Litchfield enquirer., 1865-10-19
GeherafI News


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 - Gov. Andrew, of Massachusetts, ahas ap. pointed Thursday the ,3oth of NoyerAber as the annual day of 'rhanksgivins vins and pd Prayer for that State.
 = The office of Adams. Ezprsss, Company in Georgetowb, was entered Friday .iaornine by burglars, and tho safe blown opeh Fan and rob bed of severai thousand dollars. xssasq
 The steamer Yosemite Inryt shenr,a boiler a, Riovesta, Cal, on her do1i~atd trip from Sac .samento. Friday righk lThs upper utppps works for ward were completely wrecked. "" Fifty,ave persons ars known to Do killed ?fottyo orN fifty N wounded, and others are missing: 2 'mA Ies-s Belfast. Me, was visited son ' Thursday by disastrous conasgration. sOver one hun drsd buildings were destroyed, and the estima- ted lossit ssoo, coo sai at ya1s a,ao he> oha o,, q %.- A serious railroad accident occurred on Saturday. afternoon neat, nee Iancaster, Penn. "A passenger train was thrown from'the track by the breaking of an axle, occasioning inc death of nine persons, and the injury ofseveral others.
 The work of roopening the railroads in tho South is, progressing rapidly. Georgia Alabama and Tennessee are now in full com. munication with the North, and Ssll; the rail- ways arc doing lively business.
 s3--A dispatch from Fortress Monroe states tbat quarters are being brsparedin Carol Hall for Messrs. Clay and Mitchell, preparatory to their removal from their easement prisons. i!i-- Gen. Grant has ordered the mastering out of all the colored troops nov in the field. This reduces the sffectiye force now in the field to about ssventy-fve thousand men, and tho reduction will: t is said soon be followed by another thirty five thousand men, leaving the standing force ct fifty thousaud.s.i ia'1 5a- State elections took place in 4Pennsylya-r mia, Ohio and Iowa, on Tuesday week, all Of which have gone in favor of the Union nomin- ess. Ohio elects Cox QUnieD} for Governer by from 2o,o0o to 25, 1000 majority, and mas jority of membsrsin both branches of the Leg islature. The Union majority in Pennsylva- mia is estimated at 10000. In Iowa. Stone (Union) is said to be elected Governor by 20,- GOO majority. The Unionists of Newark, N J., carried their charter election T on, Monday week by an average majority of l, 400 against l,O50 Democratic majority on the city ticket a year ago, gain of 2,4oo, They also elect a majority of the aldermen and other officers. There is fair prospect that the Unionists will cary the Stste in November. ,s e8
 -a-- Gen. Fisk, agent of the Freedmens Blu reau in Kentucky and Tennessee, makes most favorable report of affairs under his supsrvi- sion. The matter of subsistence at govern, ment expense is So far improved that where, on the 2d of September, nearly g thousand per- sons were subsisted, at the present day mot one ration is issued by the Freedmen's Bureau in Tsnnessse,' .H-9 alu1I sIisI,. .s .T
 "A drunken man from Alsxandria visited tho Executive mansion last week, seeking an interview with the sIiesidsnt, but becoming disorderly, was elected by the officer on duty. The latter had Just turned to re enter the house, when the sentry noticed the man draw ing pistol and seized it. The man was taken before . Justice of the Peace, and fined Tor carrying concealed weapon, s.o A
 - The Times Washington correspondent says "The last disgrsceiul scene in the Wirz trial took place on Saturday. -Mr Baker, the prissner's counsel, an obscene pettifogger, who foistsd himself into tho case for personal neto riety, was all but ejscted from the court for his contumacious conduct. It was not until mo. tion to pitch him out had been made and sec onded that he subsided. The evidence was then closed, and Baker demanded two weeks in which to prepare his argument. The Court ,first offered him ten days, and thea twelve, both of which he refused, and tho 'JudgelAdvo- cate xasjthsp requested to prepare the argu- 5 nsntfor both sides, and announced that he xoald De ih readiness to do 1,ss 5 yesterday, to which 'day the oour. adjournsd.' i sb1n. a''se. Ia9Gl Io a.n2ss1 le ytiIIjp 4o qtl! iay sd+
 b.-:Rsturns from the, election held in Virgin. eeia, Thufsdsy, indicate thsf election Of Union candidassa for Congress in at, least three and perhaps in five districts. In the Seventh Con- z greslionAl9 District 4 (Alexandria and other heighboring Counties, it would sssa that the voters have gone through the schilds play of slecting q candidate (Conradj wkS, vas ohs of Me ligners ot the ordinance of secession, who cannot take ths, oathrol9d r9gi9 slsiG eilg s Io -4 Among the amnesty baths aiuasta filed at the State Department is that of Robert B Lee, subscribed to on the ,2d. inst. That all hs world may know what this man promises for the future, we give the oath Ventire. It is the same oath required from iany other man ; .-5 .la9ui OFFICE ovt NorARY PUBIc, } RocKsRrDaE COUNTY, Va, Oct 2 1865, fV3 ao H. Robert E Lee, of Lsxington,aVa.l do sol emnly swear, in presence of Almighty God. that will,hencsforth faithfully9 support pro. ' tect and defend the constitution of the United States, and tho union of the States thsreundsr !. and that Twill, in like mah1nsr,, sabide bv and 6aithfdily scppott all laws, and proclamations which have been made Grrinr inc sx;st;no rai