Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-05-28
WASHINGTON, MAY IL.

Amos KENDALL, PTopriG persona, over his
own signature, and in the official organ. ere
this you have observed, has confirmed his
own resignation, and silenced the tongue OF
rumor upon one point at least. Additional
rumors are adoat in regard to other members
OF the Cabinet, but they come in so question
able shape that will not repeat them. In
regard to the Post Master General who is &c
| be, there remains at present but little doubt,
A Mr.. Armstrong of Tennessee, warm
friend OF General Jackson, and a.supporter
OF Mr.. Van Buren,, am told, might have the
once II he would accept it. Be that as it
may, he will not accept it, and declines the
honor. JOHN M. NILES of Connecticut, the
rejected Senator and rejected candidate for
Governor, is to be the man. So learn from
high authority, and the story is current with
the supporters of the administration. Mr..
Van Buren,, you will observe, still adheres to
his plan of rejecting whom the people reward,
and rewarding whom the people reject. Mr..
Niles is no sooner condemned by the people
who best know him, than he is honored by
those who it should be presumed know the
least of his qualifications. I'm Mr.. Van Bu-
ICn'o nneraoro hla n,eSsaCe of Santapohar
1885, he told us that 1.-THE Will Of f6e peopie
was the supreme law of the land" Behold
the proof of the declaration! See how the
faith Of the man squares with his works
not so much in the nomination of Mr.. Niles,
if he shall be nominated, as in the appoint
ment of almost every prominent man TO Of
flee who has been rejected by the people at
the polls. But why complain of Mr.. Van
Buren, The people, if the majority of the
people themselves are not false prophets,
will punish this self-styled Democrat by put
ting faith and works together in the actual
rejection of Mr.. Van Buren,. The severest
afflicted men we read of were those who be-
came subjects to their own laws. The Pre-
sident has made the Spartan law applicable
to others-let it be applied to himself.
The most dissatisfied man here, among the
many dissatisfied spirits, is Col. Johnson
There are rumors afoat in regard to him,
and his recently expressed opinions of Gen.
Harrison. The story is that Thomas III. Ben
ton called General Harrison coward, and
that Colonel Johnson replied that the imputa-
ton was unjust, unfounded and false. Thus
much, venture to predict, he will say to
any man who tells him that General Harri-
son is coward. His published opinion of
the Honest Old Hero, is the bitterest retort to
all the ISLANDERS of the pensioned partizans
and presses in the pay of the Government.
Nothing could be more annoying, and there
are many who so regard it. This record is
among the reasons Of an indisposition to no.
| inmate the present umbcnt.-Enpress.
The Book of .Jasher.--We shall shortly
! have literary or rather Biblical curiosity,
to present to the American reader, which we
feel confident in predicting will excite great
interest among these who take pleasure in
reading and studying the Scriptures. Il is
the book of Jasher, referred to in the Bible in
Joshua, and in the second book Samuel, and
which has been in the progress of Transla-
ton from the Hebrew fer several years past
in England, and is now completed and will
be published in q few days in this city, in q
very elegant sterotyped edition. There have
been several simulated Books of Jasfer, q
notice of which we find in the Rev. Mr..
Horne's Commentaries on the study Of the
Scriptures but they bear no analogy to the
present work, which is written in the purest
Hebrew and translated with an elegance and
fidelity highly creditable to the eminent
scholar who has been so long engaged 10 the
work. The preface to the Hebrew edition
speaks of it as having been brought from Je-
rusalem with other sacred rolls and manu-
scripts, at the destruction of that city, and
carried into Spain, where the Jews had their
most celebrated colleges up to the eleventh
century. On the discovery of printing the
manuscript was copied, and carried to Ven
ice, where it it was printed by order OF the
Jewish Consistory of Rabbis in 1913, and
| is now for the first time translated into the
English language and published. The Roy.
| al Asiatic Society had copy in Calcutta,
and gave orders to the Rev. Mr.. Adams to
| translate it !; but it was abandoned on hear
ing that translation was already in pro-
gress. 1t is full of interest, and written with
u warmth of piety and sacred devotion wor-
thy of taking AN equal rank with any Of the
missing books not strictly canonical. 1t
does not differ with the Bible in single in.
stance, but ampliies tho events recorded in
| Scripture with the single difference in chro-
nology of some fifty years, by making Noah
and Abraham contemporary commencing
with the creation OF Adam, and ending
| with the death of Joshua. Josephus refers to
this book, and the great Mendelsohn: ex-
tracts copiously from it. Recently the BOOK
of Enoch has been discovered, translated
from the Ethopic and published in England
Professor Stewart has lately reviewed it,
The discovery of missing books referred to
in Scripture, and the many yet to be discov-
cred, Joined to the singular signs Of the times
in relation to the chosen people, give great
interest TO this and similar works. This
book, which makes nearly three hundred pa
ges, clears up points somewhat obscure in
the Bible and Is very full in detailing the
events of the reign of Nimrod the building
of The tower Of Babel and confusion OF
tongues the causes preceding the destruc.
ton of the doomed cities the sacrifice of
Isaac, and the life of Joseph; and has some
curious facts about the deluge.-N. Y. Star.
This work is now published, and occa-
sions good deal of speculation amongst the
literary and religious community
No time for Reading. Go into the houses
of some of our farmers, and you find no
newspaper, no periodical of any kind, and
hardly a book. Ask such men 70 subscribe
| for paper, and they will tell you that they
have no time TO read one But who is SO