Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1864-04-23
| Cyrus E. Dlckey, his adjutant, was instantly

Cyrus Z. Dickey, his adjutant, was instantly
killed.
Our loss is largc--probably 1000.
The Mercantile battery lost all its guns.
Capt. White is prisoner, and Lieuts. Throop
and M'Bride are killed. The loss ofthe bat
terry, in killed, wounded and captured, is 81.
One hundred and ten men of the battery re-
turned TO camp after the disaster.
While The Fourth division was falling
back Ia disorder, tie Third division, num-
boring 800 men came up, and were iinme'
diately routed. Finally, the Nineteenth
Army corps, with 1900 men, came up, and
formed in line of battle. They checked :he
enemy, and held them until We got all the
trains except that of the cavalry.
The whole army is falling back here, where
it must wait to rcorganize before proceeding
further against Shreveport.
CAIRO, April 1S. The steamer Lady Pike,
from Memphis on the 10th, has passed this
point with 600 bales of cotton, 100 of which
are for Evansville and the remainder for
| Cincinnati On the 4th, Captain Phelps, Of
the gunboat Eastport, captured rebel mail
carrier near Crockctt's Bluff, Arkansas, with
| five hundred letters, from Richmond and
other points, and sixty thousand percussion
| caps, intended for Prices army. The letters
contained official communications for Shreve-
! port, and considerable Federal money. A
! squad of rebels recently captured Reprcscn.
tative Clark and the sheriff of Kansas coun-
! ty, Arkansas, and carried them off. They
also burned y lot of cotton, and after ar.
resting seven cotton buyers, and robbine
them of several thousand dollars, released
| them.
LOUISVILLE, April 1S.--Bennets guerrilla
band on Thursday captured at Madison
ville Genera. Shackclford. Provost marsha
Thatchermoen, of that place, and several
citizens, all of whom were subsequent
| ly released No further particulars recciy
! ed.
LATER.
ST.. LoUIs, April 19.-Thc Democrat ha!
several dispatches from the Red river, con
tanning nothing, however, of special impor
tance. Little had occurred except skirmish
ing.
General Banks army left Grand Ecore oil
the 9th, and the boats last out of the Rec
river report the fleet to be within a hundred
miles of Shreveport, and the men expected
to reach there by the 12th
Several hundred rebel prisoners had reach
ed our fleet from New Orleans, to he eX
changed for like number of our soldiers il
the rebel hands.
Capt. Carl Hiras, of the gunboat Chill
cothe, was killed on the 4th by shot from
shore.
Prominent Frcnchmen in New Orlean
predict treaty OF friendship between tn
Coniederatcs and MaXimilian, backed b.
Napoleon.
NEW York, April 2O.-Thc steamer LII
erty arrived to-day, with New Orleans pa
pers of the 18th.
The IyWe Deha has dated from Gran,
Ecore to the 7th and Alexandria TO the Of
inst
General Banks headquarters were q
Nutchilochns.
4 siirh. skirmish took place at C0Mpt,
on the I'd, ten miles above Grand Ecoro, l.,
tween the rebel Gen. Marmadukc's force,
b numbering about 1000. and the advance {
Col. Duklcy's cavalry, in which we los
ten mortally wounded and seven slightly
including four officers. The loss Of the On,
= my was much greater.
Al was quiet at Alexandria. The rive
was still falling.
There is no news of the battle reportc
p via Chicago in the New Orleans paper
The latter is said TO have occurred on til
Sth, one day later than the above advic,
from Grand Ecorc
The steamer Evening Star arrived at Ne
Orleans on the 18th inst. from New Iorl
4 The steamer Star of the South, from Por
S land, with the first and second Maine cavalI
aboard, also arrived. The steamer Cassan,
er, from Portland with another detachmel
, of the same cavalry, had also arrived. r!
5 quarantine regulations are to by rigidly el
t forced below New Orleans, on and after Il
/, first Of May.
: VERY LATEST
CHICAGO, April 20.-Thc Eretihg JoHrrl
T publishes extracts from private letters fro
5 members ofithe Chicago Mercantile batter
: dated Anri 12lh to the effect that ON Il