Litchfield enquirer., 1854-11-30

4 1872
The iall IN stocks. the sighlnsss Of the
money market, and she general stagua-
ton Of trade. whatever g'umbling they
may occasion on change and in the count.
ing-house do not seem TO interfere with
the domestic economy Of Fifth Avenue,
and our other aristocrAtic quarters. Stalls
are MT ,eIinquished at the opera, carria>
ges are not laid down, diamonds are not
replaced with paste. fve hundred dollar
ashmeres and thousand dollar sets Of saA
bic and ermine are sporied in prOfusiOn
on Broadway, and the preparations TO-
the winter campaign Of fashionable dis
sipation are on as grand scale as IL
Bank accounts were not overdIawn ex-
ttn,ions were not asked for. and notes
were not protested. But despite this
glitter on the surface. the present is a
season Of great commercial embarrass.
msnt. Our large importing houses are
not doing one.fourtt Of their usual busi-
uess. and the difficulty Of making collec~
ions especially in the West and South>
west, is almost unprecedented. Mer-
chants. manufacturers, and in fact all the
employing classes are reducing their bu.
siness expenses. and the number OF clerks
slOpmen and operatives thrown out OF
situations BY this general race is very
largesdOf course the prices Of food. shell
ter, fuel aud all the necessaries Of life
must eventually adjus, themselves TO the
pressure Of the times. Already provi-
sions and coal begin 10 decline. and house
rent must follow suit when the letting
season commences.
Nothing enlivening in the way Of ex-
element has as yet broken the monotony
Of Ire current week. Just az the mer.
curiAl spirits among US had worked them.
selves into fever on the Soule affair and
Young America began to ilae up
under the supposed insult 10 our MARION
81 dignity, the flame Of patriotic indigna
top was provokingly ex inguished BY
the news Of Louis Napoleon's bacl
down." and we were left without 70.
T pic capable Of stirring the public pulse
We were going TO have war meeting on
the subject, when { is dampcr arrived
1t spoiled q grand dramatic point like
the malicious supernumary who TO graf
ify personal spite agains. Kean. informs
ed the representative Of Richard that the
Duke Of Buckinghau, was not only ta-
ken, but that his head had been cut off.
The news from Seva,sopol received
Yesterday BY the Canada is pa, ticularly
uuidtSresting. Be.iegers and besieged
ale just where the last previous intelli-
gence left them. at, a dead look and nc
prospect Of either giving way at present
! The "latest footings" of the retu,n'
for Governor no longer excite any inter,
est. It being universally conceded tha
Myron Fl. Clark ia the Governor elect
and cold water minority in the Assem-.
lily, being also fixed fact, the liqu :,
dealsg and liquor drinkers are mournfully
specializing on their prospects under che
coming dispensation.
Manager Hackett tries the expe' imeni
| Of a forenoon opera at the Academy oil
Music TO day. It will be failure. Pain
and tinsel won't do by daylight. aad tho
notes Of the nigh.ingales are out Of plac.
| in the morning.
The Knicketbocker Gallery, the 6rs
git, book Of the season is to be published
to-day. This book as suppose yop ar.
aware consists OF original articles by {
! large number Of dis inguished Amcrica At
writer's. and is to be rnlbeilisled with tn,
portraits Of forty Of the contributors. I
\ 10 one OF the most ingenious lodges ia
the benefit way, that remember to have
heard OF, and does homer to the euieness
Of Brother Cla,k who I believe is Yam
kee,, from the Granite State. The pro.
ceeds are to be expended in the purchase
OF a farm for the editor Of the Knicker.
booker. and The way in which be has
tickieG up the laerati and roped them
into This. scheme. is really mss:elly. The
volume will however be gem and well
wer,h us plice--iive dollars Next 10
Barnura's Aato Biography. it will be the
great hit Of the season.
Apart from all other circles and wrap.
ped up as one may say in the solitude Of
its own originality, We have in this city a
I" circle" devoted exclusively 10 spiritual
matters. Mess,s. Briiton Il Partridge.
editors and prop,is,Ors Of the Spiritual
Telegraph. the Rev. Thomas Z. Harris,
q M.sf ~ ~. 1.h a a