Late from New Orleans.
We have received a copy of the New Orleans Era of the 22d instant. It contains the proclamation of "Governor" Hahn announcing the adoption of the new constitution. The entire vote polled in the twenty parishes reported is only eight thousand four hundred and two, of which 6,836 were for, and 1,566 against, the precious budget. In St. Charles parish, all told, only 37 votes were polled; in St. James, 7; in St. John the Baptist, 9; in Iberville, 28; in East Feliciana, 165; and in St. Landry, 32. In Orleans the vote was 4,662 for, and 789 against, the constitution. What a farce! It must make even Hahn blush.The steamer Gertrude, Captain Kerr, was capsized near Baton Rouge on the 20th instant. Two ladies, Madame Kendrick and Miss O'Mearas, a little daughter of Mrs. Burton, of Bayou Sara, and four of the hands of the boat, were drowned.
On the 21st, a fire at Baton Rouge destroyed half a block of frame and brick buildings, including Piper & Bedford's furniture warehouses. We copy the following from the Era:
A private letter from Pensacola, received in this city, gives the subjoined interesting particulars of the expedition in Florida, sent out by General Asboth in the latter part of last month:
‘ "Captain Eugene F. Roberts, and his noble company A, (the regiment is the Eighty-second United States Colored Infantry,) was complimented in General Orders for a successful charge on the rebel earthworks known as Fort Hudson, at the Fifteen-Mile House, on the Pensacola railroad, where the colors of the Seventh Alabama (rebel) cavalry regiment were captured, besides a large number of horses, sabres, rifles, corn, cattle, ammunition, etc.; and some twenty-two rebel privates and three lieutenants were either killed, wounded or made prisoners. The rebel loss was as follows: Three privates killed, eight wounded and eleven captured; two officers wounded and one captured. The only loss on our side was one man mortally wounded and a horse killed.
"We destroyed by fire their new earth and log breastworks, besides all the buildings at the station. Before the charge was made, Captain Roberts skirmished three miles through the pine woods, the rebels steadily falling back before him, when he suddenly came upon the breastworks. It was at once perceived that the enemy was endeavoring to entrap our men, but, as the line of rebels rose above the works to fire, an order was given for the black troops to lie down, and the whole volley whistled harmlessly over their heads.
"In the dense smoke, Captain Roberts and his men crawled up to within fifty yards of the works, when the Captain ordered a charge. With bayonets fixed, they started with a yell and cleared the works, and made the captures, as above stated."
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Lakeport, Sept. 21--10:30 A. M.
To the New Orleans Associated Press:The gunboat Selma just arrived from Mobile. She left day before yesterday. The rams Tuscaloosa and Nashville are
reported to have gone to Montgomery, Alabama, but the report is not credited. It is believed they have gone up Spanish river to get a nearer position to the city.
[The Selma, our readers will remember, is one of the vessels captured from the rebels in Mobile bay.--Editor Era.]
