Litchfield enquirer., 1863-12-10
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 trains was captared near Harrison. On that day. advices from Kingston stated, that Sher- mans expedition had Longstreet hemmed in 1 with a poor chance of escape. Boats were running to Kingston. A dispatch from Taze- well of the 9th, says :-" Our cavalry scouts report Rebel column passing all night from Knoxville to Blair's Cross Roads. They heard the Rebels Say that they were going to Vir- ginla that the Yankees had them surround ed. but that they were going to fight their way out. The Union scouts on the top of Clinch Mountain say that large camp-fres were seen last night on the road from Blair's Cross Roads to Rulledge. There is no longer doubt that Longstreet is retreating. A de- serter reports that he came out from Knox vile with Rebel column on the Ain inst. the infantry and transportation moving up the val ley on the other side of the Holston, and the cavalry on this side, to cover an attack from the Union troops in this vicinity. General Fosters cavalry was four miles this side of Maynardsville preparing to attack the enemy's cavalry. After the repulse of the enemy's cavalry at the Cinch River, on the 2d inst. their whole force continued to hover around, endeavoring to turn our Hanks, and to force some of our lords. In all these efforts they were foiled and driven back in several small encounters. In addition, we succeeded in blockading portion of the valley road near Rutledge, in the rear of Ransom's column. Yesterday the whole Rebel cavalry withdrew. in the direction of Knoxville. General Gra- ham Brigade followed for short distance General Foster telegraphs from Tazewell, Dec. ', that Longstrest is in full retreat up the val ley, closely followed. General Sherman ar rived at Knoxville on the 9th {; his cavalry got there ou the Sd the next day, Longstreet laised the siege and retreated up both banks of the Holston River; Fosters cavalry followed on the south side and Sherman on the north side. A special correspondent, Chattanoo- ga, Dec. 7, says: Longstreet is retreating through the Gap into Virginia and North Car o!ina, our cavalry pursuing. He will scarcely be able to make his escape without material loss" In addition to all this, we have a Reb- el dispatch from Atlanta, Dec. 4, admitting that Longstreet had failed, and was in retreat towards Abingdon, Va.
 Dr. Chas. P. Wright, of Ohio, who was cap tured at Chickamauga on the 2Oth of Ssptem- Der last, has just arrived from Libby Prison by flag of truce. The doctor states that the articles of clothing provisions, &c., sent to the Union prisoners at Richmond by their North ern friends and associations, have been re- ceived by them, except in Q few cases. The doctor was requested by our officers now in Libby Prison to convey to their friends at home an injunction as to the necessity of con- ining themselves to sending forward staple ar- ticIss insteai of l.ixuries, as the Confederate 1 nodes of transportation are now .axed to their ! .:tmo:t cxtr unity.
 i By steamer 10 rhiIade phia VIC have alyices fun Charleston 10 the afternoon of the lst inst, Geu. Gilmore was tossing shells into Charleston at sae sa.e .t twenty per day Tue inhabitants of the doomed city k',t.i seea re- moved beyond the reach ofthe explosive visit ors Sumter is no longer worth Ii:ing it is a mere wreck, no hig flies theIe. and Gilmore is busy with better game. The Rebels have earn ed another certificate for high toned morality in the Moultric House dodge. This large bui iding once watering-place hotel, has for a long time been decorated with the universally respected hospital flag. Of course our guns We're carefully ranged wide of it, according to tho practice of all civilized people. We'll, af ter months of hospital immunity, down goes the Moultrie House one fine night, and dsclo- ses powerful battery which the traitors had built and armed under protection of that hos ital flag. Will the copperheads and other traitors please make note of this fact--they may hear of it hereafter.
 We have news from Cumberland Gap to the 3d inst. On the previous day there was a sharp fight between ours and Rebel cavalry while our men were trying to cross Clinch Riv. CT. We were repulsed with loss of fifty men, but captured four guns. Knoxville disratches of the 3Oth ut. report all we'll. and say that ii i the assault on the 29th the Rebels lost 1000 in 1 killed and wounded.
 Talk about under ground railroads i; leave the Rebels alone for that. John Morgan made one, and now We learn that seventy. eight Reb ell prisoners escaped from Camp Douglas (nea' Chicago) on Wednesday night, by digging q tupnel from the barracks to an outside fence Between twenty and thirty of them werc re taken up to Thursday evening.
 A dispatch from Cairo of the Sd inst says that 77 Rebel prisoners from Columbus, Ky. passed through that place on Thursday for In dianapolis, Reports prevail to the effect tha the Rebel force threatens Columbus. Sixty tuns of sanitary goods were shipped from Cai TO on Thursday for Chatta nooga, by the Illia ois Sanitary Com mission.
 Thirty shareholders of Tennessee have sent