Litchfield enquirer., 1862-08-14

spurious POS en the Home Bank of MerJen Vigne;te-portrait of Washington, figure either side, sailors, capstan, &c.. on the left Spurious g on Middletown Bank. Vignette- -haying scene, loading hay on the right.
 Mr. Wm. A. Green of Norwich has sent five sons to the war. The following is the roll of honor Thomas L. Greene, Cyrus A. Greene, 10th Conn.,. Charles A. Greene, 18th Mass: Wm H. Greene, 18th Conn.,; Geo. H. Greene. l7th Conn.
 The total number number of rebel prisoners lin our hands at the present time said to be 2O- 0GO, an aggregate which vastly exceeds the num- Der of our men held by the Southern authorities Notwithstanding this Jeff Davis claims the greater number.
 Sir Alan Napier MacNab, the we'll known Canadian statesmen, died Friday at his residence near Hamilton in the sixty fourth year of his age. He was born in Canada and participated as an infantry officer in the war of 1872.
 Nine hundred citizens of Bangor Me, drilled in body on Monday. Almost all the popula lation of the city are in the organization Here is good e1amble for other localities
 At tic recent exchange of 5000 prisoners at Aiken's Landing, thediference of treatment was strikingly manifested. The rebel exchanges were transported in comfortable vessels, were well fed and in cleanly trim; our Union men were marched thirteen miles on foot, had no | food the entire day beyond two small biscuits each and had suffered torture indescribable for want of watcr By the urgent entreaty of Rob ert Ould, the Rebel Commissioner in charge of them, they were graciousiy permitted to drink from a Virginia well. Food was supplied to them by our own men. The gentleman who fur 1 nishes this information says that the exchange of private soldiers is now completed, and names several officers, who have also been exchanged He says that Col. Corcoran will be civcn for the rebel Col. Hanson. We trust there will be no further hesitation, and that we may soon have the pleasure of greeting the brave Colonel of the gallant Sixty-ninth. But we doubt; Jeff Davis Is 2 treacherous villain he has lied and de- celved many times before in this case, and the story now is that he has suddenly stopped the exchange of prisoners in consequence of Gen Pope's orders about guerrillas.
 The bodies of about forty of our men were re- covered from the water off Fort St. Charles, all of them shot in the head and breast. They were sailors, and had jumped overheard from the Mound City when her boiler xpoded. Col. { Fry denied, when taken prisoner, that he had given any order to shoot our sailors, when strug- gling ill the water, but one of his men who was mortally wounded confessed it to a surgeon- The order was in these words: "Sheot every ld-d Yankee that sticks his head above the water."
 T THE SPIRIT OF '76.-On Wednesday after. noon, Thomas Gilbert and Nelson Ritchie were at work in grain field in Kensington, wher Gilbert threw his cradle into q corner of the fence, declaring his intention to go 0 New Brit. ain and enlist; Rtchie said he would go to, and threw away his pitchfork, and they both started at once, and in an hour their names were enroll cd among the brave defenders of their country -Ne,c Britein Citizen
 FOR THE STRAGGLERs.- soldier officer or private, found in the streets of New York or Brooklyn after todoy is to be arrested and sent on to his regiment, unless he can prove himself unfit for duty. Furloughs, no matter by whom l given, are not to be respected after that date That is the right way to serve the stragglers.
 The heaviest crop of wheat siuce lS5O which was 31,500,GG0 bushels, will be gathered in Ohio this year, rather has been secured by this time, The most moderate calculations make at 30,000, 900 bushels. or 10,0O0,O0O bushels more than was raised last year. Of this quantity | there will be surplus beyond the State demand of some 17,O0O,0 GOO bushels. Corn looks we'll, and promises full average crop, but oats are likely to fall short. -... ........ ... .,t
 The celebrated letter of the late honorable Thomas H. Seymour has finally reached it's rest ing place in the papers of Secessia. The Rich mond Dispatch says of the composition, that the letter deprecating war of subjugation, is worthy of that able statesman and estimable gentleman.
 The wholesale stores in Boston will be closed every afternoon. this week to give the proprie- tors and employees chance to aid in enlAting. The city bells vii! be rung::each day at the hour of closing. r. t,|y y=.. # l THE quota of Connecticut under the nine months call is 7,145 seven full regiments. Ac- cording to this, Connecticut will have to raise another regiment for three years. Hurry uu and secure the boun ties '-s &it eE.. r Near the village of Austerlitz, in Columbia county N. r., lives young woma whose hus band has gone to the war; who takes his nlace in the field, clears land hoes crops, repairs fen. ces, and does all the farm work as we'll as any man could,
 How TO WRITE FOR ANEwsPApER.-Asa gen. eral rule, short pieces are the best liked The pubic like short article when it is a conden. sation. s.. .-.-I
 This introduces second idea. An article to be printed should absolutely have something in It. Ii professed argument, it should be concu- slve; if pathetic it should mosten the eyes if an anecdote it should have sharp point if philosophy, it should go to the primitive rock ; if practical, it should go like an arrow to it's work; if spiritual, it should awe the soul that reads it. s
 gss~ The Norwich Bulletin of Monday says there are 300 or 400 men more than full regi ment enlisted for the Eighteenth Col. Ely ar rived from Hilton Head on Saturday, and as- stunned command.
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