Litchfield enquirer., 1858-05-27

Observation-Disclosures or PoTATo. Some
wears ago, . gentleman visitIne farmer in Tol-
land, Conn, took from his pocketa small potato
which somehow had got 10 there at home. i
was thrown out with smile. and the farmer a.
king il in his hand 10 look al H. curious littls
boy Of Twelve, standing al lis elbow. asked him
what il was. " OH" said he. ..nathing but 4
potato, my boy take. and plant il, and you shah
have all you canfaise from it till You are OF age.
The lad took it, and the farmer thought no more
about it at Che time. The boy. however, not de-
spisine small potatoes, carefully divided it into
as many pieces as he could find eyes. and put
them into the ground The product was carefully
put aside in the fall. and planted in the spring
and on till the fourth year, when, the yield b..
ing good. The actual product was four hundred
bushels! The farmer seeing tire prospect thai
The potato field would by another year. cover his
whole farm, asked 10 be released from his prom
ise -'Genesee Farmer.
Al young man tells the follow ing story Of him.
self:
When young. he had read the well known sto-
~ Of George Washing TONS love Of truth. and
his fathers love Of the noble principle of his
son, so well manifested o., the occasien referred
to. OF Georges cutting down the cherry.tree, ac.
knnwledging the transaciion, and receiving al full
and free pardcn, besides praises and kind caress.
Is from his father. So jim, actuated by SO noble
AN example, thought he would try the experiment,
on. He supplied himself with the Ratchet, and
going into his fathers orchard, cut down some
choice fruii-trees. He then coolly sa. Gown to
wait the old mans coming, and as he made his
appearance, m ,rched up TO him with a very i'm
port.nt air, and acknowledged the deed, expect
ing the next thing on the programme In be tears.
brnrdictions and embraces from the offended pa
| rent But sad to relate, the old gentleman caught
up hickory and gave him an ''al fred lam
ming" Served him right.
Jim was no Washington.
Condemn no man for not thinking as you think
Lei every one enjoy the full and free liberty Of
drinking for hmse {. Let every man use his ow II
Judgment. since every man must give an account
of himself to God. Abior every approach, in
any degree, to the spirit Of persecution If you
cannot reason or persuade man into the truth.
never stempt to force him into it II love will
not compel him, leave him to God, the Judge Of
all.-John Wesley.
The accumulation of specie in the Banks Of
New York. and other coilhercial cities, is very
remarkable. The aggregate in New York is
same thirty fre nl,lltons-at least four times the
amount OF circulation. The same state of things
exists at Philadelphia, land pretty nearly the same
dt Boston.
1t appears from the foreign news that the bank
If sprcie-the amount in both Banks being equal
to the circulation.
These facts indicate stognation of business,
no, in one country alone, but extending to the
whole commercial world.
Prentice says it would have been better for
Congress TO have said to the people Of Kansas,
you shall have no direct vote for or against the
Lecompton constitution, hut you may. on given
day, vote whether eggs should be boiled hard or
soft, and, if you vote hard, you shall come in at
once under the Lecomptnn constitution. whereas.
If you vote soft you shall not come in till your
population is doubled or ,rebled
If tie egg question were submitted to the vote
Of the people Of Kansas and Lecompton made de-
pendent upon the issue, would it be correct or in
correct to say that Lecompion was submitted 1t
any man can solve this matter satisfactorily, we
shall claim for him that he is I" no chicken"
WATCHES The United States has imported in tie
last 80 years, about fifty million dollars worth Of
watches from England, France, Switzerland &C.
We have at the same time made clocks enough to
supply the rest of the rid we'll ourselves
There is but watch factory in the United States,
and this is an Wa]thams I'D, -.
On recent occasion, Cumming Sturgeon and
Cough all famous orators, addressed immense audi
ences ut Brighton, England. The Brighton Herald
saws Cough took the lead in point of oratory.