Litchfield enquirer., 1864-06-16

The Newborn (N. C.) Tiuss of May 2S. says that on the 26th, as a railroad train was uu- loading at Bachelors Cl eek, 6 fearful explo- sion, attended with frightful loss of life, took place from the careless handling of DOW. der. quantity of ammunition, passed out without proper care, exploded, and resulted In shocking disaster The air was instantly filed with the torn and mangled remains of human bodies. Some of the victims were blown into fragments. The one Hundred and Thirty second New York regiment. stationed at this point, suffered severely. The number of killed was forty, wounded seventeen. tion Mrs. George W Harvey, of Portland, Maine, recently lost in Q week her husband, father and brother. Her husband was captain in the Third Maine regiment, and was mortal- ly wounded in the recent battles, and while her brother%a soldier in the same regiment, was helping to carry him 10 the rear, he was also shot and instantly killed.
 The venerable Indian chief William Parker died recently on the Tonawanda Reservation in denesee county. He was the father of Captain Eli s. Parker, one of General Grants aids; of Nicholson Parker, United States in terpreter, and of Newton Parker. Caroline Parker, graduate of the State Normal School, is his only daughter. MT. Parker was on the war path as @ scout in the war of 1872, and was disabled by severe musket wound in the wrist at the sortie of Fort Erie. Gen. Sherman having asked the Superinten- dent of Q construction train, what time it would take him to replace the bridge near Resaoa, and having been told that it would take at least four days, replied: "Sir, l give you forty eight hours, or position in the front raRks before the enemy l'' The bridge was completed in forty eight hours. The Charleston Courier states that the Cum mings Point batteries are half mile nearer the eastern portion of the city of Charleston, and quarter of mile to stbe western than the "Swamp Angel" The torpedo boat which destroyed the Housatonio last Februnry, pro. bably sunk with her, as no tidings have been hoard from her since the event. it is sup posed that the torpedo entered the hole made in the bow of the iIousotonic, and did not have strength enough to break out.
 1 The Richmond Wsig of the 2sthsays "Ws are glad to be able to state, upon the author 1 ity of his medical director, that General LoRg- street has so far recovered from the wound he received in the battle of the Wilderness, that he expects to take the field In about three weeks.
 ~- The Boston Commercial Bulletin gives tho figures showing the capital and circulation of the banks of this State in 1854 aud S6i re- spectively, as follows:
 Capital, ls54-$f5, ,5s7 ,Ssl. Circulation. $ll ,2ls, ,569. Capital, April, lS64-$2O, ,GOO,- 962. Circulation, $1l 1868, ,S01.
 Three match manufactories in Boston, own
 ed by one man, consume twenty cords of wood
 and five hundred pounds of birthstone per day By the new tax of ono cent. per box, ho will have to pay Government $l 400 taxes per day $. Secretary Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Is
 land is reaelected Senator for six years from
 March 1885.
 Maj. .-Gen. Carl Shurz has been placed in command of the convalescent barracks a' , Nashville. us . The Montreal Herald of Wednesday, last
 announces the arrival of Belle Boyd in that I city.
 !. Hon. Trun,an Smith is president of new ], soap company, organized in Stamford, with [ capital of $5o,oOo. a