Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1836-04-07

ms raised n breeze aTlOHS tieI1' HnO tue
girls, " it'll the exception ut two, put on their
bonnets and lett the mill. They then pro-
cepded to the Baptist vestry, ch"se Presi-
dent and Secretary, and passed resolutions
pledging themselves, under a forfeiture Of Ave
dollars, that they would not go back unless
they could have the old prices, and that one
should not go back unless the whole could
These things continued until Friday, when
they were told by the clerk that they could
all GENE back if they chose, at the old prices,
except Ave or six Of the ringleaders; but a
part would not go back unless the whole
could. Saturday evening they settled up,
and some left for other places. Monday, the
, agent ending them determined to persevere,
sent them a written notice that all who wish-
ed to, could go back at the old prices. and
Tuesday morning they returned to their work.
We learn that flags were flying and that sa-
!utes were fred during the turn out.
Lo,ren Journal,
The sarcasm contained in the following
article may be applied with as much force,
probably, i" this country as in England -
From Tnits (Edindurgh) Magazine.
HIGH LIVING AND MEAN THINKING.
How much nicer people are in their per-
sons than in their minds. How anxious are
they to wear the appearance Of wealth and
taste in the things Of outward shew, while
their intellecss are all poverty and mean
ness. See one Of The apes Of fashion with
his coxcombres and ostentation of luxury.
His clothes must be made by the best tai
Tor, his horses must be Of the best blood,
his wines Of the finest favor, his cookery
Of the highest zest but his reading is Of
the poorest frivoities, or Of the lowest and
most Gespicable vulgarity. In the enjoy
ment Of the animal senses he is an epicure
but pig is clean feeder compared with
his mind, and pig would eat good and bad,
sweet and foul alike, but his mind has no
taste excep, for the most worthless garbage.
The pig has no discrimination and great
appetite the mind which We describe has
not the apology of voracity; it is satisfied
with little, but the little must be of the
worst sort, and every thing OF better quail
| i,y is rejected by it with disgust. If we
could see mems minds as we See their bod
les, what Il spectacle Of nakedness, dcsti-
tuition. deformity, and disease it would be
What hidsous dwarls and cripples What
dirt, and what revolving cravings! and all
these in connection with the most exquisite
care and pampering Of the body. In many
conceded coxcomb could see his own
mind, he would sec thing the like OF
which is not to be found in the meanest OBJ
ject the world can present. 1t IS not with
beggary, in the most degraded state, that
it is to be compared, for the beggar has
wants, is dissatisfied with his state, has
wishes for enjoyments above his lot, but
the uauper of intellect is content with his
poverty: it is his choice TO feed on CARTON,
he can relish nothing else, he has no desires
beyond the filthy fare. Vet he piques
himself that he is superior being; he
takes to himself the merit of his tailor, his
coachmaker, his upholsterer, his wine mer-
chant, his cook but if the thing were
turned inside out. il that concealed nasty
corner, his mind, were exposed to view
how degrading would be the exhibition
After all our wants Of the progress Of in.
telligence, the truth yet is, that the minds
of the mass of our population, Ike the bod
les Of the mass of tho Irish nation, are fec
on the very lowest kind Of food, easy o
production in the poorest soils, and afford
ing the slightest nourishment. There is ;
potatoe diet the press, which is positive
enemy Of improvement and it is not the
labourer and the artizan who sit down con,
tent with it, but the gentry, the fashionable
and their host Of imitators. In London
every luxury is had or affected to be had
for the body, and duughills yield the ban
qucts for the mind. We often wish that
these things could be seen in kind that
the man Of proIessed nicely and taste could
see the quality Of the stuff with which he
regales his mind. The breakfast table is
laid out with every deiicacy. and on it is n
scavenger's cart filled with shabby noisome
filth, the collection ofthe very kennels, the
rakings of all the nasty corners: the vo-
Iuptuary sips his chocolate, daintily picks
his French pie, while he fills his mind with
that fe.ed mass, the cookery Of the scavcn-
gers! How fas,idious is the stomach Of
this man how unspeakably coarse. and
worse than beastly, his intellect! No AMI
NAL in creation confines Itself to filth only.
The appetite for sheer ribaldry is unmatch-
ed in the depravi,ies Of taste. We lately
heard one OF the would-be exquisites de-
clare, that the paper of his choice was the
most seurrilous, and vulgar withal, Of the
London weekly papers. aud doubtless i.
was his only readings and In few n'i9'