Litchfield enquirer., 1867-08-08

The Democratic papers are abusing Gen eral Sickles because, having lost a leg in the service of his country, he rides in carriage which was presented to him by his brother officers
 The constitutional convention in Michi- g,n has taken the lead of the whole Ameri- can people on the question of f-the ultimate disposal of the aborigines. In adopting tle principle of manhood suffrage they h we inserted clause expressly including all the Indians living in the stlte
 Emerson Etheridge and Horace May hard had a sharp fl ght at Greenville, Tenn. the other day. As Etheridge entered the hotel, M.ynard spoke to him. Etheridge stopped and asked, 'sDid you speak to me?' Maynard replied that he did, when Etheridge said, T don't speak to d-d rlscal II do," retorted Maynard. Ether idge then struck him with an umbrella, when Maynard fell upon him and would have thrashed him severely had not Ether idgc's friends come to his relief Yet this bully Etheridge is the man whom the vir- tloGs conservatives are trying to m ike gov ernor of Tennessee.
 "I look upon Mir. Johnson," said Sena- tor Wilson in his speech at Saratogl !, as look upon Bull Run. It was a great les son to the country. Andrew Johnson stands right there, and every time he undertakes to do any thing against the cause of liberty and justice, the country rallies and goes further than 1t ever has gone before."
 RELIGIOUS.
 A conference of Baptist clergymen have foI ct 4bo CTS sermons in the Examiner and Chroni- cle. They do not consider them orthodox. The editor has advised them to attend to their own business, while he will manage his.
 Madame" said a husband to his young wife in little altercation which will spring up in the best regulated families, 'swhen a man and wife have quarreled and each con- sider the other at fault, which of the two ought to advance toward reconciliation ''The best natured and wisest of the two, D said the wife, putting up her mouth for a kiss, which was given with unction. She was the conqueror in the conflict.
 An Irish counsellor having lost his cause which had been tried by three judges, one of whom was esteemed a very able lawyer, though the other two were indifferent, some of the other barristers were merry on the occasion.
 "Well, now," said he, ''wlo could help it, when there are 8 hundred judges on the bench?'
 "A hundred!' said bystander, ''there were but three"
 By St. Patrickr' replied he, ''there were one and two cyphers. D
 A story reaches us from Belgium, where they are very severe, as we all know about luggage. An English lady had her dog the smallest thing in the world-with her in the railway carriage. Madame, , said the official, ''you must pay for the dog, and I must put him in the dogs depart ment.' II will pay willingly, but in Eng land always carry him in the carriage. ;: A crowd collected at the altercation. Mad ame, here, 1t is impossible for you to have the dog with you" ''Very we'll; take him, then, and put him with the others" The official seized, and, amidst universal lau yh- ter, had to hand it back, and receive a franc for luggage, as it was an imitation plaything-dog the lady had with her, which she caused to bark furiously at the dis concerted official by squeezing the wooden bellows-like apparatus beneath the woolly toy.
 A justice, better versed in law than gos- pei, not long since married couple in this way: "Hold up your hands. You solemn y swear that you will faithfully perform the duties of your office, jointly and sever ally. according to your best skill and judg- ment, so help you God, fee one dollar"
 It is undeniable, says Prentice, that in America it takes three to make pair-he, she, and hired girl. Had Adam been a modern, there would have been hired girl in Paradise to o )k after little Abel and ''raise Cain.
 A gallant was lately sitting beside his beloved, and being unable to think of any, thing to say, asked her why she was like a tailor? T don't know, said she, with 8 pouting lip, ''unless it's because I'm sitting beside goose.''
 We find the following remark credited to Unitarian minister: eft is doubtful whether, with our modern tendency, God can send upon society greater combina- tion of curses than d very eloquent preach CT, ten thousand dollar, organ and a su- perb opera choir"
 Frederick E. Church's first famous pie ture was that of Niagara Falls, painted in 1857. He was afterwards at the Falls sletching, when several dilletanti loiterers looked his sketches over, saying contemp- tuously, ''Pshaw! you ought to see Church s Niagara. "I painted it. was the artists simple answer. What fall was there.
 The Prince of Wales has not increased his popularity of late in England. The Tomahawk publishes cartoon which rep resents the Prince as Hamlet, struggling with John Bull, who, as Horatio, tries to hold him back from falling the ghost of the roue George IV., to which the Prince says. ''1'll follow thee"
 A negro priest who visited Rome during the recent festival, obtained an audience, and, kneeling before the pope, attempted to express his emotions in Latin. He made an awful mess of it, but the benig nant pontiff gave him his blessing, adding to himself: ''Figlio mic come sci bruto, ''- My son, what fright you are'' It was fortunate that the reverend gentleman did not understand Italian.
 Two loving brothers in Indiana fought each other with knives until nothing re mained but traternal hash.
 England's want of hospitality towards the Pasha gives Punch no end of material