Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-18

In Brooklyn some twenty houses were unroof led or orsotherwise damaged. A man weighing 200 pounds was lifted from the ground and
 carried twenty feet Over one hundred tree,
 were uprooted A large store house was strucl by lightning and damaged SlO, 900 worth, ans I much other damage done No lives reported lost yet. n
 l In Philadelphia, the tornado damaged th,
 Fairmount Park some $20,000 by prostratinl
 trees &c. Thirty houses in the l9th8waFd wert blown down, and boy killed.
 I Intelligence is received of the approaching
 arrival of d large number of Polish emigrants
 who have been forwarded from European port 4 under the auspices of the Emigration Society Iestablished lately to provide new homes. fol
 these unfortunate exiles. gg! k 8sa ii
 Major General Dana has been removed from
 commsnd oe the Department of the Mississip
 pi and General Warren. late Of the 9th corps
 put in his place. s15fsf 3s'a ,sS.i f<'es r Hon James Harlan, on Monday. entered up
 on his duties as Secretary. of the Interior 'a; tofE. W:sScottD Co.'S store at iWaureean sta
 ton was burned down last week. Loss $4, ,400
 to $5,500 partially insuredI 4 Tsss,,1
 Gov. Brown (rebel) of Georgia, was brought
 to Nashville on Monday night. as Q prisoner
 Jef. Davis was expected there on Thursday All through Tennessee and Northern Alabama the small bands of rebel soldiers and guerrillas are giving up the, Confederacy and hastening
 to take the stllso oath of loyalty sIadszaN
 7. The following significant advertisement is in the RaleighaN 2. Standard: ygsFeW HEADaR's MILITARY DIVISION OF THE JAMES, !
 Va {
 r $25, GOO Rewardt 'isl
 By order of the Secretary of War, reward of $25,000 is hereby offered for the arrest and delivery for trial of Wm. Smith, rebel Gov ernor of Virginia. s5.5t ,45.-,s5 'd H. W. HAIIBcK, Maj. Gen, commanding
 A Washington dispatch says Dick Turner the brutal dungeon keeper of Libby Prison, es- capped on Friday night. It is thought he will be recaptured. fS1 sasS5f}t s1'<.
 The Posts " ashington special says the pre- vailing impression among the officials there. is that Jeff Davis will be tried for high treason before the United States Court of this District, and that he will not be arraigned before the Military Commission now trying the conspiri- tors. ls.3 ay.# ,sl4,z a4sss.fs5
 The advance of Sherman's army is at Alex. andria. M aiq4n,.3 43 -a a3i1sg
 Wilkes Spirit argues that President Johnson was laboring under the effects of poison on the 4th of March last, and quotes as evidence of ;it she passage in the letter of instructions to the assassins, which said they were at liberty to use the blade, the pistol or the bowl, but they must bear in mind that the lat ter had once failed It has been already dis covered that the plot was to have been carried out on the s4th of March, and that Booth was on hand near the capitol but for some reason (perhaps the failure to kill Johnson) the scheme miscarriei. There may be some truth in the speculation. '~' te 2. The work on the grounds appropriated to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg is making rapid progress. Upwards of sixty laborers are employed, under the supervision of Mr. Willis, the President of the Cemetery Associa- Lion, and during the summer point of com pletion will be reached. Substantial granite walls and iron fences enclose the ground; and the gateway, which has just been completed, sa very fine structure. The work of macad- l amizing the principal avenues is in progress 1 llso of setting out trees! and shrubbery in the grounds. A thousand trees, comprising 95 varieties are to be put out at once. The con- 1 tractors are setting the headstones at the sol | liers graves, and work on the national monu | nent will soon be commenced.v a.Yag
 The New York Posts Washington special lays it is known in Raleigh that President Johnson will not recognize Gov, Vance nor the | ebel legislature of North Carolina 4.
 The rebel troops in ,Johnston's army were paid last in specie, about a dollar and half Or four years of service. ,,rrg sgfes
 Advertised letters will hereafter be two cents l .piece instead of one cent as heretofore, so 'ays the orders from the Post Office Depart nent.