New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-15

Oh uiattllatlon. IA Iact yesterday was MsSo
day for crinoline and patent leather. w
Our attention has been called to some cores
pondence, that Is, letters written by Commodore
Dupont, of The, Hessian naSal squadron of Georgia
and South Carolina coasts and addressed TO Charles
Morgan, New York, in'regard to the ef1ciency OF
some steamers under Dupont's command. we are
asked If this Charles Morgan is the same person
who is, or was, the chief owner Of the ten or
twelve steamboats purporttng to be owned by the
Southern Steamship Company. We ask, IS this the
same Charles Morgan who was on our flags last
year and who has pocketed dollars by the hun
dreds Of thousands in the Texas and New Orleans
trader We ask again, is this Mr.. Morgan, who is
in correspondence and apparently connected with
the Hessians, one and the same individuals QUEEN
sabss If 80, that will do, the phrase IS The Com
modore of the Hessian invading squadron N com
munication with the former merchant. commodore
aof the New Orleans and Texas Steamship Line
There was some talk about the ememys move
sments in Mississippi Sound. We could not ma ont
anything positive. schooner arrived iromsH OIL
river. Bay of ST. Louis, but she brought no ac-
cnunta 81 lie wolf. .Tae Captain reported that he
Hard that is. he heard that Biloxi was in the same
Mace ana positionit was last Jnne. That the Mis-
sssippi Sound could have been kept open with half
Richmond, did not choose to order built or pro-
sVided for. Talking about Richmond, we desire TO
stop that canard (the last we saw of it was in the
Charleston Courier) that the Confederate Treasury
had been buying specie at an enormous premium
to provide means for payment of interest," Fms
dispatch has no foundation; in fact, it is "a most
supreme falsehood. The coin to pay the interest
due,from now to March has been provided for
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III THE FEM ALE PRISONERS Ar WASHINGTON Three
prisoners have been added to the charge ,tof
Lieutenant Sheldon, at the female prison. formerly
Mrs Greenhow's house. Two of them are from
Washington, and the other is Mrs. Bailey, from
Baltimore, arrested while trying to make her way
through our lines across the river, aud notapon'
the Old Point boat, as the paper sstate sue Is an
sunmitigated REBEL and cheered Justify for ded.
Davis and the Southern Confederacy. "A peram-
2bnlatory gentleman of the organic musical per-
suason happening to be in the vicinity Of tne
p.son, the highly excited female rebel ID q stale oi
incarceration threw the said musical amateur the
sum Of t,oo shllings, and requested him to strike
up Dixie, but, under the application OF threat.
sened bayonet charge from the grim sentinel who
keeps watch and ward oyer the mvGiohIary IN
ing the price Of his unearned services, and amid
the excavations of the tuneless female. After Q
night s. reflection her passion became modified,
and tile next morning she WAS found bathed IN
tears, and willing to accept the profferad food
which she had so persistently refused since her
capture, two days before. s5sE s3s q ~ !
The other two ladies were taken before the pro-
gost marshal to-day to obtain their statements,
and it is stated that they viii probably be released
It ii probable, also, that Miss Poole will be re-
leased aud sent to Richmond via Fortress Monroe
and Norfolk, the Government having nothing par.
ticular against her, except being . dangerous
woman at large. She has conducted herself very
quietly and properly since her arrest
AS to Mrs. Greenhe# the physicians in atten-
dance pronounce her monumoniac, and, if con.
fined much longer, will become hopelessly crazy.
It ii already stated and with much show of prdba-
bility, that she will be removed further North
perhaps Fort Warren--in a few days.
AZ ffWashington Corr spondent Philsdelphia Press.