Litchfield enquirer., 1862-09-11


 exhilirating collation. in the beautiful grove of Wm. Deming, Esq. in the rear of his mansion, at which songs were sung and speeches lmpro- v1sed to suit the times and the occasion.
 We believe the Washington B. B. Co., have been rather more successful this year than they were last, in their contests for superiority with our Litchfeld B. B. Co.
 CoRSwALL-The town of Cornwall is proud of her sons. More than one hundred of the young men of this town have cheetfully respon. ded to the call our country, and have already taken the field. This is:mpre than our quota of ! the 100000 required, and there area few more of the same sort left. When the young men are gone there are fathers here ready to follow, An other interests and even the ties of kindred are yielding to the claims of patriotism. The unselfsh devotion of our peepleto the cause of our country is full of hope to the cause. It re- minds us of the times of our fathers and the spirit of '76. Secession, which last year was impudently rampant and blatant, exists here only as fossil now. It shrinks and crawls so utterly abject and meeching as to excite pity rather than indignation. The people have al- most stopped kicking it because it isso dead.
 On Thursday evening last, we had alarge and enthusiastic meeting atthe beautiful church in Cornwall, to present swords to two of our cit- zens Capt. Gold and Lieut.. Gregory of Go. G.. now in Camp Dutton of whom We are happy to hear that they are among the most promising officers in the regiment. The exercises of the occasion were in the following order. On ta- taking the chair M. D. S. Smith Esq. offered a grief and fotcible address. then Prayer by the Rev. Charles Wetberby of North Cornwall.
 Music- My country tis of thee. Address by the Rev. Stephen Fenn of Cornwall. Music i The Sword of Bunker Hill Presentation of swords with Address by John T. Andrew, Esq, Reply by Captain Gold. Address by the Rev Wm. Clark, late of Chicago. Music.-We are Marching on. The music was by an Amateur Quartet Band extemporized for the occasion and was executed with thrilling effect.
 All the exercises passed off to the satisfaction of-the large assembly and in usually quiet routine of our village life formed an event which many will remember. .@
 --> >~->-- .+- FALLS VnLAGE.-The following interesting 1 description of Ames Cannon Foundry, at Falls 1 ier of last week.
 1 Calling at this foundry in Falls Village, Ct., d few days since, we saw much to admire, but it did seem at first as though we could not get hold of fact worthy of public notice. a"1 l Visitor-'' How much does this cannon weigh P
 Workmon-" You will please excuse me rom answering your question, folasmuch as we have positive orders not to communicate any fact con nected with our guns" g's-a Visitor-" All right, I care but little about it, any way. No harm in my looking round l hope"
 JVorkma'a-" No, if you are not disposed to make an improper use of what you see."
 Soon MT. Ames came in. There being found four or five visitors present, he took it for gran ted that we were honest, and politely responded to our question ,and escorted us around the works By the way, this Mir Ames is tall portly man and has the head of an inventor. He was evi- dently born to be a General, and we cheerfully name him as General-in- Chief of the United! States Artillery. ......-
 The Ames gun is about nine feet in length and weighs f.tysiN hundred pounds. It is ol the Dahgren pattern, tiftysix pounder. It is made in a peculiar way with special reference to strength. t would seem as though it could not b. burst The first gun made by Aacs was filed with powder nearly to the Hluzze a slug in size nearly e3ual to the bore and weighing one hundred pounds was driven into the mouth of the gun !; before the cannon was cast up al embankment ten feet thick; between the en- bankment and the cannon was placed thirty hundFed anvil The gun on being discharged
 hurled the anvil through the embankment and teaped back sixty feet, unharmed. This gun is HOW at Washington, D. C., being tested. At the last accounts nearly thousand charges fired from it had not sprung it in the least.
 The gun IS made in the use of two furnaces which are in blast at the same time, and n the use of drop hammer weighing six tuns, and a bumper of twenty tuns power. Beginning with A mass of iron at the breach, it is added to by d sarles of weddings till of the required length, a work occupying from four to six days. They are able to make four welds day. P erfecty solid it has to- be bored, turned and polished by luthes. As nearly we could find out, their co is about S3,5O0 each. Its proprietor war lants it to send ball to its mark a distance of five miles. gs.a- .srfs. ...ss .s~.'
 Five of these cannons are now completed and are this may have been landed in Washington If the gun be as powerful as the inventor claims it to be- there is nothing of the sort to compare with it in the civilized world. . .e4~s a--
 They have a Horse Show to-day, at Falls Village, at which they offer prizes as follows:
 .. -.. ... ..--. T st lst. 2nd Best Trotting in District . $l5 SIC