Litchfield enquirer., 1864-02-25

News from New Orleans to the 9th, by the steamer Havana, reports that on the Sunday previous, General Dick Taylor attacked our troops stationed opposite Natchez, and was rHpulscd with considerable loss. and driven six miles, The attack was renewed the next
 morning, when the rebelS were unsuccessful being rrpuscd with loss. Their force num- Jered three thousand General Grover has secured the country with his cavalry in the ei.lbo,houd of Madisunvip, across Lake Pontehartrain, broken up conscript camps within ci:c'e of f'ty or sixty miles, and cap tured several of the enemy. A large quantity of beef cattle, sheep md horses, have been brought in.
 A Washington dispatch says the last trust worthy intelligence fixes the pirate Alabama at the dock at Annoy on the l7th of January
 rhe United States steamer Wyoming, Capt.
 McDougal, was also there, and the United States ship Jamestown was daily expected The navy department feels confident that the Alabama will never leave port, and it is not impossible that she will be destroyed at that place.
 Mir. Brooks, of the New York Express. in his speech in the House, on Friday, against the bill establishing Bureau of Emancipation declared that the abolition Of slavery was an accomplished fact recognized by this govern ment and by that at Richmond, and that here after he will act as if abolition were establish ed, and he would give the administration till next September to end this war Granting means for that purpose, he would stop the dis cussion of theoretical schemes, and act on practical facts. He said he should offer sub- stitute for the bill, recommending that svs- tenn be organized for the protection of negroes without taxing the treasury. It is understood that Mir. Cox is preparing an elaborate speech, in which he will declare for abolition and free negroes.
 Dispatches from Chattanooga give impor- tant information concerning Gen sherman's movements, obtained from rebel sources Gen. Sherman is announced to have reached the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and destroyed the bridges. Mobile papers make mention of O severe battle at Enterprise, Miss, on the rail- road below Meridian, on the 18th, but with unknown results. The same papers also an nounce that Gen. Bishop Polk had been com pletely out-g generated by Sherman, who had got beGween Polk and Montgomery, Ala and they give up all hopes of being able to sue. cessfully resist Sherman's advance. Altogeth CT, Sherman seems to have made remarkably vigorous march.
 A dispatch from Chattanooga states that in- formation has been received there that the rebel Gen. Johnston, believing the army at that point to have been weakened to reinforce Knoxville, is preparing to attack Chattanooga. He had concentrated his troops at Dalton, and extended his picke;s to Ringgoid, but another account represents him as fearing an attack from Thomas, and therefore unable to rein force Polk.
 Gen. Thomas and 8 party of officers, wh" arrived at Chattanooga from hnoxviile on the 18th, represent Longstreet as in full retreat before the advance of our forces, who had moved out to attack him. Railroad commu nication between Knoxville and Chattanooga was complete all save 700 yards.
 Thus far, fifty seven of the one hundred and nine Union officers. who escaped from Rich mond, have arrived within our lines, or been heard from as safe, Twenty five are reported | by the Richmond journals as having been re- leaving twenty seven yet to be heard l from, most of whom will, undoubtedly, come in safely.