Litchfield enquirer., 1843-01-05

An article on the Literature of the Ne gro,' in the Magnolia for November, states it as significant fact, which has been strange ly overlooked, that the three words, Shem, Ham and Japheth, mean, in the original He- brew, black, red and white.
 And did Noah have three sons of different colors by the same wife, or did he have red wife, black wife, and white one!- If the latter, the difference in color existed before his time, and is yet unexplained. If the for mer, then something like miracle occurred in the color of his progeny.-Kennebec Jour.
 A GRAVE JoKr.-A letter from New Bruns- wick mentions that some time ago the body of child was found in the canal. No coro- ner being near, Esquire Rooney was called on and held an inquest upon the body, hav- ing duly sommoned a jury of twelve good and lawful men, according 10 the form of the statute in such case made and provided The body was livid and partially decayed the jury soon found verdict of death from drowning. end the body was buried. The county of Somerset paid the expense of the inquest and the burial. 4 snof; time af- terwards it was discovered that this inquest had been held on a monkey, which had been lying on the bank of the canal for some time, and had been thrown into the water few days before it was discovered. The jurors have been tormented ever since, for their grave inquest on dead monkey. One of them declares that "if it was monkey. his tail was cut off mighty close.-T'snton GG- zette.
 LIBER1A.-A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Jour. Com. says:-
 The recent Treaty with Great Britain will nrove of the highest benefit to our African settlements, which are destined, if duly en- couraged airt strengthened, to extend civili- zation and Christianity over the vast regions of West Africa.
 More than one hundred and fifty slaves, ,;ho -ated for the purpose, and ready to em- na.r & for Liberia under the auspices of the %soer;can Colonization Society which needs oniw adai;ona resources to enable 1t rapidly ,n Sr;ng hundreu's Is of African tribes from the r,ost barbarous and degrading heathenlsm to inc liberty, custom; and hopes oI tGe Christian fife. The most enlightened mines of England, as we'll as of Amei'ca, acknoWl- edge that Africa is to be renovatGa moralIy and intellectually by the teaching ot nef ow.. | long exiled, but instructed children, an" wide and effectual door is now th.owK open for thousands and tens of thousands ot these people in our own country and the West In. l dies to enter ln anu CdTTy ho i"tuo"SSS """ triumphs of art, agriculture, sound morality. and a pure faith, to the Millions of Central Africa.
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