Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-12


 WH are permitted to know, by an official dis- patch from General McClsIlan's headouar,er,. the important news that contraband who lee. Richmond Tuesday morning, had arrived in our peoples camp, and that he told our side tba. no re-enforcements had recently arrived at Rich. mond, and further that there were no signs of evacuation. The same dispatch says that cap. tain, lieutenant and two soldiers of GepsraI Burns division were killed by the Rebels while establishing an advance picket.
 HE WAR DEPARTMENT promulgates an order establishing Camp of Instruction of 5oO0o men near Annapolis, Maryland. Maior.General Wool will command the troops will be assem- bled as speedily as possible; Brigadier General Graham will be Chief of Cavalry; Brigadier General Harvey Brown, Chief of Artillery; oth. CT heads to be hereafter designated.
 TIE Richmond Dispatck of June 4, says that the battle of Saturday and Sunday vas . bloody affair, and sets down the rebel loss as 5000, and the National loss at from l2,ooO to 10000, including many prominent officers. The rebels lost vast number of officers, including Generals, g Colonels, 10 Majors, and 57 Cap. tains, killed or taken prisoners. The D;spasck complains that the Nationals can at any time cut off the retreat of the Confederates South by seiz- ing the railroads at Petersburgh, and intimates that a retreat to Lynchburgh and the mounta;ns was the only one left to them. The bare stase- msnt of the fall of Corinth has been publishsd in Richmond, and by this time througAsus ths South. sf l ssa
 IKE WAR IN Nrw MEuco.-The Santa rs mail, with dates to the 2Sth ut., arrived st Kan. sas City on Saturday. The Texans had reached Mesilla with Eve pieces of artillery and seven wagons. It is said after stopping at Fort Fill more to recruit their exhausted energies, they will continue their homeward bound march. Gen. Sibley is reported to be at Fert Bliss, far in advance of his command, taking care of him. self ,
 Fort Craig advices to the 24th ult., state that early on the morning of the 23d, Capt. Tilford, whe was stationed with 35 or 40 men on the east of the Rio Grande, ! miles below Fort Craig, received summons to surrender from c band of two hundred Texans supposed to be struggling bands of guerrillas of Sblsy's com. mand. He refused to do so, and immediately gave battle and fought three hours, when he re- treated to Fort Craig with loss of three wound ed. Three of his men were drowned while cros- sing the river. The Texans loss is not known. Two companies of Colorado volunteers were immediately sent in pursuit ofthe Texans.
 A skirmsh to place in Southwest Missouri. few days ago, between 400 guerrillas, under Col. Coffee, and 150 State Militia, commanded by John NJ. Richardson, in which the loyalists were defeated, and Col. Richardson mortally wounded, beside sixty of his men taken priso- ners. They were released on parole
 Another triumph is recorded for the army of Gen. Mitchell. An expedition under Gen Neg ley has followed up considerable body of the enemy under Gen. Adams, and driven them to bay at Chattanooga where the rebels were ut terly defeated and routed, with the loss of their baggage wagons. ammunition and supplies. Still more important events are expected from Gen. Negley's expedition.
 ALL was quiet at Winchester Monday. Gems. Sigel and Banks were there. with their com mands They were occupied in restoring bridges burnt by the Rebels, or carried off by the flood. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was in com plete order, excepting the bridge at Harper's Ferry.
 A LETTER to the Newark Advertiser, dated on board the steamer Augusta, off Charleston, s. C., May 29, states that our gunboats were then within four miles of Charleston by way of Stono Inlet. It was anticipated that a combined at tack would be made at a very early day.