Evening star., 1863-04-20
FROM MiLLIKEN,s BEND. LA.

Important Expedition being made into the
interior of the State-Briliiant Dash
1t Richmond. La.-New Carthage in
Federal Possession.
On STEAMER HlAWATHA, MILLrKEy's
BEND, LA, April 6.-I am happy TO sta.e that
the health OF the army is improving rapidly
There is not more sickness here how than usu-
ally exists in an army OF this size.
The roads are becoming good. No trouble
TO move our trains now, and Gen. McCiernand
is taking advantage OF this favorable opportu-
nifty, and is making some i'm portant mo YemeRts
into the interior OF the State.
On the 3ist Of March Richmond, the capitcl
of Madison parish, situated on the junction
and ON the other sides OF Roundaway and
Walnut bayous, was captured by the Union
troops The little. ri. er formed by these two
bayous is al out two hundred feet wi lie and
very deep. large steamboat came up TO
Richmond in lSii after cotton, and have no
doubt, II few trees We're removed :n1w
there, that il would be navigable nov for
small steamers.
The enemy tried TO resist our crossing, but
Gen. mcCiernand ordered the skitfs thai had
been hauled from this place to be lauu ched, and
part OF the I'd Illinois Cayaly to cross, whilst
the other detachments engaged the rebels, wio
were formed behind q fertilization taat they
had erected to command both rivers. The boys
OF the I'd Illinois pitched in, and, withou, wait
ing for oars, showed out and padded their boats
across the river with the butts OF their guns,
and drove the enemy out OF town, killing six
men and wouDGing others, captured several
horses with saddles, &c.
On the Sd day Of March, at , O'Clock p. m,
atter march of twenty miles, we arrived az
Smiths plantation, two miles fro: n Carthage
with our cavalry and four mountain howitzers.
A skiit was soon procured, and Gems. McCier-
nand and OsteThaus with a few members of
the ir staff, ten men of the 7th Indiana Infantry
and your respondent, started on a recon nois
sance to New Carfhaga. II. H. s.
New Carthage is situated on the Missss sippi-
river about twenty. five miles below Yicksbary
II is fianked on the left by Bayou YideiI: on
the right bank of this bayou is 4 leyee running
from RonndaWay bayou to the Mississippi.
river, but this leyee has three large ere vases
we walked on the ievee and would use our skiff
to cross to the other side; when we came 70 the
last crevasse and while waiting Tor the sfiff TO
to take us across, we were s;iluted by voiley
OF musketry from the CarthageRians, which
had the effect To arouse our ire, for one OF the
balls came very close to our Generals. We
returned the fire, for each OF US had mn sket,
and had quite a little fight. As the night had
begun to draw her sable curtain around "a, we
raised the siege and fell back to Smah' planta-
ton. 4slE-s
panies OF infantry and one mountain howitzrr,
embarked on nat-boafs and skiifs, rnoved upon
Carthage. When at the proper distance he
opeped fire with his howi.zer on the town, After
She ling it thirty minutes, he debarkad his in
sfan,ry and took the place at the point Of tue
hayonet, killing one man and running the rest
away. So Carthage is now in our possession.
What the result OF this move will be the country'
will soon know
n6A Secesh officer sent this little Joke across
the Rappahannock the other day, enciled On
the margin of a Richmond paper containing a
report of the Charleston fight and the loss of the
torpedo expioder "We have got your devil
aRd given you h--l!" s4sgg-Ti - - s9s54nEx5
~ Henry Jumpe7tz, who narrowly escaped
hanging In Chicago for the murder of Sophie
Werner. il said to be in Grants army near
Hieksbnrk as an orderly sergeant in the iaA
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