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New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

HEwITT's PRo5ECTI1E.-Nir William Hewitt, of
Bristol, England, has invented method Of g dis
pensing with rife cannons. and at the same time
securing long range and unerring accuracy of
fight" The particulars Of the invention, as stated
ly Mr.. Hewitt, are as follows:
l. The breech is Lored say one-eighth Of an inch
larger than the bore Of the gun, the projectIle,
which is elongated, being constructed to fit the
breech. 2. Tie projecte to be coated with a
soft metal, with a hole through the center from
end to end. 3. Immediately the projectile enters
the gun it meets with shoulder which takes off
shaving. thus molding it the exact size of the
| gun thereby precluding all windage. 4, I'm
nediately the Projectile leaves the gun, the air
forces out " bevel ping" at the back; the air
then having free passage through the projectlle,
prevents the possibility Of its diyerging either left
! or right or turning over; on the contrary, it
| causes it to travel with astonishing and unerrlng
precision; the sudden expansion OF the air at the
back considerably assists its onward course. The
gun, it will be observed, is breech-loading.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

A Coop JOKE On MAssA HARRY."-A cores
pondent of the Charleston Courier, writing from
Culpepper Hospital, relates the following:
am pleased to observe that, in many instances,
the men most seriously i'll wounded are waite d
upon by their own comrades, who have been de-
tailed for the purpose. In few cases, the more
wealthy among the soldiers have sent home for
their servants | saw one Of these yesterday
rheumatic old darkey, very nearly dried up with
age who had come all the way from Alabama q to
wait on his youl2g massa." ! happened to be pre-
sent at their meeting. The gentleman was sitting
in chair, for the first time for several weeks with
limb amputated near the body. The first saluta-
ton over, the grizzly head began to laugh, and he
laughed and laughed, and laughed, as if his old
body was anxious to get rid OF the accumulated
cacinations of a life time. " Why what's the mat,
ter, Joshua2 What do you see SO very amusing
said the gentleman. He he-he, he, he' was
the response, /" de chile am thinking how mighty
| funny Massa Harry look trabbn roun' on one leg
and a stick. Carn't chase the young niggers any
more--he, he, he-and when he hold young missis
in de lap hab to git nudder chair fur her TO set on.
Yah, yah, yah, oh! he he he, he mus git out here
shuah or old Josh'Il aff hsself TO def" And the
old fellow, holding on to his stomach with one hand
| and his cane with the other, waddted out of the
| room to continue his fun over the novel conse-
| quences which he imagined would follow his young
| masters honorable deformity.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

sHocETNe MrRnEE.-John Ardrey, living near
Des Arc, in this county, was yesterday committed
the testimony given in at the court of inquest this
is undoubtedly one of the most inhuman acts ever
perDetrated in a civilized community. 1t seems
that on Monday last Ardrey, as usual, came home
occasion to slightly clastise a child which was
lying on trundlebed crying. At this Ardrey arose
from his bed and struck his wife three times, near
the stomach, causing her almost instant death.
This is the evidence of their daughter, who was
living in the trundle-bed with the child, and where
her mother died. We learn that Ardrey has been in
tie habit OF Leating his wife for many years when
under the influence of liuuor.
iBrov lie fArt. \ >Barne
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ii To an Oak Blown Down by the Wind.
BY JoHs RANDOLPH, OR ROANOKE.

Thou who, nnnoved, hast heard the whrlwind
chide "
Full many winter round thy craggy bed
And like an earth born giant has outspread
Thy hundred arms, and heavens owB bolts deied,
Vow lest along thy native mountain side
Lptorn yet deem not that come to shed
The idle drops Of pity DER thy head
Or basely to insult thy blasted pride:-- -.
No still It's thine, tho fallen, imperial oak
To teach this lesson to the wise and brave,
That it's much better, overthrown and broke
In freedoms cause, to sink into the grave,
Than, in Submission to tyrants yoke, -..s..s
Like the vile reed to bow and be slave.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

THE BRAIN;-One of the readiest roads to the
brain is through the lungs. You may reach the
brain in a minute with chloroform, for example.
The power of this drug is something marvellous
When under its influence, man may have his
limb cut off Without any sensation whatever, and
even when he RECEIVERS his artificial trance he may
still have neither pain nor uneasiness. Why?--
Have you ever seen person after fit of epilepsy?
After fit of that kind, people have no remem-
brance Of anything done to them during the fit.
During the epileptlc paroXysm the brain is but
completely torpid. The same thing happens after
the anaethetic sleep of choroform. In neither
case can a man remember what he never felt. But
mark what may happen after an amputation per-
formed on patient under choloform:
The same man who felt no pain in the stump,
either during or after the operation, may continue
many successive months to be attacked with the
identical local symptoms for which his limb was
removed at the hour of the day or night when he
was wont to suffer martyrdom before its removal.
And more than this, if seized by his old enemy
during sleep, he may wake excaiming, 40, my
leg, my leg it pains mo the same as when 1t was
onr' More curous still, he may tell you he can
SO far as his feelings are concerned actually move
the foot of the ampntated limb What do these
facts prove? They prove l. That the brain is the
source Of all motion and all sensation, morhd OF
sane; prove inyersely. 2. That the brain is th
source of rest and remission, sleep included; the,
further prove, g. That the brain is the source of al
| paroXysma recurrence, whether the more promi
| nent systems be general or local.
TIondon Medical Practice
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

SPIRITED CAVALRY HoRsEs.--A writer, who pro-
fesses to know the points of a good "war horse,'
thus speaks of these animals:
Dull, sluggish horses can never be trained to the
point requisite for an efficient cavalry horse. Al
most as much depends, in a successful charge of
cavalry, on the horse on the man. Indeed, it
may be doubted whether raw recruits mounted on
weil-drilled horses would not be more serviceabe
than veteran troops mounted on clumsy, low-spir-
tied animals. At the battle of the Pyramids, the
horses of Muzad Bey's cavalry charged repeatedly
in squadrons after their riders we're killed. So did
the French horses at Waterloo on the English, un-
der the same circumstances,
And after the Marquis Romano was compelled to
leave his horses on the shores of Denmark, after
the embar&ation of the troops for Spain, we all
remember how they formed themselves inte two
hostile armies as the ships of their late masters
faded in the distance, and charged upon each
other with such fury that the earth shook for miles
around, and the terrified inhabitants of rhe country
| fed panic stricken to their houses. So terrible
was the slaughter of these fine Andausian horses
that out Of Il body of 10000 but few hundred re
manned alive
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

AN INFAMOUS PRoPosTIoN.-The St. Louis DEM
ocrat, Black Republican, in an editorial under the
head o" " A Way to Peace,n in its issue of the 5th,
deliberately makes the annexed proposition:
The Southern Confederacy has not the stake
here that the Federal Government has. Missouri
is both the EeC to the valleys of the Missouri Mis-
sisspp Illinois aEd Ohio, and the highway from
the Atlantic to the Pacific States. Under no con-
sideraton whatever will the free States ever CON
sent that Missouri shall abide under any common
government than their own. If necessary to her
retention they will desoIate her utterly, and leave
ler without An inhabitaut
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

How THE YANKEE PRISONERS ARE ENTERTAINED
IN CnARLEsToN.-The Mercury says:
The Yankee prisoners are getting along swim.
mngly in Jail. They are guarded by the Zouayes,
and during the greater part of Saturday they were
edited by the military evolutions of band of
woolly y-hesded juvenile darkies, who kept up q
lively marching and counter marching under their
windows, to the jolly strains of Dixie land.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

4 POWDER MILL REsURRECTED.-A correspond
ent of the Richmond Dispatch states that in enc
of the counties of East Tennessee, an old powder
mill, which manufactured part of the ammunition
used by Jackson at the battle of New Orleans,
has been again put in operation. 1t is worked by
the erandsons Of the owner at that period. The
cuaptity made is small
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

A riaed cannon ball fred by our boys, struck
the Lincoln gunboat Lexington, the other day, and
went plumb through her, iron plates aud all. The
cannon was on board the Grampus, which boat, it
is said, can turn round while the Lincoln fellows
are thinking about It'll memphis Avalanche.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

Talking with the editor of an evening journal,
Quilp enquired: whats the use of your second
edition. coming, as it does, so soon after the regu-
lar issue!' Use" replied the candid editor,
why, to contradict the telegraph dispatches in
the first edition!" Quilp caYed incontinently, and
confessed that he sac it.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

$50 Won are going to teach school" said a
Young lady 20 her old maiden aunt ''Wel1, fui
my part, sooner than do that | would marry wild
over with nine children
al should prefer that life myself" was the quiet
reply, "but-where is the widOwerH'
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HEADQUARTERS Isl DIVISION LOUISIANA NOLUSIEER}
STaTg 1EoOps,
New Orleans Sept lG. 1861.

'
IEOOrE,
New Orleans, Sept. lG. 1861.
g. GENERAL ORD YRS No. 23-l- THE MA
FN jorLenera commanding Wishing The
m full force o The du Increasing volunteer cors Of Lis dvi
LII or, and the time examine and inspect the c0ndi
several Bgadc and unattached corps Of le Division will pre-
review Inspection the the
hours herein fixed and at such places may be hereafter de
signated
T. The Louisiana Legion Brigade { l. Nurha Augusn
mindirg, the c BriGadieren 81 james
Trdeau, will parade ATERDAY the 2lst September at
o'clock T. NJ such place IN tha vicinity OF Inc city
venen and suitable for the PURPOSE rs the Colonel command.
ing may select.
3 Tie First Brigade Col L. A. Chsrbonnet commanding in
parade MONDAY the 25d September. O'Clock r NJ. at
convenient proper place within the limits Of the Brigade
to be selected by the Colonel commanding.
T. The Second Brigade, Col D. Edwards commanding, in the
absence tn detached duty OF Briradiereher Charles A.
Iabu2gn, will parade WEDNESDAY. the 2i.h September.
At O'CLOCK r. NJ such prGar and convenient place in the
Brigade, as the Colonel commanding may select
All other officers been
mtHsioned belonging the Fiss Division. hat wich
are attached particular Brigade, will parade under
their proper officers Iaayet" SQUARE, First sriCt
FRIDAT 9Th September, a 4 o clock P. NJ
g. The Regiment ,a.iye Guard Col Felix Iabat com.
mGndng. Will parade e Place Second District,
on nSuNDAY !. the 18th September, at O'Clock /. u.
The officers in cortaId Of the above named
charged with execution this order i'll their
mands
The Major General relies with confidence
activity OF the officers in bringing this occasion their
era ands with full ranks and hopes that they will like
wise be prepared to furnish the Inspector of the Division with
complete and detailed 4le and efficiency
active SCI vice OF the troops under their commands.
JOHN l.. LEWIS, .......
Major-G enera Commanding.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

That was a saucy question Of a topper, in dis
cussiou with q LeBlpegaIce lecturer who asked
II water rots your boots, what effect must
have on the coats of your stomach?
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21
CITIZENS BAsK OF LOUISIANA,

CITIZENS BAsK OF LOUISIANA, I
New Orleans, Sept. l6 1861. s
:, Rf. PARTIES having paper on collection in
this Bank hereby noted Requested unless they
to receive Treasury Notes of the Confederate States
bank notes. in Of said paper withdraw the
and paper shall hereafter be received collection where the
require other than Treasury Notes local bark
in payment of the same. By order:
sel8 II f. ROUSSEAU, Cashier.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

al have bone to pick with you" said friend
to Nibbles, as they met. q Have you?" said Nib
bes, Pm just going to dinner; so just come
along, and wen taVe something better to do with
our masticatOrs.r
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

EANAt ctlleN lneettnS OF the BOARD OF Dl-
Of this Bank, held this day OcoCk NJ the
Dent laid before the Board Proclamation Of The Governor
this dated this day endn the banks New
leans 10 suspend specie pA31tns with the object and under
regulations therein forth. Said Proclamation was
whereUpon II unanimously
Resolved That the Citizens Bank Of hereby
ceed recommendation of the Governor suspend
payments tothwh al t4 liabilities ard that The four
ati0ns proposed his EXeeieDc his Proclamation
day for the Of the era during
pension, be and they hereby adopted. follows
l. The circulation the chartered tanks-ihat the
Citizens, Bank Of Louisiana and the Louisiana State Bank
shall not exceed the amount of coin hcd by them respectively
and the circulation Of the Free Banks shall be restricted the
Rnouut Of bonds deposited with the Auditor Of the
Stale, eu0 in accordance with existing laws.
The suspension Of specie will interfere with
Tie weekly and monthly returns the Board Of Currency,
with the fundamental rules governing the Banks oppo5i
ton to the recommendation herein made.
j. The BANKS will receive deposit and in Of debts
due them the notes OF the Confederate States Of America
pay them u their
4. The usual weekly be made through
Board Of Currency and all balances Confederate
coin. By order.
sells EUI1. ROUSSEAU, Cashier
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VOLUME XIV.
Dartieuiar Hotnts.

HALL OF PERSEVERANCE FIRE COMPANY No, 13,
New Orleans Sent 2l, 1861.
Ksy.Vhe officers and embers OF the above
onD.Ty hereby notified attend the rgguar monthly
meeting Of the Company to be held TU ESDAY EVENING
Sept. III I56l, at7h o'clock, precisely.
Puncua attendance requested.
By order
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SUPPRESSION OF THE LOUISVILLE COURIER.
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a0~,Fhe Fourth Ward Club. S. A. p., will
sppl

CuSToa-H House, New ORLEANS, I
. Collectors Office Sept 70 1861
Hay.Notfce to Masters OF Vessels, lin pOrtors,
oTHEEs.-Noiice hereby given 1uaon Of
of vessels and Others Interested that Honorable
Secretary Of the Treasury has issued under date Of the
I'D August 1851 Trea Regulations authorizing vessels from
foreign Countries in view Of the 1eciency Of he blockade
any hbO the Of the Confederate SeS aud dis
charge their cargoes wout regard the being estab
Sled port OF entry the owners of sd Vessels
reporting to the Collector Of the collection district and
conforming to the Of the laws under his
supervision.
se20 r f. HATCH Collector,
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Occupation of Mullrough's Hill by eonfsderates
PROMINENT KEurUcK1Aus Fos THE SOUTH


hENrHTs, Sept 90 Quartermaster Phillips, who
mas just arrived here from Maldfough's hill after
stores, reports that that point e into The hands of
the Confederates, without meeting with any oD.
position. The Confederate force, four thousand
strong, he says, are busy occupied in throwing I'D
Notifications to repei attack. '-'Ea5 =
vile and, also that Guthrie and other prominent
Kentuckans, who have heretofore upheld the
Lincoln Government, have declared themselves for
the South. s@ .zf. @@ *als w.
ITO Jones' of Southwestern Office we are indebted sor
the above.1 -
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OFFICE LOUISIANA STATE MUTUAL INSURANCE Co,
t--. New Orleans Sept. IL. 1861. {
h4" Notice is hereby given that an election
for Trustees during the ensuing year. will be held
this oie MONDAY Uh ins between the hours OF 10 and
o'clock.
sel4 I'd A. PICOLET Sec'y.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

BANK OF AMERICA, I
New Orleans. Sept l6 1861. :
R5>Persons having notes and bills on col
lection IN this Bank requested and withdraw The
same, unless they receive Treasury Notes the
Confederate States local bank notes. III thereof
And notes hereafter stall be received coll where
the require other than Treasury Notes local bank
notes in payment thereof.
By orde, of the Board:
SELF tt A, NJ PORTER, Cashier.
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F. Fl. HATCH, Collector.

BASK OF NEW ORLEANS,
New Orleans, EeDt. l6 1861.
b9"In conformity with the recon nda-
ot His Exceency, Moore, this Bank does this day
pend specie uyment the Of the local banks the
resnry Notes Of the Confederate States will be paid at its
and received in OF adj debts due e Bank
Parties having paper for collection In this ;nk hereby
tilted 70 Withdraw the forthwith II they not willing
receive the above currency and henCsoIL will be
received for collection unless the parties agree the above
By order Of the Board.
sei9 If MORTIMER BELLY. Cashier.
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a Creole Battalion

We received yesterday the following dispatch
from Capt. St. Paul, of the Chasseurs Pied. The
Captain is in command of q fine body of young
Creoles, lately doing duty at Pensacola, but re.
Gently ordered to Virginia, and we hope he will
meet with success in raising battalion of the
same sort:
RICHMOND, Sept 19.-Ed Crescent: am raising
n Creole Battalion. Let our friends in Camp Moore
know it. Fl. ST. PAUL.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

SOUTHERN BASK, I
ILL., New Orleans Sept. Is, 1861. 5
ESThis Ba nix viii h erea fter receive at pal
the Confederate Treasury hots and The Of the other
banks OF this city in payment Of all discounted and collection
paper The Of paper deposited in this institution rr
collection unless willing 10 be governed by this regulation
requested to withdraw the
Eel9 81 THD4. LAYTON Cashier.
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r OUEsTANA MUTUAL INSURANCE COM.
LA PANY,


OiceIrop Building, Camp Natchez streets.
Amount of Premiums for the year ending 28h Feb
rary 1861. ........... $500 52s 90
Amount Of Profits for the year ending 28h OF Fehu
Rry, 1861 2l3752 IA
Amonnt for the year ending 25th of FebrlI
Ary. 1861 S66 400 go
The Trustees have declared Scrip Divided THIRTY
PER CENT after paying cent interest outstanding
Scrip, have ordered the redemption of Fifty Per
thetcrp Issue Of 1853
redepm,he Scrip payable after the SEC
0Nn MONDAY OF MAY NEXT.
Certificates Of Scrip or the 1851 deliverable after LIST
of June, lSGl. 49,
CHARLES BRIGGS, President.
p. P. JAEVIER, Secretary,
New Orleans, March %, 166l. au3 tmarl9
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hrCrcscent Lodge No. s, i. o. y. p. meets
every THURSDAY EVENING in Lodge Room No. l. Odd
TeIows' Hall.
eoourccy, Nj Mcue, Rec. Soc; III H. Aeyer, IIvaS
urer; l.. N. JahAn, Per- Sec'y.
sister Lodges fraernally invited TO attend
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QFEICE OF The FINANCE COMMITTEE,
CtxS Of New Orleans, Sent. 80, 1861. s
EB~Fotice is hereby give.n that i'm n cord
with resolution No. 559 approved March z, 1851
horag the Charueu of the Finance Committees OF the Com
Council advertise during twenty days that sealed pro-
poss will he received by them for the redemption Of the Bonds
issued by the city in favor of the Ponlcarn Railroad Com
pRny for such may he deposited in the Cili-
2ens Rank after paying all of interest due
Railroad Bonds"
Sealed Proposals will be received until the 3G September
1861 6I5 o'clock P NJ atth Office the Finance Conmit
tee No IA City Hail. for the sale the city of THIRTY FL
BONDS issued in favor Of the Ponchartran Railroad Com
pRDy,
Proposals be addressed P s. Wilt and j. B. Leefe,
Chairnen of the finance Committees Of the omm0 Council
OF the city of New Orleans and endorsed Proposals for sale Of
Pontchartrain Railroad Bends"
Chairman Finance Committee Board of Aldermen.
JSO. 3. LEEFE,
Chairman Finance Committee Board Assistant Aldermen.
sell fseiO
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'T11L FURTHER FROM KENTUCKY.

ARREST OF GOVERNOR MoREHEAD
PROCEE DINGs OF THE LEGISLATURE.
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FIRST DISTRICT CoURT.-The following business
was transacted in this Court yesterday:
Bernard Frail plead guilty Of assault and battery
and was sentenced to one month in the Parish
Prison.
Daniel Mclaughlin plead guilty of assault and
battery and was sentenced to ten days in the
Parish Prison.
NJ. P. Kennedy, who plead guilty of the same
offence was sentenced to four hours in the same
institution.
7. W. Currin and Andrew Anderson, who also
plead guilty of assault and battery, were remanded
| to prison to await sentence.
VIM. Foudenberg plead guilty of larceny, and
was also remanded to await sentence. -
nolle prosequi was entered in the case of
Daniel II. Hernon charged with larceny
RECORDER EMERsoN's CouRr.-The case of J. NJ.
Wing was taken up in this court yesterday. The
charges against Wing were several, and the evi.
dence said to be rather binding. Wing no doubt
knew this, and, through his attorneys, asked that
the examination might be waived, and that he be
committed tyr trial before the First District Court
| Patrick Noon gave bail to answer for having
attempted to knock daylight out of Henry Wittem.
| berg.
| There was a large assortment of found -drunks
disturbers of the peace, and feminine belligerents
| introduced to the Recorder, those who had the
| sponducs paid fines, and those who had none
made trip out on Hevia street with l'tt RS of in
| PRODUCTION to Col Mitchell.
RECORDER GAsTNEL's CoURr.-Mike Dunn did a
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Still Further from Richmond.

RICHMOND, Sept. 2O.-The sequestra:ion Of Yam,
kee effects has been going on at the rate of nearly
half million per day the past few days. The
general inquiry is: WHAT'S doing in other cities ??
The report Of Leafs capture of Reynolds was
telegraphed to Gov. Letcher, and from sources the
Governor regarded as reliable. Subsequent intel
ligence does not sustain the capture.
New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-21

JAMES II. NcFARLANE, CRESCENT CITY CAR.
- penteng ana JebLng Shop No l0 Grod street. door
from Camp. E.'ua
STORES AND OFFICES FITTED Up with taste and
dispatch. -
CISTERNS MADE TO ORDER
ps~Crders from the country attended; with pronptnsss
as