Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-08-30

! ling them, IN spite OF themselves, 70 anoro
some relief to tho country.
These are the services, fellow citizens, for
which you this day tender your thanks TO
your distir guished guest. These are the SER
+, vices for which, sir, on behalf of my fellow
citizens, thank you; for which they thank
you themselves. Behold, sir, how they rise
| to pay you manly homage. The armies OF
| Napoleon could not coerce it, the wealth OF
the Indies could not buy it; but it is freely,
| ioyously paid, by fifteen hundred frcemen, to
| tht. man of their affections. They thank you,
! having stood by them in these dark times
! They thank YOU, because they think they are
beginning to feel the fruit of your exertions,
in the daily round of their pursuits. They
aScribc it in no small degree 10 you. that tue
iron grasp of the Government policy has
been relaxed that its bolts and chains, rel
les of barbarous age, have been shiVered
as soon as forged, and before they were riv-
eted on the necks ofthe people. They thank
YOU for having stood by the Constitution, in
which their all of human hope for them
selves and their children is cEshrined. They
thank you as one of themselves; and because
| they know that your affections are with the
people, from which you sprung. They
thank you because you have at all times
shown. that as the Wing blood of the Revo-
luton circles in your veins, the Wing prin-
ciples of the revolution are imprinted in
| your heart. They thank you for the entire
manliness of your course; that you have
never joined the treacherous cry OF "the
hatred of the poor against the rich )" cry
raised by artful men, who think to f1atter the
people, while in reality they are waging war
| against the peoples business, the peoples
prosperity, and the peoples constitution
They are willing that this days suffering
should be remembered, when all this mighty
multitude shall have passed from the stage.
When that day shall have arrived, history
will have written your name on one of her
brightest pages fame will have encircled
your bust with the greenest laurels; but
neither history ror fame will have paid you
a truer, heartier tribute, than that which now,
beneath the arches of this venerable hall, in
the approving presence of these images Of
our canonized fathers, is now rendered you
by this great company of your fellow citi-
zens. l give you, gentlemen,
Daniel Webster The Statesman and the
Man: whose name is engraven alike on the
pillars of the Constitution and the hearts OF
his fellow citizens. He is worthy of that
place in the Councils of the Nation, which
he fills in the affections of the people.
We extract the following very excellent
article from the Peoria (Illinois) Register.
"Cro,os, Versus ALcohol.--Colonel B. has
one of the best farms on the Illinois river
About one hundred acres of it are now COW
cred with waving corn. When it first came
up in the spring, the crows seemed determin-
ed on its entire destruction. When one was
killed it seemed as though dozen came to
its funeral. And though the sharp crack of
the rifle often drove them away, they always
returned with its echo. tts
IF
| throwing grass, and resolved on trying the
virtue of stones. He sent to the druggist for
a gallon of alcohol, in which he soaked
few quarts Of corn and scattered it over his
field. The black-legs came and paltook with
| their usual relish and as usual they were
soon pretty well corned and such cooling
and cacklng- strutting and stagger-
ing! The scene was like-but will make
no invidious comparison-yet it was very
much like
When the boys attempted TO catch them,
they were not little amused at their stag
| gering gait, and their zigzag course through
the air. At length they gained the edge of
! the woods, and there being joined by new
recruit which happened to be sober, they
united at the top Of their voices in haw, haw,
having and shouting either the praises or the
curses of alcohol. 1t was difficult to tell
or reason, so very much like
But the colonel saved his corn, As soon
| as they became sober, they set their faces
steadfastly against alcohol. Not another ker-
mel would they touch in his field, lest it should
contain the accursed thing. while they went
and pulled up the corn of his neighbors. To
return like dog to his vomit-like washed
sow to the -like-not they. They have
too much respect for their character-black
as they are-again to be found drunk"
i MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.-The Detroit Adver-
tiser tells the following story respecting the
loss and recovery of q considerable amount
1 of money, which was sent from this city about
the middle Of June. The money was a part of
the Michigan State loan of five millions, and
was advanced by the Morris Canal Compa-
ny. The whole amount is said to have been
100000. The bills, we understand, were
put up in several packages, each bill stamp
ed with private mark, and the whole care
fully counted over in New York. Gov. Ma
son reached Detroit somewhere about the
18th of June. The mysterious transaction
to which we allude is this The amount of
money advanced was, as we have said, put
up in several small packages, placed in a
: trunk, and despatched to this city. On ar
irving here, it was counted over, and Disco
. vercd to fall short from four to six thousand
dollars. This is said to have been about the
18th of June. Afterwards, in order to make
an arrangement, it was determined that the
: whole should be sent back, and not disburs-
ed in the State as originally intended. This
was accordingly done. On tho 2sth of juno,
} the money which was missing, said to be
about $500, was received by the Company
in New York through the Post Office in I'm
envelope with the direction printed with a
pen. 1t is known by those who counted the
money in this city. that the bills distracted
from the trunk were not tall Of one package,