New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-10-02
From Rici,nond and tIe Poton,,c.5s1
Under date of the 2ztll uit., the Richmond aors
respondent of the Charleston Courier writes ss

respondent of the Charleston Courier writes I
Secret communication with the North has been
interrupted by recent evants. We may presume
graphic items by the way of Louisville. On this
side of fhe Alleghanies we are equally cut off.
The trains over the Underground Railroad ceased
running week ago. The Richmond journals have
been heretofore supplied with copies Of the New
York Herald aDd Baltimore Exchange, by this me-
dium (by the way these papers cost the Rich
mond editors almost - per copg.) 4 learn from
one Of the conductors that detachments Of ickles,
Brigade have been placed by Mcclellan along the
north bank Of the Potomac with the syoyed purs
pose Of stopping all communication across the
river -Four hundred troops are at Port Tobacco
and twelve hundred more few miles below. or
course the risk to travellers is too great just now
but we have the satisfaction Of knowing that the
tracks are being put down N another direction,
and that in the course Of couple Of weeks com
munieation with 1ae patriots Il. Baltimore will be
resumed. This is done with the full appreciation
Of our Governments. The value to ns of those en-
terprising New YorA papers that furnish SO much
information of the movements Of the Northern
troops, cannot be over estimated.
30 great has been the influx of refugee Maryland
ers, that ex-Gosernor Lowe, Of Maryland, who s
Confederate service. He Is admirably qualified to
lead q band of men. burning to ayenge wrongs
which have parallel only in Nerofs or Bombafs
times. Richmond is fun Of Baltimoreans. Many
Of them have gone into husiEess here for the time
being, having managed several weeks ago to snang-
gle goods across the line One OF them has started
reading room, great necessity, as the thousands
Of strangers and soldiers in the city are anxious to-
read papers from home. On his counters TO-DAY
fonnd number of Northern papers OF aitelerably
late date. There was Boston Sunday Gazette Of
September 7th. This paper is something Of milf
tary organ and in this respect Is rather reliable
spublishes full fst of the Massachusetts, reei-
meHts in the war, with their officers. etc. ItseeT
that the Puritans have raised only eighteen rea-
ments. South Carolina has done quite as we'll
with scarcely onef0uTth of the white popHiation.
Henry lison IS reported as succeeding finely with
his new regiment. There s q curious item In the
New York correspondence Of this paper. The
New York city. to be called the q Calcium Light
Sharp shooters" The Coloners name II Reri1on.
and the Lieutenant Colonel isEdge the welEk know n
Pyre.eennst Gwa1 I used 1o sell large quantities Of
The Calcium Lights are to be used to discover
rebel camps on dark nights. Edge ia making
tremendous quantity of novel projectles- One of
his inventions is small incendiarv she'll to he
1t can be thrown half mile, and when It bursts
it forms ball fire two inches in diameter which
can only be extlnguishad by immersion in water.
With these shells the "sharp-shooters expect to
set fire to the entire Southern Confederacv This
looks very much like ehds play. i believe it is q
| smart enterprise on the part OF Edge and Berdon
to make some thing handsome out of the Federal
Government. The Federals have no victories to
display fireworks over, and Edge must do some
thing to revive business. Among other attractions
at the reading room are several New York ifius-
trated newspapers. They filled with portraits
of their favorite heroes, carieatures upon RUSSELL
| the unpopular London Times correspondent, repre-
sentatons of Confederate forts and batteries etc
The New York Illustrated News has an editorirl
notice eulogizing its g talented artist Mr.. Waud
and recommending him to the kind. attentions Of
Federal officers as one every way worthy of their
confidence. This Waud, I take it, is the same who
came South last December as the artist for Frank
Leslie, and who Joined of the Charleston COM
panies on Morris Island. He was pretty strong
seeessionist just then.