Litchfield enquirer., 1836-10-27
MAN.-BY ,. N. arAFFRrT.

Man IS perishable, and like himself are all his works; eternity is not his Rift and the operations of his arm, though they may be beautiful while they last, like the spni- mer cloud must melt away. He steps m. on the stage of action, the proud lord of all created nature, he erects the nillara of brass and marble statues, that continua fer ages, and seem to bid defiance to the rav. ages of the destroyer; he rears the tower ing monument to perpet0ate his greatness, and tells the tempest and storm to bean it down if they be able :; he sinks amid his glory. and his sons and successors with tear- tul eyes view the wasting away of all his works. In the full tide of his zeal he
 builds church and dedicates it to the liya
 ing God 'Now,' says he, with the ar-
 m'eS of heaven upon my sides my labor shall last forever; and as though he had entered the dwelling place of Deity, and by his good works bribed him to sustain him. he exultingly cries out the destroyer. Thus far shalt thou come, but no farther. here at this temples base slIalt tI.y prou6 waves he stayed.' But time triumphant time he comes either in the still smaR voice, or like an avalanche from the eter. nal hills, and the proud effort, togefhas with the prince that planned it, are buried iR one unceremonious ruin. But more than these he has erected the temple of. fame. and upon its heaven-ward arch he has in. scribed the burning letters of immortalnv he has blown up the enduring flame of his own renown, and after ages have been il- lumined by it's light: he has climbed ,he slippery steep of literature, and from her wide spread arena, has looked abroad untr, all the world: he has counted and nanaed the stars; scanned the orbits of tllonsand planets, and marked the revolutions of ina great centre Of the solar system. Ike \ blazing beacon whose flame is gathering from tho four quarters Of the earth his deeds are held out to the gaze of the uni- verse and the admiration of celestial intel ligence; but to expire amidst the halo of his hard-earned glory. is the eonsumnsation of his highest hopes and the end of his fon- dest expectations; he cannot rescue from ruin one single performance, or bring back tho faintest breath of life and all his days have been spent in forming and fashion- ing anew the. wonderful works of aE an powerful Creator, and the best operation
 he ever accomplished was nothing moro than the transformation of the material pla- ced into his hands one jot or tittle has not been added since the Almighty spoke from chaos this mundane fabric, perfect then in all its parts, forming wondrous whole, so it has remained, and through the changes of six thousand years, and the de- composition, over and over again, of the flowers and herbs, and fruits and animals. that lived, glowed and died upon its sur- face. the rolling away of the tides, and the bursting of volcanoes, the evapoyation of fluids and the melting of clouds, it has con- tinued the same in quantity, and the untir- ing efforts of man, though repeated and
 continued through every hour since its ere-
 ation, have mutifated it's surface compara-
 lively but little deeper than his own grave shall be but the conclusion or the whole matter is, the worm shall feed upon. mans mortality and then turn itself to the duss from whence man was taken. @
 WESTERN WoMEN N-The south produ. cos elegant women, snd the valley of the Mississippi splendid ones. There is an originality, raciness, among women of the west, which is eminentIy attractive.--- They touch the confines of civilization and barbavisn,, with such a daring grace, thaS the precise petites npGisves of the Atlantic are thunder-struck, or turned into gaping s,a,uss, at their fascinating wildaess ard enchanting sudaeity. A western os . southwestern belle, fresh from the woods, is a sealed book to sn Atlsntie dandy. He cannot understand her he has not the key; she is beyond Ais vision. To know .hcqs properly, to estimate them accurately. we must have .beeM lost on the Alleganiss-- on foreign coasi-<taksn sherbet with the Turk-tasted the river Jordan, or been killed and ea.sn by pirates. It Is quite distressing to sac the Atlantic belles pick their way through crowded drawing-room. They soMeeimss stand on the outward edge of the crowd, and look to friend at the otber end of the room, as one would look atthe spires of Cincinnati from the pinnacIes of tks Alyeganies, or . traveller looks scross the Arabian deserts. A western belle dashes through the crowd. aashe would through the river mouutsdon horseback. Nothing impsdes her. She makes manners, aAd coRirols the rsIes of society as she marches throsgh it--throw.
 ing dandies aside as the ship does tho 0il-
 lows.- CiRcinnai paper.
 cood rencrk.-The Boston Courier says,
 " Aaron Burr die3 Christiens according tQ
 the New York Times. So much the better for himself fine had tUed Christian. how much better would ithnre been forths world" !"