Litchfield enquirer., 1861-07-18
From the Louisville (Ky.) Journal.

eessionists. The following very handsome let ter, received by one of our fellow kentuckians, does not indicate it.
 EXECUTIVE MANSION June 20, 1861.
 My DEAR SIR:-It gives me very great pleas ure to be the medium of transmission of these weapons to be used in the defence of national sovereignty upon the soil of Kentucky.
 Though some years have passed since left my native state, have never ceased to contem- plate her progress in happiness and prosperity with sentiments of fond and filial pride. In every effort of industrial energy, in every enter prise of honor and valOr, my heart has been with her. And 1 rejoice in the consciousness that, at this time, when the institutions to whose fos- tering care we owe all that we have of happiness and glory, are rudely assailed by ungrateful and parrlcidal hands, the state of Kentucky, ever true and loyal, furnishes to the insulted flag of the Union a guard of her best and brayest sons. On every field the prowess of Kentuckians has been manifested. in the holy cause of national defence they must be invincble.
 Please accept, sir, these weapons. a token of the love shall never cease to cherish for my mother state, of the pride with which have al ways regarded the exploits of her sons, and of the confidence which l feel in the ultimate loy- alty of her people, who, while never forgetting the homage which their beloved state may Just ly claim, still remember the higher and grander allegiance due to our common country.
 Yours, very sincerely, MARY LINCOLN Colonel John Fry.
 TIE LATE BArrLE-Much apprehension, says the Washington Sur, exists around us as to the exact locality of Gen. McClellans important en- gagement, which we proceed to clear up, as fol- lows:
 The battle took place at what has heretofore been termed in the newspapers the Laurel Hill intrenchments of the Disunionists, where Ex- Capt. fU. s. Al Padran was in command of some 2.0O0 to 2500 of what was known as Ex- Major (U. s. Al Bob Garnett's division of the army of Gen. Henry X. Wise
 Laurel Hill is lot mere knob, but a ong ridge or rib of the Alleghanies eXpending for at least one hundred miles iE length. The Ealti- more and Ohio Railroad pierccs it by means oi the celebrated KingwoOd Tunnel, the longest iii the world. It stretches down in a direction little west of south, to the head waters of the Kanawha there called the Greenbrier River. The main turnpike leading to Siaunton lover which Wise's army passed from Eastern Virgin ia to get tlIus whipped out of their boots.) runs along Laurel Hills base. Lealsville Beverly, and Huttonville are situated on that turnpike.
 TIE SAME OLD DEvn-J. Davis of the C. <. A. is not original in his doctrine of ' Let Us alone'-it was promulgated hy saceSsioni:t il early times as recorded ir Mark, chap. ,, verses 22 and 2i:
 And ihcre was in their synagogue q man with an unclcan spirit an! Ii. cried out. saying, Let us d!oRc..'
 The history adds:
 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, h. came out of him.''-f'ress-
 BrEcIARY AND ROBBERY IH BnrD4r.oRr.- The residence of Peter l.. Perry, in B..i rrpyrt was entered by a burglar between and , o' clpcN Saturday morning, and robbed of li;lle S2O in money. notes to the vau" of several thou sand dollars, ban! booAs, and papers of value, taken from d drawer in ,,r. Pcrrya sleeping room. Mr. P. was disturbed hy the noise and started to get up and see what the matter was, when the rogue dccampte, without oh;ninng an, other booty though qta:lily Of jeweiry was lying on the dreSsin: t:l'!r.
 THREE revenue cutters h2y.. bn,.l (. patched from New York. aid two from Boston. i., t.d;!i- ton to several "unDoatS tro:a ini;a,ytv'.i ill search of the pirit. vessel '' ic'i bAv!.. tJni- Inrdcrc Strin",.r !las a,o ",.,r iyt nu,i>,. o it drprr,!aIiui.-. E :w:,.l: t!ttn al, i. #::. b strange if shr >hon!i ">:apa. i:nG r,,i,lc tie hrcC,ius :,rxps l>-.f', wh".. .h. ;..1,.:cS d. ready caught :., hang.
 -9AIbH i'.N. Et'ii.;..,. .. .a ji Gen. Robert rl!,r,an ,sls b,r.l ip ireland in !I32. au,l rmEr;.tr to :hi: y"a,ttry yh":. u:,il, y'ans, taking up Iii na 'dc il .ni!a ~l .ti... l!n received Il colir~ia," ciucaton, nd eAriy mani Tested military ,uci:nati,nS. .tttyr grat!uliinH Colleg@, he app ,nra First Lieutenant in the 22d Regiment of regular |. $. Infantry. in April, lSl:I. he w.ts transferred to the 32.l h. fantry appointed Assistant Dcpaty Qu':cr;naS ter General (wih the rank ni captain,) January 1913, and Cap:ain-nuc. l&l 1. and thrlelpnn reliaqaished r,nh in the staff. !I2 retired from the army in the same year, upon !hc dishand ment of his regiment. lie subsequently follow cd the profession of thc law n his adopted city. and for many years was connerted w;h tn, mili- tary of Philadelphia. In lSi1, he was appel tied Major General of volanrcr', and pr1ceeAcd 10 Mexico and as 'uned commani of lis division. He was actively cngaecl in the siege of Vera Cruz, but shortly afierward his health f2ilcd. and he returned to the United States, ard was there fore unable to take part in the well-contested battles in the upper part of Mexico, which crowned the American arms with glory and con quered peace.
 While Mrs. Harrison Whiting of Colcbrook was strawberryng the other day, a black snake eight feet long attacked her and coiled himself around one of her legs. After brilliant skir- mish the snake was defeated, and the lady re- tired in good order to her house, when she took a position.
 The United States arsenal at Frankford. Pa.. has just sent to the ammunition headquarters large cargo of caps. primers, &c This estab- iishment is one of the largest of the kind in the United States. It covers about sixty acres of ground, and is surrounded by d wall ten feet high and from twelve 10 eighteen inches thick Some 10000 muskets have been forwarded to the house for repairs. About l2000 percussion caps are manufactured every twenty four hours, the machines running night and day, Sundays not excepted. Thirty men and boys employed in the department where friction primers are made, and turn out daily about 5000 of them. These primers have worked up in them $2O0 worth of material every twenty-five hours, and 5000 pounds of acid are required to make 3,000 pounds of powder used in making them.
 ASSASSINATION APPLAUDED.-An old trapper of high responsibility, who resided in Hampton for many years, named Benjamin Phillips, was coming up the road near Hampton in the after noon armed with a double-barrel gun. Seeing buggy some distance ahead of him, he slipped into the woods and waited its approach. He soon discovered two officers seated in the buggy, and saw from their distressed appearance that they were in no condition to do him much dam- age. They hailed him as they passed him. ask ing who he was. He replied by tellinc them to pass As soon as they did so the old man let fly both barrels of his gun in rnnd succoS- sion into the back of the buggy. A shriek wos heard and one of the officers leaped out and tooL to the woods. The other fell forward. and tho buggy passed on. Mir. Phillips is of the imnres. xl,o ;aly bo