Litchfield Enquirer

THE EXPEDITION TO SEVASTOPOL.—A paragraph from the Paris Patrie, announcing that the expedition from this country to Sevastopol, for the purpose of raising the sunken men of war, and materials in the harbor of that famous city, had proved a failure, the vessels being about to return to this country, we are informed on the authority of letters received in this city from Sevastopol as late as Nov. 4th, is without any foundation in fact.

No ships of war have yet been raised, but the Boston Submarine Company have been at work upon an eighty-four gunship. The ship has become imbedded deeply in the mud, the Russians before scutting her having placed heavy granite blocks upon her decks, to prevent injury to the vessel from the shot of the enemy.

All this granite has been recovered, with a large amount of other material, sufficient to leave a surplus after paying expenses, the share of the Gowen Company and of the Russians. In regard to the ship the Gwynns pump was used and actually drew up water from the hold of the vessel at a distance of forty-six feet from the surface, at the rate of seventy thousand gallons a minute, without starting the vessel. The commander of the expedition is confident, however, that with the use of pontoons or bags of india-rubber, filled with air, introduced into the hold, they shall be successful.

The Gowen Company, it is also stated have been quite successful in raising material, of which there are millions in amount upon the bottom, and neither party have, so far as known, the slightest intention of abandoning the undertaking. Up to the 4th of November, the weather had been extremely pleasant, and on that day they were sitting at open windows, eating blackberries.

The Russian Government, it is stated still look with favor upon this famous city, and are energetically at work, to restore it to something of its former strength and efficiency. Next Spring, the Grand Duke Constantine and others of the Royal Family will visit the place to superintend the operations of building, &c.

One of the vessels of the Boston Submarine Company was at Constantinople taking in coal and provisions, with which to return to Sevastopol. This does not look like an abandonment of the expedition.