Posted on 10/17/2023 5:27:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
The United States Mail steamship Columbia, Capt. D.B. BARTON, from New-Orleans Oct. 10, with mails, passengers and a cargo of sugar and cotton, arrived yesterday afternoon.
The Columbia passed going up the river the United States ship Morning Star, from New-York, and bark Arcade, from Providence.
On Sunday, 11th, lat. 26 36, lon. 86, was boarded by United States steamer San Jacinto, cruising.
On Monday, 12th, 20 miles west of Sand Key, passed brig Belle Barnard, steering west.
We are under obligations to EDWARD HENDERSON, Esq., Purser of the Columbia, for prompt delivery of our files and correspondence.
OUR SPECIAL NEW-ORLEANS CORRESPONDENCE.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
NEW-ORLEANS, Friday, Oct. 9, 1863.
There is very little indeed to tell you about military movements in this Department; for, if there is one thing in which Gen. BANKS excels over every other Commander with whom I have ever had any acquaintance, it is in keeping his own counsels. Although this is rather adverse to the efforts of any enterprising correspondent. I hope you won't understand me as saying this in any spirit of fault-finding; on the contrary, I think it would be better for the country if the whole race of newspaper correspondents were abolished, than that one word should escape prematurely to give information to the enemy, and militate against the movements of our armies.
This little I knew and am at liberty to state, as no possible harm could result by the time it gets into print.
Gen. BANKS left the day before yesterday -- the 7th -- to join the army, and, I believe, to take command of it in person -- at least until he has a full personal knowledge of all that is going on. Whether he will permanently remain with the army through the whole campaign,
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Important from New-Orleans: Our Forces at Iberia, and Advancing – 3-4
Latest from Chattanooga: Both Armies Quiet with Occasional Interruptions – 4
The Army of the Potomac: Skirmishing Along the Lines on Thursday – 4-5
The War in the Southwest – 5
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 5
Editorial: Free Black Labor in the South – The Negro in his Transition State* – 5-6
Editorial: The Case of Captured Surgeons – 6
Trial of Alleged Rioters in Boston – 6
Amusements – 6
Personal – 6
*There is a page 1 article on this topic today. It is quite long and the print quality is bad so I will just provide a link to the archived version here => https://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/17/archives/the-southern-negro-the-slave-in-his-transition-state-the-experiment.html?searchResultPosition=1
For good measure I will also provide a link to a page 2 article on the Monroe Doctrine that some may find interesting => https://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/17/archives/the-monroe-doctrine-new-light-on-its-origin-and-nature-the-doctrine.html?searchResultPosition=1
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