Litchfield enquirer., 1864-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.


 sorrow, the decease of Hon. David c. Sanford, SJustice of the Supreme Court of Errors, who Adied at his residence in New Milford, at 1OS 8o'clock Tuesday morning, aged 66. Judge 3sanford-was talked i'll with lung fever on Sat urday week, and after Q severe illness of four or five days, was thought to have passed the 3crisis of the disease. and out of immediate dan Sger. The fever was snbdued, leaving him, showever, so exhausted that congestion finally , ensued, and he died as above stated Judge Sanford was one of the ablest Judges athat has ever graeed and dignifed our highest sCourt, and his loss will be severely felt by the 5bar throughout the state and country. In aprivate life he was one of the purest and mo- sblest of men, Illustrating in his daily walk and conversation, the highest type of the sChristian scholar and gentleman. SENTENCE OF COMMODORE WMKEs.-The Naval Court Martial has found Commodore 5Charles Wilkes guilty upon each of the follow. Hing charges: l-Disobedience of the lawful orders of his superior officer. 2-Insubordi- nate conduct, and negligence or carelessness in aobeying orders. 3-Disrespect and disrespect- Sful language to his superior officer. 4-Refusal , of obedience to the lawful general order or re- guation issued by the Secretary of the Navy. 5 a5-Conduct unbecomng au officer. His sen Stepce is as follows: And the Court does shereby sentence the accused, Commodore sCharles Wilkes, to be publicly reprimsnded by sthe Secretary of the Navy, and to be suspend Bed from duty for the term of three years" PAY OF CoLoRED TRooPs-The Attorney aGeneral of the United States has decided that scolored soldiers, are entitled to the same pay aas white soldiers, from the time of their mus Stering into the service. The whole country awil rejoice to know that these brave men, will 5now receive the money due them from the aGovernment, for their gallant services. a CONTINENTAL MoNEy.-Ihe first issue was made in l775. The depreciation began in Sthree years afterwards, and went on as fol- alows:
 March, ITS, dollar in coin was worth SS4 75 in paper.
 3 September, IT'S, dollar in coin was worth S$4 in paper.
 March, l779, dollar in coin was worth l9 Sin paper.
 March, l7sO, dollar in coin was worth $40 ain paper. December l7sO, dollar in coin was worth s$l00 in paper.
 May, l70l, dollar iu coin was worth $500 a in paper.
 Not long after these days, the holders of Sgovernment money paid twenty thousand dol slars for ham, and ten thousand for half a pound of tea, Nobody could complain that 7 the debt was not fairly contracted. But fail lure and repudiation were none the less inevl atable.
 a A dispatch from Cincinnati states that z detachment of the 45th K Kentucky, of Hobson $ Hdivision, under Capt. Adams, attacked the , Rebels in Brent Hill County, Ky, killed ano a acaptured l6 men and "A horses. Capt. Ad aams then pushed forward and defeated Ever Setts command killing ? of his officers and acapturing 20 men.
 Mssouri's quota is said to he full except z53e, and more than that number of colored avolunteers are yet to be credited. Will not some of the howlers against negro soldiers Akindy volunteer to take the places of these $black fellows, and so save the State the dis agrace of employing triggers" and save tho aegroes from peril of being shot, and so made
 Worthless for sale or hire? Or is Sambo gooe ! 5enough to be killed in place of the other sor aof copper-colored fighting men3
 A vessel, supposed to be Rebel privateer E Throwing the American flag chased Prussial #vessel in latitude 2l 27, longitude 40 l2, o, #the lst of March She mounted six guns ant
 carried about 15O men. After brief chase she ran southward.
 Four boys, under 1e years of age, lay by the
 roadside, drunk, in Stafford, few days since 1.-Two others recently abstracted $500 from HPreston Parker's trunk and went off on a spree. They were ovsrtaken at Indian Orch , ard, but only $50 recovered. 3 The remains of a baby were found in com ; post heap at Ashford, last week, and Mrs. Lu- ; clan White, the wife of soldier in the llth 8Connecticut and now at the war, admitted that , she had given birth to q child, but whethe, , born alive or dead, and what became of it af- liter it was bora, she did not know. j Mrs. Church, an estimable lady of Hanover S S(Meriden,) drowned herself in the Quinni piack river, last week Friday night. She left hus- ' band and two children, the youngest 8 babe Hiust weaned. She had been in low spirits
 lately on account of i'll health, and committed Hene QeeQ uelDerately-UluulHS t"o oHS"ie about her head so that she could neither cry out nor escape.
 The loyal women of the city of Indianapolis 9held meeting in that city on Wednesday Mast, to respond to the Governors call for
 hundred-day troops by offering their own Ser. : vices in place of the clerks in the stores, so
 that the latter might be enabled to perform , m Hilary service.
 q Brigader General Geo. F. Shepley. late
 military governor of Louisiana, has been ap pointed by General Butler to administer at' ! fairs at Norfolk. a The Ashland Cotton Company have com E Smenced laying, at Jewstt City, the foundation aof a new brick mill. The mill is to be 70 fee
 wide by PIT feet long, and four stories high
 Theysre also building tenement houses for tho 3accommodation of thirty families. H In the list of paroled Union officers, wht 3arrived at Annapolis on Monday the 2d, w ¬ice the names of, N. Mayer, Surgeon l6tl 5C. ", captured at Plymouth, N. c. Apri S20th, and H. w. Camp, Adiutant 10th c. V. #captured at Mulberry Gap, Nov. 24th 1863. 3 A barn in East Haven owned by Mrs. Filler was destroyed by fire thursday
 evening. Loss $500 insured $500 in Hart
 ford Go. Mutual. One ton ol hay, a hay press ! A barn ad