Litchfield enquirer., 1867-03-28
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 The traitor Slidell, living in Paris, Is re- ported to be enormously rich.
 IAs correspondence between young Ben nett and the Duke of Edinburgh got into the English papers by way of this country.
 The younR men of Savannah. Georgia, gre delighted with base ball, an entirely new game in the South.
 Joseph A. Wright, United States Minis ter to Prussia, is so flat Berlin that he is aetexpscted to recover.
 If . young man likes girl, he should ofFer her present; if he love her, he should offer her future. All tho stock of the Salisbury branch railroad has been taken. Commodore Vanderbilt being down for $350, 900 worth.
 A.bold rogue, last week, made success ful attempt st picking the editors pocket. Re got-nothing. We forgive the fool.
 One hundred thousand people pass over Fzlton Ferry. New York, every twelve hosrs. 4 Good Templars' regalia is hanging up in O bar room In Fair Haven. It was pawn d. Bor glass of liquor, to one of the un- faithful.
 It appears DeBow is not dead as widely Grculated in the papers. So the South has not yet hung up de fiddle and DeBow. --Polladsan.
 The World consoles itself by saying that the "defeat year after year of the New Hampshire Democracy brings no demoral- ixation. Glad to hear 1t! "Set 'em up againr-Norsrich Bxisessn.
 The Concord Patsiot-the leading "De- mocratic" paper in New Hampshire- groans over the result of the recent cleo ton, declaring that it is far less favorable than the Democrats" hoped for, and less 70 than many of their friends expected:
 The Church and Society of North Corn wall have given Rev. Jesse Brush, of Yer non, . call to settle with them offering salary of $11OO and the use of the parson- sgs. He will commence his labors imme- Winstsd Herald.
 The Memphis Appeal says-'It would be gain to the country to substitute de- cent negroes for some drunken Senators and dsbauched Representatives in Con gress." This is hard on Democratic Sauls- bury of Delaware.
 At Belmont, Nevada, lately, middle aged man was married to little girl of thirteen. Her parents seized her and car ried her home, but the inhabitants sympa- thixed with the agonized husband and com pelled her restoration to his arms.
 A married female in Louisville, of fifty eight, has eloped with boy of nineteen, taking along with them all the old gentle mans goods. The injured husband looks at the affair calmly. is willing to let the old lady shde, but wants his property back.
 Bennie sounds pretty for little urchin, bat when he becomes a man we give him the full title of Benjamin. Thus in the ear- ly stages of the great rebellion, we called the rebels 'Johnnies;" now we call them Johnson men,"
 In the New Orleans Museum, recently, the young lady who goes into the ion's den put too much pomatum on her hair. When she stopped to let the Mexican lion jump over her as usual, that sagacious beast stopped, to the great alarm of the specta- sorS. and bit of her waterfall. s.st
 A CoNNENrARY.-Ane negro preacher while holding forth to the colored soldiers at Fort Hudson, said: ''De whole of Gods relation Co us am like de wheel De Lord am de huh, de Christians am de spokes. and de tire am dc grace of God bindin' all toged- der"
 Fenclon, who had often teased Richelieu land intellectually it would seem) for sub scriptions for charitable undertakings, was enc day telling him that he had just seen his picture And did you ask it for 8 sub scnption?" said Richelieu, sneeringly. ''No IsAw there was no chance" replied the ether; 'ft was so like you"
 A formal call for the National Democrat ic Convention at Louisville, proposed by the Democracy of Kentucky, and favored by the Conventions of Ohio, Connecticut and New-Hampshire, and the National De- nocratic Association of Washington. has been issued. It will be held on the 4th of Iay. @
 General Robert E. Lee and other promi- nsnt virginians have published an address Co the people of Virginia upon eeucation. It sets forth ideas long familiar with us, but comparatively novel in Virginia, especially seeking to impress upon young Virginians that nothing valuable is to be obtained without labor, and that personal indepsn- dence must come through education.
 Marriages in Ohio decreased during the war four thousand annually, but after the soldiers returned the number not only came up to the old mark, but went eight thousand better, the marriages the year following the war being thirty thousand five hundred. Divorces also increased du- ring the war, but not in the same plo loportion with the decrease of marriages.
 The total population of New York State is s, ,s27, ,9lS Of these 2, 211, TO are single, 3.S6A married. 44,804 widowers and 1o7, ,8S0 widows. The total number of vo- ters in the state is S23, ASA. Of these 683,- e11 are native and 239, ASA of foreign birth. The State contains AZ males and 60 females who are 100 years and upward, ,315 who are upward of 95. and ], ,338 who are upward of e
 The New Haven board of selectmen hay Ing refused petition by Henry V. Free man, Yale College student, for the privi- lsgs of voting in that city, where he claims to be resident, Freeman has carried his ease to tho Superior Court, and they are expected to reverse the decision of the Sc lsctmen. ,..r Freeman's parents reside in Illinois. and he was formerly captain in