Litchfield enquirer., 1830-04-22

:. INe Far t."-Where is the west, and what are it's bounds But few short years have passed since our thriving town (then rude hamlet, stood 6pon the fur ther confines of the rising west. Still be- yond there did, indeed, exist an ideal realm of future greatness--a matted and mighty forest, but clouds and thick darkness res- ted oh it." Here and there it was dot ted with settlement of whites, clustered together for mutual assistance and mutual defence. These were few and far be- tween ;" and still beyond, and deeper sunk in the murky shadows of the wilder ness, rnamed tho border bqnd Qf favtess and outlawed wtites-a race of men found only upon the line of frontier territory, be- tween savage and civilized life, to neither ofwhich they have any affinity, and whose anomalons character, rejecting the virtues of either, embodies, iH one, the vices of both.
 But the solitude has been penetrated, the forest has been overwhelmed by the tow ering wave of emigration. That wave but recently spent its utmost fury ere it reach- ed even here, and its last and dying rip pie was won't to fall gently at our feet but not so now-it has risen above-it has swept over us, and while its mighty deIuge is yet rushing past, in one undiminished current, the roar of it's swelling surges, re- peated by each babbling echo, is still waf- ted back to us upon every western breeze. Ours is no longer western settlement our children are surrounded by the com forts. the blessings and the elegancies of life, ybere their fathers found only hardship, privation and want. The westward" is onward, still onward--but whele? Even the place that was known as such but yes- terday, to.morrow shall be so, no more. The tall forests. the prowling boast, and !" The stoic of the woods man without ,ear," gre alike borne down, trampled and de- stroyed by this everlasting scramble for the l west. This course of empire may, must l De stayed. when the shore of the Pacific has been reached and the intermediate dis tance reclaimed and populated. But be. fore these are effected, how mighty must be the growth of our republic Already the annual tourist, who was wont to ex- haust all his rambling desires in reaching l the " Falls. disdains so slight an excur. siOn-he must visit the west-and Green ~-'N1 - @~@s ssAsAAoOo&V sS uuW tulS resting | place. Another year, and even these viii ] be left behind, and the ever receding west must be pursued over succeeding rivers and mounsains. and plains, until the 1" yves. tern tour" shall tefshinate by necessity. a, the mouth ofthe Oregon" ."--Buf falo pGDer.
 Mis q remarkable circumstance that th. birds, whose nests and eggs are more exrosed tO tue view of, their enemies than ,thuse M ether animals. lay eggs, the color of which is scareeIy distinguishabIe from that oethe s,r- rounding ohjects. hy which the eye of rana. ciOus birds cr other animals is deceiyed:- = while the hirds. whose eggs are of bright color. and capable of attracting notice, con eeal their nests il hollow trees or elsewhere. or leave them only at night, or continue to sit upon them from the peri0d of .paFturition.- Eiiat0 be observed, also. that in the species wli6se nest is exposed. and in which the fs- males take charge ogl the eggs. without the males tfolhlpg Themselves ah0ut them, these femeiss are commonly ofe different color fspsp ths males. and mers ip harmony with tliS tints Ofsurrepndlng Objects.-N6. Gaz.