Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-06-25
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enr men suffer greatly from the heat.
We have news from New Orleans by the
arrival at New York of the Ocean Queen to
the 18th inst. She brings as State prisoner
Pierre Soule ex United States Senator from
Louisiana. The health of New Orleans con
tiuued good, and good order prevailed. Quite
number of vessels had arrived from domes
tic and foreign ports. Eighteen hundred fam
lilies were supplied with provisions on the
10th inst. by the Government authorities.
| On the steamer Fox, captured near New
| Orleans, were found two bags of mail matter
| In the mail was a correspondence between
parties in Europe and Mons. Deynoodt, the
| Belgian Consul at New Orleans, duplicating
| the latter in running cotton through the
blockade Gen Butler sent for NJ. Deyooodt
and acquainted him with having the letters
Nj. Deynoodt protested his innocence of the
! charge but the correspondence was strongly
| against him, and Gen. Butler has referred
the matter to the State Department.
| The Rebel Maryland Regiment is said to
have lost upwards of one hundred in killed
aud wounded in the hattie Of Cross Keys and
Port Republic. Several Of them were also
taken prisoners and have arrived at Wash
ington.
Deserters state that the Rebels have built
three new batteries, and one of them subma
rine battery. The latter consists of four
tanks of boiler iron, each holding twenty five
hundred pounds of powder, strung across the
channel, one connected with the other, and
a wire running through them, properly en-
cased and leading up the bank, where an
operator is stationed to explode them. They
have put this battery a short distance below
Chapin's Bluff.
Scouting parties from the Eleventh Virgin
ia Regiment, sent into Roane county few
days since. did good service in scattering
guerillas. One party killed eleven, including
the notoeious guerilla leader, Capt Downs.
Surgeon Hays, of the lI0th Pennsy lvania,
who wGs dismissed from the service for al
legged neglect to the wounded received on
Saturday from Front Royal, is cut in a card,
in which he calls on all the assistant SUI geons
and soldiers to confirm that he did not neg
lect theGl in anywise that he had been with
them two days and nights, and that he tele
graphed to the Surgeon General twice that
the train would arrive here at the time it did,
with the wounded, and that he was not res
ponsible for the results Of the entire neglect
of the dispatches sent to his superior officers.
Richmond papers received at Fortress
Monroe contain some accounts in relation to
the recent battle near Charleston. 1t is des-
cribed as a bloody affair, lasting all day, and
the Mercury expresses apprchcnsicns in re-
lation to the renewal cf the fight in view Of
the great exhaustion Of the Southern troops
and the many officers killed. The battle took
place within four miles of the city
OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE WHITE
RIVER BATTLE.
Eight Guns and Ammunition CAPTURED.
NAsHINGToN. June 2l.
The following was received at the War De
partment to day:
Saint Char{es, White Ricer. Ark, June Il,
Via Cairo June q.
On arriving eight miles below here last
evening, we as5ertaincd that the enemy lad
two batteries here supported by a force tnu.n
Der unknown) OF infantry. a combined at,
tack was II ade at Z A. NJ, to-day. The regi-
ment under my command, 10th Indiana, Ian
: ded four and half miles below the battery,
and skirmishers were thrown out who drove
in the enemy's pickets. The gunboats then
moved up and opened on their battery. A
rifed shot from one of the batteries penetra-
ted the steam draw Of the Mount City, dsa-
J bling, by scalding, most of her crew.
) Apprehensive that some similar accident
might happen to the other gunboats and leave
nv small force without their support, | sig.
: nailed the gunboats to cease firing, and we
would storm the battery. They ceased exact
ly at the right moment, and my men carried
the battery gallantly. The infantry were
driven from the support Of the guns, the gun
ners shot at their post, and their commanding
tfficer Frye, formerly of the United States
navy, wounded and taken prisoner.
Eight brass and iron guns with ammuni.
ton were captured. The enemy's loss is un.
, known We have buried seven or eight of
their dead and other dead and wounded are
: being brought in. The casualties among my
own command are small, the only real loss
} being from the escaping steam in the Mound
! City she will probably be repaired and rea.
dy to proceed with ms up the river to morrow
A 1ull report VIII De maue as early as pcesl'
; bic.
Very respectfully yours,
G. NJ. FITCH,
Col. Commdg. 46M Ina. Vol.
The following despatch was received at the
Navy Department:
U. S. FLAG STEAMER BENTON,
MEMPHIS, June 18th, via CAIRO, June q. I
: The gunboat Conestoga, returning from
e the White River, reports the capture of two
batteries, mounting seven guns, at ST. Charles
80 miles from the mouth
The attack was commenced by Capt Kelly