Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-01

| the slaves of the South more intelligent and capable of sustaining representative govern ment than the peasantry of many states of Eu- rope and said that there was hardly plan tation on the Mississippi which did not have upon it some slave who knew more about its management thsn his master. He went for emancipation as means of permanent peace.
 The New York Herald establishment is to be enlarged. Its proprietors have purchased four or five buildings on Ann and Fulton streets underneath which they propose to ex. cavate an immense vault and place there;n five ef Hoes mammoth ten cylinder presses. These presses, when in operation, will prin. some one hundred thousand sheets per hour. The Herald claims that, with their present facilities, they can print about one hundred and fifty thousand copies in three hours.
 The Savannah Nsws of the 11th ult., states that the prisoners who were captured in the assault on Fort Sumter have been taken to the city and lodged in jail.
 Tho reward for the apprehension and deliv- cry of dessrtcrs is to be increased to $50, which is intended to include all expenses in cured by the party making She arrest. 1 The King of Portugal has ordered census of the population, a process never before real iscd in that kingdom.
 Several engines of heavy tonnage are to be added to the Naugatuck railroad. The freight ing business has so increased of late as to re. quire it.
 | Over seventy thousand dollars has been paid as communication fees, by persons who have been drafted in the Sd Congressional District.
 The only pstentee of fish hook in the Uni ted States, is native of Connecticut. l WATERBURY His Excellency F. L. Barre da, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo tentiary from the republic of Peru to the United States, has arrived, and with his suis, taken rooms at the Sooville House. His visit IS of 6 business character-Messrs. Holmes Booth and Haydens, being engaged in filling q large order for coin for his government.
 The order of Holmes, Booth & Haydens, is for seven millions of the coin for the Peruvian government, instead of one hundred thousand as has been published Their value will bs one hundred thousand dollars.-American.
 The United States steamer Mcclellan sailed from New York for New Orleans, Saturday with smooth bore gun weighing 49,55( pounds, and throwing a solid shot weighing 400 pounds.
 Gen. Hooker has been assigned to an impor tant command, in field where his brilliant fighting qualities will find their full scope.
 Stamford is well represented in the navy, a. is shown in the following:
 Commodore NJ. B. Woolsey, commandins steamer Princess Royal, West Gulf Squadron Com, Robert W. Shufeldt, commanding the steamer Conemaugh, repairing at Philadelphia Samuel L. P. Ayres, Chief Engineer of tho steam sloop of war Nipsie, fitting out for sea at Portsmouth Navy Yard. N. H Doct Wal ter K. Scofeld at the Naval Hospital, Brook lyn, N. Y.; Acting Ensign Charles II. Brat ingham-steamer Somerset, East Gulf Squad. ron; Acting Ensign F. Augustus Miller, a prisoner; Acting Paymaster Henry T. Skeld ing, home on furlough; Acting Paymsster Charles Todd. North Atlantic Squadron Acting Masters Mate Samuel H. Johnson, home on leave; Acting Sd Assistant Engineer George E. Whitney, steamer Mohawk, Port Royal.
 Mir. Wm. Wentworth, of Clinton, Iowa, ad vertises that he has mo room for copper heads" in his hotel.
 The number present at a receut Mddletowr clam-bak was just eighteen hundred and ifourteen-nine hundred and two copperheads and nine hundred and twelve blams Three of the latter were bad. We get tho figures from the Middleiown paper.
 In Terre Haute; few days ago, Master Ceilings called Master Brown liar, and Mas ter B. shot him dead instantly, and was imme diatsly acquitted on tho plea of justiaabl' homicide
 The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided, ,relative to licensing wholesale dealers that where their sales reach two million O dollars, requiring therefor $500 license, an ad ditional license of $2sO should be required where their sales are in excess thereof, in any sum not exceeding one million. The effect of this decision is to make the section consistent with itself, and to establish regular graJation! For sales of one million, and not exceeding two million, license of $500; for sales of two million and not exceeding four million, Sl ,000 and so on.
 The Savannah News, of the llth, says that the prisoners who were captured in the assault on Fort Sumter, have been taken to the city and lodged in jail. So they will hardly be placed on the parapet of the fort. On Wednesday last train arrived from Frankfort at Louisville, Ky, containing l,l62 rebel prisoners, a part of those captured at Cumberland Gap by Gen. Burnside at the time of the surrender of that place. The prisoners were very common looking set of fellows and were dressed in every costume conceivable.- The prisoners arrived represented four regi- ments from Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
 The Richmond Kraminer says. the "Yan- kee vandals have burnt the Trion cotton fac- i tory, five miles above Summerville, Tenn., owuod hv Mach & Allrood $oro+ho, ,v;t h