Litchfield enquirer., 1862-11-13

me, and all will be we'll" It is pity that some of this selfsacrifcing patriotism cannot penetrate the skulls or hearts of the noisy self elected l friends of the General
 WE HAVE, through q Fortress Monroe corres- pondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, an i'm portant report from North Carolina, to the effect that the expedition under the command of Gen. Foster, already spoken of, has been entirely sue cessful in at least one of its objects. The gun boat Dela,carc Is stated to have arrived at For tress Monroe from Newborn, on the 5th inst, with intelligence that the expedition proceeded to Plymouth, where some 5000 rebels. about one half cavalry. were surrounded, and compell- ed to surrender internationally. A dispatch | from " Nashington informs us that no such news has reached the Navy Department. but this does not render the report improbable, by any means. It is hardly possible, however, that an expetli- ! ton organized on extensive scale should have so small an object as the capture of thi. slna body of rebels, and we shall be quite like ly to hear of further and more important opera. tions soon. Plymouth, the scene of this alIes ed capture. is the Capital of Washington County, North Carolina. IL Is a small village, contain ing less than fifteen hundred inhabitants, located about eight miles south from Roanoke River, where it enters Albenarle Sound and Is connect ed with small inlet called Nags Head. It Is about fifty miles ill a straight line, north of Ne" bern, with which it has water communication c,a Aibelnarle and Pamlico Sounds aud the Mouse River. It was. previous to the rebellion, a place of active trade.
 The Newborn Progress of the lst inst, in re lation to the statement that the rebels at Will ninston were arming negroes to light asa''st the Union troops. says: " We have learned dl rect from Wilmington, and through what is deemed reliable source, that such is not the fact The disrust of the negro Is so great thai they dare not trust him with arms ;
 DISPATCHES to the Associated Press agree in the statement that the m in rebel army had e,u,ied our forces, at least 50 far as to avoid d battle in the Shenandoah valley. Headquar ters of the army Were established at Warrento' on Friday. which place was taken possession oi by our advance on the day previous The rebel Gen. A. P. Hills command was at Warrenton on "Wednesday his command and Stuart's | Cavalry forming the rear guard of Lees force
 Dispatches from Warrenton bring the important information that Gen. Plaasanton had skir msh on Saturday, near ,le Washington, with Stuart's Cavalry, in which he captured three pieces of artillery, and that Gen. Bayard. on the same day, occupied and now holds the rail- road bridge across the Rappahannock- structure being unimpared. The bridge across Broad Run had been destroyed by the rebels but as that Is further back. in the vicinity of Manassas Junction, and in section of country now completely within our control, it can be put in good condition again in very short space of time.
 One. of those brilliant affairs which shed Ius- ter upon our Volunteer Cavalry occurred on Sunday morning at Fredericksburg. Capt. Erie Dahlg.en of Gen. Sisels staff, with 60 of the st 1ndanna (Gen. S:gel's body guard). and |, small detachment of the 9th Ohio Cavalry dashed into Fredericksburg early in the moru- where they found eight companies of Virginia Cavalry. Without giving the enemy tin. to form Capt. D. feli upon them with sixty Of lis men, when desperate hand to hand fight en- sued, lasting for three hours, when the Rebels were routed. Capt. Dahlgren lost only killed and three missing. He returned safely oil Sunday night bringing 39 prisoners with their horses and acrou;rements, and two wagons loaded with army cloth.
 The gaps in the Blue Ridge through which an army can pass-of which We hear so much-arc seven in nusnf,er. VIZ: Fts alls eight milc from Harprrs Ferry; Slic!er's, 2t mills from the ferry, ,hr"ugh which passes the Aexandris al! Elarl,-rs Ferry Turnpike; Ashhy's 38 mi es from Harpers Ferry. through which passes a branch pike from the Alexandria to Winchps- ter. Fourteen miles below Ashhvs is Manas sas Gap. through which runs the railroad: eight miles below is Ghester's Gap road not much travelled passes through it; 20 miles still fnf- ther down is Thornton's Gap, through which Il supplies for Lees army were hauled in wagons from Gor'lonsville and t'ulrepper. It is prol- able hat he main body of the Rebel. made good their retreat through Thorntons Gap some days ago.
 THE steamship Scotia came up to the City on Saturday morning, bringing adyces two days later than those by the Noruegie;s She left | Liverpool on the 25th and Queenstown ou the | 26th ut. Mr. Cameron, our Minister to Russia. came passengsr on board the S:oia: also Lord Lyons. the British Minister to this country 1 The steamer Gladiator, from Nassau. had ar rived at Liverpool. having on board 800 bales of cotton. She took over sundry rumors re gard to the proceedings of Commodore Wilkes which had caused some little excitement on Change in London and Liverpool. It was a!- legged that Wilkes with his squadron had block aded Bermuda and refused to with lraw his ships at the request of the Governor This repor Tt lacked confirmation and received but little cre- dence, but it nevertheless had it's effect. Mr. Gladstone had reiterated his sentiments on the American question, in letter written to Man chester merchant. He tovk occasion to say. however. that to form opinions upon questions of policy, te announce them to the world, and to take, or be a party to taking any ofthe steps necessary for giving them effect, arc matters which, though concected together are in them. selves distinct, and which may be separated by