Litchfield enquirer., 1867-12-05
Ais Q oellansous Items.

Weston, though failing in the attempt to make one hundred miles in twenty-four hours-which it is generally suspected was 8 pre-arranged failure-reached Chicago in the prescribed time, and thus receives four of the ten thousand dollars he had pledged to him if he were successful in ev- cry particular. An ''immense concourse" of people is said to have welcomed him when he reached the end of his journey. We expect next to hear of his nomination for the Presidency-at least as 8 member of Congress. The first requisite has been secured by the pedestrisn-that is, noto. riety.
 Gen. Custer, who was recently tried by court-martial, has been sentenced to be suspended from rank and pay for one year. General Cnster was tried for absence with out leave, he having left his command to visit his wife near Fort Harker at the time the Cholera was raging there so furiously. Unfortunately several of the soldiers whom he had taken as an escort fell into the hands of the Indians, and he was unable to rescue them. The sentence having been approved by the President, it was recent ly read in the front of the Generals com mand.
 A list of Pope's Zouaves wounded st Montana has been published. It contains 52 names; and of these 21 arc Dutch, r French, Peruvian, Hanoverian, l Bo- hemian, 2 Canadians and9 Belgians. There is not in the list either Spaniard or an Irishman.
 Latest telegrams from Cuba say that Ad- miral Tegethoff had settled all claims az .inst Maximillian's estate, General Marquez was to be reported in Matamoras. Princess Salm Salm had published deni- al of the statement that she was the daugh ter of an American General. Prince Salm Salm Is still waiting at Havana for the Nov ara, with Maximlllian's remains. Santa Anna is still at Havana sick. Half the convicts connected with the jail breaking attempt at Santiago had arrived in Havana bound for Fernando Pc.
 Don't believe history" said Sir Robert Walpole. What are We to believe, then Some one suggests that D;vinity is the saf est thing to put one's trust in. But there are difficulties here, too. One divine, Bishop Clark, the American, says on the subject of Drunkenness: 'In tour of severAl months in Europe, did not see four men or one woman intoxicated" and he declares there is more drunkeness in the United States than anywhere else in the world. On tue other hand Rev Newman Hall, the Englishman, says he saw but three or four drunken men in America, number that he saw every evening in England; he con- siders us naturally yunder the circumstances remarkable temperate people.--M F. Times.
 The State census report of Iowa, just completed gives the population of the State at e02, ,04O gain of 147, ,O41 in two years.
 The Charleston (S O. Courier, in re- cent article, paid deserved compliment to General Howard Among other things 1t said. "However objectionable the bureau may appear, General Howard has admins. tered it's affairs with justice and impartiai- ty among all classes"
 Hon. J. M. Bolts was at the capitol Sat- urday, urging the representatives to re- move the disabilities from several classes of Vireinians, now excluded from the polls He promises to establish a new conssrva- tive party of whites and blacks, If this is done.
 I. B. Purcell, Catholic Archbishop of who recently professed to be himself opposed to the temporal power of ;he Pope, says these hot, in-tempered and 'oolish words about Garabaldi:
 "Had the infidel buccaneer of both lemispheres succeeded, he would have, ike hyena. broken into the tcmbs of the ,oly Apostles, and scattered their sacred shes to the wind; he would have plundered churches and profaned the tabernaoles of he Holy Eucharist, and filled the Eternal Jity with ruins! Under such circumstan- 'es, I say openly, and you may make what lse you please of the admission, the death # the miscreant would s:haye been . dnty md benefit"