Litchfield enquirer., 1864-05-19

further upon the resolutions, when they were unanimously passed.
 The following committee were appointed to make arrangements for the funeral of Major General Sedgwiek Plat of Norwich, Booth of Daubury, Nichols of Torringford, Farren off que. Morris of Bridgeport, Judson of Corn wall Adjourned to 103 A. M. Friday: :.
 RRIpAY, Senate.-A dispatch from friends ofl Gen Sedgwick was received, declining thel proposal of the Legislature for public tuner al- They were grateful for the proposed non ! DTS, but deemed it fitting that the funeral or one whose life had been SO simple as his, shouldl be held at the home he loved so well.
 Mr. Sanford moved that when the Senate ad journ it be to 1Ok o'clock Tuesday morning j adopted-
 - Mr. Hodge reported that the committee ap- pointed to make arrangements for the funeral of General Sedgwick, proceeded to New York to receive the body of the deceased They had received 6 telegram from Miss sedgwick which they construed to be an acceptance of the offer of the Assembly, but a subsequent dispatch de- elined the proposed honor.
 AN ACT RELATING TO STATE BoUETIEs
 Be i enacted by the Senate and House Of Rel personalities. in General Assembly convened:
 sko. l. That the provision of act. entitled An Act to provide for the payment of boun- ty to volunteers, and for other purposes ap- proved January 15, 1864, be and the same are hereby continued for such time as the gevern-I or shall deem advisable; prouided, if he shall deem it needful for the public benefit, by his| proclamation, may cause the payment of three| hundred dollars, provided by the Sd section of said act, to cease, aAd may at any time directl such payment to be resumed by the Paymas- ter General.
 SEC. ?. This act shall take effect from anal after the day of its passage
 MT. Townsend was in favor of the passage of this bill, as the present law on the subj sct expires on the present month
 MT. Bennett was opposed to the phras eology or. rather, to the principle-of the bill, which leaves the whole militia in the hands of the Governor. and he proposed the following amendment that the words 'ssuch time as the Governor shall deem advisable" be stricken out. and ''one year from the 1eth of May, 1864, ' substituted.
 NIT. Bsnnett's amendment was rejected, and the original passed.
 On motion, the Senate adjourned to 1o3 :. N- Tuesday morning.
 HoHss--After various preliminary business the report of Joint Standing Committee on Military Affairs, in relation to the continuation of paying State bounties to volunteers, came from the Senate passed.
 CPo nthis report Mir. Morris. from Bridge port, said; It was necessary to pass the bill. for the present law expired on Monday next :, and as the great battles " ich are now being g fought are so fast depicting the ranks of our, army, we may have another call for troops any moment: indeed he had received a telegram from high authority in Washington, that at! any moment we might hear the call for morej men, and it is necessary that we should renew this law, that we may be able to fulfill our9 call
 The House concurred with tho Senate
 Report of the committee on the arrangementsI for the funeral of Gen. Sedgwick, was recev ed, and as the family of the deceased Gcnerall had refused 10 accept the offer of public fun era., the committee requested to be discharg cd; their request was granted.
 WEST CORNWALL. May B. fo w. D. Elmer. Egg, Clerk of the Rouse of
 Representatives.:
 DEAR SiE The family of Grneral Sed gwick are deeply sensible of the honor which the State have prepared to show 10 his memory nor have they have failed 10 take into account tho respect which in such n is due to thel expressed wish of this State bat it does not, accord with their feslings, that one whose life was so simple. should be buried in any other way than quietly from the house he loved
 The offer of the Legislature is therefore re- sprctfully declined. The funeral is appoint ed 10 take place from the house in Cornwall Hol- tow, on Sunday, May 18th, at noon.
 The committee appointed to attend the fune ral were Messrs. Cummings of Darien, Pitkinl of East Hartford, Mallory of Stonington, Plumb of Derby, Carpenter of Putnam, Day of Col i chester, Hubbard of Middletown, Chapman off Ellington
 Adjourned to II o'clock on Tuesday next.
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 JAMES F. E. SrUART.-The career of this famous Rebel rough-rler has been brought to a .lnus A licp,t.h f-o,,, \ I .l Navy Department announces that the Rich mond papers of Saturday report his death in battle. He was probably killed in the fight with Gen. Sheridsn's forces, on the llth inst an the Brockleton Pike, in which we routed The enemy. capturing two pieces of his srtlle- ". Stuart was born in Patrick County, Va aA 1885 was graduated at West Point i'm 1854, appointed Brevet Second Lieutenant in the Mounted Rifles, Second Lieutenant in the lst Cavalry in March. and First Lieutenant in December, 1885. He was severely wounded in fight with the Cheyennes. in 1857 was promoted to a Captaincy in 1860, and on May IA, 1861, resigned tc take up arms against his country. In the Rebel service he was ap- pointed Colonel of Cavalry, commanded their entire cavalry force at Bull Run. and rose suc-| eessfully to be Brigadier and Major General Under the mistaken policy which prevailed atl the outset of the Wal, our cavalry force wasI small and comparatively inefficient, SO that Stuart was enabled by little dash and enter prise to do much mischief, without mourning serious risk. Witness his exploits at Lewin.-y vile, the circuit of our Peninsular army. thet raid on Pope's headquarters and the foray around McClellan's army into Maryland and Pennsylvania in 1862. But as our cavalry improved under Ayerll, Bayard, Grierson, Xiii patrick, Peasanton, and Sheridan, these pre- datory ineursions were repaid with interest, and wherever the vaunted horsemen of theI South could be forced into fight, they wereI almost invariably worsted. These encounters of late have proved so prottiess to the Reb- els that they have fought very shy of our troopers, confning their operations almost ex. clusively to the picking up of stragglers and the cutting off supplies, and the more chival- fous exploits of firing upon ambulance trains with their loads Of wounded; vide Stuart's late valiant attack upon the wounded of theI Wilderness, on their way to the hospita Is by| way of Elys Ford.
 DEATH OF GENERAL HAYs.-Brigadier-G Gene. ral Hays, killed during the late battles, was a! native of Pittsburg. Pennsylvania and was! born in 1923. In lS4O he went to Vest Point. graduating in l844, and then entered| Sl~I ~