Litchfield enquirer., 1860-04-26

DENoM1NArIoNAL OXEN IN TExAs.-Tsx. as is great State. It has not only large, growing, mixed, population-every variety of climate and soil, game and stock-but it's very oxen have become denominational, # not sectarian, in name, character and spirit. Iu proof of this we give the following incl. dent
 A minister, travelling along the road met stranger driving wagon, which was pull. ed by four oxen. AS the minister approach. ed, he heard the driver say, "Get up, Pres. byterian p "Gee, Campbellite P Flaw, Baptist w "What are you doing, Metho- dist ?" The minister, struck with the sin. gularity of such names being given to oxen, remarked
 Stranger, you have strange names for your oxen, and wish to know why they had such names given to them"
 The driver replied, II call that lead OK in front Presbyterian, because he is true through every difficult place i; persevering to the end, and then he knows more than all the rest. The one by his side call Campbellite he does very well when you let him go his own way, until he sees water, and then all the world could not keep him out of it, and there he stands, as if his jour. ney was ended. This off OK, behind, is c real Baptist, for he is all the time after water, and will not eat with the others. but is constantly looking, first on the one side and then on the other, at every thing that comes near him. The other, which call Methodist, makes great noise and great to do and you would think that he was pulling all creation, but he don't pull Q pound."
 The minister, having his curiosity gratifed by the explanation, rode on, wondering what he should next see and hear in Texas This is no dream, but real fact, as we have heard it nor are we influenced by dyspep- tic feelings in telling our readers the ecclesi. astical relation of Texas oxen.-Irae Witness. A FAULT Housekeeping for . few hours at the thriving village of Lane, on . recent return trip from Iowa, we find our self quartered at the Lane Hotel, kept by that jovial host, Col. May. The Colonel re. loted story of his predecessor in the "Ho. tei," who was not very remarkable for his assduous attention to the comfort of his SuCoeo. OhC WOiuiuS q iouSCL SounO uV"u from his room, entered the office, and in. quired where he was to go through bis sb' lutions. Landlord informed him dryly thst the creek was about forty rods off. Guest at last succeeded in getting gill of water to wash in, when turning to huge rag sus- pended on a roller, he remarked:
 'I say, landlord, that's an internal dirty towel for man io wipe on"
 Landlord, with look of amazement, re- plied-" We'll, I SNOW, you're mighty par ticular. Sixty or seventy of my boarder: have wiped on that towel this morning, and you arc the first one to find fault"
 Gen. Houston has written long letter declining to have his name go before tho Charleston Convention. He says, |" the Democratic party no longer represents the principles which secured it's triumphs ia the days of Andrew Jackson" and he asks :-- What hope can he who is nominated at Charleston have of calling forth the eonser' vatism of the North, to sustain the ConsH tuition and the Union, when his very nomi nation would carry pledge to place in pow CT those who have already been uutrue to it3'