Litchfield enquirer., 1838-08-09


 Philadelphia on the evening of the list inst, He had tor many years been the senior officer of the Navy wasa severe dscplinarian and accomplished seaman, but during the last war was not fortunate enough to signaze himself in any of the important actions of that period.
 4 Falsehood.-The Hartford Times says" the ederasts, in their relentless prescription in this State, have removed nine hundred persons from office em- 6raciny every grade from Chief Justice of our Com mon Pleas Courts to the keeper of the Arsenal and even the humble hearse-drver." We 6o not in- tend to apologize for the acts of the Whg party in any respect, but we cannot remain silent and see so outrageous falsehood the above circulated m relation to ony party or sect We therefore nail 1t to the counter base coin." We will only add, that if the editor of the Times had not resigned in might have compIoned of proscrpion nc If t6at des scended to a lOwer depth than the humble hearse driver "-Hartford Put.
 Van Bnren hanging to other Men's Skirss.-The New. York Star. in an appeal to its old Tammany trends shows mp one invariable tactic practiced by MT: Van Buren, throughout his career, the art and faculty with which he attached himself to the skirts of rising men.
 You may remember when in 1917 we ran up the Buckta flag, we had but eighteen men with us in the Legislature and with only three presses in the State we opposed Dewitt Clinton, on the grounds 5 o
 
 carried the State. Where was Martin Van Buren at that time With the Democracy-wi,h the War party-wi,h the Madisonans! No such thing; He was hanging on the skirts of MT. Clinton; and here let me remind you that hanging on the skirts of em nent men has been the peculiar feature and secret of Van Buren's advance men.; he was elected to the Senate as Cintonian; he moved in the Conven- ton to have Clinton's nomination as Governor made unanimous; he hung closely to his skirts until he saw the current setting against him, when he drop ped of and tackled himself to the skirts of Tompkins Yefir he OOf Of Roger Skinner, Farley Reyes and Silas Wright, and clambered into the Senate of the U States much to the annoyance of shat dlsnterested politician, Col Samuel Young.
 In the Senate he held on to the skirts of Rufus King, until he got introduced to "good society"- He then took hold of the skirts of Crawford, and when poor Crawford lost his election of President and John Quincy Adams succeeded, he made two or three grabs at his skirts, but Adams wore spencer and Van Buren missed his hold, and he settled down quietly in the Senate, looking round to see whom he could next ride, like the old man in the story of Sin had the sailor. At length when it was reduced to certainty that Andrew Jackson would succeed. he afraid of Van Buren. and finally he succeeded in getting him by the button and in this way got into the cabinet he caught hold of the skirts of Eaton, Ken. an 1n Se S es pocket and he made him his successor Having lost the old Chief having no skirts but his own to sustain him. he fell to the ground as every body expec- ted he would dc
 Lite- Preserving Test-We yesterday had an op- portunity to witness from the Bunker Hill wharf an exhibition of the worth and power of the Life Pre- serving Vest" the invention of Mir. w. C. Pethb0ne, of this city. full grown boy with all his clothes on but his coat, was buoyed up in the river by one Of these vests and his head kept entirely out of the wa 6eve all were perfectly satisfied that the inven- ton will answer the purpose for which it is designed. It is made like any common vest. with the exception that the breast and portion of the back are lined with 1ndi rrhh hA ted breath In few moments, and as well in water as out of it..
 It is not intended that these shall be put only when immediate danger threatens, but worn at all times when travelling the water, as the india rub her nnnated does not nure the appearance.-Iiart- ford Cour
 The leading Loco-Foco papers in this State are la- boring hard, from time to time, to excite prejudice against the character of the late General Assembly, by attempting to sheer at the Whig majority tor hay seon 'f Ths Having ed. whilst that party had the oversight o the public affairs in running the State into debt about 3o0oO m rdce o ieve the people from this burthen by prudent eco nomical management cf the public concerns. There is certainly good deal of difference between saving by frugalty six thousand dollars in single session, and squandering that stun, or a greater, by gross and wasteful extravagance. And there is still greater difference in the estimate which the people of
 
 two last legislatures, when is recoected, that Tn 1887, fNly equal to the difference in the dcben. ture of the two last sessions, viz six thousand dollars, was illegally taken from the Treasury by the Loco Foco assembly for services rendered, and for time not spent in the business of their constituents; both houses having drawn pay. not only for double raus bo! tor sn or t'eelue dayi ,Dhen s & Assembly New-Haven Register waste the superabundaDce of their wit in ridiculing the last Assembly for saving candle ends," they had better try their hands at sl,n;e de nF making the people pay for candles that were never burned.-4artord Courant. -
 BeaufifuHy said.-Mr. Ketchum of New York. in ster upon, his war with Notification, which Gen Jackson first paronized, and afterwards repudated thus happily described the conflict.
 A, this moment of thrilling interest. which none Liberty, looked wistlu!iy sround and her eye nstinc lively turning to the Cradle where her infancy nursed she called on Massachusetts Voices from the Hall responded, and the call was answered ) Yes said MT. K. the call was answered; Massachusetts sent forth her son, armed and equipped by herself and inspired with the spirit which ever dvels in this consecraed Temple that son snatched from the Ar mory ot the Constitution weapon which no living man but himself could lift. and with one well directed blow he sn,ote the monster, and brought him to the earth in ,he sight of all the people Who can forget again returned to us But the most remarkable oc- currence in this connexion was, that when the Go- vernment saw the hdeous defcrmity of this monster he lay prosrate, and weiterng under the blow he had received, they took up the very club which the Defender of the Constitution had used, and went to pounding him"
 Grsas Ere-Loss of Liucs and Property.-New York, August 2.--About o clock yesterday morning . fire broke out in the Soap Factory of Humphrey Jones, in the centre of the bcck bounded by Perry, Hammond, Washington and West streets, North r- yer destroying the whole block composed of two sto " houses with brick fronts, upwards of ty in mum Der. From the block the flames extended to the north to a sawml. A large quantity of lumber was con- sumed. but the mill was saved. Report says three persons were burnt to death-one certain whose body