The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-09-21
Late from the South,

We have had an hours conversation with
gentleman OF intelligence, whom affairs have
detained srveral months In New Orleans, and
who left that place one week ago to day The
information he gives is exceedingly interesting
and especially valuable coming from an eye-wit-
ness. He describes the business of that city as
utterly dead. The most melancholy sight was
the levee, scarcely a solitary steamer arriving
from or departing up the river. The huge
monsters lying at the dock, grouped together,
presented most desolate picture Of course
nothing was doing with the shipping. In the
city, literally, everything was stagnant.
The Confederate States had issued five mil
lions OF PROVISIONAL notes from one dollar up,
which bear no interest, are not redeemable IN
epecle, but are receivable for subscriptions to
the Confederate loan, and for all taxes and for
State and Government dues. These notes pass
current everywhere, quite in the Austrion fash
ion, no one having courage to refuse them.
The following are the prices at retail for GER
tain necessary articles Butter, sixty cents per
pound; ordinary coffee, forty-6ve cents pota-
toes, p my apiece boots and shoes, one hun
dred per cent. dearer than in New York med
lcines very dea:, and becoming daily more ex
pensive clothing about fifty per cent. more
than in New York, large quantities having till
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hand, sugar, rice, flour and all vegetables except
potatoes, were cheap and abundant. Beef is
dear, tor the blockade of the Gulf prevents
shipping cattle from Texas, although they are
driven overland.
Our informant states that the city up to the
time of the llatteras expedition wasenirelv un-
defended, reports to the contrary notwithstand-
ing, and that five thousand regular ,roons COM
ing down the Mississippi could have taken it.
But the capture of the harbors in North Caro-.
lima produced tremendous fright in New Or
leans. The people at once resumed their home
drill, and begun to erect what Notifications thew
could. They believe their own turn will COM
soon. AS to the situation, this gentleman de
! cares taat the South have not the phost If
chance except through European interference
interference, not simply recognitlon-and thew
admit 1t, but they still cling to the belief that
the blockade will be torcibly raised in November
Ihe crops throughout the entire South ara
remarkably fine, with the exception of cotton
That crop will probably be twenty-five per cent.
less IMAM last year. great deal of it was in
)ureo py the late heavy rams; some fields. in
deed, quite destroyed. While the people main
TAIN their persistence in resisting what thew
had been taught by their leaders to call :. Nor.
thern tyranny they begin evidently to lose
heart. The next step will be to lose faith in
those al the head of affairs. One decisive victo.
rly tor the North, and, it is the opinion of manv
IN New Orleans, there will be general "cavino
IN OF the Confederacy. To come from thot
CITY to New York, remarks our informant ;s n
emerge from darkness into noon-dav; it is to hp
restored once more to the world and its occno
patlonS, after long and melancholy ipcarcpro-
ton.-N. Y. Post. O''"-