Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-28

Many of the officers went into houses ot thelr friends, some into mansions, even, where they had dined and slept in other days Mir. Nat. Rewards house was one of the finest we enter ed another was that of Edward Rhett where Barnwell Rhett himself had often resided.- There seemed d retributive jnstice in the fate that rested upon the dwelling of the arch rebel; the slave property on whose account he had en- deavored to overturn his government, was not only become worthless, but absolutely an active and destroying force directed against his own home; and that too, without any instigation CT even appreciation from Federal troops We look ed through the rooms, so ruthlessly devastated, and so sadly changed, out on the luxurllnt gar dens blooming with tropical p!ants and redolent with unfamiliar fragrance, saw the November sun shining on a landscape as warm and genial as our Northern fields in June, and thought how miscrably and speedy has come the punishment Of those who had planned and perpetrated the great rebellion.
 ngy~ The majority of Wright, Dem., for Canal Commissioner, in New York, is about 16O00. The rest of the State officers elect Republi- | cans, and have an average majority of about 76.oGo; or not quite one-hdlf of what was so con- tdently predicted.-N. 1T. Register.
 The plurality for Wright is below il ,o0O. His majority is 50,000 the other way. The rest of l the State oficers' are elected by above 90,00G majority, and are, or were, three of them Repub licans and three " Democrats Wright slipped in owing 10 lamentable division of the Union forces. So much for the Registers or any other ':Seceshs"' veracity, when speaking of elections. THE TRUE STORY OF TIE PIKEToE BATTLE Tho Louisville Journal of the 18th inst. says: 1 ''Farious rumors have been published ill the Cineinnatti papers, discrcditing the first ;dvc,s concerning Gen. Nelsons attack upon tic rebels in Pike County. The only information We have which approaches authenticity, is derived from the Mount Sterlin; Wlig, which says that Thou- as Turner of that town, who is one of Gen. Nel- sons aids, had returned there from hcaaquar- | ters and confirms previous reports, except as to the rebel losses. At Prest burg our army was divided into two columns, under Col. Sill took the route by the way of John $ Creek, with a vie" to pass to the rear and cut off the enemy. 1 The other column, under Gen. Nelson, went the direct route, and were met by the enem: at Ivy Creek, and had sharp enga cement for cno.llour and twenty minutes. and routcd the enemy with the loss of six killed and twcntyfour wounded. l The enemy reported to Union friends that IL cir killed wounded and missing was between two and three hundred, Of -wLom some forty were killed and sixty odd woundeGi,- and the balance missing. Col. Siils command lad on it's march
 
 ton, upon which they came the rear of the enemy were ieaying-Col. Appcrson with Sill this command lost none killed and one wountlel George West of this county. Gen Nelson acted with great courage, and exposed Himself in the thickest of the fight. Tho enemy have left the state "
 The Emperor and Empress Of Franco were prc- sent few days ago at the trial of irc-proof dress invented by NJ Buyelt. The dress is uo- scribed 10 be both waterproof and fire proof, and is ccpiously stuffed with spenges sewn to- gether. lie wears a helmet like that of diver. with an apparatus for supplying fresh air, and glasses to see through. At 8 signal from the Emperor, he set fire to the temporary cottage, and when tlao flames had well got ahead ho went into the midst of them several times with perfect impunity. The Empress, greatly excited by 1 the scene, cried cut, repeatedly, Enough oh, it's quite enough P The experiment was con- sidered 10 Dc entirely successful and the Enl- peror warmly compl!mentcd NJ. Buvert upon his inyei t on.
 ! Do not shrink from standing by your princi pies. Re.ncule er under such cir.uE:astanvcs, that it is in doing right as it is in taking l.. Eve y boy here knows that f you go into a bath by the inlh you will silver all the way whereas, if dive in, and take 1t all at once, a glowing reac- ton will Immediately be produced. and you will come up warm enough. And so in respect to doing right in company. Take your stand firm | ly and at once, and holi on ! little while and that will be the end of it. Eu # yot. taD, per with evil. and half hido and half reveal volii hcrcorof it. there will Do $ hard struggle spread over g long period, and you will be swampcd 1T tic end.--Ceechcr.
 The House Investigating Committee. Of wLicl lCol. Van WycS is Chairman, is in session el 7 Harrisburg. Its business there and at Phila . cn1r ,>rrl,.I,1, q, time before the meeting of Congress There will be two or three weeks of work at Washing. ton to do afterward, so that the Committee will not be prepared 10 report until after the Christ mas holidays. IL has been in session tifty-six days already, and has saved the country good deal of money. It was upon its recommends ton, fortified by abundant testimony, that th . recent regulations of Government touching the purchase of arms, adopted. By its cnor- getic action in causing the arrest of tic guilty party, S7,00O which ship buyer had over chaged Government being over 50 per cent of the whole amount of his purchase, were dis gorged, and the culprit narrowly escaped a crinl- inal prosecution. Of it's labors in New Yorl; and St. Louis the public already know some thing.
 X deserter from the the rebel army seoms to be an intelligent man who belonged to one of the Virginia regiments He reports the rebels were suffering very much from want of clothing though they had enough to eat. The news of the federal victory in South Carolina had caused much uneasness among the troops from the cot ton states, they being anxious to return. The rebel general refused to permit their departure as he expected an attack almost daily from the federal army. The enemy he says, seem to be fliy posted with regard to the plan of the review, as our own people, He fully confirms the ru- nor of a contemplated dash OF our outside line of pickets during the progress of the review but adcs that, for some unknown reason, the scheme was suddenly abandoned. They rrotl- ably discovered that our advanced cutposts were doubled on the day of tie review.
 THE STATE OF kANAW!!A.-The ordinance for dividing the old commonwealth of Virginia, and erecting a new State out of the counties west of the Alleghany Mountains has been adopted by the voters by a majority of nearly, if not quite one hundred to one ;and new convention the member IS of which have just been chosen will assemble at Wheeling on the 26th nst to ratify the action of the people. The new State will be called kanawha and will contain pop ulation of two hundred and eighty two thousand including about eight thousand slaves.
 TEe Captain Wilkes who took Mason and sli- dell from the deck of the British steamer IIeal is tall bony man, very quiet but very datermin- ed.-Men who have seen Lord Nelson, the pride of the British tars, say that Wilkes is strikinely like Nelson in appearance. He has done the pluckiest thing of the campaign thus far-an act requiring steady courage much beyond what is needed on the battlefield.
 An 1rishman had been sick long time, and while in that state would occasionally cease breathing, and life apparently extinct for some time, when he would come too again. On one