Litchfield enquirer., 1863-09-03
LETTER FROM PRESIDENT LINCOLN
 TO OMAJ. J.-GENERAL GRANT.
EXECUTIVE M.ss1o

| 10 MaJ0r-Gsn. GRANT.
 lNy Dear General :-I do not remember that you and ever met personally. I write this now as grateful acknowledgement for the all most inestimable service you done the country. I wish to say word further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did-march your troops across the neck, run the batteries with the transports, and thus go below and I never had any faith, except general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo Pass Expedition and the like could succeed. | When you got below, and took Port Gibson, | go down the river and join General Banks : and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I feared it was mistake. I now wish to make personal acknowledgement that you was right and I was wrong.
 Yours, very truly, A. LINCOLN.
 The siege of Fort Sumter is probably the first attempt In the military history of the world where a distant fortifcation has been literally beseised over the heads of the garr;- sons of two other Notifications in direct line with the point attacked. Tie three works stand about as follows:
 Cur Batteries. Wagner. Grogg. Sumter. | Our nearest batteries are three thous- and two hundred yards. or one miI;, and three quarters from Sumter. five ft!n,}ra,l yards from Wagner, and one mile from Battery Gregg. Our batteries range from three thousand two hundred to four thousand yards from Sumter, ard the average is about three thousand five hundred yards. or two miles.
 No less than seven deserters from the army of the Potomac, on Friday and Saturday la st suffered the extreme penalty Of the law. The Administration, aware that a humber of bad characters have made it matter of business to sell themselves as substitutes and then de. sert, are determined to put stop to these vio- latlons of the law, and hence descrters will be punished summariIy. according to the utmost severity of military regulation.
 In letter declining to be candidate for re. election to office of attorney general Daniel 5. Dickinson says; "I entertain the same opinion of the rebellion day that I did on it's outbreak, that it must be put down abso- lutely and unconditionally by force, if we would preserve the government of our fshers and save our name from becoming synonym for co"ardlce and baseness wherever the history of the American Revolution has travelled or it's fruits been realized.
 The Journal of Commerce speaks in com menda:ion of-the ccndact of the United States sioops stationed In New York city. They 1 nth same number Of pcaceatlo strangers visiting that city for pleasure or business,
 From the information received from prison CTS captured Sunday belonging to Whites guerriilas, there can be no doubt the rebel chic Moseby is dead. He sunk under the wound. recently inflicted on him by our troops in the skirmish near Drauesyills.
 | An awkward, bashful man who was pettine into stage at Norwich few days ago pushed his foot through the hoopskirt of lady passen ger In tho course of several ingenious expe dlents to extrieate himself he only succeeded in putting his other foot through the hoops o another lady. Sinking back in seeming des pair, he shouted, tIu!lo, driver, hold on 1 ] thought was getting into Q stage, but find myselfin cooper's shop !'
 When Secretary Seward and his party of di plomatists were at Buffalo, citizen asked him what would be done with the rebellious states when they were willing to return to their ale. glance to the Union. Mr. Seward replied Why, we'll kill the atted caf.''
 Among other eon6scable property seized in Washington ny the United States Marshal, are twelve building lots belonging to John Letch CT, rebel governor of Virginia, and Geo. S Houston. formerly member of Congress from Alabama.
 The draft took eighty men in Willimantic among whom were Rev. Mir. Bentley. of tl.e Baptist church, and Alfred s. Curtiss, of the Journal, who was married three days before the draft.
 The New Haven County Agricultural Soci. }ety holds it's annual exhibition at Hamilton Park, in that city, Oct. 9th, 7th & sth.
 Two long spacious slips are being bnilt al Saybrook, to accommodate the large ferry boat which is soon to be used by the Shore Line Railroad Company. The boat is about two hundred feet long, and will take across [ locomotive and several cars at time. 1 The gunboat Vicksburgh was launched iron the yard of Maxon, Fish & Co.,, ot Mystic, or the 27th ult. Her length on deck is 13O feet width B feet, depth l7 feet. She is pierced or three heavy guns. She will be ready fo service in about thirty days.
 A sailing match between Bridgeport ant New Haven boats for $1 900 is on the tapis. The Horrors of War can be greatly mitiga ted by that sovereign remedy, Holloway Ointment, as it will cure any wound, howeve desperate, if it be we'll rubbed around the woun ded parts, and they be kept thoroughly covered with it. A pot of ointment should be in ever, mans knapsack. Only 25 eeLts per pot. 227 While kerosene oil was being poured into l, lighted lamp at Newburyport, Mass. day O two since, an explosion took place, by which lady was burned so badly that her life is des