Litchfield enquirer., 1860-10-11
Communications.
LETTERS FRoMTHE sUsoUEHANNAH

LETTERS FROMTHE sUSQUEHANNAn
 No. Two. .u
 Pol;tics-and little else From morning ,'A night, the jar of the wrangling factions h'i' ''' air with tiresome clamor.
 Politics, local state and national se'''
 oross inc minds of all classes of men, .,o
 One day Douglas demonstrators 'n .,,o ,.,t ;anolinr of bells acting stale pun OH 'l'e
 .so f,vor;te candidate of the Express na1ne ', w sees the "Wigwam" a blaze with light for Lincoln .,,.
 Sometimes two parties celebrating together and great is the noise thereof.
 All hopeful, elated and happy. The Kepuo- Ecans secure in their own strength, the othefS confident of Holy alliance strong enough to beat the Railsplitter."
 Politics in the street, the countiDg-room ana the warehouse in the church even, ln the very pulnit itself, until one longs almost for N Ne" York Ledger to create diversion from the 'ease less stream of tedious patriotism.
 And from all this, the innumerable o'cAe''ns which arise, the inefably dirty work oi " 'a"' paign which somebody has to do' the en''ie sameness and the general dullness which charac- ,er;ze the thought and expression of period l;ke tbs. are enough to make me wonder why o]l do not,ike myself lose every particle of inter est in the matter which they might once have possessed. No, not all pehaps some live on the loaves and fishes which are the fruits, legiti mate or otherwise, of any political struggle to others, gentlemen of leisure the very fight itself offers excitement and employment, but how the creat men of nation can take this abiding in terest in politics passes my comprehension. am heartily tired of them, and there are few things in this world of ours of which am yet weary.
 know that this untiring devotion to politics ia the straight forward birth of institution that the bent of the nation, the spirit of our laws and customs all look one way, and engenders this ceaseless strife of party as naturally as birds come from eggs, but why it fails to satiate the people is what I cannot understand
 But it always has been and probably always will be- and my medtations on the subject and my expressions of opinion will fail to affect many, and effect nothing
 For news of the day have little to tell you, although here there is enough of local interest to comfortably excite us and prevent rust.
 Our county Fair is just concluded, and has been great success. Large crowds attended it. As is the usual custom they are varously esti- mated and so very variously that refrain from sending you any figures. The display of cattle l was unusually fine in quantity, and quality, ana would have surprised some of your agricultural readers as evncing the capabilities of this fertile region. Fast trotting was of course an attrac- tion and not of the least in power We have not as yet raised anything to compete with the little "Queen of the trotting turf' or her gallant antagonist who so resolutely persists in being beaten, but we do very we'll in small way. IT e State Fair at Elmira is close at hand and large preparations are being made for it. It promises to excel anything of the kind heretofore gotten up, and the Fair of the Empire State is no small enterprise. may have more to tell you of this afterit is done, for shall be spectator.
 It would be hard, fancy properly to estimate the good effect resulting from these constantly recurring State and County agricultural gather ings, but one can scarcely fail to note in them one of the most marked evidences of the age of progress. Nowhere is advancement more plain y to be seen than in the modes of tilling the soil. Nowhere is this growth in knowledge more gratifying because more useful and few years have seen the change. How long is it since we should have smiled audby at the idea of convection of science and talent, embodied in some of our ablest men from all parts of the country, for the purpose of learning some new things about practical farming? Within the year the City of Llnls' has held such gathel- ering, and to listen to the lectures emanatng from the convened body, hundreds of working farmers assembled, and passed weeks in close at tention. And while doubt the direct, lmmed ats efficacy of the lectures, no one can question their final practical use, tho undeniable impetus which they gave to many valuable modes of thought, no one answer for their innumcrable suggestions tho fruit of which we have perlaps yet to see in the form of new and greater i'm provement than We have thus far realized,
 The study of chemistry as applied to practical agriculture, is yet in its infancy and has already borne wonderful increase. In all parts of our country the old modes of cultivating, time hon. ored perhaps, but certainly not generally valua- ble for any other reason, are fast giving way to more rational and more largely productive cus- toms. Although the merest dabber in this sort of thing, I see it, and as citizen of this great glorious, &c. country must rejoice at it,
 This region of beauty which we are fo,tu- nate enough to inhabit has rarely been blessed with more fitting weather for the proper ripening of crops than this season has brought us. The sun, the wind, and the rain have visited us each in due and timely preparation, frosts have kept far from us. Enveloped in the hay mantle of the climate, protected by its soft enco mpassng folds, through the night the waving wealth. of the fields has grown and flourished to full fruiton and never more truly did plenty reign in the land.
 Peace and plenty seem everywhere the watchword, and though our bucolc friends will always find something to grunble at, this year