Litchfield enquirer., 1837-05-11

tention of our German and Eastern brethren
 as afording the valuable scites for towns and cities, and a promise of peace and plenty in 1 the possession of soil which labor and cul- tivation could render productive and valua- ble.
 The emigrants took their families and far
 ming utensils and settled on the borders of
 river which flowed in pure, healthy and 1 copious stream. Some built their cottages on one side and some on the other side of the riv- 1 er-here and there was fall capable of tur ming mill or two, and at certain places the | water was shallow and at others it was deep now and then some had to go further than others to the mill, nevertheless they were all content, and although superior activity and l economy gave advantages to few which the others did not possess, and although some had bluff for the scite of a village, and oth- CTS were compelled to settle in the valley, yet in the average of benefits all participated, and all were content. The mills continued to have plentiful supply of water at all sea- sons of the year-the soil was productive, the plough and the harrow, the loom and the spinning wheel continued briskly employed, and all were happy and contented. All at once scheming, restless. cunning, and rath- CT spiteful man of some address and influence came into the settlement and looked around at the river, the mill, the Cottages the Ham, lets, as the smoke curled on the breeze, and said to the people: "this all looks very well grant ye-you appear to be prosperous, but it is slow kind of prosperity, and rather a selfish one, for you do not make enough out ofyour resources.
 Take my advice; you see this river-by cutting dyke to the left, at that point, you will irrigate vast tract of unproductive yet valuable land, which lies west; by making
 xl, rof hot prfo in you will open navigation to very protita- ble market for your manufactures and can point out to you several sluices which may be advantageously cut from this river to parts of the adjoining countries" Tse nee npeo- pie, pleased with the idea of Sed, when sth thAfs- A. ment, set to work and tollowe,orers tt.'.o .o 1
 advice of the new conner an1 Q .i!a G9rtgns 1I o
 eral cuts and sluices from henir .'I had advised. A very sheuls country. m convince them of their fotindn!ly cnargeaole they had brought upon or hn;..9a oangs s,n.as;.1 bed of the river became dr.d Dflttle material II ped for want of water-the var ul.iorluhate Il he ows became parched-the harvest, ~ A N 1s:ssssl ined, and the land through which the little streams flowed, fed from the ample body of water contained in the river, derived no ben eft from the sluggish tricklings of the new made rivulets.
 So it is with the currency of the country.- Like the stream of the river, it flows where 1t is most wanted, but when diverted from its natural course by attempts to turn 1t into bar ren flats and rocky surfaces where 1t IS not required, and can do no possible good, it ceas- es to be of any value, and all its resources are lost to the enterprising, who are making it available, useful and profitable.
 Long Lost Heir.-A Dublin correspondent of a London paper gives under the date o1 l6th January, the following some"nat in- credible story ofa long lost heir.
 Intelligence from Ennis announces the arr rival of gentleman in that town on Friday last, whose return from Jamaica could not have proved very agreeable to two families of distinction in the county of Glare, Sir Ed ward O'Brien and MT. Arthur. The TO- nance of history which follows is no less sin gular than as am led to believe, is true- Twenty -four years since, as the statement of the family of the stranger runs, he, then a boy of eleven years, was at the school in Eng land. where he had been placed by his fath- CT, MT. Smith of Clare, (the father of Lady O'Brien, Mrs. Bran, and Mrs. Arthur also.) He was there told that all his relatives were no more, and that he was left destitute, and was urged to seek his fortune in the West Indies, under the assumed name of Crosby. There he struggled on in comparative pover- ty, until an advertisement from Mrs. Bran, long continued in the journals of Europe and the Colonies attracted his observation. It is understood that his death was stated to have taken place at the English school alluded to, and to have been followed by mock funer- al. Mrs. Bran heard that the stranger in Ja- maica. on reading her advertisement, remem- bered enough of his earlier days to enable him. almost unequivocally to declare that he was the individual sought for as Tom Smith, whose father, so far from leaving him desti- ute, had bequeathed to him property worth about G35,OOO, which on his disappearance, fell to the families of Arthur and O'Brien.- The present member from the county of Limerick, Mr.S Smith O'Brien, was to have en- loved great part ofthe property left to Tom Smith, on the demise of his mother, Lady O'Brien, in whose possession it now is. Mr. Arthur, a gentleman who lives in the fashion, able world, has possession of another portion. Mrs. Bran having satisfied herself that her alleged brother was indeed alive, furnished him with money, and he arrived in Limerick on Thursday last. As he drove into Ennis he pointed out localities in the road, which he named accurately. Conducted to the woman who had nursed the long lost heir, she, having examined his features, declared that he was no impostor. Subsequent exam nations by the family and connections of Mrs. Bran, so clearly convinced them that he was the long lost Tom Smith, that doubt after doubt vanished, and every reliance was placed on the calm connected detail of the | interesting stranger. MT. Bran, long scepti- | cal on the subject of the strongly conceived belief of his wife in the existence of her broth or a+ leroth satisfied warmly welcomed him !