Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-06-19
New York Correspondence.


"a. NEW YoRK, June 14tb 1856.
The ability Of man to step out of himself and look
at hisliying preseatment in fact and action would
be valuable boon from Providence. His foiblcs,
failures and faults would be valube self-study and
It's serious and ridiculous ASPECTS would be source
Improvement as well as Of amusement.
40, wad some power the giftie sse rs
To oHrselS as ithers us - ->
Our great Republic needs this gift most especially
and As have it not, European friends have &C
cssonaiy held up to portrait of short COM
ine;s. which have failed to profit by, preferriug in
our compacency to consider all their kind artistic ia
Yors cssrcatures and exaggerations, rather than
pictures frem life. It would be we'll for IFS however
to realize that they truthful. Oar latest hint
has come from our Montreal neghbors, one of whom
has very forcby given epitome of tire physique
and morale Of the universal Yankee nation depicting
most truthfully dsgraccful disposition to abuse
each other. well the abundance of gas and all
sence Of pluck in our men and the want of bone and
sinew in our women. We have no hope that our
male selfsuciency will profit by the lesson, but as
our nation security from decay must lie in the
generation of its women, we hope that American fe
males will have the courage to look for steadily
IN mirror which viii reflect faithful images
than those which SO often t1ltter them. We need a
reform in the every day physical routine of life in the
mothers and daughters Of land This is the first
step towards moral and intellectual perfection And
it is not in our great cities that the reform must
commence but in the cottages and villages, in the
fields and valics, where the glorieS of earth and the
blessings of the sum- the air and the water are shed
in such lrofuson, and where every flower is beauti-
full, save those that should DO the lovcliest. Old
Rome was mighty from her women. The Roman man
was but the impress of the Roman matron
Our Fifth Avenuedies and their toadiesare so often
the subjects of criticism that they are becoming some
what stale butts for the archery of the pen But their
continued violations of the prophecies of common
sense and Of gentlcmnly bearing demand perpetual
storm of ridicule Our academy of music which
should gather together only our best heads and
hest hearts, is becoming hotbed Of litteness Here
is aneciote of one ofts chicfprests Passing into
Wall street office last week, he found gentleman
apparently clerk with whom he transacted impor-
tant business The apparent clerk an officer of
rank in the U. S Navy, but fat in the business of
| the firm to whose office he made frequent visits
The same afternoon avenucdle met the officer
Boston steamboat but during the passage carefully
avoided recognition of the supposed clerk The next
day he was introduced to him the quarter deck of
a National vessel and Immediately remembered him
The clerk was below his dignity. American art should
scourge all such mere creatures of the dollar from
her holy temple.
1t is singular that in the city of New York there is
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scientific men who have made it their abiding place
Whether like poets and opera singers they here be-
come an irritable genus and so get ut oggerhe,s is
question: but we certainly deficient in associh-
tons of scientific reputation The British Institution
of Civil Engineers is celebrated over the world No
such association of standing exists in our country
The large corps of surveyors and engineers to whose
the laying out of the streets and the construction
piers and docks of this gccat city arc entrusted
should comprise sufficient ability to form the nucleus
of respectable association of science But as BODY
they only men of half inches capable of running
lot-lines, and their transactions written on,y
in the - records of assessments Streets An emf
nent mathematician lately remarked that as the sold
mem of New York were posted only in one kind of
seie%1tc~"' "a eeh' Pci ceh' 'hey gave 'heir ihiu
cncc most frequently to charlatons with whom men
Of true ability could not fratcrnixc. Some color to
this statement is given 10y the boastng up which
Wall street has SO long given to the - .Sdpdn who
keeps the electric wires, and is eternaly informing
| that we have had thunder storm here, which WAS
inevitably connected with earthquake somewhere.
Learned mcn in Europe look on and wonder whether
this is broad Yankee joke, whethcris is intended
as one of our legitimate contributions to the worlds
knowledge.
The TRANSACTIONS TIE COM. STATE AGRlCUL-
TuRAL Society for which we are Indebted tn the Sacre