Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-16
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amount tomuch. A hundred such invasions might be made onseach side every month with out advancing either cause an iots. A frontier line of 1000 miles cannot be strongly guarded as all points, and occasional forays will Datur- ally occur,the offspring of pure bravado, if noth- ing more. Getting into the hostile country is very easy, but getting out is for ought to be) a different affair Of this rush by the rebel cavalry into Pennsylvania, we have very complete &C., counts. A force of two or three thousand cav. airy, under the renowned Stuart, crossed the Potomac at point far above the right wing of General McClellan's army, and pushed rapidly on through Mercersburg to Chambersburg reach ing there at six o'clock on Friday evening" About 800 entered the town, the remainder re- maining mile away. They helped themselves to boots and shoes, and clothing, giving Confed- crate paper in some cases for pay. On Saturday morning they burned the Cumberland Valley Railroad Depot, and two warehouses containing small quantity of government stores. Then ! they rejoined their main body and moved off toward Gettysburg. They borrowed or exchang ed horses wherever they could, and seem to have been entirely successful in getting such articles as they most needed No violence was done to individuals, and no resistance was made by the people, at least no, until they had gone from Chanbersburg. Near Gettysburg some farmers entropped one of the moss troopers and that was all the ressteuce experienced. There is a rumor chat they had fight when they crossed the Potomac on Friday morning, but it is doubt ful indeed, the place of their crossing is in doubt-some accounts say at Hancock, and oth CTS at Dam No. 5, several miles below. One dispatch from Washington says that Gen. Nc ClelIan telegraphed on Sunday to the War De partment that none of the invading Rebels woulo escape into Virginia. But the Associated Press accounts from Harrisburg, received at 10 o'clock Sunday did net justify this expectation. Il says that rebels encamped at Emmettsburg. Cr Maryland, just below the Pennsylvania line) OF Saturday night; that on Sunday they were sup posed to be moving on Carilile, Pennsyly alia and troops were hastily sent thitharward ID this dispatch was appended a' Later,' stating that the rebels left Gettysburg on Saturday night broke up the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Newmarket, and pushed on for the Potomac east If the Monocacy. Our cavalry was said to be in pursuit, but would probably be too late.-- They might be intercepted by Gen. Mcclellan but that was doubtful. Soon after this We re- ceiveda special dispatch from Monocacy Bridge I ton the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad about foul mics sou,Il of Frederick Cityl saying that tn, rc!'el cavalry passed passed eight miles below Morocacy oil Saturday night and took break fast at u!brnna, four miles from Monocacy, oI Sunday morning. Heavy firing had been heard in the direction of Noand s Ferry on the Foto mac. Seven prisouers, captured at Urbanna had just come in. All this indicates that tit rebels were pretty surely safe over the Potomac and probably in or beyond Leesburg before night on sunday-T /. Tribune,
 News from Florida ia interesting. The ex padtion ygi;ch has been fitting out at Port Roy al ss,ilatt oal the lst instant and on the 2i in sa.t t brisk attac was made olI d rebel fUtt St. JoAl.s l;iiaffr rp the St. Johns. Iissr smart bu:sl5ari'nant our laEt!s forces advanced upon the fort when the rebels ran in confusion lsa, ing :. large quantity of stofes ill our hands lie Union fag was hoisted there, and waved proudly oyer the spot the reb.ls lad ja5t occu pied. 'i'ite fort was then destroyed and tie gun removed. Preparations were being made d last accounts to attack another rebel battery o Yellow Bluff, eight miles further up.
 The Richmond Eraniqer says: " Congre; haa serious business on haad at present. Tn subject of revenue and finance is now befor Congress-. The bill provides that every citizs, give to Government one fifth his gross income and receive in acknowledgement eight Der cen bonds. Of all losns s per cent. IS the wo.~e.- Of all taxes twenty per cent. gross income is tli most oppressive. By this project Congress strikes heavier blow at oar credit than the put lie enemy. Government has committed fan cai klundsrS enough to ruin it's credit, if tn confleuce of the public were not so we'll suE ported. Congress has postponed adjournmen to Oct 18th .....
 GENERAL SIGEL, whose bravery and pstriotis1 have made him the ilol of his German conn.ry men as well as en;lcared him to his fellow -citizen of every nationality, was recently invited to b present at Mass Meeting to be held in Chicag on Sept 27th, to iudorse the i'reai1eut's Procla nation. In reply to the invitation he wrote '' As l have tried to do my best in the defense c republican principles and for the emancipation of the oppressed, without distinction of race O color cannot but heartily approve the manifes tatIons of the people, to give their support to the liberal acts of the government of this republic which is the only great and strong bulwark agans the aggressive powers of native and foreign aris tocracy and despotism.'' @ a.a
 Mir. Montgomery the business man of tn, Viclisburg Thig. arrived at Cairo on Oct 9 with his family, He gives gloomy picture affairs in that city, and snyv that the Union sen tnent is being rapidly developed, The peopI, he says, are waiting anxoualy for 1he appear anca of tho gunboats, and thhks an hour B bon I hardment will cause the exploitation of the cit, Merchandise and tho nseesaaries of life ar, enor mously high, kihg cotton Ia destroye, The staple s worth but three eehts | pound, aud q bale Will hot buy pair of Yankee shoes. He estimated that ten per cent only of the last cot