Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1857-06-25

engagement thirty miles away. Therefore from art
to nature from this collection so beautiful to the
pictures God has made-tha vast hills, the winding
nVer, Che living fields, we will take our way And
yet, how little have we seen! There. where we
pass to say Good by to our friends. see the
bronze statue of Milo-every muscle of his frame
developed-and that old warrior in his mailed har-
ness, straning at his bow-and that shepherd and
1 his love sitting on rock, he toying with a snake
that has fastened itself to his crook and she shud-
deringly Pushing his away-and all around
these beautiful specimens which wealth collects, to
beautify and render delightful an cffeminate exs-
tence and outside this magnificent landscape, all
the artificial displays of fountain fish pond and
beautifully :ranged grounds.
But good bye. To expedite matters we have bor-
,rowed light sulky, and now our horses feet are
sounding down the avenue. Within few years the
vicinity of many of our large towns have sprung into
suburban residences of New Workers. New and
magniicent buildings have been erected on the TO-
mantle sites of the Housatonic hills, and old farm
houses whic formerly knew little beyond the daily
life OF patient New England drudgery, have awoke
to the consciousness of another of beings whose
lives converted their SOBER tranquil characteristics
into elements Ct gayer and more romantic nature
And one perceivcs in wandering over the thorough
fares, and gazes toward the old farm houses, evil
dences of vulgar taste and snobbery disgusting in
all its detail. Here winding walk without the
slightest adaptation to the grounds and totally de-
void of taste in its serpenine ment leads ND
to an Old farm house which some has desperate
ly endeavored to convert into something modern
and which in an unbecoming gable and tasteless
piazza presents horrid abortion insulting to the
name of architecture. Still there is pleasant an
pearance in the snobbish elegance of much of the
scenery i'll back and front yards, and we cannot but
be pleased at the sight of beautiful children mounted
on spirited ponies, and gay Misses promenading
along shady walks, though they none of them suffer
from too much mental development and are indeed
vast collection Of French millinery. We could not
help rejecting in this wise, as we drove along the
smooth road and marked the places changed in
appearance from what remember them to have
been twenty years ago. Indeed to one who loves to
reflect upon the sterling character of the old settlers
of the Honsatonic hills the men of will of mind
of physical developments, whose sons have carried
the fame of New, England all the world and
whose daughters would have done honor to kings
palaces, it is hard thing to reconcile the fact of
this effemnate lillputan race, attended by train
of livered servants and French nurses But it is
and will jog on little faster, fDr our minute OBJ
servation of things around has delayed too long
already. Therefore go on my steed.
But we are writing weeks after the events
of this little journey took place aud now. upon
calling them together it impossible to
dense sufficiently to tell the entire story at this issue.
indeed we are still driving along the banks of the
Housatonic, and have long range OF mountains to
cross we reach our destination. It must take
another Wednesday to complete the story, and in
these times of anarchy and riot SO near our own
state it will not do to crowd too closely col
umns of news though would he pleased to finish
at once, and turn to writing up Journal of events
which occupied our time us wetravelled in other d
rectiohs Next week therefore shall hear our horses
hoofs resoundng along the streets of village
and the story of the sentimental ride be completed