Litchfield enquirer., 1838-06-21

The naaisssr hFslnciAntly eompsilsd to pay some compliments sO s ass IG, Iss,,a,ure s IL admit. that from other Slaes, was good one. and that the Act reducing the County Court Judges from three to one in each county is ~an improvement on the old sys- tsmEIdlmlnIshng m both patronage and expenses. - little remarkaAe. Why did not the Democracy do these things long ago if they approve them? The Wings, in fou sh0rf weeks, have done moro for the character of ts State and interests of the people, than has been cone by the Democracy in their seven years of Legislsion. There numerous other acts which the Reg aer men must equally approve, and they would acknowledge it if the interests of theiI party would Prtnit However, we will give them credit for the litle candor they show-N. H. PGllad
 DisGrming opTdbifion.-One ofthe most conspicuous Loco Focos in Id State was heard to remark that he had more or les business with Connecticut Legisla. lures tor the asleeventeen or eighteen years; bui with all his exleience he never saw an Assembly despatch so mud business, and do it so wel and in So short time, is the General Assembly of ls3S.- W. HaUen PGllGt
 The reports the Committees on the increase oI expenses in the Ste, have created terrible buzzng among the spos1en. They not only find their Occu- patton gone, but heir reputation and future expccta- tions with it. 1ley have had their day, and they must now be connt to burrow for eight or sen years to coune.-N. Haeh PGllad.
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 Election Anecdae e-On Wednesday last a squald barefooted fragmat of humanity, stopped of ouI citizens in the nelhborhood of the Eighth Ward, an, Prop"4nded someIS ISestions to him. A thorough-going Loco-FocO ohserNa him m conversation. called him by naIne, and talk him aside, o,served-" suppose that man wants VI to vote the Whig ticket; l hope you are not going 9desert your party"' The unfor- tuRate being lookethe Loco Foco serny in the face for few momenrl land observed in reply, with tears rolling down his &eeks, Look al me, Sir; have hung on, fought fand supported your party, until have worn out nIs clothes thread-bare and ragged and besides, you ee me barefooted, and out of em. poyment. and ask me to support your destructive party! Sir, ca, stand 1t no longer; l will now try the other side. e."-3ah. Patriot.
 The story whic has lately been copied into vari. our papers, touchhg the return of John Wood to his friends in Kentucv, after long captivity among the Indians, turns optto be alhoax It appears that du ring his absence h has been in several o the States and tor six years # the time was an inmate of the Alms.houses in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The story was not bd one, but it has been cruelty spoiled.
 General Vance was recommended as @ candidate for Governor, with great enthusiasm, and Wm. Hen " Harrison presented as Do candidate for the Presi dency, with the pledge, hdeyer to support either Clay, or D. Webster, shod the choice of an officia National Convention desigte either of them, at the recent State Convention Ohio.
 Improvement in Printing We learn that the lead ing Van Burcn presses havN ach oft the words eder alist,"" Biddle," and !" IN" stereotyped. Anim mense amount of labor is tn saved to those compos
 ors who have to set up theong editorial articles the above words occur mon kfequently in them thar the most common prepositidaand coniunctions of ou language.-Iroy Duly MaH
 Rdthbun Allen Arrested This individual, a ne phew of Benjamin RathbuEs md with whom he wa. interested in the extensive sgeres at Buffalo, NY some two years since, was eEested the 3lst ult New-O Orleans and committe1sO prison. He had beer for some time employed in New Orleans as clerk.
 A. B. Roman, Esq. the Wig candidate for Cover nor of Louisiana, in a lettekt the Whig Committee has announced himself in fzs,r of q Bank, Ghe Bank and of good Banks generally He has also expressed himselfin in favor of Henry ClE "Who would not be a R0m0a 2''8
 Sinking of Steamrs-1ks general impression that steamboats are ho heazy laden with machinery that they will sink instant on being filled with wa ter. This is an error, and . very dangerous one Not one steamer in ten w61d go down if full of wa ter. The boilers themsev if blown off, would buoy up great weight, contrd lctory as this may be tt common opinion SteamSs have such a mass O timber that they constitut powerful rafs, and the machinery is only heavy SAough to answer as bal last The example of th@ Few England is in point and go are almost all nssaices. Many lives would have been saved by knSvledge of this facs-N.Y Jour. of Com.
 Smithsonian Legdcy.-kletter from friend in London informs us that ibsIIon. Richard Rush has obtained an absolute declesfo for the Smithsonian Be- quest, and that the money fas been paid to him. IL amounts to over . hundred housand pounds sterling MT. Rush was to have emtAked on his return in the course of the present mo4A bringing with him the money thus beGueathed fos he purpose Of education in the United States. It VS supposed that the mat ter would have been the cepe of tedious Chancery suit, but 1t appears from tHntelgence, that it has been terminated with veryE Eli,e delay.---Pha Penn. 
 Naturalization among thS Greek Tndinns -The Lit tie Rock Arkansas GaZeee states that considerable dissatisfaction ia daily mdniesting itself among the Creek emieran,s, who removed to the frontiers of Arkansaa, a year or tvo since. Tray manifest
 little disposition 10 plant On to provide for heiI future support. In some lnNnces they have destroy ed their own fences and Her property, and given other evidences of turhu ID spirit. Apprehensons nre entertained, that theN will prove troublesome neighbors. The Governm@n have ordered supply of arms and ammunition f0D immediately forwarded to Little Rock, for the protedon of the frontierN Y. Express.
 The Capture of Fire SlausVessels-The Bermuda Gazette of the 29h of Mays.oniains notice of the arrival at Hamilton of H4s Maiesty's ship Pearl commanded by lord PegstA having in charge two slave vessels captured b towards the close of April--one was the tfg Higent, captured after chnso of sixteen hours. She had on board four hun dred and eighty slaoes, iesdes crew of forty five men-fSny of the poor sihyss had died on, their pas tured the same day. Ss had, however, previously landed her slaves on the puth side of Cuba.
 Another slavcr, the brk Camoens, with Jfpe hun dred and eighty slaues. ha been captured by the Br tsh armed schooner SapEAo.
 From the Rochester Ded,ocrat of Friday, we learn that Baron, inc murderer bf Lyman, was sentenced to be hung on the 18th dsY of July next. When ask ed the usual question, vhy sentence should moi he pronounced against him, e said, quite distinctly, ' am not guilty of the crime At all' His whole deport ment has been marked VI an exhibition of unusua obduracy.
 An Honornbk Sentiment S-rhe Boston Daily Eve ming News says" There snothing we ioaihe or dc spise more than man who while in company of ano