Litchfield enquirer., 1844-09-19

The Municipal Council met, in conjunction with the principal inhabitants at o'clock in the evening of the 18th of July, and then determined to remove the families to San Juan de PayaTa; they put in requsition all the barges and small vessels and the day following began the movement San Juan and Carmaguan have been filled with the emigrants from our deserted city, and there now remain but very few families, and these are endur- ing thousand sufferings and privations some of them have taken refuge in anchored barges.
 lt is ffightful to see the few that yet stop m their houses, surrounded in siege; they appear at their windows contemplating the waves of the river as they roll impetuously more than yard m height over the saturated land on which they had been accustomed to walk. But what do see !.- there is now no such river as Apure 1t embracesin its course the Portugueza the Guarico, the Payara and the Aranca; it stretches 24 leagues in width reaching from Banco Largo, in the Province of Car- acas, to beyond the Cunaviche in the Apufe And in this ocean of fresh water there are only to be seen some small islands on which man and beast, cattle and dogs, wild beasts and reptiles closely press, flying from the fatal element which thre att ems to devour them. We caught two tigers in the very centre of the population, and have also killed many snakes; a c0f'n0n was encountered and kill ed in that which was once one of the principal streets of the city
 There are now no houses, no estates, seed time; all has been leveled and destroyed by the fury of the inundation. Nor have we even place in which to bury the dead. Should the flood contin- ue month longer, we shall see the dead bodies of men, women and children, with those of the wild beasts of the mountains and domestic animals, all floating together upon the devastating waters
 We have nothing to add; our losses are inex- pressible; we have arrived at the climax of mis- fortune and calamity We beg you to give place in your valuable journal to this ballad description of our conflicts and our miseries; may Providence look on us with eyes of mercy, and may the Gov ernment of our country not suffer to perish the last remains of province that has afforded such impor. tant services in the disastrous Of Independence
 A physician, who resides in the Southern por-, ton of New York city upon visiting patient who man i" if he did not find it very inconvenient to come such distance }" "Not at all, sir, ,' replied the son of Esculapus, for having another patient in the adjoining street-T cGn kil too birds soith one stone p "Can you g" :" replied the invalid. " then yoW are Zoo good shot jor me-" and imme- diately dismissed him.
 The Magnetic Telegvaph. h.-Many of our read- CTS may not know the principle upon which the magnetic telegraph is made to communicate across river without connecting wire. We have rec ceived from acorresdondent the following descrip- tion of the process, at once curious and simple:
 On each side of the river, under the water, is placed mass of steel, gilded to prevent rust to these the telegraphic wires are connected, and by the action of the gavanic batteries one of them is negatively and the other positively electr6ed that
 is to say one of them has less than its natural quan tity of the fluid in it and the other more. The na- tural result of this is that the surplus electricity of the one passes through the water, which is good conductor, to the other, in fulment of the law of nature which provides for an equilibrium in all things. It might never happen that any other be- dy, (being 10 the negative mass as the posi- tive mass of steel s) would have any electricity to spare. and consequently the supply will almost en. tirely pass along the line of the telegraph.
 It is even hoped that telegraphic communicas ton may be made with Europe, and at no very great expense. The steel magnets, however. would require to be very large and powerful, to counteract any small currents of electricity that might be passing in other directions. believe that experi ments are now making, or are to be made, that will test the practcability of this.-M r. Jos1ssGl of Commerce. sn'