Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-04

1 The Richmond Enquirer says that any place is welcome now in the confederate government, no matter how small the pay-auything ratbsF than the army;
 The race for contracts now being made in the confederate states by the substitute prinei. pals is unexampled. Hoop poles and barrel slaves, night watch and fire companies--every kind of contrach will be undertaken without compensation.
 A gentleman remarked to us that he would undertake to carry all the mails in the confed- crate states free of cost to the government, if that government would give him the power to exempt his carriers from military service; and that he could pay all expenses and mako Q million at the end of the year. A German mother ct the West taught her little son the prayers she had repeated in her own childhood. One day he surprised her by asking, Ma, why do we always talk Yankee and pray German Is God dutchmanw The Secretary of the Treasury will soon dc. clare the ports of Newborn, North Carolina Brownsville, Texas, and Fernandina, Florida, reopened to the commerce of the world. Mrs. D. Merrill, who died in Litcbdeld. Ms.. on the 29th ult., aged 95, left six children. for. | ty-six grandchildren, ninety two great rrani- children, and ten great great grandchildren. Coal is remarkably scarce at Pittsbu,y. b.- cause nearly all the coal-haulers sre at work naoilng ice, for which they are better paid. me result IS, that F1ttsburg people are freaz. ing this winter m order to keep cool next sum. | mer.
 A company of capitalists are boring for oil l Tn limestone quarry near Chicago. They bayo gone down thirty feet, through stratum of Chicago marble twenty-five additional feet,and indications of oil begin to appear 1 Artemus Ward lectur.d twenty nivbts in California, and cleared $S,00O in gold, Or $l2.- 900 in greenbacks. He is coming home across the plains, and will stop and have talk with Brigham Young and wives at Salt Lake city.
 The inspectors of cavalry horses appointed by tue Government, having forced the swin. ding contractors to leave the arena, the field IS now open to. all parties who wish to deal honorably with the government. Good horses are wanted, and will be taken if offered.
 A firm in Cincinnati has received an ordsr from large plantation in Louisiana for seven hundred ploughs, forty-two wagons, lot of harness, thirty carts, one thousand barrels of pork, three hundred tons of hay, besides a quantity of blacksmiths and carpenters tools.
 Hilton Head letter of the 18th ult. says the expedition from that point is one of vast mag. nitude. As many of the vessels are of light draft, it is thought by some that it will 20 up the Savannah river others expect Q move. ment to the rear of Charleston, while others still believe that Mobile is to be its destination. A large negro force accompanies the expedi- tion, which will be landed in various localities to gather in slaves.
 Gen. Pope has issued instructions to Gems. Sibley and Sully for spring campaign. The plan embraces military posts on the frontier, another expedition against the hostile banda. and the establishment of military posts along the route to the gold regions of Idahe, the mines of which, according to the report of e returned emigrant, published in the St. Paul Press, will produce enough gold to pay the in- terest on the two thousand million war debt.
 Rev. F. Bartlett of Great Bend, Pennsylva- mia, has been employed by number of farm CTS and tradesmen in Western New York, to go to England, at their joint expense, to pro- cure there, and bring back to this country, such laboring men and mechanics as are need ed by his principals. The funds already col
 lected by this cooperative association. are sui. hcent to bring over at least one thousand per- sons.
 AN INTERESTING FAaILY-A New Bedford, paper, in referring to family in that place, says:
 The old patriarch Peter, and his oldest daughter, Margaret, are d.ad; Tom is in tho Suffolk jail, awaiting trial for forgery Kate is in our house of correction for keeping disor- derly house Toms wife and Isabella were sent to the workhouse on Saturday last, on Q oh If hn;n s1ln and d,oor1,rlr Er:Inv the Overseers of the Poor took charge of the oll lady, Kats's daughter Pot-pis, and the Morrison baby and Elizabeth has elopsd.
 A couple announce in tbs Providence Post
 their marriage, and add to the notice No eards-nor any money to get them with"
 SUDDEN CHAsaEs-Ws have had some sx- periencs of weather freaks lately, but nothing like this related in the St. Louis Nsws ot Fri day last
 ; On the first day of this month the thermom- . eter stood in this city at 25 degrees below se- TO. Yesterday, as we are informed, it reached 75 degrees above, making Q difference sf 100 degrees in it's range for the month of January. The fact is worth recording as one of the won. ders of meterology. Gardeners are already busy. and everything in the air and sky is } bright and mild as May morning.
 Mazzini has written . spirited letter, deny ing in the moot unequivecl manner that hs ever instigated any man to kill Louis Napole- lon, or ever furnished any man with weapons
 for that purpose. It is now generally believed that the plot vas sham. got up by the police for effect.
 The Boston correspondent of the Spring. Held Republican hears that Mir. LovellIs arti4
 cle in the North American Rssiep on the Presidents policy has elicited an autograplr
 letter from MT. Lincoln, who thinks thaS ths reviewer has not in every respect apprshended his "policy."
 A genius in New Bsdf ord is fitting up c
 steamer for the purpo se of towing icebergs to India, where they sell for six cents pound> Another proposes to do still better to fit . : screw in the iceberg itself. and thus avoid the exppsnse of ship building.
 Auber, in his seth year. has just brought out - new opera at the Opera Comique in Perlss 1 It is called La Fiancee du Roi Dc Garbe. The story is taken from Boccsccio. The mrs: acs proved heavy but the others were reeelssA |, with preat AnDlauS0.