Litchfield enquirer., 1855-01-18
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
New YoaK, Jan. l3, 1855.

@~e.-ss@sN>e-SAs>S
your correspondent in this city, pray pos
sess your souls in patience, for awhile long
er. Out Of the abundance of the heart speaks
our mouth and we testify of that which we
continually see and feel. The great cry RI
ses up from the people more furiously cla-
morous than ever, s. Give me work that we
| may earn bread" There has been provision
| made In the soup-kitchens, etc., sufficient
to keep the hungry from starving. But this
though it might do very well in an English
town, does not satisfy our free and indepen-
dent laborers. They want to earn bread for
themselves and their children by the labor
of their own hands, and it is If the lack OF
employment that they complain. The Park
meetings continue daily, but the working
men have begun properly to appreciate the
pulling demagogues who have endeayored
to lead them into illegal and riotcus meas
ares.
Wealth and luxury is finally bestirring
itself in earnest for the aid OF the poor. We
have spoken in previous communication
of A. T. Stewards soup-saloon. 1t is doing
a great deal OF good. Mrs. Stewart is said
to have been present the other day. and ser
we'd female applicants in person. The grand
Benevolent Concert at the Musical Acade-
my came off last night with great eclat. 1t
is said that about $4,000 will be realized
for the poor from this operation. Probably
the grand benevolent fiddle and dance will
realize still more. Private benefits are
much i'll vogue. Several fashionable man.
sions uptown have been opened lately for
concerts of amateurs-admittance s.: the
initiated only permitted to attend. But the
last enterprise of this kind exceeds in nov
city any of its predecessors and has made
quite stir in the haul monde. A lady well
known in fashionable circles has sent out
cards for .. Calico Ball. The cards are
coarse and plain, somewhat in the style of a
shop-circular. They request the invited to
attend in such attire only as will be suitable
for distribution among the poor. as he or she
will be expected to forward the garments
worn on that evening, to the house of their
entertainer, for the benefit of Mr.. Pease's
House of Industry. Those who do not at
tend in person are requested to represent
themselves by suit of apparel. How this
strange device will FORK, remains to be seen.
If approved BY uptown as an allowable
joke, it win probably be very profitable to
Mr.Pease. But the Flea is ludicrous enough.
The entire wardrobe for the evening must
be despatched next day with conscientious
fidelity, to undergo the scrutiny Of nobody
knows how many eyes. This is very well
when the suit has been prepared before
hand, but we were tNaking how embarras-
sing such demand might be, if it should
come Unexpectedly upon a shabby genteel
dandy. How many exquisite Shanghai
coats cover linen that could not bear the
light, and - but we must forbear.
Some scoundrel has filled his pockets
pretty satisfactorily, in this time of general
leanness by extracting So, 900 in gold from
the vaults of enc of our city Banks. The
vaults were accessible from the street, and
it is supposed that the robbing must have
been effected while the porter was paying
out gold in bags, by some one who had slip
ped in behind him.
Rev. DR.. Adams congregation has remo-
we'd to new church building of large d.
mansions and elegant proportions. This is
one of the wealthiest and most fashionable
of the Presbyterian churches, and has re-
Gently moved from down town.
Gov. Seward is in town, ostensiblv enpa-
ged in pleading patent case. Uncharitable
people impute to him motives of private in
terest. But if he is doing any more than
pleading il is done in the dark, and concern
ing such deeds there can be no certainty.
To discover and state the relations between
Seward and "Sam," at the present JUNG
ture would require the astuteness of the
black man who discovered black cat in
dark corner at midnight. Some people talk
of Sans operations with confidence, but as
for us. not knowing, can't tell"
The row between the celebrated purilist,
flyer, and several of the same stamp, in
drinking house, is now in process of inves-
,igation. He was assaulted by three infa-
nous characters, namely pugilist, a po-
licemaa, and gambler. We don't mean
20 give such character to our policemen as
class, but there are many who hold office
of the city government for the protection of
honesty and virtue, and strike hands at the
same time with thieves, rowdies and gam.
hlers. Well. we are model city. Mayor
Wood has issued an annual message which
promises very well indeed. One thing
which will give great satisfaction il carried
out, is the restriction of the frauds which
are daily practised upon the emigrants land
ing at this port. There is a chain or organ
lied bands of sharpers, extending from New
York to the most distant points of em;rr..