Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1838-09-20

uel Slick, d SlickriEIe.
Signs of PSOsperity.-DO you see that are
house ON that risin' hummock 10 the night
therel Well, gist look at It, that's what
call about right. Thanked on both sides Dy
an orchard Of Designated fruit, tidy little
clever hower-gaFden in front that the gals
see to, and most a grand sauce garden oVSr
the road there sheltered by them are WI.
lows. At the back side sec them everiastIn
big barns: and, by gosh! there goes the
dairy cows: a pretty sight too that four
teen of 'ern marchin' Indgian file arter milk
jn'- down TO that are medder. Whenever
YOU see a place all snugged up and lOokin'
like that are, depend on it the folks are OF
the right kind. Them flowers too, and that
are honeysuckle and rose bushes, show the
family are brought up right somethin' to
do to home, instead of racin' about to quill
in parties, huskin' frolics, gossipin', talkin'
scandal, and neglectin' their business. Them
little matters are like THROWN up straws,
they show which way the wind is. When
gals attend to them are things, it shows that
thew are what our minister used to call,
right-minded." 1t keeps them busy, and
when folks are busy, they ha'nt time to get
into mischief; and it amuSeS them too, and
it keeps the dear little critters healthy and
cheerful.
Female influence Whoever has the wo-
men is sure of the men, you may depend,
squire openly or secretly, directly or indi-
rectly, they do contrive, somehow or another,
to have their own way in the eend and tho
the men have the reins. the women tell 'em
which way to drive. Now, ii ever you 60
for to canvass for votes, always canvass the
wives, and you are sure Of the husbands.
E.rtrcpagGnce in the United StGtes.-Do you
see them are gals there, said Mr.. Slick, how
thew are tricked out in silks, and touched off
with lace and riband to the mines, q mincin'
along with parasols in their hands, as if they
were afear'd the sun would melt them like
wax, or take the color out of their face, like
printed cotton blind! Well, that's gist the
ruin of this country. II amt poverty the
blue noses have to fear, for that they needn't
know without they choose to make acquaint-
ances with it; but it's gentility. They. 60
the whole hog in this country, you may de-
pend. They amt content to appear what
they be, but want to be what they amt; ;
thew live TOO extravigant and dress too ex.
travigant, and won't do what's the only thing
that will supply this extravigance; that is,
he industrious. Gist 60 into one Of the meet
in houses, back here in the woods, where
there ought to be nothin' but homespun cloth.
and home made stuffs and bonnets. and see
the leghorns and pelmettors, and silks and
shalleys, morenoS, gauZes, and blends, as.
sembled there, enough to buy the best farm
in the settlement. There's somethin' not all
together gist right in this.
Neso OrIeans-The folks at New Orleans
nut me in mind of the children playing in q
churchyard, jumpin' over the graves, hidin,
behind the tombs. lafin' at the emblems OF
mortality and the queer old rhymes under
'em, all full of life, and glee, and fun, above
ground, while underneath it is great char
iel-house, full Of winding sheets, skeletons
and generations of departed citizens. That
ERE place is built In barn in the harbor,
made Of snags, drift-wood and chokes, heap
ed IN bv the river. and then filed and Gov.
cred with the sediment and alluyial Of the
rich bottoms above, brought down by the
freshets. It's peopled in the same way
The eddies and the tides of business Of all
that country centre there. and the froth and
scum are washed up and settle at New Or
leans. It's filed with all sorts Of people,
black, white and Indgians, and their different
shades; French, Spanish. Portuguese and
Dutch English, Irish and Scotch and then,
people from every State in the Union. These
last have all nicknames. There's the Hoo
siers Of Indiana, the Suckers Of Illinoy, the
Pukes of Missouri, the Buckeyes Of Ohio. the
Red Horses of Kentucky, the Mud.heads of
Tennessee, the Wolverines of Michigan, the
Eels Of New England and the Corn.crack-
ers of Virginia. These, with many others,
make up the population, which is mottled
with black and all its shadess most all,
too, is supplied by emigration. 1t Is .
great caravansary filled with strangers, de-
solute enough to make your hair stand an
eend, drinkin' all day, garnblin' all night,
and fightin' all the time. Death pervades oil
natur' there 1t breathes in the air, and 1t
floats on the water, and rises In the vapors
and exhalations, and rides on the whirlwind
and tempest; it dwells on the drought, and
also in the inundation. Above, below, with
in, around, every where Ii death; but who
knows, or misses, or mourns the stranger =
Dig a grave for him, and you plunge him
into the water-the worms eat the coffin, and
the crocodiles have the body. We have
mills to Rhode Island with sarcular saws
and apparatus for maxim packin' boxes. At
one Of these factories they used to make 'em
in the shape Of collins. and they sarved
double purpose; they carried out inions to
New Orleans, and then carried out the dead
to their graves.
nv hay harvest, father said to me, Sam, said
he, 'spose we 90 down and see the minister I;
guess he's q little miffey with me, for
brought him ND all standin' tother night by
savin' the English were damned 0verbear-
in tyrannical race, and he hadn't another
word to say. When you make use Of such
language as that are, Colonel Slick. said he,
there's an eend of all conversation. lallow
il is very disrespectfIl to swear afore a mi
Mister, and very onhandsome to do 30 at all,
and don't apprabate such talk at no rate.
SO we will drop the subject if you please.
Well, got pretty grumpy too, and we part
cd in huff. think, myself, says father, 1t
warn't pretty to swear afore him; for, Sam.
if there is q good man agoin' 1t 10 the minis
ter-that's fact. But, Sam, says he, we
,,,il;sarv vner-and he straiuhtened himself