Litchfield enquirer., 1867-08-08
Seven Thirties.

orally understood that they must be pre-, sented for conversion at Washingt on o1 before the day of maturity, or the holder loses his option, and the government has the right to pay in cash. Whether the government will insist on their legal risessht. we do not certainly know, but have heard it affirmed that they might do so. Of how great importance this matter is to holders, may be inferred from the fact that the five twenties into which these notes are con- vertible, are worth nearly nine per cent. premium.
 nSp The Hartford Times undertakes tc make political capital out of the refusal o1 our Legisture to pass bill, making in formers, employed to buy liquor, incom potent witnesses, in prosecutions against the seller. While we disapp1ove of the practice in question, we look upon this de mand of rum-sellers for the introduction of so strangean anomaly ill our criminal law as most impudent and absurd. The evidence sought to be excluded is that of all acc0mpltce-testimony always admissible al common law. By statute, too, of many years standing, conviction of crime no lon ger makes the criminal incompetent as 6 witness; while the last remaining vestige of disqualification from character or inter est, was removed, this year, by the passage of statute allowing the accused, himself to testify in all criminal cases.
 The liquor-selier has now, therefore, { chance to testify to his own innocence, anC need fear little from false swearing; but the State will hardly accom- modate him SC far as to suppress evidence, the truth o which he dare not dispute.
 THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for August keeps fairly up to tbis high reputation of this Mag azine. Dr. Holmes novel, "The Guar dian Angel" bids fair to be a great i'm. provement on Elsie Venner. In the pres ent number 1t IS true, the heroine, having
 
 playing the part of Pocahontas in q tab leau, raised the veritable war-whoop and was just on the point of knifing school fellow who had insulted her. Still we pre- fer this barbarian element to those reptilian traits of Elsie Venner which fairly make the flesh creep. We earnestly wish Dr. H could be compelled to write one story omit ting all abominable human malformations or at least not treating them professionally
 Hospital Memories is simply written sketch, sad, but evidently correct.
 Parton's ''Cincinnati'' is decidedly the poorest of his city pictures.
 Whipple's article on the genius of Shak speare is one of the most sensible we have ever seen on that great subject. One ot the Limitations" of that genius, seems to us most correctly stated: ''There is no char acter in his plays that covers the elements of such a man as Hildebrand or Luther, o1 either of the Williams of Orange, or Ham den, or Howard, or Clarkson, or hundreds O other representativ men whom history cele brates.' Of that loftiest heroism' which de votion to a great religious or political prin ciple has so often shown, Shakespeare has certainly given us no adequate ex ample.
 Col. Higginson's ''up the Edisto' is very lively war sketch.
 Of Longfellow's Translation of Dante Divina Commedia, we find review whicl expresses far more enthusiastic approva than the extracts seem to warrant. MT Longfellow has certainly avoided the gen eral fault of free translations-the interpo lation of ''beauties'' of his own devising but he does not seem to have escaped th' vice of Mern versions-hard, dry, ungrace ful English Of this fault we think on, who does not understand Italian is the bes judge. An Italian sch olar does not g, readily detect idioms and expressions with which he is familiar in the original, bu which are, nevertheless, unnatural to tho English tongue.
 The prosecution against the Rev. Steph en H. Tyng Jr., arose in this wise. Ina gentleman had accepted the invitation of Methodist church in New Brunswick N. J to preach before them when Dr. Stubbs rector of Christ church (EpiscopaD in tha place, objected, citing Canon XII article of that church. MT. Tyng nevertheless officiated and Dr. Stubbs commenced his prosecution. The article in question is a