New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-10-26
NUMBER 2O1.
News from Northern Sources,

Ihe MISSOURI Democrat says the friends of Frank
Blair are responsible for the publication Of the
papers in the case of Fremont and Blair, The
Democrat says the papers '' had for several davs
become a matter of public talk in this city, per-
Sons having read the copies in Col Blairts hands
= The Cincinnati Enquirer says that lumber dealers
nave suffered severely by the sudden food AN i'm.
n'ehse quantity of timber having been swept away.
Inc result is that manufacturers of heavy wood
"ofR, sueh as sarny wagons, etc.. find difficulty in
obtaining sufficient supply. ~ r. L.
The Philadelphia Bulletin fRepubHcan) states
that the Government was issuing last week to the
army of the Potomac two hundred ana ffsv thong
and rations. From this we can form an idea Of
the magnitude of the host concentrated at the
capital ~ q, ss4l4s $40 ?.
The Dubuque tIowa) Herald denies the yeport
that Governor Kirkwood, of that State telegraphed
to the Secretary of War for permission to draft
troops. -'~a so .& rt H.
A letter from Col. Forney to the PHILADELPHIA
Press says: "'Ouf army here far exceeds the most
liberal estimate efits strength have yet heard
made" r.- - f-s
The Cincinnati Gazette says: The Ohio Legisla.
ture will be Overwhelmingly Union. According to
old party lines, the Senate will be Republican and
the House Democratic. -...
The Commercial, of the llth, says that Miles
Greenwood has shipped to Columbus, the present
week, one hundred cases Of his rifed muskets
The Greenwood musket is now generally consid
cred nearly as good as the Mimic or Enfield rife.
The Missouri State Convention met at ST. Louis
on the 10th, and adjourned in consequence Of
quorum not being present ~ " =
statement is made by the Chicago Tribune,
that Illinois has 81 500 men now in the field, with
twenty regiments of infantry and eight Of cavaly
organized. And the Tribune adds
The quota of Illinois is only Al, 400 men, and
when her 60 SOC men in the field as they ought
to be soon, she will have 81, 100 more men in the
service of the Government than she had been asked
for.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that the Lincoln
Government has already begun, to pay pensions to
| families of soldiers who fell at Bull Run.
| The Ohio State Arsenal, at Columbus, now turns
out forty-fve thousand cartridges for small arms
| per day. '&' r 81 -'-.., 2
The steamer Nashville was loaded at Cincinnati
on the 9Th, with large number of boats, some
with five benches Of oars for the use Of the army
in the vicinity of Cairo. .-.-.. ----
| TIE "DIsLoYAL " LIsT.-A Washington dis
patch says:
| The Potter committee adjourned today. It ma;
examined five hundred witnesses, whose testimony
makes five hundred pages. The first report EN-
braces 237 disloyal Government employees, and the
second, which will be presented Tomorrow, 23s
chiefly and almost equally distributed in the Treas
| ury, Interior, War and Navy Departments.
| Three Treasury clerks have been discharged fol
the careless trimming of Treasury notes.
| FEDERAL GUNBoArs.-The st. Louis Republican
of the 14th, has the following account of the gun
boats that are now being constructed in that city
for the use Of the Lincoln Government 1t will be
noticed that they were expected to be completed
during the frst week in November: .y--.--.
One of the gunboats in course of construction
| at Carondelet was launched into her native ele
ment yesterday afternoon. The launch was con
Quoted in admirable manner, and everything
4 about the marine railway worked smoothly. Il
Il "A large number of citizens were present to wit
ness the affair. The boat was bespangIed witt
small American flags, which were raised by th
workmen. The boat launched was named JoAI
| Rodgers. A portion of her machinery was aboard
| and the boat, in her unfinished state, drew fou
feet water. She will draw at least five feet whel
finished, with her armament aboard. The sheath
ing on the hull was completed, which only extends
the length of the engine room on both sides, above
the water line. The casemates are not completed
They are to be sheathed with two and half incl
iron all around, which is intended to make then
| impenetrable to balls and shells of all sizes.
The general opinion appears to be that the gun
boats will prove success-apd really they lool
strong enough to accomplish anything. Anothe
boat is ready to be launched, and will probably b.
put into the water on Tuesday. The other .tw
are not so far advanced, and will not be ready fo
several days.
| There are now five hundred and sixty workmel
employed on the four boats, and every eXertion i
| being made to have them ready for operation il
the shortest possible space of time, which will no
be, at all events, under two or three weeks