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Ingenuity of rebel ladies.

--A correspondent of the Mobile Register, who has obtained some information from New Orleans, writes as follows:

‘ "Prisoners in this section of country are no longer kept in New Orleans. The officers are sent North, and the privates and others to Ship island. The Yankees say this is all owing to the peculiar cookery of the ladies of the Crescent City, who, being permitted to feed the prisoners, occasionally send them such exquisite dishes of file pie, hatchet pudding, rope cobbier, chisel pot-pie, screw driver catsup, etc., that no bricks or bars in town could hold them."

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