Litchfield enquirer., 1865-01-19

tffIn tudG iS uioieIy So'tt''sts''' - and can act only in that capacity. He cannot give assurances ot pledges affecting civil mat ,ters. A future Congress will adjust these when Georgi. is again represented there, IS of old. He says Georgia is not out of the Union, therefore u total reconstruction appears innp- propriate, and as long AS any of the people re- mains armed and organized. the States would pursue them with armies. and deal with them according to military law. afterwards they Will he dealt with by the civ,i courts. He thinks the sane course should lie adopted as indicated by Washington in the whisky rebellion. and in accoriance with the Burr conspiracy. He quotes from Washington and Jackson on the preservation of the Union, and says the armies are simply fulfilling their commands. the Union must and shall be preserved, cost what it may there is no other alternative for tBe Prdple of tirorgia han to conform to this View of the l case. no commissioners. or negotiations, or con
 veHtions, are necessary Whenever the peo
 pie of Georgia quit rebellion, elect members i of Congress and Senator's, and these take
 their seats, the State of Georgia will have re- sumed her functions in the Uiiion.
 ARREST OF SENATOR FoorE Henry $. l Fu0te the rrhel Senator, was arrested on
 Thursday while attempting to escape from
 Richmond to our lines in company with his | Wlt Ile WdS OFeFtiktIl Dy TWO
 at Occoquan. fifteen miles from Ale2andrla.-
 When caught he was waiting in the house of
 one Hammel for Conveyance across the river.
 The cavalrvmen obliged ilammel to harness
 up his horse and wa" on and convey the cap
 tive as far back toward Richmon, as Dun } trips The military authorities sent out from
 Alexandria an escort for Mrs. Eootr. and sue is n Washington. Our cavalry at Fariax Was
 or dered by telegraph to pursue Foote's capt"rs t and rescue him if possible. The 7iribnne's
 special says that Mr. Foote's cause has been
 very thoroughly though suddenly espoused by the Sta'e Department; and to save him from th. punishment oi treason at Jeff DavIs hauds it is understood lh,t the President has declared that if he is harmed, he will hrlng , five of the most distinguished rebel prisoners in our hands to grief.
 The Paris journals hay" story Of d man ot . middle age Who recently ordered dinner for
 eight at q restaurant thnre paying for the re , past literally in advance. He came in at the
 appointed time alone. placed upon the unocu
 pied places slips 0! paper inscribed with inc . names of the notes of music. and ordered the f vi.,nds to be served as if every chair was occu <. pied by d guest. The whole course of the ' bauunrt was gone through wi h, even to egh :, cups of coff e after the dessert, and then tht A ., waiter, su~ppc,ing the design. had lrevionsl! drawn the charge from the weapon, but the ex
 plos on 0! the cap convinced the lunailc th;s
 lie Was killed, and he has ever since lnslste, :, In the asylum to ica he carried. that h .,,. Is dead and Tn purgat"ry It appears that tn . poor fellow was once an opera singer, that Il ", lost l.,s voice hy sickness and that he thuugl y, it would be rather a brilliant idea to take hi d leave of lhe world by giving d parting bauqu' ot To the notes which had so cruelty deserted hin
 letter from Beaufort. s. C.. dated Jan $
 says The Seventeenth Corps (Gen. Bkir . . has lst arrived, having been nearly the whol ol ol week in disembarking. and are now campc fu ahout two miles from town. Tine town is iu
 of soldiers and cuntrabands, who came wit l't them. There are also hundreds of mules :" horses. army wagons, great piles of forage It hard bread hospital stores, &c. The men ar 'e nearly all the woGse for Wear. and will doubt s' less lH recoh'd immediately. They have un
 hnunde,l confidence in Billy Sherman a
 they caTl him Say he has never brsu whipped
 and never can be. The army is anxious to h E. marching again. They say they have nevc
 been in camp more titan l5 days at time
 and they tu be afriid of contracting som,
 nf the habits of th's department, such as pro
 vost and gu!rison duty.'
 Provost Marshal General Fry in circul:, ,e recently issued gives as the re;ison wi,y th ;t quotas assigned under the Presidents last cal IL tpr three hundred thousand soldiers, are hot i, oi proportion tu the population of States or dis , tricts. the fact that in sonra localities the Quo a IS under the previ rus call were filled with vol .u unieers for longer terms than those enlisted il ' o'hers-somt districts cnSling majority Q U three years, men. others of two years mpn, an. a others of one year Een-and that the govern If ment is m justice and by law bound to giv r credit for the number of years ofsersice whici h. | district may furnish, us well the number o r recruits.
 u It is stated upon information derived from IT. 'he War Department that General Butler wa, y r.ieve.i of his command by Gen, r.l Grant ss after q conference between Secretary Stanton . and General Grant at Fortress Monroe. The
 alleged reason for this act was the wit EtIr., Aa r., by Gen Butler of his troops from the a;:ick 4 Q: Fort tIsher-Grant insisting th:tt he should IF have persevered in the attack-BntlAr insisting that to have done So would have been a useh ss J. and wicked sacrifice of brave men tao few in IS numbers to take a work so strong. and so Welt r garrlsontd and supported as Fisher was dis s covered to be upon Weitzel's reconnaissance. = Advces from our forces in North Carolina @ represent that tEe Hew rebel ran on the Rua
 noke river, is nearly finished. She is said to e hs an improvement on the Abe,marle A u company. with submarine implements are on O their way 10 Plymouth, to see if ihe Albermarlt
 can be raised m time to resist this expected r attack from he new ram, which is to move '- with the rebel ram at Kingston. above New. l. bern, which is DOW u good condition, and only | waiting for the food tiCes which the spring g r.iDs will bring.
 I
 Postmasters areobliged to receive all Treas | ury notes for stamps and posiages, if clearly
 genuine, no matter how torn or defaced they
 may be, provided one taoentieth part threof be
 not missing and fractional currency, if one
 tenth part be missing. Such notes and cur
 rcncy received as are unfit for reissue should be kept sepa ate and distinct, and returned. . as occasion requires. ts the Treasurer of the f United States Washington. in sums of not less 7 than three dollars, to be exchanged for new. At public school near Chesterfield, N. H.. : the boys have been in the habit of throwing f the sehOoimasters out of doors this winter A stranger drove into town one morning re
 gently. and wanted to teach that school. ma king the single condition that he should be let
 alone entirely in it's manag cement. He opened the school in the morning. and, as usual, the , boys commenced their roguishAess, wbereupon
 tue new teacher commenced with the largest one. and gave each sound trouncing and
 at noon he got into his sleigh and drove away, leaving the people of that district anxious to