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CRESCENT CITY BANK, New Orleans, September 16, 1861. In compliance with the recommenda tion of his Excellency, the Governor of the State, this Bank has suspended specie payments. Treasury Notes of the Coufe lerate States are received on deposit and accepted in payment of all collection and d'scount notes. se18 6t JULES CASSARD, Cashier.
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CRESCENT CITY . BANK, } New Orleans, September 16, 1861. OF In compliance with the recommendation of his Excellency, the Governor of the State, this Bank has suspended specie payments. Treasury Notes of the Confederate States are received on deposit and accepted in payment of all collection and discount notes. se18 6t JULES CASSARD, Cashier.
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? CRESCENT CITY BANK, } New Orleans, September 16, 1861. In compliance with the recommendation of his Excellency, the Governor of the State, this Bank has suspended specie payments Treasury Notes of the Confederate States are received on deposit and accepted in payment of all collection and discount notes. se18 6t JULES CASSARD, Cashier.
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alone, we dare to raise the velce of condemnation against the second spoliation meditated by these corrupt and unprincipled corporations. On the memorable day of Bank dishonesty, the 16th of September, 1861, when the banking concerns of this place with the exception alluded to, declared their doors oclosed against the just claims of bill-holders, and with an effrontory without precedent, undertook to paste in the pass books of their cepositors a notice to the effect that the deposite them due would be paid to each and all on the resumption of specie payments, provided that the same had not been previously drawn for, we implored them to pense in the flagitious work, and not ruin this community by their insane infidelity to every honorable duty. We pointed out the heinousness of the pase-book notice, which claimed the use of depositors' money at the pleasure of the banks without interest, and we protested acainst an act which only the ples of national necessity and national relief could possibly or reasonably justify. Had the money of which this people was thus defranded been taken for the support of the revolution, the conduct of the banks would not, as we maintained at the time, have been justifisule, although the people would doubtless have approved it; but they pre-cipitated bankruptcy for no object conceivable to educated or opright minde, and now they avail themselves of the order of Gen. Butler to consummate their wickedness. The banks were even in advance of the popular disposition in the revolutionary cause; but we have yet to hear of sny unusual sacrifices their directors have made out of their own pockets for the support of the cause. It is a remark bie fact, too, that on the morning of their suspension they all seemed to possess an unlimited supply of that Confederate paper they then forced the public to receive, and of which they now set the first example of repudiation. We neither approved their first operation nor this of repudiation, their last; nor their la-termediate endeavors to put their property by every species of contrivance, beyond the resca of its legitimate owners. There are principles of right and justice so incontrovertibly obvious and supreme that no law or code, civil or military, can ignore or deny them; and such principles are now in-volved in the monetary affairs of this people. If one military power can absolve banking institutions from the redemption of their obligations solemnly guarantied, and another eaables them to complete the iniquitous work in the way most con-ducive to their own interests, any country under Heaven would be a paradise of justice compared to such a place. But we have no apprehension of any such resuit. and we would advise the banks not to presame too far upon the pe-tienae, good nature and forbearance af this public. If the po-sition they assume be sustained, revolution will be the chronia condition of every American commonwealth. If banks aud bankites are to be the only parties in social conflicts who are surete make a profitable business of such work the key te their boisterous patriotism is furnished. And that this view of their prospects is the one entertained by the public the following published statement of a sale of some ne of their stocks on Saturday last, will indisputably confirm. The sale is publiated as that of Palfrey & Co. Bank of New-Orleans.... $107 Crescent City Bank $00 Mechanics Bank. 121 Union Bank 110 Louisiana Bank.. 221 Citaens' Bank 209 Merchants' Bank.. 102 Baok of Americs... 198 This result will surprise no one who has watched the course of these institutions. They first procure the suspectsion of specie payment, under a patriotic pretext wholly beyond any human being's perceptions of its necessity. Then, avaiting themselves of the public necessities, they cause the price of foreign exchange, of which they have a monopoly, to advance two or three hundred per cent; seil bonds bought under ex-trenfe depression, or below par in every instance, for two or three times their nominal value; place their specie in hiding places unknown and insccessible except to themselves and their agents, and now undertake to close in a grand finale of cheatery by paying off in a currency they themselves com-pelied the people to accept, both the old cash deposits of the latter and all their accretions since the memorable epoch of suspension! They first force Confederate paper into circulation, and proit enormously by the operation, and then depreciate it by repudiation after it has been made to serve their sordid and dishonest purposes. In these proceedings the people will see the clue to the motive of these bank men in pusning this State into the issuance of war bouds in such toordinate amounte They wanted to make of the State credit a sponge for the ab-sorption of the surplus Confederate paper in their hands, and so nicely have they made their calculations, that at this mo-ment every device is in requisition to obtain even the Confed-erate bills necessary to meet the demand of resens depositors! We have no concealments to make in presence of Federal or Confederate authority; our record has no stains upon it; is enallenges examination We never hesitated, during the pe-riod to which we are referring, in proclaiming our opicion that, if the Richmond Government deemed the specie in the banks of this city absolutely indispensable to the revolution-ary cause, to which the country had committed itself, it was competent to it to take it. This we admitted, qualifying t however, er, with the opinion that to take unduly from one por-tion of the people, or to burden one class of citizens dispropor-tionately in this or any similar or dissimilar mauner, was an act of oppression for which extreme necessity only, which overrules all law, could be a justification. THURSDAY May 29, 1862. Markets-CAREFULLY REPORTED FOR THEN. Y. TRISCES ASHES are in improved demand, and the market is firm; antes of 50 bbis. Pots at $5 75, and 60 do. Posris at $6. COTTON-The advices from New Orleans to-day have been rather unfavorable to the prospects of speculators, and as thه manufacturers who were in the market have, in a great meas-ure, supplied themselves, the business has been less scrive, and at the close prices are heavy-31c. for Middling Uplands is quoted, though one or two lots sold a trifle below this figure. Sales of 900 bales. COFFEE-We hear of no sales in any description, and prices are nominally unchanged. FLOUR AND MEAL-The demand for Western and State Flour is less active, owing partly to the absence of a good as-sortment of Extra State, which is preferred to Western by shippers. The medium grades are insctive and quite irregu-lar: Trade" brauds aro quiet yet steady; the sa es are 12, 100 bbis, at $4 250 $4 40 for Superline State and Western; 455 @$480 for the low grades of Westera Extra; $45506465 for Extra State; $470@$480 for fancy do.; $500/520 for shipping brands of round-hoop Extra Ohio, and 35 36 66 25 for trade brands do. Canadian Flour is less abundant dand is quiet; the arrivals are moderate and consist mainly of the better grades; sales of 850 bbls. at $4 552 $4 75 for ship-ping brands of Spring Wheat Extras, and $4 802 $6 25 top Extras Southera Floar is in fair demand, especially good and choice Extras, but the low grades are dull yet steady ta price; sales of 1,630 bbls. at $5 100 +5 70 for wixed to go Superfine Baltimore, &c, and $5 75256 75 for trade brands ado. Rye Flour is steady and in fair request; sales of 260 bbia. at $2 152 64 05 for Superfine and Extra. Corn Meal is in moderate request and steady; sales of 400 bols. at $290 for Jersey, and 63 15 for Brandywine. GRAIN-The Wheat market is less active, and though the receipts are less liberal, prices of most kinds are 122e bush. lower, except prime, which is scarce and wanted; the inquiry is mainly for export, and notwithstanding the decline in the rates of freight, prices favor the buyer at the close; the trans-actions include 191.000 bush.. consisting of 46,000 do. Chicage Spring at 850.@$1; 60,700 do. Milwaukee Cub 90.@+1; 36.300 do. Amber lows at $102@$1 04: 12.400 do. North-Western Club at 870.@$1; 17.6% do. Red Western at $108@$1124, the inside rate for foul, and 17,700 do. Amber Michigan at $1 15@$118. Barley and Barley Mait are less active, but prices are unchanged. Onts are scarce and a shade firmer: salemof Canadian and Western as 3422440, and State at 44@44jc. Rye is in fair demand, and is of firmer; sales of 6,700 bush. at 6320ije, for Wes eru and 70e. for State. Corn is less active, and a shade easier, the demand alis mainly for the East; sales of 73,000 bush. at @4io. for new Mixed Western, and 4712 48te. for old do. HOPS are steady and in moderate request; sales of 100 bales e New at 14 @18c., as to quality. HAY-The supply is larger, and the market is heavy; sales e of 900 bales at 602650 100 1b. MOLASSES-There has been a moderate inquiry for home nee, and prices are maintained; sales of 45 hids Porto Rico eat 372 127 do. Cuba Mu covado at 272., and 60 do, at 3 je. NAVAL STORES generally are quiet, but prices are well maintained, sales of 100 bols. Common Rosin at $7 15, and e 100 do. No, 2 at 8252$350 280 10. OILS The market is inactive for most kinds, and prices are without essential change. PROVISIONS There has been only a moderate inquiry for Pork, and with continued large receipts the market is heavy sles of 700 bbls., at $12 25 for less, $12 for Unta-espected Mess, and $9 621@$975 for Prime Beef is inse motive, and priors are beavy; sales of 175 bbla, at $1225@$19 50 for Fisin Mesr, and $14@$14 87 for Extra do. Bacon is doll, and we have only to notice sales of 36 boxes Short-ribbed Western, at 44c. Cut Meats are in good request, at about me former rates: sales of 900 boxes, tes, aod hhds, at 31 @ijo. for ar Shoulders, and 44@5jc. for Hams. Lard seils only to a mod-erate extent, without material change, in prices; sales of 500 bois, and tes, at 7428jc, the inside rate for quite dark. RICE-Carolina is quiet, but holders stil demand full for at mer rates; East sells moderately at steady rates; 300 bags Rangoon were taken at 50ője. SUGARS-The sales of itaw to-day are very fair, being chiefly to refiners and city grocers, and prices are still main-dtained. The transactions embrace some 200 ahds. Porto Rico at 70810.700 Cuba at 747jc.; 37 bxs. Havana at The, and 13.500 bags Mantila at 70. SEEDS-Rough Flax Seed is in fair demand, and the mar-ket is firm at $2 1002 30 bush. Clover Seed is quiet at y 6. @ite. Timothy Seed is in fair request at $1750$ bush. TALLOW is in good demand, and holders are firm; sales of 520,000 15 Prime City at Dc., cash. Rough Fat is in fair request at 6c., essh WHISKY-A. very fair demand prevails, and prices are a
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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULP, NEW ORLEANS, August 23, 1862. GENERAL ORDER No. 294. - The Merchants' Bank and Crescent City Bank having. by their own showing, no such cash assets as under the Jaws of Louisiana would entitle them to contir ue to be banks of issue and deposit, are hereby ordered to go into liquidition, and to suspend all business save the collecting of their own assets. The several boards ot directors are respecitively made a board of trastees to wind up the affairs of the bank. Tuey will issue DO bills, pay no deposits, contract no new obligations. nor cancel any obligation without & fail equivalent in behalf of the bank, and pay no debts without further orders. They will respectively make report under oath of a majority of the board weekly of the
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Governor Morton, of Indiana, has issued a proclamation exempting from the draft the "people called Quakers," but requiring them to pay an amount of money which shall be deemed an equivalent for such exemption. The weather was SO intensely warm at Cincinnati on the 4th, that many of the volunteers were overpowered by the heat, and compelled to leave the ranks on their march. The London Army and Navy Gazette describes Gen. McCiellan's campaign as the most signal failure seen in this century. The cotton "pinch" in England is beginning to be seriously felt. Only 18,000 bales American left now,--and as that will all be gone before October,-"the question is, what is to be done to feed the empty mouths and hungry stomachs hitherto dependent." Said Pasha lately gave Louis Napoleon a dinner in the Egyptian style. Every+ thing was perfect. There was water from the Nile, but you may be sure that they didn't have to go out of Paris to find their Mrs. Potiphar. Where they secured a Joseph is another matter. It appears that Congress passed an act last session, imposing a heavy tax on Gas. Justice, like Charity, sometimes begins at home. A dispatch to the Granada (Miss.) Appeal states that the Society of Friends in North Carolina has memorialized the Confederate Congress for a modification of the new.conscription act in their favor. New Orleans dates of August 28th say that General Butler had issued an order requiring the Merchants' and Crescent City Banks to go into liquidation.General Beauregard and staff arrived at Mobile on last Saturday a week ago. The general's health is fully restored, and he has been assigned te duty at Charleston. Gen. Buckner has been promoted to be a major general. Governor Curtin, of Penn., has issued an order calling all the able-bodied men of the State to arms to resist the threatened invasion.Harrisburg is being fortified. It is stated that Gen. Heintzleman has been appointed to command the army of Virginia, with headquarters at Alexandria. The Richmond Dispatch says:--"Our loss in the battle of the 30th ult., is estimated at between eight hundred and a thousand killed and wounded. The enemy is known to have been more than double that number." The Richmond Dispatch of the 6th, says:"There are now sixty-eight of General Pope's commissioned officers and one of his surgeons in confinement here. They are not considered prisoners of war. An aid of Gen. Burnside recently captured is, however, placed in that category.' Southern papers say that the armed Confederate steamer Yorktown was totally lost on the 26th ult., while on the way from Mobile to Havana. a
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FROM NEW-ORLEANS. We have received New-Orleans papers to the 14th instant, which state that the city is quiet and in a tolerably healthful condition. Only one case of yellow fever is noticed. The Delta in an article asking the question, "Shall we have a City Guard," says: Nearly twelve thousand of our citizens have already taken the oath of allegiance. Of that number, it is fair to suppose that one-half, at least, have been influenced by pure motives; and in taking that oath have meant and understood all that it implied. It certainly implies, among other things, that they are to afford the Government not only the moral support of their aid and countenance, but also the physical support of their services, if the occasion should demand them. Not a few, however, of the outspoken Union men of the city, and those not the least influential, seem to consider, that instead of their supporting the Government, the Government is bound to support them. Accordingly, we find these pure patriots very active and zealous in the pursuit of fat offices, but very lukewarm in promoting anything like a military organization, even though its object may be simply the protection of their own firesides from the outrages of mob. In the event of an attack on the city, what do this army of office-holders expect? To repose calmly in their beds, and be protected by the Union soldiers? But those soldiers will all be needed to meet and fight the foe. They cannot be expected to remain behind for the protection of able-bodied men, who are certainly more interested than they are in the preservation of order. Poor fellows, whose worldly wealth finds room enough and to spare within the compass of a knapsack-are they to rally round the palaces of opulent office-holders and keep their inmates from harm? Brave fellows, whose valor on the battle-field might lead to deserved promotion, and send their names blazing with glory in the dispatches of their leaders to cheer the loving hearts at home-is that valor to be expended in the suppression of a vile mob? We think not. If the wealthy Union men of New Orleans desire to be protected from violence in the event of an attack on the city, they had better be prepared to protect themselves. The Delta urges the immediate organization of a Home Guard, and calls upon those who have taken the oath of allegiance to commence the work at once. GEN. BUTLER AND THE BANKS. Gen. Butler, in General Order No. 294 orders the merchants and Crescent City banks to go into liquidation and to suspend all business save the collection of their own assets, in consequence of their having by their own showing not such cash assets as would enable them to continue to be banks of issue and deposit. They are required respectively to make weekly reports under oath of a majority of the Board, the exact condition of the banks and the changes from each report. The order says: In order that the public may be assured in their confidence in the final redemption of the liabilities of the bank, it is further ordered that the slightest breach of good faith in the officers of the bank, or in winding up the affairs of the bank, will be summarily and exemplarily punished. THE NATIVE GUARDS. In General Order No. 63, Gen. Butler pays a high compliment to the Native Guards, composed of the free colored population of New-Orleans. After citing the commission given to its officers, the order says: And whereas, Such military organization elicited praise and respect, and was complimented in General Orders for its patriotism and loyalty, and was ordered to continue during the war in the words following: HEADQUARTERS LOUISIANA MILITIA, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, March 24, 1862. ORDER NO. 426.-1. The Governor and Commander-in-Chief, relying implicitly upon the loyalty of the free colored population of the city and State, for the protection of their homes, their property, and for Southern rights, from the pollution of a ruthless invader, and believing that the military organization which existed prior to the 15th February, 1862, and elicited praise and respect for the patriotic motives which prompted it, should exist for and during the war, calls upon them to maintain their organization, and to hold themselves prepared for such orders as may be transmitted to them. II. The Colonel Commanding will report without delay to Major-General Lewis, commanding State Militia. By order of THOMAS O. MOORE, Governor. M. GRIVOT. Adjutant-General. And Whereas, said military organization by the same order was directed to report to Major-General Lewis for service, but did not leave the city of New-Orleans when he did, Now, therefore, the Commanding-General, believing that a large portion of this militia force of the State of Louisiana are willing to take service in the volunteer forces of the United States and beenrolled and organized to "defend their homes from ruthless invaders;" to protect their wives and children and kindred from wrong and outrage, to shield their property from being seized by bad men; and to defend the flag of their native country as their fathers did under Jackson at Chalmette against Pakenham and his myrmidons carrying the black flag of "beauty and booty:" Appreciating their motives, relying on their "well-known loyalty and patriotism," and with "praise and respect" for these brave men, it is ordered that all the members of the "Native Guards" aforesaid, and all other free colored citizens recognized by the first and late Governor and authorities of the State of Louisiana as a portion of the Militia of the State, who shall enlist in the volunteer service of the United States, shall be duly organized by the appointment of proper officers, and accepted, paid, equipped, armed, and rationed as other volunteer troops of the United States, subject to the approval of the President of the United States. All such persons are required at once to report themselves at the Touro Charity Building, Front Levee street, New-Orleans, where proper officers will muster them into the service of the United States. By command of Major-Gen. BUTLER. R. S. Davis, Captain and A. A. A. G. COMPLIMENTED FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICES. The following order speaks for itself: HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,) NEW-ORLEANS, Aug 25, 1862 GENERAL ORDER, No. 62-The Commanding General has carefully revised the official reports of the action of Aug 5, at Baton Rouge, to collect the evidence of the gallant deeds and meritorious services of those engaged in that brilliant victory. The name of the lamented and gallant Gen. Williams has already passed into history. Col. Roberts of the 7th Vermont Volunteers fell mortally wounded, while rallying his men. He was worthy of a better disciplined regiment and a better fate. Glorious as it is to die for one's country, yet his regiment gave him the inexpressible pain of seeing it break in confusion when not pressed by the enemy, and refuse to march to the aid of the outnumbered and almost overwhelmed Indienians. The 7th Vermont Regiment, by a fatal mistake, had already fired into the same regiment they had refused to support-killing and wounding several. The Commanding General therefore excepts the 7th Vermont from General order No. 57, and will not permit their colors to be inscribed with a name which could bring to its officer and men no proud thought. It is further ordered, that the colors of that regiment be not borne by them until such time as they shall have earned the right to them, and the earliest opportunity will be given this regiment to show whether they are worthy descendants of those who fought bad, Allen and with Stark at Bennington. The men of the 9th Connecticut, who were detailed to man Nim's Battery, deserve special commendation. The 14th Maine Volunteers have credit for their gallant conduct throughout the day. Col Nickerson deserves well of his country, not more for his daring and cool courage displayed on the field when his