Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-04

WouId DICK up aG the French capital ana the German watering -places by. contact with Americans. He believes. this coun- try to be composed of enormously rich and extrayagant people, who fling fortunes at the feet of foreign artists without ask ing any questions. Somehow he has got the idea too that coiseums and iubilees are regular things here, and when pressed by Boston people to give an opinion of the magnitude of this festival he intimates that he would rather wait till he has com pared it with the one in New York, which being much larger city, probably builds twice the size and employs forty or fifty thousand in it's choruses.
 There are two or three managers after him. Mr. Fred Huffman is one. The negotiations have progressed so far that the little maestro has consented to con duct these concerts in New York for $2,- 900 night. It is said that when the man. ager advised him of the impracticability of these terms, he replied that there were plenty of gentlemen in that clty who would gladly pay it out of their own peck- cts. $
 This take to be one of the late Colo nel Fisk's chickens coming to us to roost, all the way from Vienna.
 HOT.
 Friday has proved the most unendura- ble day of all. Boston, as you know, boasts of it's wind, which ordinarily blows up in the afternoon and dissipates the city heats. But 1t failed to-day. The crowd ed streets were dreadful. Everywhere the hurrying chorus members with red faces battled with pedestrians and argued with hack drivers. The surcharged street cars broke down, the curbstones and doorways were lined all the way from the Common to the Coliseum with exhausted musicians and parboiled sopranos, who famed themselves with their chorus books. In the immediate vicinity of the jubilee building, which stands, so to speak, in the center of a little desert of ground and debris, treeless and triumphant, the suns rays were whitening. Over all the arid tumble of side shows-that dreadful scorchlng chaos of unpainted blanks and white tents from which ascends the un- ceasing chorus, defiant and discordant. of twenty thousand that cannot be si- lenced-streams this pitiless sun. Down each of the unfinished streets and across the neat wooden bridges that have been thrown over the railroad tracks, tramps the huge black procession of people.
 UNCOMFORTABLE.
 Put one leg of an imaginary pair of compasses down on the Coliseum and with the other draw a half mile circle round it and you will enclose more hu- man discomfort and unrest and disap- pointment and idle curiosity than can be similarly circumscribe anywhere else in the world. But do not understand me to say that this is mob. On the contrary it is we'll behaved, intelligent, and pecu- liarly American assemblage. Very curi- ous, ~parsimonious, very good hu- mored; without the defiant small boy ele- ment that distinguishes New York crowd: requiring no official clubs to temper it's impetuosity. Assembled mainly from Boston and it's tributaries it shows the New England phases on all sides. It's women are pert and independent, it's men inquisitive and suspicious and cautious. and it's small boys are all in holiday col lars with smart, smiling faces. and the air of district school in their demeanor. But 1t is pitiful to see the crowd in the brollng sun about the Coliseum, waiting to hear some of the music escape from the big building. Inside the Coliseum the restless crowd Is much the same. There IS wide aisle or avenue at least thirty feet broad that runs all round the audi torlum, and i'll this ceaseless tramp is kept up by those who have no seats or are lndisposed to occupy them. It is 8 vast promenade, nearly mile long, and it is crowded with pedestrians. Upon the in her edge is fringe of listeners leaning over the rail that separates them from the seats. They strain their bodies forward to catch the sounds, turning at intervals in vexation to curse the promenaders or to appeal with vicious hiss to them to sbe quiet.
 NEITHER PRETTY NOR PIoUs.
 Pretty women here are like angels vis- it's, few and far between. I don't think l that ever in my life have I seen such an aggregate of female unlovliness as is ex. hibited here. There is a prominence o1 eek-bone, a squareness of mouth, a fish mess of eye, and a shapelessness of form ] maddeningly common among these gentle creatures. I don't say they all are so di. abolically ugly that 8 man need run away from them, but I'd rather be drowned than wrecked on an island with some ot them. It seems to me that a great DOT tion of them have been or are ''school ma'ams." They have the positive, au | thoritative way, and weary, faded look common to that class. Some of then have great powers of expression in speech as well as song-powers more to be ad mired for force than grace, profundity rather than piety For instance, the ont heard yesterday telling companion as she pinned up torn overskirt, that this was "the d-dest crowd" she ever was in. | don't think she was common schoo teacher, although she might run Sun day-school class. Doubtless she is on that, and from familiarity with pioui words, is careless of the places she putt them in. -+ E' 4sa
 THE WHOLE THING A HUMBUG.
 You will understand by this time that do not rate the jubilee very high as mu sical event, but considered as jubilee believe it embodies all the forces usually employed in celebration, and they have been shrewdly managed. One or two O the choruses were given with pomp anG power of sound never attained before; bu 1t was the accident of numbers; not thu result of skill, and most of the orchestra works were raw and clustering efforts tha bespoke the incidental character of ths orchestral organization rather than it. 1 at least musical criticism, but the answe of the Boston people to this reminds ma of the old darky in Philadelphia who uset to shout "Hot mullins" He was accostel one cold night by gentleman who agreed to buy some if they were as the vender de clared, truly hot mufins. When he hat purchased his supply, and found them a hard and cold as so many lap-stones, h. turned upon the poor nigger: ''See here you black rascal! I thought you saiG these were hot mufins?"
 ''Why, massa, replied the darky, witl real annoyance, Don't yer understand Oats de name ob 'emY' 4
 So with our Boston musical jubilee That's the name of itl
 The following letter, received by Con necticut man, appears in the Hartfor, Times: -
 ~ NEW YoRK, June II, 1872.
 I have no possible claim t democratic support, and never made any