Litchfield enquirer., 1835-10-01


 a succession of falling cascades, seemingly frozen in their descent, and looking like ice bergs formed of sheets of water that but moment ago were dashing in thunder down that immense height. Without pretending then to carry you along fror room to room, as each occurs, 1 let me allude to but two others in .detail.- The first shall be the Music Room, where two large sheets of stalactite fall from ceil- IDg to floor, upon one of which if you strike your hand or foot most mellow, deep,and euphonious sound is produced, as of the beat of the drum-on the other the same process causes the hollow ringing of Chinese pipe. Then there are success sion of small stalactities, on which if you strike with a small cane (do not strike too hard, or you will break them, for they are
 made of the tears of the rock, you elicit the music of the Pandean pipes to perfsc- tion. We sung several patriotic airs here, and the guides accompaniment on the drum, with the occasional bass chords of the Gong, aided by a symphony on the Pipes, really added wonderfully to ths effect. K. ys..%.t ,as .<a, Finally come with me (for this4narration must needs be dry to those who cannot see the beauties and wonders we are contem- plating) to Washington's Hall-a long a. partment in the middle of the Cave, .26O feet long, 20 feet broad, and over 30 feet high. 1t is perfectly level, regular and straight, and in the exact centre of it, there is very large pile of calcareous matter, formed there by Nature, without the least accession of the aid of Art, about or 10 feet high, strikingly resembling . statue of Washington in classic costume. The ef- feet is perfect; and taking every thinginto consideration, renders this one of the most interesting apartments in the cave. .s. 1 The guide. by patient labor sometimes obtains splendid stalactical and chrys.ali- zed specimens from almost inaccessible points in the rocks. Some of these he showed us far more beautiful thsn any sspe- cimens of foreign spas I have ever bcheld. l After spending nearly the whole day in
 the exploration, we wended our way again
 10 S,aunton delighted with the accident,the
 fortunate occnrrence ofwhich had compel- led us to seek for amusement in the re- searches of Weyer's Cave,'' a O.,
 Loss OF FRIENDs.-Our very hearts die within us when sickness and death 'as- sail our beloved friends. When the heart on which our image was engraven, and which beat with generous affection for us, is insensible and cold-vhen in that dark I and narrow bed, from which they cannot rise, sleeps father, wife, child, a friend, we feel sorrow which refuses to be comforted. We dwell upon their ex- cellencies with mournful pleasure. We think of the happy hours we have spent in their socicty-hours never to return-with a feeling which nearly approaches to des- pair. IhGf they are no nOre-that they have ceased to think, to feel, to act, at least for us-that the eye which used b gladden. a. our approach is dark, and can no more beam upon us with the cnunsels of Gisdorn, or sOoth our souls with the accents of hal- lowed and virtuous affection, is silent for- Z ever-no more to solace us in sorrow, no more to excite or heighten our pleasures. while these thoughts press upon the mind, 7 (and on the loss of our dear and vrtuous friends they do necessarily press upon it, sinking it to the dusf) the universe is a
 blank to us. No longer do we discover z any traces of that supreme and unchanging goodness which we had been accustomed to contemplate with delight. But even in these moments of sadness, we must be un- o just to ourselves, and 10 the A Author of our ? mercies, if we are not soon revived by the 7 consciousness of benevolencc, to which the severity of anguish may, for while leave US insensible. The privation ofour friends, affective as it is, is never without benefit to US. It is then that we feel that we are
 born for immortality that the world is not z our home; that we are travelling to fair CT cline. It is then that we. enter into , religion, and feel its genuine spirit. The
 same happy effects are often produced by
 sickness and to natural and moral disor-
 ders which prevail, we owe tlie production !. and growth of the excellencies of our na- t1rs. In word, an attentive considera-
 lion of what are termed the evils of life, enable us to discover so much of the truest
 benevolence in many of them, as may we'll
 induce us to bear with resignation. those whose design we cannot fully comprehend, : until it shall please our Heavenly Father to give us clearer light and stronger vision. . Smith OF Divins Goodasss. Walsh asks" Are we under government of laws l. or not [" Certainly we are--commOn aw, statue
 law. and Lynch's law.-C CinciHnat Rep. gs3 q Y Mothers and DGughters.--It was a ju- dicious resolution of father. as a most ] nleasing comDliment tO his wife when on