New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-20


sketch Of the Expelled Rebel Women
Their Trip to Paseageuls and Recep.
ten by the Ccnfcderntes-Rcbei Rams
frsm Mobile Dick Taylor's Movements
--Arriv.l Of Gen. CANDY.
FROM Our Special Correspondent.
NEwORLRANs June III, 1864.
Your Correspondent in recent dispatches from
here mentioned the sending outside she lines of twenty
i've Secession women and of tycght men of the same
way Of thinking. A trip to Pascagoua distant from
Mobile some forty niles on the flag otruoe boat az
rded some incidents which may be interesting TO the
pssders Of THE TRIBUNE , >,
The women composing the party thus suipmSrly dis
sissed from this city chiefly Of what might be
ferued the better class-that is 70 say they are sn.
Identity cultivated and quite sensible enough on other
Subjects to have gone crazy on the subject OF do
strvying the Government under which they were born
and under which they might have lived aud died In the
.soypsn. Of al tho rights which they ever possessed or
whatever doubts may have been entertained concern.
big the propriey Of sending them out OF the lines must
pave been set resi- IN e 81 amy T the Pe
sa Government In which the sc people INDUCED at the
passage henoe Most Of them have relatives now fight
ing In the Southern army against the Government
Which has permitted these mothers wives and sisters
Of Rebels to live in peace in our midst at the same time
that they conveying news and all the aid ana CON-
bort they could to their Rebel relatives
Mrs. Cen. Gardner by the way is a daughter OF ex-
Gov Mouton Of this State, and sister Of Gen. Mouon
who was killed during the late Red River expedition
ehe Ia lady OF much refinement and culture and was
decidedly the most sensible and dgnifed of the compa
sy on board Madame Dupre who Is from one oil the
ed Creole families Of Louisiana, Is also lady o! consd.
cradle culture but exercised less discretion and good
breeding than Mrs Gardner. She assumed q melodra-
attitude and pSugsd Last Of ssss
sion officer In full uniform approaching the landing
et Pascsgouls The salt sea air ard the sunshine re-
hscted from the water had affected the eyes OF many OF
ma among others those of Madame Dupf6
"Ah Mon Dieu !" cried the dramatic madame, 1.-THE
sight of a Southern officer with his sash and sword
upon soil where free niggers are not thrusting thom
selves in your way at every corner OF the street and
hsusted.
The crowd generally wore the customary emblems Of
Secession women. namely. black bombazine dress and
bonnet Of the same hue This is matter which has
been before spoken Of bnt which does not seem TO be
fully appreciated outside Of the Southern cities occu
pied BY our armies. 1t is almost impossible 10 meet
with Southern Rebel women who viii appear in public
n anything other than black. 1t Is true that many
Southern families have lost relatives in their
armies but not by equal to the immense ma
jorty of Secession sympthizers who affect this hue In
their costumes Indeed it has come to be understood
by the army ths< this badge signifies more often than
or else she belongs to that unfortunate class which Ger
tain social customs create and yet ignores the existence
OF In society. -
If however il should result in banishing from re.
spectacle people the absurd custom now prevailing OF
swathing female acton In endless folds OF Grape and
results.
The officers who came on board OF Pascagoula were
Of course polite. They protested the utmost faith In
the success Of their cause not only but insisted that
Gen. Lee was without DOUBT on the eve OF nagnmcent
victories Grant, while they had no hesitation III
avowing their confidence in Jobnsons inficng ter
yible thrashng upon Sherman They had been for two
or three days without from Richmond but for all
tst they were that Lee was trapping Grant 50 e
fectuay that there would be nothing left OF him
except his scattered hosts fleeing back to Washington
The faith which they felt, or at least affected 70 feel
vas something admire. Had our own officers through
the war been the cause for which they were
professedly fighting the war would doubtless ere this
have been closed.
Capt Phillips, in charge Of the fag-oftruce boat-s
most accomplished officer, too by the waydd not for
one moment forget that he officer Of the army Of
the United States and when the Rebels INDUCED in some
sneers at the army which was fighting for the Niger
he happily retOred upon them az the parties who were
fighting against the same individual This brought up
Fort Pillow, when Capt. Philips inquired whether
they Confederate officers approved of the bntchey
OF negro troops after surrender. Without exception
fhey answered In the affirmative and that they heartily
commended the act OF Forrest at Fort Pillow This is
Confederate chvary Of uBdoubed authenticity and Of
She most giltedged and approved quality.
The men sent 10 Pascagoua ut the same time were.
many Of them persons Of means and generally sci0ns
or connections Of families Of former influence and
standing in this city, They went away, many Of them
with regret bn with in their hearts aud their
tongues The Government has lost little by their ab.
sence. in either kind wishes or support. The only
trouble is that the city is not more frequently and
effectively winnowcd. few such cearances does more
10 purify the atmos phore than all the logic which the
pulpit the press, and the forum could promulgate in
century.
But little real news was picked up at Pascagonla
was advised from undoubted authority tnat large
and extremely fast steamer the blockade al Mobile
on the night Of Friday the 26h nit, laden with an as
sorted cargo. and armed with two Tlhed 32p0unders
The speed Of the vessel In question was dwelt on as
something unprecedented and If averred equal TO II
knots per hour was assuredly all that they claim do
not youch for anything TO the sailing qualities be-
yond her running In there from Havana, my in
formant professed to know. OF the steam ram which
otouft be harh ~
elicit any very satisfactory information. / had in
March last positive intelligence that such was building
however and that IL likely TO be a failure as TO
speed Ia consequence of the utter nadcduscy of her
engines. do not therefore, receive the report rub
shed that she was steaming about three miles per
hour any very extravagant statement, though
should have supposed that the blockade might have
given them more efficient machinery when tie infer
GRITTY Of that possessed was 80 early known
Since returning Secession rumOr has II that great
CONSERVATION has seized Farragut at the awful proves
which this monster is getting ready 10 infict on our
less and dangerous object has been Reinforced by two
wooden rams or gunbOats, report variousy relates
which 10 protect its tanks IL moves 10 accom-
psh for Our feet what the whale did for Jonah--that
Is, In the vernacular q gobblng" oft
more than suspect the steamer run into Mobile 10
be the Harriet Lane, though this denied by the
Confederate officers at Pascagoula The Isabel which,
IL will be remembered escaped from Galveston aloHg
with the Harriet Lane was captured recently at the
latter place. endesvorng 10 get back with load OF am
muntion, liquors. &c. She was brought In to the
6outh west Pass but in leaky condition is re.
ported have sunk with her entire cargo. and will
be total lose.
Important ne VS. Is Just in that Gen Dick Taylor has
eighteen dismounted regiments ut Lake Verret, and
that be is crossing this Lake with whatever Transports
tion he procure. give the news for what it is
worth. though 1t seems to be somewhat sensational
jndgng from the Of the country where he Is said
be making a Late places him at