Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-07

Recent news from the South puts the New York Herald in possession of the fact that the rebels have an army of 496 900 men in the field. which are said to be divided as follows:
 Department of the Potomac, 150,OOO | Department of Chesapeake and rest of Virginia, so.OOO Department of Kentucky and Tennessee, IT., 900 | Department of Missouri 6OOOO On the line of the Mississippi, 39OOO At Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and
 Galveston, 10000 The amount of small arms proves to be sss,- 900, which were obtained as follows:
 Sent to the South by Floyd, while Soc.
 of War, 57s,OOO Seized in Southern arsenals, 100000 Made in stolen arsenals, 20,OcO Shipped from Europe, 100000
 Total, s9s,OOO | The first message of Gov. Holbrook of Yer. mont, was sent to the Legislature last week It
 treats very largely of the war, and gives q free account of the military movements in Vermont since Spring. The following is q summary of what the State has done :-Expended for recruit 1 ing and fitting out regiments, $57l, ,2GG; amount reimbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 1 $l23,OOO; balance $44S, ,266. To this balance is to be added the extra pay of S7 a month to sol- diers, and the relief afforded to vountee fami- l lies, amounting to $50, 796 making m aggregate i payment l S1 extra 10 each Vermont soldier in the service of the Government, involves an annual cxpeudi- ture of S420,000. Other military expenses add ed to this, will require an appropriation of Si,- 0S30GS above the ordinary ex pcnses of the State during the coming year.
 The effects of the traitor Beniamin, of Louis- iana, taken for house rent at Washington, were | sold there Tuesday. Among these effects were several portraits of Mrs. Benjamin, e mar ble bust of Benjamin himself and, strange to tell, a fall length portrait of Mons. CcIni, the person with whom Mrs. Benjamin eoped from New Or leans several years ago! There was also an ele- gant service fplatc, and some articles oi house hold furniture.
 The Fort liattcras prisoners on Governors l Island, appear to be more comfortable and con tented than they were. Footballs have been purchased for them, and piece of ground stalk ed ont, within which they can take as much re- ! creation as they please. The most entente cor dial subsists between the captivcs and cus,odi- ans When the balls are kicked over the boun- dary by the North Carolinians the Federalists, officers as well men, kick them back again.
 The New York police detectives Friday sue ceedcd in arresting tree women and one man implicated in the New Jersey tragedy, in which Mr. Sigismund Felner, a Polish Jew, was dered some two weeks since. and robbed of S40,- 
 parties taken to the police headquarters and locked up. Twenty 1,0oG franc notes and $500 in diamonds were found upon them. young man na,ned Eadeztski supposed to be tho actual murderer, has not yet been secured, al- i though tie detectives are close on his heels. 1 Ralcztsk s .22 years of age, is a Polish Jew, is of dark complexion, short hair, and thin mus i tache
 1 The friends of the murdered man have offered a reward of S2,OAO for the apprehinsion of Ra- deztski Miss Alberina Flaum young and rather good looking Polish Jewess, one of tho three women arrested on Friday committed sui- eide by hanging herself to the grating over her cell door, during Friday night.
 The private subscriptions for Treasury notes | in New York to November 1st were S26. 435, ,5lS, and in Philadelphia for the same period, 5,690.- 900. The public have taken in all about $3S,- Go0000. The New York banks have paid $42,- 0O0 900, and the whole associated banks GO, ,000,- | 900.
 The fouri cen thousand efficient men, withdrawn by order of Lieut. len. Scott from the " army of the Potomac" are fast being replaced by the ar rival of fresh troops, and in fortnigbts time Gen. Mcclellan will have received the gun-car- riages and other munitions of war now being manufactured to replace what he originally or dered, but Gen. Sherman received Henceforth there will be no interference with the plans of Gen. Mcclellan who so deservedly enjoys the confidence of the President and of the people.
 Thanksgiving in Massachusetts is finally ap. pointed for the o1st of November. The altera- 1 tion from the customary last Thursday of the month will throw us out of the line with the oth- | CT states, and cause some confusion in regard to the commencement of schools for the winter That it revives the anniversary of the compact framed in the cabin of the MayAower, in 1920, is the only reason given for~he innovation.- Springfield Republican.
 The residence of the Misses Scott, about three- quarters of mile west of Falls Church, is again within the Union lines. The young ladies pro- fess to be loyal, and strenuously deny being party to the capture of Capt. Kellogg, of the 2d Connecticut regiment. The Captains over gal lantry in insisting upon accompanying them, home against their caution and wish, placed him within the power of the rebel pickets, who saw him approach, and hence he was caught. The household consists of Mrs. Scott, her two daugh- ters, and some negroes.
 A letter from Louisville to the Cincinnati Times says: GA Nashville paper, of the 18th, announces the death of Sam Houston on the 9th inst. in Texas He should have died before he wrote his last letter. or lived to see our glorious Union once more restored"
 The Wheeling Intelligencer says, that General Kelley still occupies Romney with a force of Az 800 men, consisting of two Ohio regiments, six companies of the Seventh Virginia Regiment, one company of the Third Virginia, and two cavalry companies.
 The greatest triumph of English alteration, according to writer in the London Quarterly, is the following line composed by a young lady in the year 1900, on the occasion of gentlemen by the nsms;pf Lee planting lane with lilacs:
 "Let lovely lilacs line Lees lonely lane." in which not only every word, but every syllable begins with the same letter.
 THE WHEREABoUT OF I. V. FowLER.-One of the San Francisco papers publishes letter dated Mazatlan, Sept. 9th which says -"Isaac V. Fowler, the late misguided and deluded post master of the city of New York, whose sndden departure from that city created so much talk, is now the humble, attentive and efficient adminis- trator of Barron, Forbes & Co.'s cotton mill at Tepic at salary of $2,5Oo per annum. What C a fall was there!'
 An exhibition of 25O dogs was held in Lon. don in September. They divided into A class es. The bloodhounds were greatly admired and pair was bought by the Earl of Derby for 150 guineas.
 A REGULAR HoRsE-According to the army regulation" horse that is horse is fifteen to sixteen hands high, between four and nine years old perfectly sound square trotter and color bay brown black or sorrel.