Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-03-02


kinds would be to write half the names of
the articles of hardware shop. Hooks
ana eyes must be parlIcnlarized, enough to
nook together all the ladies' dresses in the
land besides those of the half of Queen Vic
'oria's subjects.
But 10 return over the Connecticut river.
Tor in our rapid flight we have already
crossed 1t twice, and in making our way in
10 olIand county, we enter the region of
cotton and wooden. And here, a, the out
let OF beautiful lake, rendered memorable
by the "Llfe of poor Sarah" who died on
lis banks, you must stop to see village OF
l2oO people grown up in the course Of a
dozen years, having some six or eight mills
making satllnets and the incest cassimeres in
the country. In other sections Of the coun-
ty are furnaces, cotton and wooden mills.
and machine shops. Here too is town.
and 1t is our own dear "NIan'ua, ''with four
or tive silk factories, where the greater part
OF our tallors obtain their Italian sewing
SILK or twist Here the screw anger was
invited. But time will fail to speak of all
Hard by, IN Wlndham county, is popula-
ton OF $500, making cotton cloth. In the
eastern part of the country, in the valley of
single stream, in space of twenty miles,
are at least twenty cotton factory villages.
IN New London county is manufactured
India rubber in variety of forms. In Nor
wlch, wooden and cotton mills abound
And here one single paper mill, the owner
Informed me made S26O,OOO worth of paper
per annum. New London and Stonington
are growing rich out of the whale fishery.
Lime, situated at the mouth oflhe Connecti-
cut, furnishes Sea-captains for the London
and Liverpool packets, and seamen to man
Their yards. Sailing up that River, now
filled with seines for shad, you pass quar-
ry of freestone. Then you enter shop,
branch of large establishment in Meriden,
which monopolizes the whole business of
manufacturing ivory.combs, piano forte KEYS,
umbrella tips, dice, and all kinds of orna-
ment work made Of The elephants tusks.-
Then you need not smile at veri,able es-
adjustment for making patent inkstands, en-
ploylng thirty men. Next you will find
shop turning out axe-helves; next a screw
1se5ory Then yoq pass on the banks Ct
twenty rods wide, from whence have been
sent quantities of stone to various parts Of
the Union and to the West Indies. And
then another quarry of red sandstone, EN-
ploying 800 Irishmen and their overseers.
had almost forgotten whole town,
made rich by the manufacture Of all kinds
of bells, such as sleigh, horse, clock and
COW bells. In this city New Haven) it is
no easy task to tell what is manufactured
except coaches, clocks, intellect, theology,
law and physic. Fairhaven furnishes the
whole of New England and some portions
o: New York with oysters.
Waterbury, with almost 1000 inhabitants
makes buttons, brass wire and pins by the
ton. And then there is Bennington and An
sonia, two contiguous villages, making cut
Iery, pins and hardware. Just above them
is a large establishment making augers,
chisels and the like. Thence you will pass
westward into the north part of Fairfield
county, and here you make an acquaintance
with the halters in abundance. Here it is
The superb hats for the New Workers are
made''