Litchfield enquirer., 1843-07-13


 memorandums, maxims, and sp.inkling of original cogitations, fancied saw here and there an item worth presenting to your readers in this dearh of political and deluge of poetical excitement If your estimate of scrap merit coincdes with mine, shall take pleasure in furnishing something from week, and will also, by your leave, push away with my po etical squirt-gun in aid ofthe general deluge.
 S.S. The world was given to for our edifieaton not for he purpose of raising sumptuous buildings; life for he discharge of moral and religious dutes not for pleasurable ndulgencies wealth to be literally be- slowed, not avariciously hoarded; and learning to produce good actions, not empty dsputes.-Tnscrip. ton temple in Joanna. All that depends another gives pain and all that depends on himself gives pleasure let him know this to be in few words the definition of pleasure and pain.
 Where females are honored, there the deities are pleased but where they are dishonored there all religious acts become frutless.
 Where female relatives are made miserable, the family of him who makes them so very soon perish es; but where they are not unhappy, the family al ways increases-Inst. of Menu
 Let him Ia Brahminl not insult those who are un- learned, who are advanced in age, who have no beauty, who have no wealth, or who are of an igno- ble race.
 The treasure of Nezami, who has thrown down the tasman, which concealed ,t, is clear bosom and an enlightened heart.
 Alas for him who is gone and has done no good deed The trumpet of march is sounded, and his load is not bound on.
 The point of lance may be withdrawn from the body, but cruel word can never be extracted from the heart it has once wounded.
 All you who have seen the glory of Alp Arslan exalted to the heavens come to Nicer and you will behold it buried in the dust -Inscrption the tomb of Arp Arslan.
 It was once demanded if the canopy oi heaven were bow and if the earth were the chord thereof, and if calamites were the arrows if mankind were the mark for those arrows, and if Almighty God the tremendous and the glorious; were the unerring cher, to whom could the sons of Adam flee for pro- tection.- Tfaaour's Institutes.
 Timour heaped in pyramids seventy thousand heads of the inhabitants of Ispahan--the monument of his vengeance. Just before he commenced the seize of Delhi, he slew in cold blood one hundred thousand Indians, prisoners; they were an incum- brance.
 MahmOOQ tIe- -A1Snall m1SSaCTeI III otle uIy, Hl a feast three hundred of the nobes of Persia, and the next day two hundred of their children who a, school in lspahan and soon after three thousand of the guards of the sovereign he had conquered. The Zend-avesta is the living pord of Zoroaser The spider weaves its web in the palace of Ce sar! the owl stands sentinel upon the watchower of Afrasiab !-Firdousi.
 A tale full of the waters of the eye.-a.
 Georgia is famous for the courage we'll as the beauty of its inhabitants. Feudal vassalage there prevails One author expresses his opinion of the nobles in this manner: They were born twenty-four hours bef re the devil.
 The meanest among hefahful will have seventy two houris of paradise besides the wives which he had in this world.
 All houris are black. eyed.
 Koorsroo had l2, GOO ladies, every equal to the moon in splendor aud beauty, 50,Goo horses in his stables, and 12,OOO elephants.
 The Mahomedans believe that :he whole brute creation will be assembled at the resurrection and thut after the weak have been allowed to take geance the strong for the injuries they have re- ceived here. then, they will be reduced to dust. The Ttahedeah or Unonists, believe that God is as one with every enlightened being. They compare the Almighty to flame and their souls to charcoal; and say that as charcoal when it meets flame be- comes flame, their immortal part from it's union with God becomes God.
 A sect of Soofees deny the existence of evil say ing. The writer of our destiny is fair writer, and never wrote that which was bad.
 Depend upon it more great enterprises defeat ed by distrust than by confidence.
 Deep blue is the mourning color of Persia. One species of torture for females in Persia s to sew them up in bags with wild cats. T think have known some who might make good fight even at that's S.1
 It is difficult for civilized man to ascertain the religious tenets of barbarians hence Harway re- marks, that the eye observes the externals of re- gon but to arrive at mems hearts is vulgar task, especially when the ignorance of barbarous an- guages obsiructs all familiar correspondency RTThe paragraph from the Charleston Mercury, in another column, it is proper to say, was written some years ago. When we cut it from an exchange paper, we supposed it to have recently been written by the Editor of the Mercury. Henry Clay has not changed since the paragraph written, though his former euogist, while serving his great rival, may be less willing render him the homage due to a"bold, gallant, high-mnded man of genius"
 From the Church Chronicle.
 NEW CHURCH-BANTAM FALLS.
 The Corner Stone of the Church in this place formerly known as BradleyviIe) was laid with appropriate ceremonies, on the 22d :~.a hx, 1bo p ox, Trurpap March fha