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Is sIGu1 or NICEs1rsG. Feb. -,
Nia Cairo, Feb. -, 1863.
Tuesday evening Feb. l0, the Queen ol tie
" Get, with tic tender De Soto. rn past the
rebel hatterie- aj Wirrent1u. without receiving
shot. They passed Natchez the following day
ami aura.r-i ilr the night 90 t4e mouth of tie
uti river rrtr-ive miles below.
Thur bay, ue i2th. She era sell in rhe AtcLl-
fLBa.cpturuE and destroying train OF army
wagons. seventy barrels of beef, and sn arti-
leTv wagon containing ammunition and officers
baggage Up0l her return ia tine evening she
Was fr-i into from the right bank %, the Attla-
faiaya, ly citiieu- hom la the daylight Ue had
seen quietly smoking their pipes ia their houses,
and FIRST Master Thompson, Of the Queen, was
very seriously u.-ll-l Re Is not expected 20
live.
Oa Friday morning the Queen again entered
the Atchatllaya, and in retaliation, burned
every house. barn, sugar mill and negro quar-
tiers, between the mouth the mouth Of the river
snd Simmsport. \; the latter place we cap
tnred a rebel mail. and frSt lcarnci Of the &C.
cupation Of Berwick Bay and Lover AtchlfL-
sya BY Commander Farragut
On Friday afternoon We entered Rel river.
and anchored for the night at the mouth Of Black
yiver. At 10 O'Clock SATURDAY morning We cap
turei the Confederate steamer Era No 8, laden
with stores for the rebel army st Little Rock
There were on board fifteen privstes and three
commissioned officers. The privates we're pa
rolled and the officers retained. We had heard
q rebel battery was in position eighty miles
from the mouth Of Red uyer, at Gordon's Land
ing, and rs we approached within three hun
dred yards Of the fort, while rounding a point,
the pilot ran the Queen hard aground. In tbs
position the rebel batteries opened fire upon Us
with guns Of heavy callbre. The Queen had no
guns bearing on the for; and could not reply.
One shot, c9m-ng between the casemate and
deck, perforated the steam chest, and We were
compelled TO abandon her and escape down the
riVer-soue IN skifs. solne on cotton bales and
some on the De Soto. The steam spenetratei
every portion Of the vessel but the fracture
vas SO small that but one man was scalded very
seriously. One engineer Is not expected 10 live;
one white man and four negroes were drowned.
The following are pr.s3neTs lst Master Ihomp-
son. ID Master Edison. I'd Master Duncan, En-
gineer Taylor (s;alded), one blacksmith, two
carpenters, Surgeon Booth, Adutant b alley.
priSat,s Jarbon, Williams. M.Cuilom, Lanner,
Smith, Haisten, Faulkner, Bates, Rice, Brown,
Hill, and thirty uegrOes; aud the correspondent;
Of the New York Hef1it was taken prisoner,
and is now with the rest II alexandria, La.
! Col. Ellet escaped 70 the De Soto on q bale oi
cotton. The enemy have possession Of the Queen
Of the West.
All Survivors we're removed 10 the Era No. o
aud the De soto was blown up and sunk.
We were pursued by .he gunboat ". H. Neht
but fortunately just Jei.re she overlook US, When
we were eight miles south Of NatchCz We met th'
United Stats gunboat lndAnola, which had ruI
the batteries at vieksburg the Friday previous
The Indianoll fired tso guns at the Webb, ans
she ran Ike deer. We remained with the In.
diancli two days and started for Vicksburg Of
Wednesday evening.
The correspondent Of the Chicago TribHHs
who accompanied the Queen Of the West, Is
capei bodily injury. He was badly frightene
ani lost his hasersack, papers AID a suit Q
clothing.
Al Grand Gulf the Era vas arei into by