The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1861-10-10

From New Orlea ms.

From the New York Evening Post,
We have had an hours conversation,
with gentleman Of character and in
tclligencc- whom affairs have detained
several months in New Orleans, and
who Jeff thas place one week ago to-
day. The information he gives is ex-
ceedingly interesting and specially val
uable, coming from an eyewitness
He describes the business Of that city
as utely dead. The most melancholy
sight was the levee, scarcely steamer
rrriving from or departing up the 1iv-
er. The hinge monsters lying at the
dock, grouped together, presented a
most dcsolatc picture. Of course moth
ing was doing with the shipping. In
the city, literally, everything was stag
nant afs9
The confederates States had issued
FIVE millions OF prorisiondl notes from
one dollar up, Which bear no interest,
are not rcdcemablc in specie, but are
receivable fori isubscriptions..to the Con-
federate loan, ana for all taxes and for
State and Government dnes. These
notes pass current everywhere, quite in
the Austrian fashion, no one having
the courage to refuse them. Aa
The following are the prices 1T retail
for certain necessary articles: Butter,
so cts. per fb ordinary coffee, 45 cts.
potatoes, a penny a piece; boots and
shoes one hundred percent dearer than
in New York: medicines very dear
and becoming daily more expensive: J:
clothing about so per centhi'er than in
New York, large quantities having til
lately come through Kentucky. On
the other hand, s,l-a., rice, flour and
except potatoes, were cheap
and abundant. Beet is dear, for the
blockade Of the Gulf prevents shipping
cattle from Texas, although they arc
driven overland.
Our informant states tha; the city up to
the time of the iIatteras expedition was
entirely nn1eten5ied, reports to the cen.
trarv Notwithstanding, and that i've
thousand regular troans coming down
tic Mississippi could have taken It,
Bu. thc captur Of tha harbors in North
Carolina produced tremendous tfigh:
in New Orleans. The people at once
resumed their home drill, ari began TO
erect what totiiic,tions they could
They believe their4own turn will come
soon. As 10 the situation, this gentle
man declares the South have not ghost
pta 9h3nca ssceps European interfor-
ence; interferenca, not SIMPLY rccosni,
tion-aua they admit it, on1 ,hsv still
cling to the belief tia, the blockade.
will be forcihlya raised in November,
The crops throughout the, entire
South are remarkably fine, with the ex-
ception Of cotton. That crop will prob
ably be twenty five per cent. less than
last year. X great deal Of it was in
jured by the late heavy rains; some
fields, indeed, quite destroyed. While
maintain their persistence in
resisting what they have been taught
by their leaders u ssNorthen tyranny
they being evidently to lost heart.
The rext step will be to loose faith in
those at the head of affairs. One dec
isive victory for the NORTH and it is the
opinion Of many in New Orleans, there
will be a general 'scavin in Of the Con
fcderacy.t To come from that. city to
New yonk, remarks our Informant lsto
emerge from darkness into noon-day;
it is to be restored spsce more to the.
world and its occupations, after a lon
and melancholy incarceration. .t.r. Ie.a.f
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