Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-01-30
FROM NE " ORLEANS.

New Orleans advces of the Sth say it is
reported that the Winona. one of our gum
boats has been sunk by the South battery at
Port Hudson. 1t was also reported that
Stonewall Jackson, with AZ, 900 men, had re-
inforced vicksburg.
The city council to-day rendered a recep-
ion to Gen. Fitz John Porter.
Mr. Beming, late Army correspondent of
the Associated Press, has been released from
military arrest and is now in Philadelphia.
The Steamer Mary A. Boardman, from
New Orleans the 18th, and Key West the
goth, has arrived. She brings Galveston adj
vices to the 18th. They were brought to
Key West by the Steamer Northern Light
from New Orleans.
On the 10th, the United States sloop Brook
Ign, in company with six other Federal steam
ers, were off Galveston. They saw a steam
er in the offing. The steamer Hatteras i'm
mediately got under way to speak her, and
when within hailing distance asked "Who
she was" and received the answer, " Her
Majesty's sloop-of-war Spit-fre." The COM
rAeaaS- sc 49, Ils-~Ns.s-s ,old turui ...A
he would send boat to her, and had Just
lowered one with an officer and crew in her.
when the steamer opened her broadside and
fred into the Hatteras.
The Brooklyn got under way. and started
in pursuit Of the stranger, but night comm <
on she lost sight of her, and was compete
to give up the chase. On returning, she
found the Hatteras sunk in nine iathoms o.
water, The officers of the Mary A. Board
man are unable to give further particulars.
/ The steamer was no doubt the pirate Alaba
ma. The Hateras was merely a transport,
but carried four guns of light calibre, similar
to tie transport Mcclellan.
The New Orleans Delta of the Eth inst
says we learn from Berwick that an engage
ment took place yesterday between Genera
Weltzers forces and the rebels. At the tim,
the train left it was reported that the Union
lists had killed 6 and captured 10 Of the rebels
The Delta also received the following
Berwick Bay, Jan. 10 have just learned
the particulars of an affair OF some Importance
which took place yesterday. Early in thu
day Commander Buchanan went up the Fech,
with the Calhoun, till he came to the obstruc
tions placed in the channel by the rebels.--
At that point unluckily the gunboats got a
ground.
Commander Buchanan went forward somt
distance and was shot in the head from on
Of the rife pits near. A man named Whit
hurst also was killed.
Col. Thomas, of the 9Th Vermont, hearin,
the firing, ordered his regiment, to charg,
the rife pit which resulted in the capture O
thirty rebels and the dispersion Of the rest
| have been told that six rebels were killed.
learn that the captain OF the rebel gun
boat Cotton was killed, and it is also reporte,
that the boat is captured.
A letter from off Galveston says that IN,
arms and Notifications Of Galveston are for
midable. The rebel steamer supposed t.
have been the Alabama may have been tn,
Oreto from Mobile. She was at the post a
last accounts ready for sea. She was waiting
an opportunity to run the blockade and pro-
badly succeeded.
IL is also surmised that the cruiser may
have been the Harriet Lane, but we have nc
account of her escaping from Galveston.
New Orleans advices state that on the 18th
inst, fight occurred between Gen. Welt.
zel's brigade and body of rebels al Berwick
Bay. The rebels have been assembling at
this place for some time, and were receiving
large aecessions daily Gen. Weiizel wac
dispatched to the position to drive the rebels
away. The fight lasted for several hours, re.
sulting in Union victory and general re-
treat Of the rebels, thirty of whom were taxi
en- prisoners. This is the engagement al
which 1t. Com. Buchanan was killed.
1t is stated that when the pirate Oveto es-
capped from Mobile she was chased by the
gunboat Tyler, the latter following her to
Havana, where the Oveto arrived with ZOO
bales of cotton.
! A Port Royal letter Of the Oath says that
the steamer Honduras arrived here yesterday
direct from New Orleans, with an urgent re-
| quest from Gen. Banks to the commanding
General Tor large supply of intrenching
tools Of all descriptions. From this we infer
that the capture of Port Hudson, of which
we have been anxiously hoping to hear, is a
long way in the future.
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