Litchfield enquirer., 1863-08-20

l DESIRE TO TAKE THE OATH AND ESLIsr.- We are credibly' informed that three feurths of the prisoners brought up from Vicksburg expressed an anxiety to take the oath of ale. glance, and large portion wanted to enlist l in the service of the United States. Enlist. ments of this class could not be allowed, sx7
 cept by special permit of the Secretary of War-St. Louis Union.
 A CoppERHEAp SroRY-A French Canadi-
 an in Waterville, Me-, wished to express his
 contempt for man with whom be had difi-
 culty, by calling him a copperbead, and not Ebeing able to think of the name, said: (" You lad old one centi' correspondent of the
 Revision .IounnaI Says this expresses about the value of Q copperhead.
 A PRECIOUS SET TO BE LEApERs.-It is fact
 that scarcely one of the chisfs of the rebellion fis without some stain on his private character.
 John B. Floyd, while governor of Virginia. Eswindled his State out of several thousand dollars in selling certain stocks entrusted to him by the legislature. Benjamin was in youth [a thief. Slidsll prostituted his influence as senator, to push through Congress the Hou- mas land grant, one of the most barefaced swin- dies ever perpetrated in this cougtry. Wig fall is murderer; Letcher drunkard Da- fvis an impudent repudiator Of debts; Pieksns a ridiculous braggart. Yancey was no excep- ton to this rale he was tried and convicted murderer. None but unprinsipled men would be guilty of the great crime of rebellion against their government.
 1 A chap who was drawing wood few days ago near Three Mile Hill, in Great Barring. ton, Mass, took up his lines and what he sup posed to,be his whip, butit proved to be rat- tlesnake nearly six feet long. which lay stretch ed out beside the reins. He didn't hold it a great while, but killed it without being hurt lbyit.
 | The great pin-hunter, the Baron de Sevres, is dead. Amongst the property he left were fonnd two large and heavy boxes, which by the heirs were supposed to contain cash, but turn- ed out to be filled with hundreds of thousands. of all imaginable kinds of pins. For the last
 20 years his regular habit has been to pass along the most frequented streets and places of public resort, and to pick up any pins nc discovered on the ground.
 I Parties recently arrived from Richmond de. scribe the people there as sunk in the deePeys gloom. They are deserting the city in crowds I in consequence of the high prices O! tne ne' l cessaries of life. Sickness prevails there 70 q l fearful extent, and the want of medicines iA I badIv felt Desertions from the army were fre- uuent, There were but feW rspei troops aP Richmond on the Eth instant; nor were there anv. indications of military movement on tho part of the Confederate army
 Ouartermaster Gen. Meigs says that the gov- eminent lost 5000 horses in the Maryland and Pennsylvania campaigns: The cavalry have nick-named Gen. Kirkpatrick " Killcavalry."--- The loss of horses in his division have been enormous. . t-s
 ATTENTION, SoLDrERs PKorEcr Ysus HEALTH l-No sensible man will leave the city without supply of HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT. For Wounds, Bruises, Sores, Feyers and Dysentery, these medicines are the best in the world. Every English and French Soldier uses them. Only 25 cents pes box. or pot. 22S There are fifty vacancies in the West Poil9 Military Academy. and somebody very propeE ly suggests that they be filed with brigad!S generals.
 It will be an interesting fact for history that all the mportant State documents of the z Southern Confsderacyn were signed by yes pudiator, and eountersigned by thisi.