New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-22
Our second page this morning Is taken up
with important news from Europe aud from
Mexico.
TIE WAR NEWS.

- Our correspondent at Washington on
Monday night placed in the Telegraph Office to
be sent to us the following highly important dis
patch:
"Oficial dispatches announce that the aeet
of Admiral Porter and the army, or a consd-
cradle portion of the army OF Gen. Grant, have
succeeded in passing the Rebel batteries of
Vicksburg, and are now south Of that strong
hold and between il and Port Hudson; that is
to say, 10 a position from which they can at
tack either place as may seem most advisable,
and can have the cooperation of Gen. Banks
in case they should prefer to take Port Hudson
first. This intelligence is justly characterized
by the writer Of one OF the dispatches re-
ferred to as great news" and is the list
sure sign that We are to see this Spring the
opening of the great river for which our friends
abroad as recent letters from eminent English
men state, are looking almost as anxiously as
we."
Not word of this was permitted 20 come
to US on Monday night, for what reason We
cannot imagine; but late on Tuesday after
noon, too late for our Evening Edition, it was
sent along. after a dispatch to the Associated
Press, made up, no doubt from The Wash
ingtOn Chronicle Of yesterday. Why the dis
patch was suppressed by the Government Cen
sor, if such was the fact, we are at a loss to
understand for, first, the matter was official,
and of such nature as to be Of no benefit
but of great encouragement to the Rebels;
and, second, it mus: have been at that time,
or very soon after, in the office of Tie ChrOn-
ieie, and consequently there could be no good
reason for not printing it in New-York at the
same time. Encouraging war news has not Of
late been 20 frequent that cheerful intelligence
need be withheld lest the public shall become
intoxicated with success.
OF the news Itself, we may soy it is very
important. No less than seven fine gunboats
aud three transports passed the terrible bat
teries of Vicksburg. The flagship Benton led
the van, and got opposite the upper battery
before the Rebels opened fire. The firing was
kept up from ii p. N. until a. M, as The
vessels were passing down; the only serious
and the temporary disabling Of
another transport, the Forest City. We had
,nly one man killed, and but two or three
wounded. The Rebels burned two or three
houses in Vicksburg so as to light the river
md make our boats visible. On reaching War
enton Admiral Porter bombarded that place,
With what result was unknown. There was a
Rebel report in Washington last night that
was evacuated.
We have news from New.Orleans to the
l4th inst. Military movements were unimpOrt-
ant. Gen. Banks was in the Bayou Teche
country, west Of New Orleans, beyond Bra
shear City, near Franklin. At Franklin he had
slight skirmish; at Pattersonville, where the
sunboat Diana was captured recently, there
was no opposition. The precise object of the
expedition is not stated, but it is guessed to
% bound for Red River, down which stream
immense supplies for the Rebels are doubtless
brought. 1t was said some days ugo, that
Admiral Farragut was up that river, aud in
LANCER of capture. Mr.. Gabertop, Admiral