The Capture Of New Madrid

bu Louis, Alaren lo. Brigadier-General Pope, in a dispuii h lo Gel). IJuliYi k, fs:iys : " Uur. iiuooetss :t New Madrid has been even greater than was reportod. Twenty-five piecea of heavy nrüllery, eonsistingof 2 -i aud rifled 32pounders, two ba'-tenes of field aríillery, an iraméese quanthy oí' fixed ammunition, sever;J thousaud arnall arias, hundreds oí boxes (f muskot cartridges, 300 mulos and horses, tonts for an army oí 12,000 ir.en, and an immanso quautity of otlier property of not l88 valué than one militen dollars has fallan into our hands. Their men only escaped. "Tliuonemy's whole fyrce ís deraoralized and dispersed in the swamps on the opposite tido of the river. The enetny abandoned thoir works so hurriedly us to leave all the baggage of their officers and the knapsacksoi' their men, their daad unburied, their s;jppers on the tables, and candlea burning in their tents. "A lurions tbunder storm, which rnged all night, cnabled tho enemy to get across the river without being diífcovered. " Ch.r heavy battery was erected daring tbe nifirht of the 12th vvithin 800 yards of the etiemy's works and opentid at daylight )i; the 13lh, jnst thirty -four hours bfter tho guns were delivered to us at Cairo. During the wholj day oí yesterday, our liues were drawn closer arnund their works, under a furious ftre ofsixty pieces ot artillery. The íear oí au assault on their works at dayiight indueed them to flee pre Cipitately during tho night. '■ Mauy prisooerg have boen taken ; also the eolors of sevwal Arkansas regiments. Our loss is about fifty killed and wounded. "Holhns was in command of the fleet, and Generáis McConn, Stüart, and Gna'.t in command of tho land toree?. The gun boats went down the river," Gen. Pope hns25 heavy guns plantod in the enemy's vrork, whieh eoinmand every part of the river. f[W Amono; the prisoner3 eaptured at Pea Ridge, was Willinm C. Piice, ot St. Loais, formorly United States Treasurer at that place. i ïlickrnan, Ky., which was takon posseesioD of by tho Federal fleet from Cairo on Frid-.iy last, is io the southwest corner oi Kentucky, about tvreity miles below Coluinhns, and about forty miles above New Madrid - Islind No. 10, where tho rebels werc fortified, being nearly half way between Hiekman and New Madrid. The Nash ville & Northwestern Rui] rond has its northern terminus at Hiekman.