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as 07 ply the planters in the making of the crap sup- which supplies will be charged against the crop manufactured and shall constitute lien thereon. VIII. The Commissioners are authorized to the for work account the of United States such plantations as deserted by their owners, or are held by yai owners, as may seem to them exthe for of the purpose pedient, saving crops. IX. Any persons who have not been actually in arms against the United States since the occupstion of New Orleans by its forces, and who shall remain their moda praceably afford plantations, 16g no aid or comfort to the chemies the United vho shall and States, return to their allegiance, and who shall, by all reasonable methods, aid the States called when United be upon, may ere by the Commission to work their own plan- empowtheir to make to tations, and ownerop, retain session of their own property, except such as 18 posnecessary for the military uses of the United States. And toall all such persons the Commission to means furnish of authorized transportation for their crops and supplies, at just and equitable prices. Section X authorizes the commissioners to hear and determine questions of loyalty, Se. Gen. Butler has issued an order suppressing the Daily Advocate for tressonable utterances. Gen. Butler has also issued an order forbidding the arrest of alaves and confluing them in prison, to be held for their masters, unless it is positively known that the master is a loyal citizen. HON. REVERDY JOHNEON-STRANGE DEVELOPMENTS. [From Orleans Correspondence N. Y. Times.] In one of my recently written letters, endeavored to give you Some slight Idea of the external history of Hon. Reverdy Johnson's visit to this city. The internal consequences are beginning to develop themselves. Among the seizures of specie made by Gen. Batler of amount SEM of claimed large propecia by French citizens, end of course was taken posof Butler Gen. session under by for protest the French Consul. This case was one event. uslly referred to the astute, Union-loving Commissioner, and advised the government to pay back the money to the French Consul. now appears that developing nistory justi fics the action and the sugacity of the Commanding General, for it now appears that this W38 money belonging to to-New Orleans citizens and was taken in charge by the French Consul to pay for cloth now in Havana, awaiting to run the blockade, to be used by the Contederate Government. The money ($495,000) four bundred and five thousand dollars, released by Mr. Johnson's recommendation, was actually sent from this city to Havana within the last forty days, on board the Spanish war steamer Blascode de aud that the Garay, was money borrowed from the Bank of New Orleans by J. D. B. De Bow, agent for the Richmond Government, 08 will appear from the following correspondence: NEW ORLZANS. April 14, 1862. The undersigned having been requested to farQuartermaster this post withthe means of settling Ed. Gantherin' bill for army supplies, $405,000 to amounting hundred (four and five thousand dollars.) desires to borrow that amount from the Bank of New leans, in coin, without interest, on the credit of the Confederate States, and makes this applicction for the same. J. D. B. Dr. Agent Produce Loan. BANK OF NEW ORLEANS, April 14, 1862. J. D. B. De Bow, Esq., Agent Produce Loan: SIR: This bank has received your application for a loan of $405,000 (four hundred and five thou esnd dellars) in coin, to the Confederate States government, for the purpose of paying the bill of Gautherin & Co for army dothing, and hereby accede to your proposition. Respectfully yours, 30. BELLY, Cashier. The French Consul, you will remember, was one of the active agents and friends of Mr. Johnson, while he was here, interfering with Gen. Butler's Department, and, as will now be seen, innocently we trust, playing into the hands of the secessionists. The said French Consul, finally fearing lest he should be discovered in his dishonest interference, and thereby implicate his government, withdrew the original receipts given, and substituted other names, French subjects here, Messrs. E. Gautherin & Co., and two gentlemen of the name of Le More, que of whom, by the order of Gen. Butler, is at Fort Jackson, the other at Fort Pickens. Davis, the President of the bank, and Howall, the bank director,sre now in prison, prison,awaiting trial for theircrimes. The present board of directors, all of whom are believed to be innocent of any complicity the in and not of transaction, one whom even suspected its nature, until informed of it by Gen. Butler. The bank, from a temporary suspension, has again resumed its business. Thus the world will now understand what Gen. Butler probably knew all the while, that the astute Johnson has been completely humbugged and deceived, and the citizens of the United States Government, by his unhappy inteff rence with things he could not undersisnd, have been robbed of nearly S half & million dollars for the benefit of the government at Richmond. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION. Brig. Gen. Shepley, Military Governor of Lonisiane, has isued proclamation calling an election for Members of Congress from the New 1st District, of composed and Orleans and the parishes of St. Bernard and PI aquemine, and the 2d District, composed of a portion of the City of New Orleans, and the parishes of JefSt. St. the John ferson, St. Charles, Baptist, James, Ascession, Assumption; Lafourche, Terrbonne, St. Mary and St. Martin. In order to secure to the loyal electors of these parishes their appropriate and lawful representation in the House of Representatives of the United States of America, and of enabling them to avail themselves of the benefits secured by the proclamation of the President of the United States to the people of any State, or part of State, who shall on the 1st of in January be, next, day faith, good represented in the Congress of the United States, by members chosen thereto, at elections whereina majority of the qualified voters of such State have participated. Seven prisoners belonging to the Sth Vermont, had been shot by the rebels at Bavon der Allemand, because they had been enlisted in New Orleans. REMARKBLE SPEECH. Gen. Pemberton who was in the serives of the Union when the rebellion broke out, but who turned traitor, went into the rebel army, and has superseded Van Dorn, recently made a speech, of which the following is & copy. reference to Lovell, formerly of New York, as a street scavenger, is pungent: SOLDIERS: In assuming command of so brave and intelligent an army as that to which President Davis has assigned me, desire at once to win your confidence by frankly de claring that am a Northern man by birth; but have married, raised children, and owned negroes in the South, and, as such, shall never consent to EEG my daughters esting at the same table, or intermarrying with the black race, as the Northern teachers of equality would have them. I take command of you as & soldier, who will not fear to lead where any brave man can follow. am no street scavenger-no General Lovell. [Cheers. If any soldier in this command is aggrieved by any act of his superior officer, he must have no hesitation in applying to me personally for redress. The doors of my headquarters shall never be closed against the poorest and humblest soldier in in my my command. Come to meifyou suffer wrong, as fearlessly as you would charge the enemy's B battery, and no Orderly shall turn you off, or tell you, 08 the case has in too our much been that army, a General cannot see nor hear the complaints of his soldiers. Applanse.] In regard to the question of interference by Europs, we want no interference in our private quarrel. [Great
