Litchfield enquirer., 1861-03-28
WHOLE NO. 1869.

WHOLE NO. 1869.
 Hos, DAVID wILMor. was on Thursday last, saecsea senator by the Pennsylvania legislature, Tn place of MT. Cameron
 nA- MT. Richard Sands. the world-renowned circus proprietor, died recently at Havana He leaves family and an ample fortune.
 | RaF Southern men state that the action of the administration. tending to the development of a peace policy. has completely astonished the .. cessionists hy depriving them of a great part of the canital on the strength of which they carry | on their movements.
 pea. It is understood at the Post Office De- partment that the Postmasters in the seeded States have received secret instructions from the revolutionary government at Montgomery to continue their old official relations for the pres sent.
 hag Some time since negro named Cyphus was hung for murder in Baltimore. He protes. ted his innocence. but in vain-the gibbet got him A negro died in that city recently who declared on his death-bed that he committed the murder for which Cyphus suffered, and that Cyphus was innocent.
 HeA. The Seeding States, in spite of their or. dinances seem to be nowhere recognized as out of the Union. They are counted in with Kansas tO Wdke tnIfty-IOuF OtuteS anu enter all calcula tions which look to the action of majority of the States. Indeed they do not seem to recog- nizc themselves as out of the Union, and freely avail themselves of "U Uncle Sam's' money and name whatever and whenever they can be of pro- ftable use. The children are not weaned, and are excusable for hanging on to the taxes.- Richmond Whig.
 R9~ Newburyport, Mass, is put down as con- taining more old people than any other place of 1iko porp1otop in tho Trpino. hot ,;tx s, markedly healthy, and peopled by very intelli. gent class Another remarkable fact is the num- Der of large and fine looking houses built in the old style, the manorial residences of the antique 3 burehers of the Merrimac metropolis, with port 3 and sherry in the cellars by the pipe The Staunton (va) Spectator expresses the conviction, in which many Southern exchanges concur, that if the people of the Seeding States had been allowed fairly to vote upon the ques. tion of ratifying or rejecting the ordinances of secession, they would have been rejected in every State except South Carolina. Wherever the peo- pie have had a fair opportunity of being heard, and of calmly considering their action, they have declared strongly in favor of the preservation of the Union.
 D6r A prominent secession leader in Charles. ton has received during the past week. a letter from friend of his in Montgomery, in which he stated that he considered the new Government almost as bad as the one against which they had rebeed, and there are hundreds and thousands in the neighboring State of Georgia who believe it is great deal worse, and who will be heard to say so ere March is gone.
 BEA- A distinguished writer says" There is but one passage in the Bible where the girls are commanded to kiss the men, and that is in the golden rule, 'Whats. ever ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so to them.'"
 EaE~ The Bristol Times reports the following conversation between two fast'' urchins under IA years of age as having actually been over smoke much now?" "No the cigars are so bad now, that unless a man (!) imports his own tobacco, he can't get on with comfort"
 WA. Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, brother of Hem ry Ward walking through Elmira, saw Q poor widow who had no one to help her, saving her wood. Immediately, off went his overcoat and muller, and sound ministerial muscle soon in- ished the little pile she had The next day c cord of wood was laid before the widows door, and sawed and piled by two men-the pay com ing out of the Reverend Beechers pocket.
 Da% Orville Gardner, the converted pugillist in New York, has become insane, from too great zeal in his religious and reform efforts. He has been taken to quiet place in Pennsylvania where it is hoped he may rest and recover.
 Has Capt. Latham, alias Ruiz, who has been in prison in New York since the Sth of January, has escaped He was charged with the capital offence of taking slaves from the coast of Africa on board the slave ship Cora, of which he was master and part owner, and which was captured by government vessel with slaves on board,- An officer went with him on Friday evening to @ store on Broadway to make some purchases, as alleged, and while thus engaged he succeeded in making his escape.
 THE FINANCIAL RESULT OF BuoHAxAN's Ap- MINIsTRATIoN,-Mr Sherman recently made in the House concise and very forcible exhibit of l the condition in which the national finances are placed. The absolute public debt outstanding at this moment is no less than eighty-seven mil- lions of dollars and adding what is required to satisfy the Choctaw and Indian trust fund, and other special objects, the amount of debt becomes $96 lss, 994. The public debt four years ago was only $29, ,06O, ,3S5, against which there was balance in the Treasury of $17, ,71O,- ll4 making the net acptual debt at that time only $11.35O,272. The increase of debt in four years has been no less than $84, ,S32, ,722, or at the rate of $21, 100000. per annum.
 DaE. Prentice of the Louisville Journal, whose shots are generally true to the mark, thus hits the rebcls
 Jog LANE.-General Joe Lane, when he found his secessionism repudiated by Oregon, made his arrangements immediately to emigrate to North Carolina. It seems, however, that North Caro- lima has repudiated secession, and we guess the General will conclude at once to go still further South we presume he VIII not pc aDle 10 ma, this side of South Carolina, Test either for the sole of his foot or for any soul he has about him. | THE FIERY PIT OF DIsUNIoN Let our citi- zens be patient We have for the moment it is | true, some hardshps to bear here on the high 1 and fair plain of the Union, but nothing com. pared to what seeding brethren are suffer- | ing down in the fiery pit of disunion. If we stand firm shall be able not only to relieve ourselves but to restore them if we falter finch reel and sink into the common pit, we shall all suffer irretrievable ruin together No citizen amongst us, governed by an enlightened selfin- terest alone, can hesitate for an instant in his loyalty to the Union.
 LETTER FROM SENATOR Jo. LAxE.-vanity Fair gives the following. Whether it is genuine or not the friends of the defeated war hawse" can easily tell:
 SENT CHAMBER, Washngtun, March the third l8&6O onct. Eds. ponn, ty Fuire :-if god srairs my live I | shall seseed with in 70 dase. jonson of tennysea | is feInenst me, but he haint got no intellect into him. Sivil war is sertin & I wants to here the Kannin Bore. Hist the Palmettoe bannir from on top your office & let it wave to the Brees.-- Don't mucillate this mannerssript and be particu. lar not to make no Mistniks in the spellin and punktooate it proper. amerykan Statesmen sui. | f,,, T,o,, so~of,1ns rarers which tries fO hrinO