Litchfield enquirer., 1863-05-28

the hill, forming in line of battle on the rieht ] of Gen. Hoyey, and advanced in gallant style. sweeping every thing before them, to the eice of the woods in the front of Gen. Logan. The battle wasof the most desperate character im- aginable. The rattle of musketry was incessant and continued, and the reports were so blended that single discharge was rarely heard.
 Gen Logan captured two batteries, q large portion of prisoners, small arms, Sc.
 | Rebel dispatches make moan over the des. truction of property in Jackson, Miss, by the Union forces. They say that before leaving they burned the Confederate House. the de. pots, the penitentiary. Green & Phillips facto. ", Stevens foundry, Lenoire's hat fact ory.and block of buildings on State street, includinu the medical purveyors and other government offices. Also. both bridges over Pearl River. and destroyed several miles of the railroad track. About 300 negroes from Kinds county joined the Yankees. Farmers estimate the damage at from five to ten millions.
 The porter at the Merchants Hotel, New Haven, early Friday morning, forced himself through. pane of glsss g by l3 inches large, while in a state of somnambulism, cutting his leg and arm in the most shocking manner. i Maj Gen. Ulysses S., Grant was born at Point Pleasant. Ohio, April 27th. 1922, and graduated at West Point in ls43; was in the Mexican war and made captain for gallantry !; resigned in 1855, settled in St. Louis, and in lSo9 he went into commercial business in Ga lena, III. lie offered his services as soon as soon as the war broke out, and as Colonel of the 2lst Illinois went into Missouri, Being made brigadier, he took command at Cairo in the summer of 1861, In February, he marched to Fort Henry. which Admiral Foote had captured before his arrival, and then as- saiei and took Donelson. Gen. Buckner, who commanded it. asked for terms Grant replied that the surrender must be unconditional or he should move immediately on his works This soldierly answer gave him the sobriquet of Un. conditional Surrender Grant, the initials be- ing those of his name 4a's e@ Parson Brownlow visited the Tennessee reo. iments at Nashville some days since, and ad- dressed them at length on the duties of the hour. His reception by the East Tennessee ans was most enthusiastic,
 On Saturday afternoon, fire occurred in large chair mdnufactory near the junction of Pearl and Frankfort streets, New York, by which great amount of property was des- troyed. One of the employees, named John Fox, was so badly burned that no hopes are entertained of his recovery. The fire orgina- ted from the explosion of camphene lamp which Fox was trying to fill while lighted.
 Twelve bushwhackers. belonging to tho band which recently made the raid into Kansas, were captured at Council Grove a few days since, and were placed in ciarge of Stuart's cavalry to be taken to Fort Riley. On the way thither they attempted to escape, and all of them were shot.
 Government has taken preliminary measures for restoring judicial proceedings in the East ern Distrcs Of Louisiana by the appointme ent of Edward II. Durell, Judge of the United States Circnit Court Rufus Waples, Atto,. ney Jumes Graham, Marshal.
 Wm. Robe. of Morgan county, Indiana, was shot dead while at work in field, on the 2lst inst, by Copperhead named Bailey. Robe had been collecting evidence against the Knights of the Golden Circle.
 The steamer James Brooks came to Fortress
 Monroe on Sunday from City Point. with six hundred and twenty paroled prisoners. inclu- ding eighty officers and the crew of the India | nola.
 Eighteen Massachusetts regiments were en- gagged i'll the late battles near Fredericksburg
 Their aggregate losses were 9l killed, 52G
 wounded. and l22 missing-total 739.
 North Carolina is chaGng significantly under
 the Davis despotism. and her newspapers ant
 p, o. ls speak threateningly of withdrawal iron
 the Confedsracy. Henry Ward Beecher preached a farewell
 sermon on Sunday evening, prior to his con
 tenn plated four months in Europe. The csurc |
 was densey packed before the ringing of the
 first bell, and the exercises were of the most
 touching and interesting character. Mr. Beech
 CT reviewed hls ministry of sixteen years in Plymouth Church. | Trouble is breaking out in Dakota and Ne.
 braska, in consequence of murders by the
 Yankton.Sioux Indians. A regiment of cay. airy will soon go into their country. -# Henry Sawyer. United States consul at Par | amaribo. South America. has presented his | salary of g. 900 for one year, to the govern. ment to help crush the rebellion. 7' An excellent grammarian gives it as reason why blow leaves a blue mark, that blow in | the past tense is blew. A column of infantry will generally pass l over about five miles in two hours, halts inclu- d d. A column of cavalry, at g walk and trot , alternately, makes about SIX miles per hour. GEN. HALLEcK.-The Washington corres- pondent of the Cincinnati Gazette. writing on rho O.h t4,ax l-..t E.,sl.vlGar H.IlaoL