Litchfield enquirer., 1863-07-02
Aelus snf the aetsss.
The Rebellion.

Meade, of the Fifth Corps, was placed in com mand. It is regarded in the army as n good selection. Hooker has gone to Baltimore.
 DEATH OF ADM1RA AL FoorE Real Admiral
 Andrew H. Foote died in New York on Fri day evening last. His death at this crisis is a great public calamity. He had come to New York to embark for his new command at Port Royal to succeed Admiral Dupont, where his great energy, skill and boldness were expected to win us signal victories. But his work was already finished. And it was enough to SC cure him most honorable fame, though not enough for the neces :ities of his country. No naval commander has done more for us in this war no one could have accomplished more in the future, We all believe. But at New York he Vas taken sick, aud after a very painful ili- ness, be has departed, in the prime of life and in the heighth of his gallant career. ,su q Admiral Foote was born in New Haven in 1906. entered the navy in 1922, in 1924 was warranted midshipnan, in 1927 was passed a midshipman, in 1880 a lieutenant, in 1862 a captain, and in ls62a- rear admiral.
 His life, however, has not been occupied merely with the routine of his profession.- Brave and skillful as sailor, he had great moral qualities which have illuminated his whole career Hsewas conspicuous for his ef- forts to secure temperance in the navy, to sup prets the African slave trade, and in the Chi nese seas to protect the property of citizens of the United States. His brilliant exploits on our western rivers in this war. and especially his agency iu the memorable and most impor tant victories at Forts Henry and Donelson
 have secured him ashigh place in our naval Pantteen And besides this he was Chris tian, grntlelnau without reproach, and a man beloved of his neighbors and acquaintances.
 Que of the most daring and least successful exploits ofsthe war came off at Portland on Friday night. 5The Uaited States revenue-cut ter, Caleb Cushing, which had been for some time in that barbor, was missing on Saturday lmorning. She was proyisioned and armed for two months cruise. Two steamers. the Chesapeake and Forest City, were ut once sent to find her, and soon found her. The | cutter made fight, firing half dozen shots at 1 the Forest. City, but doing uo damage. The
 Chesapeake having come. up, i. was detern'in- l ed to board the Cushing. That vessel, 6nding l escape impossible. was abandoned by her crew, l set on fire, and soon aftes blew up. All the l crew were captured, when it became known that they were the former crew of the famous pirate IaconY that having learned of the preparations made for their capture, and deem | jug escape next to impossible, they put their property, aboard small schooner, one not like to be suspected, aud burned the Tacony--.t least so they say: They then steersd for Portland, with the intention of getting pos sion of this revenue cutter, with which. to make another piratical cruise. The Rebel pi- rates numbered twenty-three, commanded by Lieut.. c. w. Read. It was their intention to destroy all the shipping in port, including the
 two new gunboats there being built. There is story that one boat, carrying ten pirates, escaped, but this is doubtful ss,e9 |. 5. A REBEL OPINION OF VALLANDIGHAM.-The cop perheads fnd small favor in the eyes of the rebelinyaders, the soles of whose feet they are so eager to kiss. In company in Cham i,bersburg, at which rebel Gen. Jenkins was Ipresent, blatant young sprig of the law of the serpentne order. proceeded to veptilatel his reasonable sentiments, and referred to poor Vallandigham as . greatly persecuted ipdi- vidual, ,ewho had been sent out of our lines by our despotic government for exercising the right of free speech. To which the rebel Gem eral replied ssas a4os x
 < My Copperhead friend, your Administra- ton did not dosits duty. If Lincoln had per- formed his part asabe should have done, he would have hung him sir ssontlss aqo. If any man in the Southern Gonfederacy would utter sentiments IS adverse to our Government as | Vallandigham did to yours. sue soould not oisy slsptios Aios o i6arsy, 6at s0s a0O'sld tase ass s.ste sss@sl Es sA hssh ssi s ies Generai hOsecrans IS evluentiy seiy |
 some fellow among the rebels The Atlaata IatslIigencsr says his atrocities are more ap palling than the fiend Buffers that a ne as q consu <, mate ruffian, an arrant bully, shrewd I,deyiser If little acts, an aIroit observer, and an active but prudent operator; and # accuses lbiia of laying waste Tennessee, burning rebels' houses stealing their horses, and preventing Ethe cultiyation of the soil. .7s N N M
 A negro was taken out Of jaiI at NeWburg, N. Y aonday evening and hung byg a mo6 Of lriahnen, for the alleged violation Of . newly arrived Irish girl, .ss
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