Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-14
NEW YORK coRREsPoSDENcE.
 Nsw Yosx. Fehraury 9, 1856.

The great magician of the weather. in aocosdanee with the prayers of afflicted t,ousands. has brought the :. great circle" of snow to close, and inaugurated sea- son of rain and slush. The latter is to continue Jill the winds of March dry up the superintendent favors of Aquarius.- The two great articles of demand this win ter have been furs and rubbers. The cos- tune O. the Russ has given an additional Penciling of the picturesque to our unwon- ted Arctic scenery. The ruhbers are ps- cuiiarly American. Gf Goodyear be relia., ble ) but their rainstorn and slash associa- lions decidedly drown out all ideas of the artistic and graceful. The most provoking instance of this is in the case of ladies' an. kle-envelopes. Our India-rubber idealists have invented an article of long-legged boots whose glistening cylinders shroud the white statuary. which once twinkled their classical cotton over the wet paue of Broadway, and .. shut out heaven from our view" The highest utility and the most elevated ioveiiness, in this, as in other cases, are incompatible.
 In this icy winter, as if to pile a t" Pelion upon Ossa" of ice, we have had icy plays and Arctic adventures spread be- fore us to.' freeze the genial current of our souls" The "!Sea of Ice" has been served up to the half frozen ha5,taes of one of our theatres, and Dr. Kane has added dish of adventurous cream to the already congeal- ed public ! These entertainments should have been packed away in straw, until the sultry hours of the next July, if. indeed. they shall, peradvehture, be sul.ry.
 But the realities of New York Harbor. during the past fortnight. have out boreali. zed the efforts of the drama,ist or the dan. gers of the adventurer. We have had the frozen pack. and the ice-foe, the resistless drift that tore the |" best bower" from it's bed; we have had vessels crushed, and their hardy crews lost, steamboats sunk in the perilous endeavor to discover the pas. sage to Staten Island, ice sleds and skates skimmirg over sea of ice, and fair ladies and brave men cast away upon ice-bergs. and only. at last, mostunroman,ically res- cued, not for love, but money, at the rate of two shillingsa piece. We have wanted only the rein-deers and Laplanders 10 com. plete the illusion. Fortune favorng. the rain deors will be out ne.t week, a shop. ping through the wet. (By the way, it is a singular fact, which seems 10 have escap. ed the notice of E. Merriinan, that the "dears" always prefer a slusty day for shopping. It is feared by dry goodsmen that the introduction of the above mention ed boos-legs will decrease this laudable practice. |" 4 las les 5otcs :" we say.,- As for Lapiand, ,ha, will be realized by the husbands upon their return at the tea ,i'ne-sree,ing, and the footing up of the days foraging for furs and shawls.
 To return to boots, gentlemen of the top strata are beginning to sport the tassele
 top-boo.s of the past half century. The old family servants of Virginia, canno, esteeu, any one . gentleman" unless he wears the |" far-top boots" oi their "old massas." Well, fair-lors and tasse-s tops will soon reproduce the costume of the old regime.- But will they reproduce the men7 Will they bring back to us the truth, the honor, and the lofty principle of the early Repub- lie We fear these characteristics would sit as loosely upon some of our public men. as {" "fdr-iop doois" upon the shrunken shanks of one of our modern Shanghaies
 Masked balls have been quite fasl,iona ble this winter. They are however, most. ly confined to our brethren of Teutonic birth. "Teu,onic," as our aspiring poit- cians are polite enough to call our German "fellow citizens" It's all right. "Ths T.uton! The Celt - It sounds very well! We'll, one of the best characters we saw at a late ball, was a lively Teuton, with large beer cask on him, his head aud arms run through convenient holes, and the cask labelled "Lager Bier! !' How apropos: And he met s.maid of honor," who was also in hoops! Poor fellow ! he conldn't get wtthin love distance. We commend hoops to the Shakers, but we en- treat all c!ergymen of temperance-and- ten. dollar-matri,nonial.fee-principles, to in- clude all hoops in their denunciations.
 ltis astonishing to observe how many ill-natured things are said about hoops just now. The young lady who woke up one morning last week ,and found herself famous in one of the dailies for having pu, seven hundred and fifty yards of ribbon upon her dress, (N. E. the Iitlle seamstress that sewed1i on. told it so a reporter of the aforesaid daily. and he published if next