New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-01

Join The militia or 4 COMPANY here? OF in other
Words what could and should a man do ifconfned
in Fort Lafay ette and wants to get home
Our correspondent very naively and innocently
asks as, in addition, if a party takes the oath of
allegiance to Lincoln, Seward & Co. to get home,
is it disloyal2 Yes; We would consider such
man periurer; if he swears for one object To-
day, he may swear for another tomorrow. We
have given our inquirer more notice than the sub
ject deserved. If any Southerner has taken the
oath Of allegiance to Lincoln, Seward Co. for the
purpose of getting out Of the Northern States, he
ought to be held up to the public scorn and con-
tempt, because no Sontherner ought to nave oeen
out of the Confederate States after the 4h of July
last Weunderstand the drift of our correspondent
! and to whom he alludes. eNE
1t is hardly necessary to allude to the crowded
state of the streets and flags generally, and for two
or three hours there was very little talk about
| business. % f75H + ra
We have intelligence from Major Todd's Battal-
| lion, Louisiana Guards, to Esd Sept, dated Camp
| Dreux. The boys were still in the woods, and not
| expected to move again shortly. They were anS-
ious Of being ordered back to New Orleans to aid
in The defence Of their homes.
The weather continues favorable for the gather
ing Of the crops. The advanced state of the cane
has enabled several planters to commence grind
ing, and new sugar and molasses are beginning to
be plenty. That the cotton has been sadly injured
by the rain there is not doubt. The following
extract Of letter from Rapides parish will give
insight of what may be expected from that rich
parish y5a-za So
gs-gsf, ALEXANDRIA, LA, Sept. 81 1861.
My conclusion in short is that fully one-third Of
the growing crop was irreparably gone on the LIST
September The rains have. been unusually gen
eral all over the country The loss is not great
on the hill country as on the bottom lands but the
latter produce four fths Of the crop of Louisiana.
The items of loss are in the main, think, as fol-
lows: 4 sgs g4asT
Interruption of picking for one month, one
twelfth beating out Of open cotton by rain trash
ing, ETC., one twentieth; injury to growing crop by
carterpillars, rot etc., to LIST Sept, three-tenths
injury bysrains and sickness of hands since the LIST
Sept, ione-eighth. ~ ~ - q.,sa4. ].gs.ss,
Reducing this very much by wayof allowance
for excessive alarm, and hope of very favorable
weather for the rest of the season, and loss of
third seems the least that be thought Of.
The season since the LIST inst. has not been favora
BILE. There is not green boil, bloom or hardly a
leaf to be seen in the fields. - Es- ,.. ,
Our correspondent admits thai one third of the
crop is lost, As the prospects up to the 10th Of
August were exceedingly favorable, it is hoped.
with this month of October being dry-a average
crop will be made. However, ell interest in the
extent of the growth for this season is lost sight
OF under the general interruption OF commerce. 1t
is immaterial whether the crop reaches $780,
600 or 100000 bales, or whether it goes up to
100000 bales, SO long as the ports are closed.
We observe the receipts Of rice from Carolina
via Memphis. We expect to have to chronicle the
shipments Of many thousands of hogsheads of
sugar and barrels of molasses hence by the same
| route rs sg-gtr
In the meantime, there was some talk about the
increase of the blockade squadron off the mouths
Of the river. The Hessians are not yet ready for
an attack on our. city, though they are making
prodgious preparations We may as well be pre-
pared for great fight first as last. Lincoln and
his mercenary Hessians will require fully two hun
bred vessels for an attack by sea. Ia. -
In December, 1914, the British squadron, with
twelve thousand soldiers, was composed of
10 ships ofte line, q to 50 guns each. -.
-ILLE tt.e 6 frgates, b to d gntfs eaGil.