Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-13
Short 1paragrapl)s.
MT. Dayton has arrived at Paris.

saltpetre mines have been discovered in Ar kansas.
 The Confederate States have furnished Ten nessee with 17 7.000 stand of arms, in addition to those in the State arsenal.
 Postage stamps are used in Memphis in the ordinary transactions of business. Money must 1 be very scarce down there.
 Hon. Garrett Davis has obtained and distribu- ted $500 stand of arms to the Union men in Kentucky.
 l PR1vATEERING.-The schooner w. C. Atwa- ter of New Haven has been captured by rebel privateer near Apalachicola
 The so-called safety committee of Memphis have forbidden the circulation in that city of Brownlow's Knoxville WAig and the Louisville Journal.
 The city of Memphis has already furnished from 5000 to 4,000 men for the wars, and still the work of enlistment goes on.
 Two immence columbiads, each weighing 16,OO0 pounds, reached West Point, Ga., last Sunday, on their way to Pensacola. | The Richmond Ecaminer says that there are not less than 5000 unemployed negroes in Rich mond. Business generally is at a stand still.
 President" Jeff Davis salary is $25 900, and the members of the Southern Congress voted themselves only $s,OO0 per year. | Palmer, the Sculptor, has offered to make statue in marble of the member of the Utica corps who will ''bag Wigfall or Jeff. Davis.'' Men are so anxious to enlist at Pittsburgh that it is frequent to have $50 offered for place as private in one of the accepted companies The Philadelphia Ledger says that Lieutenant General Scott remarked the other day: "This is my last campaign, gentlemen, and it shall be my best one."
 Ex Governor Stewart of Missouri has become the editor and proprietor of the St. Joseph Jour- nal in which he is dealing vigorous blows against the traitors.
 "I think have seen you before, sir; are you not Owen Smith ?" "Oh, yes, I'm own' Smith and owin' Brown, own' Sawyer and owin' every body"
 People may talk about Gen. Scotts age and inirlnities, but we notice that by the help of his staff he ge:s over good deal of ground, and that quite rapdly-Boston Post.
 Twenty thousand scalping knives are being man ufactured in England for the South The rebels love us so we'll they desire lock of our hair- Boston Post.
 During the war of the revolution two hundred and twenty thousand soldiers were furnished by the different States. Of these the Southern States furnished but fifteen thousand, while Mas ! sachusetts alone sent sixty-eight thousand.
 A letter from New Orleans represents the statements of plenty of provisions as unfounded. Butter IS worth 75 cents and bacon 30 to 35 Money on any sort of paper cannot be had. The writer saw review of what they said were l2,- 900 troops. He counted them, and found 2,50O. There are also only 2,500 troops at Memphis.
 A Mr. Bennett, arrested a week ago, eight miles from Washington, for shoeing United States cavalry horses, was hung on Saturday, at Manas ses Junction, having been taken thither after a Virginia trial at Richmond. He was Virgin ian, tainted with love for his country.
 Among the effects seized at Alexandria are let ters of great importance which were found in the Sentinel office, showing the means by which the secession of Virginia was brought about Some distinguished politicians are implicated, and the letters show beyond doubt that the ordi- nance of secession was only passed by fraud.
 The express train from the Point of Rocks, Thursday morning. being behind time, under took to run the guards at the Relay House, and the engineer was fired at He was not hit but immediately stopped the train. A large amount of stuff for camp equipage was seized at the Re- lay House to-day, destined for Harper's Ferry.
 Where on earth is Jeff Davis ?-LouisrMe Journal.
 We don't know where he is on earth but we know where he ought to be, and where he will be after he leaves the earth. If not, what's the use of having such place?- Indianapolis Jour- nal
 A young lady of St. Louis, in a letter to a friend in New Orleans, wrote the following:
 We are afraid to breathe our sentiments even in our own house, lest some one outside should be listening. Not long ago two children, be- longing to secession parents, were stolen and have not been heard of since.
 Marshal Bonnafort of Baltimore, begs the President for authority to arrest persons and search for arms. He says that 40 tons of gun powder have recently been sent from Baltimore to Harpers Ferry, and that rebel allies have over 6OO0 stand of arms slowed away in Baltimore. The authorities will not grant him warrants. He thinks Gen. Cadwallader is trusting the citizens too much.
 Advices from Washington state that it is now probable that Provisional Government will be established in place of the traitorous organza- ton of which John fletcher is the head, and if nothing is done before the new Government goes into operation, one of its first duties will be to authorize new elections in the districts which the terrorists have prevented from voting. The following is what the London Ne,os says on | the crime of secession:
 "The crime is as fragrant as any treason ever was since society was organized; but justice re- quires us to be careful in imputing the treason only to those who are guilty. No States have seceded-no communites-no masses of popu- lation; but only a gang of revolutionists; as- suming to represent community to whom they dare not appeal" l A South Carolina lady, recently arrived in | New York, who has heretofore heldto the South, writes to her husband at Washington, as follows: ssI say our Government now, for, since they shot Ellsworth, want to fight too, and if were one | of the Zouaves, do declare would kill every Secessionist met with, but what would re- yenge his death. I am no Southern rebel now. The Union for ever, say I.''
 From the New Orleans Delta of May 23d. we learn that the postmaster at Baton Rouge gives official notice that on the lst prox all connee ton by post with the late United States Govern nfent will be cut of, until postal treaty or ar engagement can be made for an exchange of mails The old stamps will no longer be taken in pay ment of postage, and the rates will be five cents per half ounce of letter matter for 800 miles and under, and over that distance ten cents.
 The Montgomery Congress, before adjourn ing passed an act prohibiting the exportatlon Eof cotton, except through the seaports 4t was i.oo. olI oc foIs oiYani