you damned son of a bitch," following the cook at the same time. This at Baton Rouge, La., on or about the 10th day of June, 1862. To which the accused, Private Burnard Burns, pleaded as follows: Of the specification of the charge---Not Guilty. Of the charge-Not Guilty. FINDING OF THE COURT. The Court having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused, Private Burnard Burns, of Company D, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, as follows: Of the specification of the charge-Guilty. Of the charge-Guilty. And the Court does therefore sentence the said Private Burnard Burns, of Company D, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, to be kept in solitary confinement, on bread and water, for fourteen days, and to forfeit fifteen dollars of his pay X. Private PETer McCormack, Company F, 9th Connecticut Volunteers. CHARGE. "Absence without Leave." SPECIFICATION-In this: that Private Peter McCormack, of Company F, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, did absent himself from his company and regiment, without leave, for three days. This at Baton Rouge, La., on or about the 6th, 7th and 8th days of June, 1862. To which the accused, Private Peter McCormack, pleaded as follows: Of the specification of the charge--Guilty. Of the charge--Guilty. FINDING OF THE COURT. The Court, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused, Private Peter McCormack, of Company F, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, as follows: Of the specification of the charge--Guilty. Of the charge-Guilty. And the Court does therefore sentence the said Private Peter McCormack, Company F, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, that he forfeit fifteen dollars of his pay to the United States, and to ten days hard labor in his regiment. II. The proceedings of the General Court Martial in the foregoing cases have been transmitted to the General Commanding the Department of the Gulf, and are by him approved. The Commanding General, in the case of James K. Moore, Company I, 7th Regiment Vermont Volunteers, because of his condition, as shown by the finding of the Court, orders him to be discharged from the service; and in the cases of Nicholas Doyle, Company D, 9th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, that the sentence be not carried out till further orders, and that he be sent, in the meantime, to hard labor at Fort Jackson. III. The General Court Martial, of which Lieut. Col. JOHN A. KEITH, is President, is dissolved. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER : R. S. DAVIS, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant General. No. 54. New Orleans, August 4, 1862. Each Bank or Banking Company in New Orleans will make, under oath of the cashier, a statement of the condition of the bank, in the form heretofore made to the Board of Currency, up to the 2d day of August, 1862, and stating specifically what their cash consists of and where it is. BY COMMAND OF MAJOR GENERAL BUTLER : R. S. DAVIS, Captain and Acting Assistant Adjutant Generai. No. 55. New Orleans, August 4, 1862. It appears that the need of relief to the destitute poor of the city requires more extended measures and greater outlay than have yet been made. It becomes a question in justice upon whom should this burden fall. Clearly upon those who have brought this great calamity upon their fellow citizens. It should not be borne by taxation of the whole municipality, because the middling and working men have never been heard at the ballot-box unawed by threats and unmenaced by "Thugs" and paid assassins of conspirators against peace and good order. Besides, more than the vote that was claimed for secession have taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. The United States Government does its share when it protects, defends and preserves the people in the enjoyment of law, order and calm quiet. Those who have brought upon the city this stagnation of business, this desolation of the hearth-stone, this starvation of the poor and helpless, should, as far as they may be able, relieve these distresses. There are two classes whom it would seem peculiarly fit should at first contribute to this end. First, those individuals and corporations who have aided the rebellion with their means; and second, those who have endeavored to destroy the commercial prosperity of the city, upon which the welfare of its inhabitants depend. It is brought to the knowledge of the Commanding General that a subscription of twelve hundred and fifty thousand dollars was made by the corporate bodies, business firms and persons whose names are set forth in schedule "A" annexed to this order, and that sum placed in the hands of an illegal body known as the "Committee of Public Safety," for the treasonable purpose of defending the city against the Government of the United States, under whose humane rule the city of New Orleans had enjoyed such unexampled prosperity, that her warehouses were filled with trade of all nations who came to share her freedom, to take part in the bene |