Litchfield enquirer., 1862-04-24
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 THE GREAT FREsHEr OF THE CoxSEcrtcuT Rw.
 ER.-The Hartford papers arc full of accounts
 of the great freshet which has taken place the
 past week in the Connecticut river. At Battle
 boro, vt, on Friday the water had reached . higher point than ever before known and was
 still rising. At Springfield the railroad trasks
 were submerged and all travel suspended b. tween Hartford and Springfield. At Hartfesd
 the water on Sunday reached an attitude of 70
 feet inches above low water mark which was
 only IA inches lower than the great flood Os
 1854 which was the highest ever recorded. An
 the lower part of the city, along Froas S. wss
 submerged, and hundre Is of families were driven
 to their garrets where they were waiting for the
 flood to subsde, and others were forced to take
 r.fuge from their homes in row boats. Row.
 boats passed the whole length of Commerce and
 Front Sts. and Morgan St., where Front Sc.
 crosses it was covered with several feet sf VI.
 ter. Woodruff & Beachs Iron Works, on Con.
 marce St., were submerged to so great an extent
 that all work was suspended there, and the Gss
 Works were entirely surrounded and the free
 put out. A funeral which occurred % ous of
 these streets on Monday, was attended entirely
 in boats
 This rapid rise of tho river is the more remark.
 able from the absence Ot any rain, and can bs e. counted for only by the three unusually warm days of last week, which melted rapidly tAs large bodyof snow north o: us.
 At last accounts the water was falling.
 LATE advices from Memphis state that the
 rebels claim the battle at Pittsburg Landing e
 a victory for them, on the ground that the fsds-
 ral loss in killed, wounded and captured was
 greater than theirs. The federal prisoners were
 moving to Richmond. Reinforcemeats Wers
 constantly arriving at Memphis, for COrissh.
 where desperate stand was to be made. Busi.
 ness at Memphis was exceedingly dull. The Oe. cupation of Huntsville and the subsequsst ssis- ure of one hundred miles of the Memphis and
 Charleston Railroad was considered by the rsb- els as the hardest blow they had received. RICHMOND papers of Monday admit that ,hs
 federal forces landed near Elizabeth City. N. C., and their troops retired to the Dismal Swamp Canal with loss of thirty eight killed and woun- ded. They say our loss was heavy. ,.r Gen. Banks telegraphs from New Msskss
 that his advance is near Hsrisonbarg, and ho has troops across the mountains protecting tAs bridges on the Shenandoah at Amy and O
 the Suray road. Stray was occupied Tuesday The report that Jackson had abandoned the Shenandoah valley and retreatcd te Gordeas. vile is corroborated.
 By the arrival at New York Of the steam f transport Mcclellan. from Port Royal on the afternoon of the l4th inst, we are put h pes ] session of full particulars of the bombarimsat and surrender of Fort Pulaski. It appears iron , our own accounts that the rebel dispatches O. } nouncing the fall Of the fort wers Fsmaskahly corrsct-only little exaggerated in regard to 3 the effects of our fire to afford better crease B for the surrender after SO short . bomhsslmenA
 A brief dispatch to the War Department states , that we opened fire on the morning of the lOtA inst. After thity hours almost continuous G. ing, practicable breach was made, and prspar. ations for storming were abOut to commence, when the rebel flag was struck. Our captures, beside the fort itself, ars forty seven guns ssvsa thousand shot and shell, forty thousand pounds ofpowde,, three hundred and sixty prisensrs.
 with their small arms and accoutremsnts, and good supply of provisions. Only one ofour men was killed, and one wounded. The loss Os thO rebels was three wounded.
 ] By way of Cincinnati, we have details of the. opening of the attack on fort Pillow by ths squadron under Com. Foots. The point tech. nically designated Fort Pillow, is oshsrw.ss
 called Fort Wright. or the lst. ChickasAw IIlaas.
 The correspondent from whose letter ws quols says that on Sunday. the l4th inst, thers wsrs
 according to various accounts, from 6.eoo to.
 5000 troops at the place, but that they had oa- l ly one heavy gun on the water batteries. TAsss reports. deri we'd from Rebels who wsrs irnorass of the capture of Fort Donelson and Islssd Nc.
 10, can hardly with safty Dc depended oa. After march of 20 miles from scar Warm. ton, on Thursday last, Gen. McDowsll teok possession of the suburbs of Fssassicksbur. A limited Rebel force disputed the National .S 1.
 vance, and having crossed the Rappahassock. the Rebels set fire to the bridge, which hos ds.
 layed, but only temporarily, the progrsss os shs
 army. The National loss in this important sog.
 movement was killed and l6 wounded. Gen. Mcclellan has furnished to ths War Do. partment fall list of the killed and wounded
 in the sortie before Yosktowa oa tho ietA nd.
 The Secretary of War tslsgraphsd on Saturday morning to Gov. Holbroek oi Vermont thas q soldieS of the Vermont Brissss Wsss kiIlsd asa , 90 wounded at Yorktown. Gov Holbsook rs. qussted that they bs sent to New Yosk. cd slss teegraphsd to osL Aows, Ms Stsie sesaA lha