Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1862-05-17
LATER FROM THE ATLANTIC SIDE.
Dates to May 6th.

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Confederate Capitol on its 7yarels-Ric1-
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CHICAGO, May 3.-Fort Macon, Gnear
Beaufort, N. c., surrendered on the 25th Of
April, after a bombardment of 1O3 hours.
During the bombardnent men were killed
and Is wounded.
! WILMINGTON, Altm 29.-Our batteries
were planted behind the heavy sand bank,
the preaching batteries being only one thous-
and yards distant from the fort. The garri-
son were allowed the honors of Wharf.-The Off
GERS retaining their side arms. An official
dispatch says that 400 prisoners were taken.
FoRTREss MoNRoE, May 1.-The Will
mington IN. c., Journal has the following in
regard to Fort Macon: The fort becoming
wholly untenable, was surrendered. All the
guns inside the fort opposite the side attacked
were dismounted; all but three of the enc
mics batteries being also dismounted.
The Richmond Dispatch of to-day says -
The panic on the subject Of the scarcity Of
food is oac of the most causcless, and exists
only in the imagination. How causeless the
panic alluded to is, may be inferred from the
fact that in another column of the same pa
per- butter is quoted at 81 40 per pound.
the fall Of New Orleans are all that can be
CLEANED from the Southern papers:
Commodore Farragut had proposed terms
of capiulation to the Mayor, which the latter
had accepted.
| New Orleans, at Inst accounts, was held by
battalion of marines from the Federal
squadron.
| Gen. Buffers forces were within few miles
OF the city. having landed on the shore of
Lake Ponchartrain.
WASHINGTON, Mny 1.-The Southern pa
pcrs congratulate themselves that the yellow
fever will soon be in New Orleans. and that
I.ovels army can now join Beauregard, in
his march TO the Ohio. They also say that
Memphis, Charleston and Savannah, are seri-
ously threatened, and urge the policy of des-
troying everything valuable.
An up train on the Memphis and Charles.
ton roads carrying the 10Th South Carolina
regiment to Corintl,, met with an accident
whereby twenty of the soldiers were killed.
ST.. LOUIS, May "A gentleman who left
Memphis on Saturday last, says that from
that city to New Orleans the water was very
high, causing great apprhensions.
| The Banks wcreabout to inauguratc n new
policy, by resumins specie payments upon
twenty per cent of their issues, throwing out
discredited Confederate notes.
Throughout Louisiana, with the exception
Of Office holders and army contractors, there
was very general desire for n settlement Of
differences and close of the war.
HUNTSVILLE. [Ala.} May IAN expedi-
ton consisting OF four regiments Of infantry,
with two pieces of artillery, under the immr-
diate command Of General Mitchell. made
descent on bridgeport, Ala, yesterday. At
the first fire the rebels broke and ran. In MI
Alabama north of the Tennessee river there
floats no flag but the old flag.
| WASHINGTON. May "A dispatch from
the army at Yorktown, dated Yesterday, says:
On Tuesday steamboat loaded with troops
probably from West Point, thirty miles above
was seen before Yorktown, indicating that
the enemy wcre heing reinforced. A battery
ut the mouth of Wormly Greek, commanding
the rebel water batteries Mt Yorktown and
Gloucester, opened yesterday on the rebel
shipping, distant two miles. The rebels left
hastily. The guns were then turned on the
works at Yorktown and Gloucester, and were
soon answered by the large pivot gun on
Yorktown Hight. The fire continued brisk
for two hours. We sustained no damage,
though the cnemy's shell fell close Some Of
our shells were seen to explode directly over
the enemy's parapet, which the moment before
was covered with men, What damage they
sustained is of course not known.
Gen. Prentiss and seven hundred Federal
prisoners arrived at Selma, Alabama. The
officers are to be sent to Talladega, the pri-
Yates to Montgomery. soy
Commodore Hollins passed through Colum-
bia, South Carolina, on Saturday, en- route to
Richmond. lie is amazed ut the fall Of New
Orleans, and states that there were one hun
lred heavy guns between Fort Jackson and
tho city, and numerous boarding parties were
organized to capture the national vessels at
ali hazards; that the gunboat Louisiana was
ready, and that the gunboat Mississippi, tho
unfinished, could be brought into action.
CAIRO, May Cool lew Wallace's Divis-
ion occupied 'Purdy, Tenn. Tuesday, with
out opposition. The encmy's left flank had
rested in the town. We have dispatches from
Fort Wright dated yesterday.
ST., Lows, May IA detachment Of cav.
alry from Forsyth No. on the gath destroyed
nm extensive saltpetre mandatory at Yell
willie. Arkansas, and burned the building.
Mai. Hubbard with one hundred and forty
men Of the First Missouri Cavalry, attacked
and routed Colonels Coffee and Stenwrght
with four hundred Indians, on the 26th, kill
ing and wounding thirty, aud taking largo
quantities Of arms, and sixty-two pris-
Oncrs.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The Petersburg
(Va.) Ezpress says that New Orleans was
captured by Our gunboats, they being encased
with wet hay, 40 that neither hot nor cold