New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-19
MONDAY MORNING. AUGUST 10, 1861.

injustice which has been done him. He AYERS, and |
with him. in the assertion that he was obliged to
leave Washington with his family on account OF his
Southern feelings and was only induced to return
there for the purpose Of receiving some money
which was due on the 7th and 10th of July. Ma
graw blames himself for having been the cause of
Harris misfortune; that he urged him, and i'm
pIored him to go with him for the purpose OF pro-
curing the body of Col. Cameron, who was an in |
innate friend Of Magraw's, and had married rela-
tive Of his. He further informed me that Harris !
was not in any way connected with contract, nor |
was he Intimate with Col. Cameron, and was only |
| iGduced by his (Magraws) solicitation to go win
him, hoping to be able to the body OF Col
Cameron for the satisfaction Of the frenzied wife
of the dead man. Harris loyalty to the South Is
fully endorsed by Robert Ouid ESD, late United
States Attorney for the District Of Columbia, by
| Senator Wigfall and other gentlemen of character
| and distinction in the Confederate states: 1t IS
| presumed and hoped for by his friends, that he
| will be parOied IN q few days.
| Nelson of East Tennessee, is here in contne
ment and meets with sympathy from none. Inc
ladies OF Richmond are untiring in their eXer'lens
| to ameliOrate the condition Of the wounded enemy
in the city. They living better, perhaps, than
majority of them have been habtuated to, and
| their charities are extended in my opinion, to a
| culpabie extent, towards the impudent blackguard5
| who are confined here as prisoners OF war: Inc
papers have commented with much severity on
their misplaced benevolence, but it has only in
creased the lavishness and luxury of the supplies
| furnished by them to the invaders OF their soil
the brutal tresspassers their homes-and the vile
| outragers of Virginia women. The wounded
enemy receive more attention from the fa!r OF thls
city than those who lie manged and manned IN
our hospitals defending their homes and fresdes.
1t is crying shame; and if public opinion Is set
nanght by those jealous sisters of charity, there
should be municipal Interference in the matter.
The surgeons in attendance complain OF the un-
natural tavorsm, and express the greatest disgust
| at the daily demonstrations of Womany sympathy.
| | am proud 10 say that this perversion of female
| charity and benevolence is confined to only few,
| r-hit iprittr If n
| firing in their attention to sick and wounded.
The wife Of the Hon. Arthur Hopkins of Alabama,
has constituted herself matron of a hospital for
the wounded, and is devoting her entire time and
energies to their comfort and ease. She visits the
| wards and administers to the agony Of the poor
sufferer, who, perhaps, is pinlng for the tender
attentions of mother, wife or sister, and the sur
roundngs of dear but distant home. God bless
the women, with all their faults, if they have any
: ! become vexed with them occasionally, particu
d larly when they take my seat from me in the rail
!. road cars, Or refuse to move in an omnibus wher
there is only four on side, but this would be E
| bleak and dreary world without them--that is true
The sick are daily being concentrated here fron
n all parts of the country. Three hundred arrived
here yesterday from Manassas, and eight hun
Il dred are looked for from Winchester. Upwards o
| ten thousand are on the sick list in the army o
Virginia. and there IS great scarcity of everything
= | necessary for the sick, even to nurses. | Wisl
Z Gov. Moore would send on fifty or sixty of ex
| perenced nurses from the city, notwithstanding
the Secretary OF War declaed them when protfered
q they are much wanted. Ihe field tor the eSercls
o of their admirable qualities is large and dali
widening, and they would be of incaculable sci
vice here. The typhoid fever is prevalent, and il
~ creasing daily in the number of its victims and
e it is the intention to crowd all the sick beongin
10 to the army in the city must increase aarmingl
i on the advance of cold weather.
70 Every day gives birth to startling rumors
n battles. On yesterday it rumored, and gel
efslly believed, that Gen. Lee had whipped RoseI
Y. crantz, and captured his entire command, o
=. | Cheat river, and that Gen. I4orng had been kie
9e early in the engagement. The papers Of tn
nd morning make no mention of the battle Beaur
n. gard is reported on the daily, and on Sunda
last it was positively asserted that Gen. Johnstc
nh had crossed into Maryland with his entire cor
' mand: and last night saw Col. Elgee one of h
aids, who informed me that Gen. Johnston hf
made no move as yet. But all agree in one thin
that immense stores and munitions of war #
being daily sent to Beauregard: that they a
pressing into service all the wagons that can
" found, and are sending all their sick up to Rc
on mond. Gen. MaSruder is at Great Bethel, exc
of oisng his troops in the use Of the pick, the spa
sit and the AK, and is fortying there on an enarg
~ scale. He intends to keep Gen. Buffers fore
he confined to Newport's News during the fall, havi
at burnt the village Of Hampton few days ago.
ra CHICOT