New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-15

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Your fieDd A y. JOEfsTON
REBEL ACCOUNT or The OPERATIONS or GIN.
BURNSIDE.
TIE FdyetterWe Observer learns from Trustworthy
source that up TO the 2lst For Macon had not been
attacked, but that Yankee regiment was az Shepsrds
vile on the night Of the 2lst ShcpaTdsvii'e IS III
Carteret County, about IA mes from Beaniort, ana
l6 miles from Fort Macon. The enemy have taken
possession Of Swansboro', which is q small poTt ~
the end Of Bogue Sound, about ~ miles from "u-
mington and had advanced TO Polockyille, IN Jones
County. Gen. Ransoms brigade, We learn, Is look.
ing after them OF the strength Of our force III tta'
section we say nothing it is, however, beheVed 70
be ample.
Not half dozen persons bad left Beaufort, Their
means of cgress having been cnt on. 1he Caro'iha
City Hotel had been burnt by order-it is eaid--oi
CO.White, the conmandaut AT Fort Macon, for wiist
resson we cannot imagine. Fort Macon IL fully pro-
vsioned for Fix months, which will serve for eight OF
len months If carefully preserved. There are hve
North Carolina companies there, having probably
about 500 effective men. These companies are Capt
Blount's from Wilson County; Capt. Cogdeii S
formerly Andrews's, from Wayne Capt. Pool sand
Capt. Maneys, from Carteret, aud Capt. Guyon's E,
from Newbern These have no higher tlicer than =
captain, and Col White, Of the Confederate army
ioi hssissippi, Ia in command. lie is graduate VI
West Point, about twenty eight years of age, and
had been In the United States Army. lie has the
reputation OF being as brave man as ever lived.
VA bSSiVtb u.u run away ana IODf mo
Newbein, but Burnside did not feed them. and had
delivered them up to their owners whenever applcd
for. Six oi them had been shot by the Yankee scn-
uels.
RLBEL ACCOUNT OF THE UNION ATTACH On
YORKTOWN.
The PeiersbRrg Express of Monday says: "A
couple OF Yankees captured by our pickes on rues-
day stated that they were orderes of General
McClean that General Mcclellan was in command.
and iha; their forces numbered $780, 900 men. This s
known - be a lie, sc Hampton Roads have been
crowded with transports loading troops for a week
past"
/ TIE MrHRIMAC OFT.
| The Richmond Hhig of Tuesday says: II would
not be practicable il it We're desirable, 20 keep
aecret the important fact that The Vrginis lNerri-
macl has gCain sailed forth. She lett Notioik yea
terisy half an hour after noon, on what speeiai -r-
rand bent we know no more than the reader. A
gentleman who was at Sewall + Point Oh Sunday IN
forns us that there at that time abundant game
in the roads. II is not impossible, however, az we
have received no tidings Of any Of the monster :
heaks among the Yankee small FRY, that rough
weather NAV nave prevented her attempting any
thing to this line. Commodore Tstnall - ~ com
manc, and nobody will doub. that If nothing "a
done i, will not he for lack OF VIII nor daring
WHAT TIE RFBTIs THINK OF OUR NAVY.
Tie iugusta lGa.) Chronicle and Sentinel OF
March l., in an article in reference 10 the naval
nction at Hampton Roads, says:
! The Northern and Southern people are alike m
one respect-they must have somebody 20 denounoe
in Gaze of disaster. They not willing 20 accuse
themselves Of negligence and apathy When we
lose battle, as in Tennetsee, we hold the Coui-
handing General Of the Confederate Government
RESPONSIBLE and imm- diatey there goes up cry for
the condemnation Of somebody, !ofgoi;ui that We
have neglected to furnish the Condemned commander
with reenforeements aud supplles forgetiul thai We
know bat half the crcumttances0i OF bs titusilon in
like manner, tho Northern people negleotiul a tie
gallant defense made by the surprised captains oi
the lost ligates against ther inevitable fate, are
casting about for somebody to hold r,sponslbe Tor
the disaster, and great cry goes up sgainst their
Navy Department, 1chsch re der0uNy risk he'd Hof
been as rH manage as q tas oteH.
MOVEMENTS OF viS DORM.
Tie Memphis lihig, Of the 29th Of March, says:
"Gen. Van Dom bas the entire army now IS Van
BuTen, reorganiHng il. u d not unlikely, from
what we have learned from Lieut.. Thornton, tha'
Price II Polk will be left alone TO tako care Of
that section OF Arkansas. Van Dom will move H.
another direction, where be may be able g. sriso an
efcciual blow TO the Ii nion army o. tho West
Van Dom war, no doubt, with Beauregard ~
Pitisburg Landing.
TENNEssLANS 81 -PLCTEn.
/ A Richmond correspondent Of Tie ChGri stoa
I Garner says:
While in Macon, few days ago, en- route FOR this
city. gentleman Of tie best Lueinosr standing IN
forntd me OF the singular fact which ought 10 be
made public, that two specuiafors from ienDe'see
had been ia town foT weel, engaged ia purchnsing
cotton, of which they had hlfcady secured abon i've
hundred bales and that the saI0e, or part Of ~,
had been shipped to the Wet. Tho Osteusibe pnr-
pose Of the puTchnsers said 70 De 10 enable The
ladies' to weave garments for the s0ioien but those
best Informed indicate their belief, openly that
the cotton was Intended for speculation with tie
Yankees, and those persons are not what they seem.
MORE RESULTS OF WHISKY.
Tie telegraph has already informed us that onr
troops Al Newbern took 10 their heels sfler the eue-
NV had twice raised the white flag, and bad ceased
iiing altogether. The following significant para
graph from a Goldsboro letter seems TO explain the
whole affair:
"Thoy blame for tie panic; he was
drunk o. savannah Lcpubhoan.
This ts.V Ic news 20 the gallant Burnside.
: VESSEL FIRED.
One night las, week ZONE Of the traitors who arc
in such large Numbers IN the Cfercen Cliy, attempted
10 pct ou ire he large vessel now building for our
/ GoyoIument ut Jeherson City. Fortunately, they
did not sIcceed, blJ nobody is % thank ioE their
nou.succc.s. II there were guards % all The Govern
uent places, those criminal attempts would not be
made, and We would not hear Of powder-m.ll eX-
p!clons. ~ o. Bee, harcA o.
TIE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER.
THE OFFICIAL REPORT or GIN. SHIELDS.