Litchfield enquirer., 1837-02-16

reelcss plains and desolatc sandy wastes,
 wearisome to the eye from their extent and
 mon"tony, aud which are supposed by ge-
 oIogists to have formed the ancient floor of
 tie ocean, countless ages since, whence its primeval waves beat against the granite ba-
 ses of the Rocky Mountains. It is land where no man permanently abides; for, in
 certain seasons of the year, there is nn food
 either for the hunter or his stced. The
 he. bage is parched and withered, the brooks
 and streams are d,ied up; the buffalo, the
 elk, aed the deer have wandered to distant
 parts, keeping within the verge of expiring veriure, and leaving behind them vast un- inhabited solitude, scanned by ravines, the
 beds "f former torrents, but new serving on-
 ly to tantalize and increase the thirst of the
 traveller. Occasionally the m0nOtony of
 this vast wilderness is interrupted by noun
 tainous belts fsand aud limestone, in brok-
 en aud confused masses, with precipitous cliffs and yawning ravines, looking like the
 ruins of a world or is traversed by lofty
 barren ridges of rock, almost impossible,
 like those denominated Berk Hills. Be-
 ynnd these rise the stern barrier of Rocky
 Mountains, the limits, as it were, of the At
 lanlic world. The rugged defiles and deep
 vaEfies of this vast chain form sheltering pla- ces for restless and ierocious bands of sava- ges, manly. 0f them the remains of tribes
 once inhabiiahts of the prairies, but brok-
 en mp by war and violence, and wto carry
 into their mountain haunts~ the fierce pas.
 sions aud reckless habits of desperadoes. Law perrleAes many points.-but it has
 made ono clear, which, wi,hou, it's assis4 1 !ance,"ould have remained forever in dark-
 ness; for it tells us a, what period of his life a man arrives dt years of discretion: and but for this information, who could guess i,2 When young gentleman has come into possession of broad lands end good store of wealth, aud takes his station at the ga ming table till he loses all that he has the power of losing when young lady at tho age of twenIy-one years, emancipaled by the law from parental control and all au- thority of guardianship, mafries her fath- CTS groom, or gives her hand to most notorious gambler; when middle aged gentleman, who has lived many years care- fully avoiding an indiscreet marriage, guar ding himself warily agaiiist the Vaccinations Of beauty. and birding himself on his poli- cy, at length marries his cook we should hardly believe, if the law had not told us so, that either 0: these parties had arrived at years of discretion. What is .discretiong We all have il; it comes by act of parlia, ment the very day that we have completed one -and-twenty years, and it sticks to by virtue of the same. The real meaning of the word discretion is not that VIC know how to go alone, but that our leading strings are cut, and we must go alone uS well as we can. s
 I'he manufcetuys rf c'idss Beads.-Few persons uro probably aware of the amount of trado carried on in this apparen,lv in- significant article. We are told !.at from Venice, which contains the principal man.! ufactory, wFole ship loads arc annually scnt to different quarters. The principaR customers for them arc the various savage tribes on our own continent, in New I1ol& i, land, the Pacific Islands, GLc. This brancir of the glass manufacture still remains to the Venctians, nearly t!,e sole relic of their once boasted superiority in every depart-. mcnt of arts. No other nation can rival her either in regard to variety and beauty of color, or cheapness of production. yf7
 The glass-houses are erected on the isl-s and of Murane, about half a league from the city. The alkalis employed are, soda and potash, and the sand is found in abund- ance on tho neighboring coast. The colo ring matters are obtained from the mineral Kingdom, and SO varicd.f that the beads pres sent more than 200 different shades -- While the metal is in fusion, the workman dips into it an iron tube, five feet long, and withdraws a certain portion of the adhe-. sive. mass! A hote,' corresponding it: :sa::. of the tube, is then made through it. Two workn,cn having such tube thus prepared, join them together by the ends, and then separate as rapidly as possible, stretching ille paste between them. A tube is thos formed, varying in length and fueness, ac- cording to the distance which can bo c1- tained before the glass cools. In some instances tho tubo reaches 100 feet in length, and becomes like the finest hair.- They are divided in pieces two feet in length and then submitted to the bead ma. kcr, who with a sort of hatcbet cuts theny into fragments of a length equal to their di-. ameter. These fall into box of powders cd charcoal and clay, which gets into tho beads, and prevents their filling up when subjected second time to the action of fire. Thus cut and mixed with certain quantity of this dust, they are put into an iron cylinder, sealed hermeticaily, and by means of Thandle arc turned over the fire until the vessel requires red heat. aalisa
 The beads are then sufficiently softened V... al, .s. \ A {