From New Orleans
New York, March 3. The steamer Chukiang, froui New Orleans, ti;i3 arrived It is believed that the rebela are converticg tho Harriet Lano into an irou olnd. The runboat Easex picked up, near Port Hudaon, four torpedoea ooutaiuiug two húrídred pounds of powder. The levees below Bnton Rouge and in St. Charlea Parish have been made safe against any overflow. An order titti been 'saued by General Banks forbMding the taking away of negroos from any of the plantations by any offieer or other person in the United States service, without authority froin headquartera. A Jackson, Miss., paper, says a Jew had been arrested charged with offering to spike the guns at Port Hudaon. Rebel desertera reported that General Sibley had jone with a large foree to Atchafabiya River. About five hundred rebol prÍ3oners, including Oen Clark, weie sent to the rebel linea on the 2Qth uit The rebel made an unsucecssful attempt to capture the steamer Laurel Hill, laden with cotton, sugar and djolasaeê, obtaiDed above Baton Rouge. Gen. Bbnks had ixsued an ordor explainiog the fytem of labor adopted for tlie year, and plantera assenting theroto are to be assialed in inducing their negroes to return. Negroes are to reueive food frorn goviernrnent offioers out of the crops tliey produce. Those not thus en gaged aro to be employed on publio works. Thií plnnters of Lnuiaiana had held evera! meetings at Nuw Orleans. Gen. Banks liad proraixed to 8d thera in tnkinj; the nbandoned plantntiona on the name terms as offered by the Quartermaster, and to do everything that could properly be done to restore iost necroes to their masters, aiul that the enlintment of nefrroes who hnd been at work on the plantationashould cease. Auatteraptnt one of the meetings to pasa a resolution in favor of the revisal of the State laws was defentod by a large maj.irity. Banks attended one of the meetings, and gave an asfurance that the gorernment had no, feeTings of hostility to the people of Nuvr Orleans.
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