, 1861-09-24

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From the n. 7. Evening Post, 1ssh1
Ne have had IN hours conversation with :
gentleman Of character and intelligence whom
ettatn hfEe detained several months In New
Oraeans, and who left that place one week ago
to-day. The information he gives is exceed
ingly interesting and specially valuable, COM
ing from an eyewitness He describes the
business Of that city as utterly dead. The
most melancholy sight Was the levee, scarcely
solitary steamer arriving from or departing
up the river. The huge monsters lying at the
duck. grouped together, presented most dos
olate picture. OF course nothing wss doing
with the shipping. In the city, literally, eY-
efythirg was etagnant.
The Confederate States bad issued FIVE mil
lions Of provisional notes from one dollar up,
which beaE 10 Interest," are Hot redesmabie IN
specie, but are receivable Tor subscriptions to
the Confederate loan, and for asl taxes and for
eta:e and covert meut dues. These netes pass
current everywhere, quite in the Austrian
fashion, no one havtng the courage to refuse
them.
Tic following are the prices at retau u for Ger
tain necessary a1tc'es: Butter, ~ css per ID;
| o1Ginsry coffee, Is cts; potatoes, penny q
piece; boots aEd shees. one hundred per cent.
dearer than in New York; medicines very
| dear, aad becoming daily more expensive;
| clothing about fifty per cent. higher than in
New Ytrk, large Quantities having ttl lately
%N4AC t4lNuSA ANGtAt1$t NA VIZ Et-A~A -A-As-hAs
! eugsr, rice, 1our and all vegetables, except
| potatoes, were cheap and abundant Beef il
| dear, for the blockade Of the Gulf prevents
| shipping cattle from Texas, although they are
| driven overland.
| time Of the Hatteras expedition was entirely
u1defende6, reports to the contrary notWith-
standing, aud that five thousand regular troops
ccmirg down the Mississippi could have
taken it. But the capture of the narbors N
| a nardouH frfVEt
in .Sew O1leans. The people at once resumed
their home drill, and began to erect Whist for
tifcatons they could They believe their own
turn viii come eoor. As to the situation,
this gentleman declares that the south have
rot ehcst Of chance except through Euro
rccognitioL-and they admit 1t, but they still
clirg to the belief that the blockade will be
1oFcibly raised In November.
Tbs crops throughout the entire South are
remarkably fine, with the exception of cot
ton. That crop will probnbly be twenty five
| Par cent. 1ess thsa last :.oosr: 4 great deal of
It vas injured By the late heavy rama some
fields, indeed, quite destroyed. Mh1le the
people maintain their persistence in resisting
what they hare been taught by their leaders is
lose heart. The next step will be to lose faith
IN these st. the head Of affairs. One decisive
victory for the North, and, it is the opinion Of
| Mary ii New Orleans, that there will be gen
eral caviDg in" Of the Contederacy. To
come from that city to New York, remarks
cur informant, is to emerge from darkness in.
to noon.day; it is to be restored once more tt
the world and its occupations, after long
and melancholy incarceration.
From the Cincinnati Gazette, soth.)
We had q lG1g conversation yesterday with
avery intelligent mar, who haa resided in
New Orleans for number Of years, and Left
! there only ten days since. For obvious rea
cons VIC do not pub1ish his Fame, but hiE
statements may be relied on.
He eays that there are nov about four thou
| saEd troops in the city. The rumors of an
ihteneed attack by the United States troops
agitates the community as often as once I
week, and delights full half of the popula
ton. Our informant believes that nearly al
the mt tchanics and laboring men are for tht
Onion, and majority Of the merchants also
Many Of the latter were originally secession
lists, but the blockade aud Consequent uttel
prcstratioR Of business has made them pain
luljy conf cious Of their error. Many storei
have been closed for want Of goods to sell
and Other large houses will soon close. Ths
city could eat1y be taken by force OF 1000
men ty way Of the lower river or Lake Pon
cha1tEaip, and the defences rorthward consis
ouly o. . Few rude bteatWorks which hay
not yet been mounted with guns. Al befor
said, 3 large proportion Of the people arc dis
grsted n!tL recenioD, and there is now n
l. bcastirg except 1rcm c prominent few Of JET
DaVis's cficehc1dcrs. The blockade has bee
; Iigidly carried out For o long time not
y single vessel has passed it, the reports Of tn
Southern Fapeis to the contrary notwitt
In SPITE Of the general belief that the cit
| catntt be defended, ] few ardent rebels 81
! coAniving plans for the destruction Of th
= blockaiiIg fleet 4 floating dock has bee
!. in tt1ee CT four weeks: though our inform al
TO is good judge, says it will not be compile
ed unter a6 many nonths. This is to be MAD
q ioto formidable floating battery. 4 sort I
4 submer!te aliair has also been constructed
Z shaped like cigar, drawing thirteen feet {
= II is o1se hui dred aid five feet long, and CO.
!" cred with thick iron plates, with spikes ct tn
bow and stern. It is cla;med that this can b
run Tito the tlockaoing vessels and sink then
Mr. SteT=nF, cctten merchant, who Is th
protector, is confident Of its snccess, but th
Goyercoz's engineers, after trial the othe
= Gay, expressed their belief that it Toul
= prove OF entire failure
T. As will be infs1rtd from the statements j
!, regard to business given above, great distref
ard Tree markes has bsen put in operation
r It is open twice week, and about 4 200 PEI
. pie ets tneir supplies from it.
Our Informant bad 6 passport from Ganer
o. Twisge, and made bis way up the river wit
e out Doleetation. He say5, however, that Il
Il noisy boastirg about whipping the Yaake
hss eeased. There was 10 TALKING on t!
=, boats CT The one side or the other. Eye
d man seemed ausricioue Of bis neigabor.
Ii conclusion, VIC are assured that one
cisive Northern victory will rouse the no
st concealed Union sentiment at the South. !
lc proof 6f this, j. may be stated that immad
D. ately after tll' Hatteras victory tls report
sr current in New Orleans that North Carroll
IN would Iejoin tie Union; and this report "
+ generally believed, though the fort itself r
Ia fega1 9ed as unimportaot. No one OF
% ! South is aware Ct the trua condition Of thiI
70 70 at the North, and our informant Tas ha2p
.ss disappointed in finding no mobs, no disc:
I'd, | tent. AID no starvation in Ohio,
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