New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-04
Triumphal March of Our Army
OpelousaS and Washington, La, Occupied
RpBEL CApITULATIoy OF BUTTE LA ROSE.
Guns, small-Arms, Prisoners, and
Stores Captured.

Nv the steamer Creole on Saturday, from New
Oresns with dates of the Goth, aud Havana of the
9th Of April, and the George Cromwell, from New
Orleans the 26th which arrived yesterday, we hpVe
five DAYS later news from the Crescent City. Capt.
Post of the George Cromwell reports that the day
he sailed from New. Orleans news had been received
that Gen. BanksS army had taken Alexandria, near
the head OF navigation OF Rcd River.
Gen. Banks, on the 2lst OF April, occupied Ope-
lousas and Washington and the column was resting
for the day at the latter Ilace
The want OF horses for the cavalry was being sup
piled from the country round about.
Seven hundred horses had been brought into
Opelousss.
The brig ST. Mary, at New-0rleans, reports:
"Aprii 8. off Pass L'0utre, was followed into
shoa water BY schooner having the appearance Of,
aud supposed 10 be, pllot-boat, and got ashore.
The schooner then kept away"
correspondent of The Era, writing from
Brasbear City, under date of the Goth of April,
states that the plantations in the neighborhood Of
Bayou Lafourche We're all submerged. The levee
had broken down near Tbibodeauxville, and the
water was rushing furiously over the whole vicinity
The food was doing great damage at the railroad
II was fast undermining the suice ways walls and
the s;ripgeIs flowing over the track, rendering 1t
dangerous for trains to travel over it.
The same correspondent states that the Confed.
crate fort at Butte "a Rose, on the Atcbaialaya,
sixty miles moth of Brashesr City, capitulated on
the morning OF the Goth of April.
The Calhoun, Arizona and Estrella had reached
this point in the forenoon. They We're fired at from
the for The boats replied and after one more shot
was & ed from the Mary T., lying near by, and
another from the fort, the place surrendered. The
Mary T. steamed off, pursued by the Clifton and
Arizona.
The correspondent states that with this place
there were captured over 100 rounds of artillery am
munition, several hundred pounds of powder small
number OF smdll.arms, one 32-pound gun. one a.
FOUNDER, and 30 prisoners The latter all belong TO
tho Crescent Regiment. and are mostly from New
Orleans.
INorx-Bulte La Rose Is on the Atchafaisys River sixty
mile. north Of Brashear City and commanding the river
e. almost ad wet swamp lying where the river
does surround Even the inside OF the fort has floor
eng Of thick Maud. The taken there really de-
lighted leave what Of them termed the last hole Of
hell" Tho person rsmsrked that captured about
-four thousand ukess every square inch when took
che place. beside indefinite quantity of hesa and mud
died there recently By the measles the surgeon said, but
the men that 1t was by muskeso bites
The Netc- Orleans P,coyune Of the Dist ult., in
commenting upon Gen. Banks's recent movements,
says:
"The influence Of this short campaign O Gen.
Banks will be felt far and wide; ii will be most
cheering to the people of the North, and directly
the opposite OF course, to the people OF the South
and if the operations commenced 60 vigorously are
followed up in the same manner, they will be Of
more importance than any attempted during the
present war.
at is undoubtedly heavy blow sgains: Port
Hudson, heavier indeed than il 1t had been struok
directly against that strongly fortified position, for
Ii is aimed at the great depot of suppes-cu tsese
of. and there Is no telling what the result will be.
With Admiral Farrsgu at the mouth Of Red River,
and powerful army in Western Louisiana, the
great highway Texa, is closed, aud will remain 30
so long as they have the ability to maintain their
positions To sum up the entire affair." 1t is safe to
say that it has been q most disastrous ten days fol
the Couederates in this secain Of the country and
mosf fortunatesfor tne forces Of the United States
The events Of the next month in this State will
be most interesting well az exciting for 1t will be
determ ned in that time which party is 10 hold pos
session Of the greater part of this State during the
next few months That part now in possession o.
the United States forces gives them almost the entire
control of the Louisiana seaboard; there IS nothing
left OF il worth having aud an army at Nsw-lberis
IL as near its base OF supplies as If it were at New
Orleans"
AiutiShL VT UtN tLlhANN hND MS
Gen. Ullmsnn having completed the preliminary
organization of bis brigade, left New-York on the
10Th, in the steamer Matapzas, with the officers Of
bis command and arrived here on Monday. The
character Of the organization is remarkable not only
IN It's purpose but in the character Of the who
have been selected as its officers.
OF the two hundred or more commissioned and
non-commissioned officers, nne-tenths have
vice In the field and understand by experience the
hardshps of the march and bivousc and the dangers
of battle. Many Of them were sergeants in excel
lent regiments now with Hooker and Dix.
Some were officers promoted or detached and
assigned to the brigade from preference for the
peculiar service 1t is destined TO perform The per-
sonnet of the brigade Is splendid. Taller and more
stawan men are rarely seen, and in appearance and
manner they have invariably shown themselves
gentlemen. n. y. Era, 80.
Gen. BanlGs's Movemenfs-Breskingo of the
Levcs-Pers Hudson 10 be Cut Off
Capture Of the Fox-The Republican
Victories In she North.
From Our Special Correspondent
NEw-ORLEASs April %, 1868.
Gen. Banks pushing forward to Alexandra with