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Cape Hatteras Inlet has resulted in a signal victory over the rebels, the capture of two forts, twenty-five cannon, one thousand stand of arms, and seven hundred and fifteen prisoners, amongst whom are Capt. Samuel Barron, Lieut. Sharp, and Dr. Wyatt M. Brown, all late of the United States Navy, and Major Andrews and other officers late of the United States Army. The amount of loss on their side is not exactly known; five are ascertained to have been buried, and eleven wounded are on board thl the killed, were sent on board the rebel steamers in the Sound prior to the capitulation. Only two killed were found, and these were discovered in the out-houses of Fort Clark the day of the evacuation of that work. I understand, from Surgeon Wyatt M. Brown, formerly of the U. S. Navy, and at present holding a commission in the army of the Confederate States, and in charge of the medical department of Forts Hatteras and Clark, that ex-Lieut. Murdaugh, of the U. S. Navy, was very badly injure
to report that the expedition to Cape Hatteras Inlet has resulted in a signal victory over the rebels. The capture of two forts, 25 cannon, 1,000 stand of arms, 715 prisoners, amongst whom are Captain Samuel Barron, Lieutenant Sharpe, and Dr. Wyatt M. Brown, all late of the United States Navy, and Major Andrews and other officers, late of the United States Navy. The amount of loss on their side is not exactly known. Five are ascertained to have been buried, and eleven wounded are on boart on board the Confederate steamers in the Sound, prior to the capitulation. Only two killed were found, and these were discovered in the out-houses of Fort Clark the day of the evacuation of that work. I understand from Surgeon Wyatt and Mr. Brown, formerly of the United States Navy, and at present holding a commission in the army of the Confederate States, and in charge of the medical department of Forts Hatteras and Clark, that ex-Lieutenant Murdaugh, of the United States Navy, was ver
made forthwith for the opening of trade between the two counties, and vessels will no doubt, before the close of the week, be leaving laden with produce. Pensacola to be taken. The Washington correspondence of the New York World says: You may soon expect to hear that Pensacola is taken. The Navy Department make no concealment of the fact that dispatches are expected daily from the Gulf with an account of the opening of the guns of Fort Pickens upon the rebel batteries. Colonel Brown has repeatedly written for orders allowing him to blow Bragg and his batteries off the opposite shore. He has been chafing like a hound in the lash; but if I am not mistaken the work has been given that will make Pensacola ours. The selected prisoners. The New York Journal of Commerce, of yesterday, says: We learn from a surgeen recently returned from Richmond, that the apprehensions of the people in regard to the horrible ill-treatment of Col. Cogawell and other officers
y-boat that crossed near Point Pleasant has been destroyed. A soldier who had been taken prisoner, but who escaped from Cairo, reported that soldiers were coming into that place in great numbers, and that the day before he left (Wednesday) nine regiments arrived. There was a general expectation at Columbus that there will soon be an invasion of a more serious character than the late one at Belmont. Another Hatteras prisoner returned. The Tarboro' (N. C.) Mercury says: Dr. Wyatt M. Brown, who was captured by the Yankees in the fall of Hatteras, passed through Tarboro' last Friday en route to his home and friends in Washington, having been exchanged for a Surgeon in the Lincoln army whom we held. Dr. B. and the surgical Yankee for whom he was exchanged were old acquaintances, and it was through the joint request of both the prisoners that the exchange was effected. Further of the Royal Yacht Affair. The Galveston Civilian furnishes some additional particulars