New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-16

ST: LOUIS, aug. l5.-Wm. Wade, Henry N. Hart,
n NeldneT, j. II. Blood and A. Il. Menkins have
been arrested Tor treason and confined.
The Marshal has wlits for a large number Of
others who sympathize with the Southern cause.
AT the battle near Springfield the S0uthernets
had tWenty-one pieces OF artillery.
S'ege lost five guns.
Col. Brand and q Southern lieutenant were can
tured. The following is list of additional Fed
eral captains killed: Mason, Brown and Schacher
Wounded: Gottschalk, Swift Gilbert and Holton.
The Provost Marshal has issued stringent orders
against wearing concealed weapons. Dealers are
not to sell OF give arms without special permits.
Br0wnlee is taken.
From Cairo.
CAIRO, Aug. 15.-Gen. jeff. Thompson has DOS.
session OF the Pilot Knob Railroad thereby cutting
of communication.
The SOutheruers are also in possession OF PotOsi
Mo-. and the Iron Mountain Railroad
The Habeas Corpus Case in New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. lj,-Judgc Garrison has made
formal application for forces to execute his
writs.
The officials replied that they could obtain about
l4u0 men, but that the county had no artillery suf-
fcently powerful TO impress the walls Of Fort
Lafayette. and here the matter rests.
Reports from Washington.
WASHtNGToN, Aug. l5.--It is understood that
Seward intends informing Lord Lyons that British
subjects are furnishing aid to the Confederates in
violation Of the Queens proclamation.
Maynard OF Tennessee has arrived safely.
The Star has dispatch denying McCulloch's
death.
Passes are required on all railroads approaching
Washington.
Mure, the bearer of dispatches, is at Fort La
fayette.
Ex-Mnistcr Faulkner demands an interview with
% 10 dCEh hpljI
communication with his friends.
From Western Virginia.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l5.--It is reported that Gen
Lee has crossed Cheate river in two hodea-fye
Thousand by the Stanton road and five Thousand
by the Leesburg road within fifteen miles of Ro
| sencrantz' 5 position
From Richmond.
RICHMOND, Aug 1.-THE names of the soldiers
buried here since the 9Th iust were, as stated in
this mornings Dispatch: John GLADDEN., I'd Florida
Regiment; Bernard Thacker, 10th Louisiana Reg-
ment; Henry Fleming, Tiger Rifles Albert j.
Eastman, llth Alabama Regiment; j. c. Tabers,
18th Alabama Regiment: VIM Goodman, 5th Ala
bama Regiment; S. Cannon, Fayette Guards Ga ::
F.Weeks, 9TH South Carolina Regiment; W. Hamp-
ton. 7th South Carolina Regiment.
The above deaths were caused by the extreme
hot weather.
The weather has become quite cool, and the
soldiers are in need Of hanneIs and other warm
garments
REcHMoHD, Aug. la. J. Bogges, Surveyor
General Of the State of Georgia, died this morning
| Of typhoid fever.
The following dispatches were received yester-
day afternoon:
Suppression Of Secession Papers in st. Louis
Private Residences Searched.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. l5+The Evening Missouriau
and the Bulletin, secession papers, have been sup
pressed.
The houses of two prominent secessionsts have
been searched.
From Cairo.
CAIRO, Aug. 1j.-Scouts report two thousand
Contoderates at Charleston, Mississippi county,
Mo-, about six miles southwest Of the Mississippi
river.
Tidings of Gen, siegel.
RoLLA, Aug. 4.-Gen. Segel is reported fifty
miles west, camped on gasconade
Twenty wagons with fuguves have arrived here.
The stage line to Springfield is abandoned.
Stock is being brought in here.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l5.--The government is Off
cialy advised that Gen. Earl Van Dorm, with thir-
teen hundred men, is between El Paso and San An
tonic 1t is supposed that his object is the subju-
CATION OF Lower California.
Federal Pickets Fired Upon.
SANDY HOOK, Aug. l5.-The Conederates have
fired the pickets at Beln An attack was cx-
pected at Point of Rocks.
From WASHINGTON
WAsHNGrON, Aug l5.-Col Farnham, of the
| New ork FIRE I0uaVes, is dead.
| The Seventy ninth New York Regiment has mu,
| TIMED, four hundred having refused to strike their
tents. regiment surrounded the ringeaders
who were arrested. Gen. Mcclellan took away
| their colUrs. His orders are to shoot down dis
obCGienJ soldiers.
Camps Of instruction are to be established at
New York, Harrisburg, Pitsburg and Cincinnati.
Each volunteer is to be mustered in RS soon as
enrolled, and forwarded 10 one of these points,
the Government paying the expenses Of his trans
pOraton.
The Government reserves to itself the right to
attach soldiers of other companies to companies
Of other regiments than those for which they
enlist.
Ex-Governor Denver has been made Brigadier-
General.