Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-11
Interesting ltelIzs.

AMsSAtAA1 AeS4A1s
 TIE SroRv IN 4 Nur SHELL.--A corsspons dent cf the New York Eusning Post, makes comparison which applies most aptly to ths case of vallapdigham. We quote:
 Tbe master of ship. with a crew. ss all ships nave, 0f good and bad men, huds him- self iB . heavy gale of wind ON a les shore. the ship leaking. Every foot of canras thst the ship will bear is set to work her of, thc captain and officers doing their best to sare the ship. Oueof the crew, who had once been an officer. but sent before the mast for n,js. conduct, was on the furecastle fudine fault. grumbling and doing bis best to discourage and excite mutiny amongst the men who ars working to save the ship, by saying, [" hope she will go ashore" aud s She will not lsst long. cursiilg the captain, &c The officer on the forecastle warns him, but he does not de- sist. The officer not being able to leave his post. knocks him down and leaves him ;n the lee scuppers until the ship is in smooth water and free sailing on her old cc urse out Of dan ger. NOW there is nothing in the shipp;ne srti- cles winch allows the knocking down Of the
 a'a'i on the contrary. But the ship and ere,v
 were saved by the decision of sl,at officer" Tho retired physician'' ins Jersev a .a.. sands of life have nearly ron out . ;s ..;, 1os ss be growing younger. The apparent ;uvss.,;,s ] may be accounted for by the fact that scs.s benevolent individual recently forwarded "a I fhim by express (though uupaid) a large paci. age, which on being opened. was found to cou- tain half bushel bug of the article of which lis was in such evident need-saud 1 lMpoRTASr.-The bureau of internal reys.
 iue calls public attention to the f1ct that all instruments of writing of all descriptions that are taxable under the law. executed after the last day of the current month, will be invalid ana of no effect whatever, unless stamped as the law requires.
 A few days ago, the pickets on the river road below Clarksville, Tenn, captnredba, ns.- gro with sack upon his back, which, upon. examination, proved to be packages of nee. dies, to the amount of one hundred thousand.
 They were probably intended to hem in Grants army.
 | FAINT HEART NEVER WoN.-A young lady
 Tn Fall River W. .s engasedto be married, inc
 time appointed, her parents approved the l match. aud everything was going on swim. | iningy. Her afianced came in good faith tn fulfill his engagement. He said that in fev days he might go to Canada tu avoid the draft. The young lady at once told him she would
 not be married until be and Canada eot through And thus ended the lesson:. A Copperhead teacher in public school sv Syracuse has forbidden the children under bis charge to sing national sungs, and the demo. cratic officials sustain him. These fellows no. doubt consider such songs obscene, just as Ea.
 ton thinks disloyalty is " slang phrase" 
 l Rather unexpected was the reply of the ur. chin, who. on being arraigned for playing mar.
 bies on Sunday, aEd steruly asked. Do you know where little boys go who play marbles on Sunday 1? replied innocently-" Yes some on lem goes to the common, and some on 'em goes down by the side of the river." The other day, carpenters son aged six years, wlG had been left alone in kis Iather's
 workshop, was disturbed while engaged m the
 painful operation of screwing up.his eyes. He
 was immediately taken to U surgeon. All the male contrabands in the vicinity of Aiexandra, D. G., have been put to work on lintrenchnents in that neighborhood. The Epr0vost marshal has had lively time in i'm. pressing them. They may have had the cop perhead idea that it was- for the white man and not the nigger, 10 take part in this af.- fair"
 A GREAT MANY PoLEs.-The strength of (he Poles is estimated. by those likely to be correctly informed. at from one hundred and, thirty thousand to one hundred and forty thou. sand. To this force the Russians are opposing but about one hundred thousand men, half of whom are garrisonng cities. ga
 A train. consisting of threN cars Of ice, two, Of sanitory stores, and one with surgeon and nurses left Chicago on the lst inst. for Cairo. en route for Vicksburg
 5. It is stated that over one hundred thousand men have been discharged from the armies of the republic since Jtnuarys lst, for disability.
 BG1sG AT BosroN on tho lsrinst, and para- tcularly taking a walk to Bunker Hill, we were immensely pleased in contemplating the array of fashionably dressed gentlemen there. Yet there was . marked pcculiarity about the costumes. which reminded us of" Gotham" and perplexed us withal for q few seconds.
 But a little refection.toek us out of our di- lemma, for we could not'long be in doubt reIa- tive to the precise establishment whence those habits had proceeded that of F. B. BALDwIR of 7O'& 72 Bowcry, N. Y.
 SorrHFRs IhIns.- Butter is advertised for sale in Richmond at $l 25 per pound. Jeff. Davis has been presented with pair os spurs. Shinplastcrs dcluge the city of Richmond. The prospect for heavy crop of fruit, rye and wheat. in Northeast Georgia. was never 60 promising. and the most extensive crops of corn and potatoes are planted.
 Soldiers. see to your own health, do not trust to the Army supplies Cholera. Fever and Bowel complaints will follow your sliehtp,t in discretion. HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT should be in every mans knapp sack. The British and French troops use no other medicines.
 The Rev. T. Starr King writes to some friends in Boston that California is loyal to the core. T hey are opening copper veins all over the surface, bnt there is none of that met al in their heads. They hope to show in the next election of governor, to hold office for four years. that California is the most loyal State in the American Republic.
 A, cnpperhead in Maine sent $50 10 the New York Journal cf Commerce with the request to divide it equally hetween sick and wounded federal and rebel soldiers. The JourBal sent $25 to the sanitary commission, and returned the other half; they had no communication