Litchfield enquirer., 1864-06-30

for several years, has finally passed the House, and will doubtless pass the Senate. It has been generally admitted in the many warm de- bates on the subject that it would be very ben efca to the state, by increasing manufacto- ries, turning to good account every stream of water, but it has been opposed as unconstitu- tional. It is proper, if this is the only ob- lection. that the courts should pass upon it. The following are the main features of the bill
 It provides that if the person wishing to erect a dam and to flow land, cannot agree with the owner of the land as to the damages to be paid, he may bring his petition to the Superior Court, describing the land that will be flowed. The Court will then appoint Con- missioners, who shall decide whether the land will be taken for public use, and upon their finding it to be so, they shall estimate the dam age and make their report to the Court, which shall thereupon add fifty per cent. to the dam. ages. Either party can move for jury to re- assess the damages, or may ask the Court to pass upon the question whether the land is ta ken for public use.
 A REBEL LOVE LETrER.-Tbis purports to be letter from Sergeant Graham, of the reb- el army, picked up on one of the late battle fields iu Virginia.
 My SAINTED LOVE If the Yankee cusses will let me alone, I will write you letter. Gen. U. s. Grant is bull dog, and Meade is match for the devil. No matter how deeply we ensconse ourselves in the woods the Yam kees are sure to find us out Theyjcharge on our works again and again, and very often take them from us They fight more fercely than have ever seen them. As for digging, Grant beats Mcclellan all hollow. The Yankees build strong rife pits, and then our brave off cers ask us to charge them. We have done SO, and they have given us he'll every time My sain.ed love, you will excuse me for using this language, but if you were with us you would say that they give us hell, too My patriotic fair one, am almost tired of this So long as there appeared chance of achieving our national independence, I fought with a will but that hope seems dashed to the earth. I have no heart to strive any longer to keep Jeff. Davis from going to the devil sooner than he otherwise would.
 few days ago a flock of large birds of strange appearance alighted from fiji ght over the lake, at Burlington Bay, near Hamilton, Upper Canada. It was found that they were Pelicans, all the way from the shores of the Gulf, or the lower reaches of the Mississippi | Thess birds have often been killed as far up the Mississippi as Keokuk, in Iowa, but their appearance in Canada is very unusual An ether rare visitor has teen shot at Grondines, | Canada. It has the glossy ibis, found in Tex as, Mexico and California, but seldom seen at the North.
 The design for the Gettysburg monument awarded to Mir. James G. Patterson, of Hart ford, is as follows A solid white marble base with four buttresses, each supporting statue representing respectively, History, War, Peace and Plenty. From the centre rises shaft of marble, crowned with clossal bronze statue of the Goddess of Liberty fifteen feet i high. The height of the monument will be | afy feet, and the cost will be fifty thousand dollars.
 Some days since child but few days old | Was foand in the hall of the Orphan Asylum ! in Newark. N. J., and was sent to the Over i seer of the Poor. Its mother has since appli- ! cd to recover the baby. She said she was an American, and had abandoned her infant l Akrough the representations of an aunt, who ! had told her it would be we'll cared for at the asylum. and she (the mother) could work in T 1 failor shop. She had, however, repented, and | desired her offspr ing back. She was sent to the 0verseer of the Poor who had the child.
 One of the engineers of the British block ade- breaker Greyhound, which we captured off ! Wilmington, \. C., bound for Bermuda is now 1 in Boston, on his way to St. John, N. B
 
 again enter the rebel service. He stated that | ke had been impriso red in Fort Warren ivo : weeks, and while there had written 10 Lord 1 Lyons. who procured his release upon tue ground that he was British subject
 Gen. Burbridge has declined 10 permit the rebel prisoners at Lexington to take the am nesty oath. Nor does he consider that the provisions of the Amnesty Proclamation ex- tend to those who skulking now in the woods, and whose friends propose that they should come in aud reap the benefits of the Amnesty Proclamation. Burbridge knows how to deal with the rebellion in Kentucky. Let him now attend to the she devil Seces- sionists of Cynthiana.
 Gen. Gardner. of Port Hudson fame. who has been confined in Fort Lafayette since he arrived North, has been consigned to the care of Gen. Foster, at Hilton Head. as one of the cheers who are to be placed under the fire of the rebels until Gen. Jones retracts his recent eowardly threat.
 By arrival of the steamership Harana. we have news from Havana to the 18th inst and from Galveston, Texas, to the l2th inst. Najie and the French troops said to have de- fsaied Doblado, are now near Saltllo. With tn thirty days it is thought the French troops will have occupied the entire western shore of ths Rie Grande. Don Siedio Lord an officer ef the Spanish navy, arrived in the Hapana en | route for New-York. The Siglo. the only l asWspaper in Havana which has defended inc | Unioa cause, was on the 1Tth inst. suspended and it is feared forever.
 The War Department has accepted the offer of nm association of nearly a thousand gentle men of New York, to procure substitutes for themselves in anticipation of the draft. The substitutes are to be enlisted in Hancock's sesps. This aas one of the conditions.
 Gen. Sherman has created new military district, extending from Bridgeport. Ala, via Reme and AltaIta Ga, 10 Cleveland. Tenn. and as far east as may be occupied by the federal forces. Major General Steadman has bssa assigned to duty as commander.
 General Grant is represented by those who have come from his headquarters, to be per- fssfly satisGed with the result of his opera tions before Petersburg. and to have said that his losses were not disproportienate to the ad- vsntages won, nor at all in excess of his esti- Raae of the sacrifices inevitably necessary for hs attacking army to make.
 When Morgan was at Flemingsburg, Ky, on tho 14th inst. he denied the truth of General Burhridss's dispatch in relation to the affair aaCynshisns, and asserted that only 40 rebel H61n0Dern t.ke md 20 Killed and wanna.