, 1862-05-06
From our own Correspondent

HAoAls9IoS. nay ., Ico3
4 copy Of the New Orleans Price Current,
embracing summary Of the years business
ending March 1, 1852, has been sent to the
Navy Department by one Of the officers Of the
Gulf squadron 1t appears from this jourual
that the exports Of cotton from New Orleans
for the past ysar have BEEN eleven thousand
bales, against one and q ha;J' million bales the
rreyions year. The exports from all the South
crn ports have been only thirteen thousand
bsles. against more than two millions the pre-
sious' 5ear. Exports Of tobacco from NeE
Orleans nothing. against seventeen thousand
hogsheads last year. Imports Specie, moth
iny, against sl2, COO, 600 the previous year; cot
fee, 500 bags, against 2s50, ,00o bags salt, moth
ing, against 10000 sacks. Who says that
New Orleans kas not been efficiently block
advds
The debate which has been in progress three
days in the House Of Representatives, on the
report Of the Committee on Government Con-
tracts, has become somewhat acrimonious.
While this is to bo regretted, it is difficult to
sec how it could be avoided after the whole
sale charge made By Mr. Stevens, that the
Committee had pe1petrated mere frauds than
they had detected. The assailants of the Com
mlttee hayc impugned their report In thres
particulars: First, as to Alexander Cummings;
second, IS to Augustus 4. Slcchf; third, as to
Simon Stevens These three alleged errors.
be it remembered, are all that ha7e baen found
in volume Of over eleven hundred pages.
The charge against the Committee As to Al
czArder Cummings is that Cummings wrote,
"There [was] retained By Messrs Dix, Blatch-
ford and Opdyke one hundred and forty thou
| sand dollars" and that the Committee pub
Gehed it, " I hdte retained" )" etc. Well, Cum
nlings says in his published defense that he
accidentally omitted the word Il was." The
| Committee say that for convenience they had
| all the testimony printed before writing their
report, and that the pruof sheet which they
uscd at this point read ~ have retained" Ii
there Was any mistake the public printer aud
Mr. Cummings must divide it between them
| sr1yee. But in point of fact Msssrs. Dix,
| B1atchford and Opdykc were merely the de-
posi,ories Of Mr. Cummings, holding the
F.! money Eubject to his dsaft, a1d hence it N axes
| 60 difference which way We read it. Mr
| Cummings defenders made great parade
over thefact (as alleged) that that gentlsman's
| accounts had all been settled satisf lctorily,
| TIL b1r. HOLMAN Of Indiana produced state.
| nent from the Third Auditor that they had
not been settled at all.
The charge relating to ssechi is one con
cerning identity merely. Mr. I. G. Woods
Military Secretary to Gen. Fremont, directed
Capt Tuznley (Qunrtermaster} to make con
tract with Mr.. A. 4. sacchi, of New York, 70,
1000 Canadian cavalry horses, at sl3o each
The price to be paid for the horses made 1t ,
palpable fraud, and the sending to Canada fo1
them, when there were SO many horses to b
had at lower prices in all the western States
gaze it an additional feature Of dishonesty
Capt Turnkey testified that sacchi WAS no
body man Of straw, living in garret IL
New York-a man brought ont 10 st. Lonis =.
| good person through whom to work" Th