Later from New Orleans.
Mr. James Goulding, of the 15th Louisiana regiment, who was wounded in the battles around Richmond, and went to New Orleans, (which city he left on the 8th instant,) gives us some interesting information of the state of affairs there. He found it very easy to get into New Orleans, but before he could get out he had to procure the following paper:
Provost Marshal's Office, New Orleans, Oct. 2, 1862.
This certifies that Mr. Jas. Goulding has rendered a statement of his property in accordance with General Order No. 76, and claims to be an enemy of the United States.
John Dennie,Jr., for Provost Marshal.
This oath, he says, was taken by nearly 13,000 of the people of New Orleans, who thus surrendered their property into the hands of the invaders. There are about 10,000 troops in the city, of whom 600 are in Lafayette Square, on Camp street, and 500 at the Custom-House. The ram Essex is being repaired there, and a new iron-clad gunboat is being built. Preparations were making for an expedition into the interior. A system of capionage has been organized in the city, and nearly every omnibus carries a detective, who seizes any citizen making ‘"treasonable"’ remarks. The negroes are also allowed to ride in those vehicles. Gen. Butler has gone to Pensacola. There was much sickness, but no yellow fever, in the city. Business, of course, is dead, and grass is growing in Carondelet street, the principal business thoroughfare of the place.
The National Advocate (Barclay's paper) had asserted, editorially, that it were better to have two Confederacies then to have Lincoln's emancipation proclamation carried out.
The people of the city feel deeply degraded by the rule of the brute, and no citizen of New Orleans, says our informant, can realize their situation until he re-visits what was once the happy Crescent City.
