New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-23
Lying Extraordinary.
From the Richmond RxaEE.ins.. l1th.

7iFrom the Richmond Examiner, Ith.1
The inventive genius OF the ts universal Yankee
nation " may rest securely for it's laures upon it's
antecedents; but nothing has ever sprung from
the fruitful brain of onathan which better demon
strates his originality than his invented victories.
1t is supposed that the Celastiala had, by prae-
tice of three hundred thousand years, carried
the art of military mendaeity7to high degree of
perfection but if we compare the recent dispatch
es touching the battle near Pih to similar papers
Published by the vlrtuous Lintoln'a authority to
enlighten his faithful people, we cannot fail to per
ceiye the unreasonable superiority of the Yankee
invention. 5.A -T. ~ ..Se4Q a yyH7s= -4taa
We have seer, so many Wholesale fahrications,
we have more than once rnarveed at the audacity
of Hessan editors; and the gulfibility Of their
wretched and enslaved readers, by whom truth s
regarded subordinate 10 sensation, and men,
dacity is enthroned q household god; but we
are constrained to think that we now present to
the reader the purest,. sahlineat specimen of
an unadulterated Hessan lie that can be anywhere
produced. .= g. ....s,t .a--
Our seamen and soldiers, 500 strong, landed at
Chicamacomico surprised the 20th Indiana regi-
ment so completely that the entire body of 800
men He'd stayed not upon tho order of their going,
but went at once, at Ball Ran speed, twenty -four
miles to Hatteras Inlet. They left in our hands
forty, prisoners, alive and kicking, now in prison.
and four of their Dead their entire camp and camp
equipage from the commanding Of
fcers warm and well-served but untouched break
fast, to 10000 rounds Cf fixed ammunition. We
swept their camp and have their property, an in
ventory of which would fill half q euire OF fools
cap, from a standard to wheelbarrow, in our
possession; and we accomplished thisw without any
body being hurt on our side. Not man of ours
was killed or wounded, though We had to mourn
the subsequent death of one of oEr gallant men,
who died from exhaustion. -sI Ef3 III
Now look at these iRdisputahle facts, and then
at the Hessian account Of the matter, in the eX-
tracts from the New York Herald OF the 10th inst,
and how puerile seemsthe Efforts Of honest old
jack" though he did :" his prettiestn in his ac-
count of the Gadshill affair, in comparison with
rbnla of bl In fl1t nf m
comico. Here it is:
s- u From the New orE Hegad.l "
SPLENDID AFFAIR OF THE FRIaATE SusQuEHANNA
AND THE GUSBoAT MoNrlGEI Lo Destruction of
Itoo Rebel Sc'oone1.s ont:G Iatgs-34e CAPTURED
| Propeller Fanny Dsabea-Redty Loss Of tte
| Eae1nyr-Sofety of the Union Troops, ETC. They
| had completely surrounded the Indiana regiment
| at Chicamacomico, when news sent to the Month
| S. Navy, commander who ordered the Monticello
under way. Being of light. draft she crossed the
bar and commenced shelling the rebels.
The slaughter is said to be terrific. They fell by
| hundreds. Those not wounded fed like so many
sheep. The shreks of the wounded were distinctly
| heard from the shore. They were completely en-
| trapped, having but narrow spotof land upon
which they were situated. 'a'
The steamer shelled them for four miles. The
dead and wounded were strewn upon the beach in
great profusion. They evidently caught d Tartar.
1t is reported that their loss must have reached
between two or three hundred killed and wounded
The first shell from the Monticello killed Col.
Barber, of the Fourth Georgia Regiment. At our
first SHE'LL which apparently fell in their midst,
they rolled up their flag and scattered, moving
rapidly up the beach TO tie northWard. Ne iol-
lowed them, firing rapidly from three guns, driving
them up to clump of woods, in which. they took
refuge. and abreast of which their steamer lay. #
Two men we're ere struck by onr
Too much praise cannot be accorded to Lieut..
! Draine for his brilliant achievement, which has
| caused great exultation al Old Point.