Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-19
second Mail from New Orleans.

The steamer Ocean Queen arrived at New
| York. Wednesday, with heavy mail, and
dates to the 18th inst. Mrs. Gen. Butler,
/ Pierre Soule and the sheriff of New Orleans,
/ A. Marzareau, were among the passengers
The charge against Mr.. Soule is not stated.
but it is asserted that he was so intimately as
sociated with the secessionists of New Or
apparently acting as their leader-as
to render him particularly dangerous man.
Sheriff Marzareau was charged with coun-
tenancing recent projects of the secessionists.
Both will be taken to fort Warren. The fol-
lowing interesting extracts are from private
letter dated New Orleans, It'll, published in
the New York Evening Post =
CONDITION OF THE CITY.
The exports from here are almost entirely
confined to sugar and mOlasses, which is given
in exchange for the absolute necessaries of
life. So stringent has the blockade been at
this port that for several consecutive days the
entire city was without bread-the rich and
poor alike. The Lieut.. Blackstone brought
the first cargo of flour, and it is to be sold at
auction to-day. The maximum price hereto
| fore was twenty dollars per barrel, United
& oNttNSe llohNg. AAtu ny DullcT. Inc
currency of the city consists of broken bank
bills reprinted on the backs, aud cut in half,
making two bills of one omnibus tickets, rail-
adchecks and littlepieces ofcards of all kinds.
There was Union flag raised on the City
Hall on Saturday, amidst some enthusiasm
and much fear by many who wish our cause
! success but dare not encourage us as the life
of a resident is worth little who dares advocate
! Union. As yet the city is held by fear, but it
| is thought that few days will make great
change in our favor. The residents of the
city despise Lowell for running away, and the
country people despiSe the city folks for let
/ ting him run without an effort to prevent the
/ landing Of our forces | have heard many
men and even ladies speak very Indignantly
against what they call the RUNAWAY clerk of
| runaway street commissioner" They say
his horse made the best time of any in the
| regiment.
Business seems to be gradually reviving.
| The latestpaperS contain columns of ''wants, y
announcements of arrivals OF goods from the
north, and advertisements of the resumption
Of travel to New York, Minatitlan, and Red
| river. Gen. Shepley, military commandant
of New Orleans, has taken the city contrac-
tors in hand, and holds them to their con-
tracts, thus providing for the cleanliness, and
consequently the health of the city.
REsUMING SPECIE PAYMENTS.
The gratifying intelligence of a resumption
of specie payments by the banks of New Or
leans is thus conveyed by the True Delta of
the 18th:
''Some of the banks are, we understand.
| preparing themselves for the resumption of
specie payments, and, in our columns the
Bank Of 4lnertca announces that this impo7-
tdnt step has been already taken by that hith-
erto very successfully administered corpora
ton. This is as it should be, and is very COM
mendable. Our views on the cnrrency aues-
ton have been so frequently given in these
columns since the stupidity dishonest suspen-
| StoH Of September, that it would be SuperfiU-
| Gus now to reproduce them; but we may with
| propriety ask, what earthly good can accrue
| 10 any bank or any individual by an obstinate
resistance to proceedings that can neither be
set aside or disregarded? Is there a banking
institution in New Orleans so senselessly con-
Quoted as to suppose that the interests of the
community must be ever made subservient to
its own, and that its profits, legitimate or lille
gitimate, are the only considerations that must
be allowed to have weight or Importance"
ITEMS.
Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts, is sharply
criticised by the Picayune, which paper talks
Of his ''fanaticism, folly, and freakishness."
and is rather bothered by his summary pro-
ceedings.
The Picayune also denies that the yellow
fever has made its appearance, and that Col
Moody was hung in front of his store. There
was no fever, and Moody was alive and we'll
| Gen. Williams brigade is up the Mississippi
river. The 3lst Massachusetts, 18th Com
necticutt, and 18th Maine regiments are in
| New Orleans. The health of the soldiers is
excellent.