The New York herald., 1862-05-30
Progress OF Affairs I'm New Orleans-A
Budget or Interesting News.


letters from our correspondents, and newspaper
extracts, showing the progress Of affairs in New
Orleans under the active, emphatic and decisive
military supervision of General Butler.
Touching here upon some Of the most i'm
portant OF the various and numerous items of
information thus grouped together, it appears
that General Butler had smoked out of the
Office of the Consul of the Netherlands lot of
Confederate" specie, in silver, to the amount
OF eight hundred thousand dollars, and that
the Consul concerned and score Of other con-
suls had entered their protest against this Pro-
ceeding. But we presume that General Butler
will hold on to the money in behalf of the go
vernment Of the United States, and leave to
Mr.. Seward the settlement of the claim in ques-
ton. Next, we find that certain British sub
jects had sent down to New Orleans some four
hundred bales of cotton, and were not very
fastdious either in placing this property Of
theirs under the protection Of the flag of the
Union. It is to be hoped that the London
Times will soon have its stupid eyes opened in
contemplation Of such interesting facts Us these.
We are rather inclined to think, however, that
that blunderer Of Thunderer will find some
thing more agreeable to its morbid secession
stomach in General Buffers arrest of several
British subjects because Of their active services
rendered in or to the rebel army. Queen
Victoria's proclamation of neutrality of May
last however, settles this matter; for we
fnd on recurring to this proclama tion,
that any of her subjects who shall violate this
neutrality, by assisting either party in this war,
"will do so at their own peril, and of their own
wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any
protection from us (the Queen) against any liza
bilities OF penal consequences, but will, on the
contrary, incur our displeasure by such con-
duct"
Next, we find that the circulation of "Con-
federate" paper money was ordered by Gen.
Butler to be stopped in New Orleans on the
9th irstant-Tuesday last; and it will be seen
that such shining and shaving Immediately
commenced as the financiers and lame ducks of
Wall street have never dreamed of. Doubtless
a host of Confederate swindlers will have
feathered their nests by this Confederate"
paper trash, while multitude of their unfor-
tunate dupes will have been reduced to star
vation. The New Orleans banks, in this
swindling business, seem to have been playing
the game of sharper and artful dodger on
grand scale.
We find next that in view of the thou
sands Of the population of Now Orleans re-
duced to absolute destitution under their
Southern millennium, ushered in by this rebel
lion, General Batter had seized considera-
BILE amount of provisions of the "so-called Con-
federate ,States," and was distributing them
among the poor. Cattle dealers, too, with their
beeves, were finding their way into the city
from Texas, and eggs, &C., were also coming in
from the interior. 1t will not be long before
the river will be reopened through to Cairo,
and then the descending provisions Of the
great West will prove convincing argument
in support of the appeal Of old Jacob Barker
against the suicidal expediont enjoined upon
the Southern planters of burning their produce
'to save it from the enemy" that is, the enemy
of JEFF Davis and his fellow conspirators
The Delta and the Bee newspapers were sup
pressed by General Butler for advocating this
incendiary policy on the part Of the Southern
people of reducing the masses to absolute
beggary and starvation. This burning them
selves out Of house and home, however, is con-
fessedly the last ferocious alternative of the
rebel rulers; for it will be seen, from the letter
of the rebel diplomatic emissary Rost, of
New Orleans written at Madrid, that all hopes
of European Intervention in support of jeff.
and his interlopers are gone. In still another
matter it will be seen that General Butler will
have no dilly-dallying or lodging. We refer
to the cleaning Of the streets. lie will not
have the responsibility of neglect shufiled off
from one set of officials to another; but he
substantially warns the city authorities that
the work must be done or they will all be
cleared ont without ceremony. In this point Of
view Military Governor, one like General But
ler, for while, would not be bad institution
for the city Of New York Hackley & Co., under
such regime, would have to be lively or leave.
Many other interesting topics, subjects, facts
and curious discoveries and developments will
be found in this interesting budget of New
Orleans news which we publish to-day. The con-
clusions which we draw from it all are these:
that General Butler, with mistake here and
there no doubt, is performing his duty of Mill
tary Governor with vigor, vigilance and discre-
ton; that finding great city turned upside
down and inside out, demoralized, plum
dercd, and in utter poverty, chaos and
filth from this rebellion, he has great
work upon his hands to restore said city to
order cleanliness and anythinu o. like prosner;tv.
but that he is getting things into. an orderly
shape, and that New Orleans is getting sober, as
from fearful, stupefying drunken debauch.
This good work of "the sober second thought"
will begin to go on rapidly and universally
throughout the South with the expulsion Of JEFF.
Davis from Richmond, and that event is so near
that the news thereof may come to us at any day