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Litchfield enquirer., 1850-08-29

der throughout the whole motion of two feet, was stated to be six hundred pounds when the engine was moving very slowiy, but he had not been able to ascertain what the force was when the engine was running at a working speed, though it Was considerably less.
 The most important and interesting point however, is the expense of the power - PIuf Page stated that he had reduced lhc cost so far. that it was less than steam un, der many and most conditions, though not so low as the cheapest steam engines. WILL all the impertections of the engine. the cotf> sumption of three pounds of zinc per day would produce horse power. The largrr his engines, (contrary to what has been known before) he greater the economy.-- Professor Page was himself surprised ut the result. There were yet practical diff cullies to be overcome; the battery had yet 10 be improved aud it remained yet to ,ry the experiment on a grand scale, to make power of one hundred horse or more.
 NationdI Entelligensey.
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THIG POETS CORNER.
GOD
BY SOLYMAN -ROWN.

Thou Being of Beings! Thy nature is LOVE And, tho omnipresent, Thou dwellest G6ore If not where the night glowing Galaxy rolls, Yet high with he angels the life of their souls Thou source of al Wisdom Thy garments ar. Light, Fast a:e from Thy presence the shadows oi
 night; For Truth is the form, which Thy Goodness
 displays Thou Sun of .he angels they bask iu thy Thou King of all kingdoms! hoy wile Thy
 domains! Unnumbered the realms where thy Providence
 reigns: And far as the. sunlight of nature has shone. There Thou in lhy pow'r and thy glory at
 known. First Cause of all causes! Thy creature is
 MAN:' And warm with Thy1i his young being began, For truth from Thy wisdom his intellect
 folm'd, And good from Thy Goodness his bosom first
 watm'd Thou Sun of all words with the angels art
 Thou The fire ef each heart ani ihe light of each
 brMw. rom Thee they derive all that's blis.ful aud
 fair, And heaven would bp joyless it Thou vert not
 there. Thou Life of all lives to nay spirit convey The light and the heat of Thy life giving day, That joys f,om the skies may my bosom regale, As sweets from the fower>cups of nature ex-
 hate.
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The Progress of Comfort.

In the first period of occupation of
 England by mankind, there is no doubt that as the flesh of animals served fol food, so their skins served for clothes.- They had no woollen fabrics to use for such purposes; they had neither manufactures ot their own. nor money, nor other arti- cies of barter, to exchange for the cloths
 ing materials made by the nations of the continent, who were more advanced in knowledge and comfort. Woollen clothes (irst in England in ll9) and those of flax were the early products of advanc- ing knowledge and civilization. Those ot silk were not made in England till about the year 1904. Hats were not made in England until about the year l5lO. Shoes were not produced, of the present fashion until l633. As to furni- ture, the early inhabitants of England employed leaves and dried grass for beds <; logs of wood, or stone, served the office of chairs and tables; the eartE was their floor. It was only by gradual degrees the benches and other raised seats were used. The floor was at length garnished with rushes and straw, mixed with sweet scented hay or flowers. Another long interval elapsed before (about l750) ca. - pets were made in England. The beds on which our ancestors slept we eo'tan made of straw; even the kings teIs were made of it to the year l23l. Lin, en was first made in England in l254- English blankets were not made before l540. Calico was not manufactured lI l762. If my reader will but think of these things and will but remember that his dwelling. i,s furniture. his clothes and his food, show how the increase of knowledge has gradually produced com fort, and nOw g.'cat is the adsancc which these two (knowledge and comfori) are continually making together, he will not fail to be deeply impressed with tue ad- vantages which knowledge (the fruit of ,.ud" has produced in even his creature comforts that is, in a better dwelling, more wholesome food, warmer clothes and more convenient furniture. .--John> sons RurQl Reader.
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Electro Magnetism as a Motive pow er---.he Important Question Settled.

Professor Page, in the Lectures which he is now delivering before the Smlthso- nian Institution, states that there is no longer any doubt of the application of this power as d substitute for steam. He exhibited the most imposing experiments ever witnessed in this branch of science. An immense bar of iron, weighing one hund ed and sixty pounds, was made to spring up by magnetic action. and to move rapidly up and down, dancing like feather in the air. without any visible support. The force operating upon this bar he stated to average three hundred pounds through ten inches of its motion. He said he could raise this bar one hun dred feet as readily as through ten inches, and he expected no difficulty in doing the same with a bar weighing one tou, or hundred tons. He could make a spile driuer or q forge hammer. with great simplicity, and could make an engine with q stroke of six, twelve, twenty, ol any number of feet.
 The most beautiful experiment we ev' CT witnessed was the loud sound and brilliant flash from the galyaplc spark
 when produced near certain point ir his great magnet. Each snap was a. l loud as a pistol; and when he produced the same spark at little distance from l this point it made no noise at all. Ths recent discovery he stated to have a practical bearing upon the construction l of an electro mag gnetie engine. Truly. a 1 great power is here; and where IS the limit to 1t ,.a
 He then exhibited his engine. of be- tween four and five horse power operated ! by a battery contained in the space oi three cubic feet. It looked very unlike A magnetic machine. It was recipro, eating engine of two feet stroke. and the whole engine and battery weighed about one ton. When the power was throwr on by the motion Of lever. the engine started off magni6cently. making ont hundred and fourteen. strokes per minute though when it drove circular saw ten inches in diameter, saving up boards an inch and quarter thick. into laths. tAe engine made but about eighty ssrokes per minute. There was great anxsety on the part of the sPectatofs to ootaln snecimens of these laths, to preserve as
 troohies of this great mechanical triumph
 The fO . operating upon his magic cylia,
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Death of CavsndIsh.

When Cavendish, the great chemist perceived that his end drew near, he os~, dered his attendant to retire, and not to' return till certain hour. The servant. came back to find his master dead.--- He had chosen to breathe out his soul in solitude and silence, and would not b5 distracted by the presence of man, sine vain was his help. Everybody desires to smooth the bed of death but unre~ Aecting feeling, worse than the want ot i: in the result, turns it often to bed oi toms.
 It is not always that sickness merg'F into the agony. The strained threa,t may break at last with a sudden snal. This is by no means rare in consumption Burko's son, upon whom his father had, conferred something of his own celebrity, heard his parents sobbing in anether room at the prospect of an event they kpew t. be inevitable. He rose from his bed, joined his illustrious father and, endeavored to engage him in a cheerfu.. conversation. Burke continued s!lcnt,- choked with grief. His son again made: an effort to console him. I am under no terror, he said; l feel myself better and in spirits, and yet my heart tlutters.. l know not why. Pray talk to me, sir! talk of religion, talk of mortality, talk, if you will of indifferent subjects.-- Here noise attracted his attention, and he. exclaimed Does it rain ?--No {. it.. is the rustling of the wind through the trees The rustling of the wind and. the waving of the trees brought Milton's. majestic lines to his mind, and he re-, peated them with uncommon grace andA yf.ct- ."s
 "!Iis praise, ye winds, that from four quar&. . ters blow, ...., .A..
 Breathe soft or loud-and wave your tops, ya, pines a
 With every plant, in sign of worship, wave,'~
 A second time he took up the sub lime and melodious strain, and accom- panying the action to the word, wav~, cd his own hand in token of worship and sunk into tbe arms of his father d corpse. Not sensation told him. that in an instant he would stand in, the presence of the Creator, to whom, his body was bent in homage, and whose praises still resounded from his lips.--- But commonly the hand of death is felt for one brief moment before the work is done. Yet parting word. or an expression of prayer, iu which the face and voice retain their composure, show that there iS nothing psintul in the warning It was in this way that Boileau expired from the effects oi dropsy. A friend entesed the loom where he was sitting--and tho poet in one and the same breath, bid him hAit and farewell Good day and adieu,' said he 'and it will be very long adleu' and instantly died. .tt
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J. L. JU DID
MA4URRRHAM ANNlS

ID A& U $ RlREAlN Al&TlSTs VTToULD most respectfully inform inc w people of Liich6eld County that he has 6tedu rooms a few doors west of the Court House for the express purpose of taking miniatures, which will be warranted perfect
 Having arranged north light with the ad- .dition of metallic reflector (which by the way is a perfec: substitute f,r a skyl,ght) Ia now ed to take single pictures CT Groups canal to the best operator in the City.
 Thoss who contemplate ha"ing their minia- tnres, are advised to procure them at this place. rath ' than employ one of the many who in nine eases out of ten. fail 10 give you any thing like perfect picture.
 if the vast number of miniatures which he shas sold during the last three years, IS any evidence L his ability to please. then has ha rea4on to believe those who patroniZe this establishment will have no cause for regret
 Pictures inserted in Lockets, Rings, pins .&e ot any desired size.
 Also variety of Gold Lnckets on hand,
 Ynuag msn wishing to engage l. lucrative naFsiness having a Capital of' from $50 to &7: .ran receive athurnugh course of Instructions rosethef with complete apparatus.
 LiichHsld April c5,h, is5o,.
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A Story for Boys

"Be faithful to your employer, and honest to every one" said widow Free man to her son George, when he left the charity school to g. as errand boy 10 respectable shoemaker IT the neigh> boring town. Remember that the eyes of the Lord are in every place, be- holding the evil and the good;' and if you seek to please him in all your ways you may humbly expect his blessing wherever you go. But if you should sake to bad courses, you will break your poor mothers heart, and bring down her gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.'
 George felt something rising in his throat which prevented his speaking, and the tears came into his eyes-but he thought ii would be unmanly to cry, so giving his mother hearty kiss, he nod ded good bye, and ran down the lane as fast as he could, while the good woman continued to stand at her cottage door watching him till he was quite out of sight, and praying that the God of the fatherless and the widow would protect her darling boy. and keep him from all the snales of sin.
 After week or two, it was seen tbat George was likely to do well in his new place. He remembered what he was told, and did as he was bid: he gave his mind to fulfil the duties required from him, and would form no acquain- tance with the idle boys who were play ing about the streets, and sought to persuade him to loiter on his e,rands.- lis master praised his good memory and his mistress liked hin for his clvillty and readiness to ohige. Every night he went home to his mothers cottage It was two miles to walk, but George did not mind that, he was young, heal thy and strong-and if he was some times tired with running all day, he al ways forgot his weariness when he saw his mother standing to look out for him at the cottage door, On Saturday nights he did not come home until ten o'clock but then he brought his wages in his pocket, and half crown week was a great sum to the poor widow, who had to work hard for her living. Now that she had 10 work no longer for her boy S entire maintainence, she was able to pro- cure many comforts which she greatly needed and happily and thankfully were their Sabbaths spen. in pralslns God for earthly blessings. and seeking the richer gifts of his Holy Spirit to ii
 them for his rest above.
 George had been in his place nearly l9 months, and his obedience to his moth CTS parting advice, had secured for him an excellent character as an honest ant faithful servant. One evening, he wa sent by his mistress to purchase various articles at a grocer's shop in the mex street, for which he was to pay, and re ceive sixpence in change. He wa served by the grocer. himself, but hat scarcely left the shop, when he perceiv ed by the bright light in the window that half-sovereign, had been given t
 him in mistake for the sixpence. Her
 was an opportunity for dishonest bo,
 to have committed a theft withou
 much probability of being found out l. But do notsuppOse that the thought .
 such a wicked action once entered hi
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A BROKEN SUNBEAM FROM THE CLOUDY llEAvENs.--See the effects of long piece of music al public concert. The orchestra are breathless with attention, jumping into major and minor keys, ex- ecuting figures, and fIdling with most ecstatic precision. In thc midst of all this wonderful science, the audience are gaping, lolling, talking, starting about, anl half devoured with ennui. On a sudden there springs up lively little air expressive or some natural feeling though in point of science not worth halfpenny The audience all spring up, every head mods, every foot beats time, and every heart also a universal smile breaks out on every face; the carriage is not order ed {; and every one agrees that music is the most delightful, rational entertain> ment that the human mind can possibly enjoy. In the same manner the aston ishing execution of some great singers has in it very little of the beautiful; 1t is mere difficulty overcome, like rope danc- ing and tumbling; and such difficulties overcome, as l have before said, do not excite the feeling of the beautiful, but of the wonderful.-Rev. Sydney Smith's Elementory Sketches of Moral i'h0oso,- phy.
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Affection.

We sometimes meet with men who seem to think that any indulgence in an atfcctionate feeling is a weakness. They will return from a journey and greet tEelr families with distant dignity, and move among their children with the cold and lofty spIendor of an iceberg, surrounded by It's broken fragments There Is hard ly more unnatural sight on earth, than one of those families without a heart,-- A father had better exlingnish 3 boy $ eyes than take away his heart. Who that has experienced the joys of fricnd> ship, and values sympathy and affection, would not rather lose all that Is beautl. ful in nature $ scenery, than be robbed of the hidden treasure of his heart - Cherish, then, your hearts best affections, Indulge in the warm and gushing emo tions of tilial, parental and tratevnal love. Think it not weakness. God is love.- Love God, everybody, and everything that is lovely. Teach your children tU love; to love the rose, the robin to love their parents to love their God. Let it be the studied object of their domestic culture to give them warm hearts. ardent affections. Bind your whole family to gether by these strong cords. You can not make them too stiong. Religion Is love love to God, love to man.
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ASTOUNDING DIsCLosUREs-vMADIsoN
 BANK ROBBERY, ETc.-Among the vic
 tims of the cholera on Monday night last.
 was a convict in the Indiana Penltentiary, at Jeffersonville, named Root. He was sentenced to the penltentlary for SIX years, under charge of having robbed the bank at Madison, Indiana, of some s2s,OOO, and his sentence would have expired next month. Our readers will recolIect that this robbery took place about seven years since and created great excitement at the time, and suspicion was cast upon some men occupying h'gh places. The money was never found, and to this day, as has been ascertalncd
 by memoranda kept by the bank, not dollar of the stolen notes has ever been put in circulat on. Root was a man of had character, and as he was at Madison about the time of the robbery, he was pursued, arrested, and on trial, was con- victed of the crime, although nothing positively was proved against him, and notwithstanding he almost proved an oi;bi, On his death bed on Monday night, he freely confessed to a numoe, of forperies and crimes, and implicated as being connected in his forgery trans actions, person who is at present res ;deut of this city. and who is now rePu,, ted to be worth his hundred thousand dollars He, however, most earnestly md solemnly denied having ever hae
 anything whatever to do with the Maol
 snH Bank robbery, or of knowing anything ] .bout it, either directly, or indirecttly'-- | As we have already said, he freely ae knowledsed to many other crimes Ou
 with a full knowledge that death would
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A Beautiful Illustration.

A florist will tell you that if you pain,
 the flower pot that contains favorite
 beautiful, fragrant, flower, the plant will
 wither, and perhaps its blossom will die
 You shut out the air and moisture from passing through the earth to the roots and your paint itself is poisonous. Just so, mere external cultivation, superficial, worldly accomplishment, or too exclu- sive anxiety and regard for that, inlures the soul. The vase may be ever so beautifully ornamented, but if you deny the water of life to the flower, it must die. And there are kinds of ornamental accomplishments, the very process of which is as deleterious to the soul, as tbe paint upon the flower pot is pernicious to the plant; whose delicate leaves not only nhale a poisonous atmosphere du~ ring your very process of rendering the exterior more tasteful, but the whole earth is dried and devoid of nourishment. Nature never paints, but all her forms of loveiiness are growth, a native charac> ter, possession and development from the beginning. If the sun can ever be called d painter, it is only because the plants absorb his rays, and receive them into the very texture and life of their vegetation So, whatever is real knowl, edge, wisdom, principle, character and lio ln education, is process of the ab- sorp:ion and development of truth, and Is not mere painting .--Dr. CAeee"r's plea tor Children. ...
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}, CONN., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1850.

soon claim him as victim, he asservera- ted to the last that he was suffering the penalties for crime of which he was en. tlrely innocent. The confessions were made to his physician, Dr. W. F. Collum, and from all the attending circumstances his statemetts are believed to be true.
 Louasville Courier.
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THE EFFECTS OF SHOT ON THE FIELD OF BArrLE.-You can form no idea of the
 storm of balls and shells which crossed
 each in their dread course. Before and
 around the spot on which Field Marshal Rudctski was standing the heavy sixteen pound shots ploughcd up the ground, tracing in one place deep lurrow, and cutting do VII tree like stubble in an other. It is remarkable how each kind of missile has its own characteristic. - There is the tremulous howl of tue round large shot, the whistle of the mus
 ket ball, the hiss of the shell, like that of the Catherine W heel fire work, and then detonation as it bursts. Of these last, many of which fell amongst Us missed fire, and many exploded harmless in the air; but when one fell and did it's office the effect was fearful. One such struck an officer in the breast, exploded at that instant, struck down man to right and left, cut of the upper part of the officers body in such fashion that his frightened horse galloped of at some distance with the feet of the corpse in the stirruPs-
 Such are the spectacles which q field oi battle occasionally present. Not far oi' lay a Piedmontese artillerist who had been struck on the forehead by spent six. pound shot, which remained m the wound. A hussar had been killed at tne same instant with his horse, by shot which had passed through the neck ot
 the la,ter; they had sunk together the rlder still on the saddle. and the sabre stlll in his hand. The sudden collapse of a man in full yigor is what is most fearful Io behold. One sinks without a grosn
 another jumps high from the ground witt
 a shriek, falls over, lies stif. and Is dead saw a Granger from the Banat. with { bah in his forehead, falter fev P 'ces
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leaning on his musket like drunken man and then, after faint whisper ab out his hone, expire. Over the town the cannon smoke had spread colossal canopy, which f1oated above the roofs like the crown of the Italian pine trees.--Scencs from the Lite of q Soldier in Actiue Ser vice, i1a lS49.
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GETTING OFF EASY. -One of the States passed an act that nodog sho dii go .. large without muzzle, and man was brought up for Infringing the statue. In detenee. he alleged that h,s dog had muzzle.
 i" How is that ?o quoIh the iasucs: "Oh .'Said the defendant. the act says nothing of where the muzzie should oe placed, and as thoughi.ths animal would like the fresh air, put the, muz<is z4 .1 on nis taiL,"
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When neighbor who can afford to take Il payer, sends in to borrow yuufs, don', lend 1t. for to borrow your newspaper, k to iAfringe upon your right. ros the publisher perpptrate an act of meamness ,hat people who possess a soul Of any magnitude wilt never be guilty of.
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O. The Nashua (N. H.) Gazette says-G man from Litchfeld came to Ihat towns pur- chased coffin, took 1t back to L.. .dux grave. put his coffin into 1t. got into Il hlulseli, tcok iaudanam, walked up next morning aud found himself alive, got up and hung tAnself. As left letter with Ave dollars enclosed, to pay for filling up his grave.
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I3- The wife of President Fillmore is to be presented with magnificent. Coach by a few friends in New York, ir honor other being the first lady fiom .ha; State who has presided over heshoAors of lhe White House al Washington. .5t.l
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T The yonng man named Walker wAo attempted iO assassinate.f Louis Napoleon is a Ps nlsylvanIa pffnter.g about Wyears of age. The PhlIadelPh Phiasays he was 'sldicE ted so sDeialism when ia Ihts coaaIfgs aud psobably was craEk>braines. .
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Cherish a love for justice. truth. sels con ,rol. benevolence, Bs governed by thsIn in all things. SweiVe net from the lissl toi any present advantage. In all cGreulAiiancss show thyself man in un6inehing .ecti.ule.
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None but toe cou,smptibls are AtREshsnsixs sol contempt. ca .s48 ~
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