Litchfield enquirer., 1867-09-05

"A'n't it wicked to rob this chicken roost, Dick?' "Dat's great moral ques- tion, Gumbo, and we ain't to arguefy it now; hand down another pullet.'
 Why are potatoes and corn like certain sinners of old? Because, having eyes they sec not, and having ears they hear not.
 Thurlow Weed says that he fears that MT. Johnson's associations with Jerry Black, will damage his reputation. ''His' -whose?
 Artemas Ward went to his hotel late one night and calling waiter, said to him. James, has MT. - naming the propri- etor of the hoteD has MT. - gone to bed?" "Yes, sir' "Then, James, will you go to him and wake him up, and tell him, with my sincere regards, that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance" |"
 There are thirty thousand girls in New York who earn their living-or try to earn it-with their needles-besiaes many thou sands who work in the book -binderies, printing offices, press-rooms, hoop-skirt manufactories, and those who make paper boxes, fans, wigs, brushes, and thousand other things. The needle-women receive 1t6i llH making shirts six cents apiece, linen coats fifteen cents, heavy overalls five cents, flannel shirts eight cents. and for other ar- ticles like sums. TheAare obliged to toll from early dawn till far into the night, to earn enough to pay the high prices of rent, food and clothing that they are obli- ged to have to keep soul and body together. -lKaine &andl0u
 Suppose these thirty thousand women, now toiling in New York for such barba- rously small pittance, were entitled to vote? Thirty thousand votes arc not to be lightly treated, nor their possessors over- looked. If they could vote, is it not req sonable to suppose that such laws might be passed as would protect these now pow erless women, from the rapacity of their task-masters? We should like to see the experiment tried Waterbury America~.
 The California election, took place, on Wednesday. The political affairs of the several tickets in the field and the old par. The regularly nominated Republican can- influential newspaper in the state, and an other list was made out. All efforts to heal the dissentions have proved unavailing. A dispatch says that political excitement has not been so high for many years.
 There isa queer story exta9t of Capu. chin priest who undertook to make sour with 8 pebble. First he boiled the stone then he begged for little butter, then fol 8 few herbs, and so on until he gradually ''hxedup; quite nourishing mess. Thi. was, undoubtedly, very ingenious, but this good father was left far behind by anothe barefooted friar, who, when in poverty, re solved not only to get good dinner, bu credit for miracle into the bargain. HI put the yolzs of several eggs in hollo7 cane, and stopped the end with butter then, walking into an alehouse, he begge' to fry a single egg for his dinner. Tn smallness of his repast excited curiosity and they gave him morsel of lard. H stirred the lard with his cane, and, to tn wonder of the surrounding peasants, pro duced a handsome omelet. This miracle Established his fame. He sold omelets and grew rich by his ingenuity.
 Gen. Grant has issued an important or der which says that Commanders of tn Military Districts created under the act o March 2d, 1867, will make no appointment to civil office of persons who have been re moved by themselves or their predeces sors." This prevents the reinstatement o | Wells or Throckmorton, by General Han cock.