Litchfield enquirer., 1863-02-05

vaa's Island bristles with batteries. garrisoned by two regiments of infantry sud two artillery companies. Fort Sumter holds a force of six hundred and fifty or seven hundred men, under Colonel Rhet.. and ths fort ap the Middle Ground is also well niapned. The force on Norris Island numbers about one thousaud men, and the entire shore of Charleston harbor is lined with heavy gnus. The two ison-slad batteries constructed for harbor defsnces are aaont and it is generally thought that they will prove very effective.
 It has been ascertained the following eff cers and men of the Monitor were lost when that vessel foundered short time since :- Norman Atwater and George Frederickson. acting ensigns; R. W. Flaws and Samuel A. Lewis, engineers; John Stocking. James Fen wick, William Bryon, petty officers; Danisl Moore, Robert H. Howard, Jacob Micksls, William Allen, William Eagan. Robert Ceok, Thomas Joice, Robert Williams, George Lit tleheld. Sixteen in all. s 'rzH
 We shall undoubtedly soon hear of the third attack upon the rebel defenses at vicks burg. Gen. Grants troops were at last accounts rapidly moving down the Mississippi from Memphis,and rendezvousing at Mill:kens Bend Gen. McClernands forces and Admiral Porter's Squadron were at Young's Point, only twenty miles above Vicksburg. Late rebel news in- dicates that desperate defence will be made both at Vicksburg and at Port Hudson with the view of keeping open communication with Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.
 It is reported in Washington that Major. Gen. Burnside will very soon take the field, an important command having already been ar. ranged for him. Gen. Sumner has received leave of absence for several days to visit his family in the interior of New York.
 Admiral Porter has dispatched tive gunboats up the White river with directions to keep the river clear, and if possible, recover the steamer Blue Wing, captured with some coal barges by the rebels some weeks since.
 Despatches from Was hington- announces that Cav. Andrew has been authorized by the Governmen: to raise detached companies of volunteer heavy artillery, and such corps of in lantry as he may deem expedient for three years unless sooner discharged; aud is further au thorzed to include in the corps 80 enlisted persons Of African descont but to have them organized into separate corps.
 There are now ensampsd at Concord. N. H. q considerable number of officers and soldiers belonging to the Seventeenth regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteers for nine months They hay: been in camp ahout two months. and the prospect is that the regiment will ney. CT be filled up. Ifthey are not se.t forward to fll up old regiments, or paid of and'sutIarcd to go home, why keep them under pay for sev- eral months longer, doing nothing!
 Joseph Harris writes 10 the st. Clairsville tOhio) Chronicle that the losus!s will be on hand this year. Icing the seventeenth year since ttsir last sppsarance He says: This year there will bs locusls in abundance Pre- pare your small trees hy tying them up with straw for twenty 6vs days and you ar. safe, if you do it right
 Illinois is good State to live in, Governor 1 Yates iu his la:e message, says uf that State: '' s.e nov produces twice as much corn as any l other State; almost twice as mush wheat; in l meat cattle, the first ia hogs tul little behind Ohio; and in the value cf live stock Uf all kinds, she is already ths second State in the I Cnion.'
 Jeff. Davis's "re:aution proclamation 's eensurcd in very strong language hy tie London Tmet,and the rebel President advised not 10 st,empt it's enforcement, as it may cause him the less ofboth France and England. The .aunted imrcnetrsbilty of Charleston IS notbel!eved in by tho rebels theglseves.ii actions sreak more truly than worlds In.slli. gsnce recently received at Washington shows that tho inhabitants expect the city to he taken and burned in the approaching canHics with sur iron clads, and that they have, in anticipa- tion, removed all of their portable property including even the doors of their houses, into the interior of the State. Letters from for eigners resident in Charleston, and enjoying unusually good opportunities to judge, strength en the be lief entertained by our best naval off cers that the task before Admiral Dupont although not an easy one, will be accomplished.
 Gen. Rosecrans is rapidly weeding out from his army the semi loyal drunken and imcempe- tent officers, preparatory to another victory Colonels, captains and lieutenants have had their walking tickets for drunkenness, coward ice and smaller dellnquencies, which in other divisions of the army are winkedat.
 The news in North Carolina is interesting.- The Third New Yolk cavalry has made an ex- tensive tour from Newborn to Trenton On slow and other places in the direction of Will mington, breaking up rebel camps, destroying their works. bridges &c. ard capturing priso- ners, harses and colprs. The expedition which combines the reconnaissance with the dash was successfully carried out and occupied nearly a weak in its nerforinance r5