Litchfield enquirer., 1864-01-14
Ie1ya nt the Neek.

| give Us an inside view of matters in that city
 Affairs present by DO means the cheerful as pect soms would have us believe The Charles ton Hotel is already closed, and notice is giv- en that the Mills House will shortly follow the example. Tue reason assigned for thus clos. ing TWO ef the tnost fashionable hotels in the South IS the great Restitution of provisions si all Kinds nscessary toconduct the establish ments in a manner agreeable even to the un- fastideus taste of tks guests. The copsreea tons of two churches publicly invite the con gregatlon of a third to join them in religion, worship, for the reason that the edi6ces of tbe former are subject to danger from our shells Nearly all the warehouses situated in the vi ein''y of the piers are emptied of goods snd abandoned.
 Ulilmore's fire, then, is after all effective.
 telegram dated Sunday, from the Head quarters of the Department of Western yir. s'nls, says that detachment of our forces an. der Maj. Cole, in London County was attacked
 yesterday morning by the guerilla Moseby. with 4oo men. A fight lasting one hour occurred at the end of which time the rebels were driy en on, leaving their dead and wounded on tb, heidr Among their killed were four eommis s'onsd oiIcers. Our loss is reported slight. Hon. Caleb 3. Smith, late Secretary of the la'erlor, in President Lncoln's Cabinet, died l lsss week, in Indiana. He was Judge of the oni'ed States District Court. Secretary Up sher' the present Secretary of the Interior, i, already saaled to succeed him in office.
 The case Of the Chesapeake was brought ur Tn the Admiralty Court at Halifax, Saturday Judge Stuart said he was of the opiulon ths the vessel should be given up to. her owners The counsel for the rebels asked him to con templsts the probability of rebel spplics. tlon for the weasel, which the Judge said he would not do. The Advocate General for the Grown also expressed his opinion that the vessel should be given up to the owners. The Court adjourned to the 18th.
 New Jersey-the only copperhead State in the Union-is filling up its quota by enlisting colored men from abroad--among chem, psn- ty of fugitive slaves from the contraband camps.
 MR. L1NcoLN's REPUTATION ABRoAD.--The London Spectator says, with reference to the news of the Presidents late illness that |" the mind naturally glances at the possible calami, ty which the country might sustain in his death. Few men of average abilities ever managed to inspire moro profound trust in their integrity and frRpess than Mr. Lincoln has csntrived to mplant in both his friends and foes, and certainly there is ne man in hi, Cabinet, not even Mir Cha Sc, whom the world would trust as we'll"
 Advices from Arkansas. dated at Fort Smith says that a squad of rebel dasarters, just come Into cur lines, give details of he numbers and position of the rebel forces in the Trans. Mis- sissippi Department. Holmes commands the Department and Price the forcs in the field - There is much disafeation among the troops an account of poor supplies of clothing and provisions, anl the succsssas of our forces in Texas add.d to their dscontent and increased their distrust in the rebel cause. The Amnesty Proclamation was having the effect of inducing desertion. A rebel mail recently captured shows that Price intends to march soon against Little Rock, and this information is corroborated by the desertsrs
 Dispatches from Cumberland, Md, give full details of the late attempted raid in West Vir- ginis by the rebcls under Gss. Early. Their force was three brigades Of cavalry, with which they were to attempt to cut the Baltimore Railr lad, between Mar,insburg and Now. Creek and capture such forces as were found on the route But they learned that our force at Martinsburg was strong, and under Avsrill and they abandoned the attempt. They thea Set of to capture small garrison at Peters, burg, Hardy csuaty, and failed in that, after which they beat retreat. Our cavalry pur. sued some distance, and picked up many stragglers and deserters, who gladly take the oath, aud are released.
 In the Senate, Friday, Senator Wilson in. troduced preamble and resolution setting forth that Garrett Davis, in a resolution offered by hin on Thursday last, advising the people to treasonable instruction against the govern ment by declaring that "the people of the North ought to revolt against their war lead ers and take this great matter into their own hands;' and also of gross violation of the privileges of the Senate, and recommending that for these ca uses he be expelled from the Senate.
 The Croton Water Board of New York city have 296 miles of pipe laid. The new reser voir holds OO,o000OO of gallons, and all others l95, ,0o0, 900 gallons The daily demands are about sixty gallons to each inhabitant.- The amount of income last year were about nine hundred thousand dollars.
 The extensive mills of Messrs. II. A. & c. B. filling, in Birmingham, used for the manufac. ture of yarn and hosiery, were totally destroyed hrv Hv,T ,r1..-