New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-22
Louisiana Legislature,

The Legislature will convene at IL ". The &C.
cession sentiment seems to prevail
There are foolish reports in circulation with re-
gard to the coming of troops from the North.
The Legislature Of Virginia
RICHMOND Jan. 2l.-En the Senate of the Isegis-
lature of Virginia to-day, the report of the Com
| mittee on Federal Relations passed by vote of
forty against FIVE.
An amendment was subsequently added, pro-
viding for the appointment of five Commissioners
to meet the Commissioners of other States at
Washington on the 4th of February next.
The House concurred in the resolution, and
unanimously agreed that if all efforts at reconca-
ton failed Virginia would be with her sister slave
holding States.
The Australasian Outward Bound.
CAFE RACE, Jan. 21.--The steamship Austral-
| asian, from New York bound for Liverpool, passed
this point to-day. The roughness of the sea pre-
vented her being boarded by the news yacht.
Later from California. - ,
FORT kEARNEy, Jan. 2i.-We are in receipt of
San Francisco dates to the 9Th inst. by the Pony
Express, which passed here to-day.
In San Francisco there no business doing
| whatever, in any department of trade Large
| stocks of merchandise remained on hand.
The prospects of General Denver's being elected
to the United States Senate very favorable
but the friends of the late Senator Broderick
strongly oppose him.
| The Governor OF Sonora comedies the right to
| transmit American goods from Guaymas to the
Arizona frontier, through Sonora.
Domestic Markets.
| New YoRK, JAM 2l.-The demand for Cotton
| to- day was less active. The sales reached 25OO
bales at II to 12tc. for Middng. Flour closed
steady with sales of II 500 bbs. at s. 20 to S. 25
for Superfine State. The prices of Corn are lc.
| lower. About 81 900 bushels changed hands at
prices ranging from 60 to 75c. Pork rules firm
the sales comprised 875 bbls. at SIT rs to $18 for
Mess. Lard firm; sales of $50 bbls. at lO5 to 1G{c
per lb.
| CINCINNATI, Jan. 21.-The Flour market closed
steady, with sales at 81 60. Corn is worth 38 to
4oc. the bushe. The sales of Whisky included
| 1900 bbls. at l33c. the gallon. The market for
Pork was tirm while the sales embraced 1900
bbls at SIT for Mess. Lard is quoted at 81 to lOc.
the lb.
River Intelligence,
| LOUISVILLE JAN 2l.-The Ohio river at this
point was stationary this evening, with 13 feet
water over the rocks.
The Star of the West in Charleston EIarbor.
| lDe N. L. fIVeillS EoSJ IL reporter Oh DUaTu
the steamship Star of the West, when she made her
futile attempt to enter Charleston harbor, and he
gives the following account of the affair, which is
quite graphic, and at the present time very inter-
| esting:
| WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9.-I awoke at o'clock this
morning and went Immediately to the upper deck,
where | found the Captain, mate, pilot and two
military officers. ] learned that we arrived in the
vicinity of the Charleston bar about midnight: that
~, t, hnn al,n1 hnf
| thus far it had been impossible to find the main
| channel. 1t is evident from these indications that
| the hospitable South Carolinans do not mean that
we should go home without salute.
| A light was seen off the coast, but we could moi
| make out what it was. A little after o'clock we
discovered the light Fort Sumter, and with these
| exceptions everything was dark. TWAS, of course
| impossible to get the bar without tt G light
house, and so we awaited the break of the day.
have never seen finer morning than the one
| which dawned upon us. The sky was clear and the
moon, faint crescent of silver, had just arisen
and the low coast looked like a dense forest OF
| evergreen. The spires Of Charleston became
visible in the approaching daylight, and on the
| walls of Sumter we deserted the American flag
| floating in the breeze.
| Now. about 64 O'Clock, we see the lighthouse;
| and now, too, we discover that the mysterious
| light just mentioned was that of a steamer at our
right. Now the situation of the channel is ascer-
tanned, and we are under weigh and now the
steamer at right is burning red and blue lights;
and now she sends up rockets. There is IloE mis-.
taking her movement; she is giving the alarm sig
nal to Fort Moultrie.
On We 90 the soldiers are below with loaded
muskets and the officers ready to give the word
if there is anything to do. Now it is broad day
light, and we are making directly into the guns of
Fort Moutrie, whose black walls are distinctly
visible. The little steamer at right is burning
signal light aft, and is making all possible head
way up the harbor. Now we discover red Pal
nbetto flag at our left on Morris Island, little V
lage called Cummings Point, and apparently but
| little more than mile from Fort Sumter.
SIS it possible that those fellows have got a
battery off here ?''' asks one.
Mo- answers another, g there is no battery
there
But there is. It is now II O'Clock and we are
about two miles from Forts Sumter and Moultrie
which are equi-distant from us, and, suddenly
Whiz-z! comes richochet shot from Morris Island
1t plunges into the water and skips along, but falls
short Of steamer, The line was forward of our
bow, and was, OF course, an invitation to stop
But we are not ready to accept the prnflered hos
pitality, and the captain pays attention to it,
except to up the stars and stripesa at the mast
head The garrison flag mentioned before. A mo-
Inent OF anxious suspense, and bang goes heavy
cannon from the same masked battery. The shot
falls short of us o hundred yards more, and
bounds clean over our vessel aft, nearly on Il line
with the head OF o sailor, but luckily, little
above it,
On we go, anit-whiz-z again goes the smaller
gun first fred aud another rchochat shot skps
along the water, and ia Is short of u.s.
- Boob +" e2zclaims the captain, you must give
us guns tiLGh tult puyS, VI sfSu tauupt
us.'
On we go, without needing the compliments of our
Charleston friends. Another mCEaent and bang!
again goes the heavy. gun: The ball now strikes
our ship 1.-the fore chains abouG two feet above the
water. A seaman was holding the lead to take the
soundings and the ball struck directly under his
feet 1t is not surprising thaa, under the circum-
stances, Jack was strongly inclined to take to h9
| heels, and he begins to scramble up with might and
main, when the captain assures him that there IS
no danger, one ball having struck so near him on
the principle, suppose, that lightning never strikes
twice III the same place. Rack, reassured, patiently
| takes his place and drops the lead again.
The ball, fortunately, was too far spent to go
through the side Of our vessel, although it gft an
honorable scar.
The battery continGes to play upon US, and a
huge ball comes cl8an over Us, near tho wheel
house. We are not yet within range of the guns
OF Fort Moultrie, and yonder is cutter IN tow of
o steamboat, preparing to open fire upon US. 4
moment longer a8{l we shall be in range Of these
three batteries. Che gunnsrs Morri8' Island are
growing conflaMt if they get the right range,
they will send shot through our side scattarine
death and destruction, Moutrie, Directly in front
will bring her heavy guns to bea%, and will drive
their deadly missiles into our IayJ, while the cut
| ter will open on onr right.
| Why does not Major Anderson open fire upol
| that battery and save usE We look in vain TO
help; the American flag nes from Fort Sumter
and tho American flag Al our BOW and stern is fire.
upon, yet there is not the slightest recognition
| our presence from '.ne fort from which we look fo
protection. The upDxpected battery on Morris
Island has cut OF. oil hope of escape by runnin
| the vessel agfodn(I near Sumter and taking to tn