Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-13
WHOLE NO. 1880.

l NOVEL FEELING OF You've voLusrEEz.--A member of the Cleveland Grays writes l:-aM through Pennsylvania the ladies have treated us like mothers. This afternoon one of the fair daughters of Lancaster worked my initials on my blanket while I stood by and ---- talked about de aceatter. &c. don't kno,p, but t seenss to me merey feH to,cards any person as do toacdrds her ! :" 4
 About midnight on Saturday night, Hart ford man came rushing into town by private conveyance in search of the partner of his bo. som, who had departed her own heme in com pany with party of the style designated by Artemus Ward "gay and festive cuss," and has made this romantic town halting place for the night. But why dwell on this painful theme? He found her, and t'other feller-told her he was "good mind to get mad about it"- but became reconcied and asked her to return home with him. She concluded she'd sforgot I sumthln' " and so went back. Jawy went with them.-Nor,oich Bulletin, 27ht. 35
 The capture of John B. Washington at Fair. fax Court-House was pleasant affair." As au infantry captain of the rebel force, he was prom. inent in the resistance to our cavalry, until Q trooper rode up, caught him by the hair, lifted him bodily upon the pommel of his saddle, and holding him in this position, charged, twice through the town. Capt. Washington complain ed bitterly, but, after having been lectured by Gen. Scott, he concluded to take the oath of sl legiance, and was released. He is now with his family in Washington.
 Here may be seen the difficulty and danger ats tending the utterance of Union sentiments in Tennessee. Etheridge and Johnson named be- low are Unionists-one representative, the oth- CT Senator in Congress. Just hear the amiable tempered Memphis Avalanche: '.
 Tennessee will never be permitted to enter the Southern Confederacy until she hangs this precious brace of traitors The scalps of John. son and Etheridge must be hung up in the South. ern wigwam. In several States the scalp of a wolf commands premium and if these two miserable outcasts place any value upon their own heads, we think it might be wise in them to flee to the Mountains in Hepsidam.'" r"
 | In the engagement at Acquia Creek the Free. born fired 26O shells and shot and the Pawnee 35O The shot from the enemy were from riaed cannon. All the enemies guns, save one, were senced. The Pawnee received five shots, and the Freeborn six.
 The Freeborn carries two 32 pounders and a small brass piece. The " Pawnee" has five guns on each side, and long Tom. After the firing ceased, the rebels set fire to the railroad depot.
 The President and Secretary Seward went on board the " Freeborn" on Sunday evening. The President shook hands with the gunners and highly complimented them.
 l WAR AND WARDRoBEs.-The latest instance of Southern chivalry is the refusal of Gov. Letcher to restore the wardrobe left at Norfolk by the wife of loyal naval officer. This gentleman, born at the South, and married to Northern lady, was true to his flag, and left Norfolk in some haste. His wife being unable to procure her dresses, wrote to Gov. Letcher, asking his Interpretation. The Governor makes answer through his Secretary, that he learns that the officer and his wife have cast off their son for joining the Confederate States, and that he re- served these articles for his use.
 The lady replied that she had not cast off her son. but he was always welcome to return home, where he would be supplied with more fitting apparel than could possibly be afforded by the summer wardrobe of his mother and sister. She | added that her boy must be greatly changed, if he would appropriate to himself the property of others without right.
 | RThis correspondence, shows to what shifts the statesmen of Virginia are reduced Henceforth we shall always think of the chivalry stealing chemises-the old Dominion, mother of States 1 and Presidents, dressing the wives of her great men in laces pilfered from lady's trunk. From giving birth to Washington, to the larceny of a lady's wardrobe, is great step, and this step the Commonwealth of Virginia has taken.
 SPRING Pres.-The first of April brings along filters of pigs, and they continue to come pen where the air has no draft through it. They must have air, but it will come in fast enough above the boarding The mother should not be- disturbed before or after littering. Nothing is. more detrimental than removing her. from one pen to another before she has her pigs. Thou sands of pigs have been lost by such removals a. week or two before her time to litter. When she runs at large she always chooses to be alone at such times, and she will quietly go off into, the woods, and keep her pigs there for twenty, four hours before going home to be fed. This; is the natural course when she can choose for herself. Sows should never be fed soon after littering. It is better to let them fast for whole day than to feed them too soon. But all are prone to injure the mother of dozen pigs by kindness. They look so funny while taking their breakfast and dinner from the same fontl-- tain, that we are in haste to replenish that foun- tain, though we may occasion a loss of appetite in the mother which will prove more injuriousL than to let her fast for two or three days. Some ravenous breed of hogs will incline to kill and eat their own offspring before they are old enough to take care of themselves. This is supposed to arise from a morbid appetite for meat Some farmers throw piece of salt pork into the pen to turn her attention from hep pigs and appease her appetite.
 TIE ATrLEBoRo' DoDGE.-How many of our readers know what that is It was a plan adopt- ed years ago by manufacturers of cheap jewell ry, to buy of the honest houses in the trade the moulds which they had made for the manufac- ture of really first class gold jeweIry. In such moulds, according to New York paper our Dollar Jewelry" men make up those articles which for the last six weeks have been seen and wondered over by the public, exhibited in cer- tain shop windows in our principal thorough fares. Every species of jewelry ornament is made up in form sets of earrings and breast pins, bracelets, watchchains, rings, seals, watch keys-some set with those French glass baubles tinted to represent pearls--some with polished white and colored bone, cut and fashioned in imitation of coral some with plaster moldings' and called canoes some with daubings on sna- ded clay, to initiate mosaics; all of them ser IT, attached to, or surrounded by, the socalled golo, and each piece displayed in the windows, and spread out on cards in glass cases inslae tne :. store, and labelled prominently on piacafd on which, in staring letters, is painted, Any sru, cle of iewery in this store for only one go,iar. Reader let us tell you that in seven-eigntns or this stuff there is mot one grain of gold and : even in that single proportion the quantity or cold in each piece does not amount to the value of two and half cents" The principal com