Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-16
General News.

The Count of Paris who served on McClel. lan's Staff in a letter 10 Mr. F. NJ. Edge of London. critcis+s McCleIlan's military pol.cy, as wei. as his great mistake in l.ariiny the DO. ltiral movement of last Fall The Count a,ils that his entire slHnpathips were with Mr. Lin coln hefnre the elpclion and that he bitterly regrets the fatal hck of energy aud moral cour. age displayed by Mcclellan in the Penlnsuiap campaign.
 Andrew J. Dopelson. adopted son of Au- drew Jackson, who w,Il be remembered as a prominent citizen of Tennessee and who was candidate for the Vice Presidency on the ticket with Mi!lard Fillmore in 1856, recently came within the Uniun lines at Nashville took the amnesty oath, and has since been privileg. ed to so where he pleased in that State with out let or intolerance from the Federal author-
 lies. Daring his term in Dixie he did not enter into eith'r the civil or military service of. the Rebels. and did not compromise himself in support of the cause of secession further than circumstances compelled He passed Cairo. a
 lew days ago. bound to Bolivar, Miss. where. be owns Two or three plantations Nothing remains of thtn,. we believe, hut the land. the
 neg,o's. st' ck and improvements havng all : been swept away by lhe ray ges of War. In the course of th- bitter controversy ra- eing in the South. relative to Gen. Joseph Johnston. We ascertain the strength nt John stnns army at the commencement of the cam- paisn and his losses. The parisans of John ston were nquiring, a few day s ago. what had | e,ounr o' the magnificent army of sixty four thousand men, turned over tu Hood ia front of Atlanta. ard a supporter of Jeff Davis has | inst declared in the rebel Congress that John son lost twenty twn thousand m"h between the town of Dalton and ,he Chatlahoochie River i If we accept those figures as accurate. We inl h sir. not!; of Johnson's army must lave been ei"htv-six h"lisnnd when ihe campaign opened All hat is left is what Hood escaped with across tie Tennessee lsiver, after his de. 1 feat in front of Nashville.
 TIE BLACK FLAG The New York Times 1 supposes tF,"t the two following paragraphs, descriptive of affairs in Macon. Ga., are ex- p'ana,ory 0: each other, or rather the last item is a commentary upon the first one: "Cnblmgp. SIS per head; cucumbers, $lO each {; Il bunch oI six Ash. $2O."
 "A di>grareu affair is now going on up- town. A mob of women with the black flag are marching from store to store on a pilnping expedition. The Pelham Cadets are ordered out To di>perse thrm."
 | The description is sho,t, but it conveys very vivid idea ot life in Central Georgia. Ths rebel leaders have very often threatened that the hiack flag would he raised all oyer the Snuth, and there are signs that it will be raised exit IT. ivry in the states of the southwest, but not iu tEe interests of the southern conIedsra- cv.
 The St. Allans raiders were again betore the Montreal court on Fidav, and their coul sel m vel fnr further delay. offering as proof that hey We're connected with the cnniederaies. the fact that some off heir mes sengprs to Richmond had been captured in the United States. men tionng Davis, ust sentenced to death as spy, as one of them. in court refused to grant | her del;'y. The r,iiderS are not to be sent 10 New i"k fer tIial. They are reclaimed uprn complaints preferred against them in the courts of 'h" sIntr of Vermont. and If surren--' dere,i they will be surrendered to the uuthori- ties of that state for rial under ihe laws there. i of Marshal Murray has proceeded to Yer mort upon entirely different business than that of escor,ing tlie raiders to New York.
 person who s,w John C. Brpckinrilge 6 few -eks ago: says that his appearance is that of person in the habit of consuming q vast qnan ity of bad whiskey. He was seedy and bloaled, and his condition. so far as an obser- Yer could judge, was that of a pers-n decidedly played out
 Luther C. 1ibbets, the New York Corn Ex- change man who sued one hundred of his fel- lows for libel, laying he damages in each case at one million of dollars. a mere trih. in itself, but really amOuntlng tU something in the az g'egate. has been nonsuited in the several cases alrea y tried.
 Washington A. Bartlett, formerly an officer in fin IInjI ll St fat unv " aud father Inf fha young lady whose marriage few years ago to Senor Ovlrto, of Cuba. was known as the [. Diamond Wedding died on Monday, aged forty-niae years. In 1861 he was actively en- gagged in fitting out Il naval brigade but sub- sequenty left the service.
 Rev Edmund Kelly, (co1ored) of New Bsd-, ford. has received letter from the sun of hU oil master whom he left eighteen years ago. asking for loan ul money to replphishhis wrr'lr"h'; the son is now rebel prisonf in Fort Pulaski. the old slave wpll-t0, do uAnis- ter in New Bedford. He is one Cf the EllOwS who can't take care or them selves.
 Col. MulEord the most welcome Importing. merchant ~ho ever navgated the Chesapeake, landed cargo Of a thousand of og exchanged prisoners at Annapolis on Wetlvts'lay. "The best conditioned lot of our pooyhoys." said he, 'ever delivered to u,e. N.ary allcould walk"
 The body of a. Chinese mf fchant, who died in Victoria, put up in alcolbl m leaden c.,f- fin and inclo.e,l in cos'b rosewood coffin, Was recently brought to yan Francisco ts he sent to China. The Jhole weighed 2200 pnunds. and Johnny wet homs in. gool spir- its.
 The Huntsville Joutaak since the electioa talks quite respectfully again. of the President and the goverumen It says the impression that there is to be trouble between the civiI and military uthgities of that state is RroHnd- less. aud gives tht people good advice on tha& subject.
 There were ssvere snow storms on Sunday at Philadelphia Baltimore. Boston, and Pruyi. denee. At Philadelphia the storm was unusu~ ally severe, 8kssn inches of snow ialhss.