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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
es of cotton a week," predicted by some, had not arrived. The freight market was greatly depressed — a large amount of tonnage awaiting employment. The jobbing and wholesale dry goods business was greatly restricted. The Provost Marshal General has "consented to allow the festivities usual in the city on Mardi Gras." The steamer Planet, from Cairo, with cattle, produce, and 800 negro soldiers, was sunk the Monday night previous, 35 miles above the city — no particulars. Lieuts. Whitelt and Green, of the 26th Indiana regiment, captured at Morganza, had escaped from Tyler, Texas, and reached New Orleans. The trick by which they escaped was pretending to get angry at something said or done by the Confederate officer in charge, and surrendering their paroles, and then escaping by means of paroles borrowed from two other officers. They report upwards of 100 Yankee officers at Tyler. These men learned on their way that Mouton's division had been at Gaines's landing for t