Litchfield enquirer., 1834-02-13
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

sor Eaton, the following facts are derived.-l Professor Eaton obtained them from John Ball, Esq. one of his pupils in Natural Histo- ", and graduate of Dartmouth College.
 The geology of the country west of the Rocky MOunfains is remarkably simple and uniform. The general underlaying rock is the red sandstone-the sanFe which contains the salt springs in the western part Of the State of New York-and the same as that which is the river. The Mountain rises up from the midst, as it were, of a horizontal sea of red sand l stone as if some tremendous force had driv- en it upwards, like an island forced up from 1 the deDths of the ocean. Almost the whole country is considered us volcanic.
 The red sandstone often rises in peaks, like those on Connecticut river between North 1 ampton and Greenfield, several hundred feet l in height, while channels of rivers open the 1 rocks at their bases, to great depth. The grey pudding stone often caps their peaks.- ! Many of them are covered with eternal snow,
 never melting in the greatest heat of summer.
 From the first of June, 1882, to the first of November. five monthsl less than one inch of rain fell between the mountains and strip of land from l5O to zoo miles in width, bor- drrng on the Pacific. Vegetation is scanty in Ethis region, and prOiuse beyond description as far as the rains extended. Formany hundred miles the sky is always serene ny night, and scarcely cloud is seen by day. On the bar
 ren plains, the flowers of plants greatly exceed
 the heritage in size and brilliancy. The
 growth of all vegetables, along the two hun dred mile border of the Pacific, is astonishing
 ly profusc.
 Ploughing may be commenced in January, in lat. 45 deg. S7 minutes. The vegetation of
 the preceding season stands in the gardens at that time untouched by frost. Though the latitude is nearly that of Montreal, m"rning and evening hay are unnecessary, for cattle graze on fresh growing grass through the win. ter. A meteorological table exhibits re-
 markable uniformity of temperature during
 the winter months. So much for the physic
 al features and character.
 l As to the moral condition ofthe place from
 whence the description was written (Fort 1 Vaucouvre) it is said, the society of gentle
 men is good, but they have natives for wives. They are selected from very friendly tribe of Indians, who are averse to war, and ex- ceedingly peaceable. These wives soon learn
 English cookery, and perform other domes. tic duties in good style. Mir. Ball devotes part of his time in teacting the women and children. As tho Indians near the Rocky ,] Mountains stole his clothes. he arrived at Van couvre in buffalo skins. The ladies immedi- P ately furnished him in the best style of the place.-Boston Courier.
 , THe Voice of Experience. the de- n bate in the Virginia Legislature upon the s Bank question, MT. Garland, the member { from Amherst, made these remarks:
 "Twenty-four years ago, in 1911, he was 8 in minority in this Assembly, when resolu- t lions were passed against the recharter Ofthe { Bank of the United States. He had then a q seat in another branch of the Legislature, and - he had the frmnpss-althOugh he did not ar 5 rogate to himself an. uncommon portion ol v that fa98f 9fee. agsiyst th9Rs res9; esq : period, there was not more popular subject iu P this State than the recharterng of the Bank D of the United States. And this sentiment was ; produced by the general experience ofthe ne- cessity of such an institution. So it would be at the present period. The Bank might go
 down under the camOr now raised against it {;
 but three years would not roll round, before the United States of America would call for Ethe establishment ofa Bank" 2.
 TRe Poor.--Mr. Chandler, the anaiable and
 benev olent editor of the U. s. Gazette. thus
 notices the poor of Philadelphia:
 Having been appointed one ofa committee
 on the part of the City Councils to distribute the widows wood and the Girard wood, we SuVuC uCCCoSdIIy O SOutuCt 'WSttA d SdSb UuW-
 her of families absolutely suffering for want of fuel. The whole of that left for the distri-
 button has been given away; but the poor are not all warmed nor clothed. Delicate females whose circumstances were not always what
 they DOW are, whose only hope4sr wish is to
 labor 16 hours day for the means of warm- ing and feeding their children and themselves, cut off from all chance of earning any thing;
 a sense of decent pride prevents them from applying to the guardians of the poor-they
 come to the committee in the confidence of a
 just claim and learn with dismay that the wood has been distributed. We have felt
 with pain the appeals of these sufferers, and
 have sighed at our inability to meet their linn
 tied requests. We have taxed our visitors to
 make up sums for the purchase of small qnan-
 titles of wood until we are ashamed, and at
 this moment we have before US the appeals oi
 five mothers, who bave each from two to four
 children sick with the scarlet fever, while not
 one of them is the owner of stick of wood. The Chariestun Courier of the 2sd ultimo
 has the following paragraph. The late m-
 tary Act of the South Carolina Legislature is
 evidently kindling afresh the fires of fierce party strife in that State.
 I've have received intelligence ofthe most
 authentic character. that the excitement iu
 Spartenburgh agaimst the Test Oath, in the
 Military Bill, is unprecedented; that in fact, l .l,. ~P