Litchfield enquirer., 1864-11-10

Jeff. Davis has named the sixteenth of No vember for day of National Thanksgiving for the many signal victories with which the rebel arms have been crowned, for the fruitfulness of rebel land, and the unimpairsd energy of pebsl hearts. At the same time he acknowledges that rebel sins have merited and received grievous chastisements, and that large districts of the country are swept over and held by Uuiop armies. He also bewails the use of colored troops by our Government. t.3 '.
 The Charleston Mercury frankly admits that the people of rebeldom live under despotism f. that the rebel Constitution has been violated by the rebel Congress in levying direct tax, and that public faitl has been forfeited bs compelling holders of rebel currency to sscsi-. flee one third of it. Our late military disas. ters. it says, have encouraged reconstruction. ists to raise :heir heads.
 Richmond papers contain the proceedings sF the rebel Governors of Virginia, North Care. lima, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississip- pi, resolving that there is no cause for dis. couragemsnt that it is imperative to iscrsase the armies recommending the Legislatures to repeal the laws prohibiting the sending of troops outside of State limits urging the Goa. federate authorities to conscript every msn in the departments whose place can be ssp. piled by disabled soldiers, senior reserves or negroes, recommending legislative enact. ments for the arrest Of dssertsrs, and the re movais of negroes from the frontiers that gre exposed 10 Union armies recommending ths Confederate authorities 10 appropriate sssh ., part of the negroes to public service as nsr be ersquired, and that the Confederate Csnsrsas remove all restrictions on the oommsrss of ia. dividual States. ... ts. .s.zh als .l fs...5ftss
 The U. s. steamer Universe, bound up, struck snag and sunk fifty miles sbous Mend phis, a few days since. Four or five, passsn. gers and the same number of rebel prisoksrs were drowned. sevsnty-hve rebel prisoners from vicksburg were on board, twelve of whom, including captain, escaped. The res mainder were brought up on the Belle of A Louisand forwarded to Chicago. The Univsras is total loss. She had O,oOo barrels sfp0rk belonging to the government among her cargo.
 Two hundred Federal eavalry were recently sent across the river ct Memphis 10 hunt guer-l rillas. They came upon 6 small force near Marion, and captured thirty stand of arms.--. Two miles beyond Marion they came upon 500 or 800 rebels. After some skirmishiuR otH force fell back to the river, followed by the enemy where they were driven back in eonfrs sion by gunboat. A number of prisoners aRd horses were captured by our forces.
 THE PoTATo CRoP.-C Contrary to all ad- psarances and in happy disappointment of the general fear that the drought ef June and Jt- ly had ruined the potato crop, the yield of thEs important vegetable proves to be larger and better than usual. We never saw. in "0ld times, better potatoes than thisseason's crop, and the yield is enorpious-up to the old fiish. toned standard of POO bushels to the acre. The price in Hartford has suddenly fallen to Si a bushel, and potatoes are drug at that tn Boston they have sold by the quantity at 30 cents-the Vermont and New Hampshire and Maine farmers bringing in immense quanti- ties.-H Hmtord Times. ~ iet
 Capt. Semmes, of whom, since tho sinking of the Alabama little has been heard, sailed from the Mersey, on the Sth, on .board the barque Laurel, which is supposed to carry out guns and ammnnitio1 for new screw stssmer of which Capt. Semmes is to take commaDd. This new Rebel cruiser. it is thought, is ths Ranger, which. on Oct. Sd, was lying at Ma deira. Semmes was accompanied by eight officers and one hundred men. M Ash
 Steel your heart" said considsrafe father to his son, {" for you are going nov among some fascinating girls" [ bsd much rather steal theirs, said the aupFomis' ising youth.