Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-11-08
From the South.

Louisville, Oct. 20, giving intelligence
derived from gentleman just from New
Orleans, of the following tenor:
" He brings accounts conirmatory o
news heretofore received, in regard to The
distress among the Southern planters
The negroes are, for the most part, un
provided with any other than cotton clio
thing, a state OF destitution that cannot
long continue without great suffering
among this species of property, and, in,
deed, a great deal of sickness and NOR.
tality.
AT Natchez, recently, the detective;
discovered a plot for an instruction
among the slaves, and some twenty ne
groes Of the city were hung and dashed
to death at the whipping post.
Provisions can hardly be had at any
price, and if they could be had even the
wealthy planters have not five dollars with
which to buy. The cash is absolutely
exhausted, their credit is gone, and now
the larger representatives Of the patri
archal institution are at their wits end tC
provide the wherewith to feed, clothe
and warm their numerous tribes during
the coming season. Many of them hay-
ing subscribed literally to the great Con
iederate cotton loan, have now their cot
ton ready for valuation and delivery
They have it baIed up with baggng OF
rope, with wooden Stats and sheet iron
bands, presenting novel but very re-
spectacle appearance. The planters are
more than ready to handle the Confede-
rate bonds for it, which, in the absence
OF other circulating medium they hope
to convert into shinplaster currency"
A Nashville paper has a report of the
death Of the Ex-Governor OF Texas.
which is said to have occurred on the
9Th instant A letter, however, from
Houston, dated the day after, stated that
he was still alive, with some hopes en-
tertained Of his recovery.
The Charleston Mercury comes down
on the rebel government for its failure to
provide for lis army in the field.
The Southern authorities are advertis-
ing tor saltpeter at thirty five cents per
pound.
A letter from Kentucky in a Western
paper says accounts from the South con-
cur in representing the rebel troops as
suffering from decentralization resulting
from a want OF adequate provision for
their comfort, in the way OF clothing,
rauuns, tents, aud camp equippage. They
are also ndltIerenuy armed. These re-
ports should be taken with a good many
grains Of allowance.
The Richmond (Na.) Dispatch publish
es the rebel account of the battle of Lees
burgh in which these passages occur:
The Federal troops were routed
three distinct times at the point of the
bayonet, and as often heavily reinforced
In one charge the 8th Virginia captured
a splendid brass battery, and put its men
to inglorious flight. The enemy were
finally pursued to the rivers brink, where
they made a desperate stand, but their
doom was sealed. Our brave volunteers
charged them, and scattered them like
leaves to the winds and waters. Our
informant states that they were cut all to
pieces, and that the battle field was thick
ly strewn with their dead and wounded.
The prisoners, of whom a great num-
Der were taken, said without hesitation
that our gallant troops fought like devils.
Other verbal accounts of the battle on
Monday represent that the scene at the
river, when the enemy attempted to re-
cross, was fearful. The rattle of mus
kerry, and the sharp crack of the Missis-
sippi rifles, mingled with the shreks Of
drowning men; and the panic was scarce
Iy less wide spread than that OF the 21st
of July, just three months before. The
Federal prisoners, numbering five humid
red and twenty-three, were on the battle
field of Manassas yesterday morning.
These men reported that at least three
hundred of their comrades we're drowned .
while attempting to recross the Potomac"
Rebel officers at Norfolk, they say, are
just as well acquainted with the move
ments Of the Federal troops in the vicin-
ity of Old Point and Hampton Roads as
the officers at Fortress Monroe, and not
a single movement OF importance takes |
place without their knowledge They |
have fine telescope at SpwaPs Point
with which they can trace the movement
of the smallest vessels and discern the
sentries on the ramparts.
VERMoNT's QUoTA.-The Woodstock
Staadard says:
Probably no State in the Union will
be complied to put forth the effort to
supply her quota that Vermont WILL
Not because her people are not as patri-