Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-24

Gen. Butler is still pursuing the knaves
and humbugs of New Orleans in the liveliest
manner. One of the latter class, styling
himself George Coppell, Her Brittanic Ma
jesty's acting consul, addressed the general a
note complaining of the oath required OF
British subjects and aliens, to which Gen.
Butler dictated the following reply:
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,
New Orleans, La, June IA, 1862.
SR:-I am directed by the major general
commanding to inform you that no answer is
to be given to the note of George Coppell
Esq, OF this date, until his credentials and
pretensions are recognized by his own gov
eminent and the government of the United
States. All attempts at official action on Mr.
CoppelIs part must cease. His credentials
have been sought for, but not exhibited. l
have the honor to be, your obedient servant,
p. HAGGERTY,
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General.
GEORGE CoPPELL, Esq. Acting Consul of
| Her Britanic Majesty, New Orleans.
Gen. Williams wrote to Gen. Butler for in
structions as to the treatment to be awarded
to guerrillas wherever they might be found.
Gen. Butler responded
HEADQUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE
GULF, New Orleans, La, June -, 1862
General You ask me what shall be done
with guerrillas. They should be captured,
tried at the drum-head by military commits
sion, and shot, every man; their houses burnt,
their property destroyed, and every means
taken to show them that they are enemies of
the human race; not soldiers, but murderers
and land pirates. There is only one way in
which you can err toward them, and that is by
want OF prompt severity. By order of
MAJ. GEN. BUTLER.
r. S. Davis, Captain and A. A. A. General.
The bank of Louisiana appealed from de-
cisiOn of the provost judge, directing the
bank to pay to a depositor in current funds
the amount of his deposit made in confeder-
ate money. Gen. Butler ruled against the
bank, and said:
1t is estimated that Durand the depositor.
has deposited what the bank chose to take as
money-treated as mOney-credted to him as
money-nay, forced upon the community as
money. He has not been paid his deposit
| The bank should pay him in specie. The de-
cision, following the letter of the order. is
that the bauk may give him their own bills in
stead of money. Of that decision the bank
has no cause to complain. Durand is now
the creditor of the bank as a depositor. The
decision makes him their creditor as a bill
holder. In equity they have nothing to COM
| plain of-he may have, because he does moi
| gethis gold, to which, by the laws of banking,
laws of the state and the United States, he is
entitled. He does not seek to reverse the de-
cision. Let it stand. BENZ. +. BUTLER.
The Unionists of New Orleans serenaded
the general at the st. Charles Hotel, to whom
he said =
His presence meant justice to every man
high and low, rich and poor; and assured them
that he should welcome the day when once
again they would take their own affairs into
their own hands. We are brethren, he said,
and he promised that, on his part, Justice
should be administered to the people of New
| Orleans and Louisiana. The general spoke
like one deeply impressed, and his auditors
/ seemed to be in corresponding mood. His
tones were those Of earnest friendship. The
band, after the general withdrew, played
"Hail to the Chief"