New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-24
From Richmond,
From the Richmond Examiner, of Friday last, we
extract the following paragraphs:

From the Richmond Examiner of Friday last, we
extract the following paragraphs:
1t is known that the Confederate States Congress
has passed an act sequesrating all the properly of
alien enemies in our midst. Since the provisions
OF this act have become known at the North it s
astonishing how many persons who have invest
ments here, have had conservative CALL and sud-
denly become as ardent as Southern sun could
make them, and struck bee line for the South
Many such persons are already in our midst More
no doubt, are coming, for it seems an exceedingly
easy matter to get here. If all such persons are
allowed to lay claim to property escheated to the
Government, and have such claims allowed, what
was the use in passing the law? - ~, s. ..
We understand that number of Yankee resi-
dents in the South are essaying to evade the oper
ations Of the sequestraton act, by escaping from
the South with their property, within the limitation
OF the forty days, now nearly expired, given in the
act of Congress, providing for their expulsion.
The Interpretation put upon this expulsion law by
the Government is, that it permits the departure of
the alien enemy only with his personal effects, but
obviously not with any class of property subject
to sequestration. Warrants, we learn, were to be
issued last night, at the instance of the War De-
partment, to intercept some Yankees in this city,
trying to make their way to the border, with
large quantities OF personal goods packed in bar
rels and hid away in all sorts of receptacles In
the meantime it will be well enough for the border
to be watched by local committees of vigilance,
with respect to this spriting away of valuable pro-
perty in small compass by the refugees, under the
operations OF the SequeStratloD act. The Govern
ment can scarcely do more than extend its surve-
lance the main thoroughfares of travel and of
communication with the North. ...
There arrived yesterday, via Central Railroad,
CT Hessians. captured by Savage and Donalson's
Tennessee Regiments, of Gen. Lees command, be-
tween Big Spring and Huttonsvie. Disclaiming
all intention to be protane, we can truly say we
never saw more thieying, dirty lousy, Christless
and Godforsaken set OF scoundrels in our life Had
all the poor.houses in the West been ransacked, a
more motley looking mob could not have been
paraded. No wonder that such fellows steal when
an opportunity is afforded them. The same train
brought down 81 prisoners captured by Gen. Floyd
in Western Virginia: They were also hard looking
subjects, and were, no doubt let out of the Ohio
Penitentiary on condition of enlisting. Their ap
pearance bears out the assertion.
We learn of another batch of counterfeits Of the
Government issues, which has probably already
been put in circulation through the community
Another package of ten dollar Treasury notes have
been stolen on their way from New Orleans. They
had not been signed and issued in the Department
but owing to the loose arrangement we have al
ready referred to, of having these notes signed by
Department clerks. instead of bearing the auto
graphs Of the Register and Treasurer themselves
they understood to have been put in circulation
by forged or fictitious signatures. In order topro
| tect the public from these counterfeits, the De-
| partment has determined to suppress the whole
issue of Treasury notes of the denomination of los
! engraved by 81. Manouyrier, New Orleans, J.
the stolen package being of this description.