Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-27
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speaker, I was in the American army. Ono 1 day shouldered my gun, and went in pursuit of game. In passing through swamp, Isaw some thing . few feet ahead of me, lying upon the ground, which had every appearances Of d loe. ft being some forty feet in length, and about one Inothing but log, that paid no attention to it; the fact is, would have sworn before court of justice that it was log, and nothing else. You see I never heard of snakes growing to such hugh dimensiofs and the fact is, never should have believed it if had. We'll, between mo and the log, as took it to be, was mify place, which it was necessary for me to avoid. Ithers- fore placed the butt of the gun on the ground ahead of me; and springing upon it. lit right on top of-what do you supposeF
 A boa constrictor, said one.
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 An anaconda,' said another
 What then, could it have been r asked a third. Just what I supposed it to be-a log,' said the wag
 BURNING FoRr.-Quite an original method of taking fort is described in the last number of Blackwood's Magazine. In 1896, large Russian army besieged the Turkish fort at Azof, which was situated on plain, strongly fortified, and had small but we'll disciplined garrison.--- No common approaches could be made to it, and the Turkish cannon swept the level with iron hail. In this case the engineering skill of the Russians was baffled, but Gen. Patrick Gordon, the right hand man of Peter the Great, and the only one for whose death, it is said he ever shed tear being determined to take the place at any cost, proposed to bury it with dirt by gradual approaches. He had large army; the soil was l light and deep, and he set twelvevthousand men to work with spades, throwing upa high circum- vallation of earth, and advancing nearer and nearer every day to the place, by throwing up the huge earth wall before them in advance The men kept in gangs, working day and night. the earth being thrown from one to another like the steps of a stair, the top gang taking the lowest place every half hour in succession. In five weeks the huge earth wall was carried fof. ward nearly one mile until tt rose to and above | the highest ramparts, and the earth began to roll over them. This caused the Turkish Gov. ernor to hang out the white flag and give ins- Had he not done so General Gordon would have buried the fortress -Eschdnge.
 | DISSATISFACTION AMONG OFFICERS OF THE REG. ULAR ARMy.---It is said in New York there is petition in private circulation among the officers of two or three regiments of the regular army praying that the practice of exalting uneduca- ted military men above old officers be discontin-
 
 it. The sgners ask whether it is right to ignore promotions in war time, that civilians may be made distinguished. Annexed is . paragraph from the document "There are one hundred l and sixty men kuown to eight suhscribers of this petition who have grown grey as Lisuton. ants, nine-tenths of them having averaged seven years in the field. Can the feelings of these men be still, when a citizen just appointed de- mands from them the salute of subordinate, | .nh hr1 hx,vsy to gentlemen have resigned since the 28th of May, because they were ordered to serve under per. sons of no military skill
 1 WHAT JOHN BROWN, JR., IS DoINa.-A corres- pondent of the Times writes as follows:
 John Brown, Jr., instead of being, as reported, raising men to invade the South is engaged in Canada West in organizing the vanguard of an industrial army, whose aim is to take up the power so madly flung away by the seeded states, and make of King Cotton democratic chief, whose rule shall bless not destroy. In other words, Mir. Brown is organizing cotton growing colonies among the colored people of Canada. All of the emigrants who have gone to Hayti intend to raise cotton. It is calculated that within one year Hayti would place upon the wharves of Liverpool one million bales of cot ton, equal in value to the Egyptian variety, and surpassed only by the sea Island. Thousands of emigrants have announced their intention of going, but in all probability will be deterred by the late Spanish outrage.
 n@.A good anecdote is told upon Lord Ly- ons, the English Minister resident in Washing ton. Promenading with beautiful American woman few evenings ago, at the reception Of one of the Cabinet Ministers, he remarked upon the splendor of her dress, which was a chaste blue silk, brilliant spangled. But observe" he said, "that you display thirty-6ve stars in- stead of thirty-four-one too many" "Oh, no my Lord" said the fair patriot, "the additional star is Canada!'
 clergyman in the backwoods of Illinois who had never seen the ocean, was drawing smile between some religious tenet and another, and fearing his congregation might not understand the use of the anchor he thus described it:
 "It is large iron instrument that sailors car. ry to sea with them, and when storm arises, they take it on shore, fasten it to tree, and that holds the ship still till the storm blows over"
 | VARIOUS ITBMs-Marshsl Ronnihnt of Bal. timore is at work. On Thurday he seized large quantity of powder, and other contraband arti- cles, together with considerable amount of spe. cie intended for the rebels.
 The rumor that large quantities of arms and munitions belonging to the secsssionists, have been landed in Havana is contradicted. The Captain General assured Mir. Schufsldt that it would not be allowed. It may be probable that some rejected muskets of the Spanish army, not exceeding 10000, have been bought at auction by agents of the rebel confederacy.
 The steamer Sawnee from New Orleans. arri. ved at Key West on the l4th ut. Lieut. Craven refused to give her clearance for any port in the seeded States, and she declined one for New York; therefore sine was detained for the use of the Government, and was sent on a successful search for the bark Mystic, which she fell in with at sea, piloting to Key West. The Sawnee then sailed for Fort Pickens with 70 men and full freight of stores for the relief of Col. Brown. A letter from the flag ship Minnesota, dated oil Charleston, 30th ult., says that three steam. CTS were seen the day previous, standing out of Charleston. Our men were immediately at their quarters, the guns shotted and run out ;sbut the steamers did not cross the bar, though one came within three miles of the Minnesota, when she put about for the land.
 IN HONOR OF ELLswoRTH.--Av very beautiful National Flag, made of the best bunting, its di, mensions being l3 by 2l feet has been pur. chased by the ladies of Mechanicsville. and faiz. ed over the grave of the gallant Col, EErswoRrn. in the village battle-ground, This testimony of respect is plainly visible to the passengers in the railroad cars which pass within few rods of the grave. ss It has been settled by repeated experiment thai a vezSa "a sed u;tb fc,,- .l s-.. ' c