Litchfield enquirer., 1864-01-28

OUR STATE BANKs-The quarterly state- ] ment of our Banks for Januery 1st, 1864, shows the following leading items as compar- 1 ed with the last quarter. There arc seventy five banks in the State, with capital of $21,- s49, ,O49 %, and there are also three Banks or ganized under United States authority, with a capital of about $5eo, 1000. The latter are not included in this abstract: Ger. 1, 1863. JAN l, 1864.
 Circulation, $11,8s7, ,929 % $12eSl ,55O co Deposits, 9,669, 953 38 9777, ,596 54 Specie, 1.377,310 30 LAO, 125 66 Loans, 2s65l 1884 90 31,045, s1s 63 Govt Securities, 9,000,000 % 7,615,743 II There are seventy-fv Banks in the State, whose united capital amounted, Jan. lst, to $21, ,S4s, ,o4s %.
 The condition of the National Banks now doing business in this State is not referred to in the above statement.
 The people of the North are rapidly coming to understand tbs question of parties precise ly as General R1eagher states it. They see that there are but two sides to this controyer- sy that either we must crush the rebellion or the rebellion will crush us. And they mean mean that there shall be no doubt of the issue the rebellion must be destroyed and the nation saved to bless mankind for centuries by it's in Ruence and example.
 MURDER AT SUFFIELD.-A farmer by tho
 name of Luther Adams, of Sufsield, had dis, pues with his hired Han, an Irshma n, Sunday afternoon, when lie seized all sxs and struck the Irishman on the head 8 blow, which re- suited in his death iD few hoursr fir. Ad ans asser's that the man was about to strike him with board raised for the purpose, and that he acted in selfdefence. The Springfield Dai! Uinon gives the fol lowing account ot the affair: "An Irishman in the employ of Luther Ad- ans called for his pay. He found his employ. CT engaged in splitting wood. A dispute arose which resulted in the death of the Irishman, who was struck by Adams with an axe, which literally split his head in twain. The murder, ed man survived until o'clock. Adams is { we'll known in this city and vicinity as a ven I der of meat, and those who know him best | will not be surprised to hear that he is the au- l thor Of this foul sead. A series of tragic ia. l talities have occurred upon these premises within a few years. The father of the murder CT committed suicide by cutting his throat, a hay, and servant girl hung herself. Adams
 Gen. Butler, it is said, is hopeful of being able to effect the exchange of all prisoners now pining in the Libby and Belle Isle prisons within month, if not interfered with. <. Two trains run through daily from Chatta- nooga to Nashville, making the trip in nine. teen hours. The mortality in the Chattanooga hospital is abous ninety deaths per week.
 Forty barrels of common whisky, seized by Government were sold on Wednesday last, in Norfolk Va, at auction at all average of eight dollars per gallon.
 The 4 lbany Ersning Journal publishes a leeesser from soldier in tho Libby Prison which was brought home in a plug of tobacco.
 John Browns daughter is teaching freedmen at Fortress Monroe.
 A letter from rebel prisoner at Point Look out, says there are 5000 men who will be glad to take the Presidents oath, and more than half will join the Union army.
 At the Omaha District in Nebraska, oyer 100000 acres of land were taken up during the month of December under the Homestead Law.
 Fowls roasting in trees in New Albany, In. diana, were found on New Years morning up- side down, hanging by their claws to the limbs, frozen hard and solid.-
 The Richmond Examiner thinks that the best thing Jeff. Davis can do with the London Inder (the rebel organ in England) and with the Swiss Hotz, is to transfer them to Paris or pitch them into the Thames.
 A Parisian doctor says that good stiff ''snifter" of grog is the sure remedy for an overdose of chloroform.
 A good one is told of Q Quaker volunteer who was in Virginia skirmish. Coming ia pretty close quarters with the rebels, he re- marked: :. Friend, it's unfortunate, but the stands jush where I'm going to shoot, and blazing away, down came the rebel.
 It is said that one hundred thousand copies of Philadelphia magazine are about to oe issued, containing an elaborate sketch of the life of Secretary Chase. This new serial. IS said to be {. for general and gratuitous circula- tion."
 Some scoundrel and miscreant went into the stable of the American House at Portland, Me-, on the 2lst, and nearly ruined splendid horse by cruelty cutting large piece of flesh out of his thigh.