Litchfield enquirer., 1867-10-03
Miscellaneous Items. .-

CT will or not.
 Official returns of the late election in Tennessee are now complete, showing Q total vote of 96.213, divided thus:-William G. Brownlow, 73, ,666: Emerson Etheridge, 22,547. Brownlow's majority, 1,119. The official returns of the election in Kentucky indicate gain in the Republi- can vote of 5000, and this while two thirds of the loyal population are excluded from suffrage.
 A community of negroes who left their Southern masters before the war, form the town of Williamsville, Cass county, Michi- gan. They number two thousand, have three churches and good schools.
 It is officially contradicted that the Pres ident and Gen. Grant have agreed to post pone the Southern elections.
 In the mound recently opened near Nashville, Tennessee, containing graves of a people evidently existing before our pres ent race of Indians, no weapons of war were found, which shows that the race was a peaceful one. Vases were found with the bones, and the people seem to have cared for the dead very tenderly.
 Thirty women in Montgomery, Alabama with children numbering ninety-six in the aggregate, declare that they are suffering for the absolute necessaries of life, and can get no work with which to support them selves and their helpless children. They have been receiving assistance from the United States government, and from Dr. Rose, but these sources have been closed. A brick machine has been invented in Fort Wayne that presses from green clay 50 bricks per minute, or 5000 per hour. An application has been made for patent.
 The total amount of taxable property in Illinois for 1867, estimating assessments for eight or nine counties not yet received, IS S462, S65, ,9S4, against $41O, $40, ,22O in lS66-a gain of $S2,O25, 764.
 MT. William J. Stillman, our consul at Crete, who has been an observer of all the exciting scenes of the late war between the Greeks and Turks, has written series of interesting papers, containing his own ex- perience on the ground which will be pub lished in the Atlantic. The first one is to appear in the November number. A few days since a young gentleman with his sister and another young lady ar- rived at Galena in skiff from St. Paul, having accomplished the whole distance of over four hundred miles in nine days. The young man .rowed the skiff the whole way, passing through Lake Pepin in the night. The voyage was hard one, and the par ty were pretty thoroughly sunburnt. The oarsman fainted away twice on the way from fatigue.
 The Cuban cable company received two thousand dollars for the first day the cable was open to the public.
 An Eastern editor was shot lately in an affray. Luckily, the ball came against a bundle of unpaid accounts in his pock- cts. Gunpowder could not get through that
 We see 1t stated that Q celebrated Ger man chemist has made the discovery that sugar can be extracted from tears! Won derful as may seem the announcement, the pretensions of this modern chemist were anticipated quite number of years since i by MT. Shakespeare, who wrote, 'tSaoeet are the uses of adversity"!
 Registration in Virginia is complete and shows l15, ,157 whites to 101 ,49O blacks: full nineteen twentieths of all the whites in the state have been registered.
 What melancholy things we do read in the papers! The latest affecting" narra- tive is that of father in the metropolis, who turned his only son out of doors, be- cause he refused to pay rent! A striking instance of pay-rental affection.
 Many seek solace for their trouble in the gay French capital. They think the best plaster for their wounds is the plaster of Paris.
 The recent arrests in Chicago are said to Ego against the grain" of the speculators.
 If the ant gives an example of industry, it is more than many uncles do
 The two parties on the female suffrage question in Kansas are called ''antis, 7" and s'aunties."
 When is vessel smaller than bonnet? When it is capsized
 A gentleman in Connecticut, after read ing s'every article of every number of Ihe [ Journal of Conanaerce. for fifteen years, has died.
 l What shall the man say who is sitting on his wife's best bonnet? '1'm sitting on the style, Mary.
 Beecher and Bonner have consented that ''Norwood" shall be dramatized. It is hardly to be expected that the first presen- tation will be in the Plymouth Church.
 A colored military company, armed and equipped, has been formed at New Haven
 The T}1bune's Washington special, in re- gard to the ceremonies at Antietam, says From all accounts the affair was disgrace full in the extreme. MT. Johnson and the members of the Cabinet with him snubbed every one of note excepting Swann, Brad ford and the other Maryland rebels. It ii stated that had it not been for Govs. Geary and Fenton, the audience would not have listened to MT. Johnson. All the 1oya men from Washington who were present express themselves as disgusted.
 A Democratic journal remarks that .'the Republicans attribute the losses to thell party in Maine to increased love of whisky we rather deem it an increased love o1 Democratic principles Here IS dls, tinction without a difference; for we al l know that-as the market reporters say