Litchfield enquirer., 1864-01-21

Kept up since Tuesday, and that TWO new Parrott guns had been unmasked by our troops at Battery Gregg. A large number of trans ports filled with our troops had been going South but the rebels are unacquainted with their dsstlnatisn. It is said, however, that an increased fleet has been observed at Hilton Head.
 BRUTAL MURDER IN NHw BRTrA1N.-The fireman of North, Judd Co.'s Manufactory at New Britain, while on his way to his work at an early hour Monday morning, found the dead body of a man lyingsin an open field. He is supposed to have been murdered Saturday night, and was apparently about. 40 years of age.
 <. Later accounts show that the murdered man was named Henry Caldwell, and was recruit ing officer in New Britain. His skull was knocked ina large hole being made in the side of his head-and there were other marks of tse brutality of the outrage. He had $s0s with him, of which he was robbed but gold watch and pin were left on his person. Prints in the snow showed that there had been a scuf- as, and that two men made the attack. Itwas ! also evident from the tracks that the murdered man hsd broke away from his assailants after the hrst attack, and ran fer some distance, when he was ovsshaulsd and ovsrpo wered Tho authorities are at work to discover the guilty parties.
 At the annual meeting of Mir. Beecher's so- ciety in Brooklyn, last Friday evening, bonus of 5000 wass voted him, making his salary for the current year s12,s00 A proposition to doable his salary. making it $l5,GeG was left for consideration at the next annua meeting.
 Assistant Secretary Fox. of tho Navy as pertinent, has proposed to the New York mer chants who complain of the slowness and lnef fciency of eur navy to run one of the new na val vessels against the fastest side wheel stea m. era in the country foreign or American.
 Two deacons were once disputing about the proposed site for Q new graveyard, when the first remarked, "Ill never be buried in that ground as long as live." What an obsti- nate man r said the second; '' If my lie is spared will.'
 There were four hundred and ten births, one hundred and eighty four marriages, and four hundred and eight deaths, in Norwich in 1863.
 If Brigham Young should lose one of his sixty wives, would he bs widower7 The proprietors of "the Universal Clothes Wringer" have donated 500 of their S7 wiring CTS for sals'a at the New York sanitary fair. | Master George Titcomb, of Newburyport Mass, one of the oldest printers and school masters in New England. is dead, at the age of seventy-eight years.
 CoUaHs AND CoLDs.-Those who are suffer- ing sfrom Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness, Sore Throat, &c., should try BresVn's Bronchial Troches," a simple remedy which has relieved | thousands, and which is in almost every case effectual.
 Both branches of the New York legislature have passed the bill amending the coDstitut on 60 as to allow the soldiers to vote, and the people will ra.ify it. The New York soldiers will thus vote at the presidential election.
 Two of the Herazd's army correspondents, Messrs. George H. Hart and l.. A. Hendricks, who had been captured some time since, have been released.
 The Richmond Enquirer learns that since General Butler has taken command at Point Lookout of the rebel prisoners, the citizens of Maryland in the neighborhood, who are al secesh, have been prohibited from showing sympathy to prisoners, or sending them any necessaries. Which leads the Enquirer to re mark that their condition is now deplorable. and it adds:
 Butler is an outcast, and can never be re cognized as entitled to the privileges accord ed foe taken in lawful warfare. yet, it mt, become question whether our governmsn should not consult the feelings of the confade rate soldiers now lingering in northern dun geops, and take the earliest practicable oppoI tunity of releasing them. Treating with But Ter will not release the pitiful wretch from tn ban of outlawry pronounced against him. W can still hang him-when we catch him. bu catching is before hanging.i
 It seems to be bright idea that they cal hang Butler as well after treating with him a before, and this fact must be very soothing t the sensitive southern mind, in view of the nc cessity of communicating with him about th prisoners.
 The Marshal of the District of Columbis has seized under the conGseation act. the Ia, library of George P. Scarborough, of virgius late Judge of the United States Court 0 Claims.
 The Congregational church in Berlin ha voted to the pastor, Rev. Wilder Smith, Q Ne, Years present of Sl0O, and free rental of th new parsonage for the current year.
 Twenty rebel steamers have been destroye, or captured by the Wilmington blockade, since the middle of last July, being an averae, of one steamer every nine days. The whole number of National Banks nov orgaDized: and with stocks oH deposit with tL,