Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-09
General Ncrus.

Representative Wilson of Ohio chairman o he Judiciary Comm ttee. has introduced a bil to establish the supremacy of the Constitution in insurrectionary States declaring that hereaf ter no Representatives or Senators shall bt elected to Congress in any States which have been in instruction until it has been announ- ced ny Presidential proclamation that armed hostllties have ceased and Republican Con >tiiation has been adopted and approved b, Congress.
 Both Houses of Congress have agreed to the Jont resolution that the electoral votes of the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia Florida. Alabama. Mississippi. Louisiana, Tex as, Arkansas and Tennessee shall not be conn
 ed next Wednesday for President and Vice President of the United States. This is placed on 'ne ,t. ground that none of them We're in a coh"ieioh to vote on the 9th of November last
 The Cambridge lnll Intezlioencer earnestlv protests against the attemp.. mt Montoom. cry Blair into the U. S. Senate fro.. N.ruI.,a It says: .E
 "Ii was not known to Marylanders that he was q Marylander until he was appointed te the cabinet four years ago. He is not regard ed mow as q bona .fde citizen of the state, but merely as 'squatter' upon her border He has no earthly claim npon MarylanLers fo, anything. and God knows they have no claim upon him. But the scheme is too absurd tc discuss. We respect the common sense of our readers too much to follow it further. It iss conspiracy against the whole loyal public sen. tlment of the North.
 The following telegrapbic coloquy took place Friday between prominent Republican in Washington ard the editor 1.-the New York Independent. ..
 WASHINGTON. February 3--Can the Iade- pendent be turned into daily paper as an or gan of peace through War and not negotia- tun?"
 Whereto the editor replied as follows:
 NEW YORK. Feb. 3.-The Independent will consent to receive commissioners on the sub ject."
 The N. Y. Post has this good news:
 We hear from good sources that the enamel patton movement is gaining hdherents rapidly in Kentucky. A weIl-informed friend writes us, that the sentiment in favor of extirpating slavery is sw eping like q wlIirlwind through | he state, and that Kentucky will act even more rapidly and decisivelY thar Missouri did
 A large fire occurred at North Adams. Nass., Friday morning. Smiths block. the Ar. cade block, and several wooden buildings ad joining were destroyed. The entire establish nent of the Neus aud Transcript was burned, at d loss of S5 900 while insured for but $20OO. and one of the buildings burned involveda loss about as great on it's owners the aggregate in- surance amounting to about SIS 0O0. Several persons were injured by falling walls.
 On Saturday evening last. there wns a great meeting of the people of Boston in Music Hall tn express joy at the progress of freedom. as manifested in the adoption Of :he Conslitution- al amendment aboIisbing Slavery. Josiah Quincy presided. Among the speakers we're Alr Quincy, William Lloyd Garrison, the Rev. E N. Kirby and Gen. Bntler. The speaking was intersperced with music from the great or gan, and the singing of an original hymn writ | en for the occasion by Oliver Wendell Holmes. | It was very jubilant demonstration.
 The snow is four to fv.. feet deep in the E northern part of Maine. Vermont and New York. Along the seaconst of Maine it is wo feet deep. In the White Mountain region now has fallen to "a great depth. Some of the lrifts in the roads are from twelve to fifteen set deep, hnd the sbow Is so dry that the wind lows it into most fantastic shapes.