Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1856-06-05
New York Correspondence.
NEw YORK. Nav S1. 1856.

New York, May 81, 1856.
The emusic Of the Union is sadly discordant at
present Our citizens find it difficult task to keep
time to the old quicksteps Of their fathers marred
as they have been BY foreign interpretations and the
liscords introduced by demagogues. That sacoomo
dating class the professional politicians are in
pecial quandary, like regiment with bands in front
and rear each playing in different time. Willing
souls they would gladly keep step with all, but can
not tell which to choose. Summer and Kansas, the
South, the North, and the sweets OF Government
patronage all bcwilders them, and for month, un-
til the dust of the Presidential contest has cleared
away, they must wait without laboring.
The honest patriotism of the country is equally
confused bv the camor and dscordo various fac
tons After a calm and clear survey of the whole
field may hope that the quiet conservatives oall
sections will speak, and that their voice of reason
will be heard by the country. That the integrity of
the republic is endangered is evident, and as in all
quarrels that neither side is wholly right, is equally
clear. Our people have become too fond of the hab-
it of political racing, and in their excitement of try
ing how far they force their boilers without burst
ing. The extra pressure put on, just now, by all
parties for the sake of political effect is dangerous
The South is in peculiarly perplexing prcdiea-
men'' in view of delicate relations with Great
Britain The British Lion may take it into his head
to the advantage of internal dissensions and
spring upon us in all his wrath In that case cotton
sale emancipation of slaves might be the Immediate
result The value of the North would then be felt,
but with remembrance of brothers blow tinglng
hisears itmay be questioned, whether Jonathan would
give very jealous aid to the Southern plantations
New York is to send abroad, in connection with
other great cities, her mighty voicen condemna-
ton of the violence which struck at the right of free
speech, in the attack on Senator Sumner A noun
tain wave of public opinion will soon roll on Wash
ngton, Let those who have byayed it, he swept from
the decks.
The large manufactures of fire arms in this city
and other portions of the country. are overwhelmed
with the demand for rifles and revolvcrs Is this a
consequence of the pugnacious disposition 50 rcmarka-
bly, prevalent in all quartee The statistics of gutta
percha cane sales will doubtless be equally inter-
esting
Our opera lovers and artists are in despair The
ten thousand organ grinders of New York have well
tneln, py the nausea OF Sur1t1G which
they have given the public in their everlasting day
and night grinding through the street of the gems of
song, Somnanbula, Norma, Trovatovc &C., fill the
air from the Five Points to Granseryy Park The
latest scores from Europe can scarcely be rehearsed
before they are on the town. ground out free, and
floating promiscuo,sly away the bosom of every
idle zephyr. that blows The prima donnas. have
ctr Gin l. l.
ling and have left the field clear to the tinerant
vendors of the barrellcd sweets
The city interest is now rcgretfully directed upon
the ancient Brick church. whose lofty spirc has borne
the storms of nearly century and is now about to
depart-dust to dust-with the men and mementecs
OF our revolutionary 1t the first building
dedicated to Presbyterian worship in this city Dur
ing the occupation Of New York by the British, it
was used as military hospital The large subter
| rcan vaults have been opened, and the remains of
the dead are heing removed to the rural cemeteries
where Mammon will, possibly, not violate again the
seal of the tomb. We observed skull thrown ur
by the workmen, with the lcadcn ball. which had
been the messenger of death, found rafting within
it. startling lesson upon the vanity Of earthly
things is taught in the fact that many Of the loved
and cherished, who here buried but thirty years
since, cannot now he found SO ruthessy have death
and time done their work of oblivion And of those
whom decay has partially spared, there are but few
with remembering friend to follow them to their
second burial.
Mr.. Fillmore is to have thousand dollar reception
when he arrives in New York in June. These ova-
tions to veteran politicians, Buchanan and Fill
more, remind one of the return of Napolcon's re-
mains 1t may be that they too may find tomb in
the political haeastdss,