Litchfield enquirer., 1863-08-13
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sl AoIA 1tWeS, says reIugee mas Just arrived in Washington from Richmond. who reports that there are but few troops in Richmond. Three Ibrigades have been sent to Charleston. Lee has not been reinforeed to any considerable degree from Richmond. Gold was held at 1900 per cent. premium when he left. There was great suffering among the poorer classes in Richmond, in consequence of the high pri- ces of the necessaries of life.
 Companies of boys between fifteen and eigh- | teen years of age are being organized in Rich. mond, to do guard duty in place of veteran troops. They are designed to take the place of North Carolina troops stationed there, who have too much. of the Union element to be trusted,
 Substitutes are commanding high price in the Southern States. One man in Richmond offered S5,OO0, and another $4, 800, for sussti- tutes to take their places in an artillery com- pany. The Examiner says the substitute sys- tenn ought to be stopped; that eO,Oo0 have al. ready been received at the Adjutant Generals office, in place of like number of men capa- ble of bearing arms. It says if these O,000 had been with Lee at Gettysburg, treaty of peace would have been in progress before this. The promptness with which the N. Y. riot CTS are brought to trial, will be likely to have good effect. Some of those who pleaded guilty, have received light sentences. One was sent ts the Penitentiary for one year, and ordered to pay fine of $25O. Another was sent for two years. Thase were not aggrava- ted cases. Those charged with arson aud murder, are not likely to escape so easily. In his charge to the Crane Jury, Recorder Hoffman said
 '' It is our duty to teach all men that those who burn asylums and houses and stores. are l guilty of arson, and shall be punished for that offence that those who plunder and ap. propriate to themselves other mems goods up- on the highways or elsewhere become subject to and will suffer tine penalties affixed to the crime of robbery or larceny that rioter is an enemy of society and an offender against the law, and that the punishment for murder is death."
 The Washington Sar of Friday evening. speaks ot colored regiment, of that city, hay ing been filled up and already on it's way to the field in distant quarter. An order was re- ceived at Philadelphia on Friday, for the col ored regiment lately raised there, to leaye as soon as possible for Charleston, s. c. | Gen. Rosseau is in Washington, by au.bori ty of Gen. Roseerans, renewing his sugges- tions, made last fall, to raise a mounted infan- try and cavalry force to- operate against the guerrillas in Kentucky and Tennessee. It is proposed to raise twelve or fifteen thousand men, which force lie thinks will.be sufficient to rid those States of armed rebels, and to prevent in future plundering forays.
 The number of rebel prisoners now on pa role is upward of 35,0oo, while the number of paroled Union soldiers is less than 1s,OOO- l showing balance in paroled prisoners alone of over IT GOO in our favor An, exchange of all our paroled prisoners will take place in few days.
 | The President is determined to carry into force his recent order relative totbe retaliation upon prisoners of war. He has ordered that three prisoners from:South- Carolina shall be held in close confinement as Hostages for three negro seamen captured on tie gnihoat Isaao Smith, and who are now in prison at Charles ton. All other prisoners, whether white or black, treated by the enemy in manner not applicable to prisoners of yer, will be equally represented by southern men in our hands as those here referred to. Mir. Lincoln is deter mined that negroes in the military and maya, service shall be regarded on the same terms as white men.
 The Richmond Whig contains an advertise ment in which "a farm of 23O acres in Hano- yer, Va, or the highest price in Confederate money,' is offered for substitute.
 One hundred and twents-three of John Mor- gans officers have been sent to. the State Pris- on at Harrisburg, Pa.
 The Savannah Bepablioan sa.ys that few days since all individual in that city paid four hundred dollars in confederate moi, y for a twenty dollar gold piece.
 l The rebels have between five and six hund red Union commissioned officers in their hands, while our government has over a regi- ment of the same class of prisoners of war now on Johnson Island, in Sandusky harbor, Lake Erie.
 | A number ofsut|ers while going flom Wash ington.tos the front, Friday. with tbeir wagons, were obliged, from the severe heat, to lag be- hind th4 train. Mosby's cavalry peuncel upon and captured them. Our cavalry followed, re- covered q portion of the stores, and at last ac- counts were pursuing the rebel guerriIlas. Itwas reported few weeks ago that the Hon. Wm. Aiken, of South Carolina, had been l incarcerated ip the Libby prison, at Rich mond, by order of Jeff Davis, for disloyalty to the Southern Confederacy. Gov. Aiken's political and social standing were such that l the story seemed quite incredible. Late in telligence, however, fully corroborates the re- = a