The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-01-04
Affairs In New Orleans.

We have had the pleasure Of m interview with
Col. 7. ]. Reid, Of the i2th Arkansas restment,
cember, has already been reported by telessaps.-
Coi 4. correcls somc reports respecting the Eof'
jackson affair. He PAGES no credit N the state
mene that the garrison Of Fort st. PhlIiip mas !on
was probably from one 70 two colorcd regiments,
with % white officers, ~ Of whom were put 10
deathi the Others escaped. He had heard no ac-
count OF the liberation of the C0nfedeTase prison
VILLAINS, though there may be few ofhcers among
them. Neither had he heard of an extra being Is
sued BY the True Delta and suppressed; indeed tney
woul1 not have dared to publish 1t.
Banks sent an order TO the papers TO state tnat
there had been slight disturbance at Fort Jack
sonsbut NO bloodshed, as was ramored in the city.
caution was appended, not to comment cpon u
or upon the news from Fort Jackson.
The rebellion was not the result Of collision
between the men and their oficrrs, bus had evi
IDENTITY been previously planned, and grew out OF
the. general dissatisfaction Of the negroes with
their new masters. The garrison Of the fort con
sists OF regiments of free negroes thar were or.
lied by Butler, and who elected onieers from tieis
own body.
These officers were reduced to the ranks by Gen.
Banks. Some of the privates have been sentenced
by courts martial to several years. service without
pay-have been, in fact, sentenced to slavery. The
Yankees send off all " "cOntrabands - Immediately
on their arrival to the Government plantations,
where the discipline of the lash is administered
with udheard of severity. These, aud such as
these, are the causes which have exasperated the
minds Of the negroes and led them 10 the revolt.
The excitement and apprehension which It has
produced may be judged from the fact that On tie
morning OF the l4th a salute was fred on the ar
rival of two brigades Of white troops, who sup
posed to have been collected from points betwee,
New Orleans and Brashear City.
Among other Items OF New Orleans news we
learn from Col. Reid that nineteen Confederate
officers and something like 800 privates were to
have left on or about the 18th for Frankiss com,
mand, to be exchanged for Federal prisoners In
Gen. Fayior's hands. Among these are Lieut.
Col. Guess, OF the 3lst, and Adjutant Howard, of
tne 1th iexas. The supposed reason for this ex-
cnange Is, that Gen. Taylor ha. captured some of
the Yankee pets, whom they wish to recover
Co'. Knott for one, of Captain Knott, of
Hanks's staff ail these exchanged prisoners be-
iong to the Trans Miss sslssipp department. Col
Guess was captured at MOrganza, after the fight
bv some Yankee straggiers, he having gone upon
the field to seek for the body of friend whom he
supposed to be killed.
The occupation of our space obliges us 10
omit, for the present at least, many interesting
matters gathered i'll our conversation with Col!
Reid, but ne would not excuse US If we failed 10
notice the uniiinching patriotism and Ihtring de-
voton to the of the suffering prisoners OF tie
New Orleans ladies'. Their spirit is unsubiued
and it Is their glory that hey-she only foes thai
Butler ever dared northumberland the Beast,
and that he and his min;ons have never recovered
from the wounds OF stnging contempt which the
women OF New Orleans Inflicted on them, and uil-
der which they still writhe. The Yankees and
their adhefents are exiles from good society; no
one Ot them has ever gained enrTn into decent
fiTilIy, except when he went otiei1uy to insult
lady or to steal something Mobile Register.