Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-05-22
EXTRACTS FROM SOUTHERN PAPERS.
From the Charleston Mercury of May 81
THE CAPTURE OF NEW ORLEANS.

two forts, Jackson and st. Philip, few in
ferior batteries above the forts, and fleet of
twenty boats, the strongest of which were the
McRae carrying seven thirty-two Founders
and one nine-inch gum and the Manassas ram.
The Louisiana, carrying eight large guns, was
complete failure She had to be towed down
the river and used as battery, for the two
large wheels working in the middle of the boat
interfered with each other and rendered her
unmanageable. She was an old hulk rooted
vito iron.
Three Of the enemy's boats were said to have
passed without the knowledge of the forts. The
river is about mile wide, and covered with
heavy fog at night. The naval engagement ex-
tended for some miles up the river. Exchanges
of broadsides and collisions were continuous,
until but one of the Confederate boats, a steam
hulk, with but one gun returned to the city,
and was burned and turned adrft.
Galveston steamer sunk one of the best Of
the Yankee gunboats after running into her
three times. She was soon sunk herself. The
McRae was seen gallantly exchanging broad
side for broadside with two double bank frig-
ates She was commanded by Captain Tom
Huger, of Charleston, and was snnk Her
commander is said to be in New Orleans,
wounded, having saved his life in one of the
small boats, it is supposed. The Manassas,
commanded by Lieutenant Marley, of South
Carolina, disappeared, but it was not known
whether she betook herself to one of the bay
Gus, was captured or sunk. The conduct of
the Confederate navy was desperate in the gal
lanry and devotion displayed. But their fight
was hopeless from the beginning.
The great Mississippi steam ram had just
been launched few days, and would not have
been ready to operate for forty days more
She was a propeller, with three screws and
Siy n pf ha
largest calibre Her projection, or ram, was
twenty feet of solid timber, to be shod with
an additional steel point. She was three times
as powerful as the Virginia, hoated beautifully,
and was sea going. All the naval officers who
saw her say that she was the finest ship in the
world, and that it is confidently asserted by
officers of high rank, that without gun she
could have destroyed the Yankee feet. She
was to have been ready by the 11th of Fehru-
airy. The contractor was Mr.. Mift, brother
in.law of Mr.. Mallory. The woodwork was
finished long ago, and there has been great
anxiety and impatience about the dilatory man
ner of completing the iron work and machine
ry.
From the Savannah Republican, April 90
AS the tederals approached New Orleans the
ram Mississippi, the telegraph informs us, was
unfinished and had to he burned in order to
save it from the hands of the enemy. Had she
been complete no federal vessel could have APP
preached the city. 1t is understood that delay
of the work was occasoned by the failure OF
the Etowah Iron Works, in this State, to COM
plete its contract for iron bolts in due season.
Our informant states that there is feeling
of profound evaporation against the admins
traton and its agents. The people feel that
they have been Systematically trihed with and
sacrificed When the Yankee officers landed
five Sicilians who cheered them were shot down
by the crowd.
All who showed any signs of favor were
| knock ed down AS traitors. The feeling was in
tense. All the cotton was burned and all the
tobacco, except that claimed by the French gov
ernment. The sugar and molasses remains in
the city, as private property, in immense guam
titles. Much, however, is on the plantations
the crop being very large Gen. Lowell car
ried off by railroad the machinery of the work.
shops and iron mill, and all the rolling stock o
the railroad. The machinery is important, ant
entities him to credit. His forces are at a camp
of instruction at Jackson, Miss, protecting tht
railroad where it crosses Pearl river. He is
not expected to reinforce Beauregard, except al
reserve corps. His forces are said to be
about twenty thousand strong. Twelve thou
sand foreign citizens of New Orleans had or.
ganized to fight in defence of New Orleans, bu
declined gcing out to fight in the Confederate
cause.
REBEL ESTIMATE OF GENERAL BUTLER.
From the Richmond Dispatch, May o.
Bombastes Furioso and his myrmidons arr
now in possession of New Orlaans, and if anv
thing could add to our sympathy with the gen
erous and warm-hearted people of that city,
is that such specimen of Yankeedom shoul
be their Military Governor. A more polishe,
and chivalric population cannot be found o
this continent, and every instinct of their ma
ture must revolt at the gross, rulgay tool o
Yankee tyranny who is now lording it over
community who have never before seen such
being outside the guard house.
1t was bad enough that they should be give
over without a blow to the hands of the enemy
that their Notifications should be abandone
and blown up, their army taken away, and thei
own private arms ,rken with them; but b.
Butler to be put in command of the fol
saken city is the last drop in the bitter cup q
humiliation and shame. OF all the Yanke
, generals, he has the least pretentions to tn
4 qualities OF the soldier and the gentleman.
verier humbug, in a military point of view, wa
never created The battle of Bethel-at whic
. he took good care not to be presents II
only battle with which he ever had the remote
e connection He never so much as landed at Ha
teras till the guns of the shipping had silence
the fire of the Notifications, and he is not heal
I of at New Orleans till the gunboats hg
achieved their bloodless victory.
He is now in his element, sporting laure
n n which do not belong to him-an ass in a lion
,g skin. We predict that General Butler W
t, leave before the weather becomes excessive
n a, warm His oleaginous courage will evacua
II speedily before the burning sun. The yellC
IL fever will before long put an end, in one WI
m or another, to the dominion of Bombastes, al
ID open batteries upon his forces generally viii
. can neither be resisted by power nor paralyz
o. by treason. If McClellan's forces are alre0
r. seriously affected by our comparatively salub
~ Gus swamps in Virginia, what must become
those who have undertaken to "hold occu
IT'S and possess" the death-breeding waters of
% MssissippiP
NECESSITY OF DEFENDING RICHMOND.
Ie. From the Richmond Examiner, May 81
or The battles in the peninsula, which may
,y now considered as joined, are the most imp
m men tant events that have transpired since the S
10, tlement of America.
ect If we are successful and retain Richmol
DC there will be foreign Intervention and pea
ers without the possibility of disappointment,
est fore the month of June. If we are defeat
and lose Richmond the Confederacy is launcf
ha nm 81 wide trouhlad an1 ,,noar,a;n 900 of n,