Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-09

AG Big. Gen. Henry Vessels has been re-
 lieved froh his position as Commissary Gem
 e.al of Prisoners, and has been placed iyif comi
 mand of lle Draft Rendezvous at Hart's Island.
 The Moth American Review has this tren-.s cLant blow at Scotts autobiography:
 The mole man talks about himself the less 1. interesting he becomes and i'll manners in this ol respect mby be as unpleasingly displayed to (l posterily us to ones own cOtemporaries.. We s!t seem to bsjustifed m forgetting one who is saer amply remembered by hlmsse and almost fed3,es anmosity 10 memory which, like sulky, V seems made expressly to convey only single
 person. The book is one of the washiest we have ever read. Compared with it. Gen. .Heaths 1 memories are thrilling, and Ely,s journal
 thing to cheat us out of our pillows. If the
 generals reputation can stand a watering like
 this, it must be above proof.
 | A brief abstract of the report of the Com
 mittee on the Conduct of the War on the
 failure of the Petersburg mine, is supplied by
 telegraph It amounts to just this that the
 mine and the assault which followed it's explo-:
 sion would have succeeded had its direction
 remained with Gen. Burnside, who superin.
 tended it from the beginning. That General
 wished to put his eolored troops in the vau.--
 Gen. Meade objected. General Grant says,
 Had they made the assault have no doubt
 it would have succeeded" And the Con- mtttee Say generally that but for the interfsf. etce of G, Meade at the end, who from the beginning had disbelieved in and contemptu- ously criticised the project of mine. it would , have accomplished its object. But when Gen.
 Meade came to understand that the explosion
 and assault had probable chance of suecesss he assumed the direction of it. and by his dis
 arrangement of Gen. Burns,de's plans became responsible for the resulting failure.
 ASTHMA OR Puru1s1c.-A spasmodic afTection , of tho Bronchial Tubes. which are covered with a diy, ten cious phlegm. u Brown's BrsnekssI TrOches' will in some cases give immediate rs lief
 F Hon. Joseph Segar will, it is understood. pre-. sent hiI credentias on Monday or Tuesday ,as . i Senator from the State of Virginia. This will
 i'd to decision of the question by that body whether inc State is entitled to recognition She , has no representatives n the House, those who presented themselves as mea,p-rss Is having been u ruled out. It is known there are three o:otee h in what has been called the Old Dominion" s namely. the Governments at Wheeling. Rich. y mond and Alexandria; and it is the case of the
 last named now in controversy.
 Id Sherman is advancing into South Carolina is in several directions. almost unapposed. Some ,S. time ago the left wing, under Slocum. was y, fifty miles above Savannah. The wings. though h. widely separated, are in communication with e. each other. Tue rehels say that Augusta and l2 Brauchvle are unqnestionably the objects in aimed at. Branchville IS an important point H. on the railroad, little less thaR half way from ar Charleston and Augusta.
 v; The Jersey City Times says it is rumored " hat the Tribune is about to have German
 edition, and the Commercial Advertiser, it is nd whispered by the knowing ones, is likely to by succumb before great while.
 u u Isaac Funk the great Illinois farmer who ~" owned 30 00O acres of the hest land in Illinois, ' and was taxed for nearly $2,OOO 900. is dead. . His wife also died in few hours after her hus- ,s band Mir. Funk executors will provide that 'l his vast estate shall remain in his family un- ,' divided.
 e. The Portsmouth Chronicle says large gray
 eagle. with a small bell attached to his neck. q has made his appeaance in that region. It ia q supposed to be bird that was formerly a nei ,r at Cape Porpoiss, but which was sent adriit e, with sleigh bell attached to his neck as A of punishment for his frequent raids on the chick III en coops.
 It is reported that a new rebel pirate: ua med I. the Rangpr-a small, ligh, ,-drauyht, swift Eng.
 fish steamer-w3s in the harbor of Montevidso,
 south America, Iin the middle of December IT, last. The Unitsl States steamer Ilovqos was ut also ip port, keeping close watch.
 a, Litchfpld, Ky. was visited few days since ~ s, by Williams gng of guerriilas. and the next 'n morning by setenty or eighty of Quantrell's a t. mouEted mem They appropriated Quantity sn of boots and shoes and whiskey, but lett w,th-e
 oat doing furll Ter damage. Ills The paperm Il burned at Lee, Mass, Thurs, ss- day. was hreb purchased by Elzur Smith. Q, s. White & Hurliut. and was turning out fou; " thousand poujds of newspaper a day. The los ee is heavy, anl only partially insured. MI
 Smii h was Ing married in church at the tim , bv he fire broKi out. The fire is supposed { '' have been sEt by personal enemy of MtS
 Smith. AN d. A coachmJ Jn in the employ of MT. Elliott z, 1T KLlinglv, mared d young lady of that tow. to fast summel and has lived happily with hs.s 3 until Wednr day the 75th ult.. when fema nt, le om Provid |nce appeared with certi6catr < W s owing that the Jehu Was her property and h,
 a child by hfr. The Transcript says that at Is |. uccoun the two wives were living tranquil o oi together. 3S 'p The rebels claim that the pirate Tallehas,,. l. escaped fir }n New Inlet and went to sea ji,-' l. after the capture of Fort Fisher. A late t... l. at Summi, Miss, destroyed twenty thS
 houses. si3 hundred bales of cotton, and
 large snppg of rebel commissary and ot-iH n stores. vE v- The fellSwing bids for contracts for aIsQ T . clothing we're offered at the supplies dep
 ment. Cincinnati, on Wednesday last: 491 R ts overcoats at an average of SIS 04 each, 7efs' 'n blankets 1t an average of $6 35 each, l. 2,44bH00 pairs of socks at an average oAt
 cents per pair. MI e. A baker at Memphis recently got permisWS ,e to pass through the Union lines barrel of Si IIi ,e for the use of his family in Seeessa. Sourfo, .e quisitive detective found out tha. the buSsn
 contained quinine instead Of flour, ard h.
 baker done very brown and correspondsde Id m crusy. . IS Richmond is threatened with famine.- s n late damages to the Danvills railroad bA
 freshet, has cut off the osly channel of IAN plies. As all the food that can be supple an l. required for the army. the people will t an( 5 daced to the most plnchng want. s cer 9 Over three million two hundred and fou
 thousand dollars of United States In{TI
 revenue tax were received by the severs lecors in New York city during the moi It,, , January. a, r WHAT'S IN A NAys.-The wife of one s ,f