q house, and another thousand in the purchase of bank stock what is the difference of loss to him, house or his stock! So thought the Govern or, and for that he is denounced by his old companions-and burned in efigy.-lb.
 A Serpent Tongued Intant.-A queer story has been going the rounds of some of our newspapers. which had its origin in Fall Riv- CT. As the story gocs-a child two years old, at Tiverton, has a serpent tongue, and misses to all spectators admitted to it's pres- ence like fifty full grown adders. The tongue, or rather the substitute for that mem- ber, presents the appearance ofthe head and neck of snake! Such are the facts as ori- ginally reported in the Fall River Patriot The Boston Herald in commenting upon this strange anomaly of nature, says that every circumstance mentioned in the Patriot goes to prove that there was, in the child's diges- tive passages, bona fde, yellow, ring-necked serpent, and that when irritated or disturbed he thrust his head out in the manner descri- bed by the narrator. The great voracity at times. anu the extreme cancellation of the child arc but the usual concomitants of the tape and other worms. The wild and fierce expression of the countenance takes place in consequence Of irritation of the stomach from starvation and, from other causes. Its prefe- renee of milk-of which snakes are fond-to other kinds of food is another reason to in- duce us to believe that it was a distinct per- sonage that had taken up it's abode, where. in the pressure of the times, it might find food and lodging; in which act, he has also shown the wisdom of serpent, if not the harmless ness of dove! Besides, monstrosities or mother pranks are but faint resemblances, partaking in part of the qualities of both bod ies-of the organ of which it is the substitute, or of which it forms part, and of the impress on the mind of the mother from some foreign body.-N Y. Express.
 Gen. Jackson, on the l6th inst. was in Nash vile, in good health, but bad spirits. MT. John Bell is a candidate for reelection in that district, and no man can be brought out to oppose him. Mir J. Hall had his courage screwed up to the opposing point, but in short ride through the district, he found he would hardly be seen in the race, and he backed out. Some suppose that this visit of Gen. J. to Nashville is preparatory to his talk ing the field himself against MT. B.
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