Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-05-15
From the Memphis Argus May Latest from New Orleans-The Surrender of Fort Jackson.


 Mir J s Davis of ths scity, who left New Or leans Tuesday evening and arrived here yesterday. furnishes ns with some very interesting information of existing matters in the Crescent city. The river l5 no" thoroughly open from its mouth 10 Fort Pillow. Brig -Genl Duncan reached New Orleans from below on Monday abont9 o'clock, {, and formally surrendered Forts Jackson and St. Phillips two hours atGerawrds The surrender was imperative, as the ganisons were almost perfectly exhausted. having sustained ncessant lombard lnent of eight days.
 It is estimated by intelligent naval gentlemen that during the last three days of the bombardment no less than ten thousand tons of shot and shell were thrown into Fort Jackson So exhausted and worked down were the troops in the forts that many of then actually Neil down and died from pure exhaustatiOn while carving shot and shell and managing the guns. A hercer contest was proba- bly never waged.
 From the most correct information Mr. Davis could obtain had stationed at the forts and other points this side nearly six thousand men, all of whom were included Ill terms of surrender IL is proper to state, howeyef that Gen. Duncan and entire forces were released on parole.
 The batteries between New Orleans and the forts proved, IS might have been supposed, only waste of time and expense They sustained and return ell one fire the gunboats passed, and were then abandoned
 Three of our gnnboats were destroyed by hot
 
 pressed cotton placed there as a protection. IL k feared that with few exception, all on board Der iShed. Our informant conyersed with one of the survivors. who managed to swim ashore, by whom he was informed that he knew ot others who had escaped.
 On either Thursday or Friday, Commodore Far rlgut, escorted by about thirty of his men, and un der the protection of the gunboats stepped on the wharf A very large crowd had assembled, and his reception was anything but supplementary. kisses and eerS greeted him from all quarters.- Many applied to him all the opproblous eplthets in the vocabulary of ihvectire, and one man, seemingly nnable to expess his contempt for the federal commodore in ang other manner, deber- alcly walked upto him and s|at in his iace daring him 10 resent. But cue feeling eAsted-that of painfully impressng the invader with the fact that although temporarily in his power, they scOmta and deIested both him and the government he served.
 One reason for the violence of the people lies n the fact that Farlagut is native oi l-ousisana. Ii fife is in New Orleans, and has resided there during the entire war. His thorough knowledge of the country and people, doubtless, caused him 10 be selected for the task Of subugating New Orleans. over others who ranked him in the service
 llc made no reply to the excited crowd, but, con tentjng himself bY Sc0~lng upon them and biting his lips. he hurried rapidly forward. Had he acted otherwise, either threatening the crowd with his guard or cuibuat-, the excitement and indignation oi ihe people on the leyee would have re-ulted in thc snccdy destruction Of the deaFsed visitors, oardlet4 "f the consequences.
 Commodore Fanagut's first act upon taking for rlal possession Of thc cIts "as o dspossess Mayor Monroe and the postma-tet Their places lie filled with tnD residents ot the city, whose names our informant could not remember
 up to Tuesday evening no land forces had ar r.l-l but they were hourly expected and have ---.. -t t lssvtp- r .~s oenetAliy 4uderatood-no douot so tiated by lar ragut-that the city would be perunnentiy occupi ed hy twenty thousand iederals UfGcneral flcayune Buffers division. Large forces were said to be in Mississippi sound aId tile river below the forts.
 The city papers were issued as usual on Tuesday. Our informant saw copies of the Delta Pcayune and Crescent of that late which talked boldly and tnanfuiiy as ever, not at all frightened by the rnuzz!e. of the \ auEee guns turned upon the city from the river.
 Considerable excitement prevailed in the city on Sunday Monday and 'Iucsday. Business had et- tirely suspended The hotels and stores were closed against lll l. Wa next to impossible to purchase anything to ~eIr CT eat. The .hinplaster currency, with which the city had been cursed for months could not be given away. Many of the men by whom 1t had been ssucG refused to redeem t Thc issues of the regular banks pissed current, but few of them could he obtained.
 Commodore Farragnt and his followers have ob ltI. 4 has been left to reward their greed. Every pound has been burned both in warehouses, on the ground and on shipboafd All day Monday and Tuesday, owners of sugar. m6asses, flour, salt and meat, and oyi.i0us of every kind. were opening their ware houses and stores, and bidding the people who were in need to help themselves
 By this generosity, thousands who otherwise would soon experience the panSs q hunger, in con sentence of the general staenaton of business, and the denrecation of the shinplaater currency, have been provided for for months The regular mar ket4 were held on Tuesday. but the free market, which has been the sole support of perhaps thou sands during the past few months, closed on Thusiay or Friday
 Nearly all who can possibly leave the city were doing so Few will remain other than those ah- somtcly compelled to do 80. There was not the slightest manifestation of sympathy for the fed erals on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. If any cxi-ts it will require more than tclesopic percep ton to discover t.
 some disnosition is eyincel in New Orleans to attach blame to Gen. Lowell for the fall of the city and the forts. l. is altogether groundlcsS.- No officer could do more than done. Infantry forces were unable to fight gunboats, nor it possible for him to prevent the surrender of the forts Let all here who disposed to censure Gen. Lowell, think of the foul islanders heaped on Gen. A $. JQAnston, and pause
 SMce writing the above the Mobile Evening News of the lst has been placed in our hands. IL contains the following confirmation of the state nent regarding the surrender of the forts:
 We learn that dispatch from an agent of the southern telegraph company, dated at camp Moore has been received here stating tlat Forts Jackson and St thilip have surrendered to the fedorals.-- We have conyersed with Confederate officer who wos in Fort Jackson when the federal gunboats passed lie states that the forts were very badly damaged and coud not possibly resist il combined attack from the vessels above and below them.
 ADDITIONAL.
 friend who has just returned from Jackson, Nssis.ippi furnishes tp with the following pointed urotes, which we consider mniam in paroa II appear- that French man ot war did come up to inc cify about the time the federal fleet ived.- Here is the protest
 Co0,nan,iey of q. $, Sqaadron, no,c ia he Port ot
 Ne,e Orteane,
 s8S,n-~Sent by my government to protect the per snus and property of it citizens, who are here 10 the number of thirty thousand, regret to learn at this moucnt that you have accorded delay of forty eight hours for the evacuation of the city by the women and children
 venture toobserve td you that tlis shart delay ia rIdiculous and in the aame of ny government
 onposei it. If it is your resolution to Lombard the city do it; but l wish to state that you will have to oeeoI,nt for this barbarous act Co the power which 1 represent. In any event, l demand sixty days for the evacuation.
 DE CLOUET.
 Commander ol the steamer Milan. Opposite Ihe city of New Orleans. ---~-~sa ---ssE< .-ss------ 41oU BEN MCCrIA.oCH WAS kllI.Ep.-A cores Y p ,ndent of the St. Louis Democydt, in his ..l.. h.ul. ,, Arl-aneas