Litchfield enquirer., 1862-04-10
The refugee named Morgan who told sut

Cornwall and vicinity, hafdly nouse-aoia ls exempt from them. @
 zs.s-a-,'-a-s' The refugee named Morgan who told such
 startling stories a few days ago through the Chi
 Orleans, and the feet of gnnboats in course of
 construction on the Mississippi, has been ares
 ted as spy by order of Gen. Haleck. The
 proofs of hts guilt are indubitable. During the last two months he has passed between Cairo 1 and Memphis four times.
 The Committee appointed by Gen. Halleck to investigate the condition of the prisoners of war
 at Alton, H., has made its report. The total 1 number confined there is 791, including 5 Colo
 neIs, 2 Lieutenant Colonels, 3 Majors, Is Cap
 tains and 2 Iieutenants. Of the entire num-
 Der, 459 were taken at Pea Ridge, l3O at Fort Henry. thunder at Milford and the rest were bridge-burners, &c. Their quarters, rations
 and hospital arrangements are all that could be desired. <et ..... .-s OPERATIONS have begun in the department of ] Gen. Fremont. A telegram from Wheeling ad- vises us that Gen. Milroy has advanced from
 Cheat Mountain to the rebel Camp Alleghany
 and that the rebels there and at Huntersyille 1 and Monterrey have fallen back. Other of our
 columns in the Mountain Department are said to be moving. Bushwhackefs are appearing at
 different points, but they will soon be brought into snbjection by the rigors of martial law. , GEN. Shields, with Q regiment of picked men
 from his command, on Tuesday morning started
 for Stafford Courthouse, about ten miles from Frederiksburgh, on reconnaissance. The ad- vance encountered body of 600 rebel cavalry
 six miles from Stafford, and skirmished with
 them all the way to the town, which was reach ed at P. NJ. on Wednesday. The rebels in I their retreat, set fire to the town, but the con- migration was stopped by our troops. Our force
 remained until the evening, when learning that
 Q large force of rebel infantry and artillery was | advancing from Brooke Station, camp fires were lighted to deceive tho enemy, and our force re-
 turned to Liverpool Point, having marched AS
 miles in r hours. ILwas ascertained that there l are but few rebel troops now at Fredericks-
 burgh, and the citizens state that the rebel Gov
 ernment intends to abandon Virginia.
 | A dispatch from Flag Officer Foots to Secre- tary Welles announces the discontinue of the
 rebel floating battery at Island No. 10. Friday | morning the gunboats Benton, Cincinnati and
 Pinsburgh, with three mortars, concentrated fhoir Hrnu if opa 0ftar har, ,borfI oonfn tinuing about an hour, during which several l shells were landed upon it, the machine was cut loose from its moorings and foated two or three
 miles down the river, out of range. The Com | modore says that shells continued to be dropped
 on different parts of the Island, and into the bat teries on the Tennessee shore, while the return Ere of the rebels had no effect. ... .,. 1 A MILITARY Superintendent of Telegraph
 Lines has beea appointed, in the person of An
 son Stager, now a colonel in the volunteer ser-
 vice, and E. S. Sandford, having likewise the
 rank of colonel is assigned to special duty in I the War Department as Military Supervisor of Photographic Dispatches The Secretary of War
 orders that they be respected and obeyed &C.,
 cordingly. i" s'ev' as'
 l FRoA Port Royal we are informed that the
 rebel steamer Darlington had been captured by
 the gunboats of the coast. At Jacksonville Fla, on the 1st inst, our forces were biomenta | rily expecting an attack from the rebels, who
 were represented to be in very destitute con-
 dition. Brig Gen. Wright was confident of his 4 ability to sustain himself and protect the town,
 . majority of the citizens being loyal Gen
 sherman was to leave Port Royal in tho United
 States steamer Wabash. -> a5:s' WE have the sequel to the correspondence be- 1 tween Gens Curtis and Van Dorn, in which the | former told the latter, what he doubtless we'll
 knew, that the Indians fighting with the rebels 1 had scalped the National dead and wounded, ,- 1 Under date of Van Buren, March IA, Van Dorn' s
 Adjutant General, D. H. Maury, pleads igno-
 rance of the allegation says that the savages
 who fought with his troops have been regarded
 as civilized, and retorts by alleging that the Germans who fought under Curtis murdered
 men who had surrendered as prisoners of war.
 Gen. Curtis replied that the fact of the scalping
 having been committed was patent, aud cannot be denied. He adds that the Germans have not before been charged with the crime which Van
 Dorn attempts to fasten upon them, and incloses ; letter from Gen Sigcl, in which identical con
 duct is charged upon the rebel soldiers He
 concludes with the expression of 2 hope that In dians may hereafter be excluded from the Con- federate ranks. sf 19s,I Tss7ss 5af THEnr were rnmors in Gen. Curtis camp at Cross Timbers, on March 26, that Price and his whole army had gone to Little Rock, Ark. It was also said that Gov Rector had called an ex- ltra session of the Legislature to take into
 sideratiou the critisal condition of affairs in the