Show the capture of new orleans the reports that have ben been published ot of the th success of the federal fleet tinder co commodore comadore farragut farr Parr agut in ascending ac ending the mississippi river and the capture of new orleans ire are not very full and comprehensive neither the victors victora nor the vanquished have as aa yet so eo far tar as aa is generally known sa d much mut about the matter for reasons that hae hate not been made to appear ia A dispatch from mobile published lied in at me tue rich R ichi tchi lona ond papers an bounced that the bombardment ot of forts jackson and st philip commenced on the of april but that in consequence of of the ow 0 w water the F fedral edral rai fleet could not ge gel near enough to the arti to batter them much and there was no possibility of shelling out the garrisons A subsequent dispatch states that the federal fleet had passed fort jackson but the con j federates did not think it a matter of much i consequences consequence as they hid had other defenses above that were impregnable c the next dis pach announced that the federal fleet pas passed ed fort jackson at 4 on the morning Is of the 21 b and that when the news reached new orleans the th wildest wildcat excitement prevailed martial law lav was immediately proclaimed i business suspended and all the cotton in the city was burned and all ali the steamboats andi and I 1 I 1 shi ohl shipping aping excepting a few for transports transport sl were forthwith destroyed at I 1 ekit tnt afternoon it was announced by the operator op stator that the federal diet had bad before the city 1 from what whai can le be gathered in relation to the capture 0 new orleans by commodore farragut Parr agut it appears that when he arrived before the town with his fleet he demanded its ita surrender which gen L lovell loveil avell the confederate commander refused and after destroy fig fag the cotton ant ani an I 1 whatever would be of worth to th victors he fell back to camp moore boore from thence on the he telegraphed to gen cooper at richmond that forts jackson and st pillip had not been Bur burr surrendered rendered en dered and were in gool good condition that the federal fleet was at thi tha city but they had not forces sufficient to take possession of and to occupy the place the destruction of p property along the mis hib bib sippi above and below belov new orleans is is reported to have been beyond computation were blown up vessels destroyed Bt st caton c aton burned suar bugar and molasses mol moi asaei 3 in vast quantities rolled into the river and nothing left to fall ino the hands of the union I 1 forces that could in any way be of evall avail to them then in in the prosecution of the war tra lra r reports from the city to the 29 ulf ull published p in southern paper slated stated that cammodore commodore farragut Farra jut ut had bad proposed terms of capitulation to the tle mayor which had been accepted antl anti the city was waa held by a battal lion of marines gen Bat butlers baiers lers forces were within a few miles cf c the city having landed on lake commodore commander of the I 1 confederate fleet at fort wright on his way 0 to o richmond after thi the fall of new orleans is reported to have stated slated at columbus carolina that there were a hundred heavy guns beaw en ecat jackson and ald the city ng parties wre w re organic d to capture the federal fleet at all haz hazards da and that the gunboat louisiana was as ready 2 dat dal waiting walting and the gunboat mississippi though unfinished could have been brought into action and that he be was astonished that the city haj been taken without greater ex ermiona hav ng n been maue to ac rend lend it tn capture of the city it is alleged was by the federal gunboats gun boats which the confederates say were encased incased in wet bay and neither coli cold nor hot shot had any effect upon them the louisiana mounting thirty two guns wai bunk sunk bunk by the stee steb pointed coni cal cat bho tho with which the fadeal gunboats gun boats were provided A circular b his his bis is been addressed by the slate state department to the foreign ministers announcing the opening of communication with new I 1 are to be allowed to pass pasa between that city and other places laces that have been recovered from the be ste ceders and measures are to be adopt to modify the blockade so co as to admit of limited to and from the city to one or two ftuer ports closed by its opera operators operations tons A co collector has also been appo appointed tor for or that port |