Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-04

war, be made on the 10th day of March next, for the military service of the United States. crediting and dedrcting thersfrom 50 many as l may have been enlisted or drafted into the Servlce prior to the first day of March, and not heSete efsre credited.
 l ABRAKAx LINCOLN. |
 Richmond papers to Jan. 18th, are received. The news they coBtain is not of startling im- portAnce, but they furnish much very interest ing and entertaining reading. The rebel Con- gress at Richmond is sitting with closed doors, maturing the important measures of taxation. eonseripsiou and the currency: The papers howl over it, but it doat seem to make any difference. The eapply question is stiil en- l grossins the attention of every one. Gen. Lee had issssd aa order putting his army on rsduc- ed ratlons. end the cry from ell quarters is meat-msat" Lougs.rests operations are duly ehronicled, but no new light is thrown up- on them. The loss of valuable blockade runner is announced. She WAS the Vesta, a sne new steamer, owned by the rebel Govern nent, and this was her first trip'eut. The car go and vessel were an entire loss.
 The rebels in heavy force, had arranged to st4sck the garrison at Petersburg, West Vir ginis; On Sunday morning. Colonel TAoburn in command tAers, learning tAe fact, left the place Saturday night, and escaped. Hiz sue cess ia getting safely os with all his men trains, guns, ammunition, stores, &c, is looked l upsn as quito fest. While tas enemy wa. knowing and PrepaFi ns to make sAs astaek, he took saoshtaia rosd, passed between two col umns Of tae enemy, and is nor in safe sad desirable position.
 Tresdwell. the absconding cashier of the Peo ples' Baak of Hudson, Mich, has thus far managed to slude all pursait. His fath erin-lsw has also disappeared. Treadwell ii known to have carried of not less than $l $ ,O0( in Chicago fauds. Nearly every banking hoase 1 ip Chicago was yictimized from Sl ,oeo upward Dsserters f.om the rebel army come into the 7! lirss of our arm3 os the Potomac every day One hundred and thirty came evepAa one squad on "Wednesday.
 .T.s Mrs: National Bank of New London l will gointo operation next week, and has been arpsin&ei financial agent and depository for
 sosssarant purposes for Eastern Connecticut 1 Cierg3msn ia Connecticut who marry par tiss upon tas license granted by the resi stra, l nS snv,a c<h.r torn tbsn that ;n wh;nh fhn ceremony s s5 ae performed, render them selves lissls to heavy psnal.y.
 i Tae Fla City Bank hes voted to increase it's capital to sl ,GG0 0co, end to rs organize under ths naw National Banking Law-te take eusst .',ont the let of February.
 It is reported fror, New G1!ssns, that there is much dissatisfaction among the rebsl troops in and about New Orleans, end that many o them have deserted to our fleet. The desert CTS report ta. regiment of cavalry, six hun dred strong, stationed a short distance in th' rear of Mobile, absolutely refused to serve an, lonyer, giving as reason that they arc sick 0 ftas WAT, and that there is no use in fghtins sny more.
 4 gentleman in Hartford has received 8 let ter fso.a lis brother, who married in North Car olina and was in business there when the rebel
 loa broke o-s, dated January etA. 1n speak ling of present prices st Wilmington, he gays
 Y" Ladies' snoss sra sixty dollars a pair, butte t$G to sI0 & pound, gems cloth coat s525:0O.
 and adds that t takes fortune to live month
 He says he " cannot wfise ss he would fer fea toi persual y soma distinguished charscss
 in lees and es5hority"
 ! The Nashville U;:;es says tkat it is tru
 that large nunher of rsbsl asserters com
 into our lises at Chattsaooga and Knoxville The Kentuekans have almost entirely aban
 doned the srmy, snd there is not enough lief
 of the old disss;oa to make respectable regi
 ment. The LcuiriIis lFossrrxsz says an office who has just arrived tksre ftora the front re
 ports that ftar hundred rebel deserters cam
 into our lines at Knoxville few days since
 Tho New Bedserd Standard published 
 ' letter from the West Gulf blockading fleet which hints that, from the steps in progress Galveston, Texas, will soon be in our posses
 sion. The writer Says :Ae .se cit. e @ @ St our mere
 at any moment; and, only that many loys people ate residing there, It would be destroyed From Newborn we have further particular 
 of the raDidly-in ereasing feeling of disconten
 in North Carolina. Tho people are urgin .. hsyealling of State Convention, and Dl
 Leach, one of the recently elected member l of the Rebel Congress, says through The Ro kigh Standard, that North Carolina nov ' claims the fulfllment of the compact, or tn
 the right to depart from the Confsderacy il peace. Gov. Vance opposes the taxation o