Litchfield enquirer., 1865-03-16

cu<eed thing under his feet," called out electric Enthusiasm. The following uote was read from fhe poet Whittier: M ss rejoice heartily to hear of thy arrival ins Boston with the relics of the GreatB Barbarism -the auction block of the human Hesh market of- -Soulh Carolinax -Eorn Eith. weary feet and steeped ID tears !-the locks of the accnrsed prison house 1.-the letters over it's gates of dcs. pira N is as if Dante hadtorn the dreadful in. scfiption, " Hope enters not here" from the doors of hell and borne it away with him to the upper wofid. h was well done on thy part. Let these internal hieroglyphics and symbols of the worship of Anti-C Christ be care fuiiy preserved. Lay them side by side with the racks of the, Inquisition and the keys of the Bastile. Letsfhem ellths generations to come of- that most hideous form: of human depravity. which. birding itself op it's evangelical purity and with the name of Christ on it's lips, bought and sold the, image of God, and subjected body and soul to the base. uses of lust and avarice. Let them be a wonder and a warning for all ume' ,Elsgs 12f sa .sS .sIss' ,sVe7F
 The rebel Senate finally passed the bill |, to arm the slaves the senators from Virginia voting for it under instructions from the legis. latare Mr. Hunters speech is printed: ,5S 5S' Hesvoted for the bill to arm the negroes nn, der instructions from the Virginia Legislature,
 but entered his protest against it as an aban.
 donment of the contest --an abandonment oi
 the grounds upon which the South seeded He also showed from the statistics of that gov
 ernment that no considerable body of negro ltsoopsE Ecould be raised in the States over which
 the government had control, without stripping
 the country ofthe labor absolutely necessary
 to produce food, He stated that the com
 mandant of conscfipts, with authoritz. to i'm.
 press 10000 slaves, had. since last September
 been able to get bnt 4000 of whom $500 were from .VirgiEia sands North Carolina, and the
 balance from aAlabama.g Hupter argued that
 negroes would not volunteer and that those
 they did get would desert to the enemy. who
 can offer them better price ssSES ~
 1 The-Richmond journals of last Friday an nounce that the removal oe the gold belonging Ito the banks of that city had already commef
 eed, and in the strongest language the Legis
 lature and people are called upon te put stol
 to this exodus of the precious. metal on. tht ground that if removed it will nearly all gt
 into the hands of'the Yankees. and that upor
 it's retention depends the very safety of thu
 rebel capital itself. The Richmond editors art
 very angrgoyer the recent seizure atsF Freder
 icksburg, Va, by nationaltroops, of some two
 hundred thousand pounds. of tobacco, which
 had beea sent thither from Petersburg. They
 say there was understood to he an agree menl
 on both sides that the tobacco should go safely
 through their lines, and that they should re, Eceive bacen intreturn for it, and consider it's
 capturesaa faHkee trick, with which Gen. Sin
 gleton, of Illinois, who has been in Richmond
 for some time past is suspected of having had
 something to dp: 55 s-<'
 Theexample 0fsNew Hampshire and Massa-
 chusetts in making it criminal offence to desc
 crate places of natural curiosity, walls, fences,
 etc., with quack advertisements. will soon be
 followed by other legislatures. One of the
 legislators of New York has taken in hand the
 reform, and we trust his example will be fol
 lowed in other States. u Among the White Mountains and the Highlands of the Hudson. by lake aud seaside, in lovely valleys and
 along romantic glens, in rural suburbs of cities,
 and the majestic soltudes of nature. the vile inscriptions abounds, A recent London paper
 afirms that an American has inscribed two
 advertisements of " Plantation Ritters' upon
 the face of the great Pyramid of Egypt,
 The Rshpopds p9glsE ' Egg s!s! pf the 9th says;
 held on the lst instant, for the purpose of ob.
 taining subscriptions of provisions for General
 Lees army. Almost every person present sub
 scribed something, and the result was quite en-
 couraging. Two of the most able and liberal 1.-the meeting, gave twenty barrels of -four each. Quite. a number gave one. two or five barrels each This is the way to do. General
 Lees men asust be Jed or are Jose aA. a .l AN IDENTIFIES. ..'-'rhs Christian Commis- sion has introduced method of indentifying , sick or wounded soldiers in the army. It is called the 'Identiier,' and consists of small
 card with an eyelet in it, through which string Iispnt; to suspend the card from the neck. It 1 is intended to be Uorn around the neck in bat
 and its chief object is to identify the per son who wears 1t in case he should be killed or wounded On one'side is the following: >,
 19sIdentiiier. II am 2. Co. 2. {. :, Reg ' Brig g. ........ ;. Corps. '.a ''g9 .
 s sGod SO loved the world that He, gave Ifs only begotten son, that whoaoever believeth in 1 Him shouldsn not psrish, but have everlasting bkfetais etsS e1fa59l sase 55.i .$t @teA''
 |sa On ahs other side are the words e" '1 ,'
 United States Christian Commission, Ad dress ny 2. :. ..i.. 'sla. @ +.gs
 E Suspended from the neck by u cord, and wear over the shiyt-'in battle, under
 e Tbe great utility of this little article will be best appreciated hy those who have lost friends fn the war from whom no tidirgs ever came. simply because there was no means of identify. ing them. Anyssoldier uaing this can not only be identified himself, but his friends can also be found out, should anything happen to him. The Comu.asion intend distributing these cards Ein large numbers in the army. S1 .s, ,'.1 5a4
 y When Moore vas getting his potrait painted by Newton, Sydney Smith, who accompanied the poet, said toathel artist, couldn't you con- .triyestos throw iatore his face somewhat of g stronger expression afs shosti6ty to the Church Rstshlishment3i 1 'a.j'oa s9stss@ O '2r sa
 The profsssss0isbip fss bi of bt rhetoric, and ora.ory and English literature, in, Amherst College, made vacant by the resignation of Prof James e. yose, has been offered to Rev. L. Clark Seelyeypastor of fsfhe North church in Spring ,fea, and, he will probably accept is,.1s'aass
 aslNew Orleans aaviees of the s7th inst. state that large bodies of troops were then leaving there for the vicinity efMobile. General Bai- iey,ssexpedision from Baton Rouge into the interior Of EIsouisianaa had reached Clinton. His force consists of tl1ree gthodsand cavalry and sonis aFtiliery.aqs gil 'ea eh8 ei.'ss2
 s. Two rebel negroes were recently captared in front of the army of the James, who had eon- cealed themselves and picked of several ef our men. They said they had been promised $20 lof every Yankea they would kill. .saqta4 sdf :