Litchfield enquirer., 1860-10-11
Whole No. lS45.

Whole No. IS45.
 sne works Of their hands we shall not la- DOT Tn vain nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord. and their offspring with them"
 This lesson we have to take from tha leafs life; one more we may receive from it's death. If ever in autumn a pensivet,eas falls upon us as the leaves drift by iu their fading, may we not wisely look up to their monuments :? Behold how fair. how far prolonged in arch and aisle, the avenues of the valleys, the fringes of the hills So state ly, so eternal the joy of man, the comfort of all living creatures, the glory of the earth, they are but monuments of those poor leaves that fit faintly past us to die. Let | them not pass without our understanding their last counsel and example that we al- so, careless of monument by the grave may build it in the world-monument by which men may be taught to remember, not where we died but where we lived.-Ruskin's Mod. srn Painters, Vol. v.
 GRAPES AT THE U. s. FAIR, IN CtNcH. NArI,-The correspondent of the N. Y. Times. writes from Cincinnati as follows:
 One man, named Schncike, shows col. lection embracing twenty-seven varieties of grapes, among which, to my taste, the Del- aware is by far the best. The Catawba, whose virtues have been celebrated by the graceful muse of Longfellew, is 6 grape whose first taste is excellent, and juice grate- 1 full to the palate; but after the first taste. if not well ripened, it is somewhat astring. ent. The Catawba makes an excellent wine, no doubt, but it is a wine eminently charac- terized by foxy flavor derived from the wild grape its ancestor. The Delaware, on the contrary, although of smaller size, has it's berries compactly arranged, the flesh is tender, the juice is sweet, vinous and spright- ly, and to the very center of the berry the quality holds good. As to the quality of the wine there can scarcely be more than one opinion. Let any man take samples of wine from dozen of our native grapes, and taste, as l did to-day, in perfect ignorance of their source, and his verdict must accord with mine, that for first taste and second taste, bouquet" and quality, the Delaware is superior to them all. Schneike, a Swiss, who is one of the largest vigmerons about the city, pronounces it better than any foreign or native grape with which he is acquainted. The flowers are arranged after most ex- cellent, because perfectly natural fashion, in the great tent. Instead of being placed on shelves or tables where one must see the pots and bare stems below the foliage, they are placed on the ground, the cut flowers in damp sand, and laid off into beds, neatly edged with moss, and the pots set on tho green grass in tasteful groups Thus the ob- server looks down upon the floral gems as he does walking in his garden, and the effect of the whole collection is harmony and pleasant.
 n@- The difference in the tone of Wm. H. Seward, when addressing 6 popular au- dience and when speaking iu the United States Senate has often been remarked Before the Senate he is guarded, diplomatic and inofensive; before the people he is sau- cy, and Intentionally says pointed things, likely to cause talk and give ofense At St. Louis, lately, he was invited to address the people from the balcony of Barnum's Hotel. This is what he said:
 He had not come to sec St. Louis or the people of Missouri, but to see Kansas, which was entitled to his respect Missouri could take care of herself; she did not care for Republican principles but warred with them altogether. If forty years ago Missouri had chosen to be free State, she would now have four millions of people, instead of two millions. He was plain spoken man, and was here talking treason in the streets of St. Louis. He could not talk anything else if he talked as an honest man, but he found himself out of place here. GA voice." You are at home.") Here, said he are the peo- pie of Missouri who ask me to make speech. and at the same time there are laws as to what kind of speech l may make. The first duty that you owe to your city and your. selves is to repeal and abrogate every law on your statute book that prohibits a man from saying what his honest judgment and sentiment and heart tell him is the truth.- (Mingled surprise and appreciation >on the part of the crowd.) Though l have said these hard things about the State of Mis- souri, have no hard sentiments about it or St. Louis, for have great faith and hope nay, absolute trust-in Providence. What Missouri wants is courage, resolution, spirit, manhood-not consenting to take only that privilege of speech that shareholders allow but insisting on complete freedom of speech. But have full trust that it will all come right in the end--that in ten years you will double your population, and that in fifteen or twenty years you will have four millions of people. To secure that you have but to let every man who comes here, from what ever State or nation, speak out what he be.
 ieves will promote the welfare and interest of mankind. What surprised me in Kansas was to see the vast improvements made there within six years, with so little wealth or strength among her people; and what sur prised me in Missouri was that with such a vast territory and such great resources there was solittle of population improvement to be found. Faint manifestations of ap. proval.) ought not, perhaps, to talk these things to you. I should have begun at the other end of the story, though citi. zen of any other State has as much liberty here as the citizens of Missouri; but he has less liberty than like. l want more than you have. want to speak what I think, instead of what Missourian thinks. think you are in fair way of shaming your Government into an enlightened position You are in the way of being Germanizedi in- to it. would much rather you had got into it by being Americanized instead of Ger. manized; but it is better to come to 1t thro'