Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-29

by a snow storm, he will Jump into the
 woods with his lIatchet, and in three hours ! time, will be riding over the snow upon a sleGge of his own construction. The re- cords of the Patent Office at Washington exhibit striking testimony ofthe sGperi-
 ority of these people in ingenuityS by far the greater number of inventions are from New England. A Yankee farmer is a sort of Jack at all trades !; he not only dclves the soil and goes to market, but he is carpenter, shoe maker, weaver, coOpers Espap boiler, and more trades than these. I He turIs, wooden bowls, makes buckets, sets up shocks, weaves baskets, nianufac-
 lures broonis. and invenis various kinds of
 washing machines. In this last mentioned matter,, tie New England ingenuity is in- exhaustibIe, and one would dimagine tAatthe
 second viripa'' of cleanIiness had been elevated to the first rank in this land, such
 as wilderness of patent gi0acracks have
 sprung up in the attempt to. nsdrp the hon.
 ors of old Dumb Betty. It is Yankees
 main study 10 be 'inlproving'',, every thing.
 His very language brea,hes this spirit, for
 he who occupies a tenenent is said to Sim, proves it. To leave thing no better than he found it, seems to hiaf no fair usage of the globe. we iaNabit. In travelling over the Kingdom offNa-. ples, and contemplating the wonders of that favored land, its fertile soil, its genial climate, its admirable capacities for cOri,-
 lnerce, and the contrast exhibited tn all
 these advantages by the sloth and igno-
 rance of it's population, its beggars,' and brigands,-I have been struck wiih' the
 whihisicae ihiagihatioE dfsthe scene that might ensue, were plain Yankee taken from his plough-tail and placed on the
 throne of the Two Sicilies. His Majesty
 would begin regular overhaul of the whole
 body polite, the morning afier his corona
 ton. @ss Whats this Isee ?'' says the King. 4 "Where are your overseers of the highways schoop commiste ees.--your select ] men ?-What idle fellows ate these in the ,, ssreets2 What are these bellsringing every day What means this crowd of ships ly- ing behind the mole with nothing to do 2
 or this marind, the waters edge of my great
 city, where I sec no piles of erchandise.'
 no trucks nor, draye yeaftS driving about with
 goods, nor half the business doing in 2
 month that, is doite on Boston Long 1 Wharf in two hours? Come, hustle, occu- py, set the lazzaroni to work upon the .l roads send the children to school; mako .} raW road here and turnpike there
 Bfidge this river and canal that; hang the
 Calabrian robbers; give tho monks rouse :
 % into the churches, and strip mo those
 trumpery shrines sell the gold and silver
 and jewels with which they are heaped. and tic interest of the money will support ] all the poor of the kingdom, for I'll have
 no Bsggars nor idlers while mystitle is Jon- l athan the First. People shall mind theiu
 business, fur ! will abolish these fessas,> J which come every other day, andare good | for h8ihilig but to proniote idleness.-. Hencefor,h ,here, shall be; no fsstas but
 fast. thanksgiving, and independence. .- Set me up newspaper in every towns | taks me a census of the population fae every district that don't send,n representa- l tive to the General Court. I'll haN6 every 4 thing thrashed and set a-buckiRg, even to
 the vernaculaF speech. for docle far siesste
 shall be routed from the Italian
 Now Jonathan the First might not under , stand quite so much of the antiquities of F PompeiS os. the beauties of the Callipygian : Venus as Ferdinand the Second {; yet, if , the Neapolitan would not make a profita- ble sacap by the exchange,l mine is no true }, '' Yankee notion" Q. Q.
 ! Chdrity.-It is fact pressed upon the
 observation ofthe most indifferent, that the wife of an idle or drHnken husband works
 harder, and fares harder in every respect
 than the widow, who lIas only herself and
 children to support while the fact. that she has husband seems to bar up all the avshues to the sympaihies and chafitisS 6f the community. The wife ought not to
 suffer, the innocent children must not sof- fer! and our charitable associations come
 in to their relief; but in so doing they are
 assisting to fill:oul these bloaied vamPyres. that are ptsying uPon the wealth and
 strength of the community. Let h be a feeling established amongst us, that the kidle and intJnperaie husband shall hfss be
 punished, shall De compelled to work, and that then our benevoleDt institutions will
 provide employment for the mother, and instruction aad labor for the children, adap-
 ted to their age add capacity.
 S,.5st;tats for . SOaL-T The custom of hiudging whether man has soul or no I soul, by his disposition in regard to money rmatiets, is not badly illustra,ed in m arti- 1 cle from the Vermont Free Press, ofWhich
 the following is an extract. A suffering | r,sr. ;rs graat tvratt svas har,st;nn n ns.swh.