Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-20
WHOLE NO. 1881.
Short lDaraardpIys.

thls season seem to have run largely to Craze and our opinion is that they will soon go to Grass.
 HERE TREY LrE--Jeff Davis and his Vice. l Stephens, are very great leaders no doubt, but we do think that Toombs ought to be put over them.
 BouND TO RUN.-"Governmen is a Machine" I-l Talleyrand.
 Won't that suit our Bremen Zouaves to a dot
 UNEXPECTED ADVANCE IN SourHEN GRAIN. The advance of our troops into the Virginia corn fields. t aa, .. .z.............'.
 Nor so BAD.-The ladies have adopted red, white and blue hoop, which is called the war hoop. t....5-.
 A GeoD PLACE FOR THE BLACKS TO ENioRArs TO Colorado.
 THE SOLDIERS PnLow-His nap sack. AN IDYII-'St down fair Phills on the fiowery Bank and while Philomel chants his roundelay partake with me of this rural Banauet I have made for thee.'
 Thus spake the sheperd Corydon to her he | loved.
 And Phyllis sat down among the dewy grass, and then she found the Bank wet.
 PUr THAT IN YOUR P1PE, JEFF.-Ifgiving com fort to an enemy is treason let Jeff Davis hang all his tobacco planters. Just see what lot of Solace they have furnished to the North Vanity Fair. OFFICIAL JoKING.-JoKR No 1. The Commit tee on Foreign Affairs of the Confederate States in recent labored report perpetrate the follow ing excellent official joke Ou. hte associates hare seized Me ,olole of tbe U,,ited States Naov, one ha5of ,chich belongs to ,s, aud design usino tt against us." The United States government is actually charged with having seized it's own ships!
 JOKE No. 2-The Congress of the Confede- rate States, through the person of Lawrence NJ. Keitt, Esq, an ex-M. c. from the State of South Carolina is asked to extend its protection to the Indians south of Kansas. These Indians live upon United States territory, and are protec ment The proposition therefore, to protect them further sounds very much like joke
 JOKE No. 3.-Secretary -ofwar Walker of the Confederate States prophesied that the Confed- crate States flag would fly over the Capitol at Washington before the 1st of May. A New Orleans journal noticing the effect of this threat upon the supporters of the government presumes now that the Secretary was only joking. JOKE No. 4.-The best joke of all is that Mir Davis asks ito be let alone" Uncle Sam is ex pected either to stand on one side and allow Mr. Davis to pass, or to stand and deliver. All he asks is "to be let alone.''
 A BATTLE FIELD.-The grouping of falling men and horses; the many heaped up masses of | u0t1u 5tldLRCiy uy tH6 uNlug malAeu among them, showing the points where the dead ly strife had been the most severe the comming- ling ofuniforms of friends and foes, as both lie scattered on the ground on which they fell the groups surrounding this and that individual suff erer, hearing his last words, giving to him the last drop of water which will ever moisten his lips upon earth. The stretchers borne from va rious points, each carrying some officer or pri- vate soldier, still dreaming of the charge in which he met his wound, and the thoughts of home that flashed upon the heart as it seemed to com init that heart to moments oblivion of all else Then comes the first dawn of hope that life may be spared the view of horrid objects passed hope of life growing stronger, but with it now the dread of some operation to be undergone the sound of guns still heard, begetting a fe- verish impatient desire to know the result of the battle-Again partial widening up at the voice of the surgeon; he and his attendants seem as though they spoke in whispers; the still further reusing of the mind as the cordial administered begins to take effect the voice of a comr de or friend lying close by, himself wounded, yet speaking to cheer the operation borne bravely, and felt the less as it gives promise of life just now seemingly lost to hope through it all fresh news ever arriving from amidst the din of the strife still raging all this has life and motion and spirit in it which rocks the real grave horror of the scene.
 One of the Rhode Island volunteers at Wash. ington writes home as follows
 "Pets are common, many messes having dog, and two or three have villianous crows that have grown quite tame, aud go hopping around and snap at caressing fingers The Marine Artillery, have bought a small colored youth from his own mother, for the extrayagant sum of fifty cents, and hold him as a chattel He is an interesting child quick and disccr- ming. The Marines are very proud of him, and are violently debating the sort of costume ill which he shall be arrayed, in the meantime he is in several suits of several sizes This ingenious youth the other day stole crow from a mess, swapped it off for pie, ate the pie stole back I the crow and returned it, and was detected and well thrashed, the whole occupying some twenty minutes The only work for which he appears l to be adapted is clearing of the table and this he does by eating all that is left. The ago of this precocous child is twelve, and he looks the own brother to the "What Is It." 1 The soldiers have their fun in camp, of which an item leaks out occasionally. A story is told of a challenge by sentinel of the New York 69th, which is amusing, The " Grand Rounds" are composed of officers high in rauk and pri- vate cannot address them as the privates address each other. We'll, the "Grand Rounds" ap- preached "Who comes there?" challenged the son 0f Emerald Isle. Grand hOund' was the reply. The sentinel, instead of saying, " Halt, Grand Rounds-advance, sergeant, and give the countersign," said; "To hl wid yer gran rouns-I thought it the relafe l"-The counter, sign of one of the regiments was "Richmond, D the other night. A Dutchman was on guard in one place, when man approached the larger bier genius said to him, after challenging sfYou no knms dis way mitout Richmons ta Good for Hans.''
 CApr. ADAMS of Sabine, one of the vessels of the Pensacola fleet, has two sons in the secession ranks under Bragg His daughter is vivan- diere in one of the Louisiana regiments. This young Amazon wrote to her father, requesting him to join the secession forces but if he did not she prayed that he would be starved out. The old man recounts the circumstance with the l greatest sang froid, and concludes with the re- mark, !" She is a thoughtless young thing, and will soon get over it."
 | A CpIscIDENcE-The Boston 1'ransoript says I Miss Spahbrd, to whom Col. Ellsworth was en- gagged to be married, is the great great niece of Gen. Joseph Warren, who fell on Bunker Hill. She-is the great granddaughter of the late Dr. John Warren, of Boston, the father of the late Dr. John c, Warren, It is remarkable cir constance that this young lady should be con nected with the first prominent martyr off inc 1 American Revolution, and with tho sfrst com mssiened officer slain in the ounfict of i8- sI 6l. 1 Dr. Holiness og New YnrL ,lo ,,oL...5