Litchfield enquirer., 1837-06-01
OUR COUNTRY AND OUR HOME.
BY J. MONTGOMERY


 And nd mllder moons emparadise the night; l A land ot beauty, virtue, valor, truth, lime tutored age, and love-exalted youth, Inc wandering mariner whose eye explores
 The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not realm so bountitu and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of purer air In every cline the magnet of his sOul IOuch'd by remembrance, trembes to that pole. For Tn this land of heaven s peculiar grace, The heritage of natures noblest race,
 There is spot of earth supremely blest, A drearer, sweeter spot than all the rest,
 Where man, creations tyrant, cast aside
 His His sword and sceptre, pagcantry and pride, While, in his softened looks, benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband father, friend. Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter wife, Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way of life, In the clear heaven of her delightful eye,
 An ange[guard of loves and graces lie;
 Around her knees domestic duties meet,
 And hre;slde pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? Art thou man "a patriot, look around Oh /! thou shalt hnd howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land, THY COUNTRY, and that spot thy HOME.
 SnaaU Notes-Now we know and feel as sensibly as any part of the community, all the annoyments that from the want of small notes, but ths very annoyment IS part of the Experiment, most saluta- ry, for the purpose of imposing upon the Loco tocos and the working classes of the community, the hum- bug and nonsenEe of their fantastca specie currency
 How the Loco Focos ever got the idea in their heads that big bills were Democrats and little bills Ars- tocrnts puzzles us amazngly-for the big bliis were
 
 the little business John Jacob Astor has no need of one dollar bill, but Jem, Dick, and Harry have <; for Jem seldom makes purchase amounting to live tens of thousands. This conceding the privilege of making big bills to "the Arisocrats, and thus rob- bing the Democrats of those little bills, their own convenient and peculiar currency, is what we never could understand The poor man now under the op- eration of this restriction upon him. has no money at a while the rich man has his fres and teas to do bu siness with. If there is democracy in this, 1t is tainlv above comprehension. If the loco tocos in upholdng it, are not knocking their own heads togeh CT, why-then, they have no heads.-N. Y. Empress
 TAe Go,ernn,ent of the United States will probably be compelled to stop payment on the ls of July The deposite banks cannot pay over the third quarterly distribution of the Surplus Revenue in specie, any thing equivalent to specie.
 The French Indemnity, which was imported in gold the claimants. The Bank of America has the princ- pal claimants. But gold is now ten per cent. premi- un,, and the Bank does moi. pay specie. We under stand demand was made for gold on Thur1dayIre- fused-the draft protested and sent back to Washing ton. So go! Uncle Sam's debts are just like oth- CT peoples -Sylrester's Reporter.
 Failures in Bos'on-Accorling to the Directory; there Tn this city 5S5 large Mercantile Houses and wholesale stores 529 retail, and 2s2 petty shops in all l307 or this number, there have failed, since Mo- vember last, seventy-eght among the larger estab- lisnents, sixty among the retailers and about thirty dred and sirty-egh.-Merc Jour.
 Extraordinary Marridge-At All Saints, Poplar, MT. Frederick Hurst, dwarf 40 inches in height to Miss Caroline Appleby, lady of tolerable dimensions. and measuring nearly six feet.
 The editor of the Hampshire Patriot says that a dog recently passed through his town Sin rabid state" We consider all the New-Hampshire dogs in a rabid state.-Louisrile Jour-
 AVan Buren editor in Ohio charges us with the doc trines of emancipation. We are so far an emancpa- onist as to wish him and all his brethren emancpa- ted from the miserable and degraded slavery 10 which they are subjected by the administration
 Temperance erplained.-A boy was asked what he understood by total abstinence" It means" said he, not to taste the first drop"-S. s. Results.
 Teunis Van Vechien has been elected Mayor of Al bany, having received l4 votes out of19.
 Wall Street Shauing outdone.-Even the Barbcrs have commenced issuing small tickets for small They read as follows :-" This is good to the bearer for shaue.''
 A Sensible Charlottesville three evening (whig) papers, taking time by the foreock have been making President three years before it is time to think of one. The Commercial ends thus -" But, after all, we are not to commence the battle. We name man, and there leave 1t. The first work is to put down the present administration. .'-N. y. Express.
 The leaders of the great democratic party, in their constant endeavors to show that the unexamped dis tess of our country which they admit to exist is not attributable to of government, but altogeth- CT to mischevous machinatons of the whig appear be in predicament very like that of the miller in the story-who, when his mill fire and likely to be burnt down, was in great distress crying out, What shall do-what shall do?" His wife told him to pray to God and renounce the devil. "Ah!" replied he, "it is easy enough to pray to God; but to nouncng the devil, that can do, and be mil ler."-ibid.
 The Stdie Canal Fund.-The Albany Evening Journal says 5000 dollars of our State Canal Fund
 erievably lost by the failure of the Dry Dock Bank where the editor asserts deposited and devoted in the hands of political avorites speculation and usury.''
 A Cincinnati paper advertises-" cash paid fer rags" Fellow citizens, hasten to that market with Jacksons better currency as fast steam can car " you.
 Fire and Joss ofIEe.-A night or two since, wood en building in Brighton took fire, while the family were asleep. It was nearly enveloped in flames when one of the members awoke, aroused the others and barely made her escape through a window child of years who had escaped with her, in her ter TOT ran back into the house crying for her mother Her father proceeded after her. and before he succeed ed in overtaking her. they both enveloped in the flames, and both pershed. We learn that the name of the family was Demarest.-ROchesier DemOerof
 Duel-A fight took place on Tuesday afternoon al Hoboken, between Spanish nobeman and French