NEW OKLEANS. 



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and four were engaged in the battle of the Rap- 

 pahannock, December 13th. Under all the re- 

 quisitions the State furnished the following 

 troops : 



8 months' men disbanded 8,105 



Died, &c,, in 1S61 389 



Died, &c., in 1S62 8,678 7,172 



In service January, 1S63 23,042 



A call for 3,000 men, to fill up the old regi- 

 ments, was not filled, only 1,030 men having 

 been raised for that purpose, although the State 

 furnished more than that amount over all the 

 quotas. The men have a great repugnance to 

 old regiments. 



The number enlisted in regiments of other 

 States, it is estimated, carries the total to 

 35,000. 



Of the number in service, 10,373 left fami- 

 lies or dependent mothers. The State bounty 

 to them, at $6, amounts to $746,856 per an- 

 num. Of single men 12,669 draw an average 

 of $2i per montli, making $380,070. The an- 

 nual charge to the State is therefore $1,126,- 

 926. 



The number of men now liable to military 

 duty is 71,697 in the State. 



The State debt at the beginning of the year 

 was about $770,000, of which $100,000 is 

 payable annually. Excepting $95,000 it was 

 all contracted for war purposes. A tax to de- 

 fray State expenses had been unknown for some 

 years previous to the commencement of the 

 war. The taxes for local purposes in 1860 

 amounted to $1,319,299. 



There are three colleges in the State, and 

 two theological seminaries. The State appro- 

 priation for public schools exceeds $600,000, in 

 addition to which there is in many cities and 

 towns a local tax of two mills or less on the 

 dollar. The number of school districts 1,563. 

 There is also a State normal school for the 

 education of teachers. 



The miles of railroad in the State are 560, and 

 the cost of construction $28,997,033. 



NEW ORLEANS, OCCUPATION OF. On May 1, 

 1862, several days after the surrender of the city 

 to Flag Officer Farragut, formal possession was 

 taken of New Orleans by the land forces of the 

 United States under the command of Maj.- 

 Gen. B. F. Butler, who, after a conference with 

 the municipal authorities and some of the prin- 

 cipal inhabitants, issued a proclamation adapted 

 to the circumstances of the captured city and 

 its inhabitants. After assuring protection to all 

 well disposed persons, natives as well as foreign- 

 ers, and requiring keepers of public property 

 and manufacturers of arms and munitions of 

 war to make a return of the kind and quantity 



of material in their possession, the proclama- 

 tion proceeded as follows : 



All the rights of property of whatever kind will be 

 held inviolate, subject only to the laws of the United 

 States. All the inhabitants are enjoined to pursue their 

 usual avocations. All shops and places of amusement 

 are to be kept open in the accustomed manner, and ser- 

 vices are to be held in the churches and religious 

 houses, as in times of profound peace. Keepers of all 

 public houses and drinking saloons are to report their 

 names and numbers to the office of the Provost Marshal, 

 and they will then receive a license, and be held re- 

 sponsible for all disorders and disturbances arising in 

 their respective places. Sufficient force will be kept 

 in the city to preserve order and maintain the laws. 

 The killing of American soldiers by any disorderly per- 

 son or mob is simply assassination and murder, and 

 not war, and will be so regarded and punished. The 

 owner of any house in which such murder shall be com- 

 mitted will be held responsible therefor, and the house 

 be liable to be destroyed by the military authority. All 

 disorders, disturbances of the peace, and crimes'of an 

 aggravated nature, interfering with the forces or laws 

 of the United States, will be referred to a military court 

 for trial and punishment. Other misdemeanors'will be 

 subject to the municipal authority, if it desires to act. 

 Civil causes between party and p'arty will be referred 

 to the ordinary tribunals. " The levy and collection of 

 taxes, save those imposed by the laws of the United 

 States, are suppressed, except those for keeping in re- 

 pair and lighting the streets and for sanitary purposes. 

 These are to be collected in the usual manner. The 

 circulation of Confederate bonds, evidences of debt (ex- 

 cept notes in the similitude of bank notes), issued by 

 the Confederate States, or scrip, or any trade in the 

 same, is forbidden. It has been represented to the 

 Commanding General by the.civil authorities that these 

 Confederate notes, in the form of bank notes, in a great 

 measure, are the only substitutes for money which the 

 people have been allowed to have, and that great dis- 

 tress would ensue among the poorer classes if the cir- 

 culation of such notes should be suppressed. Such 

 circulation, therefore, will be permitted so long as any 

 one will be inconsiderate enough to receive them until 

 further orders. No publication of newspapers, pamph- 

 lets or handbills giving accounts of the movements of 

 the soldiers of the United States within this depart- 

 ment, reflecting in any way upon the United States, 

 intending in any way to influence the public mind 

 against the United S'tates, will be permitted, and all 

 articles on war news, editorial comments, or corre- 

 spondence making comments upon the movements of 

 the armies of the United States, must be submitted to 

 the examination of an officer who will be detailed for 

 that purpose from these headquarters. The transmis- 

 sion of all communications by telegraph will be under 

 the charge of an officer from these headquarters. 



Gen. Butler further requested that outrages 

 committed by the soldiery upon the persons or 

 property of citizens should be reported to the 

 provost guard, prohibited the assemblage of 

 persons in the streets, suspended the municipal 

 authority so far as the police of the city and 

 crimes were concerned (except that for the 

 effective promotion of order an armed body of 

 foreigners known as" the European Legion, 

 which was employed subsequent to the evacu- 

 ation of the city by Gen. Lovell to protect the 

 lives and property of the citizens, was invited 

 to cooperate with the military authorities), and 

 in general imposed upon the city the ordinary 

 conditions of martial law. Copies of the proc- 

 lamation were sent to all the newspaper offices; 

 and upon the editors unanimously refusing to 

 print it, forcible possession was taken of the 



