Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-11
A correspondent sends us the following clippings from ''Words Fitly Spoken" by Rev. W. H. H. Murray: r
CONSERVATISM.

n clippings from "Words Fitly Spoken by Rev. w. H. H. Murray:
 CONSERVATISM.
 We'll, do any of you think that the world will ,stop?-that human progress will, while in mid-roll, check itself?-that the lusty combativeness of the age will lose its vigor, and, at your bidding, be- come lax and effeminate? Who can think it? Over our graves our children will join their issues, and fight their battles Let us plan that those battles may be bloodless. No young man here to night can project himself so far toward truth and God as not to be reached and passed by the masses before his vigor is benumb- ed by the paralysis of conservatism, "a kind of moral distemper which usually seizes upon men about the aga of forty fivel .sr. ..t.e. .[, r r.- Z
 GABB11ING. ,.-.
 Good friends, it is great and worthy thing to know when to keep your mouth shutl Some people live to be sixty years old without learning that. Indeed, the older they grow, the wider their mouth opens. Carlyle somewhere says, that what people have need to learn is the art of silence. A man or woman who is great gabbler at forty-five is Q horrid creature; whether the propensity is be- reditary or acquired, it is simply awful. This age shows an unnatural development of tongue. There are two things this gen. eration needs to learn,-when to say noth- ing; and, when they say anything, to say it well. The violation of these two rules is the prolific source of arrangement in social life, intellectual failure before the public, and discord in the church. Re proof, when given, will be given with ef- feet; and, when not advisable, be with held. By it's observance, the aged would be less querulous. a' r. '- ~.t
 He who speaks along the line of Gods purposes speaks safely. " The person who does no more than pray for holiness will never make a holy prayer. 'fs.
 Life is full of impulses; it is breezy and tremendous; and as the winds of heaven sweep down upon the ocean, and ruffle and convulse it; so upon us influences are poured, at the coming and presence o1 which we cannot remain passive. It is very difficult getting at the truth about the prospects of the American com pany that is to colonize Samana Bay and to gain us all the advantages with none o4 the risks of annexation. A short time since, there was talk of jobbery paralyz ing the enterprise. Saturdays Times ha' communication that claims more favor able prospects. This article attribute recent scepticism to the persistent "writ l ing down" of the scheme in British pa pers, who foresee the downfall of thei greatly inferior. Port of St. Thomas. Tn, company have surveyed the country abou Samana, says the writer. and propose t. put fiat bottomed ''stern wheelers' on tn bay, drawing little water, and going u] the Yuma river near two hundred miles 1 to the fine tobacco lands stretching off t, Santiago, upon which tract twelve million bounds of the finest tobacco are raised yearly. The Vega Rial, the valley of tn Yuma, used to produce near two hundre, million pounds of sugar, 7,5O0, 900 lbs. o coffee, and 8 million pounds of indigo and with the opening of cheap and quicl water communication, the company lool for revival of these industries Man, Cuban planters are desirous of emigrat ing, and host of Americans of all sort and conditions have applied for allotment of land. One of the principal resource of the island is found in it's forests O mahogany and other hard woods, whicl can be easily numbered down nume1 ous small streams The native Dom inicians are said not to be so ayerse to Ia Dor as has been represented, and the so called revol1tionists are as few in nun Der and contemptible in character as tn soundest friend of order could wish. l the facts are only half as rosy as the seem to the Times writer, the Saman Bay Company is bound to be a great sut 1 The latest reports show that Butler raid on the Massachusetts governorshi is another Big Bethel, Fort Fisher, fail I r,rn Roforo &b;s naofc Aha ovn of rz.