Litchfield enquirer., 1864-03-10

! :, you will cover the roof, the steps, and the axles with passengers. Baskets, dogs. and wet umbrellas are extra. Your pay will be dollar day. Ten minutes are allowed for meals. You are required to run from Monday morning till Ssturday night, without sleep /; and you will be fined weeks pay if you are seen to have any correspondence with our spotters. You see, we give our drivers nice 1 time of it. Jump on, now, quick Your stage is minute behind tims.'
 l have always regretted that Fate forced me out of the omuibus-drving business It is just the place for an honest man, like me- In a few days, had formed most delightful part. nership with the spotters and the starter. In the first place, resumed exactly half the re- l ceipts giving the Line the benefit of the odd ceut, in making the division. Then shared my half with the spotters, who saw the At .rter OH their own account. The most wonderful reports of my honesty were returned to the office. which the starter (who had probably been seen on the suhject confirmed. Hones- ty is always the best policy. I soon mounted a massive gold watch with a ten-ounce chain of the same material, q pair of seal rings, grain ed leather-top boots ; and ou Sundays wore seventy dollar suit, besides an overcoat that cost forty. These were all successive pres. rnts from muiden aunt in the country The same kind relative also furnished me with 8 rather fast horse and a neat buggy. with which on Sundays used to take the air on Harlem Lan-. Her iiberality 80 enabled me to ke: D company with a fastsh young lady, on whom l bestowed Il set of furs, such as any maiden aun, ill the country would like to see her nephew present to a young lady. l ti Int fail to let the Superintendent know about the gen. erosity of my aunt.
 Such wele the delightful results of obedience to my lamented fathers precept. But, alas human nature ia weak, and our best obedience is defective. A new spotter came, with a handful Of marked tive-peuces j; it was the third day of his coming before proposed partnsr- ship. and on the two previous days had been ralurn"d short by this unhappy man. H. wrupg my hand fervently, sayiuy:
 Grabbett, if lad cnly known your hones- ly two days ago. this might have been avoided. But the reports are in, and oa Saturday you vii. have to go out. cant undo the mischief I've done. 0 GrubLett,' he continued. as Il tear stood in lis manly eye, why didn't know soon~r 'he houesty of your character? ?
 l WAS kindly dismissed ou Saturday evening, by lLe Superintendent, who at:,,c;ionately a'l- ,ised me 10 go and live With Gly maiden aunt Hho as! 50 kindly given me so many lre,'y th ngs lately. As he said ,l,is he 4rinned /; bu, ca, t imagine why he should have taken ;hr trouble to do this. Ill the railroad con- cvctors have nice old maiden aunts, 7 10 are all .he while making them presents. Why shouldn't honest stage drivers have them ,also :? l have not now space 10 tell the reauer how came to grief as a Government contractor Tn small way. It is a sad story; but the misfor tune followed directly from my having neg lect- ed the command of the best of fathers. And must say. the Government behaved very bad
 y in not letting me have my bacon and hams back again. What did they want to confiscatn them for What if they were rotten :? l could have sold them to the uptown corner groceries. Anyhow. they were. good soap grease. l don't call the Government honest.
 am now permanently engaged in the law business. l allow it's low, but man must live. If people won't have me in their stores or on their stages, and if Government will con 6scate my bucon and hams, and threaten H'y personal liberty, also why. then, don't sec but anu driven to my present course by circum stances which it is useless to resist. It's too bad for man whose immediate ancestors had the honor Of dying at the public expense and who has filled such stations as have with un- blsmished honesty, to have come ut last to the law business but, upon my honor l cant af fsrd to be particular, and hope the reader will excuse it.
 DEATH OF MAJOR A. EDWARDS WEIGH Intelligence has reached us of the death of Major A. Edwards Welch of the Fourth regi 'nent while on the journey from Nashville to hls home in Red Wing.
 Major Wech entered the service as First Lieutenant of company F. First regiment- He Was captured by the rebels at the battle of Bull Run. and was kept in various southern prisons for more than year. Some time be fore his liberation he received the appointment oi M,jor of the Fourth regiment but after his release, before joining his regiment, he pa.rtc ipated in Gen. Slbley's first campaign against the Indians. aud displayed great galautry at tue battle of Wood Lake, where he was severe
 y wounded. He was with the Fourth regi- ment in the campaign against FickSburg. and WAS again wounded. but not severely. Last fall he received the nOmina from the Dem oeratic party. of Secretary of State. which he declined. avowing his intention of remaining
 in the military service of his country, # his life WAS spared until the complete suppression of the rebellion.
 Maj,r Welch, at the tims of his decease, could not have been much over twenty five years of age. but he possessed mature judgment experience and manly character, which fitted hin for command. The people of this State, as we'll as his comrades in arms, will lament his loss.-St. Paul Pioneer.>