Litchfield enquirer., 1865-01-26
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LATEST An official despatch from General Terry to General Grant states that Forts Gas enemy on the 18th, and that the works or Smiths Island, and those at Smithville and Reeves Point were abandoned. These places were held by the Navy. 162 guns and large besides quantities of ordnance and commissarJ stores. Our casualties foot up twelve officers and one hundred and seven men killed, forty
 five officers and four hundred and ninety mer wounded
 The Washington Chronicle of Tuesday, say Gen. Butler would leave Washington that day for Lowell, Mass there to await any call thu Executive may make.
 1 Gold in New York, Tuesday, 1983. Provl sions and Breadstuffs dull end dropping, Flour, New York state, $925 to $9.75 per bbl Ohio 10. .53 to lO.6O. Western 960 to 9.7O. 1 General Payne by order of Major General Wilmington Jan 18th, andl found that the enemy had retired about two miles. After a slight skirmish General Payne fell back to i his old position.
 On the 18th our troops succeeded, with the aid of two rebel prisoners, iii renewing several l torpedoes from the mort he ast side of Ft Fisher | They were buried aboat three feet below tEe surface just outside of the main work, and connected by a wire with a gaivanic battery insiue the fort. ..E ....: Capt. Adrian Terry, A. A General of Gen. Terry's staff, is promoted to be brevet major of volunteers. t, On the afternoon of the 18th, our gunboats proceeded up the Cape Fear river about two miles, and took possession of al large earthwork | on the south bank of the river. They met with little or no opposition.
 The departments of North and South Caro- | lima have been consolidated, and the whole is 10 be placed under the command ef General | Foster.
 Richmond papers of the 18th and 20th, re- ceved at Washington, give a series of teie- grams from Charleston, respecting the cam
 paign just inaugurated by Gen Sherman, which
 resulted in the capture of Pocoaligo. The
 rebels appear to be very uncertain as to
 whether Branchvi,le or Charleston is General
 sherman's objective. After retreating from
 pocotaligo, the rebel General McLaws crossed
 tbe Combahee river, where it is said he would
 make n stand At the last report our forces had demonstrated against the enemy's posi- tiou. and are said to have been concentrating a few miles from the Combahee. at McPher
 sonvillc. whither the troops were being brought up by railroad from Coosawhatchie and Savannah. Heavy rebel reinforcements are re16rted to have arrived at Charleston. A dispatch from Admiral Porter, received by the Navy Department on Saturday, says that in addition to the blowing up of Fort Cas- we'll, the rebels also destroyed the pirates Tal- lahassee and Chickamauga.
 A rebel deser,er. who cane into Gen. Ter rvs lines, reports that the rebels have evacua- ted Wilmington, after setting fire to thirty millions worth of cotton. It was thought that our troops were near enough to prevent its destruction. Another report says that on the nightof the 18th, five blockade rnnners unsuspectingly ran into Old Inlet, and were captured by eur fleet. A dispatch from For tress Monroe says that.m of the larger ves- sells of Admiral Porter's fleet have returned, and that all the smaller vessels had entered Cape Fear River. '.
 Gen Grant, while in Washington last week, testified before the Committee on the Conduct of tke War on Buffers failure at Fort Fisher. He returned to the army Saturday night. .9
 The affair at Poeotaligo Bridge. previously announced. proves to have been very brilliant and important success resulting in the capture of the bridge and of twelve heavy guns, nearly all of which, however. were spiked This was the most important station on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and heretofore has been defended by the rebels with great vigor Reliable information places the main body of the rebels at Ashepoo, Q station on the railroad thirty miles south of Charleston, where it is supposed they will endeavor to make a firm stand. It may be considered certain that tue rebels have no force sufficient in numbers to check our onward progress. Deserters report that they contemplate the evacuation of Charlesten, and have removeda most of the povarumont r.aohi nupv from that .fitY.z SEs Fl