Litchfield enquirer., 1861-11-07

the fleet. Election in New York State has gone Union as far as known
 1 EUROPEAN NEws.-Direct accounts from War saw completely confirm the telegraphic state- ments respecting the ptiless severity with which the Russian authorities punished the per | sons who took part in the Kosciusko demonstra- tion on the 18th ultimo. In spite of the prohi bition of the police, the shops were closed throughout the city, numerous congregations as- sembled in the churches, and the streets were thronged. Parties of Cossacks cleared the streets by charging the people, and beating all whom they overlook with the flats of their swords and the slaves of their lances. The churches were surrounded by soldiers, who ar rested every man that came out and as most of the persons in the congregations consequently refused to leave the churches detachmcnts of soldiers entered and carried off to prison all the men and lads whom they found Those prison CTS who were too old, too young, or too infirm | for military service, were subsequently releas- ed; but the others, some ? GOO in number. are expected to be drafted into regiments quartered in distant provinces of the Russian Empire Some o0O tradesmen were afterward fined l5 guineas each for the offence of closing their shops Since the 18th the churches have been closed by order of the ecclesiastical authorities; and according to a Cracow telegram, the people gather round the church doors to pray.
 A circular from the Archbishopric of Warsaw says the closing of the churches is Oil account of tl-e proclamation of those edifccs by the military and no religious services will be permitted in the edifces so profancd until an expiaton has been made. Arrests, of course, continue to be made, and among the persons arrested are son of Count Zamoyski, and many principal inhabi- tants of the city.
 The Russian Government is said to have given orders for the arrest of the most conspicuous young men of Warsaw, in order that they may be condemned for political offenses and then in corporated in the Russian army. Latest dis patches say agitation ill Warsaw was increasing.
 LoED Brougha was confined to his residence l by indispositon.
 MADAME Goldschmidt Lind had made her re- appearance in Oratorio at Exter Hall with i'm menso success.
 TIE Paris correspondent of TAe London Time says it is ascertained that the panic caused by the deficiency in the late wheat crop is at least premature, if not greatly exaggerated and that the present high price is in some measure caus- ed by the manuevcrs of interested parties
 MR. SMITH O;RRIEN ON THE AMERICAN WAR. We take the following piece of intelligence f. f.om 1zte Dnj'in EseninJ Post:
 Mir. Smith Bricn has, through the columns of I5e Morning Ners, addressed long letter. dated Dublin, October 2l, to Capt. Thomas
 
 O'Brien deprecates the views taken by Mir. Meag- her, who advocates the war against the south and proceeds to show that, even supposing tke | Norhcrners were successful, they would not be 1 able to keep the conquered States in suhiection Mir. o Brien offers his own services as mediator between the belligerent parties, to assist in re- storing peace!
 | REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE LEEsBURG BATTLE The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch publishes the reb- el account of the battle of Leesburg, in which these passages occur:
 " The federal troops were routed three dis tinct times at the point of the bayonet, and as often heavily reinforced. In one charge the Eighth Virginia captured q splendid brass bat, tery and put its men to inglorious flight The enemy were finally pursued to the rivers brink, where they made desperate stand, but their doom was sealed. Our brave volunteers charg- ed them, and scattered them like leaves to the winds and waters. Our informant states that they were cut all to pieces, and that the battle | field was thlckly streWn with their dead and wounded.
 | " The prisoners, of whom great number were taken, said without hesitation that our gallant troops fought like devils
 l "Other verbal accounts of the battle on Mon day represent that the scene at the river, when the enemy attempted to recross, was fearful The rattle of musketry and the sharp crack of | men, and the panic scarcely less wide spread than that of the Fist of July, just three months before. The federal prisoners. numbering five hundred twenty three, were under guard on the | battle field of Manassas yesterday morning. These men reported that at least three hundred of their comrades drowned while attempt ing to recross the Potomac
 At Waterbury, about l:30 A. M, Sunday. the roof ot the Scoville Manufacturing Company's butt shoy, ll5 by Al feet, was raised by the wind and carried to distance of 100 to l50 feet fall ing with tremendous crash partly in the street and partly on the joner's shop, breaking it, the root badly, and leaving but mass of rubbish of the large flying roof The watchman immediate ly called the foreman, who lived near, and about 50 employers, who succeeded in saving most of the finished goods and part of the valuable machinery from the water which pouring in- to the building in torrents.
 The Scoviffe Manufacturing Go. employs about 300 hands, and have been running night and day for some time past, turning out large quantities of military goods The hands will all be kept. extra hands put on, and no pains spared to com plete the repairs as soon as possible. The dam age by water on the machinery and stock is large, and with the roof, will not fall far short of S30OO aside from the loss by suspension of work The current monthly pay, subsistence allow ance of Lieutenant General Scott were and by order of the President continue to be while he is upon the retired list, as follows: Pay, per month $270 Ratons, per month. 300 Allowance for servants, per month. go Allowance of horses per mouth. 50
 Total monthly pay. .S77O which makes an anual income of $9,24O.
 A pension of twenty-tw dollars and half a month, has been granted to Mrs. Prescott, wid- ow Of the late Lieut.. Prescott of Providence, and one of five and half dollars monthly to the wid- ow of Frederick Bub, of the Second Rhode Is- land battery Both these men fell at the battle of Bull Run.
 It is understood that the Naval Expedition is not directly aimed at cities on near the South, ern coast. The troops will land at thinly settled places, with spacious harbors, and will at once open cotton ports and establish basis ot oper- ton for additional forces now mastering. 1nose who enlist in regiments which are to be attached to the commands of Gen. Burnside or ot Gen. i Butler will have an excellent opportunity to see active service in genial climate. Cesar Russell colored man, died at Taunton 1-I R---