Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-10
General News.

- Gen. Grant left Quebec for Montreal or Monday. He was entertained at the former place by the Goyemor General. \ -s1he arr1ngeA1enfs have been made fo, tho removal of the President and family from the White House to more healfhfnl locality, dur. ing the summer months. ..
 -- Judah P. Benjamin. Kirby Smith, ex- Gov. Thomas Reynolds, and Capt. Beauregard formerly Secretary to Dr. Gwin, have arrived at Havana The Stonewall is being prepared for delivery to the United States authorities
 - B. G. Hill late rebel General, was arres ted at Washington, on Saturday for drunken and disorderly conduct. and for want of money to pay his fine he was sent to the yorklsouse for thirty days. .....-:
 = The receipts of the Internal Revenue fol July, approximate to $22 100000. Now the income tax is beginning to be paid, it is esti. mated that the receipts will be at least million dollars per day, for the next two Or three months.
 = Major Gen. Benjamin Prentiss was arres- ted at Quincey, on Saturday. and fined five dol lars for thrashing young nan who kept com pany with his daughter against the Generals wishes. His son aided his father in the work, and was fined like amount.
 g's-- By the City of Boston we have London and Liverpool dates to the 27th ult. On the morning of that day the Great Eastern was three hundred miles out, and the signals through the cable were good. Her arrival on the New Foundland coast is now expected every hour. The political news was unimportant.
 = It is reported from Washington that the Department of State has received information to the effect that orders have been issued by the French commander in Mexico for the .es- toration to the United States of the property of the late rebel government, which was taken into that country on the occasion of the evacu- aton of Brownsxille. ss
 - Rebel Gen. Jubal Early was seen on Pennsylvania avenue last week, boosting that he would never get down so low as to ask Johnson's pardon that what little property he had in this country he might take and go to hell with it that he had enough in Europe, beyond Johnson's reach, to support him in ease, &c.
 =. The statement of the public debt, as ap. pears by the returns and treasury books on the 3Ist of July, as compared with that made on the 3lst of May, two months ago, shows an in crease of Sl22, 100000 during the intervening period owing, in part to the extraordinary sums required to pay the arrearages due to the army :; the entire public debt being S2,635, ,2O5, ,753. The amount of legal tender notes now in circu- lation is $6s5 ,236 ,269, or an increase from the 3lst of May of $26, ,O75,70O.
 '' - Reports are daily received at the. Bureau of Freedmen's Affairs of outrages perpetrated on the colored people by their former owners. A case has just occurred in Stafford county, Va, in which a man named Allsop armed him self, and, threatening death to his servants if they attempted to leave, defed the authorities to take them away, A military guard was found necessary to rescue the colored people and protect them from violence. In the inte- rior of the Soath, Slavery is still maintained, and aggravated by the determination of the planters to make as much as possible out of their servants before the authorities reach them.9 ss5f-s assqfs Hszai