Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25

A NEW WAT or EXPRESSING CoNrEApr.- There mast have been 8 remarkable change of opinion in Bradford county, Pennsylvania, within few years. Not long ago, when the Bank of Pottstown issued It's five dollar notes, James Buchanan was so popular there that his portrait was engraved upon one corner of the bill, and nobody thought of defacing it in the remarkable style that has prevailed since the beginning of the war. A banker, who is a curiosity hunter, has shown us bundle of thirty eight of these five dollar notes, in twen- ty of which the word Traitor" IS written across Buchanan's forehead; in others the letter ''T' is branded on one the following words appear "Give him his deserts" on another is written, Ye ould divil," and still another bears this inscription "Fslse to his country and his God, but true to the demo- cratic party" Some ingenious individuals, at A loss to express their contempt in words, resort to symbols one has drawn copper head snake, wriggling in the mouth of Bu- chanau, another decorates the hea with can and bells, and third encloses the neck Tbese curious methods of indicating contempt are not of very high order, but they show how Mr. Buchanan is now regarded in that mart of Pennsylvania in which he was once SC great favorite. :.
 PERPETUAL MorIox A Western corres- ponisnt of Harpers' Magazine gets off the fol- lowing excellent joke ;-" was travelling in Virginia by stage, and, spending the night at a country tavern, was greatly entertained by the talk of the stage drivers and others sitting by the bar. room fire in the evening. One old codger worked of good thing 'When l was down to the fair, good many years ago. said the old fellow, there was prize offered to the one who would come the nearest to making perpetual motion. We'll, all sorts of machines, of all shapes and materials, were fetched there and shown, and the makers of them told how long they would run. As l was walking about among them saw sign over 6 tent "All who want to see perpetual motion, and no mistake, meet here." So, paid the admission fee, and went in. Very soon queer little fellow got up on box that served for platform, and addressed the au- dience Ladies and gentlemen. l am going co exhibit to you the most wonderfullest in- veution YOU have ever seen. It has been run nin' for full three years, and if nobody stops 1t, it'll run for ever." Here he unroled strip of paper. This is PRINTER's BILL ]" And as he held it up to the gaze of the people, ahey admitted that, whether the bill was paid or not, they had been sold.'"
 In a recent English work called The Gen tleman,' the author praises the housewifrry of the Queen, and names duchess, Aarchloness. and countess, who knew how to use stew pan and cook an omelette. He says that. unfor- tuuately, at xhe present day. women of the middle classes have no care for anything but keeping up appearances.
 A joint resolution that passed the House on Thursday gives $25 bounty to the nine months men called out under the act of Feb rlary 1862.
 Persons from Idaho territory say that no less than Sl5, 5,OO0,0OO worth of gold is in the hands of miners and others, awaiting shipment.
 Great red roses gre now in bloom in San Francisco.
 A woman is under arrest at Syracuse, N. Y, for destroying her erandchild, three months old by giving it vitriol.
 l: is said that prominent officers will soon he arrested for bundering in the late raid Richmondward by Gen. Butler.
 Gen. Pleasanton reports that in recent dash of Gen. Gregg's Cavalry into Piedmont, Fauquier County, Virginia, twenty eight of Moseby's robbers and thieves were captured.