Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-21

1 ioiseu Au, ehcircieo lh laurel wreath, is tha name Henry Clay" in black marble letters on the end in front of the base, the foilo~i,., Presented by William Struthers, mason. Phiis. dsiphia." The inscriptions on the side of the are from Clay's speeches. One, sI had raths, be right than President Truth is mighty. aps public justice certain" Again, s'I can. with un. shaken confidence appeal the Divine Arbitsr 10, the truth of the declaration, that have been in. huenced by no personal sggrsndisement, but in and warm, devoted heart, directed and Ssaiss, i ted to what, in my best judgment, believed to De the true interests of my country" I VELOCITY OF 1.-THE TIDAL wAvn IN Bosros Han. soR.-from observations made by the coast sur. vey, It mas been determined that the tidal wave \ In Boston harbor flows in from the seq as the rate of nifty miles per hour The wave travel, | the entire distance from Boston lower lisht to the Charlestown dry dock in twelve minutes. The noted Parson Browlow," of Tennessee. who has been saying very strange things about the northern people during the past few years, has turned his guns upon the south. The Knox. vile lTenn.) Whig has an article by him, from which we extract the following :-
 The cotton States may go out of the Union the border States may go out with them-all together may form southern confederacy. We shall adhere to our Union, Consultation and laws, and denounce secession, and the miserable south. ern confederacy that may spring from it, and those who brought it about, though it may cost us our life upon the scaffoldl Nay, we shall dare say in the teeth of South Carolina, that tho federal government ought to enforce her laws,u collect her revenue, and lash the bellious States back into line, at the point of the sword and tho mouth of the cannon l' | In the last issue of the Knoxville Ehig, Par son Brownlow says; We are informed that Mr., of the Ninth Civil District of Knox, has proposed to join company at any time. to come to Knoxville and hang the editor of this paper. We propose next Monday as . suitable day, and we invite our Union friends to attend and witness the execution We propose to make speech under the gallows, and to relate our political experience. There will be mass meeting of the party on that day, and the hahe4 ing of the notorious Brownlow will groslly add to the interest of the occasion i'
 An item of plumber carried away by an Eng fish officer from tho Emperor of China's palace was magnificent gold claret-i jug, valued At e- l2S sterling. X letter from Hong Kong says au artilleryman entered the Summer palace, after the French had pillaged it, and findings brasey- looking jug, which had been rejected for it's sp- pearance and weight, he shouldercd it himself. On arriving at Hoag Kong, he sold it for $SS.- GOO for very pure kind of gold, as it was, and the day after the purchaser again disposed of it for $9,000 advance on his bargain. The profits of the street railroads of New York are enormous. The Third Avenue Road cost about $465, ,000 it is represented by . stock to the value of $l,25O, ,OOO, which not long since was quoted at ITO per cent in other words, 1t returns 20 per cent. on five times its original cost. The Sixth Avenue Road cost about $330, 900, and is represented by 6 stock worth $500, 900, which is valued at 179 per cent. Tho Eighs Avenue Road cost about $26O, 900, which is said to be worth 200 per cent.
 SKArINc.-Speaking of skating, Morris Ba- con of New London, late clerk of the Connecti- cut, as about as easy and graceful skater as wo have ever soen. We saw him on the New Lon don skating pond one day last week, and thought it was an exhibition worth going to see. Thcro was a fellow on the ice though, who beat Morris on one motion. It was graceful perpendicular movement, and, although the fellow was slightly cross-legged, he executed it beautifully. Touch- ing the bottom of the pond with both both feet, he laid his hands on the ice, looked sweetly at the skaters, drew two or three short breaths, and renarked "Elp s out 'Elp $ out!' And Ed. Cleveland, who was with us looking on, said, guess he's forgot something. .'-Norpich Bssi- ittin.
 The following inscription is said to have been found on head board at grave in Sparta dig gins in California
 In memory
 of
 John Smith, who met
 wierlent death this spot
 Is hundred & 40 too-He was shot by his own pistill.
 it was not one of thelnew kind but @ old fashioned one
 bras barrel and of such is tho Kingdom of Heaven.
 NAroArucx RAILROAD DrIDEND.-The Di- rcctors of the Naugatuck Railroad Company have declared semi-annual dividend of per cent. on the capital stock, payable to the stock holders on the 18th inst.
 When is it going to run that morning and evening train again? Travellers up this way arc impatient for the running.
 Ea- A Justice named Todd holds court ia Danbury to try minor offenses. IL mas is found toddied in the street, he is taken into Court and Todd-ed there.-Er.
 This is the same Todd whose Courthouse was burned some years since in Htchfsld, and whose name still remains as a sweet odof" and "savory norssl" in the nostrils of our psopss. | peA- The Special Committee of Five in Con- gress authorized three reports to be made-one I by Mr. Dawes upon the Navy Branch, with reso- lutions conlemning severely Mir. Touceys con- duct in accepting the resignations of traitors; one by Mir. Reynolds on Mir. Bachanan's eorres- pondence with the Secessionists, and one giv- ing general review of the subjects referred to the Committee by Mir. Howard. It is evident that the Secession leaders will grant their followers and the people no liberty of speech and no more liberty of action than to follow them them. The new Confederaey cannot very truly be called Repablie. It is the rsnk- est kind of an Oligarchy.
 It ia stated that while Jobn B. Floyd, that patent, "honest Democrat" was Governor of Virginia, the Legislature ordered two investiga- lions into some mismanagement of the State funds, which they could not understand.
 The bill to appropriate $50 900 for the suffer CTS in Kansas, has passed both Houses of tho N. Y Legislature and now awaits the signature of the Governor.
 When Mir. Sickles offered resolution to eb- serve the 22d of as national holiday, Mr. Gar net of Va. moved to add, after the name of Wash- ington 1" the illustrious virginian and dslavcheld- er" Mir. Cochrane brought the house down by adding " and emancipationist. q psA The Mobile Register announces that Wm. L. .Yaneey is about to retire into private hfe.-- The Southern Confederacy has not appreciated his merits, and he goes into obscufity, victim. of disappointed ambition. -,; r.~.nr+ .rr;vad af Alhanx, < Ws.a~..a..