Litchfield enquirer., 1865-08-31

-- Major General seho6eld has been brs,s,. ed Major General in the regular army. and r.. csivsd two years leave of absence to vial, Europe.
 - The President has appointed Hannibal Aamlin. Collector, D. W, Gooch Survsvor and B. Underwood Naval Officer for the port of Boston.
 l - Several counterfeit one dollar Uuit.d States notes were recently presented at the Treasurer's office for redemption, but were readily detected by experts in that bureau - There were numerous counterfeit ffties. but none so far as known, of the denomination of one thousand, five hundred and two dollars - Ali others are counterfeited.
 - The Consiiiniional Convention of the State O: Mississippi the home of Jeff Davis has declared in favor of adopting the amend msnt to the Constitution of the Unitsd States abOlishing slavery.
 - The Albany Journal of Tuesday says :- ! Three children ofJef Davis arrived here this morning on the St. John. stopped at the Della van House, for a few hours. and left on the
 Rensselaer, and Saratoga Railroad for Montreal
 There were two sons and daughter younger.
 The names of the sons were Jefferson and Will
 liam. They were accompanied by the mother
 of Mrs. Davis, a white servant girl, and mau
 servant. .1
 - The Kentucky Senate will stand, 2I Con
 servatives and l7 Union. The gains in the
 eastern part of the State for the Lower House will secure Union majority if the southern
 part of the state has not done worse than sup posed. The Democratic candidate for State
 Treasurer is dead. and the Union candidate ;s dangerously sick The Union candidates for Congress in the Second and Third Districts , were defeated by 1000 each.
 : - Edward B. Ketchum was arrested on fri day, in house in West 2Oth street. He had not been out of the city. He has been about the city frequently during the past fortnight, but has avoided his former friends. He had
 about $50,00O when arrested. The assets are likely to reach sixty cents on a dollar He has been consigned to the Toombs.
 = An excursion train filled with passengers returning to Boston, on Wednesday week, from ! pic nic party at Abingdon, on the old Colony
 Railroad, came in collision with a hand car
 on the track, in which were two men. The en.
 zine, tender, baggage, smoking and four pas- senger cars were thrown from the track, three
 of the latter being capsized down an embark
 ment. None ofthe passenger received serious injuries. '...
 A collision took place yesterday week on the Oil Greek Railroad, by which nine persons lost their lives, and ten to fifteen were serious ly wounded. The disaster was caused by the engineer of freight train running his engine on the track out of time, and at an hour when Q passenger train was due. coming from an op- posite direction. The trains met near q curve. and nearly every car was broken up. It is n wonder that more persons were not killed.
 - The steamship Brother Jonathan was wrecked on the 3lst of July. while on her voy age from San Francisco to Portland and Vic toria. The vessel had lO9 registered passsn gers, and crew of 54. It is stated that of these only 16 were saved, put Inere is hope that
 many more have been saved. The disaster
 happened by running upon sunken rock, aud
 the ship sunk in about an hour. The place was about six miles from Crescent City, the north : ernmost to VII in California, and near the Ore. gon line. The rock was four miles from the , coast. The news of this disaster should have reached us long since by telegraph, hut the overland line has been out of order for several weeks. Among the passengers on the Broth , CT Jonathan were General Wright and family.
 of the United States Army. It is said that the
 boat had the engines of the ill.fated steamer
 Atlantic, lost in Long Island Sound iu l848,
 and that one of the survivors was Capt. De Wolfe, master of the vessel, who was one of less than halt dozen who escaped from the
 Lexington, burned off Bridgeport, Long Island
 Sound. in February, ls4O.
 ,i = A terrible accident occurred on the Ten l nessee and Alabama Railroad on Friday. A passenger train which left Nashville, Teun., for Huntsville. Ala, ran of long trsssle work ? near Reynolds Station. The entire train was
 thrown of, and twenty or more persons killed, and about 50 injured. .'.- I = A frightful accident occurred on the Long Island Railway, Monday morning, by which several persons were killed, and many were wounded. An up train was run into by down . train at point on the road not far from Ja- maca. The engines were smashed, the cars , wrecked, the passengers frightened, maimed or | killed, and confusion reigned for hours } --s..r... -