Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-22
: Yittbfela GnqaIr1.
rHuRsDAY-MAY 2a, lssa.
.rlie War News.y

tAWO W 0A ANSVVOSt
 Events of the past week have hardly kept pAee with the rapid movements of the week be- Sbss. Gen. cClsllan has been waiting his pro. vision trains, and arranging his transportation. previous to making his final onslaught on Rich mond. Every obstacle that powerful, though ;1sssssa4ing enemy could throw in hh way, has bsspnsed to nats every swaysof his step diff eusks and every step of his advance now will be cOntsstsd inch by inch, till he drives the enc my b the wall" Our gun-boats, tod, seem tc lave met.with temporary check, at eight miles His side of Richmond, not % much By the rebel batteries, which, stationed on high bluffs above g the river, poured down their storm of shot and shell upon the adventurous fleet, but by the ob structions with which the river is filled from this ? point up to Richmond, and which must be re moved by the gun-boats under the fire of the en- smy. These Instructions consist of piles' ana chains, and sunken ships, among the latter oi . which is said to be the rebel steamers 1orktown ? and Jamestown, which have thus perished igno
 miniousy, like the Ne rrimse, without offering re- q sistancs to our guns.
 The latest news ws have from Virginia is, :. Mcclellan il again on the.march, ,and can scarce ', ly be dosen miles at this writing from the reb- sl capital. Our Gunboat fleet too, under com mand of Com. Goldsborough, have again return. cd ts the scene of their recent engagement on 2 Ehs James river, and by means of mortars and sther appliances will take early measures to se- cure the reduction of the rebel batteries, after which, the obstructions in the river can be rs- moved as speedily as necessary.
 The advance of our forces upon Richmond may therefore be somewhat protracted, but it cannot be many days before the rebel capital will be in our hands, and the bogus Confsderacy , again fugitive and wanderer in "sunnier elimes."
 The condition of affairs in Norfolk has much improved since the occupation by eur troops. Union sentiment is gradually developing itself, and as the inhabitants of these occupied cities are brought to see how hopeless is the task of any longer sustaining an attitude of defiance to- ward the government, they begin to acquiesce in the newly established order of things, and return to their peaceful avocations. aeknowL edging that the state of affairs under the author fly of the United States, is at least moro satis- factory and comfortable than under rebel rule for the past few months- News of the oecupa- ton of Suffolk, T. miles ftca Ncrtolk by rail- road, is mentioned. From CsgsatA We have DO very startling news Frequsas skarmashss be tween the two great couasnang armiss tha1 are confronted there ssl cunfiuus, hu4 the great battle which is psrhHaH yet sD bs fought in thaa region is saiR sryrraadinuxHa wfiis ii is Esy eT- Mert thai sTg-y hnys iHEy tsnds tD waaksn and 6smar4fHs fhs iuruHs Bf tine Bnsnly-
 We hsar asiirsls nj Dur fnfills an tbs lDws.r MiHaHBHnT, firrDugh rshBl pHpars. Ii is slowly srr surB.y Afvaunins npwarf-R fhs latest ac- unulItR, imn rRnGhHd B paiut fifty milss abUvs Hitttnn RnugR md WE Bhall prDhshly hHar in B iiuy nrtswp nf its arrival m Memphis MaEn- while Esan. Baaursgurf ilRs iHRusa A prpclamR- linn ttp tim iIihahitunts b tine lrrtsa rlty, gsgar Sag Hsaryhnfy tD 1aks fine nulfsdsrHts Eiinplas 1sm at par, nnfisr lnins End f,snRlties, which lnnizs HE 4hBugb they wsrs gstt6ng to D. geDer- lilly HisrrsfitHH under the certainty that tBsy will spsaiiE be as wOnhleB as the paper they an pniutaa upon
 Fran Gen Hunters department we have no pw nsx8 Sf impOrtanee; though the escape of ehs rahA steamer Plansey undert the skiIlful man. szsDsrt of its negro crew, following hard upon Gen Hustexs order declaring all the slaves in his dspsstnest I,ssmes, has thrilled the country with undiagaised joy snd satisfaction. This or der, sines revoked by the President, hae furnish. ed topic for conflicting opinion and remark the country through. $ But Richmond first, and then Savannah and Charleston. All eyes are now turned apxiously, upon the operations at the rebel capital Here, as we have said, the rebels undoubtedly design to make stand, and contest every inch of our advance. Their army by careful calculation seems to amount to l75yO00 men, which are eith- CT immediately opposed to Mcclellan, or may be concentrated by means Of railroads st Richmond in single day. To these stand opposed our own forces of not more than equal numbers, di. -vidsd up under Mcclellan at Bottoms Bridge | fifteen miles from Richmond; Mcdowell at Fredericksburg, sixty miles to the northward Banks at Staunton, one hundred miles to the northwest, and Burnside moving up from suf- folk, eighty miles to. the southeast This is the held, this the means, and this the work of the next week or more to accomplish. We shall all await with anxiety the news of the next few days, but confident in our cause, confident in our Generals, confident in our gallant troops, we can well believe that we shall not look in vain for final victory, and the driving out of the rebels from their capital, and the virtual suppression of the great rebellion in Virginia, at least.
 b~ The cosrant and other of our cotsmpora- tiss su persist in attributing the letters of our
 hartford and New Haven correspondents to one
 ana the same source. While we deem it 6 mat.
 ter or no concern to anybody but ourselves who
 our correspondents are, we still venture to d;s.
 tinctly to assert, for the second time. that any
 letters from New Haven are written bv . gentle.
 man who resides there, who is not in .n, ..n
 connected with our Hartford oorre,pona.rt ,.hs
 we believe, never saw the latter, who oarta;nI.
 has not the pleasure ofhis persenal acou.,n..,..