Litchfield enquirer., 1878-01-17

Curiou6ly enough the most extravaganI post office vet found in the country is at St. Louis. The president evidently z sdulled" on Filley. Twenty-seven New York banks have finally given emphatic expression to their opposition to the remonetiZation of silver.
 The new tariff bill, to be reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, reduces the number of dutfable articles from 2160 to 400.
 The old Kearsage, noted for her defeat of the Alabama in the war, has been finally rescued from her periIous position on Beacon ledge, without having suffered serious injury.
 America is now exporting horses to England. One dealer has sent about 800 within less than a year. That they are very well broken, is one of their recommendations.
 The loudest response to Wm E. Chandlers cry of s'fraud" comes from Montgomery Blair in the Maryland legislature. That body, how ever, seems little stirred by the old gentlemans war cry.
  Prof. Seeley, maintain that the removal of Clerk Calvin, of the Interior Department, has been effected by conspiracy of parties inpli- cated in Indian frauds.
 Governor Wade Hampton directs the sheriff of the county in whIch prisonere were recently rescued from revenue officers to see that the oy,A Y,ro511ttlNy dioha OHc tho militia company engaged in the rescue. The federal officers anticipate no further trouble.
 Conkling's attack on the Mexican policy of the Administration bids fair to amount to little. The report of tue chairman of the House Con- mittee on Foreign Affairs will be favorable to the government, apparently, and it is hardly likely the Senate will be desrous of picking a quarrel with the President on that subject
 Victor Emmanuel was one of the lucky kings. Starting with little Sardinia, he died monarch of all Italy. Napoleon III gave him Lombardy; Garibaldi, Southern Italy and Sic ily: Bismarck, Venice and Rome. His morals were dreadful, but he was stout fighter, and pious Catholic just the kind of king that ab0unded in Europe four or tivecenturies ago. We learn that terrible railroad accident oc- curredon the Conn. Western on Tuesday night. Twolocomotives and three passenger cars of an excursion train, returning from the Moody x Sankey meeting in Hartford, were thrown from trestle- work near Tarriffvlle and it is re- ported that seven persons were killed and thir, ty wounded. mostly from Winsted.
 The French Municipal elections of last week were favorable to the Republicans. Their chief importance lies in the voice these municipal officers have in the election of third of the Senate, next yesr It now seems certain that the small conservative majority in that body will be succeeded by reliable Republican majority.
 Mir x Mrs. Lord, the New York octogena. rian milli onaire, and his enchanting bride, are not yet caught by curious reporters or indig nant heirs If the thing had been suspected there would no doubt have been an injunction. and before that could have reached trial in the Court of Appeals the would-be bridegroom would have been quietly sleeping with hi' fathers
 The entertainment advertised for Washing ton Hall on Monday evening next is undoubt. edlv the finest of it's kind ever offered there Miss Dargon has been there before; those wh, were present then will no doubt strain a point fo see and hear her again, and those who Wer not there ought certainly to be present, this time. She is one of the finest actresses i'll thu country.
 The African Methodist Conference of Nortl Carolina at a recent meeting adopted a repor prasing the course pursued by the present au thoritles of that State towards the co!ored race Never" says this report, "have the coloret people of North Corolina been 80 greatly en eouraged topurchase lands and build them selves comfortable mansions and be happy i the country as to day"
 Readers of the Tribune have been dist urbe recently by the publication of a long report 0 differences between MT. Hayes end Secretar, Schurz, regarding the appointment of Post master Filley at St. Louis The story goes 0 10 say that Mir. Schurz had resigned, had bee E,roffersd the Russian mission, GSc. &c.; a which is subsequently denied by the Secretar himself. The oocaaion of this ''queer disclosure seems to have been the recent attack of Nil Schurz on tbe Indian Ring. We do not b' Iieve that reformers will be dismissed froI she present Administration because they ST refo9mers.
 The Springfield Republican makes a yer shrewd reply to the Tribunes frantic appes 10 the President to abandon Civil Service Re rorm. in order to appease Conkling and Blaine and consolidate the Republican party agains the Silver bill
 How, then, is the president to defeat tn bin by succumbing to Conkling The onl hope of defeating the bill is by securing fe, southern votes against it, and the presider will not increase his influence. with this claa by falling back into the arms of Conkiing an Elaine. There is no danger that any of u pronounced opponents of silver will chans their course, and there is very little hope tn any of the western advocates of silver W change, for popular feeling at home will pr vent it. But there are few southern senate who are pretty independent on this and son otiltY questions. They are accustomed make public sentiment and not to follow bliGdly. Aud ] now confidently predict ths 1T the Silver biil finally fails, it will be throu. the votes of southern senators.
 The several county commissioners met conference at Norwich on the 4th inst, al voted to present two hills to the legislatuI thissession; one, providing forpaying 5per cer ofthe license moneyinto each county treasur. and another, raising the price of prisone board from S2. 25 to sS2. 75 week. To | first of these bills there may be no just obit ton. Frequent meetings of the commissic CTS are required to act upon applications license, but the expense of their meeting ia on the county. Whether the price of prise CTS board should be raised as proposed, il wvaxry dsfnrov4 f.,atfor 9'hn aat,ol roSf