Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-16

It is sad that hereafter RenZi to be the headquarters of the National forces in Missis- |sippi, instead of Corinth as heretofore. Rienzi sisa short distance south of Corinth, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. s f5 The rebels in Memphis had reports on Tues day that the Confederates who were so badly beaten at Corinth had recovered themselves and given Rosecrans severe whipping ou sun- day. They have found out their mistake by this time, but it is to be hoped that another sto- rY,iwhich was going the rounds-that Van Dorn and Fillipigue had been kill ed-may not prove to be 50 unfounded.
 The 7th MaiEe Regiment, which was among the first to respond to the Presidents call for 75,ooo troops, in 1867, has suffered great loss, having participated in ,teneof the most promi- nent battles. Out of over one thousand men which it numbered when it entered the cam paign, there are only about 230 remaining, 16l being with the regiment on its way home; the balance sick and wounded. They left New York on Saturday for Portland.
 The Mint in Philadelphia coins daily from one to two thousand dollars of nickel cents. all of which are distributed almost as soon as made but still they gre scarce.
 One of the agents of Mason, the rebel, at last accounts was at Glasgow Scotland looking af ter some of our crack Clyde steamers for the South. He has already purchased one called the Iona river boat; her usual speed is about eighteen to nineteen miles an hour. Though usaa for river purposes only she is quite fit for a sea voyage. He has his eye on three others They are at present engaged in the Greenock i and Liverpool and Greenock and Dublin trades They would answer admirably for dispatch boats all having great speed and splendid ac- cancellations.
 1 Details of the late battle at Corinth show that our victory was one ofthe most important of the war. General Breckenridge was suppos to have been killed and his body found terribly mutilated in the principal street of c orirth af ter the battle. The identification however does not seem to be complete, and it is possible ] liHt tlif'iS idV Ut Sptle HiIStdhG dDbttt II. II is manifest from all reports that the rebel army in Mississippi is thoroughly routed and demor- alzed.
 One of the most mDudent propositions on the part of the rebels yet put forth, is the reso lution5 introduced into the rebel Congress to ap- point committee to address the Pacific States with the hope of inducing them to join their for tunes with the rebel States. California has just sent on more than hundred thousand dol lars for the use of the Sanitary Commission o! the Union.. Think of asking her to join the re hels Did ever brazen inlpGdence go further?
 The Western Sanitary Commission of St Louis have received authority, by telegraph from the citizens of San Francisco, to draw OH New York for s500OO, being portion of the funds raised in California for the support of sick and wounded soldiers, and this donation came very opportunely The commission was reduced to very low ebb for funds, and ye: on Saturday nsary twentytwo hundred addition al sick and wounded came poarng in upon them from Kentucky, Tennessee and Nississ irpi.
 TIE notorious Matt. Ward who shot the School Master, Mir Butler, in Kentucky, for 1 cha8tisng lis brother, WAS himself recently shnt in Arkansas by T guerrilla, and is probably deal At the trial of Ward for the murder of Butler John C. Critten,7na defended the cuprit
 He took pains to remind the Jury that the Wards were one of the first families of Kentuck, and therefore it was too much to demand thai the culprit should suffer the penalty of his crime A verdict Of acqlittal was rendered, but it seem ed as though retrhution followed the juryman Many of them died violent deaths, within a brie period afterward Matt. was compelled to leav, Kentucky, however. and finally found home il Arkansas, and purchased plantation near He lena. He was there when General c. L. Hove, arrived. Matt. was afraid of vengeance from th, schoomaster- soldiers" of the Thirty third Ill inois regiment but he was not fated to die a the hands of teacher. On the Ed of October company ofrebel gnerrillss seized lis negroes io convey then to Mississippi to work on forti cations. Ward was protesting himself agains this spoliation. when one of them fired upol him, wounding him through the hips, it is sup posed uortally.
 GENERAL BANKS received 8 dispatch from Gen
 ;t)Denan, sunday dataI Poolesvlla ap.ri,ng him "f the appearance of Stuarts and H,in| ton's force, with six pieces of artillery, at day light, pursued by General Pleasanton's cavalry When they arrived in sight of he river the, broke up into small bodies and made for sever;. fords The troops sent to intercept them were of course. also obliged to divide and engage tht enemy at a number of points. The rebels fnall. crossed between Conrads Ferry and Point c Rocks. The stolen blue uniform which Stuart men wore made it difficult to distinguish then from our own men,
 THE New Orleans papers contain length correspondence between Gen. Butler and Dl ". N. Mercer, on the subject of neutrality Dr. Mercer wishes to avoid taking the oath o allegiance to the United States, and as he la
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