New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-04

Orleans, Of which he lately was tie chiei.
About 500 Rebel prisoners, including Gen. Clarke,
were sent to the Rebel lines on the Goth ult
Arrived at New Orleans Feb. IS, u. 5. transport
ships R. c. Winthrop, VIM. Woodbury., Alice
Counce. Jeny Lipd, and bark Tycoon
The Era Newspaper Gen. BanLs's Organ
Meetings OF Planters mt the NJ. Charles
Hotel - Their Physiognomy. Appear.
ancc, and Talk-Astemps 10 Revive the
State Laws Of Louisiana with respect
10 Negroes Speech of Gen. Banks.
From Our Special Correspondent
ST. CHAR1ss HOTEL, NKw-onLsAs.. Lay
Feb. ~, 1863. !
One of the minor topics Of my last last Letter to
TIE TRIBUNE there are few major ones to write
about was the suppression of The Delto newspaper,
long tho exponent OF Gen. Buffers will and inten-
tons to the people Of NewOrleans, by order Of Gen.
Banks The jouIna-as your enohange list has
probably anticipated me in informing you-has been
resumed or rather replaced by The Era, set up by
the same competitors, using the came types, In the
same Office, but tue acknowledged organ OF the pre-
sent head Of the Department 1t began tie existence
last Sunday six days ago. and conducted by Lieut.
Col. A. G. Hills, AID Capt. a. c. Hills, Of the ith
Louisians (coloredl Regiment, recently appointed TO
both military and editorial responsibilities.
Despite the similarity Of nomenclature these gen
tlemen are not relations. one Is well,known IN
Post. He accompanied the Banks expedition as the
correspondent of The Herald, and between those
moral antpodes was actively engaged IL making
history instead Of cbroniclDg IT, a Captain in the
"Californis" Regiment of the lamented Baker. in
which capacity be underwent the Potomac cam
psigns and that Of the Peninsula. His coadjutor in
The Era is Of the Hills of the trimontaine City
of Boston, hitherto identified with TIE Journal.
Both editors are, believe, Aboltionists frem ante
oedents and COW .ctions, and such their present
position in New-Oreans (which is about as Pro.
Slavery as New York is at once peculiar aud sug-
gestive.
The Era promises to be live paper. To it, them
may conscientiousy commit the record Of the two
meetings of Louisiana planters on the nights Of the
18th and 18Th, in the paror OF this hotel. nclose
the proceedings, duly scissored from ITS columns, and
very honestly reported. But as The Era cOniires
itself TO simple, thoagh complete, statement Of
facts, and as there Ia always q good deal behind
SUCH accessible TO an interested observer, want to
have my say in the business l. WAS really impor-
tant, though il terminated ludcrously, in oonclu-
sion In which nothing was concluded 1t involved
psfcct because unc0asclOus exhibition OF the real
feelings and motives of tie persons interested and
~ picture Of how the planters of Louisiana are
not preparing to meet the inevitable contingencies
pre- sing upon them il has its historical significance
wrote TO you Of the previous meeting on the 9Th |
OF this month, sending also the results in the adop
ton Of the recommendation Of Gen. Bank lpresen-
ed through the SequestTatiOn COmmlssion) for the
employment Of negroes on the plantations al stiQu.
lated wages, or for q share OF the crop produced.
That meeting, held within closed doors, was a COM
paIativey small one, the embryo of NUMBER aud
3, at which, as The Era will tell you every parish
but one within our lines sent its representative.
And this was the manney OF the assembling:
We had bad one OF the drenchingest and dreaIest |
of Fat Tuesdays Tor Mardi GrdsI Conceivable
very different was assured, from the one cele-
brsted two years ego, when the " Mysticke Krewe
of Kanus" delighted the city with fantastic pro-
cession, including Gu Ghigy Of Abraham Lincoln, |
near the Clay statue, amid much public rejoicing
but Wednesday dawned sunny and beautiful, day
in Northern June. With it came the planters; tue
rotuuds Of the St. Charles, our great socal " on
change" being unusually thionged, even at early
morning. The preliminary meeting, OF noon, for
he purpose OF organization, wac brief, private and
No. until nigbtfsll did the scene as
snme it's veliest aspect then the rotunda was fairly
crowded, and great BUN and buzz went up toward
the dArkened gallery above, like the nurmur Of hui
man bees, or the IeverbeTaons Of sound in sn i'm
nense diving-bell. Had some OF those present been
Nertaoly IN one, they could not have been more
completely "at sea- with respect to their position
anu us responsibilities. / ray some, not all.
Giancine around We beLeld in the many physi-
ogaomies some distinct types of character. The
average was as II commonly is among educated
Americans, not high, but resrectabe. Perhaps a
soie oi nose present might have walked bodily out
va she WV AVlh OF Commerce; they had
that sbrewd, ceansbaven mercantile look denotin0
ibe Intelligent business man all the world over
wi.h certain local Ieculiarities, slight but suggest
i've. Gradually we began to Discriminate them as .
follows:
There was the elderly planter Of unnixea Ameri. I
Can, in come instances Northern descent, keen in
telligent ana serious, accustomed TO respect aud
consideration In consequence Of his wealth, 10 ui
usstioDed and uncontrolled authority on his panta-
lion, tie inevitable tendency OF which IL 10 make
bin ga irresponsible despot than Caph
isram Abraschid in bis sDgry robe Of scarlet"
Rather formal In his manner, courteous and
" ell bred, be is an an.tocrat to the back.
zone, sometimes high.toocd one, sometimes merely
Visit him az friend or acquaintance,
rou snail DO Hospitality entertained, address him as
fellow American citizen, no displays all the prac-
iesl good sense of u man Of the world Except on
he subject Of Slavery and its postnlate, SscessoD
approach bin as an inferior, he admits 10 certain
.xteot tho aIistocracy Of your cuticIe, but no W
more believes or can believe that God created al
men Tree and equal than The london Times or
oas poloon. He is one Of the iDHuebtial men OF
me meeting but half scorns himself for being here.
""'e''eo planters oil this stamp with faces Of tho