New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-12
LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.
DISPATCHED TO THE NEW ORLEANS CRESCENT.
From Richmond.

From Richmond. s~ ..
RICHMOND, Dec. H. The following release.
prisoners arrived this afternoon via Fortress Mon
roe and Norfolk, on their parole, viz: Alabamian
L. L. Buck, J.W. Davis, J. D. Perkins, Richart
Poole, j. FL. Howard, W. A. Prince, J. s. Walke
and Robt. Pauidng. Lousianans-Thes Mayel
and Michael o'Keefe. From Mississippi-W. Davis
Nothing unusual from Fortress Monroe yesterday
but the people to-day about Norfolk are expecting
battle soon. Passengers arrived to-day report
skirmish last Sunday by Col. Ashby's command
with the Federals, in which so FederaIs were cap.
tured and Is killed; also 20 wagons captured.
This report Is given as received.
RICHMOND, Dec. 1.-THE Examiner of this morn
ing learns that bill passed the Congress yester-
day, during secret session, granting bounty Of
S50 to all privates and non-commissioned officers
who shall serve continuously for three years, or
during the war, to be paid at the end of the first
term.
10 those reenlisting for the next two years, the
bill also provides sixty days furlough, with trans
portation home and back; also to the twelve
months men who reenlist for the war OF two years
longer.
1t is understood the bill provides that troops re-
Sii'e'LS ouRhy dt tuC cuu Vi tuG pFeseHE SGTNlCe,
have the power to organize themselves into COM
panies and elect their officers, and said companies
shall he allowed to organize themselves into bat
taons or regiments, and elect their field officers
From Memphis.
MEMPHIS, Dec. ll.-One of Lncoln's gunboats
is aground below St. Louis. Ice is running in the
Mississippi river. Halleck Issued savage pro-
clamation on the 9Th inst, in which he says he
will shoot all the rebels captured as spies. Many
Unionists from Southwestern Missouri are at St.
Louis in deplorable condition, they say caused
by Prices army. The Democrat recommends they
be quartered on the rebel families in st. Louis.
Nothing new from Columbus. A scouting party
went within twelve miles Of Paducah on Monday,
and captured $40 hogs and rs head of cattle, in.
tended for the Federal army.
From Lineolndom via Nashville.
WASHINGTON, Dec. G.. The latest dispatches
from Seward to Minister Adams, dated Nov. II
contain the following extract which shows the
diplomatic relations between England and the
United States at that time. The case in regard to
pirates engaged BY the insurgents of this country
practically stands thus: Every moral power and
every commercial Power, except one, practically
excludes them from their ports, except when in
distress, and any visit of any kind longer than
twenty-four hours, and except for twenty four
hours consumption. Great Britain, as we are
given to understand by the answer of Earl Rus
sell, allows those pirates to visit her ports and
stay at their own pleasure, and receive supplies
without restriction. We find it difficult to believe
that the Government of Great Britain is consti.
suted the exception. After full deliberation init
mated the preceding, in the hope that the subject
might be reconsidered before it should become
necessary for US to consider what remedies to
adopt to protect and prevent the evils that must
result to our commerce from the policy thus indi-
Gated by Great Britain. I have consulted on the
subject with Lord Lyons, and he has, perhaps.
communicated with his Government thereupon.
In the meantime, am instructed by the Presi.
dent to instruct you to recall the attention of her
MaJesty's Government to the question under the
influence of the spirit of peace and friendship,
with desire to preserve what remains of com.
merce, which is mutually important to both coun.
tries
Rather sharp correspondence has taken place
between Minister Pike and the Government of the
Hague touching the reception of the Sumter at
Curacao, which resulted in an order forbidding
either Confederate or Federal vessels to stay more
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the Federal Government expressed qualified graft.
fcation as being the best arrangement practicable.
At one point the discussion before the Dutch Gov
ernment arrived to this conclusion Seward wrote
Pike, that unless the conduct of the Governor
eral of Curacao was placed in better light, it
would become necessary for the Federal Govern.
ment to consider what means it must take to pro.
tect their national rights in the ports of the Neither
lands, which cannot be surrendered or compro.
missed.
Commander Poor of the Brooklyn, who was tried
by court martial for allowing the Sumter to es-
cape from New Orleans, has been acquitted, and
the finding of the court has been approved. ~
Gen. Patterson has made official application for
a Court of Inquiry into that portion of the spring
campaign with which he was connected.
A caucus of the Republican members of Con-
gress will be held tomorrow evening, for the pur-
pose of agreeing the line of policy to be adopt
ed in reference to the slavery question.
CINCINNATI Dec. 5.-The expulsion of Breckin-
ridge gives great satisfaction; many aspire to sue
ceed him, among whom is Jas. Guthrie, JOSH r.
Bell, Geo. Robinson, Nathaniel Wolfe and Garret
Davis. DR.. Breckenridge is also mentioned.