Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

The Erie railroad has Just negociateu new S4, 100000 loan at London. s.
 The czar of Russia is in funds-lO0, 900, GOO roubles surplus last month.
 = Wheat in Minnesota is good and plenty, and sells at 75ca$l.05 per pushel.
 A person choked with a potato will find instant relief by swallowing pumpkin.
 Nearls, l, 600 National banks have thus far Keen orgonized, with total capital of S39S,' 579,2Gl.
 The office of Provost Marshal in Washing ton has been abolished.
 - Wisconsin has a population of S68,847, an increase of 9S227 since 1860, when 1t was 775,62o. The State debt is less than 900 ooo. "A naval officer has been cowhided at Charleston by wealthy colored man whose daughter he had seduced. ig aaa Asstss
 The Chinese giant in England. put a clause in his contract that if he died he should be sent free pfiexpense to China. He carries his coffin vi him. i. ,fIs kes .z. :s sds 5c = The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Republican says that Mir. Aiken, one of Mrs, Mrs. Surfatts counsel is writing her life a1tF3se nif t7 4S9 gal f.' fsts4aF
 = In the South Carolina convention Rev; M. Martin prayed fSr the late president ana vice president of the confederate states, aud all those who are lansuishng in prison, 4. "A maintained. Mccormick. ll5 years old lives at New Windsor, N. Y. He has lived on potatoes, corned beef and cabbage, has worked hard and drank very little water or anything else. o3a3ajEa at# sqfga 1aGioac st& ,~5
 
 A police officer has just returned to Gin cnnati with the pretiest girl he ever laid his eyes on' having pursueddher for. 1000. miles during tle;twe months, since she eloped from her mothers house with gambler.
 - Col., Jacques, who gained much notoriety by his visit to Richmord with Edmund Kirk and his interview with Jeff Davis, has been arrested at Louisville for causing illegal op- eration to be performed upon woman which resulted in her death. 4,aa ass .gas .a
 = The Mexican President Juarez is report ed to be en route to the United States. Much speculation concerning his business will nat urally oe.iudulged, but no particulars regard ing it have transpired. 4ez- 4,5 The English howl terribly because an ar rested Fenian had a smusket marked "U. 5. :" A good many thousand of the muskets cap tured from our rebels had the British mark upon them. zoz " @ it
 - If somebody steals your government bonds and sellsethem to an honest man, who buys them in good faith without suspecting them to have been stolen, they belong to the buyer and not to you.
 -- The thief who stole $7,0O0 worth of da- monds at St. Louis has been discharged for want of prosecution. IL will be recoIlected that he represented liinsef,to be q 'correspon- dent of the New York Herald. - z. s, - An insane man ia Tarrytown, N Y. was about to shoot his housekeeper, when she said calmly 'Mr. Lindenberger, you are too good a man to kill me- when he turned the muzzle of the pistol to his own head and blew out his shattered brains, f..-.t
 - Fenian song now popular in Ireland asserts that John Browns Knapsack was No. 9S," thus reviving the memory of the Irish movement of '98 in the. mind of the
 -- The Madison Qpdiana) Courier says it has heard young ladies singing, Who will care for mother now ? while their old mothers w were wearing themselves out in. the kitchen over the family washing. .a55a,
 - Half tue writing paper made in the Uni ted States, is made within 25 miles of Spring field. The great writing paper manufactories in the country, are in the Connecticut and Westfeld valleys, near Springfield, and the Houstonic valley in Berkshire county. s - The burials in Greenwood Cemetary ave rage about ,00O per annum, and the whole number to date is l44400. The corporation has expended some ss20O0 900 on the grounds, h.y d,l l., sum. In some,plases individuals have expan. ded in adorning the lots from twenty to thirty thousand dollars
 -- Mr. Charles o. Peck of Pitts6eld, and a B'ooklyn, N. Y. man bought last March twen ty acres oe land ia Pithole, Pa., about twenty miles from Oil City, for which was paid s 006 Last week they sold the same property for $50. 900 Another'for which they paid $3,O0O, they sold for $l7,O0o. ....... - A beautiful young lady belonging in Mid dletown N. r., was slaughtered in New York city a few days since, under the hands of an ahortionlst who cannot quite be convicted Of the crne. The poor girl was married on her death bed to relieve the crushing blow upon her mother. There is a lesson in the sorrow full tale. a1' 7a ~" 'te 2! +as+'- 3
 - The steamship Daniel Webster from New Orleans, 22d for New York, reports landing some prisoners at Dry Tortusas. and that Dr. Mudd attempted to escape. He was found se- creted in the coal bunkers of the St amer Thomas Scott, and put to hard labor wheeling sand, The quartermastero of the Scott was ar rested for having aided pr. Mudd in his efforts to escape.
 Sag asfRS sAne52is sG8ee btt E9t -H = Several weeks ago a,lady friend made ap plication to the State Department for pass port for Gen Beauregard that he might avail himself of the oficialorde permitting such offenders to voluntarily, exile themselves dur ing the pleasure of the Government. But it is understood that the same southern lady, who was at e>President's ahouse5the other day, is now interesting herself to procure for him the \ executive clemency
 - Gov Brownlow's message to the general assembly, of Tennessee recommends amend ments to-the franchise law, but by no means advocates litsrepeal.9- Guilty rebels should be treated with severity in proportion to their of lenses. Emigration should be fostered He advocates the setting apart a portion of the national territory for the colonization of freed men. He recommends that the testimony of negroes beytaken in the courts, and heartily indorses President -Johnson's reconstruction