Litchfield enquirer., 1840-03-19

Magnificent RefOrm.-The President in his
message to Congress, talked much Of econo-
my and retrenchment in the public expendi-
lures, and we were led to anticipate some
thing imposing in the way of reform. Two
months have elapsed, and the magnificent
movement has at length taken place. COL
lector Hoyt of New York has been instructed
by the Secretary of the Treasury to reduce
the compensation of the Night Inspectors Of
the Custom House from 81 rs per day to
VI 5O! The Collector, Git is stated by the
New York Whig0 is pocketing, from salary,
torfeltures and fees, probably $4,000 per
annum-some say much more. Other off,
GERS In that city are in the receipt of princely
Incomes part Of which is devoted to election
eering-but the laboring men only are the
victims of reform! What say the yeoman-
ny and the mechanics of the country? Is it
not time to put Old Tippeeanoe to work? Is
it not time to produce something more sub
stantial than two-shilling economy?
Important Discouery.-Captain Chauncey
Treat, of East Hartford, has discovered a
complete remedy against the rayages of the.
cankerworm, simply by encircling the tree
at the surface of the ground with Scotch
snuff The writer of this article has examn-
ed the trees on Capt. Treats premises, and
found the circle of snuff completely fringed
with thousands of dead worms These trees
were all tarred, and where the snuff was
used no worms appeared on the tar, and
Where the snuff was omitted the insects near
ly covered the tar.-Hartford CourGnt.
Arepor has been in circulation for some days past,
that a committee from the Pennsylvania delegation
has waited upon Mr.. Van Buren,, and requested him
to decline being candidate for reelection that they
told him the present state of things clearly indicated
that he could not carry Pennsylvania and that un-.
less Buchanan should be the candidate, the state
would surely go for Harrison. We do not know what
truth there may be in the rumor but we give it as we
find it-ProUidence Journal
The Poetry Of Nature-The writer of fine
article on Cowper in the Biblical Repository
"a son OF the Rev. DR.. Cox,) argues strongly
for poetry, in the general sense of the word,
and thinks great mistake is nowadays
made, by very many persons, and especially
clergymen, who disparage the utility of it,
He illustrates his meaning by the following
beautiful picture:
"When the world came fair from the hand
OF lis Creator-the green earth, the beautiful
and the bright; spinning and sleeping on its
! axle, and wheeling through the deep heav-
;. en-, ever lighted in its trackless round by its
g little satellite lamp-what was it bat Jeho-
s vah's embodiment, of all the glorious ordeal.
which we call Poetry! It had no blight, no
stain. The lion crouched harmless in the
shady thicket: and the Leopard daIlied with
, the fawn. There was painting all around;
: in the rich soil, pranked with thousand
flowers; in the trees with their living green
ness; in the vine that entwined them, lovely
and graceful in its spiral beauty, and in the
h bright cluster that shone out from its canopy
i of leaves. There were blossoms pertaining
!, in the shrubbery, and fruits of all golden
n rind, that gsittered in the branches. The
: graccs of all seasons were there woven into
: one-the blue sky was above unclouded -
S and beneath was the clear water, ever moro
/, beautiful for rejecting the eternal smile Of
t heaven.
e And there was musie from the fountain and
a the grove. The brooklets that brawled or
: their way to the four rivers, warbled in their
e pebbly bed, and flowed with melodious
: murmurs. The happy birds sung anthems
: all the day, from quire and antiphon, which
7 the wild wood made. There were mathis
t for the lark to celebrate; all fowls sung YES.
2 pers; and then came on the solemn vigil,
: there was still an anthem from "one-the
! ive.long night" The very beasts sent forth
a song of joy from their coverts, for the IL
on's roar was not yet for his prey; and the
horse neighed not among the trumpets.
, And there was sculpture besides. Amid
> all this scene of beauty walked forth the
, lords Of the domain, erect and tall !; in such
, symmetry of limb and joint, as God alone
, could conceive-compared with which the
a poets dream is vague, and all the perfection
, that was ever warmed to life from the cold
marble, scarce better than deformity. How
: they went forth in glory--that first imperial
pair How happy was their lot! The world
their heme, and all lovely things their hertz
, age! In all around them they beheld the
, present God, and knew that God, their father
The wood bent down its fruitage to their toll
less hands, and they plucked it as the coed
, gift of their heavenly friend. The fountain
= sprang up at their feet "'twas the ceaseless
flow Of their Makers love 3" When the shad-
, ows Of evening came down on the landscape,
the stars were in heaven, and the moon
, So, ever about them was the eye that never
Slumbers nor sleeps. In the morning watch
! came up the daylight, and the sun the mists
rose like incense from the pleasant valleys,
: and with it they joined their voices, as they
5 awoke with the world around them. High
noon came on, and still the shining scorched
not; a few short hours, and tho shadows
/ were stretched out on the face of the earth.
; but still it was"a pleasant thing to behold
the sum-" and they knew it was the eternal
} light Of their fathers countenance. For the
, sake of Calculating some dogma of the
, schools we may consume Years in looking a,
nature. if we will but take the learned names
i. biologists, Entomologists or Astronomers
! Poets are mere idlers. But man shall cape
} all his life at Aldebaran, through sheet brass
and lenses, and is philosopher forsooth
scientific, and nightly to be praised. TIC
blacken paper with cyphers about eclipses
i, and with angles and triangles about distan.
: ces and elevations; to dissect bugs and i'm.
: pale them learnedly on pins or to embalm
the prectous carcase of an anfedeluvian tree.