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LOUISIANA. 



LUTHERANS. 



River steamboats trust, in no case, be permitted to 

 be captured. Burn them when they cannot be saved. 



Provisions may be conveyed to" New Orleans only 

 in charge of officers, and under the precautionary regu- 

 lations governing communication between belligerents. 



The loss of New Orleans, bitter humiliation as it was 

 to Louisianians, has not created despondency nor shaken 

 our abiding faith in our success. Not to the eye of the 

 enthusiastic patriot alone, who might be expected to 

 color events with his hopes, but to the more unimpas- 

 sioned gaze of the statesman, that success was certain 

 from the beginning. It is only the timid, the unre- 

 flecting, and the property owner, who thinks more of 

 his possessions than his country, that will succumb to 

 the depressing influences of disaster. The great heart 

 of the people has swelled with more intense aspirations 

 for the cause the more it seems to totter. Their confi- 

 dence is well founded. The possession by the enemy 

 of our seaboard and main watercourses ought to have 

 been foreseen by us. His overwhelming naval force 

 necessarily accomplished the same results attained by 

 the British with the same in their war of subjugation. 

 The final result will be the same. Let us turn un- 

 heeding ears to the rumors of foreign intervention. To 

 believe is to rely on them. We must rely on ourselves. 

 Our recognition as a nation is one of those certainties 

 of the future, which nothing but our own unfaithful- 

 ness can prevent. We must not look around for 

 friends to help when the enemy is straight before us. 

 Help yourself. It is the great instrument of national 

 as of individual success. 



THOMAS 0. MOORE, Governor of Louisiana. 



OPBLOI-SAS, June 18, 1362. 



For the state of affair* at New Orleans after 

 the capture by the Federal forces, see NEW OR- 

 LEANS. For the further movements of the 

 fleet after the capture of the city, see NAVAL 

 OPERATIONS. For the capture of Baton Rouge, 

 see ARMY OPERATIONS. Its evacuation took 

 place August 16, by order of Maj.-Gen. But- 

 ler. On August 31 the village of Bayou Sara, 

 in the parish of West Feliciana, on the Missis- 

 sippi river, 165 miles above New Orleans, was 

 fired upon and burned by the Federal gunboat 

 Essex. The cause of this destruction was the 

 firing from the town upon the gunboat, a 

 method of annoyance and injury adopted by 

 Confederate citizens along the shores of the 

 river whenever steamboats passed. The Mis- 

 sissippi river from New Orleans nearly to Ba- 

 ton Rouge runs a nearly east and west course, 

 and the tract of country between the river and 

 the Gulf is probably the richest and most pro- 

 ductive in the State. The New Orleans and 

 Opelousas railroad runs a distance of 80 miles 

 to Brashiar. It contains the parishes of La 

 Fourche, Terre. Bonne, &c. A Federal force 

 was sent from New Orleans to operate there 

 tmder Gen. Weitzel. On the 26th of October 

 he marched from- Donaldsonville, which is on 

 the right bank of the Mississippi, 82 miles 

 above New Orleans, to Napoleonville, and biv- 

 ouacked for the night. On the next day, 

 about one mile above Labadieville, he encoun- 

 tered a Confederate force under the command 

 of Col. J. P. McPheeters, with whom an action 

 ensued, which lasted for half an hour, when 

 the Confederate force were defeated and re- 

 tired, leaving their colonel among the killed. 

 Gen. Weitzel had eighteen killed and seventy- 

 four woundt-d, and took 208 prisoners, seventeen 

 of whom were wounded. His troops were the 



8th New Hampshire, 75th New York, and 12th 

 and 13th Connecticut, and 1st Louisiana regi- 

 ments. No further resistance was made to 

 his march to Thibodeaux, the capital of La 

 Fourche Interior Parish. On the 9th of No- 

 vember all the property of this parish was con- 

 fiscated by an order of Maj.-Gen. Butler. 

 Citizens who had been loyal to the Govern- 

 ment of the United States were to be secured 

 in their rights of property. The plantations 

 not confiscated were to be worked by hired 

 negroes for the benefit of the United States. 



The term of office of Gov. Moore expires on 

 the 1st of January, 1864. The State is repre- 

 sented in the Confederate Congress by two 

 senators and six members of the House. For 

 the commerce of New Orleans in 1862, see 

 COMMERCE. 



LUTHERANS. The Lutheran Church, in the 

 United States, consisted at the end of the year 

 1862 of 41 synods, 1,419 ministers, 2,672 con- 

 gregations, and about 284,000 members. Two 

 entire synods consist of Scandinavian (Swed- 

 ish and Norwegian) churches, and a considera- 

 ble portion of most of the others are made up 

 of Germans. The following twenty-seven 

 synods are united in a General Synod, which 

 meets every second or third year : 1, New York, 

 Ministerium ; 2, Hartwick Synod (in the State 

 of New York) ; 3, Synod of New Jersey ; 4, 

 Synod of Pennsylvania ; 5, Synod of East Penn- 

 sylvania; 6, Synod of West Pennsylvania; 7, 

 Synod of Central Pennsylvania; 8, Alleghany 

 Synod; 9, Pittsburg Synod; 10 Synod of Mary- 

 land; 11, Melanchthon Synod (Maryland); 12, 

 Synod of Virginia ; 13, Synod of Western Vir- 

 ginia; 14, Synod of North Carolina; 15, Synod 

 of South Carolina; 16, Synod of Texas; 17, 

 Synod of Kentucky; 18, English Synod of 

 Ohio; 19, East Ohio Synod; 20, Wittenberg 

 Synod; 21, Miami Synod of Ohio; 22, Synod 

 of Northern Indiana; 23, Olive Branch Synod 

 (Indiana) ; 24, Synod of Illinois ; 25, Synod of 

 Northern Illinois ; 26, Synod of Southern Illi- 

 nois ; 27, Synod of Iowa, together with 862 

 ministers, 1,694 churches, and 162, 298 members. 



Three of these twenty-seven synods,viz., those 

 of Virginia, North and South Carolina, have 

 however declared their intention to secede from 

 the General Lutheran Synod of theUnited States, 

 and to form a General Synod of the Confeder- 

 ate States. The Synod of Texas was not repre- 

 sented at the last General Synod of the United 

 States, but a letter was read from the delegate 

 of the synod, stating that the Lutherans of 

 Texas generally desired to remain loyal citizens 

 of the United States, and loyal members of the 

 General Lutheran Synod of the United States. 

 There are also two Lutheran synods in Ten- 

 nessee, the Tennessee Synod and the Holson 

 Synod, mostly consisting of Germans, which 

 were never in connection with the General 

 Synod, but all the members of which, with a 

 very few exceptions, Avere Union men, and not 

 likely to enter into any connection with a Gen- 

 eral Synod of the Confederate States. The lead- 



