Litchfield enquirer., 1855-08-02
NEW YORK coRREsPoSDENcE.s
 Nrw Y YoRK, July 28th, 1855.

0I0aoWay IS gi0VeieSS. AcIcndBtSs Itu6 down with their hands in state of nature and walk up ditto. Even the genus-shanghs ltravel with their claws denuded.
 By our faith, gentlemen are becoming sen sible men. The sun and the air can once more toy with clerks palm of a summers day. The world moves-Wall street is becoming practical. ss What's the usen it cries. Water and soap are cheaper than gloves, and lady's taper fingers rest quite as well satisfied in a -browned clasp. if i it only carries manly heart within in. So another remnant of tie old school has gone overheard. Sebastopol is fast destroying routine, and bringing men back to common sense. There's room for more. Get along good world hut < festina lenfe.''
 How many old things are departing from our Iane. Old politicians have gone, old parties are going, old platforms breaking down. old society going to the sleep oi death, old fashions and notions and ideas vanishing before tue new. the young, the fresh, the wiJe-awake and all-aliye activity
 which elecsri6es the land We are in a transition state from the old to the new, and sooth to say, we need it. But even here. in this new Republic. ihere is a class. that 'sseeing but darkly," is fetarding the pIo- gress of the new and tile vigorous.
 Talk of music for instance. Why do a portion of $ our folks'' insist upon trans- l planting the opera of old Europe here. It don't take kindly to the soil. The music is
 fine and scientific. and the singers accom- plished, but it is the flower of an effete ciy- ifization. We want something 10 suit the cline and the age. Christy and the Hutch-
 inson's gave us hint. Improve on it,
 and we'll yet reach what we want. The
 whole heart of the country (not the six pen-
 ny sugar hearts and cod-iisers of Fifth Av. parUenaes) but the whole big OK heart of
 the country is yearning for something na-
 tional. It is not aware of its yearning. It
 don't exactly know what it does want. But
 1t wants native song, native music, and na-
 tive singers. It wants native interpreters I of American life and intellect, and feeling,
 on the stage, in the concert room, with the I pen. the brush, and the chisel.. Ii has had taste. It likes the flavor and will have
 more. But ityearns for greater excel-
 fence in these matters than has yet appear ed. Hurry it along my masters! Now ! what young lady sings national patriotic
 song! What music publisher dares run l the risk of placing one before the public. It wont pay. Horace Waters, in Broad. ! way, is the oaly fearless man in that line that we have yet seen, and yet, there were Diblin's sea songs sung universally by the sons and daughters of England, and Eng land was proud Of them, and well might she be. Tkey pfopPed her nationality and brishteaed her decaying glory for years. Where is Colun,bia's Dibdini Daughters of America! Call him forth. The wand is in your hand Siag the songs of your re- publican poets, make them popular. and then you won't hear est Pairick's Day. and The Low-backed Car" and the number- less lays Of other lands ground to death through your streets.
 Nationality is at the root of progress. It is the precise principle of the division of labor. Each individual has his .forte. If he eeltivates that he succeeds, and the world is richer by so much. Each nation has its forte. Neglect that, and it becomes . mere hash of the Ieavings of humanity, and the odds and ends of other lands. It Is not meet that our coua,ry should stand before the world as hash of stale- meats from abroad. No-she is the prin- cipai dish on the table of the century, and so let her feed posteri.y. Stand up then boys and girls for our country. We mus, not only handle tickets, but we must en- courage native artists, native authors, and national pride.
 New York is on a queer dodge just now. It consists of calico and comfort. Economy is n fashion, and therefore Newport and Saratoga ara ost. So mamma aud the girls are scattered about, in sunny little country hooks and farm houses. startling Inc rus,ics l with calicoes. when they looked for silks at least, and making city love in the green farm lanes, and among the sober old forests.
 There's progress again. We'll, matrimo- nial operation initiated in calico, and on country stoop,and matared under buttermilk and fresh eggs, Is worth more than all the alliances contracted under Congress Wa ter or in the salons uf Newport.
 Removal of Gov. Rcctlcr.
 I, is teiegraphed from Washington. says the Courani, that Gov. Ree.ler has been re-