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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Interception of a letter, and arrest of an old citizens of New Orleans. (search)
and sent back to the authorities here with the request that they should take such action as they deemed necessary for the public welfare. Accordingly, yesterday evening, Mayor Monroe sent Lieut. Boylan and Special Miller to the residence of Mr. Dewey, with instructions to bring him down to the First District Police Office. Those officers discharged their duty; and we now lay the letter before our readers without comment, and precisely as written: New Orleans, July 22, 1861. F. A. Crocker, Esq: My Dear Sir: --The present awful state of affairs in our once happy country is my excuse for addressing you at this time — my object to ask your full and candid opinion with regard to the duration of the war, and what you think will be its effect upon business with you. At present my business is completely destroyed — there is no other branch that I can engage in, and what little means I have will soon be exhausted. My business was never so good as it had been up to April las