New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-24
FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY "a, 1862.
Letter from Virginia.

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Letter from Virginia. /
specia,, othe New Orleans ereseent.l3s 5zg
ts ss7ay4ss; a s-gI RIcHxosp,. January II, is62-
Dir. Edttor--Cameron has resigned. After steal
ing all he could lay his hands and trying to run
the Abolition engine over the skulls Of Lincoln and
Seward, he has poeketed his prodigious pickings, t
and jumped from under the crumbling, gorilla con-
cern Just in time to save his bones. The only valid /
objection we can have his successor, Stanton, is
the possibility of his honesty. But this will do the
Yankees little good The manis incapable of the /
enormous business Of the War once; What man
is He and his nation must be 'whemed IN tne
greatest financial crash and national collapse ever
recorded in history. No wonder thar hoary old
rat Chase, is scuttling out othe empty ana echolhg
vaults of the Treasury. So far as We can see, an
awful retrhution is at hand for the crime saturated
leaders and the coneeited and besotted people who
forced this horrible war upon the South. ~ may
be, in tie providence Of God a foreordained par
pose to visit upon these unhappy people fate SO
world generally pity that else had found no place
10 our breasts. Tie odor of their conceit and their
selfshness has gone up to heaven; the plood OF
their Southern brethren (brethren no more foI-
eyer) like that of Abel, iscryng from the ground,
and the vengea of the Almighty, inexorable as
the, laws Of His material universe in torrents OF
wrath, of fire and of birthstone, OF widespread
calamity and dismay, Of present agony ana pros.
pectve torture is to be heaped upon their unhappy
heads till they cry from the mire OF despair, Ike
them Of old, for the rocks and mountains to fatl
upon them and hide them from the Indignation OF
an incensed and outraged Deity. -
Jacksons expedition to Bath, and Hancock
though attended with many hardsips to his troops,
especially in their return, has been followed by
the happiest results. 1t threw the Yankees, from
Leesburg all the way mp, forty Or fifty miles, into
L. fprri Or
and Of them from the soil of the Old Dominion.
! They fled from Bath, from Hancock, and, after
Jackson had returned half way to Winchester, and
his main body was more than twenty miles from
| them broken down and with no thought OF NOV
ing, they fed from Romney in hideous disorder,
leaving all their stores 500 tents, and even their
/ morning reports, behind them A bakers dozen
of Hampshire cavalry took possession of the town
| within quarter of an hour after they left, ana
| captured a number of prisoners, some of wnom
were brought down here yesterday, and declared
on the road to the officer who had charge OF then,
that there would be no more fighting. for the men
J. composing the army, whatever might be the opin-
ion Of their officers, were perfectly satisfied that
the South could not be whipped They-the men mel
/ of the army including themselves, said these Hill
noisans-wonld fight like the devil as long as they
a believed there was any use in fighting, but they
were well convinced that fighting the South swas
labor worse than thrown away. This comes e
me from the officer who brought them down, ant
4 am inclined to think that such must be the rea
feeling of the Yankee army
), When our troops arrived at Hancock they wer
wild with enthusiasm, for they We're only seve
miles from Pennsylvania, and believed, simple tel
lows that they were to be the first army OF haod
sion. A soldier in Gilhams regiment tells me tba
r every man Of the army, having the utmost con
: fdence in Jackson, would gladly have agreed
. go into the rich valley Of the Susquehanna, only
few miles of, on the condition of remaining there
with the rive- behind them, their supplies cut OF
and no chance but to forage on the enemy--th
$ easiest thing in the woodland to thrash out any
,ot ho hrrn ipsff ham
t the invasion been made, if only as a foray on
V large scale-for Jackson and Lorng had ninetee
regiments with them, and thirty pieces Of artiller
n the efectwould have been tremendous. Harris
d burg, and even Philadelphia, would have tremblet
$ Banks and Stone yea, the great Mcclellan himsel
IS would have been in pretty hutter. But Jackso
}. told his men, after they had burnt some bridge
d blown up a tunnel and destroyed the raroa
t track, that he had accomplished what ne had il
& tended to do and they were satisfied.
In thinking about the immense advantages y
would have gained by adopting the aggress''
o policy and carrying the war into Pennsylvania az
Il Ohio. I always feel sense of modification ar
a | rage and do not wonder that Beauregard's view
of the proper mode of conducting the campaign,
!, expressed in the preface to his report of the bait
e OF Manassas, should have been withheld from II
:. public by those who forced the defensive polio
upon people whose every instinct was adyer:
d to it. Nor is it surprising that Congress,
If ordering this report to be printed, should ha,
4 decreed to suppress Beauregard's views and Il
= adverse comments of the Executive. The time hi
m not yet come when difference of opinion betwee
m two such persons can with safety be submitted
~ the impartial tribunal of an Intelligent publ
opinion. 1t is well for us that the closed portals
al Congress have kept back from us the fierce di
"a cussons over this report, which shook that boz
to its center Perhaps, too, it is well for US tn
the defensive policy was adopted for had our armi
l penetrated Pennsylvania and Ohio early in II
IN campaign, as surely as the sun shines in heav,
o. o. the Democracy of those States would have clI
II. tered about it, a jeff Davis party would ha
re risen in the North, our army would have swell
ne every step of their advance to Philadelphia a
n New York, and reconstruction lcoatld haze te
n. ineUitable. s. e 81 5s= B. sesy go @
NJ In this aspect, and in this alone, can see {
lk least comfort or the least wisdom in the defensi
On policy, 1t may be, and in the long run, doubtlt
Il. is the best policy but 1t has cost US terrib
on terribly. ~ tA aE& .@sr
1 dare say could squeeze out of the mater
around me few facts which, when dressed L
er might interest your readers, but this letter Is 10
lot enough already, in all conscience. MALou
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or The Flight near Prestonburg, Ay.---Feder
Account. r..
LOUISVILLE, Jan. IA, ls62-The following off
~ ~ documents have just been received at headqu
,ters here: s2 .
les Cant 7 FRY ass,stan, Adiuau serI A '' o. i''
- Ientered this place yesterday, with the For
IDS Second Ohio Regiment Fourteenth Kentucky Re
&C. ment and 800 of the Second Virginia Cavalry.
hearing Of my approach, the main rebel force
IN, their strongly entrenched camp and fed. $
ad my cavalry to the mouth of Jennis Creek, VIII
. they attacked and drove the rebel cavalry, VIII
Jf- had been left as a vanguard, distance OF
)n- miles, killing three and WOunding consldera
er- number. Marshall'sf whole army is now flying
| utter confusion. He had abandoned and burne