Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-23
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SsSty 0suso AaA0csiou n0tSott0i. v tnteF LnaL Vallandigham will not be the Democratic candidate for Governor next Fall-or, at all events, that he will not be Governor. On the passage of this bill, the Senate did not divide while the House gave it 6l Yeas to 26 Nays Had it been passed year ago, Ohio would have had l2 to Is Republicans in the next House, instead of 5 only.
 Horace Greeley suggests that the Monitors remain before Charleston, and that they attack Sumter one at a time. each one exhausting it's ammunition, unless previously disabled, and then giving place to anoth CT, and so going the rounds till the fort is battered down. He sug- gests that they can keep up . gentle motion backward and forward. to prevent the rebels getting the exact range.
 A dispatch from Morehead City, North Carolina, of the 18th, states that General Eos ter had succeeded in passing the rebel block ade in the steamer Escort, with the loss of the pilot killed and several wounded. The Escort was rddled by at least forty shots. General Foster was joyfully received at Newborn. His force in Washington, North Carolina, is still there.
 On the 4th inst, in the Bahama Channel the British Gunboat Sgnet was fired upon by the United States gunboat Connecticut, who mistook her for the Alabama. The mistake was promptly explained, and settled satisfacto- rily.
 Those who are in possession of all that is known on the subject of our relations with Great Britain, feel that they have reason to be more hopeful of pacific solution of pending questions than they were few days ago, They think that England is beginning to see the error of her ways, and that she will, either through the agency of the courts, or by some other means, stop the fleet now being fitted out in her ports for the rebels, from putting to sea.
 The New York legislature has agreed to appropriate one million dollars for the defense of New York harbor.
 The Philadelphia North American says Ma ryland has been efectually cured of all pro- clivities to secession, and is now more thor oughly loyal than some of the Northern States.
 | There is so great glut of American silver in Canada, that in some places it can only be passed at 20 per cent. discount. The Canadian legislature has the subject in consideration.
 The plates for the fractional currency are complete, and will be put upon the presses in 1 few days. The notes will be of much higher character than the postal, and will defy counterftting.
 l Jefferson Davis has issued an address to the people of the Southern confederacy. urging them to devote their agricultural labor to the production of food. He says that although the soldiers are on half rations of meat thers is plenty oft in the confederacy. but that a diff. culty exists in it's transportation, which is now about to be remedied.
 An immense mass meeting was held in New York. Monday afternoon, under the auspices of the Union citizens Loyal League
 General Scott presided, occupying the Chair on the balcony of the Fifth Avenue Hotel | Four stands were erected around Madison Square, fronting the hotel; the attendance at all stands numbered not less than twenty thou sand.
 Among the speakers were John Van Buren, Daniel $. Dickinson, George Bancroft, Rev Dr. Hitchcock, Henry Raymond, George Wm Curtis, Lyman Tremaine, Dela6eld Smith, H B. Stanton and others.
 The reception to General Scott. when he appeared on the balcony was exceedingly cor. diai and enthusiastic. He was too feeble, how. ever, to address the meeting, and only able tc occupy the chair.
 A mill for grinding sorghum is to be erected at New Britain. and the farmers are going to cultivate it extensively.
 COW belonging to W. Fl. Pascoe, of Ware. house Point, gave birth on Thursday, to three calves.
 Later advices, received by tho Arago from the iron clad fleet, more than confirm the faith of Government officials in the merits of the Monitors. It is understood that the most Sc. riuns injuries were repaired by Loon of the day following the fight, and that the real defects of the boats can be easily rcmedied.
 It is said that A. T. Stewart of New York is about to forward . brig load of corn and provisions for the relief of the poor in Belfast. Ireland.
 One of the men who encouraged the bread riot ill Richmond, on the 2d inst, was Dr. Thomas NJ. Palmer, who was a member from Jefferson county in the Florida convention that took that State out of the Union. Since the breaking out of the rebellion, he has been in the service of the confederacy. He is now . prisoner in Richmond. i The prize schooner Antelope has arrived from Charleston bar, via Port Royal. She | fok Ian bv tbn ornh~~t M.-.l..