New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-23

more prudential to let them escape than unrnask
the unfinished battery. The engineer engaged in
erecting the works has abont eighty hands at work,
who remain still and idle during the day, but work
the entire night. The framing and wood work
necessary to the completion Of the battery was pre-
pared before the battery was commenced, and
hauled some twenty or thirty miles, in order to
render it unnecessary to use the ak, which might
be heard by the passing enemy; and the moment
that the last OF the twenty guns which are intended
for the works shall arrive from Aqua Creek, the
next morning as if by magic, they will be found
in position, with the timber in front cut down, 20
that they may sweep the Potomac. The astonish-
| ment of the Yankees will be complete when they
discover this blockade Of the river.
Brigader General Holmes, who commands at
Aqua Creek has been made aior-General,
and his column will be increased to 5000 men,
and It. is probable that If the Potomac is crossed,
it will be by three columns-J Ohnston's, Beaure-
gard's and Holmes commands, and forming such
functions as may be determined upon.
The President is much annoyed by the qparrels
and Jealousies Of the officers in various regiments,
all brought about by the six weeks inactivity
since the battle of Manassas. The condition of the
jeff Davis Guards, the name of q battalion just
formed, and composed of independent companies
from Louisiana and Mississippi is the most notable.
Some of the companies forming this battalion have
been encamped near Richmond for the last two
months, awaiting the arrival of other independent
companies sufficient for regiment or battalion.
Now the battalion is formed, they can neither elect
Lieutenant Colonel and Major, nor are they will
ing that the President should appoint. Every
Captain is desrous of increased rank, and it is i'm
possible to ascertain which may be the lucky ones,
and up to this time they have failed to agree.
The Louisiana companies are unwilling that the
President should appoint, Experimenting that his
partiaites may lean towards Mississippi, and the
PRESIDENT has become tired and disguised with
their obstinacy and protracted chickering's, and has
determined to break up the battalion by ordering
some o. the companies to the Thirteenth and -Four
teenth Louisiana Regiments which are not yet
completed, and disposing of the residue as he may
md for fhp cd of tItn
| public service. The nucleus, upon which the
| Davis Guards have been formed, we're the COM
| panies from North Louisiana and from the city,
and whose officers have been oversiaurhed by tie
combinations of the recent arrivals. Whether the
| surmises- are correctsor not am unable to say.
The President in his very feeble health, should be
| protected as much as possible from these petty
annoy2nces.
1t is said that there is most serious quarrel 60
ing on at this time between Col Barksdale of one
OF the Mississippi regiments, and his s'lhalterns.
Charges were preferred against the Colonel, which
were ignored by the President upon which seven
Captains and twenty Lieutenants sent in their re
signations. What has been the t11ldle to this affair,
| cannot tell, as nothing has reached me on the
subject since Saturday last. If we do not have a
| fight soon our army will become az publicly de-
| morazed as that of the Yankees. it will take a
big fight to put ga in stnu quo dnte-6eVu91. Sick
ness is rapidly disappearing from our army, al
| though the weather has been unfavOrable for
health. The hospitals are becoming properly Or
| ganized, under physicians of standing and ability,
| and the condition of the sick and wounded has
greatly improved. DR.. Stone Of New Orleans has
been. deyoting himself to the sick, visiting the
| hospitals and directing such improvements and al
| teratlons as lis long experience enables him to
suggest. He is met in all his efforts for the anne
Iteration Of the condition Of the sick by the CO.
| operation of the Medical STAFF of the Army al
| Richmond, and the various sanitary committees
| elsewhere, who leave nothing undone to carry out
| the Doctors views. If the increase of professional
| fame was matter Of consideration with the Doc
| tor, he would find himself unable TO move under
| the accumulated weight which has been heaped
| upon him in Virginia but those Of New Orleans
who know his contempt for professional clap-trap
Of all sorts, nevertheless feel proud of the dis
| tinguished position awarded to DR.. Stone by the
| army and by the citizens of Richmond who agree
| with those OF New Orleans, regarding him as one
Of the ablest men in his profession now alive,
| CHICOT,