Litchfield enquirer., 1866-09-20

AN OFFER Not LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTED. In a morning journal we find the following ad- vertisement, said to be copied from the Mont gomery advertiser. billiard, McMinn & Co. it seems; have "White Labor Agency in Montgomery
 "RATEs oE HIRE OF WHITE LABOR
 Men, per year ,.,.y.r.., $15O Women, per year 100 Children of 12 or IA years of age, per year 50 House servants, per month l5 Payable at the end of the year.
 "They contract for one year. to do the same work as the negro ; live in the same cabins, and on the same rations; clot he the mselves and pay their own doctors bills. Time lost by sickness deducted from wages
 ''One in every six of Germans agree to speak English. .., s.
 ssCost of transportation $15 per head to ac- company orders, but to be deducted from the the wages.
 ''An order will be forwarded to New York on Saturday, the 1lth inst"
 A bachelor boarder in house at Toledo, Ohio, overheard the servant girl Mary say she had dreamed that No. 639l would draw the SIC, 900 prize in one of the Chicago gift con- cerns. She resolved to invest, but he tried to dissuade her, though to no purpose, and at her request he wrote letter ordering that number. When the drawing took place the dream prov ed true, and the nlan without telling Mary of the result, suddenly proposed to her, was ac- cepted, and they were privately married He then announced her good fortune, hut was amazed to learn that after the letter was writ ten his ents'induced her not to send it. So he had the wife but not the $lO,OOO but he accepts the situation.
 According to the Cleveland Leader, wht n the President finished his dispute with the crowd in that city, Senator. Doolittle said to him: ''Mr. President did you not lower your dignity in responding to the Crowd ?" Damn my dignity r responded the President, "I was bound to give 'em back what they gave ue." \ LOUISVILLE, Sept. l9.-Gen. Rousseau was. elected to Congress from this District yester- day. There was no opposition, and the vote was very small. ... ...-. ..r-t..
 CINcINNATTI.-An election for Congress man was held Sept 18th, in the Sixth Ken lucky District to fill the unexpired term of Green Clay Smith. The returns secure the election of H Ward, Democrat, by . large majority over Carpenter, Republican. Both candidates favored the Presidents policy, and the Republicans generally d.d not vote.
 A ulauOuu Ol the ntstNWat0f, feCo ntIy discovered in Georgia, sold fsx $1 ,5OO. -
 The expansive Car Bridge, invented by s. Hemsteaa and l.. s! Hill, to be used for pass- ing from one car to another,,is pronounced a success. It is made of light iron lattice work and expands or contracts with the motion of the car, A decided improvement oyer the canvass bridges.
 : A RAPHAEL. AND A REMsRASDr---The' Brit ish Museum has just paid $3,00O for a small pen and ink sketch by Raphael, just sold among the effects of the late Dr. Wellesley and the National Gallery in London has just paid $35,000 for sRembrandt--tChrist Bles- sing Little Children'-fve and a half feet high. I 5sf.f t -sht D sts fps~ tt
 GERMAN ExHEs. .-Swi.zsrlun has become she refuge of those Germans whose opposition to the Prussian annexations has made 1t dam gerous for them to remain inl their own coun- try, The hotels in the Swiss towns are now full of barons, counts and ritters, who have es- csped the clutches of Bismarck. ts isSaa