Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-21

OI tn6 DAkl ol hlRHtbf Iu6t ColOEeu meA WoFo entitled in capital or criminal prosecution to a trial by jury. The sixth section of this Bill of Rights gives colored men the right to vote.
 --Old Andreas Hansen, the Russian giant, formerly . curiosity at Barnum's Museum, went on spree' the other nightin New York He is eight feet one inch tall, and large in pro. portion, 50 that his capacity for beer drink ing rather astonished the inn keepers whom ht then arrested by single bold policemen.
 "A new style of highway robbery was in. sugursted in Boston Tuesday night. A mar from Salem picked up q. drunken man in La- fsystte street, and helped him along until they drunkard turned upon his bsnefactor, knocked him down, and robbed him of gold watch worth eighty dollars.
 - The Brooklyn Eagle says that the indig nation of the democrats at the comments on their convention in New York calls to mind the old darkey, walking along the streets car dsrtaker, and shouting to the boys who laugh cd at him, Shut up, dar, rs . funeral!'
 s- Dean Richmond, King of the New York Democracy, recently reduced the wages of the employees of the New York Central Railroad at Buffalo, whereupon they telegraphed him that unless they had their former pay, they would not vote the Democratic ticket this fall. This brought out the following reply from the old war-hsrse of the Democracy The demo cratic party has gone to hell, and you may go there too.' - .-.,.9s :..''
 ,- Tho Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that person who merely canvas sss and takes subscriptions for maps, books, &c., is not psddler within the meaning of the Internal Revenue Laws. If however, he re- eeivss pay for the books, maps. &o., at the time hs takes the subscription, or if he deliv- ers them and receives pay therefor upon sub soription previously taken by himself or by another, hs Is psddlsr and should take . li- esnss as such.
 The New York Evening Post says it has been informed that Alexander Stevens on two occasions made an appeal to Jeff Davis for leave to examine the Andersonville prison and authority to remedy the abuses; that he rep resented to Davis the wrongs and cruelties committed there; but received for reply that the officers in command were capable and trust worthy men, and should not be interfered with, for which reasons MT. Stephens request was denied. = -.
 = Jersey City has, or thinks it has, . haun- 5 ted church, whence groans, shrieks and the elanking of chains resound at midnight, put ting all the neighborhood in mortal fear. Three doughty gentlemen undertook to watch the other night and see what became of it; but whom the witohing hour, when church yards, ko., arrived, their courage, like that of Bob Acres all oozed out at their fingers ends, and they went home to bed leaving the mystery un solved. asa.-s7 ,.. .',....
 - Beer glasses are very small indeed in Wis. sonsin.s returned soldier who likes beer Q some returned soldiers do---asked the bev erage dispenssr, who was serving him one day not long ago, for his handkerchief, and on re- ceiving the 'vipe' tied one end of it around the handle of the mug, and gave the other cad to the landlord to hold. The beverage dispen- ser inquired the reason of this strange pro- eeoding, and the veteran responded that the mug was 50 small he was afraid of swallowing 1t by accident. ..s5. IT
 -- A British army officer, Capt. A. W. Baker of the Royal Bombay Engineers, has at last settled the year in which the world will come to an end. In 2 work just published in Eng. land, entitled The Day and the Hour; or Notes on Prophecy: Sketch of the Future, extract Cd from the Bible hs states that the day of judgment is fixed for Sept. goth. 1s78. Notes due on the 2Oth will accordingly be payable C on the 18th. g }a . ai IT " fse-' Photographic communication being inter- rupted ID the ofics at Elmira, N. r.. a search was instituted for the obstruction. vh;ch -a. found at place where the main and anx;,i.rn lines ran parallel for Q few rods, and a listancs or above six inches apart. At this mat ths spiders had wove their webs from one wire "a the other, and the constant droppinp of th. water from the dews and the foes throueh inc different threads of the web to the line helov formed complete circuit for the electricity rendering the efforts ofthe operatsr to commu. aiaate r leas.'s 5.., <. RI.
 Dkny Evening Journal reports the son U3 . distinguished Southern statesman. nov, visiting at the North, as saying :-e We are loyal-the great mass of us far more loy- sl than some of your own people. You can far better afford to trust us than you can your m rabls copperheads. They are the vilest oAscourings of the earth. Had it not been for them we should not have rushed into war And yet they have tho impudencs to some to us, claiming to be our friends, advising us to be stiff necked, and asking us to strike hands with thsm and form new alliance. The vi- persl They have cheated us once they will never cheat us again. We had rather trust sne viisst abolitionist that ever hoWled and nounaso lls us down. than the best of them.' .... "A man in New Bedford has very nearly es. aasec.sIea perpetual motion. Nothing seems nAng so complete success but the Removal sh. nasSin. hiss ssn that appears to prevent journey: We are not informed of N. snaless s.nss of the hitch. but we presume it eannot hs av very s:siou. :s and the I o
 n;.a .ss. sne A..snno s caois the inventor is san :, ..,. - Isss S.' foreign papers mention long q. HipPiaroms on . recent Sunday. The sr.. .s bull which appeared in the arena vas so nsr,s rss ous at the crowd of spectators that he prudent. y returned into the soril, amid the hisses and which looked very harmless, were little wor. risd by i've soreadors aapping red closks be- lore their eyes, but nothing more was sttemp. tea: Some Paris wags have spreae the report that these bulls were only young calves with psvk9 asaiis horns. '