A Southerner released from Fort Lafayette.
We had an interview on Saturday with
Mr. U. B. Harrold, of
Macon, Georgia, who has recently arrived from Fort Lafayette, where he had been imprisoned for a period of three weeks.
Mr. Harrold was at the
North for the purpose of bringing home his two sisters and a niece, and was arrested at
Jersey City for some imprudent expression of sentiment.--The circumstances in which he was placed rendered it, in our opinion, entirely justifiable that he should have accepted any terms of release with the privilege of returning home and in doing so he adopted the advice of his fellow-captives at the
Fort.
Proceeding to
Washington,
Mr. Harrold was placed upon his parole of honor, and then returned to
Baltimore, where he took passage in a steamer for
Fortress Monroe.
At this point his baggage was subjected to a most rigid examination, and everything taken away which the
Federals considered contraband of war, including some twenty New York papers of the latest dates.
The frigates
Minnesota and
Wabash were off
Old Point, with a considerable fleet of war vessels, large and small.--The much-talked of naval expedition was said to have sailed Southward.
In New York, business continued utterly prestrated, except in reference to manufactures and supplies for the army.
Indeed, our informant represents that it is impossible to conceive of the actual state of affairs there without visiting the city in person; and that, we apprehend, very few Southern men will do under existing circumstances.
The war fever continued to rage with considerable violence, and several volunteer regiments were gradually filling up; but recruiting for the regular army was a slow business, the enlistments averaging only some fifteen per week in New York city.
The City Hall
Park was covered with feats, where recruiting officers held out inducements to the ruff-scuff of Yankeedom to enroll their names on the lists of the ‘"grand army."’
Mr. Harrold was sent from
Fortress Monroe to
Norfolk under a flag of truce, and arrived in
Richmond on Saturday morning.
