Litchfield enquirer., 1862-02-27
--" - EZRA B. FRENCH, Second Auditor of Treasury Department.
 Washington City. D. c.

DIRECT FRox EAsr TENYEssEE.--The Balti- mora Anaericfn of Saturday publishes an &C., count of an interview with Mir. Robert John- son, son of Hon. Andy Johnson, U. $. Senator, wko left East Tennessee last week en route for Washington. We quote as follows:
 .The fact that his fathers house has been converted into hospital by the driving out Of his family is confirmed, along with numberless othes accsunts of tyranny suffered at the hands of the corfederate leaders by the Union men, of East Tennessee. The two Union men, Fry and Henchie, who were hanged at Greenville. were arrested at night and hung Me nert naor- aing and this was done too. by Col. Ledbetter q ts1fire 0f Mnssac usefys, but rabd secession. ist. Of course! The account is confirmed that three were hung. as stated some time since, at Knoxville hy order of Gen. Carroll Browulow Ras stiIl sick at Knoxville, but with chance of recsssring.
 Mir. Jshsson learned oa his way out that two eegimests and Ose battalion of rebels held Cum berland Gap; but Gen. Carter, with the advance of Gen. Thosnas's division, was at Cumberland FSrd. 6fteen miles distant, on Saturday last, and it,was thought would pass through another gsp Eve miles distant and not fortified, and thus take the rebel forces in the rear.
 -Mrs Johnson informs us that, although the Union sentiment of East Tennessee is kept down by superior force. the people there wait xielfcDh6denee the advance of the government forces to rise up and aid them in the restoration of free speech and of the right of which they have been deprived. When he left they had not heard of the results at Fort Donelson. H. had heard since his arrival here of the reported burning of the bridge across the Tennessee river on the line of the Chattanooga Railroad. and considers this terrible blow to the rebels at Nashville. if it is true, as, with the bridge des troyed at Floyence. below the mussle shoals, and the Memphis snd Charleston Railroad bridge, at Decatur, gone also, they are absolutely isol1teli So far as railroad communication with the cot ton ct tes is c0ncerned, and would have to give up or destfoy sii their heavy war munitions be- louxiAk to the Bowling Green army, along with the xaatl quantity understood to be stored a, Nashville. s ,s M S a, @s
 Altogether, he gives very cheering account of things in that region. inducing us to look for results of vast importance soon. He proposes after brief visit to Washington, to return al once to Cumbefiand Gap, and accompany the na tional troops on their mission for the relief o East Tennessee.
 An officer of the regular Infantry: who ha, been a prisoner in Texas for months. and i, among the exchanged who came up from For trsss Monroe, Friday, says that during the fou or five days he spent in Richmond, he heart nothing to indicate that the rebels were dispose, toyieid. Fight; fight to the last; never giv up," were the utterances of all the citizen whom be met. He believes that the Inaugura of JeE Davis will breathe similar spirit.
 Gen. Mcclellan visited the army of the Poto mac on Thursday. He assured them that the would before long have an opportunity to distin guish themselves in the battle field.