Litchfield enquirer., 1856-07-17
New York Correspondence.

NEW YORK, July: l2, 1856 City Items of interest arc as scarce as bats feathers; the patriotic tension of the Fourth has slackencd into reaction of dul!ncsS, and the heated cts who fled from the bore of gun- poacdcr day have scarcely returned to business Wesupposc there will be diminlt on of crime until after election. Politics is the great race course on which all are entered, some as nngS each with its crowd of packers, and more as excited spectators. "Two to one on old Buck the Keystone pet-crIes a sanguinc party"-- my pile on the Rocky Mountain climber" While Young America trots out it's blankctcd favorite and desperately puts him in for his chances. Everything is merged in politics. Big business schemes must wait til the pro;cc- tor has seen his country safely through the idcS of November. Pulpit cushions must until that time be less thrust by the sword of the Spirit than banged by the mace of :" duty as cit- zcns" Social pleasures must be lorgonc unt
 the crScs is over. Ncg!iborS and negl l.bors' wives 20 in different ways til tie man what counts the 'cn!ss comes round to restore the oI time serenity and sense of good ncIghborhood.
 The country is Jig, ard u;ttl thc mid wives announce the complexion end name of the reg nant baby, we ar" all too anxious for any lesser topics. A stranger to our institutions woud imagine We rawnCd over tie gulf of diSun!on and that VIC were about to tear each other in q Suph th cL,n obvcn ,.l rouhdly-we shall each one take to himself all the virtues and sanctity of the Pharisce of the
 EvangeS, and yet when the choice of the ma jorty has placed at the head of affairs the rei,- rescntive of the National sentiment, we shall as we have done any time these eighty years forget that we denounced, take words of kind ness to our lips, remember that We inherit a proud and glorious legacy by the efforts and pcrils Of d common ancestry, and striking hands with hearts full of love go on ill the onward march of the Republic. Who doubts it At bottom Ho one.
 1 Meantime as we said the aptitude for crime seems lost in the excitement, ard adult rascals set to cheating at politics (which the law does not punish, leaving such small game as stab- ping and stealing to the juveniles. So in the last week we have fourteen youthful offenders Ill tic grave points of the law. Burg!ar:ons operations of an extensive character have been detected, conducted by beardless youths, who, as the evidence shows have read Jack ShcI- hard and seen it played at the National Thea tre, a comment by the way on yellow covered literature, and the modern drama.
 But modern philanthropy makes it possible for these to turn to respectable members of so- ciety. They are not in our city confounded with hardened offcnders and branded with the disgrace of a full punishment. All under II years of age male or female uuless convicted of capital offences are placed in the House of Re fuge and by law regularly bound out to it's offices during the years of their minority. The Refuge is healthfully located on Wards Island, the sexes are kept apart-the juveniles are placed under the best training, intellectual, and moral and physical until each is provided with home in some respectable family outside, the trustees Of the Institution having the power to bind the children out in the same mauler as a parent has.
 In my next propose tospeak in detail of the workings of this excellent institution. Buyard Taylor has gone abroad again, on a tour through North Enrope We shall get let ters from him through the Tribune