, 1862-07-16
GbG. Gtihune.
Gen. Butler Dealing Out Justice to
the Rebels


oPPERAI AT MOBILE
Correspondence Of the N. 7. Evening Post,]
new ORLEANS, June 81. 1861
The same inactivity prevails here that ex-
listed on our first arrival. 1t IL remarked that |
the city is as quiet and business rs dull as ia !
the season Of tho great epidemic, when the
most active md populous streets were over
grown with grass: The grass grows thick1s |
10 the Eheets to-day; New Orleans realizing |
the prophecy which the rebels q year ago ap-
pied to New York
There is great distress among the poor, and |
many persons are very poor who before this |
rebellion were in comfortable circumstances. |
1t is no uncommon event to find we'll dressed |
persons begging from the soldiers, or buying |
Ter a small SUM their refuse rations. The |
price Of flour at Wholesale is twenty-fonr dol
lars barrel for very inferior quality, and !
some days it cannot be purchased at all, the
little that is procurable going into the hands
OF the bakers. have heard that forty dollars
we're refused for single barrel not more than
week ei1ce, and as 40 confederate money is
oTse ee xzS 10 afs sa pss w 5ms aaf oa as cae
in from Bremen few days. since, but they
were Immediately bought up by the bakers,
80 that hour ia hardly known in families.
EFFICIENCY OF TIE BLOCKADE.
The st1ingency Of the blockade is more aud
more developed every day. AS an evidence, I
give short memorandum Of few vessels de-
e.1o. cd or captured. 4 claim has been made
BY he dif1el cnt vessels for insurance, the YES
ee.s having bcen i2surcd against the blocka-
ding fleet. The folio wing i list:
Tic schooner Colonel Bliss, with 1877 bales
Of cotton, bafned at sea, 10.h February, 1862,
to escape scizGre-
blockade. 10Th OF January, from NEW Orleans,
with $50 bales Of cotton, was driven up the
river again, took fire and burned.
Schooner Star, with 100 bales OF cotton,
chased by one Of our fleet, set on fire and
abandoned January 18th, 1862.
Schooner Alphonzo, 300 bales of cotton.
driven aground by our boats, captured and
burned February 2, 1862.
Steamship Cuba {late Calhoun), from Havana
January 19:h, chased aground and burned;
full c:lrga Of general merchandise.
j. Bark Georgiana and cargo. burned in the
river.
Schooner Eugenia. full cargo, bound to
Havana, seized by United States vessel Feb
Tuary 9, 1862.
Bark n. a. Stevens, PIG hales cotton, burn
cd III The river January 1862.
These vessels, you viii observe, were de-
stroyed within q short period, and are only
few Of the many have heard OF
EXPORTS PROM NEW ORLEANS.
send you statement of the exports to
tic Northern States from this port for the two
weeks ending June %:
$40 blles cotton, I, ,555 hhds sugar, 416 brls
sugar, 2,S04.hhds molasses, 1901 brls rosin,
% bbls 1urpentine, Z bugs cotton seed, ?, 100
hides, 8 bris salted hides, 329 bales moss, 2
boxes specie, A pigs copper, 81 sacks Of salt,
I'll boxes liquors.
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
GEN. BUTLER PuSIsHlSG REBEL ATRoCITY.
4 rebel in New Orleans having exhibited q
| skeleton iu his window labelled q Cnickahom-
| iuy." Gen. Butler brought him 70 terms by
virtue OF the following order:
"IIEApQrAnrEEs DEPARTMENT OF THE GJ1r,l
/ NEW ORLEANS, La, June 81, 1862.
ESPECIAL ORDER No. 151.-Fide1 Keller
has been found exhibiting human skeleton
in his bookstore window, in a public place in
! this city, labeled 'iChickahoninJ,' in large
should be takcu BY the populuce to be the
bones Of 3 United States soldier slain III that
battle, in order to bring the authority Of the
| United States and our armies into contempt,
and for thatpuEpnse had stated to the passers.
| by that the bones were those OF 8 Yankee sol
der, whereas, in truth and fact, they wer7 tn.
bones purchased sunc weeks before OF {
Mexican consul, to whom they were pledged
by medical student:
1t is therefore ordered that 70. this desc
Grafton Of the dead he be confined at Shir
Ieland for two years at hard lator, and that III
be allowed to communicate with no person OF
the island except Mrs. Philips, who has beer
ec,t there for d like oG.nsc.
"Any written messages may be sent to hin
through these headquarters.
upon this order being read to him the sail
Keller requested that so much OF it as a5so
ciated him with that woman night be re
called, which request was therefore reduce
to writing by him, % follows:
INV ORLEANS, June 80, 1852.
"Mr, Keller dcercs thst part Of tho sentenc
| te1, inf IN I'm mi n Nre
| Phillips, be stricken out, az he does not wish t
have {. mmunieatfon with the said Mrs: n Phillips
wi;S?.s, ls'snsab ). Waters" F. KELLER
"said request seeming to the commaudio
General to be reasonable, SO much of sal
order is revoked and the remainder will b
| executed.
*"By order Of MAJOR GEN. BUTLER,
: "Co1nmanting Department.
'sR. S. Davis, Captain aud 1. a. a. Gem
MRs. PHILLIPS CASE.
"Phinips," whose society the man Kellt
8 dcc]iues, was disposed Of by the foloTin
order:
: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTaEST or THE GULF,
. NEW ORLEANS, June 30, 1862. !
"GESEnAL ORDER No. 150.-Alrs. Phillip
= wife Of Phillip Phillips, having been once il
prieoncd for her traitorous proclivities ar
acts at Washington, and released by the cien
= cncy Of the government, and having be.
Q icund training her children to spit upon Of
cc1s Of the United States, for which act Of Of
of those children both her husband aud he
- self apologizcd and were again forgiven.
Z now found On the balcony OF her house d
l. ring the passage Of the funeral procession
.e Lirutenant Drkay, laughing and mock;ny
81 his remains, and upon being inquired Of
the commanding general il this fact were S
cont. mptuously, replies, II vas in go
. at is therefore ordered that she be not 4
d gn1ded and treated as common woman
whom no officer or soldier is bound to tn
Eoticc, but as an uncommon, bad, and da
yero1ls woman, stirring up strife, and incIu
10 riot
= "And that, therefore, she be confined
Ship Island, in the State Of Mississippi, vii
in proper limits there, till further orders, q
r that she be SLOWED one female servant, if +
so choose. That one Of the houses for hos
2 2a tal purpose he assigned her rs quarters, i
ID soldiers ration each day be served out
her, with the means OF cooking the same, a
:. thai no verbal or written communication
T. allowed with her, except through this off
IN and that she be kept In close confinement
,ly til removed to SHIP Island
IS. .'Dy command of
= tsMA1oR GENERAL BUTLER,
N "Conlnlauding Department
"R. S. DAVIS, Captain and A. 4. A. G."
ANOTHER CASE.
I'LL Here is another instance Of similar char
l. ter:
- "uEADQUARTERs DEPARTMENT OF GULF,
NEW ORLEANS, June 80, 16d2.
ESPECIAL ORDER No. l53.-John ".
r. drews exhibited a cross, the emblem Ct
~, enflcrirgs OF our blessed Savior, fashioned
eN personal ornament, which he said was N
frum the bones OF d Yankee soldier, and b
.,- ing shown this, too, without rebuke, In
MY Lou!e!aua Alubt WHICH, t4E4uAs ~ W Coupu
1. OF chiyalric gentlemen:
IN Is It is therefore ordered, that for this d
- ~ Grafton Of the dead, he be confined at
ioa I1e labor for two years on the Notifications
ems Ship Island, and that he be allowed no vel
sn or nritfcn communication to OF with any
a.: except through these headquarters.
t'BY order OF Major Geu'l BUTLER,
It Commanding Dcpartmen
II "R. 8. DAVIS. Cartaiu and Acting 4. a.
be LATER-ARRIgAL OF TEE MCCLELLAN
Co By the arrival of the Mcclellan we have
cciycd New Orleans papers to the 4th
The Issue OF the ftcayunt Of the goth Of j,
g. lads off with biography of the ApC