Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-05

. poor girl, with "nothing to wesr." she onl had seven Saratoga trunks ten batdboxes, fou teen small carpet bags, and lap-dog; vet tn i'll l-bred O'Pake was suspicious enough to ex anime one of her trunks.
 He ruthlessly opened it in her presence, ani my boy, it quickly met with the horrible fate which was at once immortaiized by the Mack erel Chaplain in the following awful present ment:
 BASE TYRANNY's. PENALTY;
 on, THE AvxxoIxa SKELETON. When hsllirh purpose made the tyrsat fool--
 With raging despotism madly aTsnk- Unts his minisne issue forth rule,
 To search each Southwark going 1onan'l There was Sergeant of tho Mask'rel ranks,
 Made one attempt to carry out the law; But, ah!-to Providence n thousand ihanks L.
 He met . doom to i'll the skull with awe. Scarce had his impious hands the task begun
 Scarce had he ope'd ths-vasi and maa,moth
 thing 5a1 When from the trunks Interior Phlegethon,
 Came forth horrid phantom, with spring It was dreadful monster, without flesh.
 Made up of ever-less' ming. perfect hoops, More terrible to vision than Sscesh,
 With all his ragged, whisky drinking troops. The wretched Sergeant started back with fear,
 And would have escaped the penalty incurred But ah the spectre caught him by m ear,
 And held him trembling like prison'd bird. Wrought up to phrenzy by mishap so dire.
 He struck the phantom in his theughtlesa
 rage;
 But twas like flaming to put out fire,
 And straight his hand was tangled in cage! And then his ether tyrant hand he tried,
 To ease the springs that pressed him every
 where;
 His futile blow the Skeleton defied;
 His other hand was taken in . snare! Then round his form the dread avenger coilsd,
 Like snakes backbones in unelastic curl, By prison-ba his wished retreat is foiled,
 And in the cags behold the trembling churl. Still mad with terror at his grcvious plight,
 He lift foot as thongh to kick at last, When, To his leg goes through m opening slight,
 And there two wiry circles hold it fast. He plunges, staggers. trieste tear the bands
 Which make that woman skeleton complete Then reele.h blindly into where sho stands,
 And falls in helpless bondage at her feet!
 When the poor tool of tyranny was released from this terrific skeleton, my boy, h. looked as bewildered as one who mad just returned from the outskirts of civilization but still his fendish taste for trunk inspection was not conquered. He returned to the edge of the wardrobe abyss, drew forth all iln:Is,.sc white article. and says he:
 Do my spectaces relate fiction. or is this indeed Sihley tent for ;hr of tine Con federacy ?'
 At this moment ,hs excellent young womrn gnatched the article away from him, and, says sic:
 You nasty thing, that's my" h=lo shc blushpd. ..-..s.
 At times, my boy, wcu"r's blush is the i'm paral palmer of virgin no'!rsty thrown out to catch the breeze that wait lile sound ol Coming rescue aud means '' God is my defence" At other times it is the eloquent l,ro:est of fine intelligence which d.Wecates the test that would turn all its hi,iden heautics to the pub lie eye, and means: Humility is born of Ge- mus. But in this Case it was the lurid flash of anger, and meant-a petticoat.
 Not wshin to further betray the rcrroachful fact that he was an unmarried Mackerel, my boy. Sergeant O'Pake closed tine trunk with emphasis. and permitted th" triumphant young woman of America to trip it lightly to the South.
 The Mackerel Brigade at present constitutes one of three parallel lines the other two being the celebrated City of Paris and the well-known Southern Confederacy. Paris is the neutral ho lt1.I fh.,1 Al h.,tk which the Orange County Howitzers are con. tinually hurling shot at the glorious sun. Du- ring the day,it is much frequented by Southern Confederacics, who drink anything that wills pour into a tumblpr; and in the evening it is visited by our indomitabie troops, who go to look at the empty bottles.
 You may ask, my boy. why the Confedera cies are not routed and Paris occupied I answer, that the new general of the Mackerel Brigade will not attack an inferior force, and is waiting until there shall be something worth killing on the opposite side. To often did the former general ot the Mackerel Brigade make the mistake this hi.h minded conduct is inten- ded to avoid often after an interval of only . few months, did he lead the majestic Mack erels aliead of him into the field, and then has tily retire rpon findiug that the Conf.deracies were too inferior in numbers to make their con- quest while. But we shall have no more such mistakes, for the new general will not move against the foe until the latter is strong enough to make carnage desirable. Besides, the man who was to build bridge across Duck Lake, could not come last week on account of rain, and there are no ferry boats running.
 On Thanksgiving Day, however. we had skirmish of thrilling intensity. The conserva- tive Kentucky chap. my boy. has got command of Company ?, Regiment l, and having drilled them in swearing, to the sound of the E,nan cipatisn Proclamation, for 8 whole fortnight, he has brought them to high state of disci- pline and profanity. On Thursday morning, just after one of our scouts had cleaned his spectacles he beheld Confederate turkey emerge from this side of Paris, and proceed to insult the United States of America by hideens gobblinss. The alarm was at once given, and after swearing at his men to give them confidence, the conservative Kentucky chap led them forth to capture the obsene bird. Onward pushed the spectacled veterans with fixed bayonets addressing their eyes with pleas. ant oaths. and hoping that they might meet Horace Greedy.
 The Confederate turkey was eating worm at the moment aud only paused long enough