Litchfield enquirer., 1874-12-24

for loss Defore the LeSter reacnos us put VIII take all risks of remittance to the clubbing peril odicals.
 Edwin Booth reappeaIs upon the stage again. No doubt he will everywhere re- ceive the warm welcome he deserves.
 The piarist von Bulow will visit Amer iea soon. Wagner stole away his wife Ca daughter of Liszt) yet he plays Wagner divinely.
 The Pacific Mail witness, Irwin, ac knowledges the use of S750. 900 to secure the Congressional appropriation for the company; but he refuses to disclose the names of the persons to whom he paid 1t.
 Warrington is back from Europe again and gives Butler the following tap in the last Springfield Republican:
 The most ludicrous thing that ever hap paned in a religious meeting in Lowell was when, at a warmly contested dispute in St tAnue's between high and low church, Gen. Butler addressed the people as "Fel- low Christians"
 The Springfield Republican, certainly no friendly authority, confesses that Mar shall Jewell is getting more useful work for less money out of the United States broad-spread postal department than was ever achieved by any proceeding monarch "f the mail-bags."
 The repeal of the Franking Privilege waa discussed in the House. last week, and condemned by Messrs. Kelley and Maynard. Mir. Garfield admitted that the saving from it had not been what was expected. MT. Kelley said it had been obtained by a contrivance of the Postmaster General. who sent petitions to his subOrdinates to get up signatures, thus making great show of popular feeling.
 When the Tuesday of the coming week Of prayer brings its annual petition for @raIl these m authority, we hope the city of Scranton, Pa, Sill not fail of mention. Its chief of police is under S5,000 bonds for murder; its mayor under the like bonds for perjury; and six members of it's school board, under S, GOO bonds for mal- teasAnce. Being in Pennsylvania we pre- sune Scranton is Democratic city. Had ls been in Mississippi such a record would have left 10 doubt of its Republicanism.
 The annual Week of Prayer begins on Monday the 4th inst The special sub lects of prayer arc announced as follows: sta @a ski g Etrengt. against temptation.
 EueR3zy -FC- ersOns l. authority, aDd for tAoss spscsa sfaitd
 W- &s sssy For par nts and chi dren, Sun day scAo ls. co leg a-su min stSrs
 EAxs ag-- For th inc ease of rel ious 'iber- tys fer pe e. Christ an harmony and sympathy &@oag nAtiOa and fO. material improvement Aal sA. spEeHa Oftas So pei.
 Friday For e conve sion Of JeNs and AsafAs sna deli eraDce from superstition.
 N9cGr1gy--For rev va religion.
 SES39g -F0- hgistisn unity.
 Al last there l. promise of real action towards specie resumption. On Saturday the Republicans of the Senate agreed on bill proposing free banking with the inn mediate substitution in part of bank bills for greenbacks, tine redemption of the lat ter in gold four years from the first of January next. and the immediate coinage of silver to be substituted for the frac- tionzl currency now in circulation. This bill was favored by the principal Senators and will undoubtedly pass that body. Republicanism is waking up at last to the fact that it has something to do.
 In the bill for the reorganization of the Dist. of Columbia, discussed in the Sen- ate. last week. the controlling power is given to board of commissioners to be appointed by the president. Mir. Morton made an able argument for an amendment giving their election to the people. Messrs. Bayard and Thurman objected, the real ground of their opposition being that the colored vote would then con- trol the District, Mir. Morrill, and the committee in effect take the same view. Now, we fail to see why. if the colored majorities of South Carolina, Mississippi and Florida. are to be trusted with the almost unlimited authority vested in State governments, the limited power of the District or Territorial form should be re- fused the colored people of the District of Columbia.
 Perhaps Charles Dickens cannot be said to have discovered Christmas, al- though he certainly did so for good many New England people; but, beyond question, he did more than any writer of our language. perhaps more than all, to endear that season to those who had be. fore hardly appreciated it. His genius just suited Christmas. Its fun and frolic its all -pervading sentiment, and its remem brances of the poor and friendless, mad, it the time of all others that brought ou all that was sweet ill the man. We hav' often wondered that the Christmas artis never seems to think of substituting the kind face of our great Christmas wri ter for the drunken mug of the typica Santa Claus, which deforms with endles iteration the ideal of Christmas Eve.
 Of the religious festival we do not pre- sume to treat; but who can think of tn secular Christmas without gratitude t. the kind hearted friend of the people .wh' has made their Christmas so much kinder as well as so much merrier.