Litchfield enquirer., 1864-01-28
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The arrival of the steamships Creole and George Washington puts us in possession of news from Louisiana, Texas, and Me1ico,- The recent Proclamation of Gen. Banks au- thorizing an election fer the restoration of the State to the Union, upon the plan of the Am nesty Proclamation, was received with great favor, and the consideration of the candidates for the Governorship seemed to tend to the nominations of Thomas J. Durant, an eminent lawyer of the city. There is nothing especial ly new reported regarding army matters. Gen. Dana has relieved Gen. Washburne ofthe com mana in Texas, and the latter had taken pas sage for N. York. An affair had occurred on the 18th ult., at Matagorda Bay, between our gnEboats, company of the Thirteenth Maine regiment and large force of rebel cavalry and rebel gunboat. Our small party of thoops, under Gen. Heron, had landed with the object of cutting of the rebel pickets, but were attacked by the cavalry, who were driven of by our gunboats. The cavalry, aided by the rebel gunboats subsequently, attacked our men and caused them to vacate their position but next morning strong gale of wind drove the steamer ashore, and she wac destroyed by fire. Her name was J. C. Cur. Another revolution had broken out at Matamoras.- Ruiz was ia temporary command of the city. Gen. Serna, hsd been making himself obnox ious by forcing loan from foreigners as we'll as Mexicans. including among the former four Americans. Gen. Dana, however, demanded prompt restitution of the money, and backing his demand by g sufficient force, Serna sent it back.
 An army correspondent of the Raleig gh Pro gross gives an account ofa raid by hungry reb el soldiers upon some of their own suffers He says: On the night of the 24th of Decem- Der there was quite an extensive raid made by detachments of men from Gems. Ferry's Will cox's and Wright's brigades, amounting to be- tween five and six hundred men, upon suffers at Orange Court House. One sutler named A scherzinger, lost $35,0OO in money some $500 of which vas in gold, and all of his cloth.
 tug, even to his boots, which he had just pull ed of. Another one, A. Grier, lost Sl0,GOO They also relieved one armed sutler of about Sl,0O0, The provost guard very promptly , turned out to euppress the raiders, and sue ceeded in doing so after they had wounded several of them. One of them was killed"
 LoNGsTEEar FINDS HIS MATcH.-An anus
 ing story comes from Knoxville, of little cor
 rss2ondence between Gems. Longstreet and , Foster, commanding respectively the Rebe and Union forces in East Tennessee It seems that the rebel General, finding the Amnesty
 Proclamation of President Lincoln in ci,cula ton n hand bill form among his soldiers, fell snlitten with q profound sense of the indelieacy of such proceeding, and immediately address
 cd polite note to General Foster |" respectful
 iy suggesting" for his consideration the propri ey Of communicating any views that his Gov ern'nent might have upon the subject througl
 him, (Longstreet,) rather than by handbills cir
 culated among his soldiers. There is consider
 able '' big talk in the letter-not, however, tt the point. Gen. Foster, immediately upon thu receipt of General Longstreets nota. with suayity which leaves the Rebel Out Of sight after limiting. in way which must have beel far from comforting to his adversary, that th
 effect of the circulation of the document vii 3 be to cause many men to leave the rebel ranks and return home or come within our lines
 says:
 accept, however, your suggestion that i
 would h&ve been more courteous t. have sen
 these documents to you for circulation and embrace with pleasure the opportunity thus af forded to inclose to you twenty (20) copies 0 } each of these documents, and rely upon you , generosity and desire for peace to give pubiici ty to the same among your officers and men. And then General Foster has "the honor tc be-" &c., Sc. In this little hy play, with more polished weapons than those of WAT, the Yan kee General clearly had the better of the en counter.
 Some thirty thousand dollars worth of the clothing sent to our soldiers in Richmond ) got into the hands of the Jews which of course could only have happened through the conni vance of the rebel authorities. Union soldiers coats were very plenty on the backs of rebel } citizens in Richmond, for time, till the gov. ernment not wishing to have this public ev dence of their robbery of articles, contributed by charity to clothe the suffering, prohibited the wearing of the garments. Thereupon ths posaessoTs of the stolen clothes, had them dyet some other color, so that they could wear then with impunity. It was not the theft. but th' evidence of it, which troubled the rebels. Bur Two PARTIEs.-In his speech at tho banquet to the Irish Brigade on Saturday even ing, General Meaghor thus pertinently presen- ted the question of parties in the Union a this time '' There are but two parties ir this country one, the federal armies under Abraham Lincoln and the other, the rebe armies under Jeff Davis. These are the only two parties in the country to-day and unti t6e party headed by Davis has been utterly routed and annhilated, staEd by your party