Let me premise that the gentleman went South with a letter from the Mayor of Boston to the Mayor of Louisville, which secured his passes through the lines; that he had many friends and acquaintances in New Orleans, and was thus unaided to learn much of the real feeling, which a stranger could not be expected to see; that be had spent a month in fruitless endeavors to get a pass to return; that finally he secured an appointment as bearer of despatches from the Belgian Consul at New Orleans to the Minister at Washington, and on the strength of this procured a pass from Major General Lovell, of New Orleans, and that Major General Polk, at Columbus, after refusing for two days, at length reluctantly agreed to pass him through his lines, and furnished him with the following:—
New York Herald, New York, NY