Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-05-02
DtIamart Hazeffe.
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
we are stiH without news of the second bat !
tie in the vicinity of Pittsburgh landing |
which was expected to have come off during
the first part of the present week. The latest
intelligence represented eur entire army NOV
ing, the advance guard within FIVE miles Of Cor
inth, and severe skirmishing. 1t Is more than
probable that the battle has been fought ere
this, and we may hourly expect to hear reports
from the field Cen HalIeek's force isstated to
be 100000 effective men, aud with such an ar
my efficiently led there can be little doubt that
the result will be favorable.
The most important news OF the week is that
of the capture of the city Of New Orleans by
our forces. We have as yet only the rebel ac-
counts of the affair, nothing having been heard
from our officers. The news comes through so
many channels and in such variety of ways,
that there is no room 10 d,u,; It's authenticity
No particulars are given by the rebel papers,
fact which warrants the inference that they
arc of such nature as to be excluded from the
public at present. The importance Of the cap
lure 10 our side cannot be eVer-cstimated, and
the rebel papers acknowledge it is the sever
est blow they have yet sustained The partic-
alars viii be looked for with great interest
That the contest at the Forts below the city
was not blooIless is manifest from the ANNOUNCE
ment by the New Orleans papers of the arri-
val of a steamer with forty of their wounded
on board.
The rebel papers announee that the forts on
Lake Ponchartrain were evacuated on the 25lh
ult, aud their gunboats and steamers on the
lake burnt TO prevent their falling into our
hands. Il is also positively asserted that forts
Barancas and MrRea, at Pensacola, are aban-
doned By the enemy.
We have no account of The capture of Sa-
vannab, but it must certainly be taken very
soon, il it has not been already. Mobile, Mem
phis and Charleston. will doubtless soon re-
ceive attention.
Gen. Burnside is said to have received con-
siderable recent additions to bis force. and i'm
portrait movements in his department are ex-
pec:ed.
FROM Yorktown there is nothing important.
Mcclellan still continues his preparations for
the reduction of the place, and is said to be
making satisfactory progress, though nothing
is known of the details.
J,;oo, rroy, L4o-trass AF,,,-co -toto tL,t ,L,.
Merrimac is hourly looked for. In addition to
the Monitor we now have at that point two
other iroA-cIad vessels, and several others near
y completed.
Gen. Mcdowell is still in the vicinity of
Fredericksburg, and ii is said a rebel force is
being concentrated short distance so4th of
that place to dispute lis advance.
Gen. Banks continues to press forward, and
the rebel forces continae to retreat as he ad-
vance,. lie was at last accounts near Staun-
ton, and Gen. Milroy, Commanding brigade
! in Fremonts department, was reported as hav-
ing already entered The place, though the re-
port is not regarded as strictly reliable. A
junction between the forces of Bunks and Fro
mont Al that point, preparatory 10 an advance
on Richmond seems probable.
The latest accounts from Fort Pillow repre-
seuted the cannonadng as going on vigorous
ly-thaugh it is hardly probable a serious ef-
fort TO take the place will be made in the alb
senee ofa lard force, Gen. Pope's division hay
ing gone 10 Pittsburg Landing.
Accounts from Memphis aud other points in
the cotton States represent that the rebel au-
thorilics are burning the cotton in immense
quantities. 1t is done by the military in def
ance OF any opposition that MAY be offered by
the owners. The sugar and mulasses at New
Orleans aud Memphis, of which the qnauiiIy
is very large, was TO be similarly disposed Of on
the advance OF cur forces. The design Of
burning their cites, as recommended by
Toombs and other desperate leaders, seems to
have ben abandoned.
/ The late heavy rains have produced great
freshet in the Mississippi, and Tie levees bav-
ing been cut at various points, large portion
Of The country bordering the river is inundated
enusing an immense loss of property.
i All the Unionists of East Tennessee had
been ordered to leave the Stale within sc
hours. Nearly two thousand men bad left for
Kentucky within week, and the wife and
children of Parson Brownlow had reached For
tress Monroe by way of Norfolk.
The War Department has issued an order
for supplies for the amy, and clothing, for the
loyal blucks TO he enrolled in Gen. Hunters
di ision.
Gen. Mitchell has taken Tuscumbia, Ala
and one hundred and eleven of the prisoners
be captured at Huntsville have been sent tc
Camp Chase.
The battle of Pittsourg Landing was par.
ticuarly fatal to the rebel j Jobnsons 1t is NOW
clearly established that three Generals of that
name were among the slain-Albert Sidney