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LITCHFIELD, CONN.,
THURSDAY. DEC. 3, 1863.
Tbe Situation—Recruiting for the
New Levy.
The new* from Chattanooga, this week, em
bracing the gloriona successes of Gen. U. S.
•. Grant, has thrilled the loval North with heart
felt gratitude and joy. Tire day set apart for
tbe National Thanksgiving gave us the first
intelligence of the defeat and rout of the ene
my, and subsequent advices have entirely con
firmed the good news. It now seems that
Bfitgg's annv is completely demoralized, and
scattered in every direction, while Longstreet’s
corps is entirely cut off from the'enemy’s main
force, and if saved at all from destruction must
ho so by the most desperate fighting. Mean
while Meade is pressing Lee backward toward
Richmond, in spite of unfavorable weather,
and whenever he can get him (o mnko a stand,
we may easily look for a battle and another
victory for the Army of the Potomac. Alto
gether, the news from our armies this week is
of a more cheering character than we have had
for many a week. Success seems everywhere
perching upou our banners, and the year bids
fttir to close with a brighter prospect for the
downfall of the rebellion than we could bare
dared to predict a fortnight since. •
But what are wo doing to help on the glori
ous work ? The final levy of live thousand
troops.is called for from this State, five hun
dred und liiirty-uino of which must be furnish
ed by this County. With these in the field
tbe last blow to the rebellion will ba struck,
and that without the prospect o( much more
fighting. A victory of Meade’s army, equal to
that just attained by Grant, will about use up
the military force of the rebels. The troops
now called for will then be used mostly for
garrison duty, and to protect the Union senti
ment sure to spring up Wherever our armies
have obtained control or the soil. It is possi
ble the Southern leaders nitty strive to keep up
a guerilla warfare for a time, but with their
tno grand armies demolished or (lemorulized,
serious fighting will be over.
Lei ns arouse then to our duty of filling up our
town quotas. Why should not war meetings
ba culled in every town to excite the interest
and enthusiasm of our young men? The time
allowed for volunteering is short,and every day
diminishing. In no other way can we resist
tho draft. In no other way can we sustain the
untarnished lustre of our State and county.
Nacciattok Rail Road.—Our readers in the
Naugatuck Valley, and tho traveling public
will hnvo noticed tho recent changes in the
tinio labia" of this road. We should like, in
behalf of the traveling public, to enquire of
tho managers of the road why it is that the
down train which leaves V’Insted at 12.45 r. u.
cannot be run to Lit the Express traiu for
New York, (Shoreline) ut the Junction or
Bridgeport, as formerly ? As it now is, we
observe that this train arrivos ut tho Juuction
•bout fire minutes after the Express train has
passed that point, nnd the consequence is that
New York passengers are compelled to take a
slow accosiniodatiun train, leaving New Ha
ven half an • hour later, and arriving at New
York nearly an hour later. The five minutes
or so causing this inexplicable and disagrees
Me delay can Burely bs made in the running
tune of ths road, as, l«r instance, say between
the stations of Burrvilie and Wolcottvilie,where
the time occupied between leaving the two sta
tions—four miles apart—is exactly forty eight
minutes t
We presume tho road is run solely for the
convenience and interest of tho traveling pub
lic, and for no class of these more than for
the largo per centage that daily travel by this
retd to and from New York. We- respectful
ly eubroit therefore to tho Superintendent and
Directors of tile road, that a very simple
change in their present tinio tublo. and a very
slight alteration in the running time of this
passenger train would obviate tho difficulty we
have pointed out, and relieve tho management
from considerable grumbling and lively reflec
tions on the part of passongors nil along the
road.
- Let us add a good word for one of the
conductors on the Naugatuck. On Monday
evening of this week, a very foul-mouthed,
drunken, though well-dressed scavenger, hailing
from Reynolds’ Bridge, got into the passenger
ear at Waterbury accompanied by a gang of
friend*, nnd commenced making the most hid
eous noises, interspersed with oaths and blus
phemics fit only for the lowest pot house. The
case, we are sorry to say, is of too frequent oc
currence on this road. In this instance the
car was full of ladies, who w ere, of course ex
cessively annoyed by the fellow's profanity and
obscenity. Conductor Waterbury, on perceiv
ing the disturbance, promptly took the fellow
4u obarge, and in spite of a pretty determined
resistance, bustled him with more rapidity than
gracefulness, wliilo the train was in motion
out of the car into the baggage car, where he
was locked up until lie reached his destination.
A few sack instances of tho prompt removal of
such annoyances would abate the nuisance.
Ter lines entitled «• U0w Americans Love,”
and commencing,
!* Sk»«s Land and 8<Mi rmf.
But more than Earth or Air
Wu hold the men it bar# ••• &c
ere respectful/ declined.
«-We welcome with 'pleasure to our ex
change Kst The American Jrlag, published *t
Sonora. Tuolumqo Co., Cal- It js one of the
epieiest papers we have met with fronj the re
gions of sun down, and loyal “dear up ty the
►oh," Long way it wave I
Second Conn. Artillery.—By a recent or
der from the War Department, the 19th C.Vn
Litchfield County Regiment, has been trans
formed to the 2d Conn. Heavy Artillery. This
is a compliment which speaks as much for tbe
regiment, as its warmest friends at home can
wish. And the best of it is, that this compli
ment has been won from the Department bv
its superior discipline, drill and appearance, in
tbe face of its inferiority to other regiments in
point of numbers. Now is the time for Litch
field County boys to fill it np te its maximum
standard. Shall it be dope ?
—1st Lieut. Wm. H. Lewis, (of Watertown)
Co. D. is promoted to be Captain Co. B., vice
Hubbard, promoted to be Major, and 2d Lieut.
Chester D. Cleveland, Co. E, to be 1st Lient
Co. D.
The latest news from the Army of the Po
tomac is to Monday noon. At that time Gen.
Meade and the rebel leader were confronting
each other on the opposite sides of the Mine
Run, a stream which crosses the Orange and
Fredericksburg Plank Road, about twelve
mile* from Orange Ceurt-Hosse. A great
fight is imminent.
From Knoxville, w* have the cheering Dews
of the defeat of Lengstreet by Burnside, on
Snnday last, hi which an entire rebel division,
numbering some five thousand men, was cap
tured.
There has been no fighting in Chattanooga
since the 26th.
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99* We notice that some of the towns in
this district are contracting with the substitute
brokers to furnish their town quotas, by en
listments of colored men from Canada and
elsewhere, for $25 a head, and that tbe brokers
are making the same offer to other towns. This
may be considered a shrewd way of dodging
the law, but we imagine it won’t hold good._
Towns are expressly prohibited from furnishing
any bounties for recruits, and the payment of
a bonus to brokers, for the purpose of securing
recruits, appears to us to amount to much the
same thing. We trust none of the towns in
our County will be biiten.
t&~ The Conn■ War Record, of which we
gave some notice in our paper of last week, is
advertised in our columns to-day. It is a good
paper to take for those who fuel an interest in
our soldiers, and- who doe3 not ? And it’s only
a dollar a year.
19 0. Godfrey Gunther, the " indepen
dent’’ Candidate, was elected Mayor of Now
T ork City, on Tuesday, by a plurality of six
thousand.
The New Haven Wab Meeting.—A great
meeting wav held Saturday night in New Ha'
ven, in spite of the storm, fo encourage volun
teering. Hon. James E. English presided.
Addresses were made by Mr. English, Rev. H.
C. Trumbull, Hon. E. K. Foster, and Maj.
Dlakeslee of the 1st Cavalry. The following
is one of the resolutions passed :
Resolved, that every person can, in some
way, aid in the great work now before us. and
that we pledge ourselves and beg all our fellow
citizens to assist to the utmost in promoting
enlistments in this town, so that our quota may
be filed in tbe shortest possible time.
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THE ESCAPE OF JOHN MORGAN.
Toronto, Monday, Nov. 30.
John H. Morgan arrived here by the Great
Western Railway to day.
PARTICULARS OF THE JAIL DELIVERT.
Cincinnati, Monday, Nov. 30.
The six rebel officers who escaped from the
Penitentiary, at Columbus, with John Morgan,
"ere Capts. Uennett, Sheldon, Haines, Hack
?rsmith and Magee.
John Morgun, on retiring, arranged with his
jrother Dick to excliauge cells from the top
>ne to the lower one of the first floor.
The lower cell is two and a half inches
.hick, in which a hole was cut, ruiming to the
naiu wall around the penitentiary.
This wall was cut under, and the party es
;aped into the open couutry. Tho night was
lark and a heavy sain was falling at the time.
That their escape was connived at by sym
pathizers, there is little doubt.
The mauuer of escape was ingenious, hut at.
;er all it was 6imple enough when based upo u
,be almost certain theory that they wore cor
rectly informed as to tho ground they had to
work through.
They, by patient labor for nearly four weeks,,
by moans of small pocket-knives, dug through
tbe floors of their cells, composed of about one
foot of stone and brick, down into a four foot
sower.
Two weeks ago ono of the escaped prisoners
asked the guard for a few boards to cover tbe
bottom of tbe cells, giviug as an excuse, that
the damp stone was injuring their health. The
unsuspicious guard granted their request. The
boards were used to cover up tbe bolos they
were- cutting.
After getting into the sewer they crowded to
the heavy grating and masonry at its mouth,
and found they could not escape by that route.
They, however, made a hole upward to a-beavy
pile of coal, which rolled in on thorn, toluol) am
extent that they were forced to go farther
back into the yard.
They then excavated tho soft earth clear un
der tho mail) wall, and so correctly was the dis
tance calculated, that they came out into the
open road one foot below the foundation.
One of the party, Capt. Haines, was by trade
a brick-mason, and seems to have bad tbe
mauagemedt of the whole affair.
A note signed by that worthy, written in a
fine commercial hand, was left behind, k rfad
as follows :
Castle Merion.Cell No. 20, No*. 27s 1663.
To Capt. Merion, Warden of the Penitentiary:
Commencement, Nov. 4,1863. Conclusion,
Nov. 20,* 1863. Number of hours of labor per
day. three. Tools, two small koives.
J/X Patience eat (mere nais son fruit est
dotus i
Translation—Patience is bitter, bnt its frnit
ia sweet _ .
By ojtlor of my six Honorable Confedeaates,
T. Hknbt Haines,
Captain Confederate States Army.
Public opinion is divided as to where the
blame really rests. It is proper to State, how
ever,'that for tbe last two weeks several of tbe
most promiuent copperheads of the State bava
been putting up at tbe principal hotels and
laying their heads together without any visible
reason therefor.
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Rev. John Pierpont has been suggested for
ehaplain to one kouso of Congress.
Zum zum Gan-M MS
LiTCHfiBLD.—Pit© recruits bare bees enlis- j
ted since onr last, by Corporal Spencer, and
he is still calling for more. Fall in, for the
2d Cohn. Heavy Artillery l
Hon. John H. Hubbard left toWn for
Washington on Monday last, to enter upon bis
congressional duties.
—Skating ia the rage no#-a-daya. The
weather is cold enough to suit the coolest ad
mirers of J. Frost.
—The first snow of the season fell here on
Monday night. It waa but a slight flurry.
—The Superior Conrt is insession this week;
the trial on is an- assault and battery case
from Falls Village, Page vs. Herman. All the
distinguished lights of the bar from those re
gions are engaged. Considerable discussion
arose as to the number of places in Falls Vil
lage where the ardent and the cooling is dis
pensed. Our list in the Exuuibbb of Nov
12th. shows the number to be 6, and that there
are 105 professional drinkers. Which is bad
for “ Pset’s Republic.”
—The County Historical and Antiquarian
Society meets this evening at the Court House.
See advertisement.
—Among the patents issued last week, is
one to James B. Lyon, Milton, for improve
ment ia batter worker.
—We regret to chronicle the resignation of
tl>e Rev. Wm. S. Southgate, reotor of St. Mi
chael's (Episcopal) church in this village. He
remains, we learn till the first of January, and
will leaTe for Europe early in the coming
spring. The town, no less than the parish,
will deeply regret the loss of so genial, faith
ful and excellent a Christian gentleman and
pastor.
Goshkn.—The good people of Goshen being
too one-sided on political matters to have
much diversity of sentiment, now snd ;then
get up a little division on religious matters,
just for the diversion of the thing. Thus two
weeks since wo announced that a Ker. Mr.
Doubleday had been unanimously calfcd to
minister to the Church in Gosbcn, for ibe year
to come. We thought it strange, but made no
comment; and now we observe that one of the
leading Shepherds of the flock, who stales
himself a “paying if not a praying member”
of the Church is out with a card, in which he
states that he was unanimous against the par
son. It is true, he says, that he was hardly
allowed to speak out in the meeting, hut he
desired, after the call was made, that the
committee of correspondence should have at
least a minority member to enlighten and aave
the dominie from being gulled as their last
settled minister was ; which we submit ought
to be done, as well as to let the “minority
member” have the privilege of aelling the
dominie his wood for the winter!
Harwixtox.—On Wednesday of laet week,
ss Mr. Oliver Pettibone of this town was cros
sing tbe Long Bridge about one mile south of
the Centre, the bridge gave away and the en
tire length-of which- was about eighty feet,
fell a distance of about twelve feet. Mr. Pctli
bone was sitting in a cart to which was at
tached three yoke of Oxen. Mr. P. in the de
eccnt,loaped from the cart into the stream and
escaped without injury; the oxen were thrown
together in oue heap, but were all got out with
a few (light bruises, uot a bone being broken*
Fortunately the bridge in its fait swung up
the.strcam where the water was shallow. Had
it gone down the stream the water would have
been about twelve feel deep. The bridge was
let out to contractors on Saturday, and will be
toon rebuilt.
Niw Hartford.—Lieut. Henry R. Jones,
icting Adjutant of the 11th Regin cat Invalid
Horps, head-quarters Elmira, N. Y., is now
lome on a furlough for a few days. Our
•ea lers will remember that this brave young
•fficor was shot down on the Antietam battle
ield. and reported killed. He fell into the
lands of tbe rebels, by whom he was held
.hree days, and released on parole.
The ball by which he was wounded entered
iiis person at the root of his neck, splitting,in
its passage, his oollar bone. A large incision
was subsequently made in the region of his
ihoulder-biade, with a view to find the ball,
but without success. It is still in the upper
part of his body. Tbe wound remains
slightly opon, manifesting signs of inward
trouble. Mr. Jones' general health is good,
rhe chief difficulty seems to he in his right
shoulder, which can be moved but a little
lutward and inward in a line with the body.
It is expeoted that be will soon be commis
iioned Adjutant, by the President. He is a
noble young man, and his fellow townsman re
joice, not only that he escaped death, hut also
in view of his promotion in office.
The Presidrxt’s Hyslx, divided into three
parts, was the only hymn sung during the re
ligious services had- in the Congregational
Church of thit place. Thanksgiving day.
A riRi occurred,, on. Sriday last, at one of
the Greenwood's-Company factories, origina
ting in the pieker. U was quickly subdued,
not, bowcTer, without a loss to the Company
of $1,000.
Niw Murom.— A Tea Party, for the bene
fit of our sick and wounded soldiers, came off
at Bronson's Hall on Friday evening last with
very satisfactory results The entertainment,
gratuitously-furnished by the ladies, was very
fine, and merited, as it received, the generous
appreciation of the public generally. The net
proceeds amounted to about $130, and will
doubtless be vety seceptable to those for whom
it-is intended.
North Caxaax.—At a mealing of" the
Litchfield North Consociation" at East Ca
naan, Conn., held on Nov.l7ih,18C3* Bov. Hen
ry M. Grant was ordainad sad- installed os
Ptstor of the Congregational Chnreh In-that
place. The services of ordination wars as fol
lows :
Introductory Exercises by Rev. Everts
Scudder, of Kent; Sermon* by Rev. C. B. Rob
inson, of Woodbury ; Ordaining prayer by
Btv. R. D. Gardner, of Ellsworth ; Charge to
tbs Pastor by Rev. J. Eldridge, D. D., of Nor
folk ; Right Hand of Fellowship by Bsv. E. F.
Hows, of Sooth Canaan ; Charge to tbo Peoplo
by Rer. H. Eddy of Winsted, the former pas
tor of tbo Chnreh ;—Concluding prayer by
Rev. Mr. Bassett, of Warren ; Benediction by
tbe Factor.
The service! were interestipg in spite of the
rainy day. sod the thin audience.
The Congregational church and society in
Torringfoid have invited Rev. Spencer 4- Dy
er to remain with them another year.
Tobkihotox.—The Wnterbury Hoolr and
.Eje Company, with a capital of. $66,000, baa
decided to remove to Wolcottville neat spring.
They hhve purchased ami are now fitting up
the mill formerly occupied by the Welcsttville
Knitting Company.
H«v.- Archibald Qeikie, of Colebrook, is at
present supplying the pulpit of the Congrega
tiortsl church in Wolcottville.
WAStiiaarox.—At a town meeting held Nov.
30th for the purpose of promoting volunteering
in this town, it was voted, that the first Se
lectman who is appointed recrniting agent, be
authorized to empty three persons to assist him
in procuring volunteers, and a committee of
one from each school district, was also ap
pointed to co-operate with said agents. The
meeting was quite largo and great unanimity
of feeling prevailed and it seemed to be the
general opinion that the quota would be easily
raised before the 5tb of January next.
Wsa. TV. Williams killed a silver gray fox
in Washington last week, an uncommon ani~
mal in these parts. Its skin is supposed to be
worth from $40 to $60. Good for William W.
W.
Woodbdbt.—On Thanksgiving day, services
were held at the Episcopal' and Methodist
churches, hut the Congregational church was
closed, their pastor being absent. A good
audience was present at the Episcopal, and
listened to an excellent discourse from Rev.
Mr. Purvis, rector of the parish. At the
Methodist, the pastor, Rev. Mr. Lou nsberry,
officiated, and gave an instructive discourse
on the subject ef thanksgiving, in which he
alluded to the great rebellion, expressing
himself hopeful as to the ultimate result which
he believed was near at hand ; and that Jeff
Davis, who was considered so very pious by
his southern friends, would, with the ever vic
torious Grant on the South, and the earnest
and faithful Mead on the North, soon be com
pelled to read his prayer either in a Union
prison or a foreign land. The singing was
by the Union S. S. Choir which rendered the
President’s Hymn, and other songs with fine
effect.
—Gen, Ben Butler is of Connecticut des
cent. His grandfather was Captain Zephaniah
Butler, of Woodbury, who fought with Wolfe
at Quebec.
A Correspondent of a New York. Daily
writes as follows:
•* In relation to the reported low morals of
Washington, I am convinced from careful ob
serration that considering the class of visitors
aud multitude of soldiers idling here, that it is
not below other cities ; and I know that coal,
wood, lumber, wagons, &e., are left unguarded
with much more safety than in any eastern
city I have been inybut profanity is perfectly
revolting.”
In relation to the report that the capitol is
newly complete, he says :
*• The staging has been complctod these two
weeks, aiid workmen have been busy at work
all the time ; yet not one of the five sections
composing the base for raising the statue of
the Goddess of Liberty is completed, and if it
is raised to its place by January 1st. it will be
quick work—quick even if it is up by the 4lh
of March next.”
A magnificent campaigning carriage, design
ed as a present to Major-General Sickles by
the officers and privates of his corps, has just
been completed by Woods Brotjiors, ol New
Yoi k city. The cost of the vehicle is-.‘Anted at
$'2.000, though the amount of the subscriptions
was $5,000.
I
There is. says the Springfield Republican, a
well anthemieau-d siory, that when the rebel
rams were about ready to leave Liverpool a
few months ago, and our affairs with England
were most threatening, Presided Lincoln
wrote a personal, private loiter io Queen Vie- !
toria, on the subject ; and from its reception
by ber dates the new and more just policy of
tic English government toward us.
David H. Carr, Esq., U. S. Marshal for the
District of Connecticut, died suddenly at his
residence in N ew Haven, Tuesday evening. '
Gold was quoted in Richmond Nov. 21st
at $16. 75; that is, rebel paper is worth six
:enls on the dollar. It wou't bo worth a ‘‘pic’’
when they hear from Bragg.
A Dispatch from Cincinnatti, dated Dee. 1st !
gives the following items :—Major General
Foster, arrived at Cumberland Gap, yesterday,
en-route to Knoxville. There is nothing later
here this morning from Gen. Burnside.
By the Scotia, off Cape Race Monday, we
have advices one week later from Europe. The
news is not specially iaiportant. The English
reply to the proposition of Louis Napoleon for
a Congress had been announced. It does not
comply unqualifiedly, but rather calls for fur
ther information. The English Press gener
ally opposed the proposition—some of them
very strongly—and the correspondent of the
London Times, writing from Paris, asserts that
the project was losing ground every day. A
bill had been submitted to the French Council
to supply Maximillian with ninety one millions
of francs, as the bone and sinew of the new em
pire in Mexico. The tone of the Paris Press
on Polish matters was more reserved, under in
structions. The Moniteur was only publishing
the Russian version. Sweden wus preparing
for war.
About 800 men enlisted in New York city
last week, which is considered quite encoura
ging for the first week.
Stafford has filled her quota of 43 men, by
procuring that nember of negroes from a New
York substitute broker at $30 a bead. The
negroes will take the State and Federal boun
ties—taking $1290 for the job.
* A letter from the Fifth regiment reports it
at Tullahoma, Tenn., on Nov 9th. The writer
speaks in warm terms of the receptions given
the regiment by the people of Ohio, as it pass
ed through that State.
A political candidate out West came npen
“ a poor white man’ who bad a vote to give, if
he did have to do his own milking. The can
didate, Jones, asked him if be should hold the
cow, which seemed to be no easy, and the old
man consented very readilr, he took her by the
horns and held her fast till the operation was
done. “ Have tou seen Robinson (his rival)
around here lately?” he asked. "O yes 5—
ha’s behind the barn holding the calf'."
It is a remarkable fact, that, although com
mon sheep delight in verdant fields’ religious
flocks are not ankious for green pastors.
Usfoktosates.—There is a couple in Cin
cinnati who have been engaged to be married
for the past five years, bat no time has occurred
within that period when they were both out of
jail at the same time.
General Bragg recently issued an order ad
vising his men to prefer an honorable death on
the battle field rather than languish in North
ern dungeons. About ten thousand of them,
it seems, chose to languish,
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IO ,• v-v, - J.iy J-IS /{•
A decided victory at Chattanooga bar re
warded the courage and endurance of the Army
of the Cumberland. On Wednesday of last
week, the rebels were beaten in all quarters
of the field, which extended ever an area of
many miles, and were driven in confusion
toward Dalton. They burned bridges to cover
their retreat, and pnt the torch to their store
houses to save from capture the supplies col
lected by the confederate press gangs. Sixty
cannon, six thousand prisoners, and a large
quantity of small arms, munitions, flags and
other military stores, are the trophies of the
victory. During the many battles of the war
the soldiers of the Union never fought with
more gallantry, or achieved more brilliant
and substantial results. General Hooker’s
corps won especial distinction. Having been
ordered to take the rifle pits on the slope of
Missionary Ridge at all hazards, they swept
like a whirl-wind up the precipice beyond,
capturing thirty cannon and several thousand
prisoners. The position was so strong that
the rebel generals considered it' impregnable.
Neither Generals Grant nor Thomas entertain
ed the idea that the height could be carried
by direct attack, and no orders to that effect
were given. Aside from its steepness it was
enfiladed on Both- sides by cannon, and expos
ed to a sweeping fire of musketry. But the
men, wild from their success in the capture of
the rifle-pits, hurried on, carrying everything
before them. Notwithstanding the impregna
ble character of the rebel works, the casual
ties in the assaulting column were very small.
The enemy seems to have been paralyzed by
the audacity of the movement.
General Sherman reached CUickamauga Sta
tion at four o’clock Thursday morning, cap
turing 500 prisoners, four cannon and several
pontoons.
A dispatch from Chattanooga on the 27th
ult., says : “ What is now left of Bragg's
boasted army is but a panic stricken mob, run
ning like a herd of frightened buffaloes, and
apparently perfectly incapable of making any
further resistance. Wherever we reach por
tions of the rebel army in arms, they instantly
throw them-down and scatter like frightened
sheep, leaving all their stragglers near by,
their large number of discontented' who desire
to be taken in, and their wounded, in our
hands. They also, in the same manner, aban
don their artillery, ammunition and transpor
tation wagons, caissons, knapsacks, and every
thing that can possibly impede tbeir flight.
Before our troops stopped for Test for the
night, tbeir progress was everywhere lighted
by the large fires from tbe enemy’s stores, to
all descriptions of which they applied tbe
torch to prevent them from falling into our
bauds.”
From Chattanooga wo have news to Monday.
There has been no further fighting. Bragg’s
army- remains in the vicinity of Tunnel Hill,
while oar linos extend to Ringgold, so that the
urmies are only nine miles apart. The dis
patch significantly adds that the campaign is
probably ended, and sums up the results thus :
The capture of six thousand aud two prisoners,
forty eight pieces of artillery, and seven thou
sand of arms. The sains dispatch says that
Longstreet has undoubtedly been compelled to
raise tho siege of Knoxville, and tlut ho can
not now rejoin Bragg save by a miracle of
ft^lring.
The latest information from Gen. Burnside
received at Washington is up to Wednesday
niitiit He teas then amply supplied, and
well able to hold the enemy in check until re
inforcements could reach him from Grant.—
Lonustreet, at that time, was still before Kuo»r
ville, probably not having received from Bragg
the orders for n calling- him, In the interval
Grunt has cut tha road by which the junction
must have been effected, and finding this to be
the case, it is believed that Longstreet will
m.-.ke a desperate effort to take Knoxville, in
order to put himself in possession of sufficient
supplies for It's arm?, while he moves off by a
circui.ous route. A dispatch to the Philadel
phia Bulletin, from Cincinnati, giws-80.nu de
tail* of tile oaru'.ug of K-iOXf.lle. The lower
part of too ciiv has been dest.uvedi including
toe East Tennessee aud. Georgia fUiiiroadide'
p .1. and several dwelling houses, lu is-sup’
p )sed that these bouses were occupied by rebel
sharpshooters, and wore destroyed by our
shells.
A dispatch from Cincinnati, Nov. 20th, says:
The latest news from Knoxville is to Wednes
day. The north part of the town has been
burned, including the depot. Burnside is cheer
ful and confident."
But the dispatch frem Chattanooga says that
Longstreet was recalled by Bragg on Thurs
day. So that Bnrnside is relieved.
Cedar river, Iowa, is said to be literally
swarming with wild geese. Cornfields are de
vastated, and people living in the ” bottoms’’
declare that it is impossible to sleep, so annoy
ing is their wild and discordant music.
The percentage of sick through the army is
said to be lower at the present time than it has
been for the last two years.
Gov. Seymour now assents to, and will for
ward the enlistment of negro soldiers in the
State of New York. They are to receive the
same bounties from tbs State as white volun
teers.
C. W. Hall, a horse contractor for the gov
ernment, has been found guilty and sentenced
to six month's imprisonmqpt, and also fined
810,000, for defrauding the government in pur
chasing horses,
A foil regiment of negro soldier* try route
from Washington to join Banks, was encamp
ed, Thanksgiving day, iu front of the City Hall,
New York.
The rebels- as well as the rebel government,
some time back sent their cotton from the sea
board to Atlanta for safety, about two million
bales altogether. It will be difficult for this
cotton, or any considerable portion of it, to be
removed before Gen. Grant pats his hand on
it.
Private letters from the Fifteenth regiment
state that several sergeants from that and oth
er regiments in that neighborhood, have been
detached from camp duty as recruiting officers
to raise a regiment of loyal Virginians. If
their effort* are successful, these sergeants
will receive commissions iq the regiment thus
raised.
The cost to the city of New York, of snsr
tuning tha city militia daring and subsequent
to the mob rale, amount* te $277,240.
Simultaneously with the stirring events hi I
Tennessee, the army of the Potomac on
Thursday crossed the Rapidan to attach the
enemy. Eiated by the victory of the every
where-vietorious Grant at Chattanooga, our
troops were eager for a b: ttle. On Friday
they advanced from the fords at Which they
crossed the Rapidan, and formed line of battle.
At l o’clock, p. m.t a contest began on the
road leading toward Orange Court House, but
the enemy did not reply with artillery. At 4
o clock, p. in., llill s corps approached out cen
ter, and at 41 heavy musketry |was heard, pro
ving that our Third corps was engaged. Up
to 6 o clock our casualties in the center were
few. The battle ground was i& a wood, and it
was difficult to ascertain- positions. On Thurs
day afternoon Gen. Gregg’s eavalry drove the
rebel cavalry back upon the supports, and then
himself retired—hitl loss is Buid to be 250,
which is very large. But then our 5th corps
came up aud forced the enemy back. In the
mean lime,-Gen. French, with tHe 3d corps,
bad a conflict with Ewell (on our right). He
held- bib position, though losing severely, and
report* the capture of 900 rebels. On Friday
morning, H was found that the rebels bad fullen
back two miles from onr center towards Orange
Coart Hoase. This day skirmishing opened
briskly, with considerable artillery fighting
along our whole liue up to 1 p. m., when it be
came very severe on both sides, and so con
tinued until dark. It seems certain that
Meade deceived Leo as to the point of cross
ing and that Lee abandoned all his strong
earthworks only to let OHr men take them. On
Saturday operations began at daybreak,-Gen.
Meade advancing to the front. Thus far our
losses are uol heavy, and the rebels seem to bo
unable or unwilling to make a determined
stand.
The 95 surgeons recently released from the
Libby Prison, captured at various times and
in different departments of the army, arrived
at Washington on Thursday last. They em
barked at Richmond, hut were ordered below
decks until after they has passed the Rebel
works at Fort Darling, 'j hey had no opportu
nity of learning the number of troops in Ibat
city. Clothing and provisions which have
reuched there have been distributed, affording
great relief and cheering the suffering prison
ere. The supplies, however, are not equal to
the demund. One of the surgeons says their
own condition was much alleviated by the per
mission to purchase necessaries outside of
their prisons. They generally appear to be in
good physical condition, though t heir ward
robes need replenishing. While on their way
hither they prepared a statement of the con
dition ot the prisoners in the several places of
confinement, and of the description of tba fare
and other points of interest on this subject,
for presentation to the War Department. One
of our officers recently asked. Commisioner
Ould whether be would agree to a partial ex
change ef prisoners, and whether if we sent
him say, 5,000 Rebels now in our hands, be
would release an equal number of our own.—
He gave a negative response.
In a-circular reocntlv issued by the Provost
Marshal General it is ordered " That the boards
of enrollment in each district shall Lure the
printed lists of the names and residences of all
persons enrolled in each sub-d islrict, prepared,
ind expos*.I to-puhlic v.icw in at least five ptu
ces, and in us many more us tire board may
deem necessary.” These lists are printed in
alphabetical order, and public notice is to be
given of thu same in the newspapers. Thu
order further provides that any person so en
rolled has the privilege of appearing before the
board of enrollment up to December 20th, and
show to thu members thereof that lie is not,
and will not be, at the time filed for the next
draft, liable to military duty on acount of either
* alienage, noil-residence, unsuitubleness of age,
or manifest permanent disability.” After Dec.
20th no cases will be heard by the several
board*.
Thi Memphis Bulletin, in noticing arrivals
iliere, says : •• It is believed that in a few days
the restrictions now preventing cotton coming
in from the country will be removed. The
stock here is rapidly increasing. About 1.000
bales reached here yesterday by boat*. The
amount of business done is small and the qual
ity of the cotton unchanged. Two hundred
and eighty-seven hogsheads of sugar, and 120
barrels of molasses have also arrived."
Among the prisoners captured at Chattonoo
!>a were a large number of Pemberton's men
paroled at Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has tele
graphed to Washington to ascertain what dis
position he shall make of these faithless scoun
drels. The army says—shoot them.
Escape or John Morgan.—The notorious
John Morgan, with six ot his Captains, has
escaped from the Ohio State Prison. There
is something said about digging under the walls
and getting into a sewer, but somebody's palm
must have been pretty well greased before such
an operation could be practicable.
While Sergeant Dickinson,of tjte Conn. 11th.
was riding from New London to New Haven
last Saturday, on the express train he recog
rc'zed two deserters. One of litem, named
Edswor.il. leaped from the train, which was
:otng at full speed. and escaped with some
j.-u’ses ; tue other named Slillson, the Sergeant
MUgnt by tiie coattails just as he was about to
follow suit, and handed him over to the Pro i
vost Marshal,
The funeral of Cant. Edward L. Porter, of
tiie lain Conti, regiment killed at Winchester,
Virgiuis, June 15th. look place at New Lon
don, on 'Tuesday the 25th of November.
It is said that the Treasury estimates for
year are but Itttle oyer 97 0p.00p.0QP—vis.:
War DepartmentA35,000,000; Navy,9140,000,.
000; Civil List, 126,000,020; Interior. De
partment, 910,000,000- •
There is not a word of troth in the copper
head story that Governor Bradford, is going
to refuse certificates of election to th,e. repre
sentatives from Maryland, under pretence that
General Scbenck’s order vitiated the election.
“ Good morni ug, Mr. J„ I called around to
nee if you conld pay me that little demand-”
“ How much do I owe yon, doctor t” ” There
is five visits, five dollars, and medicine one
dollar.” *• Well, here.’q the dollar for the med
icine, and I’ll return the visits soon.”
Sometimes a girl saya no to an offer, when
it is as plain as the nose on hey focq that she
means res. The beet way to jhdge whether
she’ll earnest or not, is to look straight in
to kef eyes, and never mind her note.
» a ' *
I
There ita story, in print* circle*, Oat, «
few months ago, whew the rebel nun were *>
boot ready to leave Liverpool, and oar tain
with England were moeqfearful and threatening
President Lincoln wrote a peraooal. private let
ter to Qtfeeo Victoria, on the sooiect:
from its reception bj her dates the new and
^i°«POACy of lh# En*li»* Owroment
towura 08. A singular and pleaaant bit of
politiW* bistory, if thne—and if not true, it i*
very life; at least.
Attention, Company I—Volunteers, who ex
pt-ct to retain their health noimpaired durinr
the campaign, most see to it themselves do
not trust to the Army Surgeons, supply yimr
selvea with Holloway’s Pills and Ointment
Every English Soldier’s Knapsack
them. Only 23 cents per box or pot J1J.
Advbbtisixo
Has enlarged many a small bosiosss ;
Hus revived many a dull business ;
Hus rescued many a lost busiaes;
Has preserved many a laige businessj
Has created many u new business
And ensures succesa in any busiosss.
Lord Hudson, a distinguished nobleman in
the court ot' Elizabeth, once said, “ To hsv*
the courage to notice an affront is to bo npoo
a level with an adversary : to have tho cbantr
to forgive it, is to be above him." **
What is fame? The advantage of boior
known by people of whom you voumelf
nothing, and for whom you care as iittla.
MARRIED.
In West Goshen, at the M. E. Personae#, br
Rer. J. D. Bouton, Mr. Henry M. Hill to Mies.
Sarah M. Gibb., both af Goshen.
In Ilarwlnton, Oet. 80th, by Hen. Sheldon
Osborne, Justine of the Petes. Jams* K Tay
lor of Woodbury and Mary A. Wheaton it
Harwinton.
DIED.
_it*
aged 80 years. ’ " r
III New Hartford, Nut. 18ih, Mary I, ,
daughter of IK and H'. M. White, aged 2 yra.
In Waeliingtan; Not. -jOtli, Annie Black,
wi,e of ibontaS’ Bluett, aged :J7 years.
In t ic uospitsl near Alexandria, Va , en the
lSili U'i.. -J Lieutenant iliram 1). Gaylord ef
• Ue 19th Regiment C. V.
fne remains of Lieutenant Gaylord were
brought no ne to Norfolk, ami tht funeral aer
v.ces held at the Congregational Chureh on
Wednes.l iy of last week. This painful event
has oro gut g'-eat sorrow loa tenderly attack-*
e.l ! i -»ily. and grief to the Regiment of which
i ne deceased was a member, and to tha comtnu
ui.y in which he bad lived. To that family
may Givi afford the consolations which He
aliMso can give. To all whs have known the
deceased, his dovoted fidelity to duty, his
a in. able and cxcolient ebristian ebaraaler,
mere remains the iiiSbcnce of hie example by/
which we may be made batter.
The inomliem of the “Litchfield County
Historical and Antiquarian Sotistv” are
hereby notified ihut 11 special meeting of said
Society will be held in the Court Room, on
Thursday evening of the present week, at
o'clock. A general attendance is particularly,
desired. C. F. Sedgwick, Vico Pres't.
Litchfield, Dec. 1, 1863.
€1 F.NERAo HEADQUARTERS, STATE OF
f CONNECTICUT—Adjutant Osnssaz’s
Ornca. Hartford. Nor. 23, U63-Oritn
Col. William Fitch,
Paymaster Get oral. New Haven,—
Sir—To guard against fraud in tbe psymeat'
of the Three Hundred Dollars ($800) Bounty,
which by the laws of the stale you are author
ized to pay lo volunteers, and the Ten Dollars
,.$10) which you are authorized lo pay to auy
parly who may procure them, you are hereby
directrd to cattso an Asti. Paymaster to be
present at the office if the Board of Enroll
ment in, the several Congressional Districts,
with proper blank orders, and make it his du
ly lo certify to the genuineness of the ordere,
and to afford all mosssary facilities to meet
the claims of agents mid volunteers.
Ueforo orders arc declared to be genuine,
you will require the Provost Marshal to de
tsrtnine who are entitled to them, and te give
aceititicate that the volunteer shall bava'
been duly mustered <ntn the service of the
United Slates, and credited on tbe quota as
signed to tbisStnte under the call of tbePrea—
idem, issued Oct. 17, 1863.
By order of tiro Commander-in Chief,
1 HORACE J. MOUSE,
Adjutant General.
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