Litchfield enquirer., 1854-08-31
CorreupOndeneo of the Enquirer.
NEW YORK, August 2Btk.

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 I With no small degree of pleasure, I hasten to announce to your readers that a troublesome guest who has long been entertaining himself on the bone, sinew and blood of Gotham, has sa,ed himself and is preparing to depart Cholera, the great bugbear, the tormentor of fruits loving mortals, has drawn in his ugly horns and is making his odieur, or more properly, dia6les. For the past week the cholera returns have been at so low a 6gute that the authorities of Brooklyn and New York have resolved to discontinue them. as of no further importance. This deliveranee may be partly owing to the increased cooluess of the weather for some time past. And last night, after day of wthering temperature, the prayer of the farmers. and the desire of all peo~ pie, was answered and bounaifuliy grati> fled. First, the fresh breeze grew into a young hur'icaue then followed some great pattering drops, precursors of a blinding sto'm; all night the flood de- scended, and we rose to look out on rejuvena,ed city, bright as a youngster whose face has been washed after his nights snooze.
 The Western merchants are coming in and business is looking up cheerfully. A few important failures have astounded business people, and will cause, or ought to cause, a moderation in the coming winter s course of display and fashionable extravagance; if this is the result all will be right Amusements of all kinds are looking up-also. Grisi and Mario appear soon, and then we shall have flock of gay birds flying home from Newport to hear them. The Crystal Palace remains stagnant under the new Administration. Curiosity led me yesterday to renew my acquaintance with the fairy building which was fond of visiting in the season of it's greatest prosperity. The most valuable and interesting of the goods formerly on exhibition have taken their departure. but the beauty and symmetry Of the building is more conspicuous than before. It was formerly crowded to bes wilderment with people and things. At present the few articles remaining have been spread out at " magnf cent distan- ces," to occupy the immense space, while few visitors disturb ones meditations, and the general effect is much better than before. It is said that, although the building cost six Or seven hundred thou sand. if it can be sold for $250.00o, it will pay thirty per cent. to shareholders. 1nnumerable are the speculations with reference to the future fate of the Palace | We are in the condition of the man with the elephant drawn by lottery |; we want to keep the huge article, but don't know where to put it nor what to do with it when it is put there Some say move 1t to the foot of the city park and make post~of1ice of it others would have it huge poultry-yard or grand consei vato'y. { Your correspondent would suggest that it would make fine ice-cream saloon in summer, ard in winter winter garden where ennui might lounge and refresh itself with inward applications of palate. able things. Since Ba,num has retired from the management of the Palace he seems to have been aihctrd with this same ennui. for the want of something to do, He has perfected his Museum by the introduction of new wonders, and finding nothing else 10 do, has seated l himself in his Oriental Palace. down East, to w'ite an auto biography. He will make money on that, for what mortal is there so devoid of curiosity IS to miss reading Barnum's autobiography ?- Speaking of literary matters. all the papers are engaged in pufGng novel by Mrs. Stephens, called ''Fashion and Famine" IL aims at the "spasmodic," and "wild anger,' and "wild hat,ed," and 'love," and like expressions are cast in plenteous- ly, as seasoning. It bears the impress of typos hand on every page. It is by puffing such volumes as this, that the American p'ess loses its tone and char aster. fhis habit of indisc,iminate and careless praise is justly rebnked in late number of the London Atheneum. Books flourish here. which iD England would be cut off in birth, by a single swath of the clitic's scyske.
 A few New Workers are struggling back from the country. but Fifth Avenue still remains a sombre array of closed doors, and opaque windows. Curiosity with re gard to the proceedings of the haat ton. led us to take a run to Newport and Bos-