Posted on 08/15/2023 6:53:32 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The steamship St. Mary, from New-Orleans on the 7th inst., arrived here yesterday.
She brings on mall and only a few stray papers, in which we find no news.
Among her passengers are some 200 sick and wounded soldiers.
Arrived at New-Orleans Aug. 6, ship R.C. Winthrop, New-York; barks Waltham, do.; lbis, do.; Cornet and Elenwood, Philadelphia; Lillius, Boston; schooner Zanonia, Philadelphia.
Below New-Orleans Aug. 6, barks Texas, New-York and Delius, Boston.
The steamer Pioneer, from New-Orleans on the 3d Inst., has also arrived. She brings 164 wounded and discharged soldiers.
She brings no news, except the arrival there of the schooners Excelsior and D. Escilla, prizes respectively to the gunboats Itasca and Antonia.
Arrived at New-Orleans 1st inst., ship Old Dominion, from Boston.
Business in New-Orleans was then rather dull, but it wore a better aspect than it has done for some weeks past, owing to the opening of the Mississippi River. The general health of the city is good, and the mortality is far smaller than it has been for some time back.
The steamer Continental arrived at New-Orleans on the 3d, direct from St. Louis, with two barges in tow, and a cargo of oats, hay, etc., for the Commissary Department. The Continental received on board, at Vicksburgh, some 600 Confederate prisoners, sick and wounded, who are destined for Mobile.
A few of the Confederate prisoners remain at Vicksburgh, they being so badly wounded and sick that the surgeon deemed it imprudent to remove them at present. On the trip down from Vicksburgh nine of the prisoners died, and were buried on shore.
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