New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-23
WEDNESDAY MORNING.. OCTOBER %. lse

this result, Vailandgharn ia announced to make a.
iollifcation speech at Hamilton to-day. His i'm
pudence is only excelledby his disloyalty. 5ssH
Mrs. Greenhow ia female rebel, who was I'M
pfisoned in her own house in Washington, has sent
her washing bill TO the Secretary, and heis puzzled
whether TO pay,itor not. sas44a s+ .., -,5es ..-3
The same paper has the following paragraphs:
yJEPFERsoN CITY, Oct. 18.-Fremont encamped
at Upton yesterday. There are indications Of a
change Of programme Price has crossed the
Osage and is rs miles at least from our advance.
The country between Grand river and Lexington.
is full Of his foragers, who are robbng the Union
men. One million dollars would not compensate
the loss Of Union men in Fayete county.
No battle need be expected before Fremont
reaches the Southern border Priee's force does
| not exceed thirty thousand. he knows our posi-
ton and strength perfectly: There is nothing to
prevent it. a. 49,. =. .. 60. s,
The roads are wretched, aad rain makes things
worse. think Fremont will leave the railroad at
Syracuse morrow. .,. .@i,,,.,, ~. t..., g.: NV
TIE SEASON AND THE SIrUATIoH.--O One-third of
| the month of October is gone. Another month
and we will be so close upon the wintry season
that prudent commanders of armies will be think
| ing of winter quarters. We may have winter upon
| ua githii six weeks. Those weeks are of inesti-
mable import to the country The days OF our
destiny are now passing Great blows must be
struck before winter sets in, great discourage
ulent will ensue. Our army in Western Virginia
| must advance or fatlsbaekss The troops Cannot
| pass the winter in the midst. of the Cheat and
| must be supported by movement on other lines,
or powerful reinforcements. Ii Eastern Virginia
| is to be relieved, the work must not be delayed. 1t
is unjust. But W Washington is the military and to-
litica capital and the pivot of the situation The
| movements. of other armies depend greatly upon
what is done by the army of the Potomac II
| there is to be an advance from Washington, IL
must not be long delayed for the roads of Virginia
| in the winter would be impossible by an army.
IF there is not to be an advance there, it must
take place at some other point and part OF the
army OF the Potomac can be spared for distant
service. II there is nothing to be done on the Po-
| tomac beyond the defence of Washington, there Is
a great army there that is not wanted and it must
| be shipped to the Southern coast or sent West.
The idea of keeping the great mass Of our troops
at Washington, idle during the winter, is quite in.
tolerahle. If there is not 8 forward to Richmond
movement, there must be forward to East Tennes-
see, and forward to Nashville, and down the Mis-
\ sissippi movements and attacks by sea upon the
most important commercial cities of the South.
The necessity for action is becoming more pressing
every day, and will presently be imperative. The
people feel that they have done and are. doing
their part, and they will demand of President and
Secretaries and Generals, the worth of their money
| and blood. s-or ....
a New CLASS OF REFUGEES IN CANADA.--The
Montreal Herald notices thesettement in that city
of some wealthy citizens from the United States.
| One gentleman from Florida is there, who fed be-
| cause of his Northern sympathies; another, re-
| Gently banker in New York, doing business
mainly with the South, who takes himself, his son,
and S250,000 to Montreal, in fear of lodging in Fort
Lafayette third, who has made a very large
deposit in one of the city banks, and seeks to OBJ
tain naturalization as a British subject, and to
| invest his capital in ships and fourth, whose
brother is in the rebel army, and who settles down
with his family and fortune in Canada, to be out
of harms way.
Our readers, doubtless, remember that on the
arrival in this city, few nights since, of Col
Stanton and number of other prominent citizens
of Maysvie, who had been arrested as traitors
Hon. George E. Pugh and one or two other legal
friends made a desperate effort to have them re-
leased on writ Of habeas corpus. Those who are
familiar with the history of the affair." will recollect
that when the writ was presented to Gen. Mitchell
he turned upon his heel and refused to have read
to him--not that he had any disrespect for the
Court but for the reason that he considered the
arrest purely military one, with which the ciVi
authorities had nothing whatever to do.
Itseems, however, that Mr.. Pugh chagrined at
the failure Of his efforts to release his Maysvile
friends has made a motion to have Gen. Mitchell
| arrested for contempt of Court; but Judge Leavit
declined to entertain it Sin chambers, !, as the law
yers say, and told him it mnst be made in oper
Court. It is now understood that Mr.. Pugh will re
, new the motion in open Court next Tuesday.