Litchfield enquirer., 1840-09-10
From hc ALIdnv Daily Adrcrtiser

l
 The Newburgh Gazette brings us the followin, e,o.
 91ens & t EstteT from !he last of inc LIFE GUARDS Or GENERAL WASHINGTON. Let the free.
 men of America heed the honest warning of this va
 nerable patriot Let all who are able to enlist for
 the war adopt the advice of this aged veteran and
 enrol Themselves as the Life Guards of the Country
 To the descendants of Revolutionary Soldiers: An old soldier of the Continental Army asks for the last time to speak to his countrymen. During inc
 suffering service of the Revolution was in sirteen engagements, and was one of the little band who vol
 ot indians was one of the small company select ed as the Lie GMard of George Washington-butt two 3f M us are now living. ! was at the tough siege of teen other hard battles, and saw Corn wallis surrender to our old General. My service ceased only with the war; After all this hardship and suffering in the street when go out in my old age to see the happ. ness have helped to give you, 1 am pointed at as BRITISH IoRY-yes, BRITISH TORY have said nothing when have been told so, but have silently thought that my old General would ne yer have picked out TORY to form one of his Life Guard, nor would TORY have suffered what have suffered for you.-
 ms abuse has been shamefullv heaped upon one of your old soldiers because he is what he was when the war broke out, and what Washington told us we must always be when he shook hands with us as we all were going home. was Whig in the Revolu- non. have been one ever since and am one now As Whig enlisted for the uioLe uar, was in favor W'th the other Wings of Thomas Jefferson, with the party for James Madison was in favor of the last war, ana |" De consistent in my last vote, must give It to Gen Harrison. He is a brave man, and was never known wherever he has been to take a penny from his neighhor or the Government that was not !Mfiy ms. We have trod over the same ground fight lnR for liberty His father (he ore of us in the Revoluuon) signed our Independence roll, and then we all went out together to fight for it, and we proved 1t was true.
 It appears to me that this cannot be .he same gov ernment that our soldiers helped Washington to put up here. We tonoht to have Government as differ ent from any in Europe we could make it. Well, we done It, and until lately things have all gone on smoothly and Europe was beginning to get ashamed ot the way she made slaves of her subjects hy making .hem work and toll for seven poor cents day with Standing Army over them to force them to it. But our President now tells the people that things have gone wrong since the Old War and that there are 23 miserable Governments in Europe where the Kings rags, that we must fashion after them if want to be happy and prosperous! We had English laws tere @ once and they were the best in Europe but we couldn't stand them and we put them under our feet We used to work for mere nothing tnen and we canno. do 1t again: Working for; few cents day may do for slaves but not for ireemen whose liberty the very first thing that started the old war was the standing Army the King kept quartered on ns; we to1d nm we wanted no soldiers over n time of peace, but he refused to mind us, and saw Lord SS%Th"aIHS surrender up a part of them to honest George Washington. Our President now proposes to have standing force-what for? Beware
 Jefferson never asked for armed men to re elect I him or elevate his successor. Madison asked for them only m the time of the late war; and warned the people when he left his office to be careful about sseePlng soldiers iu time of peace. Our are
 | '-S' when employment was to be had. The men of enter hrlze who once employed them have been ruined by .he m government. And now these honest but unem- l poyeo aborers are told by the government that when lhey go to work again they must do it for few cents a dav-that labor must be as cheap here as it is among the slaves of Cuba or the slaves of Enrope.- Ahn'i'oh ana ignorance on the part Of our Govern ment have shut up our shops and stores scuted smcs hed our streets with ideness and bankruptcy, and gwen no eneouragement to the farmer as he looks at his grain. Are not .hese things so2 You know they are and have no motive in saying what 1 may be ialse-l am too far advanced tor office any h'ng else but dea,h-i. will soon be here. My little penslon, thank you for it, will stop and go home with the res! of the Life Guards There is but one remedy only for the safety of the country havo Tepnd ,be ce cah Glner men to stand at s er ana old Constitutional track. Con. Harrison is honest, he never deceived and he never lost battle, and vice end yo" ali e haye n my advice is that you all become the Life Guards of the country. and n.v blessing is that your old age may have less fears for i''erty thur mine One of the tVo suru,UiHg Lie Guards cf George
 Nvwtuigli. N. Y, Aug. 2s. 1s4o.
 A PAINFUL SCENE which occurred in Boston on Friday last is related in the I'mes of that city. An elegan and accomplished woman, the wife of one of the most wealthy and respectable merchants in the | city, was seen pnssing up Washington street, about nne , o'clock F. M; leading two small and beautiful reeled from side to the other. and could scarcely stand upright. It was a bright and beau,fnl day, and halt the town abroad. The little girls that the lady held by her hand, were her own chldren.- The poor things looked mp at their unfortunate moth CT, apparently wondering why she acted so strangely and as rhe reeled away from them on either side, | clung still tighter to the hand they clssped andfo ed her cratic course, well as they were able Hundreds of persons stopped and gaZed for several minutes upon the scene, with hearts overaowmg with pity. The Times further states, thnt this lady, and several others in the daily habit of meeting at certain places in that city, kept bv females ostens- hly for other purposes. where they are supplied with intoxicating liGuors cordials, and wines, and that ly occurred which have carried shame and distress into the bosoms ofhappy and respectable families.
 Disastrous Fire at Lockporf.-We learn that the large six story Flourng mill belonging to Ly- man A. Spaulding at Lockport, took fire on Monday night-it is supposed from the friction of machinery and was entirely destroyed, with between two and three thousand bushels of wheat, seven eight thousand bushels of shorts and middngs, and about two hundred barrels of four. The mill owned by Gov. Marcy of Albany, and Judge Hunt of Lock- port, and was valued at $35OOO. It was insured for only SI5,OOO-N. Y. Erpress.
 The Louisville Journal says, among the big guns used at the great Nashville Convention, there was one of vas: dimensions that roared like hundred lions. Above it sreamed flag with the inscription -" AMOS S. BABY-wAKER.
 MARRIED,
 In this village. on the 9th inst, MT. Elias P. Ward '' In Salisbury, on the Is, inst Mir Richard M Har of Ednburg, Portage county, Ohio. 10 Miss Sarah Averill, daughter of Mir. Nathaniel P. Averil.
 In Bristol, MT Asa C. Russell, of Ct. Burlington, to Miss Czarina Elizabeth, daughter of Jared w. Pardee, Esq.
 DIED,
 r., ,b;s ,o,p m the 2Sth Aup Harriet F. White