Reported Assassination of Andy Johnson and Picayune Butler.
skirmish at Baton Rouge.
It is reported at Vicksburg float Gen. Butter had been killed in New Orleans, but the report lacks confirmation.
The Jackson Mississippian, of the 3d instant, says that a small detachment of Gen. Lovell's forces attacked the Federals at Baton Rouge, on Sunday night, killing twenty-one of the enemy.