Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-05-03
TH0S. A. SCOTT.
Asst Seo'y of War,

Particulars OF tho Capture OF Fort
MRcOn...EsunOred Evacuation OF
Memphis and COrinth ---sca TcIty OF
Food In the south.
FoRTREss MONROE, May LA flag of truce
from Craney Island this afternoon brought
down an English noblemRn and several newspa.
peTs, giving the particulars of the capture of
Fort Macon, and come additional particulars of
the fall Of New Orleans, with other interesting
items.
The Norfolk Day Book of this Thursday
morning says no telegraphic dispatches were re-
ceived last night.
The Wilmington Journal of Tuesday has The
following in confirmation Of the fall Of Fort
Macon, telegrahed from here yesterday.
We have just learned that the fire upon the
fort was opened at quarter before six O'Clock
on Friday morning, and that the engagement
between the fort aud the Federal batteries was
kept up until seven O'Clock that evening, when
the fort became wholly untenAble and was sur
rendered as above stated. All the guns inside
the fort opposite to the side attacked, were dis
mounted, and ell but three Of the guns bearing
upon the eDemy's batteries we're also dis
mounted.
The enemy's central battery Of preaching
guns was within eleven hundred yards Of the
fort. The right aud left hanking batteries were
moi distant.
1t turns out that the report of fifteen of our
men having been killed in q scout some days
since against the enemy's pickets Ia untrue. One
man only was wounded, aud none were killed
until Friday last, the day of the attack upon the
fort.
From other accounts It is gathered that dur
ing the bombardment of Fort Macon seven rebela
we're killed and great many wounded. Col.
White and ono hundred and fifty men we're re.
leased on parole by Gen. Burnside.
A Suffolk correspondent of the Petersburg
Express, under date of April 30th, says: All
were expecting TO hear something from the
MerFimsc this morning, but the Norfolk Day
Book Is silent.
The Petersburg Express of to-day says that
many rumors we're In circulation yesterday,
among them one of the evacuation of Memphis
and Corinth; also the report of the capture Of
Wilmington, N. c., by Gen. Burnside.
Generals Breckinridge and Hindmsn have
been made Major. Generals, and Col w. A.
Bsal Brig General.
The Richmond Dispatch Of to-day says the
panic on the subject of scarcity of food is
one of the most oauseless imaginable. The
road from DAnVille TO Greenboro is rapidly con.
structing, and will open North Carolina, Tenn
essee, 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 an ad-
joining column Of the same paper is chronicled
sale of butter at 81 40 per pound in the city
market.
Six Yankees, seven domestic traitors and one
recusant Confederate soldier arrived at Rich
mond yesterday. The former belonged to an
Ohio regiment, end were captured IN Bath coun-
ty, Virginia.
The Richmond Dispatch Of yesterday records
the execution as a spy, on the 29Lh Of April, Of
Timothy Webster. Mrs. Webster, who was or.
rested with her husband, Is still at Castle God
win. Webster is said to have been the first spy
yet executed by the rebels. What II the Fede.
raj Government should commence to hang
spies2
The following additional items regarding the
fall OF New Orleans are all that can be CLEANED
from the papers:
Com. Farragut had proposed terms Of oapit
ulation to Mayor Monroe, which tn, latter ac
cepted, and the city Of New Orleans was, al
last accounts, held by battalion Of Marines
from the squadron. General Butler's forcet
were within few miles Of the city, having
landed on Lake Pontchartrain.
Information was received at Norfolk yester
day that Capt Mcintosh, the supposed com
nander Of the gunboat Louisiana at New Or
leans, had been badly wounded; when Or where
was not stated. From the same source 1t was
also learned that Capt. Thomas Huger, suppoa
cd commander of the McRae, was mortally
wounded In the same enRagement.