New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-30

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Y Mr. Editor. Though we are Id ctSse eorarnrni- I
cation with the Crescent Cfty~recefving every day
the papers of day before yesterday ssem to |
be close at home fromthe number Of familiar gew
Orleans faces We see on all Sides there IS one
thing that stiacty not painfully preases upon
me the fact that we are out of the Southern Con
federaey, and in a foreign land. feel as /
saunteffhrongh tie streets Of CoIanbus the hills
and By ways suggest the feeling as wen as the
town: even insthe silent depths Of THE forest, the
painful fact stares me in the face. AS fer up as
| Union City, in Tennessee. We, were, accompanied
by, or rather found all along the way the familiar
thing of which speak: q thing the absence Of
which FROM the Kentucky landscape has doubtless
caused nanyaa case OF nostalgia that's what Dr..
Hart, calls home sickness. The thing Of which
speak is our inability to know where TO get our
shirts: the trees and telegraph poles are mute on
unknown in Kentucky - Get your shirts at
Moody,s y is the sign we miss 1t 10 the ansehce
of thfs great Southwestern sign that tells Us, IN
Language more forcibe than ever fell from orators
tongue. that we areih a foreign land '.t
1t is not because stand in need OF shirts that
the fact oppresses us it is our sudden dePflyalon
of that i1aeparabie embelfishrnent of all South
western cities and sandscapes, to which many OF
Us have been accustomed from childhood. l, for
one, had insensibly acquired the notion that tree
| vas not tree, or telegraph pole a pole, unless
| 1t told you to get your shirts at MeodY's: and
| have no doubt there are thousands like me. Des-
| titute already of the trailing moss Of orr own
Louisiana forests, the silence of the trees here as
to the shirts is but the finishing touch to their bar
| -Yenness and stupidity And as to the telegraph
poles connected as they are by ties OK iron wire,
| / nntn wi
| poles throughout the South, it looks brazen and
! positively defiant in them to stand up before you
| and never tell you where to get your shirts Butt
suppose must reckon the deprivation as enc or
those hardships Of war which all good soldiers are
I expected to endure unconIplainingiy. Meantime,
! if Moody would send us up few of his signs we
would post them. and then may be Dr. Hart Wenld
have no more cases Of nostalgia to attend to. az
| We had gunboat here yesterday afternoon
| from Cairo, under circumstances productive Of the
iveliestex etenent. The little steamtug propeller
l Sampson came DOWN undera white nag and was
brought to outside the steamer Equality under the
guns Of Keiters battery, and In front of General
/ Polks headquarters Curiosity to see the boat and
4 to Know her effand-Afer aour message to Cairo
ported to have, been, unsuccessful speedily at
! traeted an immense multitude. Gems. Polk, PH-
I low and McGown, went on board the Equality,
I wherethey were met by Col. iBuford, commander
of the expedition, Capt. Dresser laid to- General
McGlerpand, DR.. Simmons, and others; with q let
ter fronisGen. McGlernand, and three Of our men
that they had sometime held as prisoners at Cairo;
the letter explaining they were relieved through
humanity, a desire to observe the rules OF civilized
warfare, etc.s The interview between the officers
! was polite and ordiafenough the scene between
i Gen Polk and Col Buford--who had been boys
i and classmates together-.ls said TO have been a
i really moving one. It all resulted in Gen. Polk
accepting the three prisoners, and IN outdolng Nc
4 Clernand's generosity by making him present oI
sixteen Lincelnites held by u.s.. La order to have
more secluded interview with each other, Gen
/ Dan the mn
4 ing; and the dinky Sampson having dropped By
her larboard side, the two boats went out ane
drfted with the current some time ); after whiel
the Charm politely escorted the dinky some dis
) tance up the river The officers hobnobbed pleas
. antly whilst together, the Charm furnishing th
champagne and the Sampson the ice. On bot
sides, however, the officers prudently reiraine
, from asking impertinent questions, or volunteerin
, boastful information !; but there were not wantin
!, some hangers on, who exchanged brag with som
7, outsiders on our SIDE. 81. ~. 3 -. ..r.' .
, Among the unofficial deadheads on board tn
Sampson was Capt. Sam. Montgomery, lately we
5 known and thought Of in New Orleans, but now
, Hessian subiugator of the deepest dye. In tn
course of banteripg talk with one of the officer
. of the Charm, he stated that both Memphis an
: New Orleans would be taken before the lst {
= February, and that they would both be taken b
:, land, etc. land that he wonld make many goo
a trip with his boat (the Jas. Monlgomgry) dow
there were ID 600 men at CAIRO, thar the gunboa,
: would soon be ready for the big attack, an
!. SO on. yq g!- =, ,,~g :, ,.s;, q, eg,
:. = But the easiest deadhead of all was, a cha
named Chapman, representing himself as reporte
| and correspondent extraordinary for the New or
. Herald. he was suceessively social and impt
IDENTIFY -inauisitive, relating. unasked, his man
wonderful experiences, and endeavorlng 70 ootall
,, in return soIae idea of our army around Colun
O bus. But, the man who reported the whole OF tn
e Charleston Conventions took a ride on the Gret
:. Eastern, and Douglas die, left Columbus abol
as wise as he came. I would like to have bee
aboard to see the animal; theyssay he il one
+. the real live Jenkinses OF the New York PRESS
Y q. Those on board the Sampson could see whel
s our water batteries are building, ander the blu
/. could see the guns of the batteries ON the blu
, and the guns of the battery which brought the
II to--this much, and nothing more. .Ihe rgener
ss belief is that the Sampson came more 10 take q
IS servations than to surrender few prisoners I'll
boat though she had guns visible, was irO
i cased, pilothouse and all, as if intended to 6
where lead flies around loose She was cor
manded by Capt. Atkinson, and piloted by Jam
We have confirmation of Gen. jeff. Thompson
re victory over the Hessians at Big River Bridge,
Missouri, but no precise particulars. The vel
latest from JEFF, received last night, is that he hi
W fallen back to and beyond a town called Gree
u vile that he was everywhere hailed as a delive
7, Ell, and the women were naming their babies aft
~ ~ him. etc. 1t is however, impossible to give OIL
u u lucid account of the state of the war in Missou
le and it is almost as bad regarding Kentucky.
, Within the last week, warlikes rumors; have thic
III ened around US, and again our army is alive wi
"a the expectation Of some fighting to DO.
iv0 Three days ago, whilst Bankhead's Battery,
III IL the bluff near orr camp, were testing rifed ca
10 10 non of the Parrot pattern, it exploded. One MI
" had an arm shattered, and several narrowly
y capped DEATH This morning, n similar gan W
/; tested, at the same battery, but in more carei
% manner. The gun was laid on the ground, al
~ fired by train. At the first fire. it exploded q
p. to pieces, hurting nobody. These guns were ma'
= in Memphis, and probably the rest of the patel
i. i. will be discarded They seem to be dangero
-, things to handle. .. .5 ~ . 49, :.
Ii II The weather lately has been clear and prett
~ ~ with cold, frosty nights great many of the Sc
~ diers are barking with coughs and colds. We ha
~ ~ enough to eat and enough to wear, and thai
VI enough for the present, isn't it. - e. =. ,. p,
cs The "Daly Confederate News" is the title
o. very readable little sheet, just started in Cou
y bus. I have not become acquainted with the e
A. a. tor yet. & ~. % - s-t I. G.
n. WESTERN VIRGINIA AND THE PoToMAc.--T
u Richmond Examiner of the 26th has the following
OF We cenversed, yesterday, with gentlemen fro
''s Western Virginia and from Manassas. Our int
1t, genee from the former is that the army has fall