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THE ENQUIRER. LITCHFIELD, MAY 25, 1837. The Legislature.-From this body we learn very little of importance. Week before last on Friday morning the adjourned over to Tuesday afternoon.On then assembling, it was found there was no quorum present and on Wednesday the House was thinly attended. Thus was nearly a week lost, and we suppose the members getting their pay from the Treasury for the whole period. No business of consequence has yet been accomplished. But few committees have reported and no appointments made.We learn that the Litchfie!d county members have had one or two county meetings, but recommended no appointments of consequence. His honor Judge H. P. Welch, we understand, hangs by the gills" in county meeting it is not probable he will be recommended for the office of Judge again, but whether the House will take the responsibility of putting him in remains to be seen. In county meeting he had but 14 votes out of the 33 members. This looks rather squally for His Honor when all his own troops cannot be brought up to the scratch. We learn further, that the small bill petitions-that is, for allowing the Banks to issue bills of $1 and $2-are not likely to be granted. If they should not, the state will probably soon be flooded with either small bills from Massachusetts and Rhode Island, or shinplasters will have to come into use. There is no other alternative. From the little experience we already have had, we imagine the community are satisfied that we cannot get along for change with our present means. KT Since the preceding page, and the above notice were in type, we have received a slip from the Hartford Courier, containing an account of the proceedings of Saturday and Monday, but for which we have not room. Nothing of much consequence was transacted on either day On Saturday, the appointments of County Court and Probate Judges for Middlesex County, and of County Court Judges and Sheriff for Windham were made-Hezekiah Lyon is the Sheriff T'appointed-theothers webelieve same as last vear. Bills repealing the charters of the Stamford, N. Haven City, and Quinebaug Banks, had two readings and referred to committee on Banks. An abstract showing the actual condition of the several Banks in this State, laid on the table, and 2000 copies ordered be to printed. On Monday, the bill relating to settlement of inhabitants in towns, prohibiting their admission by vote of civil authority and selectmen, or by being appointed to civil offices, was read second time, and postponed for a third reading. The answer of the Directors of the City Bank at New-Haven to the Report of the Committee appointed to examine that institution, was presented-and on the motion to print 1000 copies, gave rise to considerab deba Messrs. Raymond, Phelps of Woodbury, Willey, Curtis of Watertown, Carrington and Donaghe in favor and Messrs. Woodruff and Curtis of Monroe prevailed. ficated as We have so crowded our coluought to be to from other papers respecting up of children at failures," legislative record, &c.e country. In a room left for editorial speculationently chargeable, bes in breakings of as CONGRESS is to be er brittle materials Monday of September to meet ad unfortunate heas least weighty considerations" are the which, at is rathPresident deigns to offer in his incerned, jild and equable this step. port Uncommon Occurrence.-A gentleman who started for the West' last week, called and paid up his printer's bill before leaving! So says a western New-York paper. We can tell a little better story than this. A friend and townsman of ours started for Ohio a few days ago; but before going he called upon us, and not only paid up arrearages, but paid for the Enquirer two years and a half in advance ! May health, happiness, and abundance follow in his train. Hear what the government pet-Mr. Van Buren's par excellence organ-the Albany Argus says of the Postmaster General's order to pay for postage in specie. Not one of the lesser lights in the region hereabout dare utter such censure : We understand that an order was received yesterday by the Postmaster of this city, from the department at Washington, directing that all payments for postage should be paid in specie, and that it should be retained in the office, subject to the draft of the general office, or to the payment of contractors, expenses, &c. We regret the supposed necessity for such order ut this moment as it can scarcely fail to lead to much public inconvenience, and to serious loss of revenue to the department.-Albany Argus. The Government Pets.-The Bank of the Metropolis and the Bank of Washington undertook to continue to pay specie after the other Banks had stopped, backed by the influence of the government but after two or three days experiment," such was the constant run upon them for specie that they also yielded. or As the news of the suspension of epecie payments by the New York Banks travels South and West, all the banks follow suit. Proceeding southwardly, the news is met that in Mississippi and Alabama and Louisiana the banks have there anticipated the movement, and also suspended. In New York, they stopped on the 10th, in Natchez on the 8th, and in New Orleans, six of the banks stopped on the 12th, and it was believed the whole would follow in a day or two after. East, West, North and South, we do not hear of a single bank (except the New Haven City Bank) which has not yielded to the force of circumstances, and suspended specie payment. Sogoes Mr. Van Buren's specie humbug! or The report in our last paper, from New Haven, about the breaking of the Bridgeport Bank, turns out to be untrue. The Cashier says no process has been served upon it, and that no bank in the state is in more sound or solvent state. MR. ADAMS-Please inform your readers why it is that the convenience and interests of community should be made tributary to either the EASE or INDOLENCE of Post Masters or their Clerks ? Had not the office better be open bef fore o' clock at this season of the year, and thereby add to the eliances of replying to letters from the south by first return mail Furthermore, is a Clerk in Post Office absolved from or disgraced by an attentive and civil demeanor to the cusACCOMMODATION. tomers of the office? MARRIED. In Torringford, Mr. Eber N. Gibbs, of Farmington, to Miss Abigail W Hudson. In Warren, Mr. Daniel E. Brinsmade, of Washington, to Miss Orphey Sackett, daughter of Benj. Sackett, Esq. In Hartford, Frederick Ellsworth Mather, Esq. of New to Miss Ellen Pomeroy Goodrich, adopted to to Miss Jane daughter Haven, Miss Sarah In Wilton, York, of Elizur Mr. Ann Goodrich, James Lewis, Middlebrook. H. both Esq. Smith, of East Mr. printer, Hartford. Henry of Wright NewIn Mr. Nathan Burwell. of Southbury,
