The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-26
From New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 9.-The u. s. gun
boat Kanawha has arrived here with the
prize schooner Winona, captured while
bound for Havana, from Mobile. Her car
go consists of 24S bales of cotton, so bbls
rosin, IA bbls turpentine, and $4,000. I'm
TIL within short time the schooner has
been used as rebel gunboat at Mobile.
The late black frost will considerably
shorten the sugar crop in Louisiana.
The receipts Of cotton at New Orleans
since the LIST of September, have been over
43, 900 bales.
Rumors come from Dixie that Bragg has
committed suicide and that Longstreer is
trapped.
The re-capture of Puebla by the Mexi-
cans is again affirmed. ,a
Gen. Banks has recovered from illness.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. u.-Three or four
thousand troops under Adams, Crosby and
Logan, appeared in the vicinity of Natchez
early this week, and attacked our forces
under Gen. Gresham, but were repulsed
and pursued. 1t is said we took 800 pris-
oners.
The steamer Won Phul, which left here
for st. Louis, on Monday, was badly dam
aged by rebel battery just above Bayou
Sara. A shell exploded in the pilot. house,
killing the Captain and Mr.. Curry, the bar
tender. Nine boat hands.were wounded,
three fatally. The boat was saved from
utter destruction.
Lieut.. Gear, of Boston, and seven others
of the Sd Massachusetts Cavalry, were cap.
tured few days ago, near Port Hudson,
by party of Logan's men. The Lieuten-
ant was badly wounded, and four Of his
men more or less seriously injured.
Brigadier General Ritzel, commanding
the 1st division Of the 10th corps, goes north
tomorrow by the Morning Star. 1t is ex-
pected he will be transferred to Gen. But
ler's Department., in compliance with the
wish of the latter General. Others think
he will return to this Department with two
stars.
The reports which have been current of a
conspiracy between the colored troops and
rebel prisoners at Fort Jackson are false.
| A destructive fire occurred here this morn
ing-loss estimated at $500 The build
| ings consumed were on Tchapitoulas street
| between Grover street and Natchez alley,
they consisted of the Large hardware stores
of Griff, Byrns & Co., the store of Smith &
Taylor, and two stores well stored with
eral other buildings on Natchez alley were
injured by the falling walls. One fireman
was killed and several injured.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.-The excite.
ment occasioned here by the report of a
mutiny at Fort Jackson on the 9th has
barely subsidized yet. The most wild and
| improbable rumors prevailed that every
that the negroes were about to kill every
white man in the vicinity, &c. But the
| truth was known at headquarters early on
| the morning of the 10th. or
| The facts are as follow: The negroes had
taken offense at one Of the officers in COM
| mand and swore vengeance. In trying to
get possession of his person, they encoun-
tered more opposition than they anticipa-
ted, and fred some shots at random and
| into the air, but they never intended to
create mutiny or shed blood. Not per-
son was injured. The whole affair did not
last half an hour. The officers easily qui-
eted the men and they have not since made
any demonstration. t@
There is no news from Texas except the
capture of Ft. Esperanez, Matagorda Bay.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA letter to the
| World, dated New Orleans, Dec. 18th,
says: Up to tonight we have nothing
from the Rio Graude, but our forces have
all left the Teche, and but small garrison
is at Brashear, this side of the Bay. I do
| not know that anything is expected from
Texas just now, though possibly there may
be. 1T reported here that Magruder is at
Columbus, on the Colorado, with large
force, and that if the Federal army enters
the interior, its progress will be disputed.
| 1t will not, in my opinion, leave uavigable
| waters very soon. Magruder was fully
appraised of an intended attack on the Rio
Grande, and rather invited it, with the
hope of embroiliug. the United States with