Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-01

| Saturday night, and arrived at FoytressM Monroe on Sunday morning, say that the most tsnss sEsaeemsnt prssails at Norfo1k, sndsgreat fear issfslt of an attaclby Burnside. Nearly allshe troops haye been tent iron Norfolk, Portsmoush aud Suffolk, to South Mills to re el any, ,adystyce that Burnside may mske.s The runor is current around Norfolk that the Merrimac was to come odt on Monday, and attempt to go up the York river te destroy the federal shipping now there It is also stated that extensive repairs have been effected on the Merrimacswi,h view of board ing the Monitor II was rumored that commo,- dore Tatnall had been removed from the com- mand of the Merrimac.
 1 UNDER date of Pittsburgh, April F, Gen. Halieck has issued orders thanking Gens Grant and Buell., with their officers and commands, for the bravery displayed in withstanding the rebel attack on, April 9th and 7th, and impresses upon officers and men the necessity of thorough dis cipline. Both Gens Grant and Buell. are con- tinued in their respective commands.
 A dispatch from Yorktown, dated the s0th, states that it was still raining, rendering the roads next to impossible. Everything was re- markedly quiet along the lines. The rebels had shelled some canal-boats while passing into Wormley Creek, from their Yorktown batteries, but had done no damage. Col. Crucker and Major Cassady, of the Ninety-third New York Regiment, had been taken prisoners by the re- bels, under peculiar circumstances.
 Gen. Mcclellan reports to the War Depart ment gallant affair, in which company of Massachusetts soldiers distinguished themselves Early on Saturday morning an advanced lunette of the rebels near the head of the Warwick Ri. yer, was carried by assault by sCompany H of the First Regiment from that State. The work had ditch six feet deep, with strong parapet and was manned by two companies of rebel in fantry. Our men moved over open ground six .hundnA yards. received the fire of the rebels at sixty yards. did not return it, but rushed over the ditch and parapet in the most gallant man. ner, driving the rebels before them on full run. We took. fourteen prisoners and destroyed the work. Ourloss was four killed and twelve wounded. ....
 GEN. c. F. Smith, who so distinguished him. self by his brilliant charge upon the upper re doubt of Fort Donelson, is dead. This fact was first announced in private despatch received in New York on Saturday, from Gen. Cullum, Chief of Gen. Hallecks Staff. Gen. Smith for some time has been unwell, and was on this &C., count unable to participate in the great battle of Pittsburgh Landing.
 Secretary Stanton has issued bulletin, or dering the highest military honors to be paid to the remains of Gen. Smith,
 GEN. Banks telegraphs from his camp near Sparta, that deserters and refugees corroborate previous reports, that Jackson, after flying from our advancing column on Friday last, pushed forward to point one mile north of Harrison burg, where turnpike branches to the left, passing Magaugheystown on the south fork of the Shehandoah, and the Blue Ridge, and run ming thence to Gordonsville. At an early hour on Saturday morning, Jackson with his whole force and train, took the Gordonsville pike, and at last accounts had reached Magaugheys ystown.