New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-03
Rebel Account Of the Bombardment
Of Fort Macon.
THE FORT RENDERED UNTENABLE
THE APPREHENDED FAMINE IN VIRGINIA.
FosTREs, IN Hqssor. 3 Thu,;d,y; Msyl,


tire Of Fort Macon and some additional particulars
Of the fall of New-Oreans, together with other liz
teresting items.
Tie Norfolk Day Book of this Thursday morn
ing Gays that no tecgraphicdpat were received
last night. An order from Proyott-Marshal Pashaw
prohibits all hucsstering with the military in the
District of Norfolk, and the privilege Of selling
poultry, game fsb, fruit vegetables, etc., is reset'
ed to those who raise or catch the came. Another
order extends the privilege Of bringing oysters to
market from May / to June |, and allows butchers
70 buy pork.
Tie Wilmington Journal Of Tuesday has the fol-
lowing in confirmation Of she report Of the fall OF
Fort Macon, teleTsphed from here yesterday:
"We have just learned that the fire upon the fort
vas opened at quarter before ak O'clock Friday
morning, and tia, the engagement between tie fort
and tue Union batteries was kept up until seven
o'clock that evening, when the fort became wholly
untenable and was surrendered as above stated. All
the guns inside the fort opposite TO the eide attacked
were dsmounted snd all but three Of the guns bear.
ing upon tie enemys bstterieswere also dsmounted.
Tie enemys central battery Of preaching guns was
within 100 yards Of the fort. The right and LETT
hanking batteries were more distant 1t turns out
hat the report Of fifteen Of our men having been
killed in q scout some days sce against the enemys
pickets is untrue. One man oDl y was even wounded
and none were killed until Friday last. the day OF
the attack upon the fort"
From other accounts it is gathered that during the
bombardment of Fort Macon, seven Rebels were
killed, and great many wounded.
COL White, and 80 men, wero released on parole
by Gen. Burnside.
OF the Merrimsc, a Suffolk correspondent of The
Petersburg Express under date of the 3Osh of April,
says:
"All we're expecting to hear something from the
Virginia this morning, but TIE Noilotk Day-Boos
is az silent as the grave upon the subject. forbesr
to repea. runors.'
What the rumors referred to in the above para
graph are may possibly be inferred from the fact
that rumor was taken from Norfolk to Petersburg
yesterday, that a very prominent naval officer had
reGgued his commission.
The Petersburg Express of to-day says that many
rumors were in circulation yesterday, among them
report Of the evacuation Of Memphis aud Corinth;
slso report Of the capture Of Wilmington, n. c.,
by Gen. Burnside.
Gers Breckenridge snl Hindman have been sp-
pointed Mejor-Generals, and Col w. A. Beal
BrigadieT-GeneTal.
The Richmond Dispa,el of to-day Gays "that The
panic on the subject OF scarcity OF food s ole OF
the n,ost cauceless imaQinsbie The road from Dan
Vile to Gresnborough is rapidly constructing, ard
VIII open North Carolina, Tennessee, and even
Georgia and South Carolina, for supplies to feed tho
whole State Of Virginia How causeless the panic
above alluded to is may be inferred from the fact
that in ain adjoining coluun of the same paper, is
cbronlced the sale of butter at 81 40 per pound in
the city market.
Six Yankees, seven domestic traitors, and one re-
cusaut confederate soldier arrived in Richmond yes.
terisy. The former belonged to sn Ohio regiment,
and were captured in Bath County, Virginia.
The Richmond Dispatch of yesterday records the
execution as SPY, on the 29th of April, of Timothy
Webster. Mrs. Webster, who was arrested with her
husband, Is still at Castle Goodwin. Webster is said
to be the first epy yet executed by the Rebels.
What if the Federal Government should commence
hanging spiev
There are no teiegraphc dispatches in any of the
morning papers Of to-day.
The following additional items regarding the fall
Of New-Orleans are all that can be CLEANED from the
papers:
uation % Mayor Monroe, which the latter had &C.
cepted, and the City Of New-Or!eans was at last
accounts held by battalion of marines from The
squadron. Gen. Buters forces were within few
miles Of the city, having Landed Lake Pontchar.
rain.
A note from Capt. Henry A. Gadsden Of the
steamship Arago informs your correspondent that
there is no truth in the publication signed "R. b.
Crosby" in reference to the attempt Of two boats
crews from that vessel TO spike battery on Sewsirs
Point few nights since. The gentlemen named as
in charge of the boats Messrs. Robinson and Beck.
et are officers on tho Arago, but no such person 10
known on board as X. Il. Crosby.
Information was received at Norfolk yesterday,
hat Capt. Mcintosh, the supposed commander OF tie
gunboat Louisiana, at New0rleans, had been badly
wounded; when or where was not stat :. From
he same source it was also learned that Capt Thos.
Huger, supposed TO be the commander ofthe Msliae,
vas mortally wounded in the same engagement.
The weather to-day is warm and clear and highly
favorable for the operations of the army. Three or
our Rebel boats made their appearance of Sewsil's
Point this morning. and seemed 10 be placing buoys
o mark the channel.
Gen. Prentiss and 200 Union prisoners had arrived
1t Selma, Ala. The officers were TO be sent 10 Ta-
sdega and the priyates to Montgomery.
A large Gre occurred at Aberdeen, Miss, on tfi'
lay last, by which large foundery and mach'ne'
hop were destroyed. The editor states " mat an
'nemy hath done this.' -.
The Rebels are inconsolable in their wailings over
he fall of New.Or,eans-some charging Gen. Lowell
With treocbery. Com. Hollns passed through Co.
nmbo. s. c.. en- route for Richmond, on Saturday.
e expressed himself as perfectly amazed at the fall
. ,hs Crasceut City. lie stated that there wero