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New Orleans.
--The Appeal (Jackson) has an interesting latter written by one of the prisoners at New Orleans who were recently exchanged and sent up the river.
The writer says that the day they left the Crescent City (22d of February) a company of infantry was ordered to charge with fleed bayonets on the thousands of woman and children who were gathered to see them leave:
Two women, he continues, were wounded by the gallant New Englanders, one of them seriously; but many a brave girl seized the bayonet with one feeble arm and fear easily stood her ground, while with the other she waited us her blessings and adieus.
Tots command was given by a ferocious looking Hessian Major, who spoke broken English, and subsequently sent for a battery of light artillery to complete the work of depression by trampling the refractory "she adders" under the horses.
hoofs.
The 20th of February was a glorious day for accession in New Orleans.
Gen Banks must have been amazed and delighted