New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-31
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found last evening, in the battery of the cen
trail office, putting up mysterious chemicals of diff
ferent kinds in walls about the size Of porter bot
ties, with such labels "nitric acfd,' suIphurc
acid,'' vitriol," camphene," chloroform,'
castor OIL "soft soap,r vinegar and so on.
We smelled them all, and they all snelled the
same to US. Being invited to smell, as an napproged
judge of smells, we smelled all the bottles, and
came very near smiling" at what we smelt.
But, to make long story short, Mr.. Hebert-the
" Governor" as his many newspaporial, reporto.
rial, and other friends style him-was only fixing
up things in his battery room, to keep up the
circuit' with the batteries at Pensacola. We
couldn't understand the thing exactly till the
Governor ~ let us into his confidence. He showed
us the following private dispatch from private
| in our armies at Pensacola, complaining of too
much water and too little of other things:
,.,, y cANP, NEAR PEssAcoLA, FI.; May % 1861.
| Dear " GoUe17lor Having accidentally found
| my friend Z. actually busy at work. and having
ascertained that the object of such extraordinary
exertions on his part was to send an epistle to
dear Achille,''. take this opportunity thaving
| previously emptied bottle of /. 6. drinking your
healthy Of dropping you few lines, and of placing
| you your guard against the false remonstrances
and requests of our friend Ed. In the first place,
1 when he says he has g nothing to drink.' he says
what is not so.' To my great detrin1ent and sor
row, he has too much to drink, for every day he
| comes to my tent and helps me to concoct a fine
| milk punch, such as can only be found at our
| friend O'Ne5, Holts, BidWell's, Santinis, latter
Sails, Dick Murphy's, Charley Clafy's, ETC., etc.
In fact, my dear protecting Z Governor, rejoice
at the extraordinary exertons of musical friend,
and am more than pleased to hear and learn from
| his letter that he has made patriotic appeal to
| your generous heart for some of the necessary
| material aid,' in order to enable both himself,
friends and officers to carry on successfully a
blooddtirSty war. In fact dear ''AcIille,n we
are indeed thirsty for egery thing and respect
fully join my friend E. in his many entreaties to
| you to open the portals Of your heart, and re-
member in some s,'bsta'tial manner, your dear
friends now far away, and il not dying for their
country, at least dying for " something good to
drink Achile, remember your iustrious name
sake. Remember, that in order to preserve him
from danger, he was carefully dipped in mighty
stream; but the "s sad DEGREES of faten ordered
that even the magic waters of the river Styx
could not preserve his life. Think, dear friend, of
that historical example, and from your welfur-
| nished store of NEUROLOGICAL knowledge, and your
every day experience of the varied ups and downs
of this human existence, draw, pray you, some
wise and philosophical conclusion. Do you not
| Governor think that if your ustrious predecessor
had been held by the instead of the heel, and
been dipped in arhishy instead of 0atey', that the
experiment tried to render him inyulnerable would
| have proved more successful? Do you not think,
dear "Achille,'' that the very sight of water
is injurious to the physical and moral condi-
ton Of man? If so remember that we are now
on small peninsula, almost entirely surrounded
by lcate7-with water on our right, water on our
left, water in front of us, water behind us, and
| occasionally water pouring down upon US. To
tell you the truth, we have become so completely
disgusted with water, that we utterly despise it
we don't even wash our faces with it, much less
our throats. Have pity on US, Governor. Send
us something, even if a telegraphic battery. Let
it be sulphurie acid, oil of Vitrio nitric acid, hell
fred doubledistllled triple extract of red hot rot
gut-dnything, in fact, and we will receive it with
Eunbounded enthusiasm Y as long as it comes
from you Let it come from the st. Charles Hotel
or Hamilton Rowan's establishment, on Gallatir
street-se'ed it on! Il it be death, let be only
enclosed in whisky bottle, and we will receive i
with delight. Only send i on send il on II !
be the last act OF your life--send ii on! # j
breaks you down with fatigue to find it-send It on
If it takes your last cent to buy it-send il on
you have any Christian feeng-send on ! If yo1
love E. 0. E-send it ont If you love R. ]. A.
: send it on! Ifyou love H. B-send aon! If 20,
1t on! If You love whisky, or anybody that love
whisky-if you have any soul of compassion, an.
spirit of humanity, any love for your fellow
creatures, any sympathy for suffering humanity
Now, Achille, after all that pretty talk com
dooC, If this does not bring you, I'll never specu
late in telegraphs any more. Whatever you do
however, act with due caution and prudence. d.
nothing hastily, nor by your 1mprudence mar al
the pleasure of your intentions. Do not send ii OF
by water. The water OFF Fort Piekens might no
mix with our liquors, so as to satisfy and CRAFTY
our tastes. The navigation from this place to New
Orleans is somewhat interfered with by the pres
| ence of many potent Instruments of war, and
would most decidedly object to see the liquor in
tended for us soothe the appetite and tickle tht
palate of our id -bellied Yankee enemies
g Rather suffer a thousand deaths than such {
, shame,n CHATS Ned Els suggestion.)
Goodbye, old fellow. Excuse all this nonsense
the best use Of it you can. "a word to the ' wise,
etc. We are all WELL and send you much love.
| Your friend, 80 "*
| THE SAUNDERS RITLED CANEoN-Quite a crow
collected near our office, on Wednesday afternoon
to look at a splendid new brass cannon, lately fin
ished at Leeds Foundry, and which was drawn VI
to have its picture taken, by our neighbors owe
the way Messrs. Anderson X Blessing the photo
graphists. This gun is splendid piece of work
mounted on decate-looking but powerful cal
: riage, made entirely of polished iron and steel
The arrangements for loading at the breeeh an
for sighting the piece entirely different froi
those of any gun yet seen in this region. This ga
+ has been partially tested, and when fully tested
! expected to throw about five miles. We take til
following particular description of the gun fror
the Bulletin:
The Mcssrs Leeds whose foundry Of the most eSte,
Confederaey hsyo recently cas-, ea psces Of ordnanc
7 with those nangacrca The United States Goyerner
0 made by tsm which IS most beautiful and effective wcapor
% T is of m bronze ahon & fonr e1t "ng lis Is mounted HG by
i supported by light carriage Of wrought iron Tn
' 'efss Ts
the invention OF Mr. Frederic Saunders, distinguished
gneer Of this city, in whose honor the gun has been named tn
, | Sannlers.'
The difficult describe without the mid
! drawings, remarkable for the ingenuity Of its
l. ments and the simplicity Of its manipulation. It consists of
light steel breech piece (which eocually the OF til
inches diameter eerorly and one half inch pitch The stet
breec passed through four recas,es in the hollow
corresponding with fonr projections the steel breech ate
which by turning the ho low the projections OF The
close the projections tho breech and force the
breech firm bearing ans the portion of the bore
The 70 Of tie bore is nearly that adopted and nsed
cessfuly by Whworth Of England Whitworth prefers heH
agoDa bore while the bore Of this has been
brought by continued The 1ing Of lhs eecte
by 0cagona steel cutters which forced through the
| by hydr0staic pressure.
The projecles of the form the interior
be eeclualy used in this gun various lengths and derel
materials. intended shot varying in weight fro
three to nine ponnhe charge be- of COURSE
| porti0ned TO the weight OF shot, distance, etc.
No regular firing has yet taken place, hut few shots fire
: with from five Of powder and with three pour
Shot of the efficiency OF the piece and
# great range which may be expected
&c MOVEMENTS OF TRooPs. - The Continents
Guards, Capt. Clark, are under marching order
d and will leave for Camp Moore, either this evenir
d or tomorrow morning.
"a The Calhoun Guards, Capt. Strong, and the Bic
., vile Rifles, Capt Larose, have also receive
IS marching orders, and will be off to camp e
IS another Sabbath reaches US.
s. In all the above companies, there are men wi
have dropped lucrative employment and aba
q, doned comfortable homes. New Orleans will
y. great and populous city, a hundred years, al
st may be a Thousand years hence. But in futu
lr Venrs inha bitents. Of Nav ORLEANS in scare