Litchfield enquirer., 1864-07-21

Comnencement in Yale College occurs on the 2Sth of July.
 On Sunday afternoon previous, the Bacca laureate Sermon will be preached by Professor w. B. Clarke
 On Tuesday evening, the concio ad clerun will be preached.
 1 The Alumni meeting will be held on We'd nesday morning Hon. $. B. Ruggles, IL D., of New ' loik. will deliver an address.
 The anniversary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society will be. held on Wednesday evening Orator-Rev. R. $. Storrs, D D., Of Brook lyn; Poet, Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., of Bos. ton.
 Candidates for admission to College are ex anined on Monday and Tuesday previous to Commencement.
 Letters from the Army of the Potomac, dat ed l4th, says that night before last, the Second Corps marched out to the works thrown up by the Sixth Corps near Weldon. A flank move ment on the part of the enemy was anticipated Gen. Hancock had his Corps massed near Williams house. The enemy did not appear, though we waited his coming night and day. Four men wandered out from our lines and were surprised by party of guerrillas while gathering fruit. Two guerrillas were captured but the remainder made good their escape. A first lieutenant in the army has been found guilty of cowardice. He iias been sentenced to have the insignia of his rank torn off, his sword broken, his head shaved, aud will be drummed out of camp. This officer, though two years in service, hy artful dodeinp has managed to Keep out Of every engagement in which his regiment had taken part. A severe example will be made of all such cases of of- ficers.
 Maxmilian had invited President Juarez and other liberal chiefs to come to :he city of Mexico and consult together on a plan for n restoration of peace and the firm establish- ment ot the empire, guaranteeing them full protection and safety.
 It is said all refused to hold any communi. cation except by arms, with the agent of Ma, poleon. The Emperor had taken up his resi- dence at Chepultepec, five miles from the cap. ital.
 No minister is yet appointed to the United States.
 The New York Times correspondence from Petersburg the l4th. says that an arrangement has been made between the 9th corps and the enemy to cease skirrnishng while dsing picket duty. The men ara thus enabled to walk leis utelv abcnt.
 The enemy arc constantly making new works and strengthening old ones. D,serters cen. tinue coming in. Senators Wilkinson. Chan dlcr ahl Spraoue are on d visit to our army Great joy is manifested inside the rebel lines perhaps at the Maryland raid. Dspatches from Bul,rs headquart say the rebels con. tlnue to fire on transports from moving rife batteries. Our gunboats follow and shel them. Otherwise all quiet.
 Gen. Rosecrans at St. Louis has issued an order for two steamtugs hereafter to keep on a full head ot e..m, day and night, to tow bur ming boats into the river, and making other harbor regulations.
 A dispatch from St. Joseph says that five companies of militia hare pretty muchall gone over to the rebels under Thornton.
 The Mobile papers are very despunding, fear ing raids by sea aiil land A steamer recent Iy ruu the blocknde at Mobile with valuable cargo. General Lore has been restored to the rebel service.
 The U. $. steam fiigate Niagara now in the Mediterranean, has the heaviest battery ever mounted on man of-war. Of 20 guns on her main deck there IS not one less than inch or a 100 pound rile-a fact the real mnortauce of which can only be- und4'----'' Ehy pr"t"e -:,,rus Shc Is thus provided with the best short range and the most perfect long ranged pieces Of ordinance eXtant.
 On Thursday last, Mrs. ITough, tho wife of a 1 late member of Gen. Folks staff was arrested ;; in St. Lnujo as spy. Am1ng her effects was found pic ce of the skull of Union soldier labelled '' Wilson's Creek, l66l," which she admitted was genuine relic of that battle rr Served by her a3 urnrnto. This female is one of the lovely women of the South who in- Gulse in and boast of delicate sensibllties !''
 Yung Wing, Chincseman, who graduated at Yale College in 1854, is now at Springfield Mass lie comes as an accredited agent of the Chinese government, with the rank of a mandarin, empowered to inspect and purchase machinery of various kinds, with view to in. troducinp into China those mechanic arts and Improvements which have hitherto been un known in that vast empire.
 While Jacob Miller of Brunswick, N. Y, was, last Wednesday. at work at spring on his farm in company with an idiot son, just Ing the door covering it, he fell forward into the water, which Was about three feet in depth The idiot sprang forward and closed the doot down upon him, preventing him from extricat ing himself
 Mad dogs are running wild in some of the southern counties of Pennsylvania. Between the bites of the dogs and the nips of the rebels the Dutch farmers are driven nearly cIazy.
 The New York Leader says the fire depart. ment of that city has 5000 more men and two thirds more companies than Is necessary. More than 1000 fremen live eat and sleep in the engine and hose houses, and do nothing for living except to vote.
 Mrs. Emma Willard, the celebrated author and teacher of Troy, N. r., was among the passengers on the train that was captured near Baltimore, and her friends have not since heard from her. But there are no fears of personal harm having come to her.
 Johnson, the Guiford burglar, who disgus- ed himself as negro and went about nights robbng dwelling houses, had his bonds in creased to Sl, 300, last Saturday. On his way back to New Haven jail while handcufed, he escaped from the officers, and gave them au exciting chase through back yards and over fences. till he was finally found burrowng in the hay of G. F. Warmers barn. Mo- 472 Chap el street. He was then taken to jail.
 Abel Stearns of Los Angeles, California, is the largest cattle and land owner in the Uni ted States He has now got AS 900 head oi cattle, and 5000 calves, and lost 1000 cattle last winter besides.