Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-03
From Fortrass Monroa..

FORTRESS MONROE, May LA flag of
truce from Craney Island this afternoon,
brought down an English nobleman and
several newspapers, giving particulars of
the capture of Fort Macon and some ad-
dttional details of the fall of New Orleans,
together with other interesting items.
The Norfolk Day Book of this Thursday
morning says that no telegraphic des-
patches were received last night.
An order from the Provost Marshal Pa
shaw, prohibits all huckstering with the
military district of Norfolk, aud the prlYi-
ilege OF selling pOulty, game, fish. fruit and
vegetables Is restricted to those who raiss
or catch the same. The order extends the
privilege of bringing oysters to market
from May LIST to June LIST, aud allows butch
ers to buy pork.
The Wilmington N. G. Journal of Tues
day has tue following in confirmation of
the report of the fall of Fort Macoo, tele-
grahed from here yesterday:
We have just learned that the fire upon
the Fort WAS opened at quarter before six
o'clock on Friday morning, aud the en-
gagement between the Fort and the
Federal batteries was kept up till O'Clock
that evening, when the Fort became who'll
~ untenable and was surrendered as above.
All the guns in the side of the Fort oppo-
site to that attacked were dismounted, and
all but three of the guns bearing on the
enemy's batteries were also dismounted-
The enemy's central battery of preaching
guns was within HOO yards, tue right and
left thanking batteries were more distant.
1t turns out that the report of 10 of our
men being killed on scout some days
since against the enemy's pickets is untrue
one man only was wounded and none kill
ed until Friday, the last day of the attack.
From other accounts it is gathered that
during the bombardment of Fort Macon
rebels were killed and great many
wounded
A Suffolk correspondent of the Peters,
burg Express, under date of April Both,
says all were expecting to hear something
from tue Virginia this morning, but the
Norfolk Day Book is as silent as the grave
upon the subject. forbear TO report ru-
mors.
What the rumnrs referred to in this par
agraph are, may possibly be inferred from
the fact that rumor was taken from the
Norfolk papers TO Petersburg yesterday,
that very prominent naval officer had re-
rigped his commission.
The Petersburg Express of TODAY saws
that many rumors were in circulation yes
terday. Among them was report of the
evacuation of Memphis and Corinth, and
report of the occupation of Wilmington.
N. c., by Gen. Burnside
Breckenridge and nindman have been
appointed Major Generals, and Col. w. A.
Beal, of Ark, n Brigadier General.
The Richmond Dispatch of to-day, says
that the panic on the subject of scarcity
OF food, is one of the most causeless i'm
nginable. The broad from Danville to
Gteens6orongh is rapidly constructing,
and will open North Carolina, Tennessee,
and soon Georgia and South Carolina, for
supplies to feed the whole State of Yir-
ginia.
How causeless the panic above alluded
to. may be inferred from the fact that an
adjoining column of the same paper chron-
icles she sale of butter at 81, 40 per pound
in city markets.
Six Yankee and seven domestic traitors
and one Confederate soldier, arrived in
Richmond yesterday. The former belong
ed to an Ohio regiment, and were captured
III Bath county, Va.
PrrTsBuRaH LANDING, May 2.-Aseeu-
eral order, was issued yesterday transferring
Major General Thomas Division from the
army of Ohio to the army of Tennessee, and
Maj. Gen. Thomas takes command of the
army formerly under Grant, of which the
Division of McClernand and Wallace are to
constitute reserve under McCleruand.
Mai. Gen. Grant will retain comaud of
his District including the army corps of
Tennessee, but in the present movement
will act as second in command under the
Major General commanding the Depart