Litchfield enquirer., 1865-09-07
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TTs . - The expedition sent ont from gN N Nasnv'l sesai
 bv Gan. Thomas, to Carolyiile. Tenn IS stir
 rinp i1 aI lap i,est nest of thieves Two of Thomas
 man have been killed. Several thieves have
 aeao .y,ot or hung, and others captured, .aEs
 Attorney General Speed has rendered ead
 decision sustaining the course of thet almigpls g
 trat:on in trying the assassins of Presidsnf
 I;nooln hv conrt martial. .si3ai'k5sgsst' AiTt
 B. G. Hill, ttierebel general just out of the workbouse rearrested and feleassds upon
 his parole to report the next morning to the Provost Marshal, has disappeared from Wash iogtonI The military authorities are after T n ti IT.
 - Several applications have beens'madeto the Commissioners of Pensions. under a the .n lm
 pression that at the last session ot Congress the rate of pension for the loss of allmb had been increased But it is now officially an uounced thai no such change in ,.the the Pension Law for the loss of one limb has been vmade.-- The army pensioner for such loss receives $S per month, if he was a private. non-commis- stoned officer, or masi elan ; $l5 a month if he was Second Lieutenant $l7 if a First Lieu tenant; S2O if a Captain $25 if "a Major, and $50 if a Lieutenant. Colonel. or of any higber, grade The same rates, according to rank, are applicable to navy pensions.
 It has been asceriained that of tue large amount of notes presented for redemption, hot more than from one and q half to two per eents if so many are count erfeit. The spurious notes are easily detected and promptly branded conn1 telfeit. Of course the, holders and not the Treasury bear the loss. From $90 to Sl0O 'of of such currency, of various denominations, is destroyed daily. No knowledge of counter felt National Bank notes has come to the bur ean, nor of ones or twos of United States cur rency. The latter denominations, however are altered to represent higher amounts, and. some phot ograph fves are in circulation. A tolerably well executed $50 note recently found its way to the redemption bureau, having pre- vlously been stamped as counteffeit by an East a
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 - Tie trial of Capt. Wertz, of the late rebel army. who is charged with maltreatmeat of the Federal prisoners while in charge of the Andersonville prison and stockade, will be com menced on the 18th inst. Witnesses are. al. l ready arriving in Washington. l.i They are most ly officers and soldiers who have been sufferers by reason of the barbarty. and cruelty of the accused but many southern men will also tes', 4 tify as to his conduct while keeper of, the prisi on The court martial of which Brig. General Underwood is President. and Col. N. P. Chip man, Judge Advocate, is still in receipt of a large number of letters from soldiers, and oth7 ers who have suffered and wi,nessedthe suffer. ings inflicted on Union soldiers under the rebel Capt, Werz at Andersonville.. These letters are all read and to the most Intelligent a. list1 of questions is mailed, with the request that answers be given thereto and returned. Should it then be doomed necessary to subp dena the volunteer, a, subpoena is made out.4 i.ie a,ai,sr
 About six o'clock on Wednesday evening. last, fearful collision took place on Lakef Huron. between the propellers lsteabici and Meteor, The boats, it,seems, saw each other when, six miles apart.,l On approaching, they exchanged signals, and, according to the re- port, the Peacabic bore, off to pass, but the Meteor, for some unexplained reason, turned in Ghe same direction and struck ihe' Rs,rabic with such tesribles force asto crush in her en. tire bow, killing several persons. Life-boats were immediately lowered From the Atsteos, which picked up those who were not carried down with the wreck. One hundred and sev- enty five to two hundred persons we're on board the Peacabic at the time of the disaster Sev7 enty five of the passengers and twenty y,thfeei of the crew were saved The. loss of life cannot be correctly ascertained as yet but it will. be near one hundred. The Meteor remained near the scene of the disaster till morning, in the hope of picking up any persons who might be still floating on pieces of wreck, but none were X found. '' s'F' ''' ''' v Y s S,isIsl ,,S