Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-09
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u on has created much excitement at the Reef capital. It is intemperately denounced as cn- trary to the usages of civilized warfare andf outrage on private property. So far as we au judge by extracts from Richmond papers d the first days debate on the subject in Congts the Rebels contemplate the raising of
 old deaths head and cfoss-bones flag of Cal Kidd, and the indiscriminats slaughter of md women and children as measure of retaliatioi They are just as mad as when they first heard General Pope's subsist ence orders; then thet would hang every one of Pope's officers, sure but after catching 40 or 50 of them, and having time to think it over, they paroled or exchanged them without the. hanging. In Congrses, sss- olutlon has been referred to a committee, that President Lincoln's act should be held mn to the execration of mankind, and counteracted by such severe retaliatory measures as in the iudr. ment of the President may be best calculated to secure it's withdrawal or arrest it's executiou.' In the debate on this, Mr. Clark of Missouri was in favor of declaring every citizen of the Southern Confederacy soldier authorized to put to death every man caught on their soil in arms against the Government. Mir. Seumes of Louisiana was more cautiohs-he was the author of the resolution-retaliation was the business of the Executive. Mir. Henry of Tennessee fa- vored black flag and exterminatioa of invaders MT. Phelan of Mississippi had always been in favor of the black aag Mir, yancy wanted the matter to go Special Committee, but it was final ly sent to the Judiciary Committee There was areport at Fortress Monroe on Thursday, prob. premature, that black flag bill had passed the Rebel Congress. The press is, as usual exceed ingly violent; they do not share theconhontiur assurances of The " r Herald that the Procla- nation is a thing of naught-a Popc's bull against the comet. In plain wor ds, the Procla- nation has thoroughly frightened Press Con- gress. and People, as is abundantly manifested
 in their contortions and howlings.
 The address to the President by the Govern ors of the loyal States who assembled recently at Altoona is by twelve Governors and pledges them to cordial support ofthe President in the prosecution of the war for the restoration of the Union. They recommend that reserve army of 100000 men for one years service should be called forth. They endorse the emancipa- ton proclamation of MT. Lincoln, and pay full tribute to the yalor of the army in the field.
 On Saturday morning, the Anglo, Rebel prize steamship Sunbeam, in charge of Acting Master Folsom, arrived at New York. The Sunbeam is a London ship, and was captured on the 2Sth of September of New Inlet by the United States gunboat State of Georgia and Mystic, while at- temting to run the blockade at Wilmington. She is built of iron, of POS tuns burden. Yes sel and cargo are valued at $25O,OOO. She left Liverpool August 6, and Halifax September IA, clearing for Metamotas. Her cargo consist of army stores, medical stores, surgical and oth- CT implements, gunpowder, boots, and Enfield rifles. She is said to be owned by Mir. Laird, NJ. P. of Liverpool. the builder of gunboat |" No. 29O," now Rebel pirate on the high seas. Tho Sunbeam was used on the lAfrican expedition under Dr. Livingstone, The speed of the yes sel her stores just suited to Rebel necessities. and the fact that she making for the port under the cover of night, convinced her captors that she was not putting in for repairs
 We learn from Southern papers that Beaure- gard has reassumed command of the Depart ment of South Carolina and Georgia. The
 Richmond Whig says that the entire Rebel losses in the Manassas battles do not exceed
 5000 and that tho losses in the engagements in , Maryland range between 5000 and 1000. The same paper says that great battle is expected
 soon with Mcclellan, whose army is on the south side of the Potomac.
 A UNION man who escaped from Lexington,
 Ky.. and arrived in Covington, states that, by
 recent order of Gen. Kirby Smith, all the stoves in that city have been seized and carried to the foundries, where they are cast into shot and |, she'll The order caused great complaint among f the citizens, both Secesh and Union. Our in. , formant thinks that the rebels are making pre-
 parations to abandon the city at an early day. They will make desperate stand on the south bank of the Kentucky river, where they have
 had large force at work for several weeks for
 tifying. Every yard of jeans in Lexington, Georgetown, Versailles and other places, has been taken by Kirby Smith, to clothe his sol diers, who are now in pretty good condition'
 having been living on the fat of the land for month or more. The rebels are kept well post
 ed in regard to the movements of the Federal
 armies, by daily arrivals at Lexington of South-
 ern sympathizers from Louisville. Msysville
 Covington, and other border cities and towns.
 GEN. MORGAN has evacuated Cumberland
 Gap, safely bringing off the entire Union force. Hir retreat is represented ss one of the most ar duous and hazardous of the war. During It's
 march northward, our army was constantly tbreate ned by the enemy's cavalry Morgan mainta ined the offensive throughout. One di'
 vision marched twenty -four successive hours for thres days. Our troops had no water but that found in stagnant pools. All the guns. at the Gap were brought away except four s2 pound CTS, which were too heavy for transportation, | and the trunnions were knocked of of them be- fore they were abandoned. On the 4th inst, no arrived at Greenupsburgh, Ky, fifteen miles above Portsmouth, Ohio, having left the Gap on the night of the l7th. One account represents l .- : <. shoslas. batless and naked had