Litchfield enquirer., 1861-06-20

DFlRduIeT UeHer0I NatnHUae1 Lyon, now Tn command of the Military Department of the West, and whose remarkable energy exctes so much admiration, was born in Eastford, Wind ham county Conn. in 1S20 entered West Point Military Academy in 1888; graduated thence in 1842, and served i'm Florida in the last year of the Seminole war. He was with Gen. Scott in Mexico, as first lieutenant, and was promoted to the rank of captain at the battle of Contreros May 17th, 1861, for the signal service rendered by the capture of Camp Jackson, he was promot- ed to the rank of brigader general.
 "MAKE IT VERY WEAK, IF YoU PLEASE, MARM." We find the following in the Courant:
 THOMAS II. SEYMouR.-Some weeks ago a strong friend of Mir. Seymour in this State, a man who has labored zealously, and spent a good deal of money for his political advance ment, wrote asking that he would try to get him a position in Colts Regiment. Some three weeks afterwards reply came from Mir. Seymour making, and closing with the following signif- cant language: sI have such an abhorrence of the war movements in it's present aspect, I feel more inclined to denounce it, than to favor the call to arms"
 Richmond correspondent of the New Orleans Delta thinks the confederates have 0.000 troops in Virginia, 40.OO0 of whom could be concentra- ted within "A hours on one point, but not with out leaving toe. seant force on the sea board, and herein he says is the difficulty. He thinks that the plans of the confederate leaders have changed within six weeks. The letter reads as if the rebels thought themselves out numbered and out-danked. He says all eyes are turned on Manassas Junction, and adds
 "With his ships on one side and his numbers | on the other, the enemy aims to outfank us both and make it hazardous to attempt combined movement upon it's centre. I see nothing for it but to swell our numbers as rapidly as possible | and hold him in check on the right, that is, to- ward the sea, while we turn his flank on the left | and overthrow him in the center'
 Says the Tribune's special, Gen Schenck has been ordered across the Potomac with his brigade | of four regiments. An attack from Beauregard is apprehended.
 Henry A. Wise is brigadier general, and in command of the department of Western Virginia Gen. MeClellan is ahead of him there. A letter from Manassas Junction, June Sd, to the Richmond Whig, says that general orders announce that Beauregard had taken command there. The writer bitterly complains of the work in the trenches and asks that negroes may be sent to do it.
 "THE TINE TO FIGHT HAS CoNE."--The folio wing Revolutionary incident, which writer in the Philadelphia Press has recalled, is of pc culiar interest at the present time:
 1 One of the most thrilling "reminiscences in the annals of the American Revolution, is related oi Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, whose ashes repose iu the burying ground of sThe Old Trappe Church, in Montgomery County, in this State. When the war broke out, Muhlenberg was the rector of a Protestant Episcopal Church in Dunmore county yirginia. On g Sunday morning he administered the communion of the Lords Supper to his charge stating that in the afternoon of that day he would preach sermon on ''The duties men owe to their country.", At the appointed time the building was crowded with anxious listeners The discouse, if we remember correctly was founded upon the text from Solomon-"There is a time for every purpose and for every work. "- The sermon burned with patriotic lire; every sentence and intonation told the speakers deep earnestness in what he was saying Pausing 3 moment at the close of his discourse, he repeated the words of his text and then, in tones of thun- der, exclaimed :-a The time to prvach IS past i THE TINE TO FIGHT HAS COME r and, suiting the action to the word, he threw from his shoulders his Episcopal robes and stood before his congre- gation arrayed in military uniform Drumming for recruits was commenced on the spot and 1t is said that almost every male of suitable age ln the congregation enlisted forthwith.
 The schooner Caster, from Rio Janeiro, arriv- ca at Delaware breakwater, Thursday, bound to New York, having been ordered away from New Orleans by the frigate St. Louis.