Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-22
Lie sronY oF NEw omLEANs.


A copy Of the New Orleas Price Current,
embracing q summary OF the years business
ending March /, 1862, has been sent 10 the
Navy Department by one Of the officers of
the Gulf Squadron. IL appears from this
journal that the exports Of cotton from New
Orleans for the past year have been II 900
bales, against 1900 600 bales the previous
year. The exports from all the Southern
, RS have been ouly $4,000 bales, against
more than 1000 900 the previous year. Ex-
ports of tobacco from New Orleans nothing
against Ii 900 hogshesds last year. Imports
Specie, nothing against $l2,000,000 the
previous year; coffee, 800 bags, against $780,
coo bags; salt, nothing, again,t 500 900 sacks:
What an illustration of the blighting
influences of Secession What a terrible
example of retributive Justice! New0r-
leans was the second city, commercially,
in America. She commanded commerce
hemOst lucrative in the world. She was
the grand depot where all the products
of the Southwest were received. She was
the outlet for the inexhaustable riches of
the Valley of the Mississippi. Nowhere
else were fortunes so rapidly made
nowhere else were there such opportuni-
ties for Enterprise to achieve success
Her levees were lined with stately ships
and noble steamers; the flag Of everyna-
ton hoated among its shipping Her
wharVes and streets were blockaded with
freight The Genius of Prosperity seemed
to have taken the city under its especial
wing.
AT the opening of the Rebellion New
Orleans enjoyed an almost unexampled
degree of thrift The effects of the cri-
sis Of 81 had passed away. The crops
bad been unusually good. Cotton COM
manded high prices and prompt sales.--
The city looked eoldly upon tho efforts
of South Carolina to disturb the public
quiet Louisiana is content with the
Union as it is" was the language of her
leading journal. And why should she
not be? The North had never injured
her. The Abolitionists had never robbed
her Of a dollars worth. She had never
lost a slave in consequence Of "Agitation"
in the Free States. The Government had
done nothing TO her but foster and protect
her Why should she complain?
But New Orleans became infected with
the general madness She raised the
standard of Rebellion, and played the
robber and migrate. She seized upon the
property of the Federal Governments took
violent possession Of the Custom House
and t-Olicc; inhumanly converted the
Marine Hospital into an insurgent Bar
racks, and trampled the old flag under
foot,
But vengeance was swift to OYertake
her. Hardly had she consummated her
treason before she became prey TO law
lessness and anarchy. The rule of the
mob became supreme. An irresponsible
tyranny enthroned itself on the ruins of
'law and orderp al respect for life and
property was gone. All protection to in
nocence and virtue was denied Murders
and highway robberies became hourly
occurrences.
a blight settled upon the business life
of the city. Her commerce was struck
| down dead at a single blow. Her ships
rotted at the wharves Her steamers lay
idle by the rivers banks. The leYees be-
came deserted. The din of toll ceased
on her streets and in her workshops
There was no work for the Poor except
that of bearing arms against the Govern
mCnt, under which they had so happily
lived The neCessaries Of life cOmman-
ucu ldHiiuo plloc9' hullBei anu ubspalL
became the portions of thousands, who
had lived all their lives in the midst Of
plenty. Our Government will now De
compelled 10 step in between the people
and their own folly, and save them from
starvation
/ And this is but a single chapter in the
I h0Iid drama0f Secession. Norfolk and
Charleston and Mobile, are
rcpolilions OF the story of the "Decline
aud Fall of New Oreans. ns.'--ABaY (M
| K.) Journal