Litchfield enquirer., 1861-01-03

!. " A''"te, Is to act as Secretary to the Commission from South Caroline to Washington Our foreign" friends. if str;las are drawing rather largely on the Governmon. =. Washington for their working force. They hove stripped the Cabinet pretty clean aIrsadv Cobb, of Georgia, after serving the cause of 60 cession, by spending three hundred millions If the federal money, and plunging the Federa, Treasury into bankruptcy, ran away, like mid night incendiary from the ruin he had caused Thompson, another Cabinet officer, was selected as Secession Commissioner from Misslssinn to North Carolina,-while holding office and drawing pay from the Federal Government- ard was only interrupted in his task by the ne cessity of returning to look after some of his un derlings and accomplices in the Department over which he presides. Floyd stays in the War De partment to provide Federal arms for the Dis. unionists-and see that the power of the Fede- ral Government is not used against them- Heartt superntends the Public Printing of the Executive Department for the purpose of ci,cu, lating secession documents. And SO in every Department of tue General Government the agents of secession are busy in destroying the Union they have sworn to support, and which pays them for their services.
 This IS pleasant state of things It excites cheerful and kindly feelings in the American heart, towards the President who is responsible for it all. MT. Buchanan is heaping up debt of gratitude on the part of the people which they will never be able to repay during bis life time, It will require history, and the verdict of pesterity, to do justice to his conduct in the present crisis of our affairs. But he may rest assured he will have it.-N r. Times.
 TIE Palladium records the adventures of !. plucky eight years old boy, named Coe, belong. ing in Madison. He went to New London on the morning of Thursday of last week, with his uncle Mir. Caldwell, expecting to return on the afternoon express. By some accident he missed the train, and walked the whole distance on the track, seventeen miles, and reached home safely at 8la o'clock in the evening. Meantime, his mother and uncle became alarmed at mssinr him, went to New London by the evening train and returned in a carriage to find the boy asleep in his bed When asked if he was not afraid of being run over by the cars in crossing bridges he said, ' No, when caue to bridge, stoop- ed down and listened!.. He said he got asleep once, while walking on, and was walked up by striking his toe against something. It was dark. and his first fear was that he had turned around.' He stopped moment. but said he, knew the wind had been blowing in my face so walked on.'
 MR. MASON JONES is attracting consjdera ble attention in London by his lectures on Gar baldi, whom he has recently visited at Caprera Jones is a Mazzinist, aud very severe on Cavour. According to his testimony wo are to believe that from Palmero to Turin the name of Ca vour is received with yoll of execration that in Milan the Prime Minister is especially detcs- ted-that the whole secret of his power in the Parliament is the use of corruption-that he is regarded even by persons holding portfolio un- der him at Naples as the pest of Europe, as a man full of fraud and lies, coward in diploma. cy, all infdel in religion, as one believing in Louis Napoleon for God-that Gar baldi loathcs him 50 much as to have named one of his Caprera donkeys after him-that he is babbler and insane"
 MAJOR ASpERsoN's FAMlLY.-The family of Major Anderson, consisting of his wife and three children and servant, are stopping at the Brevoort House, in Fifth avenue, New York where they have spent several winters.
 THE BADGES which the secessionists are wear ing about Washington and the South are made in New England. Our southern friends find it more difficult than they supposed so be rid of their dependence upon the cursed abolitionists of the North.
 THE Hartford Press of the 24th ult., says :- !" This forenoon. on Little River, little son of Dr. MettleEbroke through spot of thin ice and was borne by the current under the ice below. Charlie Champlin, boy l3 years of age, son of Mir. C. A. Champlin of this city, (taor at Geo. Stevens,) witnessed the accident, and ran to the rescue. Seeing the boy floating along under the thin, transparent ice, he quickly ran short dis tance below, seated himself where cake of old ice made it strong, kicked with his heels a hole through the thin ice just ahead of the floating boy, and stuck his legs through. The drowning boy clutched his foot firmly, when Charlie drew him to the opening, seized him with his hands, and pulled hin, out alive! He was properly cared for'
 THERE are now but l6O prisoners confined in the State Prison at WetAersfield, smaller num- Der than at any time for years before.
 AT TIE annual meeting of the New London County Agricultural Society, few days snce' the annual report of the treasurer shows ms re- ceipts to have been S7,92207; expenditures so 65l 22. leaving balance due the treasurer, from fine society, of sl .659,43. To offset this tbere ia about s97l due the society on subscrlp- lions. The expense of providing grounds for tho society, and of fitting them up, was more than the amount of the debt. J. Lloyd Green was chosen President for the ensuing year. It was voted that the next annual fair be held on the 17th. 18th, and 18th of Sept. 1861.
 How TT WAS MAxAGED.-The Washington star ofDec. 29 has this curious paragraph:
 "Ws lear that on Christmas day Maj. Ander- son dined formally with the secession authori- t;es-chiefs-in Charleston, and was duly car ried back to Fort Moultrie by early moonlight, apparently very much overcome by the good things dripkabe set before him. Those in charge of the steamer posted in the channel to watch bis movements in the fort therefore thought it would be safe for them to relax their vigilance,