The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-05-06

ding the telegraph Office. The operator
has gone 10 the limits of the city TO open
an Office if possible.
All the gunboats on the lake have
been burned by our own people. The
Mobile boats White Man, Brown and sew
eral others, are removing troops, stores
and ordinances to Mauchoock, after
which. we fear, they will be burned.
The Yankee fleet was returning again to
Ship Island.
In local paragraph, the Norfolk Day.
Book, under the head of markets, men.
tons the very small supply of edibles ex.
posed for sale, and says it becomes a
question of grave moment as to where
and how the people are to be fed.
The death Of Samuel B. Todd, brother
of Mis-. Lincoln, is announced. He died
on the battle. field, and from the effects
of wounds he received at Shiloh in the
action of the eth.
BosroN, April 29-The war steamer
Sacramento was launched at the Ports
mouth Navy Yard yesterday. She is the
finest and largest war vessel ever built
at Portsmouth.
To Hon E. NJ Stanton, Sec'y of War:
Capt. Worden of the navy, with dis
patches from Gen. Burnsides, has just
arrived.
He reported that Fort Macon was
taken after l l hours engagement. Four
hundred prisoners were taken, Col.
White, late of the Ordnance Department,
commanded Fort Macon. Our loss is
one killed and eleven wounded.
(Signed) JNO. E. WOOL,
Major General.
FoRr MoNRoE. May IA flag oftruce
from Craney Island, this afternoon,
brought down an English nooieman, and
several newspapers giving tie particulars
Of the capture of Fort Macon, and some
additional particulars of the fall of New
Orleans, with other interesting iems.-
The Norfolk Day Book of this, Thurs
day, morning says: No Geographic mes
sages were received here last night.
The Wilmington Journal of Tuesday
has the following in confirmation of the
fall OF Fort Macon, telegraphed from here
yesterday We have just learned that
the fire upon the fort was opened quar-
ter before 6 o'clock on Friday morning,
} and that the engagement between the fort
! and the federal batteries was kept up un-
) til I o'clock that evening, when the for,
became wholly untenable and was sur
} rendered as above stated.
} The guns inside the Fort, opposite to
the side attacked, were dismounted, and
} all but three of the guns bearing upon
the enemy's batteries were also dismoun-
ted. The enemy's central battery Of
) preaching guns was within LOO yarda
of the fort The right and left thanking
: batteries were moro distant.
1t turns out that the report Of Fl fteer
Of our men being killed in a scout some
days ago, against the enemy's pickets, i:
untrue. One man only was wounded
and none were killed, until Friday last
the day of the attack upon the fort
From other accounts it is gathered
that at the bombardment Of Fort Macon
rebels were killed and great many
were wounded.
Col. White, and / so men. were releas
} ed on parole by Gen. Burnside.
A Suffolk correspondent OF the Peters
burg Express, under date of April 80
says: All were expecting TO hear some
thing from the Merrimac this morning
but the Norfolk Day Book is silent.
The Petersburg Express, OF to- day,
says that many rumors were in circula.
ton yesterday, among them one of the
evacuation of Memphis and Cornth. also
the report of the capture of Wilmington
n. c., by Gen. Burnside.
Generals Breckenridge and Hindman
have been made Maj Generals, and Col
w. A. Bell Brig General.
The Richmond Dispatch Of to-day says
, the panic on the subject of scarcity o
lood, is one Of the most causeless i'm
aginable. The road from Danville tc
Greenboro is rapidly constructing and
| will be open to North Carolina. Tenness
ee, eastern Georgia and South Carolina
for supplies to feed the whole State O
Virginia.
How causeless the panic alluded to
above, may be inferred from the fact tina
an advertising column of the same pa
per quoted butter at one dollar and forty
cents per pound in the city market.
A Six Yankees, seven domestic traitors
G and one Confederate soldier, arrived a
Richmond yesterday. The former be
longing to an Ohio regiment, and were
captured in Bath Co., Virginia.
r The Richmond Dispatch Of yesterda,
1 records the execution, as spy, on tn,
Goth Of April, of Timothy Webster Mrs
Webster, who was arrested with her hus
. band, is still at Castle Goodwin. Webse
5 is said 10 have been the first spy yet ex
eculed by the rebels. What il the Fed
eral government should commence hang
ing spies =?
4 The following additional items regard
ing the fall OF New Orleans, are all tina
can be cleaned from the papers: Com
Farragut had proposed terms Of capitu
aiion to Mayor Monroe, which the latter
( accepted, and the City of New Orlean:
was at last accounts held by battalion
of marines from the squadron.