Litchfield enquirer., 1840-12-10
From. the ". Y. Sunday Mercury.
AN AMUSING SPECIMEN OF HUMANITY.

England States, and twigs as he journeys, . the cccentrcitieS of some of the agtiueS, can- i not fail to be amused, and may if lie choose, derive many new ideas in respect to ctymoo- gy and diversity of character. Some years since, an acquaintance nf ours set out on horseback, from the eastern part of Massachusetts for the Green Mountains ct Vermont While travelling through New Salem, his road led into u piece of woods ot some five miles in length, and long before he got out of which he began to entertain doubts whether he should ever be blest with the sight of human habitation; but ns all things must have an end, SD at last had the woods, and the nut brown house ofa filrmer greeted his vision. Near the road was a tall, raw boned, over-grown, lanthern, ,jawed boy, pro- bably seventeen years of age, digging pota- toes He was a common figure to behul1,- What Was lacking in the length of his tow brooches was amply paid for hehind; his suspenders appeared to be cornrcsed of birch bark, grape vine and sheep sHin and us for his hat, which was of dingy white felt-poor thing it had once evidently seen better dd@@jy7s, but now, alas! .t was only the shadow of it's glory. Whether the tempest of time had beaten the top in, or the lads expanding genius had burst it out, was the difficulty to tell; at any rate it was missing-and through the aperture, red hairs in abundance stood six ways for Sunday. In short, he was one of the toughest specimens of domestic manu- facture that ever mortal beheld. Our trav- cling friend, feeling an itching to scrape an acouuintance with the crittur, drew up the rens of his horse and began:
 "Hallo my good friend, can you inform mo how far it is to the next house ,"
 Jonathan started up-leaned on his hoe handle-rested one foot on the gambril ot his sinister leg and replied:
 uHallo voureeIf how'd dO1-wall ivlSS can. 'Taint near so fur now as it used to be afore they cut the woods away. Then twas ginerally reckoned at four mile, but now the sun shrivels up the road, and tan't more'n few. The fust house you cum to, though, is barn, and the next is a haystack, but old Hoskin's house is on bcyant. You'll be sure to meet his gals long afore you get there tarnal rompin' critturs, they plague our folks more'n a little. His sheep git into our pas- ter every day, and his gals in the orchard.- Dad sets the dog arter the sheep, and me ar- ter the gals-and the way he makes the wool, and I the petticoats fly, is sin to snakes"
 "I see you are inclined 10 be facetious, young man-pray tell me how it happens that one of your legs is shorter than the oth- er?"
 my grasstanglers, mistur; but seein' it's you tell ye. was born so at my tickler re- quest, so that when I hold blow, can go with one foot on the furrer and tother on the land, and not Top over besides it's very con- venient when TOW round a side hll."
 "Very good. indsed-how does your po- tatocs come in this year"
 "They don't come at all. I digs lem out, and there is an everlastin' snarl of 'em in Cuch hill.''
 "But they are small perceive"
 "Yes, know it-ye see we planted some woppin blue noses in that are patch thare, and they fourished so alfredly, that these ere here stopped growth just out of spite !; cause they know'd they couldn't begin to keep up."
 "You appear to be pretty smart, and should think you could afford better hat than the one you wear."
 "TEe looks aint nothin'; it's all in the be- havior. This here hat was my religious Sunday -go-to-meetn'- hat, and is just as chock full of piety now as dog is with flcas. I've gor better one at hum, but don't dig taters in it no hew." Is ....
 "You have been in these parts some time should guess" '..-..-. .....
 "I guess so tew. was born'd and got tive place is down in Podunk."
 "Then you say it's about three and half miles to the next house ?'' t'F
 'Yis sir; twas spell ago, and don't believe it's grow'd much shorter since."
 "Much obliged. Good bye" ......
 "Good bye to ye-that's darn'l slick mare of your'n."
 There, reader-there is Jonathan for you of the first water! You don't find his equal every where.
 Prospects of BusineSs.-It is already clear. ly discernible that the certainty of change pt administration, has affected favorably the business of the country. This is perfectly natural, and was to have been cxpected.- Long before Gen. Harrison, and the new Congress, can adopt any measures whatever, the benefit of his election and the election of Congress, agreeing with him, generally. in political sentiment, will be felt all over the country. The reason is, that cOajfdence will be revived. Men will feel, and indeed do feel, that power is about departing from scheming. selfish hands, into the hands of an administration, really and honestly friendly to the people, and seeking only the public good. Men of business have been heretofore timid, alarmed, afraid of their own governments They now feel q new consciousness of safety. Every man of property realizes that his pro- perty is more raluabIe. Every industrious man feels that his employment and profita- bic occupation for the future, is more certain; and every laboring man of intelligence, and not blindly welded to party, rejoiccs in the overthrow ofa government, ,chOse policy I tcGs 10 diminish the tcages of labor.
 That these feelings are common and gen. eral, every one may satisfy himsclf who will go among the Merchants, the Mechanics. ihe Ship o,oners and the industrious classes of the community. Every where he will meet with