New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-06
ReAel News fer she NsrsheRa Msrkess
Rebel Fsrce - The Asehsfalayo--<sei
eral Exchange u PFissners-Repssss
Capture Of Rsrt MsRsan.

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Ncw.Orleans to-day has her usual super6uity
OF rumors ready for the steamer leaving for New Yk
mong Others We have had twice day Tor the lass
week. positive assurance from MorsansA ~ q least
pursortng to come from MorganzA 70 The shsct that
there had been heavy fighting there. This story w.
insisted on by Rebel sympathsers last evening prssV
much after the positively last" appearances Of tnesS
ca stars prior TO their departure for Europe Ihsv~
however. authentic information that No heavy ngnune
has lately occurred there anything beyond little
skifnshing, Of NO importance Whatever IN mintary
sense.
Tho ssc.s stoq. matters Up Their. are sens:s.ti:sy
west bank Of the AtchsfAAyA numbering IN The neigh
borhood Of 1000. and possibly 1900, non These
are ana sr :nS q.
good things which they think they might gobhle onH
hey cond pouncs down upon the planters and trsds
Fonrchs rou tho pssish and bayou of that name com.
The swampy nature Of the country generally. and
especially now from the unusual quantity id tns5s
this season. makes it exceedingly difficult for she Keoo
10 get into this country In any heavy force eIesps
they come down from the upper waters Of
latter place s no doubt entirely secure and hence TIE
Rebels have hard work to restrain their Impotence =
our dam TO their thirst for glory and plumber wmcs
cro.s the Mississippi are apparently pretty much dons
with now that Smith and Sherman have fiveR ne coy
DE- grace to the armies in their respective non&
petss about Aorganss and those Of the Rsbek about
there but is hardly Likely 70 DO anything beyond tnas
for the present without decided change IN the
of affairs The Rebels dare not assault oar fort ~ tnss
point and We have occasion " attack them ~ ieao
as they keep at q proper distance.
At Berwick. matters continue duh On, gunbose
enter Grand Lake and Lake Verre 80 that the heDen
find it impossible 10 construct any craft or msutain any
in those waters sufficient 70 materially aid them IN Asy
rOu. efforts 70 cross c GrsnS IN SSss he,
have small steamengne for propening T. with which
they venture IN sight but Zee back 70 sovss
on the double quick at sight o. our gpnooau.
The most they hope 70 10 will be 10 send In enah
struggling parties Of cavalry 70 scare the cotton plant
while they are engaged In harvesting then erePa
W. BE- f.e d %Sc r. O,s in state.
9th under our present system Of managing matters
over in the L. Fourche District
Rebel emnisaary was taken recently IN the nefgh-
borhood Of Thibodeaux With ESQ 460 In Confederate
money, which OF ths loyal planters on the river
were ser ding Shreveport 70 DO funded In
bonds AT last advccs this had not been funded and
an not advised that there II Likelihood that VIZ ~
The hcrrble condition Of our returned prisoners from
Tyler bss induced Gen. Candy to waive some points
hich hs had heretofore insisted on, and be has dis
patched Col. Dwight cur Commissioner. 70 tho kee
River with Instructions to accept the terms OF tne Con-
Tolerate Commissioner II Tyler, and at once exchange
our men now In their hands, numbering some thirty.
FIVE hundred that the friends Of those laDguishine
in that horrid inclc,aIe Of Which y lost gave Dc
knowing thas they have been released. There ara
some two thBusanl o. the Rebel Vieksburg garrison
who will doubt, b. included In this exchange 40
conpl shed - expected.
Tiecapsure Of Bort Morgan at the entrance Of No
bile harbor has been announced in this city but hare
information which enables 70 pronounce ths a. fos
the present premature. IL also claimed that Far.
ragat had past the rs and was inside the haror
but hardly think sucn piece Of news entitled " nm
pict fifth the part Of your readers until receive
something coTroborstivs by next weeks steamer.
J.E. c.
The following information comes to rs from
the West Rigoles Station and is entirely trustworthy
The United States light holss tender Martha Capt
Williams, bound from Pass-aLOutre 10 the East and
est Rgcets Light Station with materials for the re-
pairs VI those places was captured by Rebel launch
manned with twenty-five men. on the nofning OF the
18th inst In Chandelier Sound, who amer stripping
her OF her sails rigging and all Of her cargo that they
could carry away on small fishing schooner "a prize Of
the day beforej set fire to and destroyed her,. Hei
crew was carried by the pirates into bay 81 Louis.
thence about seven miles up Wolf River, whence thoy
proceeded 20 take the men 10 Mobile by land. Capt
Williams who accompanied by his little son man
aged 10 eule the vigilance Of tho guard and elect n
escape into the woods and upon getting back 70 ths
river procured small boat, and after many dineuiues
arrived at Fort Pike .,,
The pilots at the mouth Of the Mississippi River say
they are afraid 10 out on account Oh the pie
epce OF these armed Rebel launches. -
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