The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-11-18
THE UNION.


A writer OF the Boston Recorder, who has lately uay-
eei through Connecticut, thus describes the way IN
which the people gam hvehooa
Beginning IN the northwestern part OF the Slate
where, blythe way, some OF natures true noblemen
dwell-we find many furnaces smelling down iron ore
of the best quality from their mines making each
from two To three tons OF pg iron per dien and each
consuming, a sing lie blast of eleven months, million
bushels OF charcoal There is shop manufacturing
some of the delicate and best cutlery, and another
making huge anchors and chain cables for our navy,
from iron wrought a, Their own pudding furnace
Fifteen miles eastward lies a village OF fifteen hun
bred people situated al the outlet OF splendid sheet OF
water, which, IN It's descent OF hundred and nifty feet,
carries all needed machinery Here the business Scytbe
making Another town is famous for lis brass kettles
article made nowhere else IN the naton and The trade
OF liking which, 1t is said, stolen from England.
Hard by are two contiguous towns. made densely popu
ous. the rugged hill sides. and independently
rich by the manufacture OF brass clocks These articles,
OF the ordinary kind costing from nine shllngs 10 two
dollars sold the world at advance OF 500 or
900 per cent.
Coming further eastward, into Hartford county, you
find gang OF hands digging copper ore from the bowels
OF mother earth-hen you enter town oil a thousand
people, supported entirely by making axes. Following
the Pennington rver, and passing many establishments,
you alight of fifteen hundred inhabitants, right
in the gorge, where the nye ITS dashng freaks, ike
lover without eyes, instead OF making ITS way easily
and honestly down to New Haven. breaks lis way
tn rough the Talcou mountain Tor the purpose OF making
a union with the Connecticut These people Scotch
men, making carpets But this is only part of the
adjustment, the remainder is located ten or fifteen miles
northeast, where Is found community OF eighteen hun
dred from the same country and engaged IN like busi
Observe here in these two towns are three very old
fashioned Presbyterian churches. Passing by
nifty of Shakers. who supply the land with garden seeds
and brooms and Hazards well known powder where the
"villanous saltpere" is made into abomlnation to
missiles at the Mexicans and also dstlees,
too detestable to blot paper with, you enter growing
Town where are made paper cloth OF different kinds, iron
and card teeththe last set to order and guam
titles sufficient to strag hten all the fibre which grew
on Sleeps back or cotton plantation.
Passing through the city Of Hartford, which our birds
In mnka pnly ma ri tratl E1pr in
the workmanship of other and honest hands, you find
town of three thousand inhabitants, manufacturing van
be TO write half the names OF articles OF hardware shop
Hooks and eyes must be parlcularzedenough to hook
together all the ladies' dresses the land beside those
of one half Queen Vctora's subjects
But TO return the Connecticut river-for in
rapid flight have already crossed it twce-in
making our way into Tolland county, we entered the
beautiful lake. rendered memorable by the Life OF poor
Sarah" who died its banks, you must stop TO
village of twelve hundred people, grown up in the course
OF dozen years, having some SIX or eight mills making
satnets and the cashmere the country In other
sections of the county furnaces cotton and woolen
mills and machine shops.
Here, too town, and II Is own dear "Mantua,
with four five silk fac cries, where the great part oil
our aiIors obtain their Italian sewing silk and twist
| to speak OF all. Hard by, in Wndham country, is
population of eighteen hundred making cotton cloth In
the part of the county, in the valley of single
stream the space of twenty miles at least twelve
cotton factory villages.
In New London county is manufactured India rubber
in a variety of forms. In Norwich, wooen and cotton
mills abound And here, single paper mill, the
owner informed me- made 100000 worth OF paper per
annum. New London and Stonington wing rich
out of the whale fishery Lyme situated at the mouth
of the Connecticut, furnishes captains for the Lon
don and Liverpool packets, and seamen to their
ards. Sailing up that river, now hed with selnes tor
shad, you pass quarry of freestone Then you enter
shop, branch OF large establishment located in Mer-
lden which monopolzes the whole business OF manu-
featuring ivory Here you find ivory combs, piano forte
keys umbrella tips, dice, and all kinds OF ornamental
work made of the elephants tusks.
| Then you need not smile at vertabe establishment
| for making patent nkstands, employing thirty men.
Next you will find shop turning axe helves; next
screw factory. Then you will pass on the bank OF the
rlver another quarry, rich VEN OF gneiss splitting
about readily chesnut timber-a vein about twenty
rods wide, from whence have been quantities OF
various parts of the Union and to the West In
dies. And then another quarry OF red sandstone, en-
poying three hundred lrishmen and their overseers
had almost forgotten whole town. made rich by the
manufacture of all kinds of belIs-such sleigh, horse,
clock, and COW bells In this city, is easy task 10
tell what is manufactured, except coaches, clocks, intel
the whole OF New England and portions of New
York with oysters
Waterbury, with almost four thousand inhabitants,
makes buttons, brass wire and pins by the ton And
then there Birmingham and Ansonia two contiguous
villages, making cutlery pms and hardware Just above
Them large establishment making augers, chisels, and
the like. Thence on will pass westward into the north
part of Fairfield county, and here you make acquaintance
with the halters in abundance Here 1t is the superior
hats for the New Workers made.