Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1855-06-21
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.

HEM york conREsposDEscE.
Nrw YosK, Jane 18th. 1855.
Mountainws1d DO i the raIlying cry d
the Meiropolilane Mountainward no ! fol
The fresh brsezes Of the upper air; for the
green grass and he Wild flowers for The
| grand Old forests, and the leaping cascades;
| Tor the nppling brooks and the whispering
pines. The last excitement Of New Yorik.
life il past, politicians and financiers sigh
for rest and the matrimonial exchange is
about % open t.iis street" in the green lanes
and the lovers walks, and the cool breexes
| Of the seaside and the mountain.
The last excitement has passed and it is
worth the study Of a Soimonic philosopher
10 note the '.run'' of excitement Truly,
there is no new thing under the sun. Life
runs Il The same cycles from the pyramids
to the railroads. Solomon created an en-
citemeat in one baby case Barnum in an
other and as usual woman was at the bot
tom in both cases. and babies were the prize.
Well, i is well to 60 back to FIRST princi-
PIES sometimes. aud some begin at the ba-
bies. Wars and labor. and literature, and
financial crisis, and diplomacy have ex-
hausted the energies Of humanity. A po-
tatoe rot has seized upon the physical con-
stitution, and the race Of men has deterior-
ated physically and Of course mentally
Emperofs and Psychologists have seen the
deterioration. Nicholas felt il, and resorted
to the shower bath and the camp bed, and
the boxers training. Doctors have left pill
and potion and taken to preaching the doc
trines Of physical education Gymnasiums
are in the ascendant, and even woman is
looking out for higher standard Of accom-
plishmeHt. The Medicean Venus and the
Belvidere Apollo are no longer idols to be
worshipred, but models to be worked to,
and, as always, America is ahead. Hence
the Baby Show!
"Just as the twig is bent, the trees i'm
"o iihe oaoaes MAKE me men ana
beautiful and healthy women. Fine philo.
sophy it Barnam has iaaugurated it. What
if he has made money by it. He has but
co'ho.heo 'ne asiae cum daAce
And now let US carry out the idea. Cat
I've shows have been the rage OF late years,
ana every country mas shown Its stock Of
improved anadrupeds- Let as ascend to the
oapea<. Can we not srom the woods and
wilds, our great rivers and forests, and
mountains gather together the noblest as
semblage Of the ''human" that ever land ex-
hibited. Old England was once proud Of
her bone and muscle and the brawny arms
Of her sons. Germany has shown the spe-
cimens OF her Hartzwaid Hercules. France
and Italy have exhibited the symmetry and
eiesahce OF 'heK peasant Apolios. but
Young America IS now prepared to trot out
from every county OF her vast serHtory the
champions TO beat the world IN staiwart
form ana manly beauty, ana bold chivat-
rons bearing.
do! then ton Congress OF the nations;
a congress OF the swarthy As'at'cs' The dark
sons OF Africa, the trained European, and
the free soas OF the Star sPangled Banner
Native Americans against the world. This
would be study for the poet, the artist,
the philosopher, the politician. the humani-
tartan, which books never haze afforded ]; a
physical demonstration worthy of the age,
and a fit consequent to the Baby Show!
In politics, we aote no improvement.
!" Double, double, toll and trouble" AL
the witches in or out Of Macbeth seemed
to have stirred up the political caldron, and
noxious vapoe and deadly element that ever
existed apon earth or in places below the
earth seems 70 have been tossed into the
great pot Of American politics. W,rese,
N