Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-07

NEW YORK CONTEMPORARIES.
 Nrw Yoax. Fehraury 2slS56.
 The arrival of the :. Star of the Wss.'' and the George Lawn during !he past week wish tbeir golden fleighs. fmeanf- ing to s l.50O, ,ooe, has acted upon our f- uancial circles like aplentifal dinner upon an anxious broker. Wall street feels sleek, solid and self-satis6ed, Jonathan can now confront John Bull with stiff upper lip, and his hands in his pockets. He feels that great sentiment, the sentiment of pro- perly," sentiment which swallows pp all such trifes as love and nonsense, as boa constrictor would cream candy. Yea, veri- y, the s' 'septimens of property" is your true elevator. The difficulty is that it straighsens man sp so s,iff1y ard loftily l that he cant see immediately ahead, and | is liable to faur pas. This is an acci- den: which has befallen Jonathan before. hand threatens him now. His pockets are 1 fall, he is independent of his financial John Bull boss, and is in danger of squandering his surplus on a lot offoreign thingumbobs, and getting deeper than ever into foreign debt. Our latest returns show that during the last quarter we have imported five mil l lions more goods than in the last quarter of 1854. The commencement of the year has increased the amount, and if we should happen to have short crops next Summer, our national pocket will soon grow lank and lean. The dwellers of the hills and valleys can alone control this tendency to extravagence. They are the great gover. nors of our machine, and they should see tc it, that it's capacity is not overtaxed.
 During the past week we have had a variety of lectures upon various subjects, and among others upon "Pcgging boots and shoes" The lecturer advocated the establishment of great shoe building com munities in and about New York, with . view of asfording work to the unemployed and drawing away the monopoly of that trade from Boston and its vicinity to this city. The boys onjRandaIls Island, have been very successfully employed by tn, city in this branch of industry. The fol- lowing are from the late census returns ol Essex County. Massachuset,s,i in which are situated the towns of Lynn, Haverhill Danvers, Salem. Marblehead, Newbury port. &c. Number of males employed l5,lO5; number of females employed, Is, S95; number of pairs manufactured, 2I, 5i0,664 value of manufacture, SIP, 2,IsO, BIO. This is for the year 1855. and i, somewhat below the truth. This proba bably exceeds the shoe making of any county in the world. It will be observed that the number of women employed ex ceeds that of the men. No doubt to '.peg peg. peg 7" would to them, he pleasing variation from the "slitch, stitch, stitch Y
 Some of the most ornate of our marble palaces of merchan ndize on Broadway, ars filled with industrial armies of the stitch ing sisterhood. Persons passing the nobl, piles of Stewart and Devlin, would scare, suppose that those walls contained within them hundreds of male and female toilers The immense clothing establishment 0 Devlin employs about one thousand per sons, with probably as many more depen dent upon them.
 The repeated snows have blocked ul every thing bu, politics. The young Dem ocracy are spreading themselves at balls The Live Oaks are fighting the Live Wings, and the New York Express is co, toning up to the disciples of Tom Paine and pitching into the churches generally.