Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-29
DIX REDrvIvUs.

We are happy in being able to announce another season of Dix. Dix has been in retirement now for several weeks. We say in retirement, for the reason that he has not figured in the Associated Press for g considerable time. There was time, as our readers we'll remember, when for weeks and weeks, the burden of our telegrams was "Dix." "Dix, sang the telegraph at night. twill be Naval Officer of the Port pof New York;" Dix" 1t whistled next morning. twill be Minister to France. :" At noon Dix had qualified as Naval Officer -at midnipht he had started for Paris. Yes terdav he was in doubt which to take-to- day he was hankering for both. And so the eternal changes were rung, day after day. and night after night, until the Eoi- an wires hummed to the morning breeze, or sighed to the night wind, no name but Dix3no song but Dix-y. Well it was a good thing In it's way, excellent. We 7 were kept posted on Dix At times, the reports were rather mixed; but better, mix ed news of Dix than the unutterable sus- pense of nothing about Dix at all. 1t was as if the old gentleman had become in- 7yolved in the long wire arms of the tele- graph, like the poor cuss whom Victor Hu. go wraps in the sweet-scented embrace of the Devil Fish-and we had wires running from his head, stomach, and pocket, to the Associated Press of the country; the head telegraphing that he would go to France, 1! the stomach that he would take the Naval Office and the pocket, that he might accept both. al 9i
 But all things have an end. Dix is not interminable. One morning mummy was ,,nrolled in the New York Custom House the oath was administered to it, and the telegraph was temporarily un-Dixed. w 3 have been since then serene To our minds ' eye we pictured Dix in the enjoyment O the New York Naval Office, and drawing
 his salary with military precision and reg
 ularity. So we pictured him and dreamed q of him. It was from such dreams that the .. Associated Press rudely reused us 8 fey
 nights since by the startling intelligence flashed from Paris to London, thenc' through the Atlantic abyss to Hearts Con I tent, and thence down the sounding shore
 of the Gulf, and along the Eastern coast
 till it fetched up in the room lately occu .o pied by D: H Craig, "a person from Nc Paris" We wondered as s1 why why shouldn' 4 we, believing confidently as we did, that tn z delightful old fungus was exhaling the fra ; grant end of played out political eMs atence in the New York Custom House. T, : this lightning from under the sea we mad
 no sign but said only, "Ah, Dix agaipp Later despatch came, all the way f,6m Paris again, saying Dix was not there, And then we said, "v Very likely. But teImor- row will he not turn up in St. Petesburg, and the next day in Constantinope?" And the next day came there an apparent un- dwelling of the mystery in a, despatch, sta ting that "the family of cen. Dix had ar. rived in Paris" but msAng no mention of old MT. Dix. It is nov positively announ- ced from Washington that he starts for Pa ris himself next Wednesday He was in Washington at last accounts. Of his fit ting we shall not fail to hear. Of course, we shall hear frequently ,and at great length, of his arrival That may be the end of it for while. Possibly-but not probably. When Dix first got into the land wires, it took weeks to unsnarl him. Now that he and his whole family have got snarled up in the cable, we have no expectation of get ting quit of them until the cable breaks $ Noyacich Bulletin. 4.f.