Litchfield enquirer., 1862-11-27
We have Richmond papers to the 18th inst.

 They are still erumhling overthe delay of foreign recognition. The approach of Burnsde's ad vance to Fredericksburg is chronicled at length, and victory for the Rebels, is, of course, made out. There was ''brisk engagement" and the enemy were driven back with loss of several k'lied' &c. But at the same time, the fright ened Rebels burnt all the cotton in Fredericks burg, and tumbled all the tobacco into the river. Great stores are told of what Amazonian deeds the woHen of Fredericksburg performed Gen. Gustavus W. Smith is Acting Secretary of War Gen. Randolph having resigned.
 The Fail River steamer Bay State, while off Huntingdon, L. l., Monday morning was ran into by schooner, which came near sinking her. The schooner struck her just forward of the starboard boiler, tearing out her side and making a hole in her boiler just above the fires. Nobody was hurt.
 IN the United States Supreme Court, at Washington the black silk robes abolished, the new members being averse to them, and at the next session the judges will sit in simple broad cloth.
 l Gov. CURTIN of Pennsylvania offers $500 reward for the capture of dsserter named Hen 1 rysRswland of the laath Regiment, who shot his Lisutsnans, Josiah Baugbman, while the Lieu tenant was sndeavoring to arrest him for de sertion.
 I.HE new statue of Franklin, made by Powers in Rome. has just arrived at Washington, and is opened in the House of Representatives. It cost s2o, ,Oo0 and is eight and hal. feet high, and IS one of the finest works of art ever made.
 All. accounts agree that the President has been fully aroused to the necessity for the most vigorous prosecution of the War. Many prom nent members of Congress. who have visited him within week, testify to his earnestness and deterInnation to iufuse new energy into our army and navy.
 NEWS FRo1 PoRT RoYA1.-By the Ne,o Soutlt of Nov. l5 We learn that Gen. Saxton, military governor of South Carolina,~ has appointed Thursday, Nov. z1th, as day of Thanksgiving. So that our soldiers in that department will have their thaEkSg giving at the same time we do in Connecticut, though far from their families and homes.
 1 cotemporary describes neighboring editor as adding p;qaaEcy and flavor to hls hrieier 1 paragraphs. by hintng at rose bud beauty and cr;une Of ttle gaiier boots and well turned ailkies just brushing with his quill the limits of i thus far shalt thou go and no fsrlh-r--th hro~ing ;t th. H., I,, ,-;+l. | other beckoning on the Satyrs.
 The Norwich Bulletin has raised it's price for single copies, and will soon make an advance in pFics to regular subscribers.
 A Massachusetts Captain makes short and conclusivs reply to all cavillers against the ad rinis.Tation, thus The most unconstitutiona thing in the land is this rebellion, aud every tii;;as is constitutional that will pat it down." As New Orleans, Gen. Butler has put int, the field four negro regiments.
 VoLusTEERs ATTENTION For the ter2nse s7Acts of the system incdena! to the change o I;e.,t, ounds. H.rdptit.us, ait, eXposUTas wilicf iaTs-F Volunteer is liable to. there arf TO ra!le liies 80 aa:s. convenient and reliable ;ts :fDI le=ays Pills aud Ointment. 25 cts. per bo1.
 4 Se..era! order was i.sueI ou Saturday :c discharge from arrest all psrsons now in military caAtnt7 who tavs been arrested for discuura pia. ;u,uitser en!!stments; opposing tEo draft 0: for olhcrwse giving ai1 aid comfort to ths enemy il States where tlls draft has been made or sae quota of volunteers and militia hts beer furnished. The same order says that persons who. by authority of the Military Commando CT Governors ia Rebel States, have been ares ted and sent from such States for disloyalty C hostility to the Government of the United States, and are now in military custody, ma. i also be discharged upon given their parole to dt no act ot hostility against the Government o the United States, nor render aid to it's eneLnie Such persons may be sent out of the loya States on condition of not returning again du ring the war. The order does not discharge an, person who has been in sFms against the Gov erDnsnt. or by force and srms has resisted or at tempted to rssis: the draft, ror relieve any per son from liability to trial and punishment b. civil tribunals or by court-martials, or mlitar, commissions, who may be amenable to such tri bunal. for offences committed.
 The New York Tribune re-affirms it's state ment of a democratic negotiation opened wtf the rebels, and adds that leading democrstii envoy has been to Richmond aud is about to g. sgaiu, and it expects to be able soon to speal more fully
 In a contention with Union Kentuckians oI Friday the President said he would rather die tIan take back ono word of the emancipation proclamation. He urged the importance of tht gradual emancipation scheme in Kentucky, and the kcntuckians said they soon intended te start in the state two onancip cipa,ion journals.
 IMPORTATION has been received at St Louis that the rebels are iortiiying the Mississippi be- low Vicksburg. Port Hudson, a huId red and fifty miles above New Orleans, will prove a se. rious obstacle to Rear Admiral Farragut's fleet Ten or twelve guns have already been mounted and in two weeks the place viii be as strongly fortified as Vicksburg. The rebels have estab- lishe,i line of steamers between Port Hudson and Lake Providence, d distance oI over three | hundred miles.
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