Litchfield enquirer., 1841-05-27
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Written on visiting my Birthplace, after years of
abSenCe.)

N'AA'&Sh Oh .AJ years Va
absenceo
BY WILLIAM HENRY BURLETGH.
We are scattered-we are scattered-though Jolly
Some sleep beneath the grave-sod, and some DER
the sea;
And Tine hath wrought his changes on the few
who yet remain
The joyous band that once we were we cannot be
again.
We are scattered-we are scattered! Upon the vii
lage green,
Where we played in boyish recklessness, how few
And the hearts that beat so lightly in the joyousness
of youth
Some are crumbled in the sepulchre, and some have
lost their truth
The Beautful-the Beautiful are faded from our
track
We miss them and we mourn them, but we cannot
lure them back,
For an iron sleep hath bound them in its passonless
embrace;
We may weep, but cannot win them from their drea-
ry restlng-place.
How mournfully-how mournfuly the memory doth
come
Of the thousand scenes of happiness around our
childhood's home
A salutary sadness is brooding DER the heart,
AS it dwells upon remembrances from which it will
not part.
The memory-the memory-how fondly doth it gaze
days!
The sparkling, eye-the thrilling tone-the smile
They ali have gone but left light which Time can
not eclipse.
The happiness-the happiness of boyhood must de-
part;
Then comes the sense of loneliness upon the strick-
en- heart!
We will not. or we cannot fling it's sadness from
breast;
We cling to it instnctivey-we pant for it's unrest
We are scattered-we are scattered! Yet may we
meet again
In brighter and purer sphere beyond the reach
pain;
Where the shadows of this lower world ean never
When the mortal hath pu, brightly on its INxoRRA-
LITY!
The RICHMOND Vine speaks in Just praise of
Connecticut, and Calls the state g. model Republic
We of the sc;,th, says the Wing, who are so much
in the hapt of deprecating the excelencies of the
nctnen character, would profit greatly II we would
make this small but vigorous, honest and econom
cal Commonwealth, the pattern for our imitation
Whilst devoting our intellects to refnings
about distractions, and exhausting our energies and
frittegng away existence in prohtless squabbles
over things in the cfoudswe falling far in the
rear of our contemporaries in wealth. in population
in knowledge, and ia good morals. Connecticut pre-
SCENTS the best practical illustration of genuine State
Rights-in developing all her resources and impro-
wing thom to the highest pitch Of pertecon-in edu-
eating all her citizens and. by wise and judcious
legislation, multiplying their comforts This is such
State Rights as should delight to see substituted
here, for the mschievous slang and barren abstrac
tons, which are wont to emanate from the Rich
mond Junto, and under the operation of which, vir
gia has dwindled, and fallen away from that great
ness to which by nature she was destined There
is country on the globe OF the sne extent endow-
ed with greater natural advantages. The elements
of greatness are profusely scattered over her On
her mountains, her rivers and her fields, Greatness
is written, with the finger OF God. But 1t has all
been marred by the folly of man.. 1t is time that
Virgnians had ceased to be abstract and ridiculous
and had learned to be practical and useful.
"Manners make the man. their want the fellow:
The res. is oil but leather and pruneiia.'-PoPE.
There is a silly custom. recently grown up Of CIV
ing to an acquaintance the left hand instead OF the
right on meeting friend or acquaintance. Some.
even will only extend you one or two fingers OF the
left hand Can any give us the origin OF this GUS
tom? We do not remember TO have observed j. phi
or to the return Of his Democratic esty and Prince
John from the court Of Victoria. 1t is, whoever i'm
ported it, very rude and worthless importation, and
ought TO be more honored IN the breach than the OBJ
servance. We have never known gentIema" guilty
of this practice. Its an nallibe test OF eockney'sm
md upstart pre,ension Times y Star.
CRoswErI's PRINTING SPoIs.-One OF the illusirl-
o,s thirteen who represent the Empire. City in the
Assembly recently offered resolution IN nat e Loody'
cuments printed by him since JAN 1870 on account
Of The state, and The prices charged therefor This
resolution after being amended TO require from
Mr.. Weed bill OF particulars, embracing the most
minute items, and also a report Of the amount which
Mr. Croswell would have been entitled to charge.
and of course w0nld have charged for the same work.
passed the house; although the loco focos Were SO
averse TO placing the prices charged by Croswel and
Weed in xtapositiOn, that thew voted against their
own resolution, as amended. The result is COM
pIete vindication If Mr. Weeds off repeated user
iion that Croswel's profits state printer were over
THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS per annum This asser:
ton Croswel repeatedly and most srenuousy denied
through the columns Of the Argus and he now stands
convicted not only Of shaving the state Int OF soop
ing to the mennnsss of fasehOod. in order to conceal
his sordid practices.
Mr. Weeds report made to the Assembly on the
18th of April shows that his profits as state printer
during the fifteen months he has been in Office. are
iry.thrse thousand dollars less in amount than Cros-
wells profits would have been on the same work
Now supposing Mr.. Weeds profits to be ten thousand
dollars year, and the number of documents printed
since January to he about the average for the snme
period, il would follow that Croswe's income from
The state printing was about THIRTy-FIvE THOUSAND
DOLLARS year. A saving of $4,000 per annum, in
one department OF the public service, pretty fair
We copy from the Report the following recopitula
ton Of its contents
AMI chg'd Am. which mould
bypresent hare been paid
81. Printer. under old r0nirt