New-York daily tribune., 1862-04-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

Gen. Wool yesterday teleg,aphed to the Wal
Department as foiows "News Of tie occupation
of New-Orleans by our forces is confirmed to-day
This confirmation probably reios to admissions
made in the Rebel papers which w Putllsi IN otnef
columns.l Tue dspstch to the Associated Pre's
says; "The telegraph operators having lett New
Orleans there il no news from there. The opera
tors attempted to return, but found the city oecupeo
by the Union forces"
Gen. HurIburs report oftbe losses m bis divi-
sion at the battle hear Pushurg, is So ioliowa;
Killed, sos; wounded l,4l7; missing, 75. In the
same report Gen. Hurlbut recommends that the
officers Of the 18th Ohio battery be mustered out Of
the service for disgracefui cowardice.
-Amsng the news confrmatory Of the capture of
New -O.ies1s is that which receive from our
Special Correspondent st Fredericksburg, copied
from The Riclmond Ezdmaer. The Editor OF that
paper admits the retirement of the Rebel General,
after burning tbe oton bni steamboats,.
Letters rom Ship Island st,te that the feet in
tended to operate against New-OrleaDs consisted Of
tlirty-fvs waryessels and twenty-one mortar-bosts
thousand troops under command of Gen. Butler who
were to follow the fleet up t5e Mississippi, while
other troops moved upon the city By way of Lake
Pontcbadraiu.
Five cOotralands from Portsmouth, near Nor
folk, arrived on Sunday at Fortress Monroe, bring
ing newspsi which in part confirm the report Of
the capture of New. Orleans. intense excitement
prevails at Norrok. la its editorial OF SATURDAY
commenting on the news from Nev-Orleans The
Redmond Enqairer merely states that affairs are
critical at New-Oreans, but it makes 10 definite I'D
mission of the capture.
The latest batch of oontrabands from Fortress
around Eo,fcIk tba, the Merrimac would corle ont
tomorrow, aud Try to pass up York River 10 destroy
our shipping now there. They state that steel
wedges have been PIE pared, with view of boaId-
ing the Monitor and tightening her turret that it
Cannot revove, and for cutting loose her -heating.
Her PROV, cutter, il now twelve feet long, made
Of wrought iron, and sleel-pcinted. The citizens
are evidently becoming very uneasy, anl many are
leaving for more secure localities.
On Saturday sfteraoon, il is reported from Gen.
Banks's headquarters at Harrsouburg, the pickett
Of Col Don"ellys brigade, stationed eight niles
hence on the Gordonsv;ile Road, were attacked by
q large force of Ashby guard, snd driven back.
The reserve Of the dGth snd section OF HamptOls
battery advanced, and repulsed them. They r.
treated to u wood whe & seeersl shells burst in their
very midst snd wagon wa, seen gathering up snd
carrying off their dead and wounded. Jacksons
forces said to be inainly encampcd near the east
bank of the Shenandoah The bridge over be river
is strongly pieketed by bin, aud Is unoeraid with
infamniaLIe material, ready 10 be igned Oh ne ap-
proach Of the National troops.
Tie United States steam.r Connecticut from the
Mississippi blocksding squadron, arrived here yester
day morn z, bringing ihe mails and aho 200 sick
and wounGed soaulen iron the various siiIs Of the
squadron. size hss also several refugees from Texas,
who we're taken IRON Matamoras by the United
States guntoat Montgomery. The ohcers o: the
Connecticut are disposed 10 d0ub tre story Of The
surrender oi New-Orcaut without fight When
they efr the Sout.-W II Pcs il was underood that
the Rebels lad arranged their deieuses complete =
end torfnidsUly, that fearful macs OF hIe could
be brought 10 Oeai every yessol that might at
tempt a defiant Iassaee 10 Newt Orleans. 1ney
think II New Orleans has really been taken, as re.
ported that iAe Rebels did Lot show any resistance
worth speaking OF, tLer means OF resistance were
such as to make bloody work for troops, ii they
were disposed 10 Use them.