Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-05

Gen. Butler takes the secessionists of New Orleans by the nose if they are not civil. The mayor, Pierre Soule, and others, undertook the usual rebel buster and were much astonished that he was not moved thereby. He merely in- formed them that if a shot was fired from any would never again shelter mortals head AL so that if the pefpetrator was discovered, ss the places that now know hin" and 50 forth. He told them that the a aunWashed mob'' would no longer be allowed to terrify abiding citizens into silence. He frequently gets out. his reri- mental bands and gives the people m opportun- ity to hear the celebrated Star Spangled Ban ner, the well-known Yankee Doodle, and those whos are not respectful get Hail Columbia. A miserable loafer once spoke of s Lincolnites, '' and went immediately to jail. Yet such disci- pline is doing good, and the effects of Gen. But ler's wise course are already apparent. The shops are reopening business is resumed the people throng to the reviews of our troops, and in various ways make advances to friendship.
 Col Redman WilHey, residing in Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri, holding eommis- sion ,as Colonel in the rebel army, and late from the rebel force at Corinth, Miss, voluntarily surrendered himsels as | prisoner of war to the Provost Marshal at St. Joseph, 6 few days ago. A first he merely reported himself as a return ca rebel and wore no uniform or insignia denot- eeA6 AA0 eAAAs HE pcESOu WdS uuAuOWA U tAO Provost Marshal, but that officer, suspecting from the air and bearing of the gentleman that ne was no ordinary person, questioned him until the truth came out. Col Wiley left the rebel army month ago. He did not pass through our lines, but made his way through Kentucky. The Provost Marshal sent him to Camp Byrne, where he now is.
 By the. steamship City cf Nsw Fork, which passed Cape Race on Saturday we receive sdvi- ess from Europe four days later than came to hand by the Europe. The news is not specially Important. Full details of the evacuation of Yerktown had been received in England, and the event yss regarded as hardly second in impor- tanee to the capture. of New Orleans. The Lon don Ismss considers it great reverse for the eebels. The London Post, as usual when it hears of any great victory of the National arms, sug- gests that now is the time to effect compromise. The Liverpool Post regards the war as virtually ct an end. Earl Russell had submitted the new SlaFe-trade treaty to Parliament, and had taken occasion to bear testimony to the efforts of the present Administration to put stop to the traffic.
 TIE 2d Iowa Cavalry, Col. Elliot, with Gen. Halleck, did brilliant service on the 18th ult By forced marches over a very difficult country, and bile and Ohio Railroad at Bonneville. twenty miles below Corinth, destroyed the track, blew up culvert, burned the depot, locomotives, and Q train of twenty-sx cars loaded with supplies j; destroyed also 10000 stand of small arms, three pieces of artillery, and great quantity of am- munition and clothing, and paroled 2,O00 pris- oners. Col. Elliot's command subsisted all this time upon meat only, which they seized as they went along. They broke up the deserted camp of Price and Van Dorn, where they took several hundred barrels of beef At Bonneville he found 2.500 Rebels. sick and wounded.