New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-29
EVACUATION Of THE FORTS Ar PENSACOLA
REPORTS CONCERNING THE MERRIMAC'
The Rebels Expect TO Disable the Monitor
PANIC AT NORFOLK.
.si,l ni.put.h to The y. Y. Tribune.


h.s, arriving. The mortar feet was getting into po-
sitiou. He expected to commence opersuoDe on the
18th inst. Gen Butler was with him. Unofficial
etters rcm Ship Island state that the feet about to
move upon New. Orleans consisted Of 30 war vessels
and u mortar boats to be accompanied by transports
carrying several thousand troops under command OF
Gen. Butter, which were to follow the war vessels
up the Mississippi, while other troops moved upon
tie eity by way of Lake Pontchartrain. Our next
news from Elag-0ffcer Fsrraguts and Porer's
feet will probably be via Memphis.
Later.-The special correspondent Of The TRIB-
USE sends she following dispatch, dated
FREDERioSsBURG, Va, April 2S, 1862.
sayv hst night The Ret s,0nd Examiner Of the
2eth, which makes the following statement edito-
rally:
ave learn that Gen. Lowell withdrew his forces
from New Orleans yesterday, having first burned
snon stores AS could not be removed, all TIE cotton
In ,he ci'y and the shipping except few steamers
loaded with com and ammunition, which escaped
&c the river. The utmost confusion prevails among
occupy the city to-day
10 the As.ocisedPress
BY the arrival of the steamship Connecticut at
Hampton Roads on Saturday, the Navy Department
has received dates from the Mississippi River 10
April Il, including dispatches from Fag-Oticer
Fsrrsgut and Capt. Porter of the bomb hotilla. Al
that time the steamships Missis,ippi and Pensacola
were over the bar. and the Hc,a moving to be in
readiness to take their positions.
II appears lroia these documents, thai while sail
ing from ship Island to Pass rOurre, with the
mortar tc;ills, Lieut. Commanding Guest IN the
Owasco leading the schooners at night chafed and
captured the two Confederate schooners Eogenia
srd President, loaded with cotton aad bound for
Bavaria, they having escaped Though Britain Island
PASSAGE.
The captaia Of tn l.ageniS was noted blockade .
breaker. lie wss the commander Of the hiramon
when she was captured. He gave bis word Of honor
to Commodore Mexican TO come out OF Mobile after
getting proyis ons, and leave waters forever
lie broke his word, aud in the Eugenia has iasoe
several successful voyages. on
,rsoners tho soldiers would light little az Fort
jackson, but when that should ial "people in New
Orleans think the rich end big men would oil clear
out and leave the rest Iimes are naTd
There is 30 work, excepting for carpenters, VINO
Get 81 Per dav working on the gunboais. They are
raid in Confederate notes. aid IN many stores tbcre
viii not pass. There are five gunboats on ne iake'
beside the two new ones not yet equipped, aud
good many in The river. Some went up the iivtr a
sbort line ago. with the steam ram and 10000 men, /
Can't Morris reports the death of Frederick Beth, /,
.apt.in Of the guard and Nicbolas I COnnor, cox
Iwain; also, the injury OF James Pen seamsn' ana /
eiing Master John -. Robertson. The former tns-
lined confusion ii the head { latter fracture
~ 10th bones OF the left leg. The accident happened
on board the Pensacola, by the parting OF ha@ser.
Flag-Oficer EsfIagu' inclcses report from Acting
Has er Thomas Pickering TO Lieutenant Command
blx Hunter commanding steamer Montgomery, OF
tl0 capture of the schooner Columbia, OF Galveston,
loaded with cotton, aud bound TO Janilca. Inc ex-
rsdition waa attended with much danger. Th0se
q ..lts.. lrfn hoo UNrNG GGa
QiFhi but were fired upon from the fort 1T St. Louis
Pass, Texas, SHOT passing through the tide OF tie
launeh. owing 10 strong fcod tide and head wind,
xld toe Rebels long roll having bfen beaten tie
pkety from the Montgomery, not being sbie 10 bring
bat she schooner with safety, destroyed her by fire.
The steauflip Hatterss, having. captured the
stessler Walls Of Slip Island sold her 20 Gen. |
Flt., for a transport vessel
Alexpc1iiion from the United States bark PuTsnit /
captured tie Rebel steamer Florida, ch was lying
sboa; twenty miles atove St. Andrews Town. they /
aucceeded IA cntung her out, and on their way up
he bay, aso, cal tuied the alOop Lafa ayelte with
nfieen bales Oi cotton On board.
On the way down the expedition wss induced by |
aag OF truce 70 send boat ashore. When within /
aushot distance there roee from the bushes party
about thirty or forty men, snd fired on the bost
hing one Of the sesmen and vounding several
~ org.
.lac. Officer Falragu,, undor date Of April 10
sG9uic,,es reports MADE 10 bin by Lieut.. Com
euQ Resde Of the steamer New-London, dated
26 aud April ., Of two engagements between
yessel aud oibers and come Rebel steamers.
saws, on the afternoon Of the I'd inst. we left
Leland in company with the United States
ls j. Z. jackson and tie uanspoIt.stea
Iepry Lewis with the Connecticut 9th Volunteer
ogimeBt beard, 10 oOOpsraic with The arm TOR tic
ufpsc o. chcctiug q laud.n, at Biloxi. The land
tes WIS mode The evening ol lie same day, the New
SOnoon yDdJ. T. jackson anChcrug of the town. Tic
tezi DAY, sbOut 4 PM the troops embarked, when
gu ect under way, aud sailed for Pass Christian, III
tenoip lhe following day, 20 effect a landing at Pass
shns'itn. AZ 10 u. ~. having taken a favorable
position for the nigh &c care % anchor.
q IN tue 9th oi April, at $40 q. n, three Rebel
2eanefs We're discovered, standing doEn 10 make
An ptiheh. Inc acton was imme diately begun hy
the New-Lonl0u, Jicston, and Kewis with the
Rebel toauers Oregon, pamlieo, and CGrcndelet
s1a amer rs cohthuaon Of about thirty innu.es Tie
Lewis WIS withdrawn Oa account NJ Tho c,o,,ded
nate Of her decks, ana the New.Io Ior6on end : 60,
continued the fight for ouo hour and fortv6ve min.
VI b. when the enemy withdrew apuarcntlv much
iujnfed. About q. 10. tue United Sistes s.oa,,cr
RatteTas lOined us, and being senior olfcrr 80
command, willie the landing was being elected 81
Dess Christian.
\ Rebel merchant steamer appeared to the east.
wSrd, and was Immediately pursued by the No,
r.lndon and jackson. After the chase Of one Lonr
she was captured. Sue proved 10 be the EeDeI
steamboat T. &. Wallis, loaded with turpenliue
tosil, sod Line.
1ue second report is as follows On the afternoon
81 the 18th two Rebel steamers were discovered Al
go Christian. The New-London got under weigh
and sJcd Tor that place, and approached as near as
practicable on account Of shoal water.
The Rebel boats approached within 1000 Yards
! when The engagement begoD, The LONDON beginning
sss action. find ug the enemy not disposed 70 come
peaEer The lsht Lasted one hodF and iifty minutes
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