Litchfield enquirer., 1864-04-28

Two DEsERTERs SHOT.-Two deserters, named Henry schumaker, Company C, and Henry S,ork, Company F. Sixth Connecticut volunteers were shot at Hilton Head on the l7th inst, in obedience to orders from head quarters. They met their death with great composare and 6rmness, ill the presence of all the troops.
 Lieut.. Horatio D. Eaton, of the 9th c. V. has been promoted to be captain, vice E. F. Hudson, of Co., F.. resigned.
 Since April of last year, the Special Relief Agents of the Sanitary Commission in Bos- ton have aided over eleven thousand soldiers.
 Miss F. Calkins of New London, is writing history of Norwich, Conn.,, an enlargement of one written by her twenty years ago. Seven hundred of the released Union prs- oners from Richmond are to be removed to the Jarvis Hospital in Baltimore. They are sick, suffering and destitute.
 The generals in the Army of the Potomac are all actively reviewing their troops, and putting them in condition for the approaching fight. A scouting party sent out from Gene ral Tyler's headquarters, at Fairfax, the other day in search of the guerrllas of Mosby, who were raiding about Leesburg, captured twenty. one of them, and the deserters from the Uni on army, together with twenty-five head of fne beef cattle. Two of the deserters were from Connecticut regiments.
 The Senate of Fayal has passed an act at Horta relative to the highly important services rendered by MT. Charles William Dabney, Con. sul of the United States of North America in that city, and by his respected family, in the famines and political crises through which the people of Fayal have passed. In acknowleg- ment of these services, the Senate presented him, as place of family sepulture, about 300 square feet of the Protestant Cemetry, and to further perpetuate the gratitude of the Faya- lese, erected monument in which copy of the act was to be deposited. It was signed by the President and Vice-President of the Sen ate, and by the Senators, the Civil Governor, the chief diguitary of the church, the Secretary General, the Judge, Deputy Attorney General, the Mayor, the Baron of St. Anna, and others, and copy was deposited by the Civil Govern or in the niche of the monument, after which the Senator Francisco da Costa Rabello deliv- cred an appropriate address.
 The wife of David Dudley Field, died of bili. ous fever, produced by exhauston from her severe labors in behalf of the Sanitary Fair. A few days since Mrs. Kirkland, another mem- Der of the active manager, of the Fair, died from similar cause.
 The Heralds Newborn letter of the 18th inst. says detachment of the l2th New York cavalry yesterday drove the rebel pickets at Beaver Creek, Is miles from Kinston, and de- stroyed cotton mill and large amount of cotton. The object was accomplished wlthoat loss.
 Capt. Philip Cashmeyer, Gen. Winders right hand man, has been arrested and tnrown into Castle Thunder at Richmond, on susPI- cion of treason to the rebel aulhorlties. ne was detected in giving letters containing ln- formation 10 Federal prisoners released for exchange while on the flag of.trnce 1oat gong down the river. Cashmeyer IS baltinorean, , and held position of great trust under Wln- der.
 Small Pox has already sacrificed some of our best and bravest troops. Soldiers, listen to the voice of reason, supply yourselves with Holoway's Pills < Ointment. The Pills purify the blood and strengthen the stomach, while i the Ointment removes all pain, and prevents pit marks. Only 25 cents per box or pot.
 More snow fell at Keene, N. H. .,.tluring the first three days of last week, than during the whole of last winter.