New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-28

SATURDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 49, 1861.

newspapers has been thorougly closed the last
New York paper received here was Of the 18th.
The underground mail arrangement which brought
US daily the Baltimore Sun andsthe Herald, has
been broken up, and We are in lamentabe ignor.
ance of what is going on in the Northern World
None permitted to land on the Virginia side
Of the Potomac, except those who are lleelhg
from the Outrages of Sckles mercI!ess brigade,
who are devastating those counties in Maryland
contiguous to Virginia. Ladies are raVished, crops
destroyed, houses burnt and negroes abducted
daily by those miscreants. The murderer OF Bar
ton Key, the husband Of repentant prostitute, IS
seeking his vengeance amongst helpless women
and children. The Infamous Dan Sickles is re-
venging his degraded wife by the preparation of
heinous wrongs by his hired ruliians on ladies,
matron5 as well as virgins.
None escape save those who abandon children
and homes and seek refuge in the fields Or in the
cabins of their faithful slaves. How long can such
a state of things exist! Will not the manhood of
Maryland arouse ITSELF and punish these dispoilers
OF their hearthstones with terrible retribution?
Poor, manacled Maryland, are you still to remain
in chains and witness these horrible outrages? or
will You be unshackled By the advent of the Con
federate army? We shall soon see.
The sun crossed the equator with but slight dis
turbance to the planetary system, slight rain
with no wind, and nothing more to REMIND ns of the
equinoctial change but cold weather. 1t is clear
and cold, and those of our troops WHO have not
been furnished with thick clothing and blankets
must feel the change intensely. Hopes were in
duiged in that there would be sufficient wind on
our Gulf and Atlantic coast, without injury to our
seaboard crops, to enable our pent up war vessels
to go to sea, and join the Sumter in furnishing the
Yankee shp.oWners but the weatherwise and ex-
perienced predict no wind until October.
Capt. St. Paul, with his company of Chasseurs,
has arrived from Pensacola, and are now en-
camped at the Rockets, near the city, The COM
pany is composed of natives of New Orleans and
it is worthy of remark that there is not, nor has
there been, single case of sickness i'll the com.
pany. They are ordered to Manassas for scout
duty, and the Secretary of War has agreed that
the Chasseurs shall be increased to battalion.
had the qualification to meet, a few days ago, a
gentleman from Arkansas, who was an amateur
soldier at tie battle of Oak Hill in Missouri He
loses sight of the galantry of the troops from his
own State in his admiration of the Third Louisiana
Volunteers, Col. Hebert, who participated in that
engagement.
The importance of drill and discipline was mani
tested on that occasion in remarkable manner
by the Sd Regiment, which was the only body of
troops who fought during the battle in column
They We're in the hottest of the fight and by a
most determined charge, routed the regular troops
in a fair field, and took Major Tottens battery.
The behavior of the officers and men were beyond
all praise, and elected the admiration of ALL Col.
Hebert's orders were audibe on three separate
occasions to his regiment, to their fire and
give them the steel" This order was always
obeyed promptly and in the most gallant style.
The exemption of this regiment from casualties
was astonishing, but killed and % wounded. My
informant feels confident that their escape from
greater injury was attributable to their discipline
alone. The Colonel Lieut.. Colonel and Major
were always in the advance, encouraging the men
by their presence and cheers, and the charge the
regiment made on German regiment, he describes
as most terrific, shouting, screaming, and at dou
ble-quck time. The Germans could not stand the
racket, but fled in the greatest disorder losing
many men by the first fire, and suffering almost
annihaton from the Texas cavalry, who joined in
the pursuit. For six miles the dead bodies strewed
the ground-65 bodies were found in one corn field
of some ten acres, hewed down with those terri
BILE Texas knives The reason that Gen. McCuoch
has fallen back to the Arkansas line is now ascer-
tanned to have been occasioned by the Military
Board in Little Rock, Ark, which ordered the re-
turn of Arkansas troops; and the General, un-
willing to enter into controversy with the State
authorities ordered their return and now occupies
the neutral ground near the Cherokee Nation, with
the Louisiana and Texas troops, and battalion of
Cherokees under Major Stanwiddie, a half breed
Indian. His conduct meets the full appreciation of
the authorities here.
The Thirteenth Louisiana Regiment, Col Zoula-
kowski, is still here, although ordered to Yorktown
a week ago. They have been armed with Halls
patent rifles and their detention here is supposed
| TO be for the purpose of substituting the Enfield
rifles, recently arrived, for the Halls, which are
considered an inferior arm. The regiment is in
fine health and in perfect discipline, and with its
accomplished Colonel and Lieut.-Col. Jones, a
| graduate of West Point and Major Yorke, all OF
our State is destined to reflect additional honor
or the Sugar State, if an opportunity offers. The
universal. The city papers are invoking decided
action, and unanimously demanding it. The pres
sure is becoming tCo great tor further resistance
CEIICOT.