Litchfield enquirer., 1862-03-27
Hartford Correspondence.

Sooooh SUoCISdtIOu5 &Uu3enGHJ Of 0fU friends, to find that, without intendingit it, he is tbeeoming the medium of enlightenment for tho venerable and respectable newspapers, beg par. fdon, meant papers, published at the respective capitols of our becapitoled state,t.I wish could recollect now, the name of theI funny man, who said he never dared write as funny as he could, fafter once looking out his window and seeing a fayorite servant rolling in convulsions after peep ling int0a manuscript he had given him to take to fthe printers. ] am afraid to write all see and hear, because know the space of these papers ] IS we'll filed with advertisements which pays bet ter than ne,cs even when it comes via LitchGeld hill, altho the people have foolish preference fer theAneMs when they read.~ If yonFs seetempo- raries won't copy it, or if they do will credit 1t to the ENQUIRER, II will give you some more con- t'aband which will show you that the rural Press is power in the land. Immediately after the issue of the last ENou1REk Hon. John Woodruff was pressed to accept a Bfigadier iGeneralship !, and it is rarnored that the glorious old chief On whose beard the frost that never melts glean,s, has been appointed to an important commission under, the, Federal Government, requiring the judicial qualifications he possesses,so prominent jly. regret extremely that the truth oompesi me to add that Genl w oodruf was under the iieces- sity, owing to physical disability, to, refuse to serve his country on the field alike of danger and honor, while rurnor has it that the. ex-chief Jus tice IS more intent upon matters matrimonial just now, than worrying over the complicated accounts of any department of the goyernmenti
 ! But it is delightful to the aching hearts of the unrecognized wheel-horses in the Republican orc ganization, to know that even at dths eleventh hour, those who represent us at Washington re- collect that there is such a state as Connecticut, and that W ithn it are men abundantly qualified to fill posts of honor and of trust. They are will ing to pardon the unanswered letters, the unheed. ed petitions, and to forget the awful hotel bills they paid at Willard's and the National, in view of the late recovery of money, for they know what purchases of merchant vessels Sec'y Welles has had to make, and the ardous 'labors of Senator Dixon in the miserable Hartford Post-0 Office em- broglis. Some doubting Thomases still incre- dulously ask, why Senator Dixon did not settle this last in December, when it was first brought to bis notice, and before miserable newspaper war had been got up by the ofhcious interference of over-zealous editors outside of Hartford? q They say he had it in his hands or ratser he said t acas. These same incredulons people ask, why he published that singular letter of P. M Genl Blair, just before the election? It was a strange performance, for the letter virtually says 1. T. supports the administration as unwaverinp- ly as Mir. Dixon does, and the publication of the letter virtually admits, on Senator D. $ part that this is true. Of course Senator D. k,,o,ps how he supports the administration and zee kno,c ho,c Isaac 1oucey does How funny that letter reads when we turn to the piteous lament I. T. sent up on the occasion of the Breckinridge meeting at Touro Hall, so graphically reported in the Hart. ford Times when he said 6 the people of the North may be divided into two classes, one of hem small indeed, WITHOUT THEIR ALLIES, but still two classes" Poor Isaac, signing after the flesh pots still, and those LOST ALLIES r. They are gone like the lost tribes, s'goae where good niggers 90" never to return. ' i'l
 It is pleasant to recall them, Breckinridge 6 wanderer and an exile from Kentucky, not ,chis. key; Cobb, Floyd and Thompson spending their stealings in stealing away from the old flag Da- wis, Hunter, Toombs, Slidell and Mason; ALL GONE. 1. No one who did not hear the gravely sad, the, pathetic and touching tone in which our icy late Secretary said, THIS IS SMALL INDEED AT THE NoRTH,' can realize the heartfelt regret Isaac felt at his parting from those ALLIES- No one who heard him supposed Senator Dixon and Montgomery Blair were included, but they were mistaken it seems. at least, as far as these gentlemen know themselves.
 Politics are good things in their way, but not wlthstanding the war, we really do something else occasionally at the head of sloop navigation. besides wrangling over our Cleueland. You may not believe this, but it is veriabe fact notwith standing Why, in the last week we have had performed, for the first time successfully ill New l England, the magnificent oratorio of the Messiah to two thousand people, all comfortably seated in the most perfect Opera House in New England | (except the Music Hall at New Haven,) II hope the Pahadium will be satisfied i; if not, make it stronger.) This room is about one hundred feet square, an ample space is reserved for complete stage equipment, and the boxes and gallery are so arranged, the latter being modelled after the ! lchu nf hory, &hoAf, l. ges of the elipse are secured, while at the same time exceedingly pleasant architectural effect is produced. The decorations are chaste in de- sign and color, and the ceiling is paneled after the style of the Senate chamber in Washington, leaving out the horrid symbols painted on the latter. It is easier to describe the building and to descant on the parterre of loveliness, that swept round the gallery radiant with the wealth of youth and beauty, and gay with the thousand attractions ofrecherche toiettes,-ol Dr. Hawes looking grandly the old Puritan from the upper box on the right-than it is to attempt to say a word about the Messiah itself.
 Raphael has painted the Son of Man. and none who have gazed on the 'Trans6guration, peerless among paintings ever felt other than hoier for that vision. Yet it was a grander task to attempt to weave sound with all it's store of harmony and dscord into a majestic, soulthrill ing record of the two years in Palestine, eighteen centuries ago when God and man united in the | Messiah. d" 'E3 57S2 T' ,,i"
 Fools walk where angels dare net tread" l confess had in mind when heard the Bethoy- en society aided by the Gernania orchestra, were to attempt the oratorio. knew the mass of musical talent here, and knew the repute of the orchestra, but knew that this did not alone tensure success, that it needed the master hand of the organizer to weld all together, and dread. ed the effect of an unsuccessful whole, in the rendering of so sacred thing. The great com poser, like the great painter, had achieved suc- cess from the Unto us child is born" to the grand triumphant burst of the Halelujah chorus, this majestic creation of sound marches on, chorus and echo attending. in the matchless and ever imposing whole. l am no critic, and I shall not tell you how this might have been bet tered and that changed, how Madam had cold and Monsieur was not in voice. It is with the whole deal, and I verify believe that a nobler, holier service was never held within cathedral walls than this. .is ,.,,
 You must pardon my taking so much of your space, but find haven't said word about the Masons. Isuppose there are some out your way, and in any event there is something attractive to 1 my fancy, in centennial celebration it is so pleasant in this young, jarring, bustng, discord- ant, beiligerent nation of ours, to see something older than it is. St. Johns Lodge, born before Bunker Hill was crimsoned with red coats and gore, way back in that fabled time when school boys are taught to believe. Washington 1sfused to teN q lie and thus became the savior of Amer [ica The records of the Lodge tell us that old ! Put was in the Lodge way back in the stormy days, wien he led the loyal boys of the colony