Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25
A letter from the New York T;mes co~r.

yN tcu'arly from the Louisiana regiments Near. y the whole of the l4th and 18th Louisiana regiments have deserted during the last month. The reason assigned by them for tn is stampede IS that they had read the Presidents annestv proclamation, in one of our newspapers. Great efforts have been made by some of their off. cers to obtain posse ssion of the ceptraband publication, but without success. It has nass. ed through nearly every pans hands in tAeas regiments and when last seen was nearly vor, out.
 Richmond papers up to the 2Oth. received at Fortress Monroe yesterday, fully Con firm the rapid progress which Gen Sherman has aires. dy been reported as making. An official dis patch to the rebel War Department of the iotn announces his arrival at Quitulan, Miss, point on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. twenty miles south of Meridian. toward Mo. oie' The dispatch adds that the " movement was the boldest of the War;, 1t also savs tba. Meridian was evacuated on the l4,b. and tba. Gen' Sherman meditated no step backward, as he was destroying the railroad in his rear,- His progress had been uninterrupted, but the rebels announce that Q desperate fight will be made at Mobile. Gov. Watts had isspad !. proclamation, announcing that the city was about to be attacked, and requiring non.com. batants to leave. According to dispatches from Mobile, Admiral Farriguts Bee. had made it's appearance off Pascagoula, on the l4th' moving eastward, and on the 18th evi. dently.made an attack on the rebel forti6cs. tons at Grants Pass, which leads from Mobile Bay to Pascagoula Bay, between Dauphu Is- land and the mainland. A dispatch oftbe 18th says Ae Rad not reneued Ais attack, but gives n' details of the one that had evidently taken place. Stormy weather prevailed, which vos the canse of the delay.
 The war news from Tennessee is net sns- cially important. Numerous rumors prevail as to the attitude of the enemy, none of which can be considered very reliable. One rumor says that the rebels have appeared on the l oo~S' ~A'N VI GhC 1euHeSSeC, Hnu are Inter- rupting communication between Chattanooga and Knoxville; and another rumor says that John Morgan has crossed the Tennessee on a rald A dispatch from Chattanooga to the Cincinnati Commercial says the rebels in East Tennessee are moving. They are reported to have broken up Winter quarters at Strawber- ry Plains and to be moving across the. river. A report also prevails thal Lonsstreet has been reinforced by Buckuer, with heavy force of artillery.
 No official confirmation of any serious fight ing by Gen. Sherman. has hren received, aud the reported capture of l2 600 prisoners by him is doub.le less untrue
 The National Union Committee metat the residence Of Senator Morgan, in Washington, Monday, and issued cal for the assembling of the National Union Nominating Convcu- tion at Baltimore. on the 7th o June next. | At a marriage in Cumberland. Enrland, there were present husbands. husbands, 2 wives, brothers and two sisters, l father. mother, son, l daughter. aud l aunt ; yet there were only persons. By the union of the bridegroom must acknowledge his granG- f,ther as father, his father as his brother, and his mother sister. The bride must ackuoyl- edge her sister a, mother.
 asbin-t,n letter says: Gen. Grant m private letter to E. E. Washburn, written after the resolution reviyiug the grade of lieu tenant general was introduced into the House, says: You should recollect that have been highly honored already by the government. and do not ask. or feel that deserve anythipr Tn the shape of honors or promotion a sue. cess over the enemy is what crave above ev- erything else, and desire to hold such inHu- ence over those under my command as to ena. ble me to use them to the best advantage to secure this end.'
 A medical practitioner, not quite 80 celebra- ted as Galen, undertook to cure woman of deafness, with which he was sadly afflicted. One lotion after another had been prescribed. but still the patient was shut out from bear. ing his felowmen. I've just come ance mair to ye, doctor, said his wife. to see if ye can gle John something better, for the last bottle ye gave him did nae gud ava Dear me- said the doctor, Im surprised at that but it matters little, for there's naethiny Rnun worth the hearing just now.
 The navy department has received dispatch es from the east blockading squadron, detail- Ing the capture of the British schooner Eliza and British sloop Mary, from Nassau, while attempting to run out of Jupiter Inlet Fla with cargoes of cotton. One of the passen. gers on the latter was on his way to purchase machinery, with the intention of starting wooen factory in the South. The sloop Car oline was capszed while attempting to run out of Jupiter Inlet.
 REBEL PERPLExITIEs.- The Chicago Tribune thus happily catalogues the many and various dllemmas of the rebels
 l. If they increase their army they cannot feed it. 2. Unless they increase their army they are whipped.
 3. Unless the press speaks out their liber- ties are gone. 4. If the press speaks out their government will be gone. 5. Unless they draft the whole population they must surrender. 6. If they draft the whole population they must starve.
 7. Unless they recover East Tennessee they can get no saltpetre. 8. If they under take to recover East Tennessee they will get