Litchfield enquirer., 1855-07-05

NEw York, June Both, 1855.

these gentle, music loving people met in the
beautiful grounds known as ELM Park -
and passed the day in manner which call
ed up all one has read of German home life
The spectacle was one Of the most pleasing
ever witnessed. The day was most pro-
pi,ious. grateful breeze tenPeriHg the fer
vor of cloudless sky. The natural situa-
/. ton of the grounds, sinking into cool del!s.
rising into grassy knobs. and spreading in
to Level stretches along which the heavy
foliaged oaks formed greenwood vistas
heightened the picturesqueness Of the hun
| dred groups scattered over them. Silken
banners hang from the trees. white tents
! glistened in the open glades of the groves,
and all about was true democracy Of the
! hish-born and the lowly rich and poor, male
and female, ffaternizing on terms Of the most
delightful equality, chatting and laughing
in holiday abandon Now the whole mass
dissolves into what might be family groups,
| for the affectionate concern each manifests
| for all the rest, who gather about basket
Of lunch lying at full length upon the grass,
or raising skilIful voices in some dear old
song Of =. Vaterand" Now they cluster
| like bees around some orator " no makes all
| eyes fearful with sweet and tender memo
] rles of ancestral homes far beyond the sea,
and VINO, as he descends from the rostrum
| is borne about on the shoulders of his euthu-
slasiic hearers and saluted with many kisses
from the hairy lips Of men and merry smiles
from the frank hearted German lnaidens !;
then IN remote part rises swelling music
from band playing III the shade, to whose
strains other instruments at other points
reply until the whole green is ringed about
with chain OF melody. But the great fea-
ture Of the day was Lager Bier. had heard
much and seen something of the gusto and
capacity of these people for this beverage,
but tile reality of this experience so much
overtopped my former notions as to keep
| me perpetually astonished. Lager Bier in
mou'Gy casks, III pewter cups, in glass
mugs, in immense OK horns tipped with
| silver and siGng under the arm by tassel-
| ed cord, in massive silver cuplets with con-
ViVlal inscriptions in great stamps turned
and followed from the hickory tree with
the rind left on. Lager Bier, everywhere
Lager Bier. 1t was slipped, tasted, poured,
swiIled. Friends, and all were friends
| greeted each other with Lager Bier, dis
coursed over Lager Bier, and made mute and
moist tarewels in Lager Bier. The wo-
men par.ook equally with the men. conceal
ing pint cup after pint cup under their deli
cate belts with commemorate dex:eri,v. and
! many Dutch swain caught the blue eve Of
his beloved maid cleaning will. uuwonted
| kindness upon him over the ffoth Of brm-
I ming tankard. But be it honorably said in
praise Of Lager Bier it did not work the RI
otous and noisy results which usually fol-
low more lseady po,atons. All the exerci-
ses of the numerous assembly passed off in
the utmost harmony, and the broad full
moon never beamed upon a happier process
sion than wound its way from Elm Park on
| Tuesday evening. How absurd are the old
woman fears OF Know Nothingsm which
would crimp and pinch the rights of a TO-
bic race like the Germans There are no
more intelligent, peaceabie, industrious pa
trio;ic citizens of our country than they. and
my heart throbbed with pride when heard
& their bands Of music after some oil! German
airs simultaneously strike up Hail Column
bia." The police force detailed TO preserve
order on the grounds were actually the noisi-
est and most iI-behaved men present. They
drank more strong liquor, staggered more,
and by their manner and words encouraged
rowdyism TO gteatrr extent than any equal
Number OF person on the ground. Just at
! dusk in wandering through the cid stone
! hotel situated in the centre of the Park &C.
eupted for the most par, by the ladies Of
! the festival for 0ithdrAwing-r STUN.
/ bIe,i over noisy party If some twenty Nam
KEGS, ballot whom perhaps were policemen.
! Glasses ciinked, rum flowed freely. songs
Were sung, slang compliments banded about
and finally the drunkesi member Of the party
proposed motion. "Geniemen," said he,
=" this is free country, and ! 70 in for ev-
cry man 5 doing as he id pleases. Now
gentlemen, all on You who is in favor Of Ium
now aud forever say aye" was interest.
ed TO notice every .Star" present give a
most lusty response, and that not a voice or
a hIccup was given in the negative. Tenn
perauce men in rural districts full of faith
in the power OF right aud Fernando Wood
what do you imagine the Ptehibitory Law
will be worth in this city when it depends
10 great extent npon such cattle for It's en-
! force mpnt!
"One more ansosiuuaie, weary of BREATH"
etc, would seem 10 be the burden of our
I'daiy songs nowadays. it we were 10 Judge
nv the nuvaher Of suicides which have start
led the community for the hast weck-and
all tor love, The course of true love mus;
ran very roughly at these times. to cause so
/ slight valuation to be set on life. OF the
| half dozen seli-murders which have occur-
rcd lera tluri nr HE Ia II i "a laws ,h,, -.