New-York daily tribune., 1857-10-21
FROM CONNECTICUT.
From On Occasional Correspondent

From On Occasional Correspondent
SUFFIELD, Conn.,, October, 1857.
In my last too lengthy letter, gave you the
information that, for several weeks past, 1 have
been absen. from Hartford SO great portion Of
the time that cannot pretend to relate, with the
accuracy Of spectator, the events which have
been happening there. even failed to witness
pair of spectacles which many other people went to
zee week OF two ago. viz the Firemehs Muster
and grand balloon ascension am told, however,
that Gas carried the aerOnsuts machine t. much
areater altitude than any of the fremens machines
were able to carry water have not had tn,
honor of being introduced to Baron StOeckel, the
Russian Minister, who has lately been scourning at
the United States Hotel, while attending an arotra-
ton in a controversy between his MASTER Gar
Alexander, no less and Col. Sam Colt; nor did l
hear the dulcet serenade wherewith the COlonels
brass band regaed the ears Of his imperial antago-
mist noble proxy The millennium is coming, surely,
when litigsnt serenades the other party, pendene
lite. don't know whether the Baron was Charter.
Osked during his sojourn or not. Ii not, 1t was
wonderful that such opportunity should have been
suffered to slip. Besides, it would have been so
appropriate to send piece Of the old tree to the
Autocrat and to give chip to the Baron, t. keep
for bis own. 1t would have been q sort Of off.
Get to the maachite table presented by the Car to
COL Seymour, and which, though on exhibition
somewhere in Hartford, have not yet set eyes
For month past, have spent much time in the
country. Some graceless wags (because of late, as
well beeOmeth a correspondent Of THE TRIBUNE,
have abstained from the uie of lather, brush and
razor) have given out that my abode in the rural
Districts has been prolonged for the same reason
which induced Dayids shame-faced messengers to
tarry in Jericho until the hrsuse hOnors of which
they had been deprived by the ruthless blades of
Hanun's servants were fully grown again. Iscarcely
need TO contradict this unworthy rumor, and to as
sure all whom it may concern, that remain in the
country because prefer to dwell here until the
halcyon season Of Indian Summer is over, and win
try winds begin to whistle among the leaAess boughs.
When frosts begin TO nip too shrewdly, or, to be
more definite, soon after Thanksgiving, intend to
| take up my abode in the city again.
Ny present dweliDg.place is the village whose
name stands at the head Of this letter. If Mr..
Ouieley, who told the world his experiences in the
| last August number Of Harprs Magazine, wiz only
conc hIther, be may behold the place he has been
so long searching for in vain To be sure Suffeld
| ia too distant from New York to suit q gentleman
who wishes mere suburban residence from which
he can run down in an hour, every morning. after
breakfast and return to again, after business hours
in time for tea and mullins But, for real country
residence this position and its surroundings are un
eQudf0. IL II Just CIV eukh anu hos toO nj IIOu
the four great cities between which it lies 1t =
point almost equidistant from them all. One may
90 from here to New York, TO Boeton, to Albany or
TO Providence and back again in day, having three
hours time in the city at midday. 1t Is an hours
ride from Hartford hither, or the same from Spring
field The village stands upon swelling ridge Of
land running north and south, about two miles from
the river, in the very center Of the Connecticut VAL
ley which v here nearly thirty miles broad, and is
the handsonnest country that the sun shnes upon In
all his daily circuit. In witness whereof make a
pIofert Of the country itself; and let him who takes
issue with Inc come and see. There Is tradition
current hereabouts, that one day. an old negro, who
had lived for many years In this vcinage died, and
took his wsy to the gate of that blissful abode
where, We are taught to believe, the righteous Uncle
Edward of pious memory, and all other good mig
gers who, by dying, baye ceased to have any cash
value in the market have found an asylum in which
the Fugitive Slave Law 10 as imperative and
void as some other compromise measures Of equal
celebrity have been declared to be On earth. Here
stood ST. Peter, to whom Old Tite applied for ad-
mission, and who, as bis custom 10, proceeded TO
eatt chise the candidate touching hs qualifications
ard right to erter. Among cther inquiries, he