New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-21

MEMPHIS, Nov. 20.-A large public meeting was
held here to-day, which resolved to send men and
money to Columbus KY. An address was issued,
calling ON sister States to send forward men and
guns for the defence of the Mississippi Valley.
The address says:
The long threatened invasion of the Mississippi
Valley is at hand the enemies of our rights and lib
critics are moving upon US by land and water in
overwhelming numbers, and within the next five
days great battle will be fought at Columbus.
Ii the Confederates should be overpowered, Mem
phis is lost to the South, unless Alabama, Mssis-
sippi and Louisiana help us. We appeal to our
friends in the surrounding States to look these
facts sternly in the face before It is too late.
Tennessee Legislature. ~
NASHVILLE, Nov. 20.-The Legislature to-day
passed Flaw establishing State Ordnance Bureau,
and appropratng $500 600 for manufacturing arms,
and authorizing the Governor to press into imme-
date service all the suitable guns in the State.
From Richmond and Norfolk. -
.a. Especial to the Richmond Dspatoh.l -'ha . ~
NORFOLK, Nov 30.-Eight thousand Federals
marched into Accomac county, on the eastern
shore of the Chesapeake Bay, and have taken pos
session OF the county. 1t was expected they would
possess Northampton on yesterday, as the Confed.
crate forces there are small in numbers and with
out sufficient arms.
Heavy Firing in the Direction of Port Royal.
SAVANNAH, Nov. 2e.--The Republican of this
morning says there was heavy and continued firing
heard IN the direction of Port Royal yesterday,
and it IS supposed the enemy attempted q landing
under cover of their guns, which attempt was re-
sisted by our troops. 1-r -"
Gen. Sherman has issued proclamation to the
Carolinians, inviting them to return to their homes
and occupations.
From Milledgeville,
MILLEDGEvILLE, Nov. l9-Robt. Toombs and
Benz. 81. Hill are elected Confederate Senators.
Details Of the Invasion of Accomac. r..
RICHMOND, Nov. 20.-Congress was not in ses-
sion to-day, and the proceedings of the Virginia
Convention are unmportant. s-. 49, t
Thirty Federal officers visited Drummontown, in
Accomac county, last Friday, with flag of truce,
and submitted proposition from Gen. Dix to the
citizens there to lay down their arms, on the cond
ton Of protection to life and property. The peo-
pie there being isolated and defenceess, yielded to
the demand, when large force of Federals took
possession of the county Monday last 1t is sup
posed they also took possession of NORTHAMPTON
county on yesterday. There was no fighting as
the Federas'were oVerpowering in numbers.
Reported Capture Of the British Steamer Fingal.
The New York Herald. of the 16th INST, says
Senator Gwin and two other Californians arrived
from California and were arrested, but afterwards
paroled. The Herald learns of the capture Of a
large British steamer, believed to be the Fingal,
which was carried to Key West. The schooner
Emily, Tenbrook, from Savannah, arrived at st.
Thomas on the 2sth of October. A vessel with ar.
ticles of prime necessity for the Carolinians, but
really for the Federals left Providence for Port
Royal, and others will follow. .
Col. Scott's Cavalry
The right wing of this regiment has reached
Memphis, as we learn by the following dispatch:
MEMPHIS, Nov. 20-T6 Crescent Ofice.-Arrived
here this morning. All we'll. j. 0. NIXON.
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Kentucky and Tennessee Union Men WON'T
Fight.
A scrupulous Yankee correspondent of the Gin.
cinnati Commercial, writing from Harrodsburg,
KY, depiores the wholesale practice of lying re-
sorted to by the Yankees and calls loudly for re-
FORM giving it as his religions conviction that
Providence will never smile upon nation of liars
| or prosper cause whose main prop is based upon
falsehood. He tells the truth about the battle at
Wild Cat, and evidently has very little confidence
in the grit of Tennessee and Kentucky Unionists
| Inc lOlluWiub is tu eAlFtcl from MS letler:
I have risen from my bed (where am confined
| from wound received in the fight or skirmish at
Camp Wild CaD, to say to you that of the many
accounts l have seen and heard of that fight moi
one of them have given the naked truth, and tc
make short story of it, the loss each side was
about equal. think, perhaps, we had few less
killed than the rebels, because we had the advan
tage of fighting behind our breastworks but We
had more wounded somehow, and they got goot
many of our men as prisoners; whether they tool
them, or they went over to them voluntarily, an
not positively certain, but have the best reasol
to believe they deserted u.s. and tell you plainly
and you may tell our friends, that Tennessee ant
Kentucky Union men won't do to depend on Ger
tain. don't mean to say that all are false, but WI
may bid farewell to the Union if we depend OF
| them to sustain it. The best of them are lukewarm
| while the Sccessionists are more desperate thar
| h--ll, and stop at nothing to carry their point.
1have made these statements, as believe, for
| the good of the cause. You can make what use
you please of them; and you will believe them OIL
not, but if time don't convince our people that
| Kentucky and Tennessee Union men won'tdo, thet
l will be agreeably disappointed.
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