New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-12-03
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Ffrxwulan. Cb.,bireC Go. II Tuesday, Nov. ,, -.
When was quits young and n rosidon, Of wo'efn Con
ne,eut wooden ware psdars and anon present
,uy themselves from Fii1wliam small township about
dozen miles southwark OF Kcone, in New HaTnpshiro
Wood,n ware at that time. In geet dcmlnd-wooden
bows oven, and wooden renchersi
Litie did | think at that period, that should over see
So wonderful place Gs Ft1wilam' Yet here an. IN
n same wooden ware region teaching the inhabitants
not the art Of manufacturing wares Of any s-no even
novdors and pills but OF manufacturing health.
Ii is true see at tho present time, very few wooden
howl. and fren .hr. Wooden cha ~ washtub chuens,
nails. frkins baskets and hardly know wha.-even
ohes pns have conc in their stead Your read s would
he ss.cnshed at the vast amount of these articles which
are carried downward the railroad every day, from
T,zwliam and neigbborng places TO Boston For the
,ood work Of manufacturing wooden and furniture
has spread to contiguous places especially in the northern
nsrt Of Worcester county Massachusetts, and SHOULD
not lie SURPRISED to know that fifty cer' were daily Dadd
viii this commodity for Boston from the towns OF t@
william. Wrchendon. Ashburnham. RoysstoD fempe.on,
Afhol HubbaIdston OieDge Westminster and Gardner.
Gre firm in tho latter place the Messrs. Heywcois expect
70 manufacture two hundred housand chairs the present
wear Ifal these are cent Boston here alone would be
daily demand for several Yet what is tbs 20 the
Whole which Is done in all this REGION
And well Is one would think, that chairs tubs, pals
&c are in large demand For Il not 80 how woud
fueh country support dense population lne SOIL IS
poor besides It 3 rocky FizwiGm IS one OF tho most
rocky places | have seen-the northern part % khoie
Island II excepted 1t is sometimes said concerning
tie latter region that the noes Of the sheep have 10 be
harreped before they can reach the ground between the
stores IN order TO procure susnance Bat If t process
If SHARPENING noses b needed in Rhode Ilnd it j. surely
mu,h more 80 in these parts Of Massachusetts, and New
Hamp hire.
hi often said that the Creator has made nothing il vain,
rdtmsv be tue letwhn re inquiring traveller casts
b eve over the feds aud woods Of Ftzwiam. and is Vi
ciry and boholds til almost covered with rocks OF va
rous shaues and Gimensons-when he by the deep
cuts for the railroad that passes through to heene aud the
north that the Garth beneath the surace filed with
them-ad when again he casts his eyes towards tho Mo-
nadnok whose huge piles only three or four miles dis
tsu,. ard towards the high hills of NewIssich which,
though but little farther or made Of the same mate
rial he is involuntsry led TO excltim, to what can
tlese mighty piles and masses OF granite be applied
In short his faith &, this moment fails him.
Put he has taken M re superficial view of things He
has forgotten hat in little than two centuries the more
common ard fequon. material for building has grown so
scarce as TO command enormous price, and that
brick and stone are coming, very rapidly into use He
has forgotten indeed may be lac has never yet been
Informed that the business of getting ont building stones in
this Wild rocky region and OF conveying them to the rail
road has already become quite source OF profit and IT,
every year. becoming and more 50. IL is, indeed
hsrdly presumption 10 look forward, 'ch he eye (ai,
to that period when of these rocks will DO worth
more than an acre of III nos if not of California
Indeed it will not be lOng-long mean in the history Of
nations for FIVE hundred years is not very long indeed
FIVE thousand before notions of true wealth will be
very much modified Diamonds gold, and pearls will not
be valued because Of their scarcity highly as to eclipse
a os all eee Air water and granite, TO say nothing Of
coal iron and the like which the great Creator has so be
rally furnished viii be valued in proportion to their abun
dance.
You see, by the way, that am no Millerte | never
have had eny sympathy with those individuals who tell u.s.
whether in poetry or prose- that world * old world
whose disastrous is well nigh finished and tina.
what remains is but the rocking Of sea to rest Our
world is probably but an infant world. Most certainly
these granite hills do not look though tho worlds
course were well nigh finished" There is material here
for many mighty edifce-perhaps many mighty city
with which even ancient Baby Ion and Nneyeh can hardly
compare as well as for of men who shall be able to
rear such edifcos We know not yet what we shall be
and though there may be present marks of physical detero
ration there may yet be in for even on this
earth glores which no human eye hath seem any hu
man mind conceived.
Ibaye spoken OF future elfcc which mi t pr chance
be reared But the people Of this rocky Fzwlllam have
already raised edifce Of q more important kind-one
too which is impershabe They have elevated The stand
ard of Common School Education to very high pitch
indeed Fitzwam IT, in this respect the banner town OF
Cheshire county. W. A ALcorr.