Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06
HENRY w. EDWARDS.


 Speaker of the House of Representatives.
 EBRNEzER SToDDARD President of the Senate.
 HENRY w. EDWARDS.
 From the NeaU- York ErDress
 Whig National COnUentiOn.-The move- ment of some of our political friends in N. York, in favor of a local nomination for Pres ident, is producing one good effect. The par ty, with great unanimity of sentiment, depre- cate partial and premature nomination. That is well. But our friends go farther, and in the same spirit of unanimity call for a Whig National Convention. This is still better. That course must be adopted.- There is no other practicable mode of con- centrating the efforts and combining the en- ergies of our party.
 Our duty, as Wings, is plain and single.- Our opponents arc organized and disciplined. They are in possession of the Government, with its places and patronage. The officers of the Government are the officers of {" the party" They are politicians by trade- They devote their time to politics, and draw their pay from the Treasury. Can we meet such party, on equal grounds without or ganization! Can we hope to succeed with out concert and system! Surely not.
 Our first duty, therefore, is to organize- Let us set about it immediately. live really mean to redeem the Government and pre- serve its Institutions, let us go earnestly, and understandingly to the work Having prin- ciples rather than men in view, let us labor to establish principles instead of struggling to promote men. The welfare of the country is to be advanced by a Whig administration of it's Government. The question of who shall be the candidates of the whig party, is one of secondary importance. And, above all, it is important that this great prospect of Nation al Reform should not be blasted by an un- worthy and inglorious conflict about men and names. It is too early, by two years, to present Candidates. Our friends should not fritter away their strength so unnecessarily. Let the whig members of the next Congress recommend National Convention, designa- ting suitable time and place and through that Convention, Candidates for Presidency and Vice Presidency will be presented wor- thy ofthe hearty and united efforts of great, enlightened and patriotic people.
 Specimens of Van Jack Currency.-The Vicksburg( (MississippD Publicans have issued considerable amount of Bentons Paper Bullion Coinage:
 On the Vignettes are inscribed, " Hurrah for Jackson! the cause of this currency! This mo- ney IS issued to afford e better ziving :" The se- cond is for three dollars, redeemable at the bar of the Shakespeare. It is inscribed im- prored currency!" and is ornamented with well -proportioned porker, labelled Benton's bore! Go it-taI and aH!'' The third note is "good for 12 l-2 cents ct Curtis bar Hu,rah for the better currency!" Devices, two hogs heads, surmounted with "good tor julap!" A huge hat, with the interrogation above, Do you acant any specie?" and labelled "Au around my 'at!'' The fourth & last is, |" Good ct Curtis' bar for 25 cents." This has sol- dier in full dress standing at each side ready for action. The first soldier is surrounded with this inscription Blair, Kendall, Wood- bury, Whatney Benton, 8c. Saoiss Corps !- Eyes right" The other warrior is illustrated with" We aciU do as aoe please about the Spe- cie Circular. Won't Ue, Sergeant Amos ? o yes."
 MOBILE, JUNE 21.-We have another terri ble steamboat accident to record, with a dreadful loss of life. The steamboat Crusa- der,which plies between Pascagoula andNew- Orleans, burst her boiler on Monday morning killed one man instantly, and scalded II others, nearly all fatally. She was found at anchor near Rabbit Island by the U. s. mail boat Mobile, Captain Sheridan. The Cap- tain of the Mobile abandoned his voyage and returned to New-O Orleans towing the Crusa- der. Three of the scalded died before they reached the Lake landing, and number more were not expected to survive. Wee not learn any particulars of the cause of the disaster, nor the names ofthe sufferers. One was q passenger, Frenchman, the others were mostly boat hands.
 The Wandering Piper.-This individual, who has been travelling through our country for the last 4 years, under sort of mystery, playing on the bagpipe, is about returning to Europe. Acording to his account, he has re- ceived, during that time, $S27,OOO, of which sum he has given away l2OO0; and that his travelling and other expenses amounted to demurs to such bill of expenses, and pro- ceeds to make calculations based on the data furnished by the "Piper" himself: 4 years, or 146O days, at ss2 day, $2,929-to which add use of public rooms, (which, in his case. were rarely charged for, as he pretended to pipe for charity's sake,) and travelling 22,79S miles, $l,l39. That paper after adding up and subtracting, calculates that the 6 Wan derlng Piper" leaves the country with the snug sum of $10,OO0 clear profit, after giving, as he says, $l2,OO0 to charitable purposes.
 Disgracefu1 Appoiumemt.--W. B. Donald son, the Indian Agent, was appointed from Wheeling, Va. The Times, of that place, says of him." He peddled out the rope man was hung with last year. got so drunk he could not walk on the proceeds, and then bragged of the exploit. He hated an honest man or a religious one as foe of his own baseness. He was always drunk when he could get credit for liquor, or money to pay for it was never known, by those who knew him best, to uttertwo connected sentences in