Year: 1862




Our New Orleans Correspondence.


NRw oRLKANs, Nov 8, 1854
Anemp, 10 RyacA General Wetscis Brtgdde-Trdins
On he OpAo,sas acknowledgements OF 7Ysops-U
svns Sccrcsy Intensely Cold Snap al Neac
OTlea,sNu Apprehcstos of Injury TO the Sugar Cdne


Arripai Of xore Reol PYcners-Some Of Them Take the
Cah AT Allegiance Released-Rumors Of Foreign
In ervetcn Among the Secessionists Of N>sc Orleans
7hey Resice Greatly 7hreat-A Loyal Regiment of
7eroms Be o,ganised-COlonel Dars 10 Have ne Com
maud fc.


So extensive gap in time has taken place between the
departure Of the has, for York and the
ing OF tho Potomac this morning that could send
you earlier OF the recent fight Thibo
aeaux the Mississippi. In consequence Of the uncer
tany relative to the departure Of vessels for New York.
was compelled have everything written up TO time,
while OF DonaIdsonvile, which will for the diary
form of my present correspondence


Yesterday mernng ] made attempt to reach
Gen. wetzes brigade, for nh.ch purpose I procured
pass from Colonel shasr the chief quartermaster, to
pass the opelousas Railroad. To my modification,
however, reaching the depot at Agiers found that
the at that place had received orders Just
before permit passengers the line without pass
sed by General Butler himself As the train had left,
however, the order was of TO me- as could not
Afford wait till another train on-and they
on sent by special order at irregular times-as would
m that lose the chance OF sending TO the latest
by the Potomac. have ascertained however,
that there had not been any fighting OF moment up
the river and that the bridges destroyed by the rebels
had been rebuilt In fact, were this not the case the
railroad could not be open TO our troops.


Two companies OF cavalry crossed 10 Algers yes
terday morning, and projected up the river. They
were accompanied as far as the other side by
General Butler and staff OF course matters OF this
kind are managed with all the secresy possible in
sequence OF which II Is hard to get reliable information
about them which is not of much importance till some
thing has been accomplished or failed to be carried out


On Thursday the weather was bitterly cold and yester
day not much pleassnter. Even Algcrs seemed
that Bureas had entered into league with Eous TO
plague the residents These southern cold far
sensiby felt than the steady ross Of the North
They chill through the very marrow ! have been in
New York with the thermometer five degrees below zero,
and felt less uncomfortable than yesterday and last week
np the river with the mercury above the freezing point
While on this subject may well say that sugar
PLANTER with whom had some conversation yesterday,
told me that he did not appfehend any injury TO the
canes from the recent cold. He took the precaqton u
winrow, and thus save his crop. The transport saint
Maurice In which came down from Dunisonville, had
two hundred and seventy hogsheads of sugar
board She ais brought down the rebel prisoners taken
al the light at IhbodeaGX Several of them said TO
have been released taxing the oath Of allegiance TO
the United states


The rumors received through secession to the
Ell ct that Great Britain and France about to inter
IN quarrel rejoice the hearts OF secessoniss
but uLJn men regard them meaning nothing In fact,
intervention Eum0rs have become stale that loyal
people attach very little importance to them.


good Texan regiment s about being organized in this
city. Judge Iavis is the colonel number OF the men
real Texans but from other sections OF Union
will be enlisted. Colonel Davis getting number or
mon enrolled under his standard.