New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-13


mond Dispatch of the 7th, deserves to be long
remembered. The Northern papers are compelled
to admit an amount of damage which we had no
idea of from the modest accounts of the engage
ment which were given by the Confederate COM
mander. A Yankee correspondent, fromithe fleet
to New York journal states that the monster
steam frgate Niagara, carrying one Of the most
enormous arman,ents ever heard, of in naval war
fare, "was completely riddled with balls,', and
the Colorado, another flrst-class steam frigate,
thoroughly disabled."y tits added that Braggs
regular salvos were terriic.'' 1t is evident that
they know how to manage big guns at Pensacola,
and that Hilton Head by no means settles the
mooted question between fleets and forts, in favor
of ships, even with the advantages of steam and
other modern improvements. ae4 5l
Z TEXAS 1rEMs.--The Austin Intelligeneer says an
old man named Samuel Lane was killed by Indians
about two miles from the town of Comfort, in Kerr
county. 4 ~ .is Boa 5.rg % 10 SFB97f5
The Gazette says the amount of money in the
Treasury for distribution for school nses, ia much
smaller than for any previous year, owing to the
failures of the railroad companies pay interest
on the School Fund loaned them. 1gis5
The Goliad Messenger notices the passage
through Goad of several OK carts loaded with cot.
chants of Goliad, Victoria and Lavaca, and they
expect to receive goods and groceries in exchange.
This is right, and we are glad to see it. Nothing
will go further towards maintaining friendly reIa-
tions with Mexico than this interchange of COM
modities. >a=''@ ~
The Nacogdoches Chronicle learns that several
persons have engaged in salt making at the sanes
| near that place, which exists in great abundance.
tnJsn - 4tot IL IL.
article in Texas ere long.
LATE FROM New MApR1D.-Gen. JEFF. Thompson
| had quite an accession to his forces at New Ma
| drid on Monday. In the course of the day, Gov.
| jackson, of Missouri, made his appearance, and
| the Missouri boys of Jetf's command would have
1 a speech. The Governor responded in an elegant
address, assuring them that Gen. Price would still
i continue to, lead the Missouri forces, and gave
them many evidences of approaching triumph. His
address was received with many demonstrations
of satisfaction. Gen. Thompson and Col CAN'T
| were respectively called for, and responded in
most happy manner. The time of the enlistment
| of aportion of Gen. JEFF. Thompson's troops was
about to expire, and we are informed that every
| one of them reeniisted for the war. New Madrid,
we are informed, is now in condition to defy all
attacks of the enemy.-[ Memphis Avalanche, llth.
I HENRY WINTER DAvIs.-The Baltimore Sun, of
recent date, thus speaks of this infamous traitor
| and renegade: s@",-' .''' @7S.f
| IL mas Deeu alr6auy SlhLGu lldL Mr. deHTy VIII
ter Davis, of this city, had addressed the citizens
| of Brooklyn, in the Brooklyn Academy of Music,
| on g The Southern lnsurrection and the Power of
a Republican Government to Suppress IT,. 1t
| seems that the speaker ventured upon course of
| argument adverse to the course Of the Admins
tration in several respects, and more especially in
| relation to the suspension OF the writ OF habeas
corpus.
4 The audience, though giving him much applause,
also expressed its dissent from his views several
| occasions and the New York Times visits the
| speaker with sharp rebuke, and intimates that
Mr. Davis is subject to be wrong headed, and, like
| other patriotic, men, to mistake his vocation.
Like old Scott and other traitors to their native
States, Winter Davis Is bending to receive his re
ward. Ere long he will be driven from his native
State in disgrace, an exile forever and, in Balti,
more and Maryland, his name will never be men-
toned except with curses and execrations.
II CANNEL CoAL-Ar Graz. ORCH ARp.--Two or three
} weeks ago, when the Seyenteeth Ohio Regiment
: was encamped at Camp Coburn, near Grab Or
chard, some of the troops accidentally discovered
camel coal cropping out of the soil Specimens
of it were scattered thckly all over the surface o
a the country but the inhabitants saidit was slate
D., That night great fires of slate difused eogfor
| throughout the camp, and the kentuckians VIII
0 visited the regiment were astonished to Zee til
l. | Buckeyes burning it.. One man said that severs
y | years ago he had dug well on an s1iioinin
= farm through the 81 same sort of stuf - but
d never occurred to him that it was eannF A coal
1t That which was consumed by our tff ,ops was e
t. crusted with coarse shale, giving Il the appea
l. ance of slate, and of conrse the al was inero
al although it blazed finely and reflect ed intense hea
he No effort was made 10 discover q vein but there
10 every reason to suppose that it a shaft should
L. sunk where the Indications Of coal are so abun
at ant, q rich lead would be -four I'd.
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