New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-18
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FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL is, 1862.
5: TALK ON CHANGE.


FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL la, 1852.
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The gatherings on the flags yesterday were few
and far between. Carondelet street was remarka-
bly, quiet. In other localities there were large
concourses of women and children passing to and
fro, but they were following out the requirements
ofreligion It must be understood that this week
is passion week, and in ordinary times is devoted
to the creeds and tenets of the great church, and
at this time Che ceremonies are more impressing
and imposing than usual. Il. 49,
To-day is Good Friday, and day Of general
suspension from all secular business and thoughts,
legalized by legislative enactment n. 80
There were no telegraphic dispatches Of any Inn
portance up to the close Of business yesterday, or
rather up to the usual hour Of tho closing Of bust
ness There was no business to close. " s-ts5'
dispatch from from Richmond says there was
no report on the flags adopted. Now our Com
gress has been debating this flag movement this
session. and it occupied much time last ses-
sion. Now we can report on our flags in an hour,
and write fonror five pages of manuscript every
evening. But our philosophers at Richmond ap.
pear to require months to decide on Crosses stars
OF bars. Well, the telegraph says the report on
the flags is not ready. We submit to the delay
without being in the least exercised. When the
telegraphic operators receive the committees re.
port on HeJlags, we hope they will send it forward.
The most appropriate emblem for real flag for
the Southern Confederacy was q cross which float
ed once or twice from some building on Camp
street last spring. 1t was called the Southern
cross. GgaSs5 s.5gs1l t5575y-7
There were no mails received yesterday from
beyond Jackson, Miss. The enemy, it appears, in
tend to hold possession Of the towns of Decatur
and Huntsville, as well as tile railroads at these
points. @ n - &
There has been mass ofletters and correspond.
ence picked up in the enemy's camp at Pittsburg,
the recent battle-ground of Shiloh. 1t is manifest
that thousands and tens of thousands of farmers
and laborers in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and all
the Northwestern States left their homes for a
short excursion Southwark, expecting to return ia
time to prepare for the crops of 1867 How greatly
disappointed their friends, relations and connex-
ions will be, is evnced in the many letters found.
One sister in Illinois writes to her brother in the
army (and presumed to be killed in batte) as fol-
lows 2F
Our old farmers are complaining of lack of
hands to work the fields. don't know what we
are going to do for the crop this year, as father
can't get any help. How shall we live? Father
= =.
II will thus be seen that the Lincoln Government
has abstraeted large share of the laboring and
working classes from the Western States. We:
think many brother will rue the day that be ever
entered in the crusade against the South.
Our confrere over in Algiers, the Newsboy, says
he has trophy from the battlefield of Shiloh. 1t
really appears the Yankees are actually AFRAID to
meet the Southerners in an open and fair fight,
even under the differences of two to one. Private
letters from our volunteers all concur that the
enemy's camps were abundantly supplied with
all kinds of provisions and luxuries, even toEsar-
dines Bologne sausages, the best of sugar-cured
hams, cheese, butter, crackers, mess corned beef,
cigars and chewing tobacco Our volunteers made
one good feast out of the enemy, if no more. Our
soldiers do not murmur on their daily rations,
which appear to be pound 2 ounces of -four, 4 OF
pound of salt beef, some sugar and coffee. In
addition, the enemy's troops were abundanty sup
piled with clothing, and well equipped in all re
spects. Never was an army better provided for
than the Yankee army that was so well beaten on
the 9th and 7th inst But to the steel clad armor
A TROPHY FROM THE BATTLE. .FIELD,-Our young
friend Eugene Haight, just from the battlefield Of
Shiloh, brings as trophy the right half of steel
breast plate, lost by some Federal on the field
He left it at our office for exhibition, but did not
leave any information as to its history. Perhaps
the wearer started to run, and having made no
provision Tor his rear, was shot through that less
honorable, but equally necessary part of his body
MIR. Haight has also handsome Yankee uniform
He reports the Federal camp as abundantly sup
piled with the choicest food, wines, brandy, and
creature comforts in general, to which our boys
helped themselves con neucllO g1tsto. y
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