Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-03
Notice.
HEADQUARTERS DEP'T OF THE GULF, New Orleans, May 3, 1862.

He has yielded to every suggestion made by the city government, and ordered every method of furnishing food to the people of New Orleans that that government desired. No relief by those officials has yet been afforded. This hun ger does not pinch the wealthy and influential, the leaders of the rebellion, who have gotten up this war; and are now endeavoring to prosecute it, without regard to the starving poor, the work ing man, his wife and child. Unmindful of their suffering fellow citizens at home, they have caus ed or suffered provisions to be carried out of the city for Confederate service since the occu- patton by the United States forces.
 Layfayette Square, their home of affiuence was made the depot of stores and munitions of war for the rebel armies, and not of provisions for their poor neighbors. Striking hands with the vile, the gambler, the idler and the ruffian, they have destroyed the sugar and cotton which might have been exchanged for food for the in- dustrou8 and good, and regulated the price of that which is left, by discrediting the very cur. rency they had furnished while they eloped with the specie; as well that stolen from the United States as the banks, the property of the good people of New Orleans, thus leaving them to ruin and starvation.
 Fugitives from justice, many of them, and others, their associates, staying because too puerile and insignificant to be objects of pun ishment by the element government of the nited States.
 They have betrayed their country.
 They have been false to every trust.
 They have shown themselves incapable of defending the State they had seized upon, al- though they have forced every poor mans child into their service as soldiers for that purpose while they made thsir sons and nephews officers.
 ,bor 4bo,- ba, ruined, but have left them to the mercies and assassination of chronic mob.
 They will not feed those whom they are stary- ing.
 Mostly without property themselves, they have plundersd, stolen and destroyed the means of those who had property, leaving children enniess and old age hopeless.
 Men of Louisiana, working men, property holders, merchants and citizens of the United States, of whatever nation you may have had birth, how long will you uphold these fragrant wrongs, and by inaction suffer yourselves to be made the ser6 of these leaders?
 The United States have sent land and naval forces here and subdue rebellious armies in array agant her authority. We find, sub stantialIy, only fugitive masses, runaway pro perty owners, Q whisky drinking mob, and stary ing citizens with their wives and children. It IS our duty to call back the first to punish the second, root out the third feed and protect the last.
 Ready only for war, we had not prepared our selves to feed the hungry and relieve the dis tressed with provisions. But to the extent pos sible within the power of the commanding ge- neral 1t shall be done.
 He has captured quantity of beef and sugar intended for the rebels in the field. Ath0usand barrels of those stores will be distributed among the deserving poor of this city, from whom the rebels had plundered it; even although some of the food will go to supply the craving wants of the wives and children of those now herding at Camp Moore and elsewhere, in arms against the United States.
 Capt. John Clark, Acting Chief Commi5sary of Subsistence, will be charged with the execu ton of this order, and will give public notice of the place and manner of distribution, which will be arranged as far as possible, so that the un- worthy and dissolute will not share its benefits
 By command of Maj. Gen. Butler.
 GEO. c. STRONG,
 A. A. G. Chief of Staff
 OFFICE CoMH8sARY OF SUBSISTENCE, Custom House, New Orleans, May 10, e.
 In compliance with the above order of the
  ces that his office in the custom house will be open on Monday, and from day to day there after, from 8 o'clock 8. m., to D. m, for the purpose of examining the claims of those who present themselves for assistance. Applicants for aid should bring such credentials from gem tlemen in their respective districts as shall guard against deception. The indorsement of a clergy man, physician, or any gentleman known or knowing. will be sufficient
 On Monday two hundred tierces of beef will be distributed JOHN CLARE.
 Capt. and Com. of Sub. [. $.
 Before deposing the Mayor, he addressed letter to him, full of cant, calling his attention to the streets and insisting that the "poor men" should be set to work and means furnished them to live. In this and various ways, he tries to affect the patron and array one class against the other.
 Another dodge. and very transparent one, is his endeavor to revive the trade of the city with the country. To this end he suppressed the papers of the city, except the Bee which basely uccumbed, and caused his venal sheets to publish accounts of large sales of cotton, in the hope to induce planters to send cotton to that city. Failing in this, he got the consent of Gov Moore to let produce be sent, upon the plea that the citizens were starving and pledge that he would not appropriate it to the use of the federal army. Some provisions came, but he seized them, took one-fourth for his own use and distributed the rest among those who would ake the oath of allegiance to lis master The Texan authorities blocked the game of ship nents, and Butler has to depend on Yankee ships for the means of demoalizing the people. With some intellect, bestial disposition and great amount of low cunning, this man But CT rivals the monsters of the old world in his tets. Under such wretch, suffering hunger, imprisoned if they dare to look askance, ground 0 the earth by an armed force and their wives nd sisters placed at the meiciless lust of north m ruffians New Orleans is to be pitied, not erided. Let us not accuse her, but sorrow Tlth her and try to avenge her. All of the furniture, slaves and moveabe pro- erty of President Davis had been removed rom his plantation on the Mississippi before the ederals visited it and destroyed the buildings The yellow fever is at New Orleans without oubt. The Charity Hospital has patients