Litchfield enquirer., 1863-10-22
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Washington correspondent of the N. '. Ecen- Ing Post says under date of October 10th General Meade was three weeks ago ordered to 'all back upon Centreville. Lee, discover lhg the retreat of our army, tried to take ad- vantage Of 1t. He filled iu that purpose, and the army of the Potomac is now in an inpreg- nabe position. It stands on the defensive, ready to strike blow at the eremy, and its present position is vastly safer for offensive op- eratlons than that held by it one week ago. lie also says that Lee is stronger than he was two months ago having been reinforced by troops from about Richmond and by conscripts The army of Meade also grows stronger every day. Gen. Haleck has visited Meade at the front and is satisfied with the position of his army,
 1 A correspondent Of the N. Y. Times says ten. Hooker frustrated the rebel Wheeler's plans in his raid into Tennessee: Gen. Hook CT had arrived at Stevenson but day or two before Wheeler struck the road. But he at once sent Gen. Butterfeld up the road, with orders to take all the troops he could find drive the rebels of, and open the road, and before Wheeler got back to the south side of the Ten nessee River the railroad was again in opera tion. Thus the raid failed. It might have amounted to something, but it didn't.
 It IS asserted that the three hundred pound CT Parrott guns have proved a failure, with full charges of powder. Of the five sent to General Gilmore, every one burst, all but one at the first fire. Up to two hundred pounders the farrott guns have proved great success but beyond that size the strain is toe great for cast iron.
 | Returns from Indiana show large Union gains from all parts of the State Indianapo- lis shows gain of 600; Hancock county, 100. Decatur 200; Shelby, 45O Monroe, 1000. | Copperheads are at discount in the great Northwest.
 It appears that the Rebels have a perfect | blockade in Charleston Harbor against our iron-clads. They have reserved passage for their own crah, after the manner of a canal with safety lock against Union vessels In view of this fact, time will be required for the consumm ation of plans now being made for overcoming these Instructions and reaching the other Rebel defenses
 Rebel invasions do not appear to succeed we'll. That just undertaken by Shelby in Mis- souri has terminated most disastrously to his forces. Gen. Brown succeeded in getting at them three times in running fight, and final y cornered them, when battle ensued which lasted five hours. The Rebels were completely routed and scattered in all directions, with the JOSS of all their artillery, baggage. large num- Der of small arms, and prisoners. Their loss in killed and wounded was also very large, Our forces were in pursuit of the scattered Rebels at last accounts.
 The loss of rebel rsilroad stock at Gren: ds, Miss, was quite as serious as the most extrav- aeant estimate made it appear. A letter to
 
 removals this property was subjected to by the advance of our forces, says that there had been accumulated at Grenada the rolling stock and machinery of five important raroads,v viz the Memphis and Charleston. Mississippi and Tennessee, New Orleans and Jackson, Jackson and Vicksburg, and the Missippi Central. The property was valued at millions of dollars.
 Dr. Henry Draper of New York, has suc- ceeded, by means of his immense rejecting telescope, the largest in the world except one at Paris, in taking the finest photograph of the moon ever obtained. The largest photographs of the moon hitherto taken measure only four to six inches in diameter. Dr.. Draper exhibi, ted one the other evening twenty-five inches in diameter, and he has another in his observatory nearly three feet in diameter. The photograph shown was magnifed to two hundred and ten times the size of the moon seon by the naked eye, and an inch in length in the picture cor responded to one hundred miles on the moon. The singular listinctness and beauty of the photograph surprised the spectators. The ranges of hills and the volcanic depths and summits, the streams of lava, were all vividly shown. Nothing like it has ever been produced before.
 The New London Sta, says the extensive ship yard of Messrs. Greenman, the oldest in Mystic, was mostly consumed by fire on Thurs day morning. The only exception to the work of destruction is the propeller of about 400 tons. on the stocks, and the ship timber lying in the south eastern part of the yard. The fire is said to have broken out in the steam saw mill between 1 and o'clock in the morn- ing and burnt the new mill, the molding and drafting room with all their models, which cannot be replaced, all their workshops. sheds, tool-rooms, and large quantity of timber, all valued at about S20,0eO. A large number of hands are thus thrown out of employment, To- sing their tools, &c.
 The Copperheads of Walworth county. Wis consin, recently nominated Judge G. W. Skin ner, of Delevan. for County Superintendent. The loyal old War Democrat thus rebukes the