Litchfield enquirer., 1856-08-21
New York Correspondence.
NEw YoAK, Aug. 16th, ls

NEws sYoAK, Aug. 16th, 1856. < So much is going about in the papers con Icerning the Yellow Fever in our vicinity, our county friends planning e fall visit to the ne tropolis may yet De alarmed. The simple facts arc, We have had few cases at quarantine, and some half dozen people connected with the quarantine arrangement, but not case in the. city proper. These cases would have made but little noise had not the residents at the quarantine landing made mighty fuss and in- terfered with the authorities, in a manner which excited much newspaper comment, and given rise tothe report that the yellow fever was rag ing in the city The movement of resistance has been mostly q selfish one of the land own CTS atthe quarantine grounds, on Staten Island, who are anxious to have the hospital removed to point high -np- on the Bay, and therefore make pretext of the alarm naturally felt at the slightest approach of so terrible seourge to stir rumors of danger to residents at tho landing. The city has not been more healthy for many years, as the bills of mortality abun-g dantly show, and New York, despite the croak- ings of rivals who think to attract trade from her is one of the healthiest cities on the eonti- nent. ..,sl.. -Ilt. ..,-.5, VI. . Il,..i>.sss
 We shall have one of the finest Parks in the world when Jones' wood is fully converted Now 1t Is on the anxious scat between the de- sire to make suitable appropriations of most of the Common Council, and the stinginess of Comptroller Flagg, who refuses to allow them. D The surveying is going on, and all that is need ed IS money, which one would think we might have when S5O0O000 are consumed annually ln the mis-government of the city.
 The grounds are beautifully diversified, and when fully improved will be superior to the Bos- ton Common, at present the finest public ground Tn America Last winter while the grounds lay unprotected rapacious wood stealers cut down many of the finest trees, doing more bar oarous mischief in three months than twenty years can remedy. The man who cuts down . shade tree anywhere where its sacrifice is not demanded by an imperious utility is savage, and the man who would slaughter one spread ing its arms in leafy beauty in public place is not man but thing. H.
 There has been nothing richer in the humbug way these many years than the Whale on exhibition for few days ony'' at the museum efe"hlle owned by Barnun. It was announced hamingly in the papers that sperm whale had been captured off the Long Island coast and that at immense cost, and by use of two trains Of cars the monster had been got into the mu- scum. Of course the public mind got anxious especially were the folks from the inland towns agog to see whale that Leviathan which figures so largely in sea tales and saltwater ad. ventures, and the worn out museum had rush. On one of the floors in box with ice about hlm lay fish about ten feet long with horr- be mouth at least six inches across and this was the whale It is not the whale which swallowed Jonah, although very likely Jouah may have swallowed him. The "selp; was un- worthy even of the museum, for old Barnuin al- ways did come somewhere near giving the pub- lie their moneys worth. But this fsh2 Why. the boys out west catch pickere that will match it. Alas, the glory of the museum pas. seth away.
 The weather is delightful. Peaches come in and soon we shall luxuernate in that most de licious of fruits.
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