Litchfield enquirer., 1863-01-08


 Is one half of the loan authorized by the Legis. lature. The extra session cost the State ten thousand dollarsand has received ten times that sum already.
 The Forrest divorce case, which has been carried from court to court for years, has finally been decided. Mrs. Forrest formerly Mss Sin car Of London lin a suit for divorce had formerly ootained a decision gviug her S3.O00a year alimony,to to which Mir. Forrest appealed and his counsel sent to California to find testimony against Mrs. Forrest. The attempt failed. and the appeal resulted in decision for s4oOO a year instead of $3,00O. The final decree olives Mrs. Forrest about $40,O0O of accumnl.to tod slmony, and thenceforth $4,OOO ear.
 A man in Ohio has succeeded in manuiactu. ring from sorghum seed very good article oI flour, pronounced by all to be superior to buck. wheat. The same machinery was used for the latter, with an ingenious alteration.
 The eleventh annual meeting of the State Aerlcultural Society will be held at Sheffield Hasl' New Haven, January l4th, at 10 o'clock, A. M.
 Our gunboat fleet on the Rappahannock has dropped down ten miles below Front Royal, O oe secure against blockade from ice.
 The damage to Fredericksburg by the sbe,l of the oh'on batteries is estimated at seven hun. dred and fifty thousand dollars.
 As yet there has been no recoor;t;on oe .,o ''e 'eiiows who crossed lhe river at Freder.
 u's anu drove out the rebels. A medal 'o each would be none too large an ackn owlecr ment of their eervices. e
 An enthusiastic Frenchman nrono,o. <. oulld a railroad from Paris to Pekin. Fis,, million dollars are to be expended in tunnel, alone, and how much the rest of the work will cost he doesn't say
 On the lst of July last there were but sixt, two surviving patriots of the Revolutionar, war; of these eight in the rebel states have been stricken off the pension rolls, and twent, four have died since the lst of July, leaving only thirty of these patriot pensioners left.
 The list of marine disasters for 1862 include. l,OlO vessels, of which A were steamers, 23a ships, 2l9 barks, 1e9 brigs, 325 schooners, and the estimated loss was $l6,59O,60O. The lis, of marine losses for December shows an aggre. gate of forty-three vessels. Of this number 2were steamers, II were ships, were barks, a were brigs, l5 were schooners, and sloop The total value of the property lost and missing is estimated at $4 .46l ,000.
 The number of emigrants landed at New York during the year 1862, up to the 3lst ol December. was 75aS2, an increase upon the emigration of 1861 of lO453.
 A list of the failures of business firms during the year 1861 numbered 5,935, with liabilities stated at $l7s,632,l7e; while the list for the year 1862 numbers only l652, with liabilities of S23.649, 60.~-@-~-~.4-4
 The amount of gold brought from California during the year 1862 was $24es2,e45; de. crease from 1861 of S9496,70l
 The losses by fire during the year 1862 are estimated at SIT 640ooO.
 The total loss of life on the great lakes in 1862 foots up l56, against l07 in 1861. The total number of passengers carried by trans Atlantic steamers last year, was 18,900, of whom 2o,500 went to Europe and 50,400 to the United States. This is an increase eff $500, compared with the previous year.
 The total imports of foreign dry goods tt the port of New York during the year 1862, was 55.l22.227. The last years receipts have been less than for any previous year since 1850, with the exception of 1861.
 Since 1853 there have been 1,53l persons killed and 5,262 wounded by railway accidents not iaclading persons injured by their owr recklessness or desiga.@&4
 The Navy has suffered a serious loss by ths sinking of the famous Monitor, south of Capt Hatteras. She was going south. in tow of the steamer Rhode Island. when foul weather came on, the Monitor sprung leak early on Thurs dap morning and went down in few hours Two officers and nine men are missing. probably lost. Several men are al so missing from the Rhode Island,
 Balloon reconnoi ssances show that conside. rable portion of the Rebel force in front of Fredericksburg have gone off-probably to help Bragg at Murfreesboro. If the story of the railroad bleakings in East Tennessee is true they have star ted too late.
 Gen Butler is now in Washington. He is soon to have command in one of the most denseiy populated slave districts of the South, where he will organize corps of black soldiers, whose duty it will be to guard certain important lines of communication.
 One hundred guns were fired at Pittsburg, Pa. Friday night,in honor of the emancipation proc lamation of the President.
 The rebel banks in Virginia had together les! than seven hundred thousand dollars in specie on the 12th of December. This was the basis o circulation of over three and a half millions.