New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-02
FROM CONNECTICUT.

from, An Occasional Correspondent
HARTFoRD, Conn, June %, 1857.
Aswhen the peaceful sound Of tinkng cowbell'
SWINGING at the necks of grazing kline in some ad-
iacent pasture is family heard, among the crash
and clamor of trumpets, flies, bass drums and
buples, by valiant militiamen and surrounding
crowds of admiring spectators throngng the
trodden turf of regimental muster-held, so,
fancy, must news from quiet provincial city like
Ours strike upon your ears, who dwell IN great
metropolis in the very midst OF wars revolutions
riots. rebeIons famines, and dismal forebodings oil
impending pestilence. There; hang figures by
which imprecatOn do not mean to express any
dislike whatever to the Arabic numerals or 10 the
system of decimal notation; but as Tor trOpeS ana
metaphors and such-ike devices hereafter IL none
Of them.
The General Assembly of Ammo Domini 1857 is no
more. Its constituent parts have separated, and
minge again with the masses OF common mortar
clay from which they were taken. Tins was IN
eytable in the nature of things as well as constlt-
tona and eminenty proper; for even ITS best trends
were forced to admit that the Assembly had no more
consistency than the comet and was, wltha, as
eccentric in its motions. If the weather had been
warmer il could not have held together long; and
at the first cheated term" it dissolved like a fog.
For my part, am glad that both it and the comet
have gone about their business and that quiet
people like myself have no longer to dread daily
Establishments and hourly surprises
lou nave no idea how perpexing business 1t has
been-trymg TO keep on the track of these tickle
SOlons and Lycurguses who have been as capriciOus
and nconstant as the month in which they were
elected. For Instance, some measure, worth
noticing in occasional correspondence would
pass the Senate. As the lookout perched in fine
crosstrees Of Nantucket whaler watches with
strained vision till huge monster of hundred
barrels shall rise again to the surface of the deep
so from the lofty gallery Of the Representative
Hall would sit waiting, INTENT for the SAID measure
TO "cOme up" i'll the House below. verify believe
could recognize the members Of that late respect
able body better by their bumps than by their fea-
lures. As / used to look over the baustrade, and
see these poor gentlemen, far below me, crowded
together, and wriggliDg uneasily upon the narrow
benches, while an unpleasant eXhaatOn of unsavory
Odor would arise to my nostrls, it used to remind
me Of - But digress. trust, however that
the solemn reject, rs suggested by the spectacle
have described will make me more beedful OF my
latter end.
Inc said measure at last would come to its turn,
Only 10 be laid upon the table, from whence, at
SOME evening session, perhaps, it would be taken
up IKE thief in the night. II would be discussed,
depaled disputed and finally, to my infinite relief,
passed by large majority. | would hasten home,
and, by the illumination afforded by midnight gas,
would inform you of the important news in
well constructed paragraph of neatly-written 1T.
ter. Late next morning, on my way to the Post
Office, rumor would reach my ears that the
House had just recOnsidered its vote on "a meas.
ure. Such rumors would always prove true Sid
measure would be recOnsidered, and some penth,-
men who had been, wbilome, its stanchest friends.
would be found enlisted in the ranks OF its sterncst
opponents. Ii would be amended and turned m.
side out and wrong end foremost, aud sent ba-. TO
the Senate, who would turn it tOther side NJ. aud
tOpsy -tlrvy, and-theDcefOrth ] would lose all trail
and what Mr.. Gordon Cumming calls (" the spoor"
OF 1t, and give up the pursuit in despair Seven
such letters have written only to be- consigned h.
my waste-paper basket at loss, beside tune aud