Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-06-15
LATER FROM NEW ORLEANS.

The Mob 10 Tribune has New Orleans papers as LATE
as the 2Sth Of May. The Era Of tina. date gives the
following account Of the recent destruction Of eight
steamboats, and two schooners:
Alta few minutes before nine o'clock last night, fee
broke out on board tho steamer Black Hawk, lying at
the loot of Benville street, and before the flames
could be stayed this with seven other steamers and two
small uggers schooneF, were totally destroyed In
less than three quarters OF hou; after light frs.
seen on the Black Hawk, five Steamers appa emily
lsshed together AOated down the river, OF fee.
After getting quarter of mile or so from the landing,
an explosion occurred Que OF the boats, fIom ZONE
ammunition on beard.
The following are the bur ed boats:
Tbs Black Hawk, Meteor, New Orleans Belle Lee,
Fa 90, Empire Parish Time and Tide and Belle Creole.
The Black Hawk said to be loaded ready to leave
in the morning Ia consequence OF the high rates of
Steamboat stock at present. the loss will prove quite
heavy, probably as much as 100000
Concerning the suppression of the PicGy9ne and lie
Courier Franeais, the same paper says:
TIE commanding General OF the Depr .ment, by a
special order has suppressed the New Orleans PicGy
uae aud lie Courier Frdedis We believe this action
will receive the cordial approval Of every loyal in
Louisiana Who has watched the course of those papers,
and is acquainted with their disloysl character.
Tho French Courier was out aud Oui ssces i'm
sheet, violently abusive toward the Government and
eeming day alter DAY Win rldlcule ana Insult t0Na
the cause of the Union and t5 supporters Since the
session Of the Gors tutonal Convention it has been
especially violent and insulting Il even went to the
tent of publishing a certain list Of members against
whom it invoked not only public apprehension, but mob
Violence because they voted az inst an oaiOus pro-
sa cry amendment to certain clause of the CJnsatu
ton Day after day it published extras with false rebel
news calculated to excite the public mind and to bring
contempt upon the Union cause. We presume its Oh
scuriy and the fact that il publ in the French
languIse, saved it long after it should have been
stopped For part We have long wondered that the
Government would toll rate so violent an advocate Of
the 7, bellion within its lines.
The clyune, although more cautious, was more
dangerous, and in our judgment, has done more than
all oher iuh FENCES combined to keep alive the soces
sion feeling and TO fan secession hopes In New 0eIns
Processing neutrality, s office was pesiilent nest of
Too coWardy to express its opinions, its
columns were daily crowded with obnoxious extracts
from Coppeihsad jouInalt and its "eItas" were the
vehc for the widest and most exaggerated secession
Iumors that reached the ely by the grapevine tele
graph" Southern per, containing ;abulJus ntelli
gence Of some great Confederate victory" was its
especial delight The immediate OF its suppress
son believe, tse indiscreet hsse with Which il
spread the bogus proclamation of the President before
the people here, in txTa-the cause, ia fact
for which the New York World and Journal of Oom-
merce seem TO have been shut up by the government
Gen. Bal ks delivered speech on the 9th before
the State Convention, in which he highly appaufed
radical measures Of that usurpDg body.
Me-. Plac de Canonge, one of the editors of tie
Courier had been expelled from the city aud had left
Tor Pascagtus.
YANKEE E'PiosAGE ABROAD-Tue London Index
says:
short time since in Liverpool, the residence of
lady whose husband then absent is connected with
Confederate affairs, set by fpies who watched it
night and day, and sought ingres under various pre-
tences unt the nuisance at lat became so great that
the police had to be applied to. In or near Glasgow,
an outrage even more higrant was psrpetratsd.
Federal official, bearDga commits ioa from the Pfesi-
dent OF The United States obtained under pretexs of
seeking lodgings acce TO the chambers of gsntle-
man supposed 10 be implicated 10 the building of some
suspected vessel in the Clyde, and upon the data ac
qured in this ingenious recolno;s ance search war.
rant was actually issued rWards though OF course
without producing the expected revelations Taere is
scarcely officer or prominent Cit an of the Oonf.de
States resident in Eogand who is not more or less
besst and pesered by this ubiquitous and
pjonage Servant maids are bribed to purlou letters
andadies are frightened by q mock assumption of in
qlisitoral authority wives In the absence OF their hus
bands are imposed upon with 6ctions When success-
u which they seldom are these practices are svowed
the Federal agents. or at least the fruits are unblush
ngy used swell the 'nass of evidence" transmitted
through Mr.. Adams to the Foreign Office.