The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-26

dying child. Think You ten0er VIE, IN
her expiring moments, would cast look of
SO much lOvelness on the darling object who
has been her chiefBst earthly good. il she
thought that object would soon cease to re-
member her tender assidiities to promote his
comfort, her unwavering confidence, andabOve
all, the love she had ever manifested! Or
rather, if she thought her memory would pass
coldly by, and the recollection of all she had
been would cease almost as soon as the knell
that told the tomb had closed over herremains,
would not the grateful affection of that last
look be marred, and. the cold ones ingratitude
add a new pang to the bitterness of thath hour.
/ But there are those with whom all the re-
collections of the dead apparently soon pass
away. In the moment of severe trial they
may appear as though the loss they had ex-
perienced would forever be fresh on the mind
but the cause seems soon forgotten, the wound
almost miraculously will cicatrize, and the
memory of the faithful one who loved them
is lost in oblivion. There is something revolt
ing IN the very idea of person who treats the
remembrance of a friend thus lightly-it dis
gusts every nice sensibility, and no one will
choose such an associate-for if they have so
soon forgotten the dead, they will assuredly
fail in their duties to the living.
There is something so pure and holy in the
| remembrance of those who are gone from MS
| forever, that no one is to be envied who can
easily forget them. 1t comes over the mind,
breathing of all our past enioyments in social
affection, and infasing that kind of pleasure
which is the sweeter because it Is sad and PEN
sive. The voice which speaks to us from the
grave is melancholy indeed, but its whispers
should not be disregarded.t
Silliman's Journal of Science and Arts.
Al g 81 ~ n
work, the first article is notice of the vol
canic character of the island of Hawaii ,rin
letter from Mr.. Goodrich, one of the A
meric IN missionaries, and various abstracts
from the ss Journal of a Tour around Ha-
waii.'' &
The second article is a description of the
eruption of Long Lake and Mud Lake, in
Vermont, in 1910, by Rev S Edwards
Dwight, who in 1923 viewed the desola-
| ton effected by the rush of the waters
Long Lake, before it was drained, was a
mile am, a half in length, three-fourths of
a mile in width, and $50 feet. deep; Mud
Lake smaller one, was 200 rods distant,
and 200 feet lower, and ITS outlet was the
source of Barton river, tributary OF Lake
Memphremagog. On the 9th OF June,
1910, about 100 men turned out, With
spades and pick-aAes, with view to let
out part of the water of Long Lake into
Mud Lake, and thus furnish better sup
ply of water for the mills on Barton River.
They dug small trench the water entered
it and soon wore down deep gulph, and
in few minutes the entire mass in the
Lake rushed out with inconceiveable force
and violence, cutting channel through the
bank $50 feet deep and so rods wide
The torrent made its way down to Barton,
bearing before it, trees, rocks, mills, sc.
and sweeping away the waters Of Mud Lake
to the depth of thirty feet. Through the
distance Of several miles it followed out a
path from twenty to forty rods in width,
| and from twenty to sixty feet in depth, and
continued its course with many marks of
violence to Lake Memphremagog. 1t
ruined extensive tracts of fine meadow land
by deposits of sand, and converted several
sunken swamps into good soil. Tens of
thousands of cords of wood were deposited
in Barton; near the church, a field of 20
acres was covered with timber to the, height
of 20 feet, and in several places the timber
was piled up to the height of 60 or 80 feet.
THE inhabitants had been burning the TIM
| UCF IOF kHiTtCcu years. WHCu 1u1. NWlSut
was there, yet many acres of meadow re-
NAMED covered with it. Mr.. d. examined
the bed of Long Lake, which he found SO
dry, that he could walk over it without diff
fculty. The bottom was grown over with
sedge, weeds, shrubs, and young trees. n
Article third consists of remarks upon
the shell mari region of Virginia and Mary
land, and upon the, coal formation Of Vir-
ginia, by James Pierce. Mr.. p. says that
beds of rich shell mari occur frequently in
all the alluvial regions Of Virginia and Ma
ryland, and he thinks the, Impoverished
plantations of those States may be render
ed productive by the application Of this
mari as manure. 1t has been advantage
ously applied in the cultivation of cotton,
tobacco, wheat and Indian corn. Vast
tracts of land in the Southern States are
now unproductiye, and will remain so as
long as the SYSTEM of slavery pr6sails.-.
Freemen will not labor where there are
slaves; every thing is left to the discretion
of overseers, who are too ignorant and in
doient to make agricultural improvements.
Mr.. p. remarks that if the blacks ofsVir-
kinia were sent off, and white population
lS.L.......I :. ~,,o,,ld add 0roaftxs 70 fha