INTERESTING FROM NEW-ORLEANS: Important Proclamation of Gen. Banks; Proceedings of the Free State Convention (1/20/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 1/20/1864

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The steamship Morning Star, Capt. J.M. COURTNAY, from New-Orleans 12th inst., via Havana the 15th inst., arrived at this port last evening. She experienced very heavy weather on the passage.

The steamship Morning Star, Capt. J.M. COURTNAY, from New-Orleans 12th inst., via Havana the 15th inst., arrived at this port last evening. She experienced very heavy weather on the passage.

The Morning Star was detained at New-Orleans three days by order of Maj.-Gen. BANKS, in order that he might transmit important dispatches to Washington. She was detained at the mouth of the Mississippi River sixteen hours in consequence of a dense fog. She left the Southwest Pass at 8 o'clock on the morning of the 13th inst., and arrived at Havana on the 15th, and left same day for New-York.

The Morning Star left at Havana steamships Eagle and Corsica, for New-York next day. The blockade-runner Isabel arrived at Havana on the 15th instant. She ran the blockade at Mobile, and had a cargo of 480 bales of cotton, and threw overboard 124 bales off Tortugas in a gale of wind. The blockade-runner schooner Union, with a cargo of cotton from the coast of Florida, also arrived at Havana on the 14th inst. She was chased by the United States gunboat De Soto, The latter vessel was at Havana when the Morning Star left. Several blockade-runners were fitting out at Havana.

The Morning Star passed in the Mississippi River bound up, brig Fanny Foulks, at Southwest Pass; ships Annapolis and S.C. Duncan. Outside the bar, United States steam frigate Colorado at anchor; also, the bark Warren Hallet, from Boston, and the brig Fanstina, from Philadelphia.

The weather in New-Orleans for several days prior to the departure of the Morning Star had been exceedingly cold and wet.

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Interesting from New-Orleans: Important Proclamation of Gen. Banks – 2-3
The War in West Virginia: The Affairs at Moorfield and Alleghany Junction – 3
The War in Tennessee: A Skirmish Near Tazewell – 3
From Washington: The Oath of Allegiance in the Senate – 3-4
Editorial: Supplies at the South – 4-5
Emigration from the South – 5
A Southern Unionist – 5
The Great Fair and the Police – 5
The Clergy and the Fair for the Sanitary Commission – 5
Terrible Accident: Giving Way of a Bridge on the Catawissa Railroad – 6
Another Fearful Railroad Catastrophe – 6
Amusements – 6