Litchfield enquirer., 1863-06-25
TEE LEaISL.ATURE.

 wEDxnsDAr, June II. | SENATE Called to order It o'clock. Various matters from the House concnrred
 Resolution paying $500 to the Executive Secretary for extra services the present year passed.
 Resolution appropfiating s5, 900 to the State | Normal School tabled.
 | Resolution extending the time 10. the co n. pletio0 of the Hartford, Providence and Fish kill Railroad, from Waterbury to Fishkill ; passed.
 Bill incorporating the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad, tabled. On motion of MT I Phillips, it was made the special order of the day for Thursday morning. Resolution directing the State Treasurer to borrow money from ths School Fund, to meet expenses and obligations of the State before selling the bonds of the State, or borrowing money elsewhere tabled for printing. 1 The Bank Commissioners Report for l86a 1 was accepted and rdered filed. Bill authorizing the Selectmen of towns to appoint an assistant town clerk, in case of ab- sence or sickness of the town clerk passed. Adjourned 10 Thursday. l HoUsE.-C Called to order at 10 o'clock. Bill requiring County Commissioners to at tend to the repair of roads; passed.
 Bill requiring banks to Keep one tenth oi their circulation in specie in their possession, or ope-quarter of their circulation in bonds oi lthis State; referred.
 1 Resolution authorizing towns to appropriate money for the relief of persous drafted re- ferred.
 Resolution incorporating the New Milford Fire Association passed. | Adjourned to Thursday. i THURSDAY, June IS. | SENArE-Convened at o'clock. | Resolution Incorporating the New Milford Fire Association; passed. l Bill for an act de County Commissioners, making the term ofoffice three years referred. l The bill incorporating the Boston Hartford and Erie Railroad Company taken up, and the amendments of the House concurred in. The capital of the company is to be 10 000, 900 with power to increase the same to ,000, ,000. Without action on the bill the Senate nd Ijourned. ss5 HoUsE.-C Convened at o'clock. Resolution increasing the salary of the exec utive secretary $5Oo for the current year, in addition to the $200 already paid passed. Resolution incorporating the Leonora Mi ming Company of Litch6eld passed. The act for the protection of sheep culture was recommitted.
 The resolution appointing the 18th inst. as the day of final adjournment was taken up. amended by inserting tue. 25th inst, and again tabled.
 The resolution instrpcting the judiciary com mittee to report a.bill repeating or modifying the "Maine Law," or to substitute therefor a license law, was passed. for new military Law. It was laid on the table. and 500 copies ordered printed. Resolution appropriating $2,500 for mon Adjourned to Friday. 2  s FRIDAY, June l9.
 SENArE.-Concnrred with the House in sun- dry references.
 The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill incorporating tine Boston. Hartford and Erie Railroad company, which. after long discussion, passed, with but one dissenting voice. Adjourned to Tuesday. HousE-htetat o'clock. Resolution directing the Comptroller to draw an order, in favor of d committee to be appointed, for S2,500, to be expended for a monument at Middletnwn, to the memory of Gen. Mansfield referred. House concnued with the Senate in various 1 matters.
 | The bill appropriating to the Sheffield Sc, :, ent6c School the $iSa,000 worth uf land scrip, appropriated by Congress to this State fur the pnrpose of establishing an agricultural icUa U.fs an ,,r and Ssad I Resolution that no new business be intro duced into the House after Tues lay next. l Opposed by Aiessrs. Eatan, Cowles and Munson.
 l Mr. Adams favored the fixing of some time, and moved to substitute Wednesday for Tues Iday. Carried.
 k After further debate, the resolutions passed. Adjourned to Tuesday.
 Stuart cavalry has suffered another defeat at the hands of Gen. Pleasanton-a worse one i i apparently, than either of the preceding ones IGen. Pleasanton, in an official report of th, affair, states that he moved with his command on Sunday morning, to .Middleburgh. and at tackled Stuart. The rebels were driven stead lily all day, losing heavily at every step. w ]captured two pieces of artillery--ose . Blake l ley gun. with three caissons. and another blowl up, together with q large Rpmber .of prisoners Including a number of prominent officers. Al the rebel dead and wounded were left on tn, field, with carbines, pistols and sabres in larg, numbers. The rebels wers driven beyond Ur
 peryille into Ashby's Gap, distance of eigh miles. Our loss was very small. both in mel and horses, notwithstanding very heavy char ges were made and the sabre was used freely Definite information of the whereabouts . Lees main army has been raceissd at the Head quarters of the Arm of tho Potomac. Recon noissances and scouts have revealed the fac that it is on the immediate western slope ofth, Blue Ridge, between Suckers Gap and Win chester Lees @hole infantry force Is there including the corps of A. F. Hill. A { l A dispatch from Harrisburg, received lat, Monday night. expresses the belief that the CT, tire rebel force this side of the Potomac is ad. vancing toward Harrisburg. II l