Litchfield enquirer., 1851-09-18

Cering adleu 10 Mdss"N -. i. e,.ra ;t on nroceeded far in Connecticut ocio'e 'se" foUc,ers q barrier composed ot yer ro,e rock in geology. primitive limestone or crvstalize marble. Over this tt 'ake seve,sl successive leaps, one ot lher ro.ssu,iug 60 feet. forming. e*pec'"ily ~ lime of flood, most beautiful caIa,"Ss in~sa
 At all times it is matter of m.s'e; s'sn :; ubieh would be more sought "i'%' ,.oro v;dclr known. IL IS n miniature D W;aoo,s with it's Table Rock, and ..L.n If waters" sufficient to make lI' srn,cst nerves shrink fittie from tEt crumbling verge. :.
 About a mile above the falls, the lime rock drops oat in very singular bold b,ll full of rare minerals and clysialISa- lions, and atfording by it's elevation and nosi,ion in the valley one of the mnsi charming views presented on the face o' inc emth. We used to think. when {" ,bad that look from the top of 1t was cood pay for chasiisement 1t sometimes sost ms in the school house below.
 The solitary old mill which used l." cline to the eastern precipice 5elow the falls, modesuy sipping from its abundant waters enough to grind the rye and corn of the neighborhood, is now naked ruin. with its single run of burr posts exposed ,o view. The river has W other work to do. It drives the entire iron works of Horatio Ames on the Salisbury side, and Robbins & Canfeld on the Canaan side, in which pig iron is wrought into bars and the cranks and shafts of engines. The ron, famous the world over for it's tsnacily and durability, is brought about six miles from the mnuntains of SAlishu ", in rusty looking Jumps which seem like cinders from somc great furnace. These moGntains are so fnN of iron that ,he springs, holding it in solution deposit it in the plains, and repeated cioTs of bo. ore have been taken from the sarle spot within the memory of the oldest in habitant.
 The works of Mr. Ames are well worth visiting. both for their extent and conve- nient arrangement. One is surprised at first to see him, with almost unlimited command of wa.er power-enongh and to spare, at any ra,e-using steam. The mystery is soon solved, however. on sec ing the operation of his great hammer Thor" weighing six tens. Such a hammer would be very difficult to man age with water wheel, and might pound too hard when once at it. But with steam to lift t, and temper its blow when lifted, it can crack a walnut without touching the anyel. It is attached to a piston rod, ard hile the steam is being admitted to the cylinder immediately over it, lifts it with perfect ease, 1t can be 50 controlled by means of valve as to check its force, or stnke a blow cf any weight you please.
 As the Salisbury and Canaan Iron yyolks began before tariffs were invent cd, they are not dependent for tleir ex- istence on the taxation of foreign iron, They grow out of natu,al advantages, and must always pay. A magniheen' hydraulic work Is now constructing or the Canaan side, whereby the ahnndan water power of the falls will becom' more available. By means of massive wall of the marble rock canal IS mad from the falls which will be capable converting all she water of the ryer, required, to basin immediately contigu ous to the railroad station, half mll distant, where it can be drawn out o three sides on desirable ground for build ing. In this way the whole water of tn river may be used over and over. thoug' a descent of over one hund ed feet.
 The work seems to be going forwar with vigor and no want of means. Wi iron of so excellent a quality. and wat! power not less convenient and scarcel less abundant than that of our new c'l at Hadley Falls, the Housatonlc fal can hardly fail to become the site oi great manufacturing city.
 Forty years. to say nothing of the effect on childish ideas, can nuke iea ful dilapidaiiops in 2 dwelling bull;
 pine. As to onr veleratcd birth non more than half of it had been tom doy or carried off bodily and the resid stood squalid and dcsolaie. deserted ol it's surrounding trees but . single one, q ? inhabited by family entirely in keep, with its present condition. But on llc search we found human hearts Tn neighborhood Int were not the we for time and the weather. Under roof of the Miners, fathe. and son, n was warm and fresh recollection oi lang syne and all the hearty hasp''al''
 If true unsophlAticatcd Yankee ho'
 lntbeir field, too. we had the pleas
 pf trying our long unpractlced haa'
 yaking and binding oats-; oats that wo
 have done honor tO the banks oi
 Tweed---and of finding that the tar'
 E not yet spoiled in us.
 TThe Auburn Advertiser of Tues
 says that two infants died in the mena
 rie pavilion In that viIlage on the prev
 day, from the effects of tue heat and
 Nawholesome atmosphere. consequent
 Na lAe crowd assembled there. Two at
 were NieO curried oNt sinSenSiila On