Litchfield enquirer., 1843-05-11

gold room that sack was placed over the
 floor for us to tread upon and on inquiring
 its purpose, I was answered, that it was to
 prevent the visitor from carrying away with the dust of his feet the minute particles of
 the precious metal, which, despite of the ut-
 most care, would fall upon the floor when
 :he rougher edges ofthe bar were filed |; and
 that the sweepings of the build ings saved thousands of fdollars in year. How much
 more precious the minute fragments of time i;
 and yet how often they are trodden upon
 like dust by thoughtlessness and folly.
 SOME SRNsE.-We pick the following out
 ofthe Annapolis Republican
 Home labor work at home, sell at home
 spend a: home, employ our own country
 men in preference, help Americans first, pro. l tect American labor, assist American indus.
 try, let the South feed the North and the North supply the South-what we can't
 make nor produce, we will buy from foreign CTS. This is the whig system. This is Hen-
 ry Clay's policy. We love our own dear
 country, and our country men, before any
 foreign nation, and mean first to take care of American men, and American boys, and
 American girls, and American women. We are not.an idle people we must and we will ] live by our labor. It feeds us, and clothes us, and we mean to take care of that labor l in preference to any Veto, or any power for | eign or domestic. Hence we want domes- tic and protective Tariff.
 This is first rate-the very kernel of tue l nut of tariff argument. We like it all the better coming form Southern paper. Such will be the doctrine of the entire nation in few years.
 -
 p~ De-, :o>A Hoo :o erally understood that kind of reading that | calls for little mental effort, and the effect | of which is pleasant excitement of the l imagination. Novels and the light tales l which abound in modern periodicals cons- l titute the literature of large number who ! look no further than to the qualification of the moment, and are reluctant to submit to the labor of thinking. The effect of such habits is to dissipate the mind, and qualify it for no higher effort than that to which it is thus accustomed. No information is ob- tained, no just sentiments formed, no stores of knowledge laid up for the practical uses of life. Fictitious sympathy may be crea- | ted, unreal scenes of life tamiliarized, and the mind encouraged to entertain dreams ] of fancy, which never can be realized. But the mental faculties are not only weakened for want of stronger food, but essentially yitiatcd. Such reading, therefore cannot be to strongly condemned, as both worthless and pernicious. CHARITY BEGINS AT HoME.--This time ho- nored axiom is we'll illustrated by the fol- loving anecdote which, if sEAot altogether new, will bear frequent repetition;
 The celebrated John Randolph, on visit to female friend, found her surrounded by her seamstresses, making up quantity of clothing. sWhat have you on hand ?-| 70, sir, am preparing this clothing to send to the poor Greeks On taking leave, at the steps of the mansion, he saw some of her servants in need of the very clothing which their tender hearted mistress was sending abroad. He exclaimed, Madam, madam, the Greeks are at your door!'
 THE RULING PASSION STRONG IN DEATH When Lawrence was lying stretched on the deck of the Chesapeake, mortally wounded, and the immortal spirit was about quitting its frail tenement, his last dying injunction was" Don't give up the ship"
 When Brainbridge lay struggling in death, on the bed of sickness, his memory reverted 10 the stirring scenes in which he He imagined himself in command of gall lant vessel, surrounded by his officers, on the eve of an engagement-and, summoning all his energies for final effort, he ex- claimed, Call GH hands to board the enemy 7"
 When Porter, in foreign land, was sink ing into the grave-his body worn out with the exposures and hardships to which he had been exposed for a period of many years, in the service of his country-in his last moments he directed that his body should be buried at the foot of the flag slaf that euen e ter death the glorious stars and stripes cf Amer. tea might ,oGre ouer him !-[[ Bost. Mere. Jour.
 What is so comfortable as wife to chide you when you are unfortunate, to grumble when the weather is too cold, and snarl when it is too hot, to Scold when you spend your evenings abroad, and torment you to death when you spend them at home; to growl at the cat, to knock down the shovel, to keep your fire-side in continual uproar. to threaten to leave you and yet cling to you like bed-bug to blanket; 10 spend your money in the hour of prosperity, and desert you in diversity, and after all, to be contin- ually putting you in mind that she is an ill- used woman. Such woman will first en- deavor to impose upon your sympathies with her tears, and when she finds you cannot be caught in that trap, she will fly at you with eyes of stone, and a brow of brass. and a tongue of thunder, till she has mastered you. [We cut the above from paper printed by an incorrigible old bachelor. THE HEART. The little have seen of the world, and know of the history of mankind, teaches L. Akan FNE reh in Q