Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-17

with dates to the evening of the 9th inst, and the Massachusetts at Fortress Monroe, with the same dates. The Weehawken, while making the attack on Fort Moultrie which resulted in the explosion, got aground, and had to receive terrific fire from 100 Rebel guns The Iron sides, however, came to the rescue, assisted by the Monitors, and poured an overwhelming fire into Moultrie, and all the other batteries in turn, as fast as she silenced for time the guns of each. She fought for five hours, and retir- ed after indcting serious damage upon all her assailants. being herself unhurt. The Weehaw- ken subsequently got off without damage. An assault by our boats, nearly thirty in number. was made on Fort Sumter on the night of the sth, but it proved unsuccessful. The fotilla was manned by two hundred sailors and ma rines, under command of Lieutenant Williams, ofthe Wissahickon, and Captain Stevens of the Patapsco. Upon attempting to land they were fired upon by musketry, and upon given sig nal all the Rebel batteries which could bear upon Sumter, together with the broadsides of two rebel vessels, were opened upon the boats. Fifteen officers, who had landed on the fort, were captured. Three boats were knocked in pieces, and eighty sailors and marines were killed or wounded The Richmond Eaquirer of the llth confirms this account in substance, claiming, in addition, the capture of four boats and three colors. The event was improved by Beauregard, who reports officially that he had taken four boats, three colors. and 113 prison CTS, of whom l3 were officers. A Rebel dis. patch of the 9th says that one of the colors taken was the flag lowered by Major Anderson, which Admiral Dahlgren intended to hoist again over Sumter. This is not true The old flag, we understand, is in New York, and if again hoisted at Fort Sumter, it will proba- ply be done by Policeman Hart, who so gal lantly defended it in ls6l.] A dispatch from Charleston, dated the 10th, says there was no firing on the previous night, except from Reb- el batteries, and all was quiet on Thursday morning. The Union forces were working very energetcally on Morris Island. The livery latest" is a dispatch dated Charleston, Friday, ilth, in the Richmond Sentinel It says :: Last night we kept up steady fire against Morris Island. The enemy did not fire gum, The Union forces have mounted two heavy guns at Battery Gregg or Cummings Point. There had been but little firing on Friday, up to the sending of the dispatch. The Rebels claim that shell from James Island had ex- l ploded the magazine in Battery Gregg.
 There are one hundred and twelve poets in Vermont, of whom Montpelier has nine. Bur I lington, however, yields the greatest amount of material. At least twenty of the number received collegiate educations, four have been judges, one chief justice, four college tutors, one college president, one bishop, three mis- sionaries, and four artists.
 The New York Herald don't have a very ex altcd opiuion of Governor Seymour of that State. It says that since his election, he has been equally distinguished for mbecility and verbosity-that he can talk more without say ing anything, and write more without mean
 ing anything, than any other man they know :; that he showed his lack of good sense in his reply to General Dix; that he is not much of a man: and no governor at all.
 Very few people have any idea of the great amount of metal used in carrying on an exten- sive siege. The attack on Charleston has fur nished an illustration. A single eleven-inch gun fired sixty times, or once every ten minutes 1 for ten hours, will throw ten thousand eight hundred pounds of metal. A fifteen-inch gun fired at the same rapidity, will require tacenty 1 eight Mousand .fre Hundred and sirty pounds! Any one of the monitor class will require thirty aine Mousa',d three Hundred and sirty pounds, nearly t,centy tons of shot Each monitor will use about two tons of powder per day. The entire fleet working at the same rate, will hurl at the rebel Notifications four Hundred and ff ty thousand pounds of iron i'. ten Hours at an expense oftfty Mousand pounds of po,cder or taco hundred and t,oenty.fue tons of shot and tsoenty5ire tons ofposoder
 A DEMOCRATIC GENERAL vs. WIscoNs1N Cop PERHEADs.-The breach in the Democratic ranks in Wisconsin, caused by the disloyal at- titude taken by its late State convention, is continually widening. The Milwaukee Neacs having claimed that Gen. John c. Starkweath- CT, of the sArmy of the Cumberland, had ex- pressed his cordial appreciation of the pro- ceedngs of that convention, he writes indig nantly repelling the accusation, as impeaching his loyalty. He closes thus
 I have unhesitatingly stated that, although a Democrat, having voted with and supported the party to the best and utmost of my ability, could not endorse the platform, and conse- quently could not support the ticket in nomi- nation that, in my judgment, the resolutions and address were opposed to the Union and to the Government, and, in fact, to everything that and others have been risking our lives to sustain and that, therefore, the ticket was weak one.
 | lam Democrat, always have been, and al- ways expect to he, and as such am for crush ing this unholy rebe'lion first, above all things, and for using all the means possible to accom- plish such end consequently I am opposed to all men ani ali parties who are antagonistic to tbis doctrine.
 The operations of our Tarn1ies during the