The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-24


 The time was when l was young and hopeful plant ofnature. In the course of years l became tall, and the birds of the air were happy under my shadow, and re- ] turned me the sweetest notes for the pro- lection afforded them. By the hand of man was cut down, and stript of natures robes, and became an Arch in the Cuthe- drGt ct GIOSgOc, and for upwards of seven hundred years have been cover to the teachers in that sanctuary. also screen ed alike the saint and tue sinner from the stormy blast; but now l am an outcast from the House of God, and have become 2 :, ,ss'.!, ,.. :h U l.a hands of man, and a part Of say 'e..@a5-.5 34~2 been converted into this Snutl-Oox.
 Niles Weekly Register states that an ele- gant broadcloth power loom, of New-York manufacture, was lately shipped for England, for one of the Leeds Factories. Some ma chinery made by MT. Gilbert Brewster,w which had been sent by order to Prussia, has been so much approved of, that he has received fresh orders for the supply of a number of his own machines, and other machinery for the man. ufacture of wool and cotton. The editor re- m arks-" these are new things and pleasant We like this method of exporting provisions We pack up 300 or 1000 dollars worth of -four in small box, and foreigners are made to contribute to the profits of our farmers, who willnot directly receive any thing from then." Brother JOnathan's new cOntrivancess'' go on bravely, and the time is not distant when his workshops will become more celebrated than his old masters, even in England. A MT. M'kcnny was lately married to Mrs. Mary Jackson, both of Harper's Ferry, he being the ladies fifth husband, and she only in her twenty eighth year. What blue beard she must be.
 A gang has been detected in Gainesville, Ohio, in counterfeiting American half dollars, l and Spanish dollars.
 ] A writer in the Charlestown Courier says. that according to an article in the Christian | Advocate, it appears that the city of Charles ton. with about one-sixth of the population I of New \ ork, has contributed three fold more to the American Bible Society than N. York
 The annual amount of ardent spirits con sumed in the United States, is not less than 45,0OO, ,0OO gallons, which supposing the drink ing population to be million, persons would 1 give them an allowance of a pint ofardent spir- its per day.
 Purchases, to the amount of S5O,0OO have been made of wood lands, on the BavOuse 1 Caillou, Black ,S1c. in the vicinity Of La Four che, for the purpose of establishing large ! plantations of sugar cane, for which the soil is remarkably well calculated.
 The ground was covered with snow at Ro- chester, N. Y. on the 9th inst. From various parts of the country we learn that the season is extremely backward.
 The Cheraw S. c. Spectator of the 14th inst. says" A severe frost has nearly des- troyed the gardens, and ice of very consider able thickness was to be seen in various places this morning.
 The capillary lamp is beautiful little in- vention. The small glass tube is fixed in a little metal bowl. with the concave up, for the purpose of floating it in spermiceti oil. By presenting lighted paper to the top of the tube, the air rairiies, the oil rises and is l ignlted, and it continues to burn at the rate of a spoonful and half for i2 or l4 hours, with bright gas like flame. As the ignition proceeds the tube becomes tipped with the ] charcoal which subsequently requires to be cleared away. The defect seems to be that | the thin glass of which the tube is made, ap- pears to be gradually burut off and to scale away. A more uncomfortable material, or a set of the glass tubes accompanying each lamp, and to be readily fixed to them, would make this lamp as perfect as could be desired.
 'Sauc noe from my friends. dinner was given by the citizens of Knoxville Tennessee, to H. L. White, Esq. Senator in Congress, on the 5th nit. at which the following toast was given.
 "By CoI. s. D. Jac0bs.-Andrew Jack son we anxiously hope for the preserva- ton of his life, until his elevation to the Presidential chair, when bis uncomprom- ising honesty, and incorrupti bic integrity, will wither into political non-existence the "hf handed" politicians of the day but should Providence deprive US of him, would it not be well to stretch his skin O. yer drum head, like that of John Ziscas of old, and beat up a crusade against the aggrandizing, patronizing, staterig ght-tram- bling, newspaper-crushing, and billiard ta- { bLe policy of the Administrator. I '-. MARRIED
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