Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-22
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AFTERNOON DISPATCHES.
From New Orleans.

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FORTRESS MONRoE, May 2O.-The ,circu,
latton OF scrip In New Orleans has been
forbidden, but'other species of currency
IN circulation are allowed.
s41e neWspapers continue their publica-
HonsP The della was suppressed for refus-
ing 10 publish Gen. Buffers proclamation
out was subsequently allowed to 90 on.
Alglers has been occupied by our troops,
and Forts Jackson and st. Phillip gurri-
soned by troops.
The Ship Island, Opelousas, aud jackson
Railroads have been taken possession of,
and all approaches to the city cut off.
Gen. Phelps had advanced to CArrollton,
20 niles up the river. and occupied the
place. Very little public demonstration of
union feeling was made, in Consequence of
the uncertainty in reference to the future.
Great want of confidence is prevailing, but
upder the firm course of Gen. Butler bu-
slness 10 slowly reviving. The city is grad
ually growing quiet, and affairs are pener
ally in perfectly satisfactory state.
Porter's mortar fleet had been IF Mobile
and in the bay, and soundings had been
made in the channel on the seventh. The
fleet was fired on while engaged in this
work by Morgan, but did not reply.
land.
On the night of the 9Th the enemy evacu-
ated Pensacola, and set fire to the Forts.
Navy Yard, Barracks and Marine Hospital.
General Arnold commenced a lombard.
ment when the destruction of property was
begun, hoping to save a portion of the Fort
property. The steamers Beaufort and Neat
fe were destroyed; Fort McRae, the Hos.
pttal and Navy Yard burned. The bar
racks were saved also, the foundry and
blacksmith shop in the yard.
The city and forts had been occupied by
General Jones, with three thousand troops.
General Arnold was to occupy the city
on the 2sth with $4,000 men.
Nothing of Importance from Kew West
or Port Royal. 8
Some few days ago the gun boat Wam-
sutata, lost two men in aEirmish in War.
saw Sound. - -, u
CA1Ro, May 2O.-The Memphis appeal of
the 18th. contains the following dispatch,
addressed to the rebel Secretary of State.
dated Camp Moore, llth:
"Gen. Butler yesterday took forcible
possession. of the office of the Consul of
Getherland, searched the person of the
Consul, and took the key of the bank
vault from him, in which were Sc, OOO, 900,
transferred by citizens to Hofes Bank, Of
bonds.
"Bdtier also took possession of the
Offices of the French aud Spanish Con.
sulates in the old Caral Bank, and placed
. guard over them. He also seized the
Canal Bank and Smiths Bank, and has is
sued an inilammatory proclamation to in
cite the people against the ROB, promising
to distribute to the poor thousand bar.
rels of beef and sugar, captured in New
Orleans. he is recruiting in New Orleans.
The poor will soon be starved.
'EThe enemy have sent force up Ban
mel Care, which marched through swamps
and destroyed the rnilrond bridge"
The dispatch is not signed.
The Vicksburg Citizen, of the 18th, says:
The latest we can learn of the gunboats
below is that they are between Fort Adams
and Bayou Tunea, supposed to be in or
about Red river cnt off
The steamer Platte Valley, from Pitts.
burgh Landing, has arrived. On her up-
ward trip she was fred on by party of
rebels on shore. One soldier was wounded.
She brings no army news, in consequences
of the order of Gen. Halleck, expelling
newspaper correspondents from camp. 4
number of them have determined to with
draw entirely from the vicinity. A few
concluded to remain. A portion of the in
dignant ones have already arrived here and
others are on the way.