Litchfield enquirer., 1858-06-24

After all that has been published. few per sons have any idea of the extent of business ID the Dead Letter Office, or its importance to the. public generally. During single year, ID addition to some $50,0O0 in money returned to its lawful owners, there have been found in the letters, and restored drafts and other valuable papers, amounting to three and a half millions of dollars. In the greater number of ills' ances dead letters in this way returned to the depart ment have failed to reach, their destination in due course by reason of misdlrection This may, doubtless, attributed to the hurry in : which banks and large mere antile houses close up their correspondence for the day. One bank sends a letter covering paper amounting to thousands of dollars--inside the package is addressed to Nashville, outside New Orleans Another heavy remittance is directed to troy, New York, without any address whatever OH the inside. A third package was directed OH outside to Louisville, Ky, the inside direction is New Orleans. Would it not be we'll for all the banks and mercantile houses to add to their copies of correspondence copy also of the , : outside address on the letter In many cases when letters are thus sent astray, that simple record might at once furnish a clue to it's early recovery.
 SKETCH OF LUTHER, BY CARLYLE. -. A coarse, rugged, plebian face it was, with great -rcrsgs of cheek bones-a wild amount of pas 2 sionate energy and appetite. But in his dark z eyes were floods of sorrow and deepest mel ancboly, sweetness, and mystery, were ali there. Often did there seem to meet in Luther the very opposite poles in mans character. He, for example, for whom Ritcher had said that his worGs were half battles, he, when he first began to preach, suffered unheard agony. 70, Dr Staupitz, Dr. Staupitz," said he to the vi- cargeneralsof his order, '" cannot do it, l shall die in three months. Indeed, 1 cannet do it."
 Dr. Saupitz, wise and considerate man, said upon this, "Well, sir, Martin, if you must die, you must but remember that they need good heads up yonder, too. So preach, man, preach, and then live or die as happens" So Luther preached and lived and he became, in. deed, one great whirlwind of energy, to work without resting in this world, and, also before he died he wrote very many books-books ill which the true man is revealed.
 WHERE WILL IT END ?--For many years we have been shipping stone to England, to be there converted into cups and sauccrs, and into plates, from which to eat our own buckwheat cakes. The system is now, however, as we be- leve, likely to be extended->arrangemen be- ing on foot for the exportation of iron ore, to be melted by means of English coal. and then returned to us in the form of pigs Progress ing thus backward, as we do, may we not hope to. live to see the day when our wheat shall be required to cross the ocean, to be returned to- in the form of flower? Seeing how much has been done under the tariff of lS45, there is scarcely any hope in that direction that can ihe deemed impossible to be accomplished by the aid of fnanciers as skillfnl as Secretary -sDcbb. Rbila. North American.
 17e Lexington Obserrer and Repo, ter says sof the style in which the last Kentucky Legis- jlatnre. discharged its duties
 The Speaker of the House was entirely in 'competent to the discharge of his duties. The tCierking, although it cost the double of any Eppeceding Legislature, vas so negiected and iu- lparfectly executed that laws that were passed v,wers never enrolled, aud one law was enrolled .aifa Sighed that not only never passed the two MOuses, but never passed either House"
 sA HoMEsrEAD FOR EVERY FAMILY-The to- tthl, area of the United States is 2, ,936, 167 ssquare miles or 1,S79,880 acres or nearly tel times as much as there is contained in Great Britain and France combined The total pop 4ulation in1850 was g, 9l, ,S76, giving for each .man, woman and child, Sl acres. Allowing Hive persons to constitute family, this gives -405 acres to each.
 How much population can this territory sup port or maintain, is Q question often asked The most densely populated country on the globe is Belgium, which has 3S8,6 on each square mile. This would give for our area I, l40, ,994, ,406, or about 50 for one.
 Daniel Upton, Esq, of South Adams, to 4fatify curiosity, lately measured the large elm tree in Sheffield village. It's trunk is B feet inseirrumference !! It is said to be the most handsome elm in Western Massachusetts, if not aiH all New England is perfectly sound, healthy and vigorous so far as can be discovered aud its pleasant shade is the scene of numerous pie mics, and Festivals. .sa
 Montaigne, who was great upon doctors, us- Cd to beseech his friends that if he fell ill., they would let him get little stronger before send ing for the doctor 1! Louis XIV, who was slave so his physicians, asked his friend Moli- ere Rhat he did for his doctor. "Oh, Sire, said he. <" when am i'll I send for him. He comes we have chat, and enjoy ourselves He prescribes l don't take it-and I'm cur ed.n
 r- The best anecdote of Lorenzo Dow, that we have seen, is that one evening at a hotel kept by oae Bush, in Delhi, N. '. the resident of the late General Root, he was importuned by the latter. gentleman, in the presence of the landlond, to describe heaven.
 Kaoa say good deal about heaven, sir, " said the General, }" pray tell us how it looks ?" Lorenzo turned his grave face and long, way ing beard towards the General and Mir. Bush, and replied with an impertubable gravity
 Heaven, my friends, is a vast extent of smooth territory there is not ROOT nor BUSH in it, nor ever will be-"
 A parent who sends his son into the world