Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-05-03

turned 70 t1lS Guy On Odturoay laStp anu was
Yesterday, Us above stated, found erring
against honesty and sent to prison, where he
now is. The name of the man who suborned
to this wholesale fraud and purjury is in our
possession, but for the present we forbear to
| give it.
The Courier states the same facts, and
gives the name Goseph Black) of the Con-
tractor at the Water Works.
Lime Wheat, 6c.--Lime is not only "a neces-
sary ingredient in every soil, which is intend
ed to produce a vigorous and profitable veg
citation, but is wanted to compose a part of
the substance of certain plants-and wheat
is one of the number. No plant can grow in
soil which is entirely destitute 9th earth
ly ingredients which must constitute its SUBJ
stance and lime is found by chemical ana
| lysis, always to exist in wheat, both in the
straw and in the kernel.
| 1t is we'll known that the lands in New
England, which are all suitable for any kind
of grain or root crop, will produce good crops
| of wheat, when first cleared from their native
growth of wood. But after having been till
ed some wears, such lands yield wheat with
difficulty, and it is often found impossible 10
raise it by any of the modes commonly adopt
| ed for wheat culture. In process oftime, the
soil appears to lose its faculty of producing
| it, and thesculture of wheat is nearly or quite
abandoned.
The same variations have likewise been
observed in Europe. Wheat countries, by
incapable of yielding wheat. The cause and
remedy of this partial barrenness. this falling
off as regards particular plants, were alike
involved in cbscurity, until modern discov-
cries in chemistry threw lght+onthesubiect.
1t has been found that the texture of every
soil is defective, unless there is mixture of
| three kinds of earth, viz CLAY Sund and
| Lime, and that lime in some of it's combinants,
exists in wheat, both in the stock and kernel.
! In some soils, fertile in other respects, lime
may either have no existence, or be found
| in very minute portions, and soon be exhaus-
| ted. If lime be necessary constituent of
wheat, and does not naturally exist in>the soil
in which we attempt to raise wheat, it must
| be supplied by art, or wheat will not grow.
Or, if native lime exists in the soil in small
quantities, the land may bear wheat till inca
\ pable of producing that plant, till fresh sup
ply of lime mari, pulverzed bones, or some
other calcareous substance is added.
A A British farmer, we believe, never ander-
takes to raise wheat without using lime as
manure. And since the plentiful use lime
has been adopted in Europe, lands will now
produce wheat which were formerly incapa-
l BILE of bearing it.-N. e. Farmer.
New YORK, April Is.
MONEY MARKET.-Specie continues to ar
rive in very large quantities. The Mediator
arrived to-day with over million. The re-
J ceipts therefore, within the past ten days,
4 have been over Five Millions-a very large
portion of which has been deposited in Bank.
Specie owbCars no premium of consequence
mot to exceed halfper cent Within few
days past, the trade of our city has greatly
increased; and the steamboats, reach our
wharves crowded with passengers-the boat
4 from Providence brought about four hun
dred Our Public Houses arefilling up rap
idly.
Our banks now pay out their notes with
freedom-one or two excepted. There are
no calls of any magnitude on them for specie.
Correspondence Of the ". Y. Erprcss.
WASHINGTON, April 90.
The United statas Bank Circulate none-of-
your.old.notes- Bill, has been before the SEN
ate during the day. 1t passed to a third
reading in the form published, with the ex-
ception that the punishment is made not more
| than five, nor less than one year, and the in
sertion of proviso, combining the operations
| of the Bill to Trustees, Officers, &c, and not
| to citizens, who may circulate the notes of
the old Bank. Mr.. Rives, during the day,
made an argument in defence of it. 1t was
that the Bank issued and circulated Bank
notes in violation of the law. The notes have
the stamp and character of United States Bank
Notes. The public had confidence in them
as such, and in some measure looked to the
United States to redeem them. We, the
Government, gave it its charter, and being
its creator, we had tho power to punish its
offences.
Mr.. Calhoun, who during the day, spoke
upon the Bill, thought Mr.. Rives' argument
unanswerable. We could punish the offence,
because we had made the offender. We
could undo what'w had done, although the
thing done was wrong. We could punish
| the Bank as Trustee, or as an agent OF the
| Government. This was Mr.. Calhoun's view
of the case, and although he said he should
have voted against the bill ,ifhe had voted
yesterday,-yet light enough had burst upon
him to-day, to make it clear to his mind, that
| the Bill was constitutional. Indeed, Mr..
Calhoun said he had never given vote in ia
vor of constitutional measure with clear
CIR understanding of its justice than the one
he was about to give in favor of the BILL
There's one nights conversion for you,
and makes the second summerset Mr.. Cal
houn has tured in SO hours. Last evening
he would havevoted against it, to-day he vo-
ted for it. Yesterday he spoke against a
resolution which the day before he advoca-
ted, and concluded with motion to which
twenty -four hours before he had recorded
his name in opposition. These are small
matters, but straws show which way the
wind blows.
Whois responsible for the notes of the
old United States Bank is question which
has been briefly discussed to-day, by Mr..