Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-15

currency was the most preferable, and en- forco it's virtues by argument, still we should doubt. Let us have back our old currency, our small notes, our confidence and our cred it : and above all if Uncle sam would have his children abound in specie, let him not mo- nopolize it all in his own brooches pocket. idle and useless to himself and to them. We do not believe there will be any sacrifice of principle in retracing our steps. "To err, said George Washington, :" IS human; to re- dress error is noble" Nor is it unstatesman- like, or calculated to impair the confidence of the people in the government. If, Scorn- ing petty considerations, the government casts out a sheet anchor for their safety, they will rather be grateful, and we have the ex- ample of the great William Fit, in com mercial nation, and amongst people, and in government nearly resembling our own, to guide and cheer us. He retraced his steps, with regard to the financial measures, which he earliest adopted, and it was no impedi- ment to his rising greatness. His biographer, thus elegantly and forcibly defends him from the charge of ofapostacy, for so doing.
 He was no more an apostate, than the man who lights fire on his empty hearth, is an apostate for extinguishing it, when bar rel of gunpowder is brought in the roonl- what was safe in l76O, might be ruinous in l79O." From the Journal of Commerce.
 MEssRs. ED1roRs-TheSe are times of dis tress for all classes of the community. The rich suffer the loss of part oftheir possessions, though they want not for the necessaries ot life; but many of the poor in this city are at
 this moment suffering and toasling G,ray the SdHds of life for the scant o breGd! and they are not all worthless members of the community, or vag- abonds not fit to live, but respectable mechan- ics and working men, who are sober men and have sober families, they cannot go about our streets from door to door to beg, although they are willing to dig, and daily seek some thing to do whereby they may obtain by hon. est means their daily bread. l know fam | lily consisting of widow and four children | Respectable tool who lived four days on a six penny loaf of bread: They have now' however, a temporary relief from kind neigh bors. this morning saw mechanic seek ing for work who had been out ofemploy four months, his family sick, had spent the last sixpence, and said he was willing to suffer himself for the want of bread, but as father he could not bear to see his children starving before his eyes. He is an honest, faithful man. These are not isolated instances, they have fallen under my own observation. And now what is to be done! Shall it be said of New-York that her citizens and their fami- lies shall starve! Would not their blood cry from the ground for vengeance. And if under present circumstances, it would be impossi- ble to supply the hungry with bread, would it not be honorable, would it not be policy to stay some of our public improvements that means might be obtained to secure such a be- nevolent object!
 III 1oa viction of McQuade under the complaint of Child & Fox, Tailors, for offering three dollar note in payment of debt, under the statute strikes us to have been altogether un- necessary, and the jury in that and in other cases is under no necessity to render ver- dict for the complainant, from the fact that the law itself is manifestly unconstitutional, and we see no reason why the judge should not so charge the jury in all similar cases.- The Legislature would have no right to pro- hibit any Bank from issuing small notes if the charter of that Bank had not conceded that right to the Legislature to alter or modi- fly it. So far the right is we'll established, but in this case the law not only prohibits the Banks from issuing any note under the de- nomination of five dollars, but declares that any citizen offering such notes in payment, shall on conviction thereof pay five times the value tO tne CONlPldludUt. NOW HOW CdlIle the Legislature in this State possessed of the right of defining by law how, and in what manner, and in what coin a citizen shall pay his debts? fla citizen is to be fined by law for offering in payment of a debt three dol lar note issued by Bank legally incorpora- ted by one of the sovereign and independent States ofthe Union, what prevents the Legis- lature prohibiting the citizen from paying his debts in cotton, in rice, in tobacco in any article, in short, that it may be the interest or the desire of the Legislature to prohibit ?- There is no power, express or implied, grant, ed to the Legislature to exercise a control over the business operations or private affairs of the citizen and the law itself is unconsti- tutional, erroneous and void, and should be so declared by every jury, and then common informers under this law would derive no ad- vantage from the penalty.-N. Y. Star.
 Coll Meat.-Gencral Gaines stated before the Court of Inquiry at Frederick, that horse meat was excellent food. A gentleman who was with the General on his expedition to the Withlacoochee, says the above remark is true only so far as coils are concerned. The meat of the colts, when nicely broiled, was exceedingly tender and we'll fiavored-but that of the old and lean horses, which were generally sacrificed, was tough and strong, and almost universally disliked. Dog meat was considered superior to either-an officer had fine, large fat dog, which he killed on this occasion, and refused five dollars for a