Litchfield enquirer., 1867-11-07

CONN. THURSD side of the river below the falls. It extends an eighth of mile or more, and has been over seventeen years in progress. When ] completed, it's power IS to be rented to fac tories, which it is supposed will be built by its side
 1 THE INVESTIGATION.
 ! The Congressional committee were in session in an upper room. when we return ed. The examination was private, nobody being admitted but the counsel of either side. Mir. Barnum, the defendant, the con- mittee's stenographer reporters and door, keeper The Hartford Press was represen- ted by Mr. Hubbard, and the New York Herald also had man on the ground. Un- der the circumstances your correspondent became your reporter, and took seat with the committee. The committee are com posed of Representatives Poland, Dawes, and Chandler. Mir. Chandler was not pres ent The Hon. Luke P. Poland IS from Vermont He was senator at the last ses- sion, but is now in the House. Heis tall with white hair, and wearing blue dress coat with brass buttons, has quite the air and appearance of an old-time politician. Hon. H. l.. Dawes is from Massachusetts, He comes, believe, from the neighbor- hood of Williamstown, Is about R years of age, has an easy, gentlemanly manner and understands the business of an investiga- ting committee. The counsel for the me morialist were Hon. A. S. Treat and Hon. Sidney B. Beardsley of Bridgeport, that of the defendant, Hon. John H. Hub bard and Hon. Origen s. Seymour of Litch- field.
 The witnesses who had been summoned could not be found, and they had absented themselves in such way that the purpose of avoiding an examination was evident. A man named Hurlbut, of Lime Rock, 6 teacher, had been gone from town over a week, nobody knew where. David Fresh CT left under similar circumstances. L.. Deming, one whose affidavit was attached 1 to the original memorial, left home before the Bridgeport examination and has not since returned. A man named Dickinson left Sunday morning, in order to avoid a process left at his place of residence. The only witness whom the committee had sum- moned, who appeared, was book keeper, named Eli Ensign. He testified that he kept the books of Barnum, Richardson, and Company, which he brought to the committee. There were two checks given on the first of April, amounting to $2.5O0 and there was no means of knowing what use had been made of the cash which they called for He showed cash ticket of $232 which he stated was the deficiency in the cash balance at that time, and this ticket he afterward confessed to having altered just before he came to the committee. Under the examination of MT. Treat he repeatedly crossed his statements, and exhibited the embarrassment of one who was concealiug something. An honest book-keeper would have had no trouble in proving to the com been true. The affair certainly looks as ii Barnum spent much money. People of his own side say he confesses to having paid out $50, ,0O0, but this is only report. The committee will undoubtedly discover some interesting facts which vii have pu- rifying effect upon coming elections.
 Just at this point in the investigation, Barkis, who had become wearied of gazing at the scenery and other attractions of Falls Village, applied to the door-keeper for one called Wilkins, and leaving the committee mounted my horse and we can tered for Lakeville
 LAKEvILLE.
 Lakeville is part of Salisbury. It is a little village containing one knife factory, two stores, hotel, and half a dozen fine residences. The lake Wononscopomuc is almost perfectly round, mile in diameter, and it's banks slope evenly to it's shore. There are no more desirable building sites in New England than on the hills immedi- ately above the lake. Ex-Governor A. H. Holley has house on the north side It is 8 commodious country seat, surrounded by ample grounds. As part of these grounds there is a we'll kept grove of oaks and chest nuts, on point that projects into the wa ter. MT. $. $. Robbins has comfortable looking square white house, which stands The scene from his front door is superior to any which waterless landscape like ours ever affords.
 l THE SALISBURY MINES.
 Salisbury iron every body has heard of. It is the wealth of this region and the pride of the people. And it we'll may be, for if the fneness of it's quality and the tough ness of it's fibre work into the blood and sinew of those who live above it, they should be race of demi-gods. The Sails bury ore bed, which lies about mile west from Lakeville center, has been worked, they say, for an hundred and sixty years. It yields the best iron in the world, and the pig made from it sells in the market for nearly double the price of other iron. We explored this mine this morning. 1t is called mine by courtesy, for it looks more like quarry. There appears to be in this place two large excavations or pits, each from an hundred to an hundred and fifty feet deep, and of about an acre in extent. The sides of these pits are streaked with different colored rock and earth. There are long, upright lines of blue clay which contrast with the brown or yellow iron ad- joining it, and occasionally little grey rock road winds down into each of these pits. The ore is found by digging down and sideways. It seems to be easily worked by blasts and picks. It occurs in many varieties of form and richness, nearly all of which are hematite. The miners have their own names for the different quail ities, names which usually refer to the ap- pearance of the ore. The hematite occurs near mica slate rock, and not in connection with the limestone which is very abundant here. The species differ materially in val ue, but the average yield of the ore is about