New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-25
....". SATURDAY MORNING. JANUARY 25 1862
Sterling Price Again.


IL VIII De DDTHt III mIl0 Dy fed0eF9 L1dL we
are speaking of Gen. Price and the Missouri CAM
paign as though our worst fears were realized. If,
hereafter, such light is cast upon the subject as
shal clearly sustain the action OF the War Depart
rnent, Or such explanation is made as can leave no
doubt upon the public mind-al,hough we are
wholly unable to divine anything which can pos
sby alter the prevailing and universal Judgment
we shall be the first to give our sanction, as we
cessity reserving, however, the right to determine
our own opinion concerning sad necessity, whose
tenures in general, we may add, are Of but ques-
tionable character, at best. We could have wished
moreover, for the sake of the people, who are SO
thoroughly incensed, land justly SO, as we think,)
that some explanation, if there be any in store,
Van Dorm esT&9@i - ss8s IA l&5ss 80 29.
Our complaint, however, is not so much that
Cen Van Dorm has been assigned to the Depart
ment of the West. That might be submitted to
with great good grace. He is a hrstrate officer,
and should not come in for any share of the public
displeasare. What we feel most is the persistent
failure to make Sterling Price a aMajoF-General.
Let us consider moment the fiimsy pretext
upon which the delinquency to do him justice is
exessed. ,@ s E-st54 71s4
He has not it said, yet entered the Confed
crate service. He is not yet within the pale of Its
authority. He is to be promoted as soon as he
gets an army, etc.
A fig for such balderdash. ~
Was not General Crittenden made Major. General
before Kentucky came into the Confederacy, and
assigned to the command of Zollicohers army,
having none Of his own? Was not General Albert
Sidney Johnston taken from the far West, without
more than body guard, aud placed in command
of the Kentucky campaign? Were not Generals
Smith and Lowell, who were, if report says true,
Street Commissionersin in the city Of New York at
the time of the battle of Bull Run. received with
open arms as soon as they came South, and pre-
sented each with commission of Major General.
Ia word. has ever an instance occurred where
there was will, that there was not also way ?
All the above officers are good men--most excel
pfrfrr1
haps, they are universally approved. But why,
before these facts. shut the door in Gen, Prices
face with such miserable cbaff as has been en-
ployed to quiet the popular camor? o - p
In the name of the people, who are deeply
aroused by what seems to be the most manifest
case of injustice on record, we ask for full par
ticulars.'' EtE 70@. =:
If there is any reason for the course adopted
with such sullen silence, we should like to hear it..
We want to do nobody any wrong, nor place any
one in false light. We are ready to defend every
member and measure OF the Administration where
q candid statement, which satisfies our own mind,
Is made. We wish to assai neither man nor
motive, either in Richmond or out of it. We
simply ask fair play, and full, uncouded COM
prehensIon. AS public journalist, we are obliged
each day to speak out on events pro and con. We
certainly cannot be desired or expected to violate
any conviction Of duty merely by so doing to re-
fran from difference, even with the President
himself. We care not for the party, if the rrnci-
pie be incorrect. 1t is true that are much to
sidered. Therefore, we are bound to utter our
sentiments always with freedom and independence,
and, where it seems to be deserved with warmth,
as we are doing in regard to Sterling Price. Our
mind is fully made up, and we should stutify our
self if we should fail to express it.
Even now the ladies of Nashville are making al
| most superhuman efforts to- raise supplies and
means for the Missouri army. They are animated
by as pure motive, and as intense a patriotism,
as ever throbbed in the bosom of womanhood.
They have watched the course of events in the
West, and have imbibed the warmest feelings of
| devotion to the cause they are so zealously en-.
deavorlng to build up. Not one of these true
hearted women but receives the naction of the
Government toward their hero with utmost chagrin
and modification. II is a damper upon their
hopes, and their enterprise.
Col. Jones, an Aid OF Gen. Price, has been among
US for ten days, or fortnight, pleading with sin
gular earnestness and eloquence the cause of his
chieftain and comradesn-arms. How does this
news fall upon his ear We have not seen him, but
true e.hearted man might well have done. He knows
the West, and can form some idea of the effect
there.
Gen. Van Dorm could immortalize himself by re-
fusng to take command over Gen. Price. Were
we his bosom friend we should advise him to do
it. What glorious spectacle it would present of
one hero doing his duty-perhaps more than his
duty-to another
Capture of the Schooner Wilder.
Capt. Ward, of the schooner Wilder captured a
few days ago on its retnrn trip from Havana, by
the blockading vessels off Mobile Bay, furnishes
the following particulars of the affair:
Made Perdido at l0a P. NJ. on Monday; she pro.
ceeded along the land to the southward and west
| ward, strong current setting to the eastward
consequently the vessel was unable to make any
headway; came to under Petit lagoon at 5 A. NJ
at O'Clock the master went on shore with boat
and dispatched a courier, one of Capt Cottrell's
mo n Hnrt 10
steamer making FOR the schooner; at O'Clock
slipped the anchor and made sail for the beach
got on the beach at about y O'Clock on Tuesday
morning no time to save anything, as the steame,
was in range Of the schooner; the Federals low,
cred their launehes, boarded the schooner, low
| cred the coloFs and commenced dschargng the
| cargo into their launches within three hundred
| yards. of the beach, Capt. Ward says he hadi sci
| fight, he says that the enemy came up in theil
| launches. Some of Capt. VIM Cottrill's- scouts
met them and fired few volleys, but did little OF
no damage. dispatch was sent to the Captain
| who came down at about O'Clock in the evening
with a reinforcement, and went into the engage
ment in good earnest, killing about twenty-five o
| thirty, that is all that were in one launch, ant
some others in another launch. The Federals iiret
| several rounds of shot and shell from the steamer
and also several rounds from the howitzers on th'
launches and musketry, but not doing the slightes
| damage to any one on our slde One OF the steam
ers d,ew off, and her place was filled by another
|
no eject At night the steamer came along sid
| and lowed the schooner off. Afterwards Captain
Cossrills men picked up one Of their sInan boats
which was pierced from stem to stern With bul
| lets.
/ Capt. Cottrl furnishes to- the Mobile Tribune
| tae following additional par.iculars: ts
| He says that when the schooner grounded O.
the spot a portion of his man (the City Troop VIII
were on picket duty, boagded her, and succeeds
in taking Oft about six sacks of coffee and som
cigars when the enemy, neared the shore an
1 opened fro, which was returned by the troopers
but, after axhausting their ammlEition, they wer
compelled to retire, bat were reinforced in shol
time, headed by the Captain. who had any quar-
ttity of ammunition, and made a second attach
firing fsom sand-hill. Every shot told with KILN
4 effect. He thinks the killed and wounded coul
not fail short of thirty or forty men. Some of tn
wounded fell overheard and drowned. His me
fired with such precision that the men in tl
launches hid themselves to eTade the bullets of b
sharp-shooters. The positioa he occupied made
impossible for the enemy ts shoot single man
consequently NO one was aurt on our side, thoue
q report is in circulation that one man was take
prisoner. .a - ~ y - - -l -a7
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