Litchfield enquirer., 1838-07-26

yer for this very honorable Senator If we were the owners of the Bridgeport Boat we should decline ta king such troublesome personages even on freight W. r. Ezpress.
 From the N Y. American.
 Aristocnats and Aristocracy.-A thinking friend thus descants upon these terms, applied among
 "We have often wondered what certain class of politicians would do were there no such words as Aristocr0t and Aristocrdcy. What deal of ndirna- tiOn and scorn would remain pent up in their patriot ic breasts, for want of an appropriate vent! We doubt whether there is another pair of words in tho abused, as the vehicle of political spleen and malice as this precise pair Unless, indeed, it be the eoun terpar phrases Democracy and Densocr0t, which in their present political application are perhaps even subserve party purposes. What monstrous perver- sion csl the supporters of the most arbitrary ad mnis'ration that has been seen on this side Of the Atlantic since our colonial task-masters were expe- led, Dsnocrdts |; and to hold up policy which has tsamped the true nterests of the people in the dus as Democratic policy.
 But to return to the words which form tho caption of this article is favorite artifice of the Loco Focos etsmp this that leader of the Whig party as one or another chance to be urperost in the pop u' wR .1s o o s es case of one who enjoys perhaps greater measure o regard among the whole People of the country than any other man in t at the present monent-DANIEL WEBsTRR-How far is Daniel Webster an ARIsTo- GRAF
 Is he an Aristocrat by birth and blood His iath- CT 10 be sure. was farmer; and General Jackson, in best psrs of the population But We do not presume that the General intended to the word best in this conneXioD, in that odious ssnao which would sgfOa- tize the son of Nsw-aampshire farmer as an Aris- tocrat by birth.
 But his father was also Revolutionary soldier- Does that make him an Arstocrst Does it really make a man an Ars.ecrat by nature. to bear in his was shed in the battles of American Liberty If 90, Daniel Webster is sn Aristocrat. But still further His father was also, like most cf provide for more than the immediate wants of hir, self and his family. He left his children no nheri. tsnce bnt that Of hs own good name and example. Daniel W ebster did not then commence life, at any rate, in the ranks of the Arissocracy of wealth. How has it been since? How is it with him per. sonalv and apart from all considerations of birth or parentage Has he yet enrolled himself among the wealthy Aristociats of the country? Why. Martin Van buren could buy him out and have surplus left sufficient 10 maintain his carriage and four and tha: without any regard to his official perquistes It is notorious that Daniel Webster has wealth to boast of and his Arstocracy in this regard, will not be as serted even by his enemies
 Nor can the charge of Aristocracy in any regard be sustained against him for moment. Left to his own industry and resources in early life, he has been obliged to depend on them, and on them alone unin- terruptedy to the present hour After twenty or thir- ing the first part of which he rode the New. .Hamp. l shire Circuit on pack saddle, relying upon his daily labors for his daily bread, he has now at length in great degree, retired from legal practice And whth CT has ts Ansiocrat retreaed He has returned to those pursuits of Ggricuure, to which. in his youth | he became accustomed and attached. He has en- rolled himself among General Jacksons best part o the popu aton, the farmers. From the fagues of hi: arduous duties in the Senate be wi,hdraws not to the luxuries and disspatons ot crowded city, but the quiet secuson of his Plymouth fields, where his only Arstocratic ambition seems to be, far we learn to have cattle of good breed and to leave luxuri l ant growth 0F wood to bis DoSterity,
 So much for the personal Aristocracy of Danie Webster. And yet this man, of no high birth. Of nc wealthy percentage, of no selfaccumuated fortune born and bred to farm, and returning to a farm again, as the scene and occupation of his mat,irec age, whose manners. habits dispositions. and princi ples, are as free from any soil taint of Arisocracy as those of a Westchester or Queens county farmer is denounced as an Aristocrdt, while Martin Van Blu ren rolls up and down Pennsylvania Avenue in his re gal equpage. and is pronounced the very pattern ana standard of true oldfashioned Democracy! Well does the poet exclaim What's in c name ?" 7ae Westbrook Bank Ro5bery.-Fifteen hundred and fifty dollars shed up from the foot of the in bills and ssOo in gold It is supposed there were five robbers, as the above sum embraces about one fifth of the money stolen. The robber probably esca ped to Boston in the Steamboat of the 2d inst. and fearing detection, threw his money into the water. Portland Advertiser. DeaM by Ligktning.-We are pained to learn that during the thunder storm on Sunday the Zath ult Mrs Roby, wife of Gilman Roby. of Dunstahle, Macs was killed by lightning: Mrs. Roby wes returning from church. and had just entered her dwelling, as she was in the act of shutting the door aer her, the lightning struck her, and killed her instantly
 Prir;lege-A wife in Maine, by law of that State, can divorce herself from common drunkard. This valuable privilege ought to be universal. It may not be ass to add here for general information, that the laws of our State allow the wife and other friends of the drunkard, on application to the Chancellor. to have his estate put beyond hia cOnTOl.N. Y. pape'