Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-10-14
HOW THE YANKEES MAKE A LIVING.

A writer of the Boston Recorder, who has lately
travelled through Connecticut thus describes the
way in which the people gain livelihood:
Beginning in the northwestern part of the state-whee.
by the way, of natures true noblemen dwelwe fad
many furnaces smelling down iron Of the best quality
from their rnnes making each from two three
OF pig iron per diem, and each consuming at single blast
of eleven months million bushels of charcoal There is
shop manufacturing Of the most delicate and best cut
ey and another making huge anchors and chain cables for
navy from iron wrought their pudding furnace
Fifteen miles eastward lies village Of fifteen hundred
people, situated at the outlet Of splendid sheet Of water
which, in its descent OF hundred and fifty feet carries
all needed machinery. Here hc business is scyhe making
Another famous for its brass ketesan article made
nowhere else in the nation, ard the trade of making which,
iii is said, stolen from England. Hard by
suous towns made densey populous the rugged
hill Sides and independently rich by the manufacture of
brass clocks. These acss Of the ordinary kind, costing
from nne hilngs 10 two dollars, sold the world
advance Of 500 i 900 per cent.
Coming further eastward into Hartford county, you find
gang Of nands digging copper from the bowels of mother
earth then you enter atown Of thousand people, port
ed entirely by making axes. Following the Pennington
river and passing many establishments you algh
OF fifteen hundred inhabitants right in the gorge where the
rve in s dashng freaks, like lover withoGt eyes, instead
of making its easily and honestly down to New Haven
breaks It's through the Tacot mountain for the purpose
of making union with the Connecticut These people are
Scochmen making carpets But this is only part q the
establishment; tie remainder is located fifteen miles
northeast, where found eighteen hundred,
from the country, and engaged Ia Ike business.
Observe here these towns, three very odGshon-
ed Presbyterian cLurcaes. Passing by community OF Sha
ke who supply the lard with garden seeds and broons and
Hazards wciknown powder, where the " sllnous salt
pere" made irlV aboniEaton TO cast missiles at the
Mexcan and asO Jsileies, deestabe bot pa
per with, you enter growing town where made paper
cloth Of different kinds, iron ware and card teethhe last
order, and in quantities sufficient straghen all the
fibre which grew sheep back cotton plantation
Passing through the city Of Hartford which bidseye
view make only for trafEcking in the work
manshp Of other and honest hsnds you nd town Of three
thousand inhabitants manufacturing Of brass
ware mention which kinds would be write half the
Of articles Of hardware shop Hooks and eyes be par
cUlarized, enough TO hook together all the ladies' dresses
The laud beside those Of hall Queen Vicoras subjects
But the Connecticut riyer Tor in our rapid
flight have already crossed tSice and, in making
into Toand county, entered the egon OF cotton and
wo6cn and bere, the outlet Of beautiful lake, rendered
memorable by the Lille OF poor Sarah, who died Its
banks you stop village OF twelve hundred peo
pie grown up the Of dozen years. having six
eight mills making sanes and the cashmere in the
country. In other sections of the county furnaces cotton
and woollen mills, machine shops.
Here, too, is town, aud soJr own dear Mnnua, with
-four five silk factories, where the great part Of our aors
obtain their Italian sewing silk aud twist Here the
suger invented Bot time viii fail to speak Of s Hard
by in WnJnam county, il population Of eighteen hundred
making cotton cloth. In the eastern part Of the county, in the
valley Of single stream, IN the space Of twenty miles
least twelve cotton factory viIages.
In New London county manufactured India rubber
variety Of forms. In Norwich woollsn and cotton mills
Rb'unds And here one single paper mill, the in
formed me, made $500 GOO worth Of paper per New
London and Sonngton growing rich II the whale
fishery. Lyme situated The mouth Of the Connecticut,
furnishes captains Cor the London and Liverpool packets
and their yards. Sailing up that river now
filled with nes for sh1d you pass quarry Of free
Ten you enter shop, branch Of large establishment To-
Gated in Merden which monopoEes the Whole business Of
manufacturing 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 smie a vertable establishment for
masking patent nkslnds, employing thirty men. Next you
will find shop turning out heyes a factory.
Then you pass, the tank Of the rve enoher quarry,
rich Of gneis splitting about readily chestnut tim
Ter vein about twenty rods wide. from whence have been
sent qusnies Of stone, TO parts Of the Union
and to the West Indies And then another quarry OF red
sandstone, employing three hundred shmen and their
seers
had almost forgotten whole town, made rich by the
manufacture Of all kinds Of bells such segh, horse clock
and bells. Ia this city is easy task TO tell what is
Manufactured except coaches clocks intellect theology, law,
and physc Feirhagen furnishes The whole OF New Eng
land and some portions of New York with oysters
Waterbury, with almost four thousand irhabians makes
b1ons, brass wire, and pins y the And then there
birmingham and AnsonIa, two contiguous villages making
cutlery pins and hardware. just above hem large estab
hment mskng augers, chise, and the like. Thence you
witt pass westward into the north part Of Fairfield county,
and here make acquaintance with the hatte in sbun-
dance Here is the superb hats for the New Workers