New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-04
NUMBER 2s2
Letter from Virginia.
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Special 10 the New oFieans esvse.ns sass, Il
~ NJ Eslioy+-At dinner table to dayz1wIiebs by.s
the.way, is as mild as aday ID TIE middle IF Apr-
there was much talk about The Yankee ships being
between Fort Pulaski and sayannah, and Il hiah
military authority was cited as saying tias al!
though the fortwas strongly garrisoned, and pro
,gyisioned for SIX months, twas to be abandoned
and its supplies, munitions, etc:, destroyed to keep
them from falling into the hands Of the enemy.
How much Of this is true pretend not to say II
Is the latest news. The question was asked At the
aforesaid dinner table, g What are we to do in
case Savannah is captnrea ny d tbfck-skuiled,
goodnatafed, opinfonated fellow, who has hereto
fore been d sturdy champion of the defensive
policy spoke up and said ~. March $4,000 men
into Pennsylvania, ss.Aye.! y cried everybody,
Beauregard goes To Columbus because he could
no longer dcze in the mud at Centreville and be-
canse there is need for our best men at that much
endangered point Gustavus W. Smith, who sue-s
TO the command of tile army OF the Potomac,
| is said TO hold in Beauregard's own estimation a
place Inferior to no other officer IN either The
Northern or Southern army. IfS with the MD Of
Tomlin's bill, which proposes to retain as many as
possible of the Virginia volunteers in their present
regiments, and TO fill up the ranks with recruits
drafted from the militia, we5c can Keep Vrginia's
quota in the army Of the Potomac up to its fall
standard Smith will have brilliant career before
said in o former letter, the Yankee concern Is
going to cave in with an immortal squash, and the
time will come when even nJef Davis himself, per-3
s'sa let sp ag of wa a. e ssy
pressed Maryland s disenthralled and the poisoned
chaiee ofinvasion.is commended to the lips Of the
Internal people Of the North. IA II "a 81 .S5,atg
| Isay inferncl and mean il. Their whole con-
ductain this war has been Internal Internally II
was begun, Internally Kept up; and 1t viii end in
formally. The shelng Of defenceless houses on the
Potomac was infernal.a The stone blockade is in
fernal. The lying hurrah for Jeif. Davis from the
| wretehes that killed zollieoffer was Internal The
| butchery of q poor old shoemaker in Hampshire
county, a few. days ago, and the burning Of the
house over his dead body was infernal.s Every
thing they have done and intend 10 do is Internal.
Yetswe treat them cordially when flags of truce
meet, laugh and joke with them, hob-nob, cham-
payne with them, and presently, when the two
Commissioners which are to- be sent here from
Washington to attend to the Yankee prisoners, ar
rive the gracious Confe derate Governments going
to treat them with distinguished consideration
This temper adds greatly to onr danger, forit en-
feeling left in us. When we meet this internal foe
on the feldsof battle or off 'it, our deameanor
| should be much. the same-stern and curt. They
| should be made to feel that we remember their
| atrocities to helpless women and children, that we
intend to avenge their suferings, and that we hate
the authors Of these atrocities with a hate as deep
and undying as the Pole cherishes against the Rus
sian, the Italian against the Austrian-yea even
| aswe hate the devils in hell. ..sy-yz
H. Though our latest foreign advices Indicate
peaceful feeling in England in consequence Of the
release of Mason and Slidell II still hold firmly to
the opinion that there will be war. Vallandigham
predicted it within three months from the return of
| the Confederate Ministers-and that occurred a
month ago. The prophecy is correct as to times
unless Columbus and Bowling Green should fall--a
contingency not to be anticipated, inasmuch as our
Generals in command Of these places are not aban-
doned sots. Nevertheless, We may as we'll make
up minds to the that the hottest part OF the
war is yet to come. 2.fa s4fs4a@S &gFS3s1 s8 II
In some numbers of the Atlantic Monthly, of a
comparatively recent date, which lie before me,
find an interesting sketch by George William Curtis
The Lounger of Harper's Weekly, of Theodore
Winthrop, who fell at SBethel-the only brave
Yankee there, according to- Colonel now General
HILL of North Carolina. 1t appears that Winthrop
had great dealt do with the planning Of the ex.
pedton which resulted in his death. find also q
very coarse but hu morous and eauste story of this
same Winthrop. in which the manners and customs
of the South are held up to the ridicule and exc.
Grafton of the North. Also an article from Oliver
; Wendell Holmes, showing the intense excitement
that preyaedin Boston at the breaking out of the
aTar--an excitement which SO consumed all other
interests that the people cared only for two things
first, newspapers containing accounts of the latest
J victories over the rebels and,ssecond, bread
enough to keep soul and body together while read
ing said papers. Towards the close of this article
the worthy Oliver reaches the conclusion that the
time may come, possibly, when the excitement
i loving Bostonians may be compeledjtopnt up with
smaller newspapers, containing the records of al
ingorious peace, and loaves Of bread diminished
to a size just capable of sustaining life, and nc
II more. God grant it, sayiI. Not that begrudge
them bread=-not at all if they will stay at home
don't care if every individual nutmeg of them de
YOURS q ton Of the rankest goldfish and million o
+ therancidest doughtnuts day. 4
ia have Just c0nv erse with some Tennessee mem
bers who affirm that officers and soldiers rho were
in the fight at Fishing Greek, and who have reached
Knoxville, soy that when Crittenden ordered the
:. attack Aolcoffer told him the enemy were making
it.. The members report, further, that the Yankees
are pressing on to the railroads. .gaLet em press.