Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-12
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LATEST BY MAIL.

 the colors are restored to the 79th N. Y. Reg. Highlanders.
 A review of all the troops under Gen. McClel. len will soon be held in Washington. Then we shall know something about the actual force of our army on the Potomac.
 A battle between Gen.'s Rosecranz and Lee is expected beyond doubt to-day in Western Vir- ginia.
 The report of the battle near Springfield, Mo. is unfounded.
 The privatcer Sumter'' has been heard of in the harbor of Trinidad, and had captured eleven American vessels.
 The 9th and 7th regiments have been filled by the consolidation of partly formed companies, and will leave Monday, for destination now unknown.
 The 4th regiment, in Maryland, has resolved itself into Temperance society, and the officers and men, headed by Lieut.. Col. White, have signed the pledge This is much better than good.
 A reliable correspondent of the Baltimore American reports that whole Mississippi rogi- ment stationed at Leesburg, Fa., broke up on Saturday and started home
 A Richmond paper, apparently on good au- thority, sums up the confederate force before Washington to ll2,0OO men. The Southern pa pers complain of the ineticiency of the coast protection of the South, and say that the govern ment is spending all its efforts on Virginia.
 THE WEEK has passed without any movements of an important character in the situation of the hostile armies. The national scouts are adyan- cing toward the rebels, and the pickets have been removed mile nearer the enemy. On the other hand the rebel flag faunts within plain expected. There is rumor of Q rctrogade movement of Gen. Beauregartl's forces, but this is not confirmed. It is well understood how ever that he must attack Washington or suffer a disruption of his army by the withdrawal of the troops to the invaded states of the confelcracy There seems 10 be no authentic information o1 the death of Jeff. Davis. He is probably still this side of the guIf.
 HoS. DAS'L $. DICKINSON deliver ed anothc, of his patriotic addresses 10 the people of New York, at Ithaca, on Saturday last. Fully 10. .GOl people were present and the address was unu further engagements are in this. his native state at Bridgeport on Saturday next, the 14th, al Hartford the 17th, and New Haven the 10th. TIE REBEL Notifications on Munson's Hill art now completed. Monday morning masked bat tcrics in that vicinity were opened on the encamp ments of our pickcts, on Bailey's Cross Roads but without any effect. Our shsrpshooters re sponded with fatal results to two of the rebel al vanced pickets.
 A DESPATCH from Cairo reports that the rebe forces at Columbus, Ky, have been increased t, tcrv, and three companies of cavalry. Polk has also there a g.,nhoat and three steamers. Jeff Ihorapsons force remains cppotite. FovR vessels were Monday seized at prov dence, R. l., under the confiscation act. TIE MAINE State election was held Monday with the following results, so far as heard from Washburn: Republican, 7l9l votes Jamcscn War Democrat, 3,i9l; Dana, Peace Democrat 1881.
 THE WAR Department has accepted plans tol the erection of two new forts at Baltimore. FURTHER NEWS FROM IArrERAs INlEr.-Com mander Roan has written letter to the Secrea " of tie Navy, dated ' United States steamer Pawnee, Hatteras Inlet, September 5,' of wLicl the following Is an extract:
 Ina communication addressed to the com mant:er-in-chicf at Hampton Roads, l informed him that had forwarded eleven of the fugit;ves in the Peabody, to be landed at Hampton Roads supplying them with provisiods to last thelr there. Another of the fugitivcs of this partv have retained to act as pilot in these waters should his services be required. From thc best information l can obtain, ten regiments have been recalled from Virginia to defend the state The secessionists residing near the water are de serlng their residences and seeking shelter ir the interior. The poorer classes remain waiting for protection to avow their Union sentiments
 The following despatch from Louisville Ky. was received at Washington, Saturday night: LOUISVILLE, Sept. sth, 1861. Richmond and Memphis papers of the 5th Charlcstonan New Orleans of the 4th, ant Nashville of the 9th have been received here X panic produced by the capture of the Hattera: forts continues to rage all along the Gulf Coast the papers clamorously demand the strength enng of the sea-coast defences of the rebel Gov , ernment. Their terror is greatly increased by constant reports of further aggressive movements of the Union army. Large numbers of families l are flying from Wilmington and all women and children have been removed from Newbern A regiment of infantry and batteries hurried to ths defense of the latter point.
 Evidently from the tone of the Richmond pa pers, the threatening of the Gulf coast will pro duce change of strategy on the part of the re bel government, and that offensive steps are moi likely to be taken by the by the army of the Pc tomac for some time.
 The lower house of the North Carolina legis lature refuses, by large majority, to pass an act reconvening the Convention that passed the SC. cession ordinace. The refusal produced q storm of fdenunciation by the ultra secession papers which declare that it will produce internecine strife in the old North State. Sickness still fearfully prevails in the rebel ar my in Virginia. At Lynchburg, Richmond Fredericksburg and Leesburg over 5000 men are in the hospitals Tie small pox is raging vio entiy. The medical aut:lo:ttes puo.isn urgent