Litchfield enquirer., 1861-08-08


 DENT 'sS noME;-in answer to an inquiry as to tho
 necessity or this large number going home in tha
 lace 6 CT the reported reenlistment for ths yor oS
 considerable portion of them a Government ofs;-
 Ger staeeS that their return cond not be avoided
 4;a .os .he io,lloWlng reasons The present reOua.
 ci tue service require each regiment to con.
 whereas few of these contained TAO. SJ 'RSsu TSa ueslre to re-enlist was not unanimons ;n ",
 tne regiments 3d., That new regiments cor,J
 .I uot pc made up of parts of two or more becsnsa
 n .nIs embarrassed c the Government with donbla
 9eS ol olncers and the conflicting claims of inc ,allous Partles led to such confusion that tbera was no alternative but to muster them ont of tba
 nro s so that they could go home and rsorca.
 nize II they desired to do SO.
 ne e1od Philadelphia mint has been coininp late. y, s4oo,ooO day, chiefly in double esoIss, [.
 @ nan no" ID us vaults S3 500 OOO in bullion which VIII VIII oe man1factured into half and ouarter ea.
 gles! ana dollar pieces. Very little silver or cor.
 per IS peihg colned. The receipts of the Calif6r.
 lla l1int nave, TOT a considerable period. bae,
 were $2,O0O,OOO. 9 0' uey | The Missouri Convention has elected Ham;,.
 ton R. Gamble of St. Louis, Governor. Willard r. Hall, Lieutenant Governor, and Mordecai Ol.
 lver, Secretary of State. The unconstitutional
 acts ot the Legislature were repealed, and the
 doings of the Convention ordered to be snbm;,.
 ted to vote of the people for approval. The
 new State officers were inaugurated, and the Con.
 vention adjourned to the third Monday in Dc | cember.
 l A correspondent of the Buffalo Courier sends the following anecdote from the camp at Elmira: Dutchman who keeps a lager beer saloon up
 town, day or two since, came to the Colonel of n ha ants how I l
 in the following style:
 "Garnet," said he, "on last night you see, in
 my lager beer store, some gumpany he march in.
 to mlne store, and he gum in dramp-dramp-
 lett,' lett-and dey goes on my bar, and de
 unprinciple soldiar he say front and dey say
 give me some lager.' And I drew de lager,
 more as sixty glasses, and den de captain man
 he say, fall in,' fall in and den say where
 ish my gelt for de lager-my money? ? and de
 captain man he don't gif no money, and say
 left,' left and den dey did left, and I git no
 money. l don't like such trigs init mine ssoro
 and mine lager. Dat ish not goot business to
 left left, init mine lager and mine money" 1 HoTCHKIss's s SHoT AND SuELL.-The result of
 the recent trials of Hotchksss shot and shell
 with Wards steel rihed canndn at West Point
 and Washington, by order of the War and Navy
 Departments, has been decided triumph. MT.
 AAotNhhloo icCclNeu du OTucT the OEQ-
 nance Department to supply for the State of Ohio seven thousand shot and shell, in equal pro. portions, and Mir. Wizard unlimited orders to fur
 nlsh his steel rilled cannon-from to 50-pound-
 ers-for the navy, and and l2-pounders for the | various divisions of the army, including orders
 from the State of Illinois, and for Gen. Fremont's column, each gun to be supplied with 100 rounds
 of Hotchkisss s shot and shell.
 VIOLATING PARoLE.-We learn through The
 PiAsbu'gA Di$pateh of the 25th, that Gen. Me
 CleiIan has gone to work in earnest to stop the pre- jury and vllainy of the Secession traitors, by having twelve of them shot at Beverly, on Mon- day. for violating their parole. It is stated that our troops had captured number of prisoners, ninety of whom were released on taking the oath not again to bear arms against the United States. Within torty-eight hours after their release a guerrilla attack was made on Government train, and musician from Ohio killed. Our troops subsequently made a sally and caught number of prisoners, among whom were twelve of the pre- Jured Rebels, and after a full investigation, Gen. Mcclellan ordered them to be shot as stated.
 The Bulletin states that John Jennings of Preston, Jas. F. Wilkinson of Putnam, and Daniel Roesenblatt, German, all belonged to Capt. Chestcrs company, are lost. Also, Da- vid C. Case of Norwich, in Capt. Harland's Co.
 Alr. Jennings was son of Mr. James Jen- ningS, who said" he had sent one son in tho Buckingham Rifles, telling him at parting-do your duty. my son; if you fall, your brother shall take your place, and after him, I will go myself.
 Mir. Wilkinson was printer and for time was employed in writing for the Windham County Transcript
 OcucuPATIoN OF THE TRAITOR MAuRY.-Capt. Maury. who for the last ten years has exhibited such genius for stealing the honor of others achievements and who has been the pet of every Administration for many years, is now engaged n planting submarine batteries in the Southern aarbors to destroy Federal ships-of-war.
 There is great scarcity of farm laborers in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The harvest of grain s still going on in those states, and good men 'an readily get from $l, 50 to $2 per day. This scarcity of labor is partly owing to the breadth of land put grain, and partly to the number of 'ctIve men who have gone into the army. There will also be scarcity of hands for the fall work md those who go to those regions for employ nent will be pretty certain to find work for months at least. Female domestics are also scarce and obtain employment readily at good orces in almost all the river towns.
 A we'll known gentleman who has just returned from an editorial tour through New England and New York assures the Tribune that not far from twothirds of the returned thrss-months militia will re-enlst for the war. The people have in his judgment not only recovered from the dsprss- sion caused by the disaster at Bull Run, but are more ready than ever to respond to the call of the country, and to give'money and blood to it's service.
 TIE DUTCH MEAN TO KEEP THE CoNsTIruTroR. In German paper letter from a private in the Southwest Egiving description of the Car thage fight, contains the following touching pas sage 1t was great victory. The Dutch did the fighting. As an old fellow said to me this morning, we swear to keep the Constitution, and ace Keep him.
 ANOTHER HERo.-Lieut. Adelbert Ames' (from Maine,) first Lieutenant of Grifin's batter v, received severe flesh wound in the right thigh during the battle at Bull Run, 22d.-Ths ball passed entirely through near the bone, ma king an ugly wound, but he is now in Washing ton doing well. Captain Griffin says: After. Lieut.. Ames was wounded ordered him to leave the field, but he re-mounted his herse and orler- ed his men to load their guns. And when he became so weak from the loss of blood that he could not ride, he got upon the box of a gun and gave orders to his gunners, until his boot run full of blood, and he was entirely exhausted. l never saw more fortitude and courage dis played"
 WHAT RUN 1s.-Does the reader know what B "run" is? For the benefit of the unlearnei in snch matters we may as well explain that it otr oNfp ath