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TELEGRAPHIC R, porta of ! AmocIMIob. A a;t to the Act of ConirrtM. in the year 1865. k- i b TB819BEI, in the Clerk's Office of trie PiBtrict Court of the Confederate Btates lor the Northern District of Georgia- TK ASURY NOTES FUNDED u.rrtv. Gbo . April 1 The total amount funded io thl h, kn t inp miliif.n five hundred thousand do'lari ril 1.- The amnnnt funded here is one million one Luuaied aud forty-one thoniand nine hun- Anritl. Tha amount funded here ia eleven million ar hnndred and twentj-'hree thousand six hnnlred dollar. Pat.tteviilk. N. C . Aoril 2nd. 1 wo nudum and thir ty fie ihnnatnd twi hundred dollars have been funded here. Bj diiburaiig officers one hoodred and twenty thousand six hundred.un 1 ninetv-two dollars. SiTWHAH, Geo . April 2 Amount of Confederate notes tuuded ia tbi city whs $ ; 1.3 4,00. Macon. Jo., Apn'l '.-Funded here 113,510, 0C0 besideB a large amount pid i: by diBkurbicg anta. Albanv, tieo., Apiii2. The umcnat funded here is AiGdTx, April 2. Amount fundsd here is $15,00,C00. PKTEBfirita, pril 3d, lBGi. The amount funJtd here $7,200,000. Atlanta, April 1th, 1864. Eight million fight hundred thousand dollars were funded here, b'.ve million dollars were received from dwburaiag officers. FB01I BICHWOND. Richmond, April i'h, 1854. It is understood b t the FfcreKry if the Tressu-y con Btrues the currency 3Ct to euthoi.'zo the Issue cf Dew cur rency t3 tie t-yteut tt .re-tUrd the amount funded in four per cent, certificate, but other resources will probably j oftpone the tire ebltv c any issues unatr tnis coDBtruo tion, until Core is rteet The brcks only receive fives on PD-cial dei'OBi's. Prices contir ue unctttled in number f fives efljat. cor.Btqience of the large "1 he amoun funded in Richmond Is 21,327,000. Offisial returns trom nire dVpoaiMriea in Virginia, five in North t ar' Una. eight it P?uto Carolina, twelve in Georgia, one in Flori.'a, and mx ;ti Alabama, gives an apKrrgtte of one hundred and seventy five m lion funded It ia estimated th it the returns from other depositaries will increase the amounts to t o hundred and thirty millions. The Air of tiuce boat, with oce thousand prisoners, is expected ,n Wednesday. " Official dispitcben from icn. Forrest state that he moved direct from Jackson ti Paducih in fifty hours; held the town ten hours, and cuuid hive hell it loner r, but found t e small pox ragiug, and evacuated the place. He captu-r- i rrany store, horses, and buiut steamers. His loa at Uiiion ' ity and Padncati was twenty-five killed and wounded. Ciii. 'ltioropson, of Kestucky, is amonor the fcl.Itd. The eLimj'D lots at Paducah wts fifty kd;ed and wounded- r ix huuired Yankees wtre captured duiing the expedition, aid are cb route for Demopolis. NOHTHEUN NEWS. Eichuokd, April 2nd, 18G4. Bnow to the depth of 6 inches fell this morning, which was followed by rain The river i-i again risicg. The New rerk Herald, of the K9th ult., ha been re ceived. It contaiLs a dispatch from Cario statipg that Forent attacked Paducah, on the afternoon of tb"25th. with 7000 Hiea. Their attack on the fort was repulsed by tho garrison, the rebels leaving three hundred dead on the tild. Four gunboats opened fire on the ctj to prevent the rebeU fro u occupy'ng it. Dorin? the fight tt e rebe's plundered the atorea ot an immense quantity of goods. Several womea were kill-.-d. Thn Yankee less was four teen -illed and foity-five wounded. The front part of the city wai dextryed, including the hospital and some of the nnerit rf iil-cces. The Court Hoase, Post Office and tome other buildups were unirjared. The rebels retired at night after burning the depots and the steamer Decotih on tLe stacks, and proceeded iu the direction ot Columbus. A tt-legraai trom Foit rimith states that tha army of the frontier is iu motion. Its supposed destination is Northern Ttxas. The House of Representatives have laid on the table by a vote f J3 to 40 resolution granting the U3e of the 11a 11 to Oeorpe Thompson for a leciure- The reorganization of the army o( the Potom&e ii rapid ly progrefiBing. On the 2th go'd fell to 1C4J, in conseouence of the is3ue 0 gold certificates, but rallied and close u at 166. LATER FROM THE UNITED BTATES. AvLiKTA, April 2d, 1864. The Nashville lTniou of the 27th tit., contains interesting particu am ot Cec. Forrest'a advacce into Kentucky. 1 airo diflpitches cf the 2Bthtate that Foireat arrived on tl e 2 Id at Uuion City, driving ia the Yankee pickets. He detroed the railroad bridge eight miles from Columbus. Uen. Br a j man with several regiments of infantry and artillery, w- nt from Cairo within six miles at Union i ity, when he learned that Col. Hawkins with 400 Tennes see cavalry had surrendered, and that the Confederates after destroying the fortifications had returned southward, taking their prisoners with them. The Federal garrison at Hickman was withdrawn. (ten- Brayman proposes to abandon Hickman and Union City, 88 of no present use to the Yankees. Advices from New Orleans of March I9:h. state Alexan dria, La., auriendered to Porter's fleet without opposition. The Yunaee cavalry advanced to cccupy New Iberia, La. Guerillas had appeared in the vicinity of Baton Bouge and had general skirmiBkes with the 40 '.h Wisconsin regi ment of mounted infantry. Cairo advices of the 26th March state that the fleet was s'ill off Alexandria. Nothing definite from Banks and Steel, but it is reported that Banks is receiving considerable opposition from the foroes of Dick Tay'.or. Mew York quotations give gold at 169j. Tk a World haiaromor from tVashington, that the en tire organ'zed militia of the North is to be called into service for aix months, to hold certain points during the eami aign agaii.t R chmond, which is abcut to begin. Bronnsvilie, Texas, advices via New Orlaana, March 19th, report that there is no prospect of a fight in West lrxai " - Nine French Frigatss ld appeared ofl the mouth of the Bio Grande River, and an attic fc on Mattamorai we-s ex pected. Dates from Washirgton of March 23th, Bay that the com mittee ol. tin. conduct or the war find no evidence against Gen. Meade. The Prbidctit has dismissed Col. Woolford, of Kentucky, from service. Knoxvi le dates of the 23J state that the Gcveronnnt is issuing 1CL0 ratoins daily to indigent citizens. They are required to go North within 14 days, or etop draw'g rations Thare are rt ports that the rebels are making active pre parations for an advance into Kentucky. There is no doubt their cavalry is in good condition, and that two di visions of ihir iutantrv ia mounted. The -antrancisco snates of the 25th nit., say that the Union State Convention has unaniaioualy adopted a reso lution Draisin? the Administration, declaring Lincoln as its brut chcioe for next Preeidcnt, and endorsing the Con gressional delegation. LATER F.ORTHEIiN DATES TROUBLE IN ILLINOIS. Richmond, April 3d, 1SS4 Northern dues to the 31st ult. have been received. A coHisiou occui.ed oi the 28th, at Charleston, Coles county, Illinois, between the rebel sympathiz9rB and Un'onis's. Five of the latter were ki"ed and t:n or twelve wornded. Two KpbeU wero ki lid. The latest dispatch siys the Rebels are Uree hncdred ttrongatdr-e eutrencb:d at Gallic'gea Mills, under com mard of ihe Bhenfi. Four hundred men ot the 64th llllno's retrHueut were mirchir e to attack them. An al'ick on Mattoon U th eatened by Rebels from Moultiie and Khelby counties. No other news ot importance. Gold, on the 30th, is qaoted at 164. second dispatch. FURTHER FROM ILL1NOIJ. A '.:! gram dated Springfield, Illinois, the 30th ult., says that oi. Uik.-", Provos Marshal General, started fox t harleston v tiigfat, and telegiaped to-day for the 41st regiment. Geu. Heiutzelman has a!s beeu lequested to send tiva thouiana troops tram Indianapolis This indicates troubles in that section of a serious char acter. F50U RICHMOND LATER FROM EUROPE. RiCEMOKD. April 3, 1S64. Ir. (.he House of Common on the 17th ult., a motion that Alldffed the comDlicitv of Hansfield. member of the House, in a plot to assassinate the Emperor of the French, deserved Berioo consideration, we rejected by ten ma jority. The result was received with great cheering The vote is generally regarded as a decided conservative The efforts of the conservatives -tt ;ii ho rAnpwf-ri after Eater. te overthrow the Mum- The House of Lords wi l give judgrxent in the Alexan dra case soon after taster The Poue ia seriouslv ill. The collision between the French and Papal troops con tinues. ' The Liveroool cotton market wrs firm. Judge Go d returned from Fortress Monroe last night and reoor's that negotiations were favorable for the re turn ot all Confederate prisoners during the next thirty di a. No particulars of Interview with Batlar vet made public. FROM NORTHERN VIRGINIA. OKAKGK U. H.t April Jd, lbOi. IntelliRence from the Yankee lines represents Grant busy in reviewing and 'nspecting the army of the Potomac, it iciweu ilh itiuiorcemems are arriTiug nim m Meade still ret&.La r.nmmArri rf ttft, m. rf th Pntr.mic. but Grant will bave charge of it in the next flaht. Cannonading was Heard on Thursday iaihe direction ol rJLe.p.Y' 3 b6lDg tirediaLoBorUGrant'M presence. ..... I snow re 11 here eii ni or en nonr nn Tntiaii vnt Tiqi all disappeared. Ihe condition of the roads preclude the enemy's advance under a week. All information shows that the enemy s camps are busy m preparations. YANKSB PLANTATION DESTROYED. Atlanta, ApriUth. 186. A special dispatch to the Appeal, dated CantoB, Miss.. April 3d, states that Ross devastat3d a negro plantation two miles from Haiaeb' Blufi, killing thirty negro soldiers tad caplnritg one huodied mules. FitOH DALTON YANKEE REPO&Td OF GS5I. FOR REST'S FIGHT AT PADUCAH. Dalton, Gso., April 4th. 1864. The Cincinnati Commercial, of the'28di nit., has been received. It contains many conflicting report? regard to Gea. i'orrest'a auact on Paiaofth. They Hate that he captured the place after four assaults, losing one hundred I ana mty Ktiiea ana was Federal ral Iosb was twelve kflled and forty wounded. Col. Hicks, commanding at Paducah, had efsht hundred men, mostly negroes. ForreBt fcarnt all tie government b tores. A telegram from Colnmbns, March 27th, says that For rest wr? at Faulkner, between that place and Mayfield, and tht their strength was much greater than at first esti mated. Mayfield wm fl'led with the rebel wounded. From 1200 to 15C3 had arrived there. One regimeat lost hundred and one, and one company fifty in killed. Ine lebels were marching towaros Clinton at If st accounts. The steamer Perry wri fired into at Pass Hickman. A dispatch fr on Paducah says that Col. Ed. Cragland, and seven of bis guerillas, were captored near Mayfield. Gen. RosTiranz has suspended the circulation of the New Yoik Metropolitan Record in Missouri. There was a heavy thunder storm and rain here last night. FROM NOBXHEBN GEORGIA. . Dalton, Ga., April 5th, lfi64. News from inside the entmy's lines Btate that two bri gades of infantry have one towaids Nashi!le, and it is reported that they have been sent to operas aeainst For rest, and by others to be en route for the Potomac. Forty-four regiments of itfantry and ten ba'teriea who returned to Ohio to recruit, rei.ed only five thcuand in three months. It is reported that McPhersonjelieveB Thomas, who iito be sent tc another field. It is also reportf d that one brig ade of cavalry and one of infantry wis beitgient forward to Chattanocga on last Friday. The Federal that went nnt iota Alabama, nr. a n!... ing expedition, under Doc'ge, have ro crned to Deca' ?r ' Smith's army and other divisions of Logaa'a corps is at Lardensvilie.picketing the Huntsvllle and btevenson Ra1"! Road and the river. Nineteen Federals, in Confederate nnifnrma nam Triune Factory, near Sutnterville, and committed nurrer 009 depredations on Saturday last. FROM RICHMOND. RicnuoND, Va April 5th 18C4. The rainy spell continue, and all th at Virginia are much swollen. The fisheries are interrupted The impf iBavle condition cf the roads and the irclemencv of the weatiier prevents the receipt of sunnlipx. coim. qntttly prices of provisions maintain higher figures. It is reported that a new Banr-'Bg House is to be estab lished here with a heavy combina ion of capital. ine Bimmore American or the second has a dispatch from Vattoon, Illinois, which ears that it is rennrM scout, that the rebels number 15, COO. A later dispatch o'f the 31st nit., Bajs everything Beems to havj resumed its uuai quiei. ice reDeis are believed to have dispersed. The Red Biver expedition had penetrated as far as Natch itoches. Deserters at Knoxville repoit Longstreet'a whole force unoer marching orders. A large force of Rebels are concentrating at Round Gap for a raid into Kentucky. Grant and Meade have been to Fortrss Monroe to con fer with Butler. It is reported that Baell supercedes BchoSelJ in East Tennessee. Gold closed at G8 in Baltimore on the first. FSOM NORTHERN VIRGINIA. Obangk C. H., Va., April 5th, 1864. It ia reported that the lith and 12th army corps which went WeBt lr st summer have returned to the army cf th Potomac, and disembarked from the cars at Bealton Sta tion. Heavy rain Las bean falling for forty-eight hours The roads ate deep in mud. The Rapidac is swol'en. FUNDED Atlanta, Ga., A pril 5th. The amount funded at Ameri cus, Georgia, wes $687,800. Columbia, 8. C. April 5th The amount funded at , . C, was $?53,l)00. Sxlma, Ala., April 6th. The amount fun.led in Marion ia about $3, 000, CG0. and in this city about $3,7J0,GC0. We find the followicg in tbe London Index of the 18th February, received by a late arrival : The caFe of Kabnwe iler v. Dobson put in a final appear atce in the Ccurt ot Queen's Bench cn Friday last. Kahn weiler was a merchant at Frankfort and a member ot the firm of Paisley and Co., Pariley fc Co ? at Wilmirgton, C. S. A., and Dobson, was a mercdant ot Hull. The two had chartered the Peterhoff and Latona to run the block ade in May, lS. Both veBsel were to carry eiltpetie, and the plaintiff swore that it wa3 agreed that if the vessels " could not run the blockade the saltpetre should be taken out aud tha veisels should go to oue of the ope ' porta in the Confederate States." At that time New Orleans, Beaufort and Port Royal were "open" porte. However, in June, the plaintiff wrote to the defend ant to say that from information received at Wilmington he doubted whether a cargo could be obtained in the Con federate ports unless saltpetre was imported, and it would alED be useless to go to an "open" port. The saltpetre was taken cut ol the Latona, sent to New Totk, and sold by a firm oi "Bmith and Joneb" for the defendant. The Latona was captured, the Peterhoff was successful. The defendant gave rmith and Jones instructions to sell the f-aHpetre and invest the money in bacon and clover seed, which was done. The bacon had been received and sold. and the defendant had the proceeds- The clover-seed was burnt. No accounts bad been rendered to the plaintitl. At th. trial the judge told the juiy to find for the rjlaintifl if they thought that the defendant had adopted the Bale at New York and the conversion of the proceeds into the goods. The jary found for the plaintiff for 930. On Fri day, then, the argument was held on the motion for a new trial, and Sir George H:neyman argued ihe case for the defendant. The court, however, retucad to grant a new trial, holding that the defendant bad directed the proceeds of the goods to be turned into merchandise, and as that we? not authorized by the plaintitl it made the defendant liable for the value received by him for the plaintiff. From the Richmord Enquirer. The Fall of New Orleans. In the present lull of political and military events, it may not be inopportune to eadeavor to vindicate the truth of history in regard to important facts of our revolution, which bave been the subject of gross mis ieprcsentation and of injurious and disparaging refle. noes upon certain 01 our pcjpie, wnosa z:ai and ndeli- ty to our cause bave been most unjustly impugned. and whose manhood and devotion in the hour ot trial have been mOBt recklcrsly and cruelly calumniated. Such vindication ot any portion of our population should be a grateful task ot true patriotism and broth erhood, and an acceptable cflering to the pride and love of country of our people. In exciting periods like this, when the passionB are aroused to so high a pitch, when the zeal of the people is kindled to a white heat, and especially wheD tbe bit terness of deleat and disaster, in a good cause, poisen3 the source 01 honest and magnanimous leeline in the popular heart, and invokes thee 3 unworthy and distract ing distrusts, suspicions ana aouDts, that eo otten en danger and defeat the most virtuous popular struggles, there is danger that the more intense and earnest of tbe people, unwilling to believe that Providence can per mit such misfortunes, or that nature can interpose ob stacles to honorable and just designs, may seek some human victim, as tbe real criminal and agent, in such casualties. lhese passionate judgmentu frequently involve the eacnnee 01 the most innocent, and are rt- pagnant alike to true religion and sound philosophy The one teaches us that the ways of Providence are mysterious and hidden from mortal sight, and the other inculcates a stern justice 10 our leiiow-men, and a pa tient and brave endurance of those chastisements, which a higher than human wisdom has appointed, as the proper and essential discipline of all who devote them selves to great, glorious and mihgty enterprL-: These precepts of reiigioe and philosophy are too frequently disregarded by those who precipitately and uncharitably criminate the agents to whom the people comT't the direction of their aflaira, in the terrible struggle in which we are now engaged, holding them responsible for any ana every calamity that may nap- pen IO Our oruJB ui yunwjr, nnuvuii iuat uiugcui iuui- ry and calm reflection, that are so needful, in even tbe smallest transactions of life, to conduct to just judg ments en i wise conclusions. I here are too many of us who forget that misfortunes do not always arise from human delinquencies ; too fewbo are disposed to em ulate the sublime confidence of the Roman Senate in I the hour of a great adversity, and in the presence of a terribie disaster, when it declared its eratitude to one ita mcst unfortunate cuiennns, who whilst ac knowledging with magnanimous frankness and patriot ic bouc3ty bis great aeieat, nevertheless did not despair of tbe Republic. This charity to cur public servants is made the more obligatory upon us by the peculiar situation ot our affairs, which oft2n tials the lips of th03e charged with their conduct, and compels them to submit in aliens to unjust reproaches anl accusa tions, from which they cannot be exculpated without confessions and disclosures mat would imperil or dam aire our cause. Nor is such charity inconsistent with the most rigid accountability cf public servants and the largest freedom of opinion, for it only demands that neon which all honest opinion ehruld rest, to wit : jnitice and such justice can only be rendered at.er a lQn jDqUiry and lair trial. Without thii justice, we - rtnpr ft. ;,flir.tir,,r nnnn nnr panse finite E9 Be nous an ir jury as may result from over confidence in our chiefs : that ot weakenictr and depressing their pnortripa and efforts in thpir trrpat and seriLiUS duties. There ia a middle course between these two evils, which .. i mK k tk;. h.kifn inose at icooi nu, wv iucir uusiuuu. iucu uawiw uu their profession, are-invested with eo large an influence Lv ihlir oninion. should Rtparlilv nnrsue. Such should be eminently tbe duty and course of the histo- j v --w r w rlaU, LUC liBinuau auu uib juuiuaiiaii. This duty to our public servants so clear, so just bo consistent with the high mission in which our peo ple are embarked ia no less, indeed, ia more obliga tory upon us, in tbe formation ot our judgments ancJ opiniona of the conduct ot our fellow-citizena and com- patriots, needlessly and precipitately 10 suspect or question the hdeiity and devotion 01 tnose wuo are in volved with ua in the game mighty struggle, b. tray a a lack of confidence in the manhood of oar race, or in the goodoc88 of oor cause.; These remarks hava 'been unatroatpA th nnaol i tQren of urrjast accusations and Bospicion3 have been icluuvcu lrooi me rcpuiauons oi certain nign cmciaia in oor government and in our army and navy. For nearly two years have these accusations filled the popu hr ear and largely influenced the popular sentiment So general have tbc.7 t .en, eo constantly repeated, that the t' k ecsmed an herculean one, to arrtst such a vo'ume h unjust imputations." Bnt it is done, and we think, so far 9 tl - chf rges which have beeo consider ed and adjadicated are concerned, satisfactorily" done, U t&e great relief of teose whose pride and patriotism could not but ta deeply mortified by the mere suspi cion, that, in some ot the most trying ard serious inci dents of our struggle, our trusted agents Bbould prove nfaithful or inoapable. These reports refer to and relate to the chief cauees and, events of that greatest or all the disasters aod afflic tions which have fallen upon our arms the fali of New Orleans. The report of the committee of Congress, composed of members who had shared largely the popu lar doubts as to the fi itlity, zeal and diligence with which tbe duties of the 'aval Department had been conducted, throws a flood of light on this f3jC!.ive in cident and terrible calamity. Tbe sad recital of facts, not before fully known or carefully investigated, gives us at least the consolation ot learning lhat that dismal J disaster was not due to any iLshdelity, neglect, inca pacity or lack of zeal on the part of our 4overnnffrnt, or of our military and Daval cfhciald. Tbe misfortuoe may be Bcccunted for, th;s report shos without in volving the reputation of any of our agents. Doubtless there were misiakes, blunders, errorc and mifcalcula lations ; but they were not of eujb extent and charac ter to have any material influence over the result of an undtrtakicg for which the res urces of the Confede racy were then inadequate, and in which nature and chance intrp'ised such formidable ob'rteclcS. This work of exculpation troin unjust aspersiOLS shculdtiot end here. There is another party upon whose share ia this sorrowful trageely underserved cen Bure has teen cast, acd hiisty, reckless and unjust judg ment pronounced, who, thus fur, has had no defender, but has not t en without maby aecuseis. It hes Dot been deemed ol sufficient importanes to inveke an in quiry or constitute a committee to justify its action; and there bave been aud are now too many we fear, of those who demand a victim for every misfortune, who in tbe absence of Eome vindication of that party, will be satisfied to shift upon it the burden and criminaliry of this great disoster. Tbe party to which we refer is the one which honest history will show is frees; from all blame for the fall of New Orleans the gallant, true devoted and heroic population of that noble," but maligned city. Statements bave emanated frcm respectable sources which imply, if they do not directly impute, a lack of zeaf, earnestness and self sacrifice nay, of common manhood on the part of that population- It has bsen most gratuitously regarded si eFsen tial to the defence of certain parti s that the paople of New Orleans shoald bachnrg d witb selfish indifference to the demands otcational honor and patriotism, und lukewarmnees in our je3t and noble cause. Never were charges more false and utjust. And yet,we grieve to say tbe main fact uponwhich these charges are based has no otber sanction or authoritythan the assertion of the Maj. General commanding the defences of New Orleans the lat man in the world who should bave lent his name to the slander of a people who, with such un bounded trust and credulity , bestowed their confiiecce on him, rendering to-him unlimited obedience, placing at his disposal their lives, their property, and their all, and manifesting so generous a forbaarance and so watm a sympathy for his misfortune his lamentaole down- tail I Maior Geneial Lovell is not obnoxious to any more serious charge than that which rests upon his caiuraoi ous declaration, that his abandonment of New Orleans was made at the urgent solicitation of the people and the authorities of that city. The defence cf that measure, and ot his own reputation, did not require Buch an as sertion, nor could be aided by it. Military necessity and duty fully justified the act oay, demanded it. It would have been, in a military point ot view, an act of folly and desperation, beyond all parallel m history, to have attempted tbe defence of a city m the situation ci New Orleans, when the enemy's squadron had passed the forts, and lay at anchor iu front of the city, cover ing the whole area occupied by one hundred and fifty thousand unarmed non-combatants, with a battery of two hundred guns of the Hrgest calibre, and command ing the only exit a can w slip ol land not over a rr le in width oy which the psople could escape the iron tempest, which a single word from a remorseless and cruel enemy could have brought upon them ; when, too, a greater psril, not comprehended by thoe who were not present, and the enemy a batteries threatened tnem, from the swollen stream, which could hardly be ree trained within i3 frail artificial limiti, and which need ed but a single broadside from one of the hostile ships to release in overwhelming torrent, and with a power of destruction which no human agency cDtld arrest or check, upon the doomed city and people. Gen. Loveli's refusal to bring such calamity upon one hundred ard fifty thousar pcoA did not require defence or apologji It would have been the grandest act 01 desperate, reck less, frenzied ard utterly vain and impotent self sacri fice a dismal and stupendous tragedy, such ca ihe wildest madman could alone have conceive! and executed. And yet, in his haste and zsal to divert popular clamor and suspicion from himsalf to some victim, General Lovell is guilty of tbe weakness, the disingenuou8ncs of justifying his refusal to perform the chief "part in this awful drama, by the unfounded assertion that the people and authorities were unwill- lcg to accept their share in the mighty sell immolation which he would leave the world to imagine he had E2 riously contemplated and designed. It would certainly have involved no impeachment of the patriotism and manhocd of the people and authorities of New Orleans if they had interposed to prevent the dcstiuction of so many thousand lives of helpless women,, children and old men the mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters of the gallant men, who, in a distant part of the Con federacy, were then so nobly upholding the right and honor of our cause. But it is not true. Gen. Lovell wisely adopted, on his own responsibility, and without consultation with the people and authoritic3, the only recourse left to him. In this he acted wisely and pru dently ; for, had he d ferrtd to tbe p eople and accepted their crude propc3itiocs, and yielded to their impas sioned suggestions, he would have failed in tbe duty ol a faithful General ; and there is too much reason to ! believe, in their then temp2r, that the considerations of military necessity and policy to which General ovell succumbed would not bave teen regarded by that people. If would, therefore, be more truthful, and more creditable to tbe military reputation 01 uenerai ovell, if he had claimed the merit of saving tbe perv pie from tbe calamities which their frenzy and reckles3 ness threatened. Ltis military reputation, indeed, would be sadly damaged by the assumption that be was really in earnest in bis implied willingness to defend the city, with his 2,800 muskets against the, powerful batteries of the enemy. We are ksa disposed to sus pect him of that folly than of the moial or mental ob iquity which fabricates a fictitious excuse lor an act that needs no apology. In this, as well as in other transactions of this Gere ral, he exhibits the evil ,and corrupting influenc3 of 1 too recent intercourse with the tricky demagogues and corrupt politicians of that political Sodom, into which he had passed from the more manly and honest school of the soldier. The well trained and promising young artillery officer of the Mexican war, and distinguished graduate of west Point, could hardly te exr :cted to preserve or aeveiope tne maniy irananess ana aireci nee"3 which are the characteristics of the soldier in the society of the shuffling and time-serving spoils-seekers and faction mongers wno compos mat notorious qcay called the Society of St. Tamany. The political sa gacity and wisdom acquired by stlch anociation, were greatly overvalued by tbe young graduate in tnia old school of party chicanery and dodgery, and were, in deed, but a poor compensation for tbe lors of those manlier virtues of the frank and honorable BOidier. 'lo this recent and unfortunate training of General Lovell, we must ascribe the disingenuous and demagogical at tempt to impre3S npon the minds of the inconsiderate and unreflecting alas ! the majority in ths world the idea that he waa willing to remain in the city of New Orleans, and defend it with 2,800 muskets against a powerful equadron of 200 heavy cannon, if tbe au thorities acd people of that city had permitted him. To this influence, and tbe unfortunate iafatuation that it had imparted to him a large amount of political sa gacity, may b3 ascribed that complacent cssuraoca which be was indiscreet enough to exhibit in tbe per manent form of a written communication, destined to be embedied in the records of the country, to the De partment of War, dated at New Orleana of 27th Feb ruary, 1862, just two months before Butler oc cupied tbe city. Seward Himself, a graduate in a like school to that to which Gen. Lovell owes his attainment in the science of political calculation, hp s scarcely ever paralleled the prescience- of our W"e3t Pointer's vacitination in thi3 letter. He says : " Peo ple are beginning lo complain ttat I bave crippled the department so completely , but 1 bave called upon Gov. Moore for 10,000 volunteers and militia, for State scr- vice. Kaw troops with doable barreled shot guns, are ampiy enmcient to hold our entrenchments against Buch troopa as tbe enemy can eeDd to attack them. Besides, I regard Butler's Ship Island expedition a harmless iiieuace, so rar bb iS'ew Orleans is concur rei. A tJIaek Republican dynas y will rsewr give a Breckinridge uemo.rat, like Butler, command of any txpfd'tion which they bad any idea would result in such a glorious succ- s pa the capmre of New Orleans." Alas I alas ! another instance of thf folly of violat ing tbewholsome maxim ne sutor vltta eepfdam. The young General bad dabbled in New York politics just enough to b joil a good artillerist and make a very poor politician und prophet. The unfortunate issue of this eo dogmatically cxprsjtd calculation might have been passed over iu charitable lorgiveness and Bilence, aud consigned to tbe tomb of eo many other murdered prophecies of even more pretentious prophets than Gen. Lovell. if tbe General himself had not exfrumed, and invited a cew icq iest to be held over it, by bis pretence subsequent to the realizatiou of the " glorious success," which be was eo confident would never be al lotted to " an old Breckinridge democrat ;" that his intbilily to defend New OrWcs was due to that very stripping his department of the trocpg, which ha was the first to advise and ure upoa the Government. j Herein, too, truthful history will place in conflict the Jjxindicated and acquitted General, and the maligned Tand calumniated people, who, not having en joyed tbx1 advantage of a collegiate treicing at St. Tammany's, weie simj Ie enough to beiieve that the command on Ship Island under the old Breck inridge demccrat, whs intended fcr some more important and practical end, than "tbe occupation by ten thousand men of a satid spot in he Gulf of Mexico, and who, with the same incredulity unsophisticated ignorance here of interior and exterior lint s of works, " the mOBt complete which ever surrounded a city," were weak enough to distrust the assurance of Gen. Lovell that- the defences of the city were so perfect and impregna ble, and audacious enough to give frequent utterance to this 'scepticism, only to briDg upon them the sneers and snubbiDgs of the Vauban from (he street coramis sionerehip of New York. It wes witb inexpressible pain and anguish that this' people witnessed the with drawal of ail the trained and well-armed troops raised and equipped by the rt tite and peeiple cf L iaiana, from the city, by the ad rice and at the sugge?tica of Gen. Lovell ; and it was with still stronger feelings of alarra and discontent that, when waiting upp-i him through a committee of their most vecerated citlzsns. to manifest their apprehensions and to tender to him all the means of the city to a:d in its defence, they were cavalierly dismissed with hints to mind their own busi ness, and rest confident thatbe would see that the city was defended. Never were such large means for de fence so lavishly tendered by a besieged people, and so little availed of. "Oae-third of the coin in the Confed eracy ; all the skill and labor of the largest class of skilled mechanics and artisans ; slaves without number ; all tbe iron in the city, including the lamp posts, gas and water pipes ; the church, steamboat and plantation beils ; all the ships, steamers and vessels ; ail the ma chinery, all the nbysica lappliances and the co-operation of every man, wojian and child of a greatcity were free ly.and ungrudgingly plar d at tbe disposal cf the Gene ral commanding. We do not mean to imply that it wa3 in bis power to make them available lor the de fence ol the city, but we cits them as proofs of the de votion and earnestnes3 of the people in refutation of the foul slander that they were indifferent or lukewarm, and as illustrations of their distrust of tbe adequacy of General Loveli's " perfect lines of defence." Let not our position t)e misunderstood. We do not impute to General Lovell or to anybody, the blame or responsi bility for the fall of the city ; but we do assail, and stamp as basely false and calumnious of a brave, honest and patriotic people tha imputation or insinuation that any disgrace or dishonor can attach to the people of New Orlecu3, from the failure to defend their city. It is the defence of himeelf, by .General La veil, and not his defence ot New Orleans, that we imj uj;n as unjust, disingenuous, unmanly and in con stent. His exculpation from s?rious de l:i quency in the use c f the means which he could couimand for the protection of the city, might be ac cepted as just at least would not provoke serious dis- eent if he had not travelled out of the proper line of is defence, to impute short comings to tbe m03t inno cent of all tbe parties in this unhappy affair the peo ple in New Orleans. The duty of their vindication against these insinuations has been rendered tbe more necessary by the success with which General Loveli's version has been smuggled into the popular histories of this war. In another communication we shall show the extent to which Gen. Lovdl's groEs and disparaging misrep resentation of the conduct of the people o J New Oc eans on this memorable occasion has been adopted as historical truth, and will exhibit more conclusive evi dences of its inconsistency, its flagrant injustice and groundlessness. W. From the Richmond Ecquirer. TIISU FALT OP amy ORLEANS. II- The Lovell version of th3 facts relative to the surren der cr occupation of New Orleans by the Federals, which throws' upon the t jople of that city the chief re sponsibility for what has beeu regard, d, by some, as an act of weak submission and. precipitate aboadment of duty and manbocd, bus heen adopted by Mr. Pol- ard in bis "Second 1 ear of the W ar, and embodied in a sentence full of bitter and m,st unmerited sarcasm and reprciacb. Oq page 18, this trenchant and vigor ous, but often too precipitate and impulsive writer re marks : " The immediate sufferers of the disaster at New Or leans were the people of the city. It was aptly re warded for its easy submk:ion by the scourge cf a tyrant." Again, ou page 22, this writ:r says : "Ihe experi enceof New Orleans gave a valuable lesson to the South. It exhibited the conssquencci of submission to the enemy m confiscation, brutality, military domma- tion, insults, universal poverty, the beggary cf thou- sands, the triumph of the vilest individuals in the com munity, the abasement of tbe honest and industrious, and the outlawry ol the slaves. The spirit; 01 resistance in the South was fortmad by the enemy s exultation ol triumph, and the resolution gained ground that it was much better to consign the cities ot the Uonlederacy to flames than to surrender them Uj the enemy. A time win approaching. when Yankee gunboats were to lose their prestige of terror, when citte j were no longer to C3 abandoned or surrendered on tbe approach of a fc3, and when the freemen of the South weie to be taught how, by a spirit above fear and ready for all sacrifice, they might defy the mess potent agencies of modern warfare." The pages of this history which immediately follow this exultation over the awakened devotion and hero ism of the people, record, with the approval of the wri ter, the retreat from Yorktown aud the abandonment of Norfolk, which, the writer adds, were censured by "those whowere in ignorance of the plana of the cau tious and taciturn strategist at the head of our lorces in Virginia." We think it will hardly be questioned that Norfoik was quite as defensible as New Orleans, and it ia un deniable that the mie2ries and insults which were brought upon New Orleans by its alledged submission, fell with equal weight upon Virginia's principal and only seaport " with all the advantages of it3 contig- np that the demand might be presented to nun. 1 uai uous navy yard and dock.,' And yet, Mr. Pollard has officer having sent all bis troopa from the city, ah the no csnsure or reprcot for the people of the latter city arms and war material by the only laiid exit had re for their apparent non-resistance, nor dees he record served the last remaining locomotive to conduct hitn any manifestation by them ot that spirit above tear, eelf and staS to the eate repeat ot the bignlaod, forty and ready for all sacrifices " which would defy the miles b?yond the swamp, wnich girdd the city. II most potent agencies of modern warfare," or of that had already appropriated tbe last steamer Ufi in port dC3perate hiroism which would prefer to consign cities for thc transportation of hi family and relatives bejond to theflameg tban surrender them to the enemy. the reach of the enemy. And now he was wi;h reit Surely .this waiter i3 too manly and just to apply to difficulty traced up by the Mayor's defective poiieerrnn the city and people of New Orleans tests of patriotism and-brought to the city"hall to respond to thy d m ad aDd devotion to which he would be unwilling to Bub- 0f tbe Federal comrxatider. tmbolder.ed and animated ject the ancient ssaport of the chivalric Old Domic- by the stern and defiant aspect of the- people and the ion ? And yet Norfolk possessed means and resources city authorities, he bore himself in this scene, in ordi for defence in the pre2iac2 of a large army thrice as and manner at least, as it he were the cictor ma-ead ot aD;r,c,i tn lb flpfpnr-p nf Kpw OrW.ris. iho lyimmnnr of 2800 muskets, which he bad already -- . great ua .u uooiuiu ' and iri such an abundance of the mat-rial of war as would have been more than adequate for the dehnce ot v.. nrinn nnrl would havfi rendered its evacuation bv ev n tbe T" most cautious and taciturn of generals" tn-oi iM;t... tnr defence, and ws exemot from those natural dangers and obstacles which environed New Orleans and which, far more than the valor or power c 1 its fail. Hnri th ini-m which guarded the accefs to New Orleana pone?ed, instead of the seven, puns of laree calibre, uon whicb they nl.t-.m ..v..micnt pnnal in nnwpr that saarrficcd at Norlolk, we question very mucu Mr. Poll'jo-d's patriotism would have been subjected to the mocUficatioo of recordiog ita easy Bubmission. In further reproof of the pusUanimity ot New Orleana, and in striking contreat therewith, Mr. Pollard givf 1 " . . l.fil WMriiv and hitrh. . s . & 5. . : -m nrA nf could alone dec-nd for effective resisianca against tbe Tins oruium rumen looaed use ngui, uu " two hundt ed guna of the Inemy of equal and greater only manilestation o that oisposition wblc people of Kichmofld, when ttonews of the approach1 met, therefore, by the city authorities with an empuauc, of the monitors Galena and Ariatook electrifi d that city. "The Legislature of Virginia passed resolutions calling upon the Confederate authorities to defend it to thel&8t extremity, and to make choice of its de struction rather "than that of surrender to the enemy. This resolution was worthy of the noble State of Vir ginia, and of a people who were the descendants of Washineton'8 contemporaries, of Hampden's friends, and of King Jcbn's Baron?. " The resolutions of tbe Legislature were respond 1 to in meetings of citizens. The magical e&ecta of the epi; "t which they creati will lor rem.-nbered in Richmond. The Conf. lerate UhoritL : were stimu lated by the brave le ;od, inert acd sp -ulative patriot ism was a roue J to ex . tio mutun-i irpiration of coufage and devotion pour i from heart to heart through tha community, and, with tbe reatorclion of public coo fid -ice, can., at Jat vigorous preparatiot "!. The James z- rapidly t V 1 tip, the wor at Drew- ry's tuuu were atrog'ev effered to fhe Yankee gun! within a few miies of .. 1, and a state ot dehai.ee V-z which had appeared Lty at a moment when ihe last gap in onr river scuttled schooner. obstructions wrs filled up by a " Oa the 15th of May the fleet of Yank.p gunboafs in the James open an attack on our batteries at Drewry's Bluff. The sound of the guna was heard in tbe streets of Richmond, aud various and uncertain re ports of the fortuu 3 of the cont t agi'" ""d tl 0 public. In the mkl8t of the excit3:uent an extra dinary scene occurred ia the city. A meeting of citizens had been called at the City Hall on an accidental occasion, and, at tbe enthusi- :tic call of tbe crowd, imoromptu ad dresses were made by the Governor cf Virginia and the Mayor of the city. Each of these officials pledged his faith that Richmond should never be surrendered. Gov. Letcher declar 1, with a peculiar warmth of ex pression, that if the demand wa3 mrde npon him to sur render or be shelled, he would reply, " Bom' rd and bed d." Mayor Mayo-was no less determined in the language which he addressed to the citizens. lie told them that even if they were to require him to sur render the Capital of Virginia and of the Confederacy, he WGuld, sooner than comply, resign the Mayoralty, and that, despita bis age, he still had the nerve and strength to shoulder a musket in defence of tbe city founded by one of bis ancestors. ' These fervid declara tions were responded to by the citizens with wild and ringing shouts. Nor were these the demonstrations of a mob. Among those who so enthusiastically approv ed the resolution of consigning Richmond to the flames rather than to the poascs3ion of .the enemy were some of the most wealthy and respectable citizens of the place, whose stakes of property in the city were large, and whose bsautiful bonus were expostd to the shot and shell cf the malignant foe." We cordially unite with Mr. Pollard in his exulta tion over these, splendid manifestations of tbe heroism of the authorities of Virginia and of the people oi Richmond. And though Richmond then commanded, as she be 9 commanded from the beginning of the war, a resource and a reliance for defence which miht well bave imparted a large degree of confidence to her peo pie in their delepsive prepaiations, in the presence of that large and gallant army which fcas illustrated her soil by so many immortal achievements ot courage and skill ; an army to which our own abandoned aud abused city of New Orleans had contribut 1 not less than ten thousand of the bravest of the brave of her son?, yel far be it from our purpose or our hearts to regard thee1 testimonials to the devotion of the noble people ot Vir ginia and Richmond with other feelings than those of praise, joy and exultation. A quarter of a ceL iury of exile from our native State aLd the adoption cf new and close ties and relations in a distant section of the Confederacy, have not weakened that fordoes for the glorious Old Dominion, end that pride in all her many just claims to renown, whith everywhere distinguishes her sons, and which realizes Goldsmith's beautiful de lineation of that true love of country a-id home, that Drags at each reserve a lengthening chain." Nor do we impute any delinquency, any lack of zeal, any unworthy spirit of submission, to th people of Norfolk, for their non-resistance to the occupation of their city by the overwhelming foice of the enemy, even though the populations of both Richmond and Norfolk bod an additional stimulus to such r""istance in the sorrowi'al expsrience by New Orleans of the terrible consequences of "submission." All "that we claim is that "ye should judge others by the same rule by vilrch ye would be judged." But the error of fact, into which Mr. Pollard ha9 been led by the erroneous statements of others better acquainted with the circumstances of the occupation of New Orleans by the Federals, and, therefore, moie culpable for. misrepresenting the same, ;9 of more im portance than tbese manifestations of what we cannot but regard es emenations of that unconscious invidi ousncss and bias which obsecures in these neir and dear to us faults and blemishes that, in strangers, are flagrantly and offensively conspicuous. Nothing can be historically more inaccurate than the assertion that the authorities and p.opleof iS'ew Orleans ever submitted or surrendered the Federals at all, -much lees easily and weakly submitted. The evidence, as it will app?ir, when far more authentic and reliable materials for history are presented than will be found in the ex fat te investigations of Courts of Inq'uiry or Committees of Congress, will place be yond tbe following facts : That the people ot New Orleans never did consent or advise the surrender of the city or if 3 evacuation by General Lovell and his army. That they received the enemy on his app oach to the city, and while his fleet lay in its harbor, v;ith port- holes open, and the men cs'ici n qua ters, wiui ae.u ance, derision, and every demonstration of h03t:.lity and resistance. That while the fleot was enuring the port, in (his threatening attitude, a vast crowd of the population of the citv. lininerthe levee for mile?, confronted it with n ;nna anA ,; -.tations of he itilitv and d.-fiioce mnFp. p Tlhfttifi tha evefl thc ,a whicv. Governor L.:tcher mnre emuhatic than even thc e which Governc and Mayor Mayo launched at the Monitors before they had parsed Fort Drewry; that, not content vith groans and hootings, they even discharged fire-irai? at the. hostile sbipB, greeting even his conciliatory ' tpiony of dipping his ensign, ase parrd the vast muititudv, witb the wildest and most frenzied displays of hostili ty, and of a spirit of resistance, which a people ever displayed on a like occasion. Pt-rsons who did not j iin in thr.e expre:3ions were ruthlessly essailed, and sever al of them slain on the spot. All who were eusf. cted of the slightest tendency towards submission, were bunt ed up and pursued beyond the city limits. - "When, at last, the enemy ventured to send a fl-g of truce to de mand the surrender'of the city, the officers of hL'h rank bearing it could, witb extreme difficulty, b3 pro ecte i, by the interposition of certain venerable citizen?, from instant death at he hands of the intunt2d populace And when this demand was presented to the city au thorities, it was met by the rcsponte, with one voic2, of the people and the city fathers "No surrender. It them shell let U3 fight them a3 old Jackson wcuid have fought them, in the streets and amid our Darning houses." 1 he Mayor and City Council faithfully refl.cd this feeling in their reply to the demand 01 the Federal commander. The Mayor would not eotertain the pro nnsition. The Geneial coaraandiaiC had fo bo hunted 1 r - , . 1 ' l. ,. - Tha rcnnlo eent fifty-miles away into the country Ihe people loudly applauded his reiusai to surrenuer u ,u .ucl . haas of tbe city, and were too vcinu-ius-ic u..u ii to detect the dismal quibble involved iu the cstincion doninz the citv with all tbe military and arms, and surrendering it : and they shout.d with i.d enthusiasm and heroic j-yturoesa at his inviutiori to the Federal commanders to come ashore aLd give h.m n fa-.r fiyht in the distant d'wv woods where th-7 wou.d cot enjoy the advantage ot their heavy cannon end mt.r wooden ana iron Duiws,rK3 11 orave auu nuueae pcopis npaw.--- --- - and enthusiasm equal to tbit 01 we i B-" RicbmoLd, when Gov. Letcher burled at the i j? id.ra monitors below Drewry's Btufl ma brave paraporas ol the immortal SpartAn's responae to the demand of t..e VianrrKtw miWarnh nf Persia. tho I 1'hDm.nit tnr thp enrrnrlr1 of the CitV hjd O-en . lln tn nnr-tnira 01 rai nau yet kiv.u, auu. iuereiure, r ' nay, contemptuous refusal," an(j by the tatary com. raander with an evasive and quibbling oue ; bat, still a refusifl. And so the city waa not surrendered and Farrngut waa grievously perplexed and embarrassed as to the proper course to pursue in such circaajgjjQgg He at hqt determipf d to regard Gen. Loveli's reapo,, " m virtpUy a surrender, and proceeded himself to ele vrte hi? llasr npea on of the public buildiDgs, lying nra- one of his largest phipa. He was quickly remind ed t at the people did not eo intpmrpt. ilpnpml TpIPa words, end were , ot eo perspicacious in comprehending the cuibble, red t j Iogicp-l in p'-iuving the legitimate conclusions from the ambiguity cf his response and even if their menial vi:-ioa had been clear enough on ' these points, we doubt if they would have acquiesced in 3! fair in. rence of Farragut. So they gathered in wrath and in great numbers, and under the muzzles of F,.-agat'a hug3, guns, tore down and scattered in sL. . 'g, to be preserved by thousands of brave women os memorials of the brave act, the enaign of tbe hated foe ; ar ' oy did this ucdw a rattling fire of cannon end small r jss from the deck of the ship which had taken position to juurd that ersign. Ffragut Waa, thc efore, fairly driven by the people from the position, fo which a fair inV rpretatioa of Loveli's words bad conducted him. lie was forced to take new grounds. Ilia text demand, t. trefore, wes upon the city authori ties, to lower tie hostile fligs which still flaunted de fiance at the haughty Eederals, os he had not then the power 1 land and perform this act of conquest. This demand, too, was rejected with indignation and scorn by the city authorities and the people. Farragut then ccccltif1 1 tbit he would try tbe eflecf of threats upon an unarmed, defenceless people, who had been abandon- ' ed by their general rind army. If the flag which still floated from the City Hall waa cot removed in torty eight houra he gave notice to the women and children to romov'e, na he should be under the necessity of openicg hh batteries upon the city, and there was rrat darger cf big eubmerging the whole population, by cutting away tbe leveea. That he was capable of executing his threats had been shewn by previous acts of firing into thc streets and on tbe levees ; and was afterwards proven by the unparalleled barbarity of his destruction, on false pre tences, cf the ineffonsive town of DonaMsonville. No one who was not pr-scnt, and who is not familiar witb the losal pecuharities of N"ew Odeans, can appreciate the awlul character of that threat, and the terrible calamity which its execution would have produced. j The s lips cf the Federal squadron, bearing two hun dred guns, and more than twenty mortars of the largest calibre, were drawn up along the whole front of the city so as to command every part of it. The muzzles of tht.se gun3 werj leveied on a lice with the lower storiis or foundations of the house, which stood or. a plain eome ten or twelve het bt-low the surface of thc river on which the ships flouted. The declension but an inch of a single large gun would tear an op-'uine j iu tbe dyke3 which held the river, sufficient to deluge it in a lew hours, and to sweep from the streets icto the swamps and Ijkea, all the people who might be driven, by tbe shot and -ehell, from the upper stories of ihe houses. Never before wua a city or people threat ened anJ confronted by a destruction so complete and total, that gave so little Ciianet or hope of any escape. Nevertheless the people und their rtprts-juiativea did bot thriok bttore these u-rrors, from their original high position. In langujge quiicf 0 1 earnest, though not bo vigorous ai that of Governor Letcher, the demand of the Laiuhty Fcd-.-ial was n jeeted. And tbia decision v'ua.Liiihd with u:ji A:rsl j )y by ml c'usHts ot the peo ple. Be lore the Council couid bo convened to consider the dera.uid, a petition to them nml to the Mayor, uevcr to lower the fliiij, which" was he symbol of the independence of the toafeilt-rtcy, was s.goed by over vhree thousand ladies ot the city. Had Time allowed, the number of these signers could have been quiulupici' The document ..hich records and will perpetuate, for the a miration tind emulation of future gene-rations, this noble exhibitiou of the spirit of the far fumed wo men ot the Crescent City, whose world renowned charms and graetscf mind, person and manners have received new lustie from the splendid courage and sub lime devotion they have so often displayed in this revo lution, is no w ia this city, in the custody of one of Louisiana' gul.ant soldiers, a precious deposit, as dear to the chivalry of our State, aud as poteut to stimulate to deeds of vaLr, as was the casket containing the heart of the heroic Bruce, by the display of which the nob'e Douglas raliied his followers to the deadly and desperate conflict, and inspired .them with such un daunted heroism, such glorious self devotion. Sach was the unanimous response of tbe authorities and peo ple of New Orleans to tbe demand for the surrender of tbe city, accompanied by threats of a vengeance, which would have involved universal ruiu and death to the whole people. Thc city was, therefore, never surrendered. The Federal commander, driven by the bold bearing cf the p. ple from b'l original demand, waited until hia mil itary power was sufficiently strengthened to justify landing an armed force iu the city from' which every soldier, every cannon, every mukct and every cartridge had been hurried away by General Lovell, and then I di : 111 bark i-ig a strong lorce of Bailors, marines and ar- 1 llcy, and, under cover ot the guns of lua squaoron, succe dul iu removing tbe obnoxious flag, to whicb the de.'eti' K"c3 popu' io i could oil.;- no other resistance ' than their fierce cxrations, their contemptuous groans and hootiogs. ' It waa atter this, cud with a mortified consciousness, that his own conduc'i hud not corresponded wth the devotion and spirit of the people, that Gen. Lovell waa emboldened to return, and to coasider the loud demands upon bim by the people, that some effort should bo made to maintain the honor of tbe city by at least some manifestation ol resistance. This is a pregnant fact,' ia contradiction of his assertion that be had left the city iu con!on:)i.ty with the wishes of the people. Bold plans were presented, desperate, it is true, but which the people were ready to attempt, to re-occupy tho abandoned fjrt3, and to board tbe siip3 in port. But ler's army was lagging behind ; it waa believed that the flet waa deficient in munitions, acd the great in- 1 1 1 1 .1 . t2res s at stune uer';;naeu some grauu anu ucBperaic ;.rt of valor and d to redeem the fortunes and. b Jtor of the city. 1 here were thousands of men whoHO whole liws had beeu r. ssjed io peaceful pursuits, who were ready to risk their all in euch enterpiizj. Bub Ger. Ii ve il, a piudent tnd wise commander, could not tidvi-e or Eanctiua tuch hopeless scheme3. ludeed, bv1 did not heaua'e to pronounce any further resisUnco of the pebp!, as mec.ieai and lolly, ad instead of act ing upon thc advice t l' the peoplo in abandoning the city, he recommended them lo tubrait to the conqueror, bide tLe fortuone oi war, and look to the future lor re lict and recue. Tbc-C2 .c'.a c:n be attested by euch a cloud of wit ue3C3 as we cio not believe trmt Gen. Ljveil or any one else wid dare to confront with a denial or impugn m -nt. They Lave a J.r higher cairn to the con ider ation -nd i-ji'hlul recital o the just historian thaa the ex p 17 Is array of pioo'9 by wmca uuloitunate com m nders nviy seek to whitewash blurred rt-pututtoufe and vindica.e unsucc a.-dul plana and s.raKgies, inus- ma.-h t3 ttuy til c: rn tt d . ply the fame and name of a great and patriotic c-mrnurjity, wbaie aacnfi.-ts ana CO..tribUtlOLlS to our S".IUggie lor muq tuucuei; uru been surpassed by i.u o hur c'as-, uml whoae miafor tuocs and alil cti C3 f-Lould command the pro loun debt ma!h tf all who tispect c-.urage and hdclity, torti- tudc and1 devo-ioti, d.?played in the most trying ot all adversities that ot ioominioU3 cupiivity and merci- (3 tersceulioc, or ol bouiclei-3 txiic, dispersion, povcr- ;y aiid ruin. 11 n. A IJCLL A tl J U.U CAPK. K.U, WimirOfON. X ;., ftlarch 30, 1G4. ( CIRCULAR :) It Jihv ;z be 11 e cei -iii.ed that tiaitore iu our iiiidit have hem in tha fca'jif el e'jainuiiicn.,in la ormauou j tLe eociay th.-eu,-c onr li ri . h oa tho Wiire Oak River and . t. . r. nil ...L.ir i.f t lid.a 1 1 .- t. 4 iy fot", l.u nurrn t a . dlIi IiOll IU:H ns:v.' in a, in lohjuj yuuiuinu. . .1 tf ... Wft.nl... . - Kil,i. .1 I . ct-ra c maj.iadiug ' ui-jiOHtu of thii c-jmruana will an! ard i-e id to ti.ci; Headqjart.rd ad pornoE3 miriDiog tuii order. By Co m rn d 1 A Mj. G i.iTil VVnrr'KtJ : J i'JKJ fl- HILL, Mj A, A. A. General. 2 tf April ll. .m 1 a u if ui'.tr v uud ure req-uated to meet KiULd ull 'I'O 'Oiti list , OD at MiM e .-ond q-.t fJ. A: ri tiih. l-'ll. iu I a'tciieuuo ii r.ep'-ctlu ly re- H 'il ;.i di ioK. ' Uli.i'J'.i ii ; hviug (nalifi d a.3 Ad.uiuiitrator of I .l( Li ). Oi: y viP, d ceditu. at .'ldred 1'ci ui, 1SG4, of ti 7. Cm n i.f Fie' aiid Ou irier nsbiutH of Ne w liaoover "V ii-.r. f.e-rt,t' V iivej !io:i:e to ivii wi rs u-t ludeOted to tho t" r 1 i-a: 1 tceam,'j. to n.. ie i.-avmum , auu 10 iuoiw r.a.iri.' dvro;-tifa ngaiut ;L- sjin.-. to jrehem ine.mauiy au- icsDtica-ed wi i.ia t'o v.uic F'"-1-"" oiuerivio this nut.c-w wi; ti-j J in !Af 'r their rt c very. M. K 1'fc.VANl-;. iuiu'i, Karcit 1 -l W Til.L I . a: ihe Ivita rcsidcf c ivd, oa T::urMdy, the uro:ier.s ot tfio ?tar.e ol Juhu U. 2lat of April. l,;4 !. pcn-ilj'! 0:'-. ed, Cu-t.iv.iij; o fttr. larni ure, lairainj? m arjd a tew o'l ei ar months wnl be giveo quired. April 1. , coin oa hciud, loddfr, bao ri, ic'.3 ,ud not? a' -1 approT-d s-tie ru
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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April 7, 1864, edition 1
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