New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-17
Letter from Virginia.
Special TO the New orleana Crescent.l

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| aa- araia9 2 RICHMOND Dec. 10, 1861.
4 MIR. Editor-You could hardly appreciate the
| praise am inclined to bestow upon this remark.
abes spell of glorious, golden October-like weather.
1t must be {" binding" on New Orleans people.
| One finds it impossible to believe that this is
winter and that arctic horrors are in store for our
armies. But the prophets who foretell the weather
by the cropsof persimmons, and those who do not,
| both agree that the winter will be a hard one.
After the big scare Magruder gave us yesterday,
about 10000 Yankees having landed at Newport,s
| News, we are in quite a lullto-day .r5t
Congress pursues the inaudible tenor of its way,
admitting Kentucky, discussing the sequestration
act, and dawdling away their precious time in
debates. The disposition TO indulge in mere talk
is not at all diminished, am told, by the absence
Of an audience in the galleries. .5 f. u
Sour Legislature has dealt some we'll timed and
severe blows at the extortioners-ghouls who feed
on the lle-blood Of the Confederacy, sucking most
when the vital element is most needed. Among
these ghouls are numbered some of the richest
men in the oity-not Yankees either for they are
afraid to attempt anything Of the knd-but, / am
sorry to say, natve.born Virginians. Branch, of
Petershurg, a notorious, noisy, silly, Union men,
Der of the Convention, boldly acknowledged his
outrageous specuations in salt. Fsii w = Er
| had the pleasure, this morning. of meeting
with Missouri Captains staIwart fellow, who
the magnificent silk flag which Mrs. FlP. Blair
presented to the Third Regiment of Dutch Mis-.
sourians. He brought this flag with him. and |
gazed with not little emotion at the buletperced
ensign OF despotism. II we may believe this gal.
liant fellow and we all there is a sad day com
ing when Price is superseded. Ben MeCuloch
vii be here tonight and it is hoped that be will
40 something to drive off trouble in which we
are about to be SO needlessly plunged
4 A writer in the Dispatch urges The Confederacv
to adopt the flag of the sun. The idea is novel,
and urged with some force bat the divine voice
OF popular instinct has called for the Southern
the Potomac have wisely adopted it as the battle
flag, and it willYet wave as the legitimate standard
Of our new-bo nation. Our present flag, like our
Confederate uniform, is an eyesore and a failure;
the sooner we do away with both of them the bet
ter. Our naval officers complain that blue is the
navy uniform all ever the world, and they will not
giveit up. So with many of our army officers,
and among them Gen. Magrader, who, on his recent
visit to this city, to be seen in the hall of the
spotswood Hotel in all the glory of his old regi-
mentals, furnished up with the intricate gold lace
bindings on the sleeve, which some genius devised
to beantity and bewilder the Confederate mind. /
have seen whole regiment dressed exactly like
the regular soldiers of the United Statesmen only
the cloth but the cut Of their uniforms being ideai
caily the same. This was the case with q Texas
regiment which went to Manassas some months
ago, and which must have equipped itself from top
TO toe out OF Yankee materials. OF course a great
many Of these fellows will get killed by our men
The Confederate uniform should differ as widely as
posslpie from that of our enemies. p" y
After ALL there Is to be no fighting at Centreyille
OF Eyansport, Yankee papers. say SO, and the
signs OF the times prove it. Mcclellan chuckles
behind his four and thirty forts to think how easily
ne holds our largest and best army idle and at bay
while ne IS sending regiment after regiment to the
West and to the Southern coast The apologists of
the defensive policy will be pleased, when next
spring comes to find the army of the Potomac
melted away by disease and ennui. The onlys
thing that keeps them alive is the excitement Of
hunting, chasing and bagging Yankee foraging
parties and picket guards. Our men are very fond
of this fun, which is rarely attended with danger
so nervous have the Yankees become in conse.
quence of repeated captures. | am told that we
have in the advance a dozen or two of Mississp
plans acting as volunteer scouts, and they are the
best in the world. It has been suggested that
these scouts could do even better work than they
have done, il they wonld use the bow and arrow
in place of the rife. have not yet heard of our
Texan Rangers bringing the lasso and the lariat
into play. 90 IN. !.
The town is becoming so crowded, that witty
young lady suggested to me last night that the best
thing for people to do Is to raise row and live in
that. Well enough for married folk'' said /,
/" but single men prefer cheap lodgings (which
are not to be had in this Afflicted town where they
charge three prices for rooms, and the Govern
ment pulls your house down over your ears, or
drives you out of it the moment yen think you are
fairly settled. MlLou.