Litchfield enquirer., 1855-10-11
NEW YORK coRREsronDEscE.

there is spot In his heart which the solemn supplication and the hymn of praise cannot fail se touch. Ii is tIat spot which the prayer. learned at his mothers knee in cllild hood. lrii tender and sanciiied for his whole after life. His soul yearns to go up in Praise to heaven.s in the sweet words of sons beautiful hymn, sung to some grand old faslsioaed tune q ysre by the great vaice of the whole congregation. hut the rapid, meaningless, sriaing ..aria. that rises thin land measfe from The hired 1uartette in iIel choir ehiilS his spirit, grirving, down to1 earth. The fag ends af foreign operas are not fit offerings of praise ta the majesty of ] heaven. Snch We heard last Sunday in Grace Church. Can we not bring from the country into onr city choirs. some echo al . least of those dear old singing schools of ! our hoyhond -snch grand, solemn and rev- erantial harmonies as parting soul would choose to bear it up 10 heaven. Such as we can imagine King Da vid from psai,ery and harp. Tnlied round the sublime psalms of oia-such as with irnmpe,s also and sRawns." rase in one grand united chorus From the mighty congregation of Israel up to the Lorl of Hosts. Up the lofty dome of the new Trinity Chapel you can hear each Saturday ascending from the whole assembly, borne up on high by the great organ, such noble anthems as the ever liv- ing Old Hundred, and it is only on such reverential wings of sound that mans de- votion can truly rise. and whisper to his l satisfied spirit ..all that is within me praise His Holy name! !"
 1 There is great future in our land for music. Bnt i. must not be a mere reproduce ton of that depraved taste and false calti- vation of foreign lands, but as fresh and original as our hemIocks and as lofty and solid as our mountains. Thus only can it strike the great heart of the world.
 l We are to have grand Central Park al last commencing at 59th street, and extend 1 ing to i06t, street. and from 3J 10 Sth av. Two and one-,hird miles long. and to con itain TIC acres of land. It will be one oi l the largest if not the largest Park in any city in ti,e world, and will be a Park wor. thy of the name. It will cost over five mil. lions of dollars. The estimates and assess. ments are all made. and when the report oi the Commissioners is onirmed by tke Su. prcme Court, the act passed ny the Legis latsre in Apriiis5i will take csfec,,and VI shall have Park such as will Go honor tc this Metropolitan city.
 l The city and State of New York are pro life in political conventions. Some hat dozen have already been held, and The pub lie had thought ti,e end had come But VI had new ins,almens of these country sa
 wing securities--and are being daily notified of new ones 10 come The Temperanc,
 State Convention has just concluded it.
 labofs at Auburn. The liquor dealers ar, , to hold theirs at Syracuse on the lith prox , The straight out Wings who refuse |, . fuse with the Republicans held a large city coRven.ioa on Thursday evening, aud are |. have State assemhiage during the monih The city meeting however comprised aboa
 twenty-five pure whigs, smo,hered by l. blaake. of probably 100 K. Ms. The hal shells have held their city convention dur jag the past week anl will most probabl, arrange State meeting. The German ci, iaens 5e just held a city convention o
 what they denoninate .sGerrnan Speaking Americans" and made nominations uf DOT lions of the county ticket representing thi. class Of citizens A similar movement com hining all classes of adopted citizens la. been commenced ia other parts of tha State 1 and will probably result in another pecalia, State convention. Thus the general confu sion is becoming worse confnnnded. | l may be well to have a multiplicity of can diJates to choose from, but thus iai conyen sions do not seem to have brought to notice tho ahiest and hest men of tho Slate and n tsseJ sHsNttNFVy bW6sVt 5ttiS tsu4tustQN will throw insn positions Of pfnmiaence tlss men who will make their mark upon ,h age. Such excitemsnls and comnotions have ernesaliy preceded the adyeal of grea, intellect
 Your correspondent visited lasi Sunday a Sabbath School held on boari the North Carolina receiving ship. There are on board 150 sailors who arc awaiting orders b go on different ships or war, of whom I50 are apprentice boys. They are nearly l all gathered into the school. They seem to be quite intelligent and promising lads. It is quite III interesting sigh, to see them all together studying the word of God. Eiph. teen have been drafted this week to % on hoard lhe steamship San Jacin.o which leaves on the Isth inst. as flag ship to the East India squadron. and will visit Japan and China beioie they return. s