New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-10
Interesting Intelligence from the North.

From gentleman who has recently run the
blockade, who had an opportunity of learning the
secrets of the Lincontes, we learn several facts Of
interest to our readers:
He says that IL is understood that Gen. Buel is to
have an army of 125,000 placed under him for
operations in Kentucky, and that, as soon as he is
furnished that force he will get in his saddle and
go to work earnestly for the purpose of rescuing
Kentucky from Southern control. He says that
Buel is perhaps the most talented General, outside
of Mcclellan, in the Federal service, and that it
was understood that by the 10th or 18th of Janu-
airy he will have. his complement and commence
operations near Bowling Green. e
He says that the object Of the ultra Republicans
in desiring to supercede Mcclellan, is, to make
political General, feeling assured that the General
Of this waris to be the next President Mcclellan,
Sherman, Buel and Halleck, are all Democrats,
and the moment Mcclellan is superseded all the
rest will resign. This is known to Lincoln, and
hence he refuses to lend his sanction to schemes
looking to the appointment Of Banks, Of Massa.
chusetts, or Ben. Wade, of Ohio, or any ons else,
over Mcclellan.
He says it is understood at tie North that the
Federals are no longer fighting for our. subjuga-
ton, but for an honorable peace" and an agree
able boundary. They wish to wrest Virginia,
Maryland and Delaware, and Missouri and Ken.
lucky, from the Southern Confederacy, and to
embrace them in the Northern dominions. This,
according to their reasoning, would run line
from ocean to ocean, and give them what they
call an honorable peace"
No less than fifteen Federal officers resigned
their commission OF Cairo on the publication of
Lincoln's message, and Canleron's report. They
were Western men, who were fighting for the free
navigation OF the Mississippi river, but when they
saw the war was to be waged against slavery,
they quit.
He says the ultra Abolition party is growing
weaker every day, and that the peace party is
gaining ground. He says that not Vallandigham,
but Pendeton, of Ohio, is the leader OF the peace
party, and thinks that if any one hut Vallandig-
ham had offered the resolutions to refuse to surren
der Mason and Slidell. they would have been
passed. The acerbity of feeling existing between
the Abolition, Union and Peace parties is repre.
sented as intense. The whole West is opposed to
the Morrill, tariff, and the entire East sustain it.
saThe Federas have lately adopted new policy
towards the South. Unable to whip them in the
field, or to obtain any substantial advantage by
water they have resorted to arson. 1t is reliably
statelfn Louisville that the Federal Government
has determined to send beyond their lines, and
into all the Confederate cities and towns peniten
tiary convcts and desperadoes, who are to act as
spies and burn up our cities, and that for all the
fires they shall succeed in making, they shall be
literally paid. ." s'2| - s
These incendiaries have special instructions to
burn up all manufactures and workshops, the Fed.
erals believing thatin that way they will not only
cripple us, but destroy our manufactures and thus
compel us to rely upon their workshops. This last
information is derived from a Federal officer in
Louisville, who disapproyes the policy and who
has not hesitated to speak out in reference to it.
We place great reliance upon its correctness in
every particular, and hope that every city and
town in the Southern Confederacy will adopt
measures to watch the movements of all suspected
parties iand thwart Lincoin's emissaries in their
ftendsh and dabolical plans. Let the authorities
of Memphis make adequate preparations to save
our city from the fate of Charleston. Let Re
member Charleston u be our watchwords hence
forth.