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In a letter to Major-Gen. Hancock, General Meagher has resigned his commission, upon the ground that his command is reduced to a mere handful and that he cannot recruit his brigade. The California overland telegraph has paid its original cost back to the stockholders, within the first year, and now makes money so fast that the proprietors are troubled what to do with it. Two Federal paroled deserters, a few nights since, knocked down a negro in Jackson, Miss., and robbed him of $100. There are barely 3,500 Yankee troops in and about New Orleans. The passes on Lake Pontchartrain are guarded by only 150 men. The new Confederate flag was raised on Fort Sumter on the 16th inst. A severe hall storm passed over a portion of Abbeville District, S. C., a few days since. The mercury at Macon, May 9th, stood at 53. Cool for the season.
desperately, and only a few days since 400 had whipped For rest at Paducah. But then Thomas may have changed his mind since the affair of Fort Pillow. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday we remained on the Island, kindly treated by the Yankees, insolently by the negroes, with the dazzling light of the sun reflected from the glaring sand scorching out our eyes, the eternal, never ceasing whistle of the shrill file, and the rubidy dub dub dub of the drum constantly clashing upon the ear. Thankful, indeed, were we when the little mail steamer Clyde, on the third day of our detention upon the island, pointed our course of travel towards the Crescent City. At sunset we entered the Rigolets, the mouth of Lake Pontchartrain, and immediately after nightfall were summoned to halt by the customary gun fired from Fort Pike. By midnight we landed at Lake Depot, and were sent thence by care to the city, where the sun of the ensuing morning discovered us in the military prison of New Orleans.
are crowded with boats from the Red, the Arkansas, the Yazoo, and other rivers and bayous too numerous to mention. Then, she had two regular lines of ocean steamers; now, there are seven, employing from three to nine steamers each. Yesterday, (I choose at random,) nineteen steam vessels cleared from her wharves, two of them being ocean steamers. Besides these, there was a large number of sailing vessels, and many others, both steam and sailing, from Lakeport and Hickox's Landing, on Lake Pontchartrain, of which I take no account. The advertisements of steam and sailing vessels that are to leave the city within five days fill six closely-printed columns in the daily Picayune. The number of steamships in port this morning is fifteen; the number of ships, nineteen, besides small vessels and river steamboats innumerable. For two miles and a half on one side of "the Father of Waters" the banks are thickly lined with boats, that ceaselessly agitate his myriad tributaries, and with shi