Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-06-02

| FROM New Orleans on the 24th OF May, arrived
| this morning.
| A dispatch in the New Orleans Era of the
2ith, dated Port Hudson Plains, May aad, says:
! Yesterday, General Augur's whole division
| engaged in nine hours fight on Port Hudson
s! Plains, four miles in the rear of Port Hudson
on Bayou Sara road. The rebels were thor
| oughly whipped, and left large number OF
killed and wounded On the field. The Rebel
| General Gardner sent in a flag of truce at mid.
! night, asking permission to bury his dead We
took hundred prisoners. The enemy was
driven three miles from his first position, and
| General Augur biyoucked on the field Of battle.
| Our loss is twelve killed, and 1fty-six woun.
ded. The ll6th New York and end Louisiana
suffered most Our men fought with great
| bravery.
I Files of the New Orleans Era up to the 9th
| Of May contain the following:
| An Alexandria letter OF the sth ultimo details
| the taking ct that place by Admiral Porter, and
| the subsequent arrival there OF General Banks
| The plantations on the road from Opelousas
to Alexandria have large quantities of cotton
| upon them, the advance of General Dwights'
brigade being too rapid to permit the retreating
| rebels to burn it. large warehouse filed with
| sugar and molasses was also captured.
One Of the murderers Of Captain Dwight has
| been captured He was Immediately hung.
| General Dwight has arrested q number OF cit
| liens living near the scene OF the murder.
General Weitzel recently captured an i'm.
| mense rebel flag found in a house at Alexan.
| dria.
An Alexandra letter Of the 9th OF May states
that all the gunboats have left there excepting
the La Fayette. All our troops have arrived,
and General Banks Is planning another move
mrnt.
Deserters from the rebels are continually
coming in.
Supplies are being concentrated at Barre 8
Landing under the command OF Col. Chicken
ing with the 9TH Massachusetts.
Another letter OF the 18th says: Three men
OF the 1G0th New York regiment were poisoned
with Guinine, purchased at a drug store.
The ath Wisconsin and part OF the LIST Louisi-
ana regiments have been mounted.
Col Albert has been appointed TO the COM
E,and OF all the cavalry in Gen: Banks De-
partment. and is organizing the whole force.
On the night Of the 10th of May Gen. Weitzel
captured one piece of artillery, twenty five
men and two officers, near Cane river, on the
route to Shreveport.
1t is rumored that seven thousand reinforce.
ments are crossing from Arkansas to the rebel
General Taylor.
The steamer Sheldon has been snagged
Gen. Banks has issued an order Offering
bounties for re.enlistments. On the 18th,
marching orders were momentarily expected.
The Era prints q list Of one hundred and ten
rebel prisoners who have voluntarily taken
the oath af allegiance to the United States Gov
eminent The Ship Dewitt Clinton hundred
days out from Boston arrived at New Orleans
the iath.
The first Texas Cavalry, COL Downs, had
made a raid on the Jackson railroad, and from
Tfckford station to Camp Moore, destroyed
every bridge on the road, including the large
bridge over the Tarsipaho river, also, all the
railroad stations, and a car factory near Inde-
pendence, and shoe factory, tannery, saw and
grist mill near Tickfaw. They also captured
rebel Lieutenant and forty three men, besides
killing rebel Captain and ten men, and cap.
turing twenty horses, etc, in skirmish. The
damage to the rebels was immense. A Mobile
dispatch mentions reported battle between
Bragg and Rosecrans. States that Bragg was
badly beaten with Rosecrans pursuing him.
. Baton Rouge letter of the l4th, to the Era,
says:
Gen. Dudley, with two Brigades had made
an expedition to Port Hudson up the Clinton
road, reaching Bayou Sara. The reconnoi-
sance to Port Hudson drove in the rebel pickets
to within two miles of the place, and the coun-
try was completely reco lnoitered.
A raid by Col. Grierson tore up the railroad
between Clinton and Port Hudson cut the
telegraph wires; burned a rebel camp, and
captured hundred head of beef cattle.
A Brashear despatch, dated 22d May, states
the steamer Louisiana Belle while enrolts from
Brashear to Washington. with Captain Merrill
and company B, of the 4th Massachusetts, regi-
o~l o~lro
ing Captain Alexander, of the steamer, and
wounding the pilot. and ten soldiers. Our
men returned the fire, killing several OF the
guerillas, and driving them OF after an hour
and a half fighting. The guerillas are supposed
to be certain protested Unionists q Washing
ton.
The steamer Morning Light run into the
steamer Creole on the night of May alst, under
peculiar circumstances, on the Mississippi
river the former sinking on the LETT bank.
The Creole was transporting troops from
New Orleans 70 Baton Rouge, to reinforce
Augur.
The steamer Tennessee, from of Galveston
on the I'D, reports the destruction by the gum
boat 0wasco OF the notorious blockade runner
West Florida. The health Of the feet Oh G al.
weston is good. The rebels sent from New
Orleans are at Pascagoula awaiting q chance
TO 60 to Mobile.
The steamer General Cromwell, advertised
to leave New Orleans on the oath for New
York, has been taken by tho Government to
transport troops up the river.
Run,ors from Pascagoula reached New Or
leans on the 21st that Mobile had been attacked.
and ono rebel stated that Geographic dispatch
had been received at PascagoUla from Mobile
that Fort Morgan had gone under. SoNe OF
the rebels said to our officers, aThere is glori-
Gus news for you, but we dare not tell what it
Is.
A letter Of the 1eth from Bayou Sara, states
Dudleys Brigade had made another recon.
noissa0ce to within one mile OF the Port Hud.
SON batteries, when it was ascertained that the
rebels had not been reinforced.
A prisoner states that the garrison is discon.
tented. A letter Of the ed states that our army
has reached the precincts Of Port Hudson, and
an attack u In progress. The same letter states
that Gen. Auguss whole division fought the
enemy nine hours yesterday, drove him three
miles. birouacking at night 1t the utn,est lin.
Its Of tho advance.
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