Litchfield enquirer., 1861-12-26
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Nothing from the Potomac. Army preparing for Christmas celebration
 Later advices from the Upper Potomac indi- cate the probability that the rebel Gen. Jackson has given up the idea of fcrossing the river for the present. All his command, with the exception of few for picket duty, have gone to Martinsburg, though it is understood that the boats intended to be used in crossing have not yet been removed. In all the artillery skirmishes which have taken place at Williamsport and Falling Waters, the rebels have suffered all the damage, not one of oar men having been killed or wounded. The loss of the rebels has been considerable.
 VANITY FAIR had last week, an admirable car feature representing Jef. Davis fishing osf . wharf, with his hook baited with cotton Johnny Bull and Louis Nap seemed to be the fishes about his hook but were not much inclined to take hold, while Jeff. exclaims:-- They wont bite at Cotton, darn 'em! I'd try something else for bait-only ain't gOtnothing else''
 - Its cartoon represented John Bull, with telescope in one hand, gazing across at the war upon our shores, while in the other he held bandanna, evidently being affected to tears by the spectacle, while at his feet clustered miser- able specimens of his starving subjects in poor Ireland and elsewhere, starving and dying.- The following "Advice to John Bull' accom- panies the picture, "Shut up your Telescope, and don't waste your tears upon us. If you want to get up Q "good cry" look ct hsms" Sensible advice.
 The following are some of the lesser "vaui- ties."
 Brush for Baltimore. We are told by the newspapers, that GEN'L MCCLELLAN made . flying visit to Baltimore some days ago. It is to be presumed that the General was accompani- ed by an escort of flying artillery, and it is to be hoped that their wings brushed away some of the traitors from Baltimore as they swept by. That city would not be the verse for General | sweep out just now.
 A Chance for the Old Ships of the Stone Souad- | ron From Whaling up the Northern seas to Sealing up the Southern ports. The Abolitionist's ophthalmia :---Color-blind | ness.
 Sensible Reflection :-Since the successful exploit of Captain Wilkes, in arresting the rebel emlssaries, MASON and SLIDELL, upen the hriny deep, may it not be truthfully asserted thss America rivals England upon the Seize. The Naked Truth :-Thero will be no Close of the year in the revolted States this winter, on account of the scarcity of dry-goods and other l Clothing materials.
 Chargers for the Army:-The Suffers. The ultimatum of idiocy is at last reached We learn from Southern sources that "a man has been arrested in Richmond for stealing . number of blank Confederate Treasury notes." | Contnental Currency Mary Red. Look out for Him 1.-The Norfolk Day Book sayst that ''Gen. SCoTT will soon be in the South, after the manner of Messrs. Mason and Slidell capture" "Scarcely" Mir. Day Book There s a General, however, who twill soon be in the South" after a manner peculiarly his own. His name, to a casual observer, seems to look sOmo- thing like this-McCLELLAx.
 Hard Roads to Travel:-The Roads of the Southern Harbors, when they have been msea- dami2ed by the Stone feet. | The worst kind of tent for Soldier to dwell in: -Discon-tent
 A metallic Reflection We are told that Tin melts at a temperature of A degrees. That must be about tho lowest temperature of the pockets of half the people we know, there.
 Epgram, On a Recent Occurrence. Messrs. Raymond and Greeley; i've say it quite frecly,) You're a jolly green set. And your wits are bu. small,
 In offering to bet
 With tho Herald at all.
 You have known BENNETT long
 That no scruples can feiter;
 And his sheet if you read,
 As you ought to, indeed You should see, by this time, The bad man is no Better! A new Partnership.-The Herald, in ito best " "reli gious' manner, has imagined out . new firm, under the designation eff "Greeley, RAY- MoSD, SATAN and Company" We were not pre- viously aware that the Senior Editor Of the Herald contemplated entering into partnership with Messrs. GREELEY, RAYMOND, and Company. Vanity Fair is as full of Good Things as Christmas Plum pudding is of plums. The Richmond Empainer of the llth has . mournrul plaint over the Federal recogniti, n o the State of Western Virginia, urges it's res torltion to the Confectionery as the sine qua non of the war-strusgle, and says!
 "Western Virginia is indispensable to Ess- tern Virginia and the Confe !eracy. Apart from political considerations, upon the score of Of the mineral wealth of that part of the State it is of the vastest importance to the Sonih. The coal and iron deposits are of illimitablc ex- tent and if we had not lost the salt mines most ridicuously lost them we would not feel the want of this article of prime necessity now"
 A HANDSOME FINANCIAL OrERAT1oS.-A TO- lite operation is attributed to one of our Kentac. ky generals, viz
 By the way, speaking of their currency calls up performance of our Gen. Schoef-tO whom al eyes are turned-in that line, which has ne- yer believe been mentioned ID the papers. When the general arrived in the neishborhOod of London, after the Wild Cat fight, he found that Zocoffer had been levying on Union mon for provisions, forage transportation, &c, and had paid them in confederate ponds. Initiating an example which secessionists thought so unex- ceptionable, Gen. Scoef commenced levying on the secessionsts for similar supplies. Mean- time he assembled the Union men aud opening an exchange office for their benefit set at de6ancO all banking rules by taking the confederate bonds at par, and supplying the Union men with good Ohio and Indiana money in it's stead. Then, when the secessionists presented their bills, he paid them all of with the utmost pOliteness in their own currency. They didn't know suOpsA to be thankful for the arrangement but that wasn't his fault.
 The following are the resolutions passed at the Dublin anti meeting
 Resolred, That the population of the Great Republic from the St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Atlantic to the Paci6o shore, being largely composed of men of Irish birth and Irish blood it would be unnatural to suppose that Ireland could remain an indifferent spectator of the struggle between England and