New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-12

New York Cotton Market.
New York, July l0.--The sales of cotton to-day
amounted to 2400 bales, at 15sc.
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Letter from Norfolk.
The following interesting letter was written by
Mrs. A. z. Nicholson who, it will be remembered,
went from this city to Pensacola as q volunteer
nurse for the sick and wounded. II viii be seen,
from the date Of the letter, that the scene Of her
duties has been transferred TO a more active To-
calty: @
EonFohK, Jply 81 1861.
Ed. Crescent 1T is now two months since left
home during which time, havehad nothing more
interesting to detail than the moorng and unmoor-
ing Of the Federal feet opposite Fort Pickens the
building of sand batteries by ourselves and our
enemies or to chronicle the death of some poor
Georgian or Alabamian afar from home and friends.
I left Pensacola on the 18th of June and arrived in
Norfolk on the I'D, and visited the encampment of
the First Regiment Louisiana Volunteers on the
26th, and found Them all well and in high spirits
eager for the fray and convinced of winning the
victory. There are none sick of the First Regi-
| ment, the extreme care of their officers and ply,
sicians having prevented the imprudences which
have already cost some valuable lives to the Geor-
| gia and Alabama Regiments. Our noble fellow
| townsman, Dr. G. Beard, is at the head of the
Medical staff attached to this regiment. His name
| is sufficient guarantee that every attention which
| kindness or science can suggest will be given to
| those under his care. As good, practical ply
sician, skillful and kind-hearted, and q perfect
| gentleman, he will long be remembered by US all.
| visited the General Hospital yesterday, in the
morning. 1t is under the immediate control Of DR..
Southgate, of Norfolk, a gentleman whose ecurte-
| Gus and urbane manners leaves q most pleasing
| impression upon those who are 50 fortunate as to
make his acquaintance. / found some seventy or
| eighty patients in the hospital, mostly convales-
4 cent, everything clean, neat well ventilated and
4 in good order3 and those who know what a hercu-
lsad task 10 organize hospital for volunteers
| will q ore wi
| cannot he awarded to this patriotic gentleman for
his untiring efforts in procuring every comfort pos
/ sibe for the sick under his charge. All of them
speak Of him in the highest and most grateful
| terms.
From the hospital we proceeded to visit the
| Navy Yard, and see the destruction caused by the
miserable wretches who have SO long fattened
| upon the South. The Germantown was the first.
She has al her rbalwarks on one side nearly burned
off and her mssts gone, for after setting her on
fire, they cut down the immense shears used fo1
raising vessels over her. Her hull, however, and
brth-decR are unipjred, and she viii yet be made
serviceable. Even during the short time she was
submerged, every part of her lis covered with bar
nacles, pulleys, blocks, windows, etc. The Ply
mouth the next She is but slightly injured, and
will soon do good service. Last was the Merrmac,
steam-propeler, and here the work ofdevastation is
| more complete. Both the upper and gun-deck are
completely burned off and the lower deck nearly
burned through, of course her splendid machinery
is valueless; she is now in the dry-dock. This is
of the finest in America it is built Of granite,
and is a noble work OF art. 1t was commenced on
the 1st dey of December, 1927 under the admins
tration Of John @. Adams, and opened by Andrew
/ Jackson on the 18th of June, 1888. Powder was
lodged in large quantities about it, and trains laid
to blow. it up, but. an oyerruling Providence
rendered null their diaboIica attempt and it re-
mains with all its fair proportions unscathed They
set fire to the barracks thinking the wind would
cause the flames to sweep the entire yard, with al
its vast storehouses. machine shops tounderles and
worksheds, but they were disappointed. The bar.
racks were burned, but the flames were confined
to the building they kindled in and in setting
fire to the sail and rigging lofts on the other side
they only succeeded in destroying them ana some ~
half dozen private houses on the outside Of the
walls. There We're some 1900 cannon, ranging
from twelve to one hundred and thirty two pound
ers, some fifteen or sixteen Of the latter having
been rendered utterly useless: the others are all in
good order. All the submerged guns are up ant
now in good order, and with the hope that another
Yankee may never put his foot within its walls
bade it farewell The city Of Norfolk is quite
paved and the private residences are, some of them
very elegant. was more impressed by the serene
and quiet aspect of the city, SO different from the
hustle and turmoil Of NeW Orleans OF ans ah,1 and tae
4 than anything else. ] have seen more De
formed persons here than saw in New Or
leans in thirty years. The approach to Norfolk
from Richmond is through the Dismal Swamp and
reminded me forcby of that to New Orleans from
the lake, that is if you substitute pine for cyprus
The Catholic Church here is an eXqute building II
the Gothic STYLE and its aars, composed Of native
marbles, are second to none in America in beauty
of workmanship. ST. Panl's Church, Episcopal il
plain but chaste building, and surrounded by the
graveyard, seems the very mansion of rest in tbs
midst of the busy tide of human life it was struct
by several balls in 1872, one of which la still to bt
seen embedded in the walls. One OF the tombs
4 erected in 1865, is to the memory OF a man wh,
died aged l27 years; near by repose tue remain
of Com. Barron's wife and daughter. This GENE
terry is no!onger used there are two others, cover
ing several acres of ground, just beyond the cit.
limits they contain some very beautiful monu
n1entS.
Every day we have accounts of some petty skir
mish but as no decisive battle has yet been fought
il is hardly worth while to bore you with details
the passages of arms, which consist of firing on on
side and running away on the other, or else q que
surrender without any firing at all. Baltimore an
Richmond are both under martial law, and the lot
: is rapidly approaching, when scott s 70 Keep nj
: word and dine in Richmond. have not the slight
est objection to his doing provided he does 1t
| q prisoner, and i do not know but that, under tn
| same circumstances, / might be induced to exter
= hospitality to Lincoln, Seward, Greeley and Be
Il cher and exalt them afterwards to an airy al
i unsubstantial footing before the people they ha
i | so basely betrayed. ls 5ss55i 80
4 / onJuly 3, there was aflght between the Confe
crates and the Federahsts, which resulted III /
s latter retreating across the Potomac The fe
| took place near Hagerstown PC looks Ike u lrd
of Gen. Paterson to draw our u OOPS into Marylaf
forgot to say that the ce met, now in view,
/. the same in size and appearance of theone yisil
z z in 1865 in New Orleans,
Y GoISG HIsHER Pa Ieffer from Randolph
forms us that the dlfrth Regifflsittt Col. Neei
eomnlandi moves TODAY tor Il position higher
1 the river. 1ihe - rperr s1ys the writer g Y
ie then be well i9rtitiadfnr f3saeu rniles.n Wont
{ II old APE u,iaks he esu snnpfess dtIeen miles
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