Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-22

How BRAVE MEN SUFFER AND DIE.-In his report of the Chickamauga battles, B. F. Fay Tor records the following solemn, yet credita- ble, fact: elf anybody thinks that when our men are stricken upon the field they fill the air with cries and groans, till it shivers with such evidence of agony, he greatly errs. An arm is shattered, leg carried away, bullet pierces the breast, and the soldier sinks down silently upon the ground, or creeps away. if he can, without a murmur or complaint falls as the sparrow falls. speechlessly, and like that sparrow. l earnestly believe, falls not without the Father. The dying horse gives out his fearful utterance of almost human suff ,rins, but the mangled rider is dumb. The crash of musketry, the crack of rifles, the roar of guns, the shriek of shells, the rebel whoop, the Fed eral cheer, and that indescribable undertone of grinding, rumbling, splintering sound, make up the voices of the battlefield.
 Indiana has noble record in the archives Of the Government. She will allow no battles for the Union to be fought without she is rep resented where soldiers are most needed. She has been officially credited with an excess of ,6S6 men over her quotas under all calls, and is now forming eleven regiments-seven of in- iun'ry and four of cavalry-all of which are expected to be filled by the 10th of Novem. Der. Indiana believes with Winter Davis that
 the road to peace is over the battlefield" ANOTHER FLEET OF FAST SHIPS TO BE BuLT.-Orders have been received by the na. val constructors at New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Portsmouth, to prepare for tie con- struction of twelve fast steam corvettes-three in each yard. These vessels will each be over l two thousand tons burtben. and carry some if teen or twenty guns. They are to possess great speed. Mir. Delano is now rapidly mak ing preparations for putting down his ships and the constructor at Portsmouth is ready to begin. The Philadelphia and Boston yards are | not quite lit to commence work yet. It is said l that the engines of these vessels will be very powerful, their cylinders measuring seventy inches, which would give them speed of if teen or sixteen miles an hour. Their hulls are | to be shaped for rapid movement, and every. thing about them constructed with a view to speed.
 A brick making machine has been invented at New Haven, which vets the clay. kneads it forces it through an orfce just brick size, and al proper distances cuts off the complete brick at the rate of 60 per minute The baking pro cess of course comes afterward.
 A firm of biscuit manufacturers in Carlisle England by way of showing what could bt done by rapid work, recently had field O wheat reaped, the grain thrashed and ground and the flour made into biscuit, which vert served hot on the breakfast table at eight o'cl'l in exactly four hours from the time the sickle was first put into the standing grain.
 A Washington letter writer describes beau tiful young lady as having face painte
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 T Geo. Peabody, the eminent American Lon
 uoner' nas presented Yale College with ge o'ogical cabinet worth Sl25,000.
 mere ere are thirty-nine persons in New Londo, ) anu nladham counties, whose annual incom, e1eeeas Slo'000, of whom eighteen reside ir Nof"lch, and three only in New London. ,e11 Al a sale or coins in New York, a cent 0
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