Litchfield enquirer., 1829-02-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
Extract ef letter to the Editor of tue Detroit Gasette from e rheumatic friend in W0ahin 0fA1

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 in Washington.
 A fig for their capitol and public build- ings, and my most particular malediction upon their public amusements, which are execrablo beyond any thing you can see in our western villages. They have no thea- tre, but circus, in a building not half so convenient as our livery stables at the west. The quarupeds who inhabit it have some wit, and the bipeds would not be slow, !" had they cleanly place to perform in.-- Still they contrive to make you pay three prices for every thing you nave here, and the boarding-honses have the grace to charge you nine dollars for a calabash full of catlap as unsettled as the South American republics, and piece of mutton that defies your masticatory energies, and resists dis- memberpient with as much firmness as the best friend of the American System-or you may get fish that require no mastica- ton at all, provided you eschew the bones. Go to Washington to spend winter, for sooth !-There is nothing to interest man here, except the people, who appear to be altogether clever and agreeable. I do not think, however, that all the clever fellows
 
 Some very respectable men have been left 1 home.
 have walked twice round the palaver- house. It is an excellent place to play hide- and-go-seck, and the lower part is laid of I into stalls with doors to them, except large | round room, that would be excellent to thresh grain in. There is stone enough in it to fence good farm, and iron enough 1 round it to keep nail factory going for | twelvemonth. They have had some out landish man from, Europe, fancy, at work, making three stone old women and an owl, all four of which are perched over the door that fronts the turnpike, as you go down from Baltimore to the tavern. One ofthe old ladies has pair of scales in her hands, and seems to be weighing out sausages, while the other holds dripping pan: the owl looks as if he would like to take "link" and fly away with it, and the prin- cipal old lady keeps sharp eye on him. This matter excites the admiration of the people hugely, and they pronounce it the perfection of art. It is so, no doubt.
 They have ploughed up the fields in the neighborhood. but what crops they have . probably clover, for it is a wretched soil. So next year the members will live in clo- yer whilst attending to their duties. There is good deal of nnderbrush in these fields, which has not yet been cleared away, par- tieularly scrub cedar. One of our farmers would smooth it over in week-while here fellow goes to work at enc of these bushes with jack-knife, and commences $ at the top by cutting away an inch or two of the foliage at time. !" The more days the more dolIars." So it is with all men who are paid by the government; they will not take things by the roots--they will not be radicals. 1 hope your agricultural op- crations will be conducted on differen, principles.
 ! can tell you nothing about the fashions 1.-the people dress as well IS they can--,he ladies and doves wear a great many feath- CTS, aud the young gentlemen and spaniels wear brass chains round their necks."
 '' StM6d q Cold. and starre q Fcoer.''
 As much as We venerate the time hon. cured sayings and the wise saws of the ol- den time, we must bog leave to call in ques- tion the first clause ot' the above. It has noamore foIndation in, truth than the divine right 6f kings. Stuff cold and stalye a tsver-as if cold was not likewise d fe- vert .as
 But abused IT the first part of this saying is. it has governed the multitude for ages. When they feel the slightest advances of a