Litchfield enquirer., 1864-10-06

| oih, anu ANOH CcEccy.
 Calvin Ripley, of Sayhrook. and John S. Yeomans, of Columbia, to Pennsylvania.
 Isaac Holmes, of Waterbury, and Stephen Miller, of Mid1etown to Maryland. Delaware, and the Military Department of Washington
 It seems that sentinel was bribed with $7OO to open the door of the guard house in Fort Trlmbull, on Wednesday night last, and ct out the prisoners confined therein, eleven of whom escaped. He then reported that c man with face blacked approached his post, choked him, took his musket from him, broke the lock of the prison, and let the prisoners escape But upon a cross examination and oth CT evidence produced, acknowledged his guilt an d is no with another soldier who took part in tho affair, ironed strongly and under guard. .EF~
 It is believed that Admiral Farragat will be imm ediately transferred from the command of the West Gulf, to the North Atlantic blocka- ding service, and that Admiral Lee will take command of the fleet in Mobile Bay.
 The steamer Corsica, from Havana the 24th has arrived. There isprospect of peace be- tween St. Domingo and Spain. Over 12,00O Spanish soldiers have been sacrificed during the trouble here. The famine at Cape Verd continues. 700 deaths have occurred by starvation.
 There was frghtful accident on tho rail- road between Atchinson and Leavenworth, Kansas, on tue 30th inst. The axle of one of the forward cars gayc way, and two of the passenger cars were thrown from the trao {. Twenty. five persons were injured, five of the number seriously.
 CHICAGO, Saturday, Oct. 1, 1864.
 There bas been great panic here to day. On Thursday, c. c. Parks Bank failed; yes- terday, J. G. Conard's followed, and to day the Western Marine ant Fire Insurance Co., Bank. and several othor leadi ng Banks were compelled to refuse the payment of large checks till Monday. Others paid in New York cx- l change.
 The panic spread through all classes, and prices are lower. Flour fell p ceuts. Wheat Ill., Corn 8, Oats g. Rye 9 10 10, Whiskey 8, and everything else Tn proportion.
 No heavy failures among merchants hay occurred yet, only some small failures in th Produce Trade
 A mob threatened the W estern Marine Bank, and Fred, Futile, director, narrowly escaped being hung, was rescued by the military, which was called out.
 :, The cause of disturbance was the refusal of the Bank to give up the Twelfth Ward draft for the Soldiers fund, deposited yesterday. } Finally the directors of the Bank lodged secu , rites to pay on Monday, and the mob disper-
 sed.
 The draft is passing off quietly. BUTTER-DECLINE OF PRIOB.-We canno feel very sorry for those farmers who refused
 to sell butter in August at sixty cents pound
 We were in the great butter region of fCortland
 and adjoining counties, and know that farmers
 were hoarding butter for seventy five cents
 pound. The keepers of the great summer
 boardin and water cure establishments at Glen 7 Haven found it difficult to supply their table . with butter at sixty cents, notwithstanding n there were tuns of it upon the surrounding
 hills. Some of tue owners even refused to sell
 at 75 cts, in smaller quantity than whole
 frkin.
 The Boston Journal says the purchasers oi butter at fifty cents per pound, deliverable the close of November, have suddenly disap-
 peared. Farmers, who at the instigation of such parties, have kept their stocks on hand.
 may now find that buyers turn up their noses at the mention of forty cents Butter is now g selling in Western Massachusetts for forty
 cents per pound. 1r t In New York, the price declined leu cents
 pound in one week, and about the 18th of SeP- 0 tember, the very choicest Orange County butter
 in single pails sold at only forty cents apound = while good State frkins and tubs sold very 0 slow at forty. In this state of things. what
 chance have those farmers who have held back . their butter ever to realize seventy five cents. Many persons supposed in midsummer that the | great advance in the price of butter was who'll , Fly owl ng to the drouth which cut short the
 supply. This was an entirely mistaken oilon
 the shortening of the supply was only tempo rary. There never was better Autumn TOT butter making known than that of 1864. and
 we doubt whether America ever produced more butter and cheese in one year than 1t VIII Tn
 this. The cause of high prices was not scarcl- ] ty, it was owing to the price of exchange ou
 Europe. That at one time was so hign 'nas shippers could afford to pay sixty cents oi .n o
 currency and sell for twenty five Tn LYl.pooI pUI With the decline of gold down go .,",;nn. Du...
 chae.s no holdins on nor any manpulations
 of fbe market can prevent this result, TUT .ne . simnle reoson that the country IS "eiisuPPneo
 and the home consumptioR :...s..Si ,I'
 butter at two and half times i.s usuei sa,ue, = families have learned econon.y !" 'ss use lney did moi nractice in former years. great man. uiu .;ppor no. families have learned secret we'll Am W io Enropeari families, that butter is .
 ,r,, knom not necessary of life. Meat eravies, l;nnns. and fruit juice, with little sugar ad- Sed and the good old fashioned Yankee tap T nle sauce" in which no sugar is used, or the Pennsylvania apple butter,' made equally cheap, are good substitutes for butter, and have been and will be used to lessen it's con- sumption and cheapen it's price. With gold at less han 200 and exchange at it's present vsl- ue of about 1093 in gold, there is no possibilli- y or Keeping butter up to fifty cents a pound. Farmers speculaters, and butter dealers gen. erallY may as well llimake note of this.