Litchfield enquirer., 1837-05-25

the measure? Who does not know that the next Con. gress will almost unanimously repeal it, coupling with the repeal the upon the President for his open resistance to the nations will ?-Prentice.
 Fellow citizens where is the gold promised you three years ago by the Globe? Do you it "shining and glittering through the nerstices of the long slken purses of your wives and daughters ?"-ibid. l "When will the times change ?"-AdUertiser.
 They will change when the people shall cast offthe whole brood of currency tnkers and fill their places with patriots and statesmen devoted the interests of | the country.-Prentice.
 l The Globe wonders why the immense quantity of specie in this country cannot circulate in seasons of pressure like the present. instead of circulating in prosperous times when there is less occasion for it, The Globe is about as wise as the negro who broke his shin against post in dark night "I Iwonder said Sambo "why de sun no shine dis dark night and not always keep shining in de day time when dere's no need of him ?'-ibd.
 l Good Joke.-The advocates of new humbug in medicine, called the homephatetic system, offered at Riga 100 ducats prize for the best treatise upon and in favor oft. A young surgeon at Berlin wrote for the prize and obtained it. About the same time the faculty of medicine at St. Petersburg offered a handsome prize to him who should give the strongest proofs that the said system was deuson. The es- says were all anonymous. On awarding the prize,
 the successful writer was found to be the same young surgeon at Berlin
 True Philosophy.-"You are quite philosopher, Sam," said Mr. Pickwick "It runs in the family I b'lieve sir" replied MT. Weller. "My fathers wer- | ry much in that line, now fmy mother-in-aw blows him up he whistles. She esin passion, and breaks his pipe; he steps out and gets another. Then she screams very loud, and goes into stericks: and he smokes very comfortably till she comes too agin- That's philosophy sir, aint it?" "A very good sub stitute for it, at all events,' replied Mr. Pickwick laughing. At a su, The Northampton Courier very coEicated Man ]! "Neans of any kind to be out osnght to be to One loud, deep, uninterrupted grop ot children at | echoed from one end of the contipo country. III
 Better Currency-The Cincinently chargeaole, the notes of all southern bank II! DteahMss ol from TEN to TWENTY-FIVE per ct4 'c...,.an*, Lo the state banks regulate a+ leas+ as ter than bank of the United Stalncerned is rath. caly Nick Riddle and his "Monstild and equable taxed the people quarter per cent TOT nornanges> throughout the Union !-Pokeepsie Eagle
 Mind your o,On business.-One of the consequences of good breeding is disincination, positively dis taste, to pry into the private affairs of others. | An officer from the South passing on to the East, could obtain dollar his southern money, while person bound south picking up all the bills he could discount, and paying New York bills for it. Thus it works. This officer said l have been round
 the world and never found any difficulty in getting rid of note of the United States Bank. At Calcutta, Canton, any where he could get gold for of those notes. We have now "a better currency" with the vengeancc.'-N. Y. Star.
 1 Troytor eUer--The Trcjans won the whole feld.- l The Charter Election, on Tuesday, resulted in the success of the Whig Ticket in all the Wards of the city.
 l Mfr. Webster.-This distinguished gentleman has, after being present awhile at Harrsburgh during the stngs of the Convention there, set out upon his in tended Western tour.
 l Virginia Election.-Whg gain 2; Whig loss ?; leaving the strength of parties the in the last l Congress. Three districts to be heard from. A Foot Race was recently run in the neighborhood of Harper's Ferry, Virginia, remarkable both for the performance of the winner, and gross fraud pracs ed by him on a credulous citizen named Lang. The competitors were Wm Howington, Vermonter, 55 years old, and J. Teacher Jr, Virgnian, aged s. The distance to be run was e mies-on the tow u Peacher persuaded neighbor named Lang to bet on HoWington, under the assurance that he, Peacher, meant to lose the race. Lang was fool and rogue enough make such bets the amount of $8OOO, all with Teachers confederates, and then Teacher won | the race! Performing the distance within l2 hours his antagonist breaking down the 4sth mile.
 High Bribing.-The Wheeling Times says, that Wm. s. Morgan, the Van Buren candidate for Con- gress in that district, "eleconeers by giving cent pic ture books to the children ofhis constituents!" l Editorial C0nuentions.-The Tennessee papers pro- pose holding convention of the editors of that State at Nashville, on the 2d Monday in May. The edi- tors of Mississippi are also to hold convention at Jackson during the present month. The New-Jersey printers are to meet at Trenton the 10th inst for the purpose of raising and establishing the prices of printing
 Is that of your subscribers r? said little flop to our devil the other day. pointing to dead skunk "No, sir" answered the boy "I believe none of your relations have subscribed for the paper!' Widous Pensions-The Secretary of the Treasury has decided "that widow who married again. is not under the act of 3d March, 1884, entitled to pension account of her former husbands death But his le gtmate children who were under 2l years of age at the time of his death, though they may be now past that age are entitled to pension to be paid to them from the date of his death until they arrived at the age of 2l years"
 Steeple again struck by Lightning. g.-The Boston Ad vertiser of Friday says, at o'clock yesterday morn ing the steeple of Hollis street Church, which remain cd unrepared since its pinnacle was burnt off, few weeks since was again struck by lightning About tan after the shock the covering at inc hut