Litchfield enquirer., 1862-02-27

aEn. Butler, accompanied by some offhem men. bers of his staff, left Boston on Thursday, for Fortress Monroe, where he will at once embark for Ship Island. It is supposed that Gen. But. Ter will visit Washington and embark npon the steamer Mississippi upon her arrival at Fortress Monroe. In reference to his departure the Low. ell News says: :" Gen. Butler bade goodbye to his friends in this city this for enoon, and he sx poets to leave with the troops. It 10 said thSs Gen. B. remarked a short time since that he would be at his destination on the lst of March. and in sixty days from that time he would send to Lowell cargo of eotton.' --.--..-.-..--.
 THE anniversary of washington's Bir.hd.v was marked by the release of number of State prisoners from Fort Lafayette in New York m. bor and Fort Warren in Boston harbor.
 BErwEEN the 18th of, January and the 18th of February, the following record has been carved 0y the National army and navy Battle of Mill Springs; battle of Fort Henry; battle of Roan. oke Island capture of Edenton, Hereford. and Elizabeth City North Carolina occupation of Springfield, Mo-, and Bowling Green and Rus. selville, Ky. capture of Fort Donelson; cap ture of Clarksville; capture of Cumberland Gap; and capture of Nashville. Gen. ZollicofFer was killed, and Gems. Lloyd Tilghman, s. B. Buck ner, Bushrod Johnson and Edward Price cap. tured beside a score or two of Colouels, com. missioned officers by the hundred, and privases by the thousand. Between twenty and thirty thousand small arms have besn taken or aS. stroyed, nearly two hundred csAnon captured, over four thousand horses and mules, and in. mense quantities of cornmissary stores and camp eauipage seized. All the rebel eanboats ia G. Al Al . A...- been destroyed, and a number of valuable pri. zes captured by the blockading feet. That will do for one month.
 HE report of the fall of Nashville is confirm. ed by dispatch from St. Louis. The city is stated to have been occupied by General Buells army, and this statement is accompanied bs the important anAouneemeat that Governor Harris has called in the Tennssse troops, and that strong reaction had occurred among the people. The sight of the Stars and Stripes has no doubt done them good. UNION man, who left Nashville on tho day following the fall of Fort Doneson, represents the state of excitement there as being unparsl. leled. A perfect panic reigned througheat tho whole city. The streets were thronged with peo. pie wild with excitement. Leading rebels were making speeches from store-goods boxes, from the street corners, to the excited populace, sta. uuS tudI tHC CcuGFhiS were upOu JHetE. Juo city was defenceless, and appealing toesesy man who had any species of firearms, to rally tO the defence of the place. He says that these ap- peas had but very little effect, and there seemed to be little, if any, system about anything that looked to resistance. During the coufasiDa, he made good his escape to MuRfordsville.
 1NTELLIGENcs has reached Paris, Kentucky, that the National forces took possession of Cum berand Gap, with hout meeting with the least se- sistanee, and that the Seventh Kentucky Regi- ment and Sixteenth Ohio are at the Gap, while the two Tennessee Regiments have passed into Tennessee
 WE AGAIN hear from the Burnside Expeditiou through the rebels. A despatch from Suffolk. Virginia, announces the arrival there from Vim ton, of rebel officer, with the intelligence that battery of which he had command, had been shelled out on the 2Oth by our gunboats, seven in number. which had passed up the Chowan River. in the direction of the Seaboard and Ro- anoke Railroad. Another dispatch, dated Nor folk, states that large number of troops accom- panied the gunboats, and that the town of Win ton was burnt by them. The rebel troops retired 10 Murfreesboro. Winton 1t will be recollected. is only about fifteen miles from the. railroad.
 GENERAL Wool on Sunday morning, proceed ed from Fortress up to Craney Island, where ho had an interview with Howell Cobb. relative to general exchange of prisoners. The result of the interview is not stated.
 The funeral of Col. Russell at New Haven, Sa- turday, was attended by Gov. Buckingham and his Staff, city authorities, the Horse Guards, City Guards, Emmett Guards. Grays, Veteran Grays, National Blues, Gov. Foot Guard, 2d Co.,, and by 8 detachment of the 18th Rsgiment.--- The body was taken to Birmingham, whore h was buried on Monday. Gov. Buckingham and Staff attended the funeral.
 The crew of the British steamer "Fiugsl," which ran the blockade of Savannah, who were last week sent from Norfolk to Fortress Monroe. by flag of truce. have been sent back to Norfolk by Gen. Wool.
 "A fine ould Irish gintleman." at Lynn, Mass who did not own flag, wishing to celebrate the federal victories, hung out blue shirt and white one, together " wid the ould woman's red petticoat," saying "lse jabers! III have the. imblems out, any how"