New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-27
From the Coast--Thc Enemy's Movements
Mt Port RoyaI.

DESTRUCTION OF THE SEA ISLAND CoTTON CROP.
Our tidings from Port Royal are meager. The dis
lance of Hilton Head from the mainland, and the
hazardous nature OF all navigation in the neighbor-
hood, render it difficult for forces to approach
| near enough to form any very definite idea of their
number or movements. The Savannah Republican
states, on good authority, that the enemy has
abandoned Beaufort and Port Royal Island, on
which it is situated, and are confined to Hilton
Head, Pnckney Island, Immediately west aud sep
arated from the former by Skull Creek and the
point known as Bay Point, on Jenkins Island,
across the Sound and opposite Fort Walker, on the
Hilton Head. 1t is said that they are throwing up
extensive and formidable works on Hilton Head
thus giving evidence of an intention to make per.
manent Judgment on the island. Skull Creek is
now completely under their control, and the works
at Braddocks Point, the south end of the island
command the entrance to Daufuski Sound.
A party OF two Yankees Ventured on the main
land a day or two since, when, being discovered
by our men, one of them was captured; the other
got to his boat in time, and made good his escape
The prisoner states that the feet landed Is 600 of
the LOCO with whom they set sail. He could give
no account OF the remaining 1000. He was brought
to Charleston on Wednesday.
charleston Mercury 22d
The Columbia Carolinan publishes the following
interesting extract from private letter:
Edisto Island is nearly laid in ruins. Mr. J. j.
Mkell, Mrs. Hopknson, and Mr.. I. Legare, have
all burned their entire crops, negro houses barns
ETC.. and at meeting of the planters this has been
universally determined on. The same spirit actu.
ates the owners of all the Sea Island plantations
fully expect to hear that the entire Sea Island
crop Of this State will meet similar fate. None
will be saved, for all is in the fields or gin houses
thus twenty thousand bales, the product of this
State, amounting to two millions five hundred
thousand dollars, will be destroyed by the hands
of the proprietors themselves rather than it shall
fall into the possession of our vandal enemies and
have no reason to believe that Georgia will pur-
sue any other course. Her people are as noble
and as setsacrlicng as ours. The Sea Island crop
Of last year estimated at forty thousand bales
and this year the favorable seasons made the plan
tiers calculate on forty five thousand bales Should
the vandals oVer-ruu Florida, and make any de-
monstration on the Sea Island producing portions
of that State, you may expect the planters there
to follow our example, and thus will the entire fine
staple crop of this Confederacy be totally de-
stroyed estimated in value at 500 to $3.50 a bale
from four to five Millions but this is not all. The
cultivation of this article will not be resumed while
the war lasts. 1t is known to you that the sea-
board of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida are
the only regions of the earth where fine and extra
fine cotton, termed long staple, can be successfully
produced. Now, the production of this article is
indispensable to the manufacturers of Bolton Ian
cashire, and many other of the districts in Eng
land, France, Germany and Switzerland. There is
no substitute for it.