Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-24

passed rapidly along, from town.to town. and from city to city, more like one inter- minable series of gardens and pleasure grounds, than anything else to which could compare it. In addition to what | have already mentioned, Ihe turreled cas- ties and halls Of the nobility and gentry their immense parks and princeIy domains, sometimes embracing several miles square ot lne territory, and enclosing gardens, lawns, and forests, adorned witlI avenues, and hShponds, aud streams. All these and many other features of the island, serve to increase your admiration of what nature and industry and taste have done for our father land !-Dr. Humphrcys Tour.
 POWER OF THE PRESS.
 This much lauded power is magical, though contrssediy mighty. IL depends upon laws as uniform, indispensable and in'cslIeihe as any in physics. The phrase, l'No many others, is much used, but rarely applied to definite conceptions. A gener- al examination of the real influence of p''"'lng, may prepare the way for an im- prcssvc view of privilege and of obligation connected with it. The power of the press is tue power of the mind over mind and this may be multiplied indefinitely. If one mind can powerfully affect another by relating fact, by illustrating principle, awakening dormant associations :; if De- mosthenes could move all Athens with one controlling spirit of courage; if Peter the Hermit could spread through Europe the musings and burnings ofhis solitary bosom, and create one all absorbing impulse of fac na'lcism, then the press is powcrful.-- True, the living speaker teaching the mind through both the eye and ear, can ge, more entire mastery of his hearers than if hc had been confined to his pen. But the press is the whispering gallery of the world, and of time. l, brings it's audience of a million to hear, and " hen they are dead, it fnrnish- es another. Here is the electric chain of mind the most extensive and perpetual, along which, thought and sentiment and purpose can spread themselves from the fountain 10 numberless recipients. The press enables one man to affect in one million of minds, or two or ten mill- ions, just as powerfully as he can affect one by a written communication.
 Iti is.Ihe ally of Liberty, the defender and propaga,or of Truth, the appointed dispen- ser of light, tho nourisler of mind, the dread of political and religious dcspotism. None but Gespots have tried to chain it, for none better than they have understood its power, and none but they have dreaded its influence. A man is reading a newspa- per containing an account of a new appli- cation of power to machinery. It strikes some deep and vibratory chords in his breast. He starts as from a dream, thou sand melancholy thoughts, which havo wandered oft in idle roamings through his mind, now rush impetuously together. He has discovered a new principle ofarrange- ment. They fall in one after another rank and file. He flies to his tools, constructs a new machine for navigating rivers; and presently tho rivers, lakes and seas are ploughed by steam; and the commercial condition of the world is changed as by magic. That man felt the power of tue
 press. The world felt it through him.
 What noisy creature would man be,
 were his voice, in proportion to his weight. as loud as that of a locust. A locust can be beard at the distance of 1-16 of mile. The golden wren is said to weigh but half an ounce so that a middling sized man would weigh down not short of four tIou- sand of them and it must be strange if a golden wren would not outweigh four of our locusts. Supposing, therefore, that a common man weighs as much as 10000 of our locusts and that the note of locust can
 hn heard 1.16 nf a mile. a man ni common
 dimensions, pretty sound m wind and limb, ought 10 be able to make himself distinctly heard at the distance of 169O miles and when he Sneczed, his house ought to fall about his eays.'
 Setting out in Life.-The anxiety of accommodating something for their children, if not enough for their entire support, at least enough to set them we'll afloat in life, is very common among parents. IL is in- judicious, and arises from parental weak ness. Educate your children well, and you have done enough for them. Let them take care of themselves teach them to depend upon their own strength and this can only be done by putting them upon their own strength; in no other way can they acquire strength. Setting young man aflnat upon the wealth accumulated by his father. is like tying bladders under the arms of a swimMer--or. rather, one thae cannot swim without them ten chances to
 one he will lose his bladders, and ms soie dependence--and then where IS ne
 Teach him, while young, to swim ii'tle with his own strength, and then chucK n'm | ltc. kA a.Et tN