The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1862, Page 2

> NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1862.—-TRIPLE SHEET.) ie aa ~ teeta . of labor at No. 10, April 8—T A. M. 4 directly in the bend of the ie sub is our ond "it all demand, aod Started of in the direction of her new field Lstamp No. vo, pril 8— : pve pent Oo caer. poruzen. peep ety ed nae cot ctaiee ore) on a , Sorcerers lasses in vere peeutias 9nd ene wentenn.e tank panecssien @f Tiptoavilie and (he causoway New Madrid, the Colonel justly feeling proud of his | The Surrender Complete and Unconditional—Dalimg Pos | Wisin Nik 0 tae analiatdaub and aenentteon- 38, Darts tour resident, wit bya bin A suoh a place should bom poy win the algee ot horil& Es achievement, and bis mea shariag with Bim in self-com- session—The Prisoners, Property an@ ‘Trophies—What | (ifully sloped on the exterivr, 1s mouated four guns— ae mnanrees we og General wt jain an the ride. 7 e¢o, and twonighte afterwards the Pittsburg followed Sratulations. But just as the boat was about to quit her the Rebel General Phough: of Himsel/—A Hasty Retreat | two thirty twos and two atxty-fours. In the rear of the | o.,, smagon's ploniy fargo enough, out angela aearsare ly shut ou! suit, and the veral on out upoa the muddy bosom of on the Mainland—Spilaing and Refitting Guns—Insialla. maim wall of the bat sm pore he he Bod J . country. ae Sunday foliowing the two gunboats jointly attacked retreat to launch a single pivot gun to range over the other guns of the bat- | 1's fed with colton around the sides, and made of South, mile a half and silenced the rebel batteries below Now Madrid the Mississippi, « change came suddenly over tne ton of the Union Forces on the IstandeThe Marine a’ te! A little in fro! and to the right of this battery ern wood is the high land, Which to th: Finding himself thus completely hemmed in tbe enomy South Caroll _» i caused disappointment, aad perhap® | Poken—Cimilition of the Rebel Baliercs | are two guns lying upon the ground. Two more lay just | 8: with Georgia by her side, oust to Reoifoot lake, distance Garrendered at discretion. dismay es take the momen former felicitation Fer the Siege—Descripiion of Each a and Is | back and to the right, and in froat aad a little to the test Virginia wilt bold out fag up, ane we'll ail ake a shda, Roelfoot lake ext Ange mir pth the abe u 7, aro eight more, none are area! some Alte ies in length, and terminates in a swam) for a robel battery upon tne Tennessee shore, | Armament—Cusuaities of the Hnemy~-Teiegraphi Com | heavy pieces. A short stretch of rile pits extends {rom | 7 e's Tennesace and Texas also {n the ri ‘ _ | which otaen Gp’ tetas’ iden Gene pwd Lessons from the Reb! Mail Bags. Dithertwo undiscovered and undreamed of, suddenly | munications of the Rebel Officers—Good News from Tip- | tho lower apd of the battery, im the course showman tho | 4) ) wabliy jaaptfisdetie hase io hase isn't Klong: }awamp varies in width from one anda half to eight [New Madrid correspondence of Memphis Argus. | wagon, i ied, nt tin tvs wrayer Ansions for tae ida: di to the river, designed to aid in repuising \ ORUS—W ait for the wagoa, Ae. landing parties. Rohiad these works numerous streols Of tents stretch back to the woods. No. 3. The construction cf this battery is not dissin milos, its narrowest place being at a point four miles Ta tho mail bag referred toT fiud tho following totter from Tiptonville, where General Paine had stationed his | which speaks for itself, introduced to the motice of the menon Monday; and where the rebels had prepared o corduroy road ‘and vridge by which to escape from | *4t0rs Of the Memphis Argus thus:— became unmasked, amd sent such a shower of shot about tonville—Songs of the War and Poetical Stimulants for the creok’s mouth ag to cause the captain of the craftto | the Rebels, dc. shout to the pilot, ‘Stop her,’ “Back her,” “Back | The story is told. i " - lar to that of No. 2, f hich it it ‘sus. Evitoxs—Enclosed, please tind & communication hor hard,” i more steniorian voice, in quicker succes- | The long suspense and season of ansiely the country | (04 (Ol 08 ho 4. (rom wich At ta removed about an Sate Bi teas Tatas, betwae, Reatiaes gn oe | ia reply {0 one ‘which appeared iu the artrie, winica aa sioa and more en-charch-momber-like expletives than 1s | has experienced is at aa end. tiiFigttwe and coe cighitinch columbia Skeet Gohee after and lake sit | The dis- | in shia Injetee aaa i eee to Fetitativo one customary with even Western steamboat men. The Island No, 10, the famous stronghold of tho rebels, pent mounted Biedy O upon the gop is aD 0 Tiptoavil is only bout six onal; “Please ston Ba yet pad ie aia vend — ‘ is ei simi ows of 9 encampinents stret: by tof miles has to +) but change ts amarticlé we never ser here. pact: Dattory was out of the reach of any of our works onthe | the supposed invulnerable and invincible defeaco away io the rest of the bettery'te the wr bs SA parnngpeees pov gal teow fu we: nnne hes tu Migsouri shore below, and such was thenatureof the | of the lower Mississippi, the little piece o taad above the creek that none could be planted tocom | low, flat, wet land that the repeated earth-- mand i. But the Colonel was not discouraged. Heim, | quakes which in mrmer years shook this whole re Modiately informed Commodore Foote of the state of | gion of country have not deigned to troubie, has sur- Mrw. Morriwother’s ianding is mile and a baif above | ,,Cakpes K>naurs, Bleventh Arkansas regiinont, Iaamd Nox ‘Tiptonville. Commencing at the river, a quarter of eRe mile above gan ie house, is a doep gut | The communication rum on:— high u ‘10, wy the | EVACUATION OF NEW mapBLi 08 rary ste Teil esha perp of ortonna co ehamaneenaorea pe anecanaes nea ‘Mowvs—Wait for the wagon, ‘The dissolution Wago. ‘The South is our wagon, And we'll alk take a ride: Our New Mudrid Naval Correspoudence. No. 4. ‘This battery has an excellent range directly up the river. Ita walls are of the same nature as those of It mounts three ritied sixty-four pounders aud ug ten-inch eolumbind. 118 sup ian rar encampments, ietweon the eries 1s affairs, end asked hig ‘agsistanes. Now we cometo the | rendered, and the Union forces are now moving to take | « white frame house, surrounded by a ir of out- On ‘Steamxe Merry G: the channel of the river; but the State of Missouri 10 Th BDITO.: OF THR TRUK DEMOURAT. atansor Possession of their eapture. pcr gs ae plein . boat. v' é w New Mapa. ing an action of injunetisn in the Supreme Court, it Was | Nothingty morediaiited De Soet or eh ees cet RUNNING THR BLOCKADE. Already two Union gunboats—the Mound City and | qUarter® Frc Fe 5 = sf \ goodered 4 Ravan, April 8, 1863. abandoned. ‘The road from Mrs. Merriwether's’ wo No. | g nowaat,smordull uy Lovorin over hm to relute he 43 #00n a5 Commodore Foote learned how near Colonel | st, Louis—are guarding the works, and transports load- | level aud filteen feet in thickness at the top, beausifiutiy | March of Generals Paine and Stuntey to Tiptoneitle—Kea- ‘ee the i banks along ° river ‘afforded. grand te et eounit ght: bu ad place fence; but in case nothing cou! thin command ieee the catren: feo intel Sanna gee 0 oe Sea ecenane some forthe - ‘OF the Rebel Army on the Mainland to General Pope—Ths Troops March Into sloped to's thickness of twenty-Ave feet at the’ base, and surrounded by a trench seven foet deep. © ‘This fort mounted but two guns, both ton-inch bores, placed ons Bigsell bad come to being successful, he resolved tosend | ed with troops are on the way to occupy them. him assistance, even though in doing so be might The surrender is unconditional, though it covers mere- y 10 was through this cut along its enti tance, over | sland rm ten HE pk ‘oug! a g ent Be dintenen, oree sisadecect Ba spam pus ree oe oe ge i lo bere ee] Tahal 'eo transcond “orders,” and if defeated in consequence | ly the public property eit by the rebels in their dight;|.at each ofthe front corners. Campana Stack their Armi—A Ride and Scenes Along | iow water thoawainp ia ulteriy impusaable, But they | Woiclefter Tauetre she facie WNCMIY, aa Uber, etal, ‘bject himself to reprimand and dishonor. He studied | fort a; t Py No. 5. we isely of the same nature as tho the Route of the Keircat—-The Defeated Commanders in | had evidently counted upon the or at- | sent or do injustice to any one: with the 4 ppears that the whois army encamped on the 4 * ? - and ‘he ‘and refute the falas Jong how he should get.a gunboat dows to New Madrid, | mainland have fled in utter'rout and confusion, leaving | Datterieeabore ueliesbed, biG reason it mount Tiptowitle—List of the War Material Token—The Rebel | Wcked in » favorable seagon, and our runing tae 4 ° ny _ Ho found that the channel by which the Terry had got | all their guns, tomts, storesjand ammunition (ue us to°|/ No.-@-, This battery ta the germ ot any on | Mait tage and Letters.of Despate=topopraphy of the Ke. | stockade, fortity tag the Missourt or going in steam edolthoron fiedsvocd Ws tee eagan peed shallow already, and the | dispose ofas we'may seofit,’ 9. the pagtloland, and | is peculiar Sia tts evo. | bel in pee ve anda Fuir | beats overiand to get into-thoir ‘ctloere, tarde is presumed evvet'was fiat falling, and to run. the enemy's Batteries | Phe sinall gerrjsom on) the’ island itspit, about turds | at an once nana oicting Wie RS in | One seho, : te the Ne. 4 vain box Se se Cepitols aud thatytm was the only alternative. Inced notsay to the friends | hundred atrong, have surrendered.a prisoners of war. of gréatistrongib. The Suis ace | 9708 sn Ze At Islam No. 10—Avplieations of the’ Png may eae ros freee Spit ae prae. aant, hig. eine exact the best futerents’of wud acquaintances of Captain Walke why he and his bost | he forge thet had besa oncamipedl-oa the ain innd is | twenty feat wide, cight high, and one imextreme | Seilere for Protection—Valuwe of Gur) Naval Gaint=’) found the old lady surrounded py her family-—-whive and | (aceiteyagtt wore selected for auch hazardous work. The Commodore | ‘variously estimated at from aix to ten thousand. nth length, lines oe hele, The as ib conamapt esiguation of Some of the Revel Regiments Captured") viack—out at the fence by the river's sido, auxiously } ” "2 outsville' esired che experiment to bes success, and selected | hayell scattered in confusion, each man looking out | toch columbrads onotioity-two pounder oersotte ot Chronological Regard of the Siege and Triumph, eo.’ ~ {pa ccldlone ga they Passe an ae ite Sire, | imo. great (error and cou such ps and such a crew and such a bost as should {foe nimgeit. ‘Their flight commenced at one P. M., at | sixty-four-pouniier, ce, UDMmOUD! ‘ayia the Before this resetes you,the great North and thé loyal | y' ran or ries pees peer "aa. Sepa, Carel oc pana ‘The night-eet in dark and stormy, which promised | which time orders were issued from the general head. } Tear of the Mie nge oF lie baitery Is very‘{ people at the Seuth -will-hiave subsided from @ (resh | dréds and mannera, en: into a spirited conversation, | tier, crowded. upon. the gunbiata; the: truth wall for tho undertaking. Bu about ten’ o'clock | quarterso the several commands to ba ready toevacuate |,""pminte nine gy ye corn fieldy in the centre of [ BUTS! of popular oxciteniont, engendered by thelast great| in which the y of the party, olneds Ye seh annt ance an cielo heietila Ramen anes Pgh "Lod play among. the clonge ne* ,ReER | at a moment's notive. Whee this order was received Tang ate Weser Ncalsious. A shattered Parrott.|. though bloodiess victory. The telegraph has told you of | ;Bavah Hage may eee ae Toate: | Aad wien ordered to the fort to damount and sme the a = a "of rebeiion, | o@ the foating battery—as Tam informed by u denertee | SSH bites, K varpoonder, Obetmucts the road tits ruse’y the capture étJaland No. 10 and tte surroundings—the vate their nasal prota as if she odor from a blue | finienny each keowing thar the évacuntion Mt be gone: ature re. espoused cause I say each of the young I: jwiotis to remove vet « Western Gibraltar” and ‘Confoderate Thermopy!a’’— Diib.it is left for the reporters’ to give details, and my Quota shall-be forthcoming. When I closed my lastilettor in firing an elaram frem Jov: ‘was disagrees artillery, and Nees up the scene with Heaven's ethe- real ; @ terrific storm; such as one can only witness in the West. You people at tne Fast may | that the office ‘unite ; and all agi rything that might beot ad- digs m mistaken, for I noticed one | vantage to the enemy. And when ordured to march om Mi buxom, laughivg and lovel ‘the they did.ao calmly and quietly, at the who sébmed delighted that the federal troops had ame time expressing their choice to be to remala at ‘the fort, from that craft—an officer was ‘seut to headquarters to procure ap explanation of it. When he arrived he found” and their staf had already gone, thus aofoss the fold, having evideutly beon bit; while pass- » by one of our heavy misgiles.. In tha fupther corner ofthis Held is a largo barn ,eurroubded by all filled with ordnance stores. Piles and: rows Of co ank infront : . nquer or die. ferred to defend the fort that imagine that you have heard thunder and seen lightning, | showing conolnsively that the greater cowards were ine wo es Sel ne Ti eeicen de those | %¢ New Mudrid, 1 litte expected that my task to-day: among them. ‘I! I officers and young ladies they ‘by thelr own. labors bad erected, or, Uke ‘our fore: ‘Witnessed storms and beheld majesty; but allow me to Ps would besuch a pléasant one; (or 1 anticipated a seene of [Peed Very anxious to ascortain where we were going to | fuilers, who fought for liberty, fl weldiers' graves. I have ay that | have geen your choicest samples in that line, those having the highest authority. It seems scarcoly eo the maiuland, and, with the-g3 Of the, upper : oe ei start down the river to attack Fort Pillow; but my little | never witnessed more cooiness and # greater desire Lo ti and.can.eafely ‘ an Eastern thunderstorm bears | Credible that this should be so, especially in the caneof | battery, are not so st; ‘The island is very high, | strife und bloodshed, instead of a quios surrender, after laughing friend kept us from affordin, the coveted | than was exhibited by our force ou the 1worning before evacuation, All seemed determined and yexolute, and cack med to know the duty that he wax expected to per- instead of our soidiery an Suncontediied the greyiest quiet, order, aud discipline. nee- ¢ Bloody Kieventh,” beingout on of the Intention, affording tine positions far dong ranges, but rendering information by putting her dainty-Aittle white linger to her lips, betokening @ need of-caution, and motioning with her eyes and head toward two or three of tbe party that she had evidently, not mich confidence in. Tasked | th old tady if these Were any Union poople living in the | duty, knew muti Vicinity: Dt Steen 5 Raelw OCabin, fataly pat away¢ nol gpk ell hy aoe ane U1 "aren tenuy and quietly); and when. they retirned to. the fort, n't foritheir secesh beaux. {hele duties, apd Ia cries bad quae cm etiociel fee, ties ters, old lady and rebel officér’s gaye | Eleventh, commanded by Colonel Smith, calmly and quiet go niuch rebel bragging about Southern chivalry and Coniederate invincibility. Bat 'tis as ’tis,andT am glad tis. Monday morning the camp opposite New Madrid was astir ourly, aud by daylight the divisions of Generals Paine and Stanley were on the march to Tiptouvile, fifteen miles down the river from New Madrid, aud one and a half be- low Mrs. Merfiwother’s. ‘The rebels had beon retreating about the same relation toa Western one that @ Berkshire | an officer who had the “confidence of Beauregard and gd b omegaoragmrrragloty preps erage Bragg.”’ The comniundunt of the post was Brigudigt Geue- Lightouags were vo continuous and vivid that uot a 130 ral Mackalk, who ou Saturdaydast relieved General Mc aren Api the Nesieiweed Ges of Be aad ahe Cown, the former commandant. Mackall, on assuming = Repeat gens erie kee 4 igerpoee oy the bald | COMmMand, issued the following address tosthe forces:— mancuyre. for they allowed her to, pass by the upver | fort and approach the sec.nd beiore they fired upon her. roirninccad But when they did once open their batteries, it seemed Let me tell you Wao Tam, [ania geacral, nm theiregaps useiess when closely approached, as in the instance of the gunboate-running the blockude, when they btigged the shore closely, causing the enemy's shots 10 puss over then decks. No. 1.'The wails of this battery are two hundred and Aly feetm length, fifteen tm thickness and eight in height. Ibis divided into four apartments or divisions by three gabions, square in shape, beneath which: Whereupon t “which betokened anyth: + ple: ir | went on the boats, when, without noise or confu: nér 4 look which betokened anything but pleasure o1 8, i nox contusions alia, fe by Bean astt'tho whole bank of the river yawned aud was vomit. | regard-—ageucral selected iy Kenuegnrd wil Henge yor this beneath. The in that direction the afternoon before, and it was thought and New Madrid was @vacuated ing forth the pent up fires of Paddemouium, and tor half | commana when they knew it m, were Daneel), ‘Whe arsamape t eonsiaie , aan » and it was thought good will and Mei ucuated. aan Ci ee ee Se ee | tues have Sep ae (ite yO coher swe bave | One eight iach colnmbiad, two thirty-two pounders, | that they were endeavoring to cross over Reelfoot-lake, | You aro aware that West Tennessee is the hotbed of ibe Rong A ean Danis IEEE ar. Che lanai nbc nanee ae one sixty -(our,oue thirty -swoand one ten-inch columbiad. ‘The three last mentioned are apil the only guna on the island that Have been thus tampered with. No. 2. This -work is seventy five feet long, with walls of tho Ame mature and strength a3 those of No.1. It is diviiédin the centre by a singie gabion, which is also made to answer the purpose oi a magazioe. The arma. ment is one eight-inch rifled Dabigren, one thirty-two- pounder and two sixty-fours. ‘Secession in the State, and I expected to find thatevery | whom they were not half adequate: the rem; ntartedt man and woman was thoroughly imbued with the heresy. | for Island No. 10, some of whoth, reacued that point, But how agreeably was I disappointed.when, in social | while many are yet Wandering, through the woods, converse with many of the fuliabitants, Ifound them | aad some, exhausted, lald down by the toadulde aod dledy almost universally in favor of a sic of hostilition | #c;,#e,, This lsnct dnly false in one respert, but basely i toda general convention of ae Sates to rearrauge the | 12,0, rldien didnot temp crowd upon the ban affairs of the nation. I asked several, who appeared to | of their officers, to the boats, and quietly went i and a snd a ent on board; ‘be men of wealth and standing, if they would be willing | our morning reports after the évacuation tell ir coma to come back into the Upon and live under the preseat ere are here together, not wandering through the woods, King Joi, and those of King Storm to see which would | “100d 0n the fields of Mexico. Give them your confidence take the most noise. But not asingle reply wus elicited | "Mig Givestto me when I )a:e earned it. “ pong Semnts te" a GUNA ertio iard foo her fe key of the Mississippi iv catteiated to Jour save the slow puffing of her escape pipes, not a ness of last nightand hodit. bona pec ipabep: shee: “over which she had po » W. MAGKALL, Brigadier General Commanding. ;"* but she sail long as quietly as though Probably Brigadier General Mackall hes earned the mamas stn gabe, ‘aad yee Thach ait toed | Cmddence of the rebel troops by this time, haying in in torrents, not a man remained below’ decks, for | thfee days suffered afederal gunboat to run his block- or somewhere in that vicinity. Accordingly our troops were pushed forward with all possible speed,and at night camped at Tiptonville and Merriwether's, while a strong force was posted at the only point where by any possibil- ity the rebels could cross the lake, some four miles from the town. Squads of rebel soldiers kept coming in sight iscipline, to your pattea. rs 4 of our pickets during the night, and at times would come : No. 318 anothor angular fortitieation, similar to the ’ oustitution, aud ariably was, ‘Yes.’ ey everybody | jerked ochia RORY up fato his, larynx, | ade—the offense for whieh his predecessor was celieved | No @ land battery, ‘Its walt aro touteot ik and two! | Lotdly up and surrender themselves prisoners of war. At othe negre pape MEAL, auntone mene taibe ding, apd nog Decaine, 00 sauce exhansod ease fens t - i of the command—and set the example of rapid running, | hugdred feet in extreme length. It ts furnished with | daytight this morning General Pope and staff, and Assist” | the most interested, apd. confidently looked for- | insice to this whole command. fo far ‘athe commanting ‘ Ne ring that his whole army ix demo- ‘ from the object of bis solicitation, «After SS eee oy ny ar passed out of sight | leavimg his forces to take care of themselves. Ho de- round the tii fogs of the island, we | serves promotion. waited in slaiost Dreattlees offen for the signa! that | ne pale Cae i Mer had beea agroed upon with Commodore Foote—tbe signai i 8 ignominiourty aet by the officers was ‘the Speedily followed by the men, and at sundown the main- land was completely deserted of soldiers, save here and there a straggler who preferred remainiug and taking his chances.with the “Wankees,” rather tham following the (ading fortunes of the South confederacy. Besides the stragglers \there wore left one hundred and All day to-day we have been speculating as to what | forty-six sick in the hospital, might have been done her by the terrible firing, | ‘The haste of she evacuation is plainly seen by the we feel at rest, for Captain Phelps BAS | oooed and uncooked meals, the quantity of private bag ous of the enemy's ubots took effect upon her, and nota | gAKe and other personal effects, the undamaged stores— gabions between each gun, of which there are five mounted—viz: two sixty-four’, smooth; one. inch ritled columbiad, ono teu-iachcolumbiad,'and one eight- ineh, rifled. The last gun sis exploded. Back of the works are fuur eight-inch gune not mounted. ‘No. ts 4 new battery thrown up since the Carondelet rowthe Snes It ia Le Giurpalaers » aenpaaeT 7 twoguns—one thirty-two poander, rifled, and one eight- inch columbiad. Another pight-inch guu iy in readiness for mounting. } a ; Adacouujaghia.and the other island \batteries are a number ov singular habitatious for the guaners, com. of cellars sunk im the sandy soil and roofed over thJogs, sandand turf. Butrowsfor human habjtatioos Qiso formed against heavy logs, composed of partial excavations, with « roof of logs and turf sloping: from the ground to the top of the main log. There are other twa aoa vas ng to ¥ the ipenpoa conte band alized, the etre hich that position: ta now held 1t was no tl see the “con |, the atreny whiel rus whe bad Posen ly taken up their abode ‘with the | will teli whether that statement be fale or tre. Pr 8 it Sire arnt in converse with their sable brethren, and ENR aT been litte Hose Sry taned. he vould hare the result igthat the masters mourn over the loss, and aoa AA, Northern officere rejoice over the gain of innumerable | ja sneaen ® soldier, too, we cooks and servants. pieces were put on the gunboat, Arriving at No. 101 found more than space wil! allow | im such « pell-mell manner upoi me to write. Sixty-one large gun$ mounted upon a dozen | forced to throw a guns aver » inking. this just have been a boat batteries would have commanded. the ‘wae isnot | srorth, io let two email brass pleces siak het. But the rebels ant Secretary of War Scott, went.down to the locality, and of course General Pope assumed the full command. It was expected that some show of resistance would be made, and noone ever surmised that the enemy, who i was learned bad marched over from Isiand No. 10, had concluded to give himself up so meekly, 80 preparations were made acoordivgly. But shortly after sunrise Gen-)| eral Pope received a message from the General commanding the ‘confeds” that he bad surren- dered the island and fortifications to Commodore Foote the night before, and that the forces under his command were ready to follow the ‘fortunes of war,” and re- ‘questing General Pope to come out and march them into been for the fact that t! 0 spiked je discom- | iis that o fited and surrendered with rattal Bes, and tho fo lne-namtnal theron tate tae mente eaptorer Grampus and other robel gunboats taid in the river | ‘ailing into the hands of. the enemy, So dihguatiy: did between the Island and Tennessee shore. Great piles of | men work in spiking the guns, securing the: ery ae provisions were stored upon the bank, which the Coufe. | ‘halmany even would not take time to get (hele own be derates, in their haste to evacuate, had failed to destroy, | {idns of that might be of witantagn to ierece Drought us the news direct trom New Madrid that not ‘and tents of all descriptions, with campparaphranalia,oc- | ny. The guos were so well . = Ss -holes and burrows excavated im the bavks of the ied the positions and places: to the st thi ‘= y ther A id as lO. carry- casualty gocarred om board. She arrived at Nowe Madrid|| ordnance, | commissary | and, quartermaster’=—ieft Lahn, and ather. gale. plares, Ueatily. to. the tere | camp. Gageral Pope, in reply, informed his Confede- Ghengemneth of ihe citga” The Eibttesn wherfbost, ehich {ng fhe Norse wagons, Vents, "dc, away. our commanders s mig anh ; , iweitely thought} Dest (0 deatroy Cabnon #e. and such Papin poly meni. em gate Toe em gtameniaal for nr cores < to capture. Prible "tre of, @hot and” steht to which the | rateship that ifthersbeis bad'thus concluded;.all they | the ebels lad stolen, lay on the inside of te island, laden ight roy cahinon, &é. and a land was exposed. Indeed the heaviert cotton wood : , ht assist (he enemy in execting batteries, de. * Rores Oi cpa coc onc omens ints dedon cengtensovariy Gracial Gantt the ost; ond wi am busy taking care of fthe abandoned property, while our | iisdetender (for he is well able to deterd himwell), Te troops were engaged in securitig.trophies of the victory. | ‘hink that he is not, but that the off-ers who commanded ‘The next obstacle we aball have to encounter in going | nd ordered the evacuation, should bear all the down the river will be. forte Pillow amd Randolph, lo | (were be. But General Gantt and his comma tov ty Bh 4 ph, 10, | sians, and it seems that they reorive but litt cated at the first and second Chickasaw Bluffs, eighty and | war,’ Tue gallant Tappan, who 60 uobly led bis regi ninety-five miles above Memphis, ‘These will’ fall, with- | brave Arkansians and tought s0 well at Helmont, has re- out a doubt, easily before {ho combined attacks of our | cetved no praise: but to-day they live dear in ibe bearta of army and navy. ‘every Arkansascitizen, If the farves then at (ne fort were «“Louteville” save—if they were men aub- had to do was to come into camp and go through the formuia, Accordingly about four thousand rebels were maarchett in and stacked their arms, and this closed the draia 90 far as Island’No, 40 was concerted, I went down from New Madrid early this morning, and arrived at ‘Tiptoaville about noon, having ridden over the route pursued by the retreating rebels two through dhe soese ppeu be? urcival’ dy: Néw Madrid is vépre- es «intended returning immediatety in time some mistake. supper. Aw one deserter “describes i, “the: Ne the most wildly exciting ones ever | went like a flock of skeep.’’. ‘The only thought they wi ‘Yoote, Lat : ers Were Out upon the banks, end | seemed to have for the future occupants of tha-works howfed it. Cheer after cheer went up | was tospike theit gus, and thi they did effectualty; }, Captain Walke, the navy, the Ca- | (hough berea si>gtilar incident is noticeable, * fondelot, the tars and even for the colored cabin boy: and The upper bauesy, which our brave men so-céoily when tho Captain's gig went aghore torepori, the avidiers | spixed one nigh: lat week, wasfound tohave the spiking St Bae their arms and passed them from refully removed from all its gums and to be iu readi ‘another, accctapanying “embraces more teartfelt than agreeabie. trees are thrown down’ all over the island by the force of the heavy shells from oar mortaxg; and in places the soil ig torn up aS if with a gigantic plough: Some of/ these linge missites gunls into the ground ‘to a distance of twetve feet. as ascertained by actusl measurement. - ‘WE CAPTCkko GCNs. A recapitulation ot the gung captured in position by this ender gives thy following: mn Mounted. Dismounted. Field Pieces. 6 for further tensive operations. These guns, and fy 2 | days before. All along the route were the debris of the | “nits importance of this capture willbe seen when it is idly ecare: f yw of ese sarong agence New Maaria | ze only, were left unspiked. : Z 4 13 = | tying demy—blnakets, shotguns, knapsacks, canteens, | known that these are the fortifications which hereabout | ‘jin! Qcocect lo the anthortee: and bare heave sew ransporieere bow at New iri When the force upoo (he istund became informed of i 3 3 _ "i i were cousidered impregnable by the rebel generals; it Y us 14 ba ue to f' hie ¥ we maysoon oxpect warm work. The im- | this desertion of their posts by (heir comrades on the % hee = | gum carriages and caissons—scattered in the greates, t : y i placed there, and bimsel conumand? for, from li eave i . urng their icft flank aod leaves the baxe of their opera- | article, one would jndge that be is verset in military af y wo a aie ad have been mainland, their indignation knew no bognd:. Nowin- “ FE: 2 ea — | confusion. The farm houses were plundered and gutted, | tiong at Memphis open to attack from three sides. They | *ndas brave an Juitus Crear. «Tad he dome so, peruaps hie dpasganweiting fr. -d stander (thos qtinces| wean be Poly for’ them te oder hastber rasiantoe ne uedhinier & T | Anditoe quantity Add quality of farm atock to be seen’) must pécensarily now change the whole plan of their | (cmn'tse teitom of an hears Epiyintine Wonder Ch6Ghe ‘ 4, fimilar discovery” about General M:Cletian’s aided, they resolved to surrender, and at once sent the Talend Battery: : a = | were small and miserable. A more perfect picture of campaign, wht B give: aed very greatadvantage. Wh B | jotcommand the flotilia at Tiptonvitls wien Mt charged npn r uvebovet net ctar || eee De Saree E, Maaicy maw, £8 previonsly ops ate ‘ = | rata can scarcely be imagined Butwo haveall (he appliances rejuisite toabasty move: | te Toate arfemagcte nema onde te pean a end anes mer ES iggps tt oon Une incr 8 pe ety No.4. “ 4 2 ry — Arriving at ‘Tiptonville I found General Hamilton in | ment. The immediately ,o we To conclusion Twill add: had “Loutavil confined tl = their famous tlosting battery up (0 near the ed with the truce bout and held an interview wien | ‘online Battery. s oe = | command, Weneral Pope having gone by land to No. 10. | HY wav Noth es Several lessons by thiacapuare, which | Sromiy mistepreicnted the. private cr ‘island and opened fire upon our gupboxte and ain Home, commander of the island forces, whose 4 ‘The viliage was literally thronged with butternut colored y, we ~ | Dever would have bern writt ‘but alt kKaow and feet 1 r ‘Total... a will be of service to usin future operations. For in- | ih. se ie . ry ‘Wiertars: OF course we replied, and the fring continued was taken to hold his men until inorn'ng. Thi ‘ he false statemenia mad commusicaion come two hours, when the rebel monster oated off dew formal posseaslt-of Knatena | *seregate and gray seedlings; their arms were stacked or thrown | stance, we now know that the powder used by'the rebels | ,ud it is very grating ton pritace soldier's nerves to: be thie ' es awh | morning formal possession of both the island andtand | “tp addition to whic! ” or is inferior to our own, and tbat but a small part of their | traduced by one whois either top proud or cowardly to mur- We bad mo means of know! L the time ‘ hi 7 down iv the mud, and all were busy stowing away their D is Peder ea hes ther oF itaae at — taken, and they are now beld by United | inch vore, were captured near one of the batteries, aud . ammunition is fitted ‘to their guns: that our gunboats | ‘ei imio the service asa private, and do service for lis coun yt, but to-day a OU: States troops. Orst mea: of Union grub. taken to the Beatun as trophies. They are of the pat- can run their best batteries, and that their demovaii- ie Bouihiorn wnt shoud do. ABd ae to sertaanoe dows tho Missouri shore bar reveale! the fact the following yessels:— ring G , ‘being frighten oy very hollow in lern known as King George ll.’s mortars. TE’ RENKI. GENERALS AND REGIMKNTY. zation ia compiste. Dlonditinsty Yankee,’ T need. ent that (atghe ceedirndia mortal wound im the action and new Kenaman Vailey. 18 RAID. DRAD. I learned that the rebel General Commanding best evidl-ners we have of the’ disposition of the rebels | we han trom Arkuasas, the volunteer Stats of the Soutbeen Odio Belle. Admiral. Wiuchesier. ‘Two wharf boats. river, with nothing but the extreme apex OOF TOE above Me water ts freee? of the week runs thus at the [land:— night, Col. Reberts, with one hundred and k soldiers, spiked all the gune in the upper A floating battery mounting eight gui Of these the Simons, Azoo, Grampus, Red Rover and It is a Singular circumstance that tbe rebels will lie even when there is no particuiar advantage to be guined by it. They lie excessively ia regard to their casualties during this tong siege. We are wid, witb all the sober- LESS Aud earvestuess imaginadlo, not @ casualty oc- curred (© their force from the co!umencement to the close of the singe; but frequent funeral processions have tosecure any lers of peace are to be found inthe eagerness | confederacy, and to accuse the roms of tint brave Siate with with which property —— cg protection. a at 4. co eeaes Eraal 01 ignorance or = ie ee eat aieee cele oo ee tliree thouaand men to have remained and contended with Hight the steaner De Soto went up to the Benton with a was the redoubtable neral Mackall—he who io & speech at Memphis, 2 fow days ago, asserted that he “would fight the tederal birelings as long as his heart pulsated with life, and would die ten thousand deaths rather than fall into the hands of the Northern | ‘Thursday, the fleot sunk the famous floating battery. | Mohawk. and two other transports, were scuttled been seen from thedecks of our feet, in addition to nego Ki 5 ie . . ba Sie * to-day don’t look much || » | tag of truce, to bring oificers to tiate for the sur- Friday night, the Carondelet ran the rebel bockace, | susk by ihe enemy previous tothsir Might. ‘They which Southern papers have occasionally mentioned iso. | Crbsriaus.” The scene to-day don’t look mach like ity | Pee Sree, Nand. Hor captaigy Who was & part ; 04 At without the Ioes oF injury of « man upon our however, be raised ata trifling cost. lated cases. however. owner, suggested to some of the officers of the feet | Map Priferable roa disgracelul siureuden, Who ro ttre Foote and etn re} ‘Tne Winchester was sunk some time since; and subse- | “But I have more iucontestible evidence even than this | Geueral Gauntt, of Arkansas, was also there, as was | (hat the rebel fleet of transports and gunboats would | aunt the river daing this, whole month. Bet the fer been idle? may look if Bews this week. | queutiy so mach destroyed as to render her worthlese. of their dishonesty. In the evacuation of headquarters be destroyed, and that he considered that his boat would | ments or intentio General Schaum, a Prussian, and two other brigadi Js. Leould gain but little iaformation from the es,” for they were generally taciturn and down. hearted; but I ascertained that Pillow was under arrest in of either army are wot percepttDIe—both e would | -cem to be waiting for the other to move. ‘The enemy has Jespaired passing the isiand with their gunboats, which are nibnga of the first desie-, being coustructed” out a old teland 16 impregnable, pe hove the island, thereby expecting to Bat Liorget, 1 bot phar. <oningy rm stuck Secre- ‘The floeting battery originally mounted twenty guns, tary Stantoo's order in my note book with some of | tenof which were left at Colambus: two were subse Spaicting’s glue. Tread it every morning before preyers. | quentiy mounted upon the island, leaving her armament 4 at present as foilows:— the officers and attaches were in such haste as to leave many documents behind that they would be glad to re- cover. Among other Ubings the telegraph operator leit a book containing afull recurd of “official messages sent be in safer hands with the federal fleet than if sent back to the island. Consequently Commodore Foote detained her and sent the rebel officers back iu a tug. ‘The De Soto now lies at the Missouri shore gato and I Uurisiand Ne. 10 Naval Correspondence Two rifled thirty-two pounders und received.’ - * mt Pict oo " sound, and her captain and crew deligbted prisouers of. Butin this they will meet with Orr Istaxp No. 10, April 7, 1862. a ermvoot bores. They had & submarine cable leading to the island | Tichmoud for de-erting Fort Donelson, end ip neeee at large on board. ‘The De Soto is one of the largest, new- Ke, for ike “Hoody Elevim:h’’ is part ‘ Among the messages recorded in this record bock I find how being courtmartialed at Corinth for | ¢st and finest river steamers, and is valued at fifty thou- rn b whe Mite! Minion from the Mainland fora Surrender— | These ate all eerviceabie if they be raised vg 1 the fellowine:— ng New Madrid. sand dollars. When the Ohio Belle was being scuttled, | ‘ev. would, meet. They, are very, lmpndee, tw of Their Flag of Truce to the Union Fiet on ; Of stores of all kind there appears to be even a more Hrapqvaurers, Maneip Bexn, March 17—8:30P. M. General Mackall is be! Major General, and wasfor- | her captain cut her loose from the shore, and she floated | thny fy: me over and take a drnky” the Mistori ShoromBearding by. the Cnionivte and Re. \ )dealsupply here than fell to our posseseion at Fort |g, gapaiatecuee, commsnding Talend No. Ws merly in the United 4 rogniar service, and con- | gown to New Madrid, where she now lies. ‘The Mars’ | “How we are ai tenia: &e - = ‘ Donelson. ‘There are several buildings filled with ord ‘Are all weil McCOWN, negted with the Adjutant General’s office. He is a man | destruction was entrusted to Ler captain, who was con- | day morning they bed the laremnced tinpndence to s0t— Commencement and Progress of the Negotiation — hance stores hewicd Berea there e large magazines 3 anawan. 0 Pith 2! ER of perhaps forty years of age, good natured and pleasant | sidered onc of the staunchest Southern men, but he, in- ie ee vt 2 one 600) nhs Cogent Reasoms for the Submission of the Rebels, de sitacied ve Hearty ail the Maeyorled; WHAGR STOOL | ao Saeay Noa Math Ed M. | in conversation, aad is evidently # man of genius, but | stead of cutting her water pipes, cut her ropes and floated aeons ph nb ee Wiace:any “tant commaniontion one F-two noticable Ssh wenied. aad. danizogee, be (the amoant 1s. trifig ‘Three weu killed and some CKER bersieae courage, else he would have given us more her off to eae es shore, where she now liesa safe ing Dixie," ateer tehich they shonted and Natughed couse & a rs an id ni pi but they make no Blo Hr Ossover, been they focidents have transpired here, which, however, as I | when vorapered with the quantity secured and im good Heapguanrens, Manip Buxo, March 178457. M, General Gaunte ix from Arkaneas, and was formerly | “rhe tollowing is afull list of the rebel stekmers lost and aid of the Blaody Elcventh, as they eat! us by | “write, bid fair to be overshadowed by a greater and mors | order W:— Colonel of the fhird regiment from that State, but was | saved, with an approximation to their v — f ibe two wharf boas mevtioned above are among the igh in our regiment name. ‘The spirit of resenlisting gins wed down with all mane in am glad (0 say ® majority Now is the time to en- list—now or never. Tr we suflictent force here we could Lag all the rascals that tormeut us with their tmpr- denee, and that wornia Le glow ‘The healtth of Lis command is vemarkably fine, Meo att fi J ready to meet the enemy wt any time; and etn hearty weloowme mud boys. Will meet your orders, — McCOW! promoted to « brigadiership for bravery at Bolmont in This was ihe third cay alter (he commencement of the | G rober tast. He was elected to the United States Con. sioge and the second day of the bombardmeut. How | y-ose « year and a half since by the Unionists of his many have becn killed and wounded since caumot be | fr.4, but when his State-went over to ascertained; but as they are caught im a tie in thisin- | jt He is only ubout twenty eight yea stance, we may presume tha' three weeks of ca an oxperience and popularity of fifty. Of the other thr nonading bas not been inet brigadiers L contd ‘earn nothing, except that they were ‘This record of telegram si recent appointments. ation and surren- | that the rebel officers were There wore seven ‘regitnents ‘ef Confederises surren: citing event—nothing less than the surrender of the comet. of commiseary stores, Cooped up on @ steamer fast moored to the Mistour | pile upon the river bank shore, through the darkness of the night I can see a ves yy ee E set approach from the rebel works, signalizing her peace. , fal miasion by continuous blasts of her whistie, to ‘Transport Prince, svattied... ‘Travsport Ohio Belle, saved ‘Transport Red Rover, Steamer Yazoo, sunk on Steamer De Soto, saved. Swamer Mars ,saved...., Steamer Admiral, saved Steamer Winchester, burned. hey may ex t from the Eleventh Arkansas regiment. mi which the fiagubip Benton responds, inviting ber to |) jor je volely the elsion of the blockade by our | ments. Ou the third cay of the present month a des- | dered, but the officers say that they would Bot average peek per oe ae Military Canal. 5 Spproscl until she is within halt # mile, when | ynnboais. As soon as it became apparent that | patch was sent to the istund {om headquarters, at | (cg, four hundred ten each, AS Dear aw 1 could ascer- | Snes _ puaboat, sca OF COLONEL. BISSELL’S ENGINEER she is stopped, and a messenger is despatched | they conid pot prevent the passage of our arined vessels | woon, as /ollows:— | ucn from the officers surrendered, the following list em- | (ram; why CORPS—THE MANNER IN WHICH THE CANAI. WAS by boat to ascertain the purpose of her visit down the river, the rebel officers began to talk of | ge very vigilant to-night, oud keep a sharp lookout for the } braces our gaia:— Mohawk, gunboat, CUT—THE LABOR OF THE UNDERTAKING--SK@rcH — — pet eyacnating, as | am informed by a deserter, aud when | gunboats in cose they altemipr 10 pare | Gue major general. Vrsasing Hnttecy jeight gun OF THE MODE OF CUTTING DOWN Tite THES, iexC. ‘The tug approaches the rebel vessel, boards ber, and in | tiie sevoud boat wont down the determination teeva- | j¢ was on that very night that tbe Carondelet run the wo brigadier generals. | ing wT {irom the correspépdence of the Rochester Union.) @fow minutes returns to the flagship. in the mean ime | ; aterm colniogenten enealth: rong - rea tieitons evlenata, Total...... erty ms ‘After the surrender of the forts at New Madrid we ed to the quarters of Colonel Bu: | &® y lives, poerally kno at Kleven lientenant colonel —Uf which there was destroyed. Colone! Birsell’s eng: regiment) wore engaged for eta panapeaniadl cian this vieiu: seaport 4 Vareuie an combined attack | censn: viging {utste movements, the fault is | Vifty-aix captains. : her days unspiking guns, changing batteries, eatabliah- 0 — P frequently inside heaaquarters, tor in this instance not » sixty-four first lieutenants. Total envedss.s00..cssses veoe ihe. tug new works and other eng:ncering matters. Then we a'so returns quickly to the Benton. os og vos nideut had the slightest int meee of se bet tbr ape oomye eng ae ehgnbenia, ‘To which may be added whart! boat and stores. werenent over by Seer Lh ad beg shaogo it interval an hour lapses, when two t tated movement, vor was tl known «tal! away from the Regimen : 10en! _—— | was not practicable to establish batteries opposite Istand ment a Y Marne | the shedding of am immense amonnt of human Wiood. | ijagship and the Larondeiet hundred each. Making a grahd total of property saved aftoat.$235,000 | No. 10, so.as to enfilade their works om the Kentucky out from the -onneempeens going to the gunboat Mound ent hort ng. sistenaat ukmateal Batuabricn asl write the hews reaches us that (he entire force suont Keer! a aa ‘he following is a partial list of the rebel regimenis | shore. We spent three days in the swamps in canoes, City and the other to the rebel visiter. On the arrival of | cained, : that fed go precipitately (rom this region have been cap. | Six hundred and fitty mules. ei po with darkeys as gaides, but found the project imprac | disorganized. J bave accompanied this letter with dia- | tured by General Pope's command, near Tiptonville,on | —iwoive bundred horses. ant Maen. thable. Onlonel Blesell’ however, stated that Se Come the tug at the flag of trace boat that vessel revurne to the | y Fortieth grams of the rebel works, both upon the majn land and | ihe opposite side of the neck. The particulars of thie ive thousand stand of arms. Furty-sixth Fennesses, by hard labor get steamboats nad flatboats through the istand, and both tugs again repair to the fiag-hip. | tne island, rhowing the position at the moment of the | capiure, if the report is com J, wil be furnished you. Twenty four field pieces—six and twelve-pounders. Fifty -fi(th Tennessee. | woods and bayous, and by that means land our forces Immediately another of these timy creft is veut up the | surrender al! tilt SA sailcuane ‘There are indications ow y hand that there will be a pieces heavy artill First Alabama. ly opposite New Madrid, aud take ail the enomy’s rect the Union land encampment. | ries : A no halting at this point ndred wagons, Eleventh Arkansas, works in the rear, General’ Pope at once gave him a ot oer pel rlestereete a sae orate ct SME ENGEDD DRENONRSER/ING eager’ PORIICAL MIMCLAN vUR THR RemMD. barrows, barnes, Lents and baggage ‘Third Arkansas. | Tiite blanche, and he ts, , “ 4 f I should not here forget to mention, a nsas. six flats, and such guns as y paripea ak Wee eee ee, ae EET Ete necenbeeey inks Bot mounted cinktoe | _ Tt ie a1uusing to notice low, in the midst of successive f not here furget to ‘Tweitth Arka flats, rt ‘The, returning immediately. Tee eee eetcety Maaene kama peeatar orciotaes, disastrous defeats, the rebele keep their courage up. } *auisit mbouts, several ot them of | pirst Mississippi. sent the steamers W. B. Terry, John Trio, Gil- ‘As writeothors are flying about im dierent diree- | (PC Poms a ary ae eee eee patene iarece | Throughout the deserted eucampments here were found | 'he first ‘chez, Ne Soto, Obio | Companies A and B,Pelican Guard, New Usleans ar- | more and Kimma, with the barges, a quantity ot nl wrong Boe ae eat avy preceding victory, A diagram shews | Bumerous loyal secession sougs, which their soldiers are, | Helle, I Ec. Neither should 1 omit ry , French. lumber, &c., and one eight-inch ‘columbiad and tions, apparently conveying messages and despa: 5 number than at any preceding victory. A diagram shows Of these | send you a } Notice Of Immense piles of barrels of beef, pork and ‘Lhe arms used by the rebels were principally of the | three thirty-two pounders. Touls we did) mot need, unt of | doubtless, encouraged to sug. ‘The meaning of all these mysterious movements is nut pe ee Gearlg the diaposition of this vant ‘6 hame, sacks of corn and oais, bales oC bay aud ordnance | game clase capwured at Donelson, viz: shot guns, squirrel | for the regiment carries everything, from the as curiosities. The first is styled few samp , meta scores illimitable . Th heay ropes and serews down so fine sive! ctoar, though the occupants of the maval vesselon which | “ine pattaries are mostly uvinjared by our shot, though | CONFEDERATE LAND. General Mackall was disposed to be facetious at times, Cae tbe waa tak leu prone mee aerator unepiking guns. OCF route was about twelve ‘mn quartered constrne it to bethat theenemy has surren- | the upper laud battery xhows hard fighting. This was | . Gonredernca and joked about bis sijuation as @ prisoner of war. Other | grins is ac miles long, of which two miles were through thick tim. dered, and that the occupancy of the island has been de. | fairly riddled to pieces, it being difficrlt to traee the ori. officers also concluded it would bea very good chanc i “of and ha cr thrown | ber, and the remaining ten through narrow, crooked torved watil moraing-—it now eleveno’cleck P. M-—and | Si0ai shape of {ta walle. One tite guns was dismounted | Shem to go North tospend the summer, and wondered | ‘er private property, and have been secreted o bayuus grown Up full of brush and sinail tree sony tig at the time of ite captate, while twe broken carriages Rise | Mr. Stanton would not press the hotels at Niagari There were eight rebel guns planted on the river belo our way right throngh, the track being ftty feet that the Flag (Officer is arranging the details for the | thrown avide shows that that mumber more have been vale, and pt Saratoga, Newport and Long Branch into service, and | New Madrid, all of which were captured by the gunboats | wide, in whichithirty feet are required for the hulls of the dobarkation. jamaged and replaced. The battery is very low and ite rast, and field. assign them for prisoners’ barracks. Carondelet and Pittsburg on Sunday. boats. The timber is cut four feet below the gurfuce ot interior fall of water, wh: to the galling fire to od eye . Among our captures wore two Confederate mail bagi isend you « rebel newspaper correspondence from | the water. In one short siretch we cut seventy-tive “ het ’ . Winter Ae means (here 's great activity throughout | wnien its gunners were exposed, speaks loudiy for their ‘and young! the weak, be strong! liad with letters, ready to send away. These were | j./and No. 10, which I gleaned (rom the rebels mails cap- | trees thus deep, not one less (han two feet through. the fies. The cluster of boats, with which this vessel | pravery. Had the other forces manifested the same Y A such as Y cl i a ° for the hurt back the overhauled, and such as were of importance turned over and. find in it h that is edi- | machines were rigged from raits aud oar lowest flats, i# moored, is alive with curiosity, and ali are anxiously | courage, the place would yet be contested ground. From sand fost te bots, oad brand to tees ‘0 General Halleck. Some ot these letters were of great fee Ane aaa. rare as ilettbanveral tage | and werkedeesh Gy about twenty. teen.. in theater the arrival of a tug with despatches for us: bat | the inner wall of this battery a range of breastworks or Strike (or our own Coufederate Land’ tome. For instance, one was from acolonel in the | or jicit to the secret working of Confederate manage- | place three large launches wentahead to eut out and posh I fear we must wait until morning for asolution of the | rifle pits extends along the front of # piece of heavy tim- Make every house, and rock, and tree, abel service to Hon. A.M. Gentry, of Texas, in which | Sout. {weed not point them out, for the facts will be | out of the track the underbrush and driftwood; then im: f ber (or a distance of half a mile inland, designed, doubt- And bill, your forts; and fen and food? urs this passage:— * patent to every one who will read them. Suffice it to say | three ratte followed, on which were the men, who cut fest all this should turnout a meapingless move- | les#, to prevent a flavk movement by land. works Yield not! our soil shall rather ve 1 tell you, Colonel, that the: furth that the “Bloody Kleventh”’ is the most abject and craven | down and cut off tho trees; then the saw: then two large ment, it will not be uninteresting to refer 10 les: were thrown up with much care and skill,and are ail Hoe nie ad bar bin war ete L We have neither thew sto carry on | regiment of our whole capture. barges, then one of the steamboats, large lines ters—those which have led, doubtle, imed with plank. fear ni i el ¥: . Our troops are utterly aud heartewk The question will naturally be asked Why did the | were provided to run from the capstan of the steamboat der, if, indoot, it be @ surrender, You have The following shows the calibre of the guns in the sev iment has not been poid a no show | and haul out by snatchbiecks what the men could not guid a cent in Ave melt easily, mak: pgm enpen bey terheonen RRL Soy i asserieds | Tie ‘eatsentes; (tee Aacareaneane sane, 2 ina iedseh ihouenie anliera, ann CMtignd a verse? eee auiacer’ 20d | opie, thas toe federate general | handle. ‘Then followed the rest of the feet, men e Caron 1d thousand dollars, ara o 10 vorro delet past tho rebel batteries New Mairia. Last night numbered, commencing with the nap tne imes, one hundres emp oh “ k of seif-vindication & more difficult one | being engaged all the time converting the flatboats the Pistaburg.a vessel of similar construction, followed To ee RES A onee tae ae Armed, oF uns sand foaclens fort, | Capebied to'nght uadersuct ciroumetanceat "Te dented Piilow bad to excelpating himself from censure | imo floating batteries, From, tg river, to the on on naar Seana ac GLa i apiess the foul iodine Nore | Another was from # captain in the Second Mississippi | at Donelson. Le gna J or Ly have been | lovee the, canes Fon Be, ed a. { ur babes shall wield the battle blade! | toa Mrs. —, whom one would suppose to be his af- | starved out, for the immense stores of provisions | water was shallow at ‘obel batter: 1. This battery has heretofore been denominated - fubsistence for eral i: pole day to pass this. ‘Then the cut ia the levee. ple est ve merely by afow bundler of hay npon her hur. | in news) r correspondence ‘the Redau battery.’ It On} though perennial be the strife, danced, asking the joan of a*V"’ until pay day. ‘were safficient for their : : ce for several wee! one wi Hf: if Nr two feet, and the fush of water Pivane deck, covering her more vulnerable parts, ‘Ihe | \¢ the Dearest fortineation to the anchorage of thé Unica For poner Sone, ts heasnaenn geet Most of them wore disheartening, and gave evidence of | nor was there any lack of ama of seumin tion Here the faheeee oe largest biut was dropped through Wight waa ® second eiition Of that upon Whick the Caron. | reet, and was, jh consequence, expored,to the hottest fire, Oi a (nek deen task armed toe enpirel”” 5 arene he in etemand (combate, a ten Fees ig decttha tem Mawhrruntabie’ aud irguatifable Wihthve tines out ahead... Ther’ a carn eld, overflowed dietet eo Successfully Flipped by. Rain, thonder snd | it was this battery the guns of which were so success. | tip. old and souns, ae. } | Guinean by them tiiree monthe mgo sn mUase ie | tev Chivalry, if (bis is a specimen of that commodity | from acut in the levee. Have was something of 1m chan- detacby ator, and we got along well nearly wits mile: here was the labor— mile to the woods: mit of Union forces last | phe second is called made fi ib, #8 about played out, aud the vaunted | nel cut by cut around the spiking and drawn ig Boyne Bl Bigg de FOr eh vopteet | Sethe eee determination ef the Southern poo- | a quarter 0 Jightaing eonspired to rouder sound Indistinet and vision | fully apiked by a sm aeiree Providence seemed igain most signally to favor | week. The om .y . 4 ‘ ~ I talked with, who concluded (hat there was no | courage aud boast thy enterprise, providing exactly the weather that was | \( out of ni) the gune, and in the baste of their evacuation WAS? OR THR WAGON, whom 1 sais IC bebe wie could sidie in the last ditch,” a la Pillow: orto “die | two straight and long tniies to the nearest point in the desirable. But the rebels, warned by our previous | had neglected to restore it, so that they are all now read: [Under the head is a wood ext of a wagon, drawn by four | use in fighting against people who could transport steam- | ple to rath : 4 Ata. 1 took eight days to get through. Then ont igh their vigilance | fur vse. The walle are ‘of earthwork. four feet high | mules laden with cotion, Ati driven by & white man for we svecaea gen Soom im the rear of an enemy, {on thousand deaths rather than (all ito the hands of the | bayou. ‘this it took eels days bo goku. Thon soceas, wore on the alert, and, th ‘aia Mackall, appear extremely | Wilson's Bay carter, and 0 LOD Ot tne oe ER eed ne eres OLIN | The rebel troops were principally trom Tennessee, Mis.) |, Northern barbariat ‘At ease, and, consequently, in fcailed them nothing, they manifested a disposition x thick, lined with plank. ‘The form of the which empties into the Missiesippi wt New Madrid. ti tne a i T her be tical. ‘« contrivance’ inte had it been octagon. It mornted s " 118, tan * yather sigsippi, Arkansas aud Toxas, were rather better uni- | my! 8 ‘a Southern swamp have ne »worful iron-ciad vessela below { : , : fon, and I may ns general istetaenes ats ; York lin wel has og Rig Tedabe tenger that has been #0 ich they are given “ne apoervacsiniou bas A.J pt nce one Bite, were not lnferior vo ovr own, thon their fimique cloth piace on the 16th of March. rr aeasindessk: tha Maat yeaa Ae gen ype A Saray ang i, P . fleet becoming dis disabled by a shot from one of the Union guns. | 89 Jums all take ing gavo (he a sort of half savage appoaranco, The Ar " a By ” + ae that Kept us all back, as none of the ratte abled. snk foal —e is remo 5 1 two pounder i in jouss-—Well For the wagon, o celle 5 transports through “(be sag’ and a place at 0 bios and ting down is removed. Should such @ | Three thirty-two-pounders are lying ina marsh at the eee Tie dinsoluition Wagon, aE cee ge mee on thea orApeil arrived with themat New Madrid, | or flats could got by, and all had to wait. ‘The water, any of them, they would be qnickly res. | lower end of the battery is our wag tying below the island No. 2. ‘This bariery is situnted half a mile below No. 1, Li fake a tule, ‘The topog@phy of the peninguia upon which the reboi On the 6th the troops under General Paine crosget over | alice wo got ilo the woods, was aboub wix feot one a ty bel cud wl