Posted on 04/08/2024 5:24:45 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
CAIRO, Wednesday, April 6.
The steamer Atlantic, with New-Orleans dates of the 29th of March, has arrived here.
The election in Louisiana, on the 28th, for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, resulted in the complete triumph of the Free-State party.
The steamer J.H. Russell, with seven hundred bales of cotton and a quantity of cattle and hogs, was consumed by fire at night, at Pequermine.
The steamer was on her passage from Vicksburgh to New-Orleans, and took fire from the sparks of her torches.
The mails from Alexandria, together with the dispatches of Gen. LEE to the headquarters of the Department of the Gulf, were also burned.
A passenger on the steamer, by the name of THOMAS, is missing.
The boat was valued at $80,000, and was not insured.
The brig Mary Felicite was wrecked near Pass a Poutre on the 24th of March. The passengers and crew were saved.
The rebel ram Tennessee was struck by a squall on the 1st inst., while lying near Grant's Pass, causing her to keel over and sink. But two feet of her smoke-stack now remains visible. Her armament will prove a heavy loss to the rebels. It consisted of six 100-pounder rifled Parrotts, and nearly as many small pieces.
All is well with our fleet, though we have had some very bad weather.
At Alexandria, on the 27th, it was reported that all was quiet, with the exception of occasional skirmishing.
The rebel force near there was reported to be twenty thousand strong. It was supposed that their intention was to fall back about fifty miles, and there await an attack from our forces.
Our gunboats bound for Shreveport had succeeded in getting over the shoals.
A land force left Alexandria on the 27th, destined for Shreveport.
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