The New York herald., 1862-04-21

ieave Denind them an immense amount OF Hour,
beef, pork, bacon, &C., which they had been
sccumulating for the supply of great army
for long campaign. The loss of these provi-
sions had to be made up as far as possible to
Johnston and Beauregard by the northern
/ counties of Georgia, Alabama and Mis-
sissppi, and hence these starvation prices
of "blue beef" and of "swnes flesh Of the most
miserable description" in Macon; for there we
are in the dominions of "King Cotton" whose
subjects have relied upon him to supply ell
their wants.
Next let us look moment at the condition
of things in New Orleans. We are indebted to
distinguished public man in Washington for
copy Of the New Orleans Delta of April 4,
which was taken from rebel prisoner captured
in Tennessee by the Thirteenth Missouri Volun-
teers, on the 9th inst, and in this paper we find
some very remarkable intelligence. We are
thus informed, in series of official proclama-
tons, that they have board of five Provost
Marshals in New Orleans, headed by the well
known Pierre Soule, and that they possess the
powers of an absolute despotism. They issue
decree, for instance, that after the I'd of April
breadstuffs and provisions in the city shall not
be sold higher than certain fixed rates; that
extra double -four shall not be sold for more
than eighteen dollars a barrel; that first class
beef by retail shall not exceed. twenty cents,
nor pork twenty-six cents per pound that corn
meal shall not be sold beyond one dollar and
eighty cents per bushel, and that for Liverpool
fine salt by retail no higher price shall be asked
than seven cents per pound. A pound of cot
ton in New Orleans for a pound of salt! Is not
that enough to make John Bull open his eyes
to the profits of run through "Lncoln's 8 block
ade?n
In the same paper there are several columns
of military advertisements, in which the name
of Major General Lowell figures very conspicu-
ously. His orders are like those of the Emperor
of China-positive and peremptory. He thus
issues one edict, that thereafter no exemptions
from military duty will be allowed permanent
ly, except in the case of minors or persons
physically unable to do service;" another,
that owners of tobacco must report their tobac
co to the Provost Marshals; and so on through
number of orders indicating the most
rigid military despotisn. But New Or
leans is further blessed with "Committce
of Public Safety like Paris during the
reign of the Jacobins; and while this commit
tee is calling for "old iron copper, brass, lead
or bells" to be worked up into cannon, shells
and bullets, the Provost Marshals expressly
prohibit the traffic in gold and silver against
Confederate" shinplasters, and decree that
"all traffic in paper currency tending to
create distrust in the public mind, or otherwise
to produce embarrassment, shall be held as
acts of hostility against the government, and
will be dealt with summarily." We rather
suspect that some shrewd money changers in
New Orleans have been offering at the rate of
hundred dollars in Confederate" paper for
ten or fifteen dollars in United States Treasury
notes.
In all these specifications is it not apparent
that our so-called Confederate States," and
their commercial and financial metropolis,
New Orleans, are suffering the pains and penal
ties of this rebellion to the last extremities of
der slave States we find the people of the
rebellious South reduced to famine prices
for their provisions, and that their "Con-
federats" paper can only be kept in cir
culation at the point Of the bayonet With
the defeat of the rebel armies at Yorktown and
Corinth, this military power will be destroyed,
and the consequent depreciation of "Confede-
rate" shinplasters. will speedily bring about
the complete dissolution and dispersion of the
rebel armies back to the ranks of the loyal and
prosperous people of the Union. Before the
lapse of many days, we thus look for South
ern collapse and reaction which will astonish
the orld.