Litchfield enquirer., 1865-11-02
General News

sion has returned the verdict. and the case is now beforo the President for his sanction. ? - The Government requires pardoned reb els to pay for the stamp attached 10 the certi- fcate.
 - The notorious guerrilla, Champ Fergu- son. was hanged at Nashville. Friday week. The execution was strictly private
 - The expenses of the navy for the year ending in June last were $l12,000,000. Sec retary Welles estimates thoss for the current year at only $23,0O0,0OO
 - The new constitution of the fenan Brotherhood is after the plan of the constitu- ton of the United States, the committee hay ing taken that instrument as their model.
 = It is stated that there is no truth to the rumor that Dr.. Mudd was tortured by means of the thumb-screw after his attempt 10 escape from the Tortugas.
 - The QuartermasterGe General is having printed pamphlet containing the names of the Union soldiers who died and were inferred in the Andersonville Cemetary together with other matters of interest in that connection
 - The War Department has issued an or der releasing all persons held as deserters for noncompliance with the requirements of the draft and promising that there will be no fur ther prosecutions of those who fled the coun- try to evade it.
 -- Lieutenant General Grants official report for the years 1864 and 1865, covering the ac- tive and stirring operations in the campaign which ended with the complete suppression of the rebellion, has been completed and will soon be sent to the War Department: but it is not expected to be given to the public till after the meeting of Congress. Though con else in it's statements, it is said to be necess- arily of considerable length
 A register has been complied in the War Department and is now in the hands of the the printer, which gives the name and rank of commencement of the late war. The register contains also such other official information concerning each officer as can be of any inter est to him or his friends.
 All statements that the Treasury Depart ment has been or is paying money to the va rious States on account of their expenditures untrue. The accounts of the various States are passing through the Auditors and Comp troller's offices, but no payments of any kind are being made to any State.
 - The steamship Atlanta, of the Atlantic Coast Mail Steamship line, running between New Orleans and New York, was wrecked on Sunday morning Oct 18th, from the springing of a leak while in heavy sea, abou. three hundred miles south of Sandy Hook. There were seventeen passengers, including four la dies and one child, and thirty-fve officers and crew on board at the time of whom only one passenger and four of the crew have been saved
 - Circumstances frequently occur which render it of great interest both to the govern ment and to private parties to be able to trace government securities. It is therefore very, desirable that banks and all persons dealing in these securieties should keep record of each separate transaction in them, stating the name of the person, firm or institution of whom they were purchased or to whom soli their location, the kind of security and its series date, denomination and number.
 = The particulars of the loss of the brig Titania were brought by the United States Florida. When discovered by the Florida, the crew of the Titania were on 8 raft, con- structed from the foreyard, part of the main topmast. and two cabin doors, with which they had put off from their vessel when they saw she must go down in few moments. The materials of which this raft was constructed were so scanty that it sunk in the water till the crew were submerged to the waist. The rescued ten in all, were completely exhausted having been on the raft day and a half with out food The crew informed their rescuers that while their vessel was in sinking con- dition condition a bark passed within three miles of them, but took no notice of their sig nals. - .-r. -.--- -4-.... .- -,., 4
 = Sunday morning about quarter before 6 o'clock while abreast of Twentieth street, North River, the port boiler of the steamer St. John, of the Peoples Line, from Albany for New York, exploded. Seven persons were killed, seventeen scalded, and one is missing,
 NAMES or TEE DEAn.--Merritt s Brooks, of No. s2s West T TWelfth-street, aged 22 years. Mrs. Matilda Archambault, of Montreal, and her female child aged 8 years. Mrs Jnlia A Reynolds, of Mytle-ayenue and Glinton-street, Mrs. Harriet B Wallaber, of Alba ny. aged 2s, years. George Wallaber, child of the above aged 30 months. Infant child Of Mrs wallaber, aged months Francis hy ons, of Yorkville. John Anderson, deck-hand of the St John. Joseph, Lambert, fireman MT. Lambert having been scalded, leaped ey- s,hoard and was drowned. Died Sunday