Litchfield enquirer., 1837-04-13

pauon, upwards Ors sdown,RaFde fgyvaFis or Io,i wards, in the extension of space. or in the succes.c, Oftme, we really can find no boundarv-ro orss,sv, no smallest, no first, no last; and vet. as .pnsaroDo follows appearance, in time we find ,l,, the ,,h,lo are in succession, and that nothing that no,v s could have been, something had not been before i, and yet though my one of those successions of ap,eor. ces (which we call the laws of nature) can be suren ded by the action resistance of some, almost ary of the others not ofthcm can be destroyed or can- ged into another--how much soever its effects may be n1odified cannot imagine that any other could have existed without something preceding It IS much the same with the productions of nature with the laws; and cannot be very different as the productions just the results or consequences the laws We sec that tine habits of plants and ami mals and the properties. of compound natter can be changed; and when we once observe how the change takes place, generally are able, within certain li- mts, to brngi about. And, just as we expect; when think over the matter correctly, we find that we effect the greatest and the most beneficial cham ges in those things of which we have the most know- edge. Dead substances can manage the best, be- cause can in most instances take them to pieces and in many we can put them together again. Veg etables rank next; after them animals, and then our
 
 simplest that is, the best understood of these cases we find boundary which we cannot pass. No art of man, and not any process of nature which we know, can make an eagle graze on the common like goose; as little the lion be made literally to eat straw with the OK and even in dead matter. we, in l every case, come at last (and the road is seldom long one; though often difficult to fnd to substances which we call simple and as those simples are not convertible the into the other and as they are all necessary to the things and appearances of nature as well as the laws are the whole must have had simultaneous origin. Whether, therefore, we look at the objects the events in nature we are alike con- vinced that they could not of themselves have begun but must have had their origin in One, and one great CT than them all, One who knew before any of them was in existence how they all were to act singy or in concert and what to be the whole of their ap. pearances, throughout the entire period of their sEc cesson. MFG
 9r We are sorry to learn by the last Herald that in New-Haven on Friday, Saturday and Monday last, there were several stoppages-among them we learn is one firm which has been extensively engaged in the manufacture of carriages. It is intimated that others are likely to follow. We trust not We fear that widespread distress will be the consequence.
 NEw-YoRH, April 7.
 A gloom is still spread over wall st., and in fact we think the day has been more desponding than ever- Stocks, which it was believed could not go ower were sold att further reduction, and at point never before reached Confidence in every thing shaken, much so, that houses which have stood the storm for the last generation, and which have ever been con sdered doubly fortified, find it difficult to negotiate paper unquestionab!e for it's strength even at most ruinous rate of interest. Houses have been compel led to suspend, to ask time, that show more than half million of assets over and above thelr liab'tles In this state of derangemant the large auctioneers have announced their intention not to go on with package sales which is a prudent course. Let the storm blow over for who would sell half million at auction at this time, and guarantee the paper As for cash sales, they out of the question. An immense amount of goods is held by importers ready to be sod but in the first place those who are solvent and mean pay their notes, reluctant to make new engage ments and in the second, if importers have eyer so much paper hand aside from the risk, 1t IS lmPos. sibe to turn it into cash The Bank of the United this country. This is most judcious moyes and will assist credit very materially The merchant now. If he has pocket book full of notes, either payable in or out of the city, cannot raise money on them It. how ever, he can get them discounted by taking U. s: Post Notes, he will be possessed of description ot paper which will bring the money when every thlng private deposits in the banks has seldom been great ns at present. This is owing to the want ot cont, dence in Stocks or Notes. The Bonds of the United States Bank will, no doubt, bring this description ct
 The day has not closed without bringing down some very large houses, and among them the respectable firm of l. R. St. John, brokers in Wall st. This house was like the Josephs, engaged extensively Tn recev- ing Southern paper of the merchants, to whom they gave their notes, the result of which Is, that the engagements are of an enormous characteE The stoppage of such house must necessarily affect ma ny others.
 The firm of H. M. Andrews 6, O. Brokers and Commission Merchants in all St., give public notice that they shall pay their paper but that their ac- ceptances for Southern Houses, will go back unless they provided with the promised means to pay the same.
 The Express Mail to day, brings us dolefu tdings from New Orleans. It appears that the failure ot the produced was very great The eject It IS teared @ would be most disastrous. The Bee says, The Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio boatmen will now take nothing but specie in return for the products brought down by them, and it is common to sec them wen ding their way to the leyee with bags of silver dollars l in each hand"
 Onr correspondent from Washington, represents the l This news from the ancient city, together with that l from New Orleans, and almost every other place, ! must we think convince the Globe that there IS a pressure in the monied affairs of the country
 DIED,
 In this town, (Bradleyvlle) on the sth inst Widow - Stone, aged 7S; also, son of MT. Leman Stone, I aged 10 years. In Norfolk, on the list inst. Miss Martha M. Bald win. aged 26. daughter of MT. Amos Baldwin. | In New-Milford MT. Henry McMahon, aged v 1; | MT Sylvanus Noble, aged Sl.
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