New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-25
From Richmond and the Potomac.

From the Richmond Examiner Of the 2lst we ex-
tract the following:
REPORTED RECOGNITION OF SOUTHERN CoNFEDER-
ACY BY ENGLASD.--A most extraordinary statement
obtained yesterday in the highest official circles OF
the recognition Of the Confederacy by Great Britain
1t is certain that dispatch agent arrived here yes
terday from England, having landed in the British
possessions and essaying reach the South through
Michigan and the West. His report is understood
to be that he was arrested in Ohio and robbed of
his dispatches subsequently ehectng his escape to
this city. The assertion of the agent is that the
DISPATCHES contained assurances of the immediate
recognition of our Government by that of Great
Britain We give this statement, which is made in
the most positive manner, without adding any
opinion of our own, or protesting to know how the
Government has verified or credited the report,
beyond sem-oflical expressions of confidence in its
truth, which reached us last night.
CAPTURE OF FEDERAL TRANSPORTS. Intelligence
was received here last evening of the capture by
our forces on the Potomac Of two of the enemy
transports, abandoned by the tugs that had them
in tow, under the guns of the Evansport battery.
The cargo of one of the vessels is said to consist of
eight thousand pairs of shoes-a most valuable and
timely acquisition, in view OF the needs OF our
army.
IMPORTANT FROM THE POTOMAC, THE PAWNEE
SUNK.--The War Department has received no dis
patches whatever with reference to the late re-
ported affair in the neighborhood of Harper's
Ferry where Colonel Ashby's cavalry are stated
to have engaged q detachment of the enemy. No
advices of the engagement have been received at
| the Department beyond personal accounts These
represent the enemy to have been about 1900
strong: our force not being larger than 500. The
statement of the enemy's loss at about sixty killed
and fifteen prisoners taken, with the loss of only
one man on our side, as mentioned by us in Satur-
| days paper, is probably an eXaggeration of the
| results Of sbrmish, mostly, as we can under
stand, fought hand to hand.
| The battery at Evansport is reported to have
done excellent execution within the last few days
although working as yet but few OF its guns, A
| large schooner was dsmasted by its fire few
| days ago, and the blockade of the river is now
said to be completely within control at this point.
! The feet Of sailfvessels off Aqua Creek block
sixty or seventy sail. Lower down are four OF
| five war steamers. 1t is thought that the Govern
ment transports will proceed to Annapolis, where
they may unload, and the supplies be forwarded tt
| Washington by the railroad. =
| The Pawnee, or the vessel thought to be such
by observations through good glasses, that passeC
the battery at Evansport, is positively asserted t.
| have been sunk, according to information brough
here to the War Department by an officer. W.
gave her about thirty shots on passing the battery
| six of which are observed to have taken effect
On rounding the point, she was moved into shallo'
| water where she sunk.
Only small number of the guns of the batter
have been worked in the exercise of the past te1
days. Two eight-inch rifed columbiads, of Eng
lish manufacture, understood to have run tn
blockade in the Bermuda, at Savannah, will b
mounted at once to increase the efficiency OF th
battery.
1t is stated in high military quarters of informa
ton that the late falling back of lines on tn
Potomac was not from fear Of flank movemen
or of the preparations going on in front Of it, bu
may be simply explained as the consequence @
the fact that advance had accomplished til
purpose for which it was intended. 1t is not ur
likely that it may yet be shown that the occr
patton of Munson's and Mason's Hills, and all tn
other advance positions, from which we hav
lately fallen back, were intended to cover up in
| portant movements in other quarters. q