The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1862-06-07

Files Of late New Orleans paper. have been
received, aud we make the following extracts.
Great scarcity OF Provisions Another Or.
der from Gen. Iluiirr.
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Ntw OItLANs, May ., l-6l. {
The deplorahlc state u dcstitution and hunger oi
the mechanics and wofkin. Class'F in this city hHs
been brought to tho knowledge Of the commanding
general.
Iio has yielded e. every suggestion made ly the
city government and ordered every method of fur
nishng foot to the people ot New Orleans that that
poycrnmcut desired. No relief by those officials 4as
yet been afforded. Th. hunger does not plLch tire
wealthy aud influential the leaders os the reJoi.
lion, who have gotten up this vat, aud Hre nov
endeayuIug To- lr1Hecut" It, without regnrd u the
starv ns poor, the working man, his wife aud child.
Lnmindill of their suffering fellow citizens at
homc they have caused or HIilercd provisions To lie
carried ot Of the city for Confederate service since
the occuI alton by the United States forces.
Lafayette Square, their home Of anlucnce, was
made Tie deposit o stores and munitions oi war iur
the rebel ARMIES eri not provisions for their
poor neighbors. striking hands with the vile. th.
gambler, the idler and tie ruf'iln, they have de
stroyed the sugar and cotton which mi,Lt have
been exchanged i1r food for the industrious and
good, and raised the price Of that which IL len, by
dscrediting the very currency they had h,rn sized,
while they elopc with tho sl'rrie sH well as that
'tolen from tho tinted states Banks, the property
of tho good people of New Orleans, thus losylng
them a. ruin and starvation hIgitlycs nom Justice
many nithem and others, their .ssocistes, staying,
because tno Iuerile AMI insignificant 10 he objects
uf punishment ly the clement government Of the
United States.
They h.ye BETRAYED their country
They have been ialss 10 every tri,t.
Ihey nave ahoWn themselves mos phD'f n. tefenN
lng the State they have seized upon, although they
have forced every poor nous chi into their service
~ soldiers for that purpose, while they made their
Sons and nephews olhoerr.
They canut protect those whom .ey have
ruined, but have left them 10 tie mer,ies and an
sassinstions OF = chronic mob.
They will not feed those whom they srs starving.
Mostly without property themselves, they have
pundered, stolen, aud destroyed the means II
those who had property, leaving children penuiess
and old axe hopeless.
Men Of Louisiana, workingInsn, Property Hold.
ers, Merchants, and Citizens Of the United States,
o! whatever nation You may haze had birth, how
Ong will you uphold those lingrHnt wrongs. and hy
inaction suffer yourselves 10 be made the serfs Of
these leaders.
The United States have seut land aiui na y.l
forces here u fight and subdus r,b,lt.l. urI4es
In arrsy sgsinst her authority. W f1i, .uhsfsr-
tally, only fugitive masses, runaway p"p'r,Y
owners, whiskOy drinking mob, sJd ~ t'i'inS
citizens, with their wives Oui cbildrsn II - oGi
duty To call back the first D. Iunish 'ne second,
rout out the third, feed aIi protect ale last,
Ready only for wnst W. hai rot pr9pered o'r-
selves 10 feed the hungry and 'eeNu the distressed
with provisions. But to the "N enc rossih" " N 'v
the power of the coinmnni''- geG'rsl II rhall 10
done.
He has captured qusntly al efari sugar IA
tended for the rebels N Ma held thnushd hN-
reJ OF Liose stores viii bo distributed bm.u} tie
deserving poor Of tho cIsy, from whom e., ruhu.s
had plundcTed Il syJi although sunlo { 3D., .uad
and m Children ofih5se now h'rdins a, cam M,,,o
and elsewhere IN arms a,n'ust tho Tat "a Sptos
Captain John CLARK, acting chcf cuuin isssry =
subsistence, viii be charged vita th- rNcDltrl. ~
ts order, srsf will give public notice VI tho place
and manucr u redistribution, which will be nusn9sl
as far as p'ssiplc so that the unworthy and DESC,
lutte viii nut share its benefits
By ."insianl ol Mn.r General Rnt'er.
GEORGE G. SrRpSG,
N"., chie.HsoG
rLe rc,' ys.