Litchfield enquirer., 1861-10-24

DEFIANT MILITARY MovEMENrs.-Ihe
 gton Correspondent of the Philadeiphia
 lays it is now decided by government to
 ixty thousand Eastern troops into the
 sone-half of them through Kentucky, ana
 Ger portion into Missouri. These, with
 stern troops going forward, will swell the
 n and Southwestern armies to vast pro.
 as. Out of those pushing on into Missouri
 4r will be formed, under new eomHaho,
 Feed with the new gunboats ana transport
 ITS down the Mississippi during the au-
 months. Gen. Wool, 1t IS thought Will
 snd the river fleet and army. fa these
 Ibranches of the Union army there will be
 ,s than 200,000 mer.
 Boston Journals Washington correspon-
 speaking of the birth of child to Gen.
 ollan, says: "This addition of infantry
 5e followed in due tinne, so the gossips say,
 other which will render it necessary to fit
 e of the rooms of the White House as ry. Such an apartment has not been nec- 7 there since John Quincy Adams was 4 dent" 1 published statement of the first quarter 4s' postal receipts, since secession, shows 8 ease of only about fifty thousand dollars
 The receipts of the previous quarter, while
 xpenses have been eleven hundred thousand
 rs less-a saving of over million dollars irteen weeks.
 e Richmond Enquirer states that the war flready cost Virginia some ten millions ef
 rs, and judging from the tone of an article e same journal, it considers the price heavy or making itself "the chopping block of the and South, the cockpit of contending na- !, the Flanders of America" ! scriptural penny was worth in the time of st about one hundred and fifty of our cents. enny day, therefore, for working men in I'ineyard, was tolerable wages.
 amilton, c. W. is painfully agitated. On morning of Thursday last, a girl fourteen 5 of age, gave birth to twin children, male female The male child is black, and the ,le child is white.
 new invention in artillery is noticed in the shurgh papers. It consists of an entire bat on a single carriage. The six field pieces securely fastened to a turn-table, which re- es as the guns are successively discharged |. MES CHANGES In 1856, a man was prose- d in London, for selling coffee, just then in- |uced, as 8 nuisance and prejudice to the Ighborhood.
 he pulpit of the Rev. MT. Eddy, of Winsted D be supplied by the Congregational clergy The circuit until his return, so that his sa- r may be continued to his family. He is now risoner at Castle Pickney, Charleston. The Now York Herald says: "We not only feet materials for history, but make History D" In the words of Artemus Ward, "two o."
 Tho foundation of the new American hotel has n laid in Liverpool, It will be the largest the face of the earth.
 fov Ramsey of Minnesota is reelected by an reassd majority.
 The press is anxiously looking for the arrival ] National vessel from the Gulf of Mexico, to ertain tho truth regarding the Pensacola It, and the reputed naval affair at New Or ns. Our reports of these ngagemens hither- have cmanated from rebel sources fen. Totten, Chief of the U s. Engineer 'ps is making thorough inspection of forti- tions along the Northern frontier. He was Rouse's Point, Vt., few days ago. Jecretary Stewards letter is regarded at Phila- phia as timely and significant; at Boston it sts with generalapproval; at New York stocks nt down trtle, as "all-street brokers used s mallet; rather short handled one for ir purpose, however.
 coarse, ill-natured fellow died one day, and friends assembled at his funeral, but TO one good word to say about the deceased. 'n st the grave all were silent. At length @ d-nstured German, as he turned to go home, 1: Well, he was good smokcrr'