Litchfield enquirer., 1866-09-20
WHOLE NO. 2l42.


 ANEcDorE OF Scorr.-1n the Museum at Aoootsiord there is small Roman patera, or goblet in showing which Sir Walter Scott told the following story {: I purchased this (said he) at . no0leman's roup near by, at the enormous sum or twenty-five guineas. would have got it for twenty pence If an antiquary, who knew its value, had not been there and opposed ID me-. However was almost consoled for the bitter price it cost by the amusement derived from an old woman, who had evidently come from e distance to purchase some trifDg culinary articles, and who had no taste for the antique. Every successive guinea which we bade for the paterG this good old lady mouth grew wider and wider with unsophsticsted astoDisbment until at last heard her muttsr to herself in tone which shall never forget-- Five and twenty guineas If the parritch-pat gangs at that. what will the kail-pat gupg for?'
 Prince Anton Gobepzellern ia tbs Hr.t mew- Der of the Prussian royal family who has fal- len in war since Prince Louis was run through the body by French sergeut iu the ba,I,e of Sa. l6rld, in Oc'ober, IMI5.
 Lord Derhy, who has been in ffiee oti, w.. mon hs, has already had the Doniba ari6u 10 four Judgesbips, bishOp'ic. tso gs.rters and TWO ford ieutenantcies, while he has ycrea,e1 six peers, three baroIet aud q dpzeu rriyr councillors. .........
 The ROmtn correspondent Of inc Pull Null Gazette says: 1.-The Queen of Naples bas sold pearls v" uei at 39.0O0 crow s to iht Priucess Sciarra for 1S.G00 l. is said thptthe Eeapo- Titan royal family intend tt emigrats to Amer ica."
 In response 10 serenads at Philadelphia, Gen Butler made the following speech:
 Gentlemen, I am not able to do uore to- night owing to an unfortunate cold than to say how much thank you for this courteous and kind call. l accept the compliment as . tribute to the principles to which I have devo ted myself. believe that you give it be- cause you think represent as far as may, those principles of that party which your ene- emies call radical [Cheers. and cries of That's it, Fight it on that line.' Now as was nev- CT village alderman Cleughter,1 as never represented my State in Congress, Trenewed laughter as I never sat in tue Senate of the United States, [lsughter1 as never WIS milii tsry governor of any State, [roars of laughter and cries of that's good. T as the cup of my earnest ambition is not full, [cheers and laugh Laughter and as have very bad ccld, I can say no more.
 Twenty Irish democrats voted the republi- can ticket in one ward in Portland, and there is no doubt that the republicans are largely indebted to the Irish for their great gains throughout the state.
 Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, in his recent message to the legislature, recommended that the freedmen be allowed equal rights before the courts Jn Alabama, where the state law does not allow negroes to testyfy unless ne- groes are concerned in the case, the Judges have agreed to accept the civil rights bill ss law, and to receive their testimony in all co. ses. t'.ft
 The Gazette Musicale announces the dis covsry of a. composition by Mozart at the age of ten years. produced for the installation of the Stadtholder. William of Orange the Fifth. It is in ten movements, and written for the harpschord, stringed quartet, two hautboys, two horns, and bassoon, and is described as very remarkable, the youth of it's writer consid- cred.
 The first Napoleon used to say that it was only necessary to get lis believed for A hours for it to become history.
 Oliver Wendell Holmes says he has seen physicians dying from scratch, and maA who had a crow bar through his head alive and well. .-.......
 A correspondent of the New York Ifnes says that in New Orleans women will not sit in the same pew with Yankees or Union men, With rare exceptions, the houses of 'Confede- rate families are closed against all who did not fight for the rebellion. The result of this is acrimonious recrimnation. and finally open enmity
 The story that Jenny Lind was hissed abroad {. l~ ko Ao Grk h, TaP- ratt. who has just returned from England and who saw and heard her. ..p ..
 The telegraph fails to give us some of the incidents which happened on President John sons tour. The following are among the omit ted ones While the President was speaking fiom the Delevan House at Albany be inquir- ed ITO whom have I proved a traitor?" when an Irisbman replied, "To Gen Sweeney and the Faynians." He continued, q have held every office in the gift of the people, what more can desire? ?' when fellow sung out Another term" H 't+e
 Punch calls the German Bund moribund.
 When i3rutus asked Cesar how many pan cakes he ate for breakfast, what reply did he make Et tu Brute. -,<
 Thomas Brooks was fined $40 and costs at Boston, on Tuesday. for selling milk aud wa ter, which he designated by the former name only. 'F "' ."
 A rich nabob in Western city, on being run over thus consoled himself It isn't the accident said be, that I mind, that isn't tho th,ng but the idea of being run over by an internal swill cart makes ms mad ats
 The New York Tribune thus speaks ofa wor- thy officer Many of our citizens doubtless re- member that immediately upon the sqpprss sion of the rio's in this city. in 1863. General Harvey Brown was relieved of bis command and dismissed the service. Alter mature in- vestigation, it is founG that he was unjnstly dealt win. He is uow reinstated. with tue ad- d:tional rank or brevet m j r genaral f,'r dls- services in .he suppression of riots in New York in 1863.', u,. .-.-l
 "If there's anybody under the canister ,f heaven that have in utter excrescence," eays Mrs. .Partipgton, "It is Andy Johnson, who is going about like boy constructor, circulating his calomel upon honest folks"
 A negro in Galveston. Texas, while smok- L. II q