Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-01-27

III nc DOStou heCOfueT, WHO has ldtefY Dee1
travelling through Connecticut, thus describes
the way in which the people get a livelihood:
Beginning in the northwestern part of the
State-where, by the way, some of natures
true nohlemen dwell-we find many furnaces
smelling down iron ore. of the best quality,
from their oWn mines, making each from two
to three tons of pig iron per diem, and each con-
Stunning at d single blast of eleven menths a
million bushels of charcoal. There is a shop
manufacturing some of the most delicate and
best cutlery; and another making huge anchors
and chain cables for our navy from iron wrought
at fheir own pudding furnace.
Fifteen miles eastward lies village of l.
500 people, situated at the outlet OF a splendid
sheet of water. which in its descent ofl50 feet
carries allneeded machinery. Here the bust
ness is scythe making. Another towneis ia
NOUS for its brass kettles; an article made no.
where else in the nation, and the trade of max
ing which, it is said, was stolen fir pm EAgland.
Hard by are twocontiguous towns made dense
ly ~populeus even on the rugged hill sides, and
independently rich by the manufacture of brass
clocks. These articles of the ordinary kind,
costing from nine ~shillings or two dollars are
sold over the world at an advance of 500 or l.,
900 per cent. rgs asr
Coming farther eastwood into Hartford coun-
ty, you find a gang of hands digging copper ore
from the bowels of mother earth. Their you
enter d town of a 1000 people, supported en-
tirely by making axes. Following the Farm
ington river. and passing many establishments,
you alight at a town of 800 inhabitants, right
ia the gorge where the river, in lis dashIng
freaks, like a lover without eyes, insteadof ma
king its way easily and honestly down 10 New
Eaven, breaks its way through the TaIcott
mountain for the purpose of making a union
fith the Connecticut. These people are Scotch
men making carpets. But this is only a part
of he establishment, the remainder is located
ten o. fifteen miles northeast, where is found
a community of 300, from the same country,
and engaged in like business.
Observe here, in these two towns, are three
very old-fashioned Presbyterian churches. Pas
sing by a community of Shakers, who supply
the land with garden seeds and brooms; and
Hazards well known power mills, where the
'.yiilainous saltpetre'' is made into an abomin-
alton TO cast missiles at the Mexicans, also
some distilleries, too detestable to blot paper
with, you enter a growing town where are
made paper, cloth OF ~differentklnds, iron ware,
and card teeth, the last set to order and in
quantities sufficient to strengthen all the fibre
which ever grew on a sleeps back, or a cotton
plantation. a
Passing through the city of Hartford you find
a owl OF !, 600 g iahaP b saeetstt d na mneh2fdn Which i
kinds would be to write half the names or ar
ticles of a hardware shop. Hooks and eyes
must be particularised; enough TO hook togeth-
erall the ladies' dresses IN the land, besides
those of one-half Queen Victoria's subjects.
But, to return over the Connecticut river
for in our rapid flight we have already crossed
it twice, and, in making our way into Tolland
county, we enter the region of cotton and VOL
len mills. And here, at the outlet of a beau
tiful lake rendered memorable by the s'life O.
poor Sarah who died on its banks, you mus
stop to see a village of 200 people, grown ny
in the course of a dozen years, having some. sill
or eightmills making ~satinets and the nices.
c~assimeres in the country, In other sections
of the country are furnaces, cotton and vol
len mills, and machine shops.
Here, too, is a town, and it is our own deal
"Mantua," with four or five silk factories
where the great part of our tailors obtain thei
Italian sewing silkand twist. Here the screw
augur was invented, but time will fail to speal
4 of all. Hard by, in Windham county, is a pop
~ulation Of l 800 making cotton cloth. In the
eastern part of the country, in the valley of
single stream, in the space of twenty miles,ar
at least twelve cotton factory villages.
New London anaStonigton are growing rich
out Of the whale fishery. Lyme, situated at
i It1C OOl VI III al y q SCO
captains for the London and Liverpool packets
/, and seamen to man their yards Sailing W
that river, now filled with seines for shad, you
!, pass a query of free-stone.. Then you enteI
a shop, a branch of a large establishment loca
ted at Meriden, who m~onopolise the whole
business of manufacturing ivory. Here you
find ivory combs, piano forte keys, umbrella
tips, dice, and all kinds of ornamental worl
made of the elephants tusks.
Then you need not smile at a veritaDle es
' adjustment for making patent WRISTBANDS, EN-
4 ploying thirty men. Next you find a shor
I turning out axe helves, next a screw factory
Then you pass on the bank Of the river, anoth
: er quarry, a rich vein of gniess, splitting abou
as readily as chestnut timber, a vein sent vas
: quantities of stone to various parts of the I'm
: ion and to the West Indies. And then anoth
e er quarry of red sandstone, employing 30(
5 Irishmen and their overseers. -
/ had almost forgot a whole town, made
; rich by the manufacture of all kinds of bells
: such as sleigh, horse, clock and cow bells. Ii
this city it is no easy task TO tell what is man
r ufactured, except coaches, clocks, intellect
e theology, law, and physic. Fairhaven fur
+ nishes the whole o. New England and some
\ portions of n. York with oysters.
Waterbury, with almost 1000 inhabitants
t makes buttons, brass wire, and pins by thu
p ton. And then there is Birmingham and An
sonia, two contiguous villages, makingc cutlery
pins, and hardware. Just above them, alargt
establishment making augurs, chissels, and tlt
{? like. Thence you will past westward into tht
north part of Fairfield county, and here you
$ make an acquaintance with hatters in abund
S ance. Here it is the superb hats for the New
f Workers are made.
TIE CHOLERA IN LoNDoN.-The London cor
t respondent of the NatioEut Ln~teligencer, il
e his latest letter, furnishes the following start
ling intelligence.
"a more alarming piece of news is, that til,
cholera is undoubtedly in London, and has bro
1 ken out with extreme virulence in Golden Lam
and other densely populated parts of the city
J The police keep watch and ward there TO in
terdict communication. The symptoms of tn,
4 disease are of a very alarming nature, exhibit
e ing itself in plague spots and other fearful char
e acteristics. This is truly a melancholy clos
to my communication. Ihope the matter i
n made The worst of, but have many fears.
s.yVhy was the battle of Resaca de la Palmi
: like the marriage of Adam aud Eve? Becaus
- ~.-o-a short aauaCanoant foll0yye6 nv a lon