New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-15

ROme. laH been aasa9Slnated.
The stock Of coffee at Rio was 100000 bags on
the sth of January, -
A dispatch from St. Louis, dated 1lth inst, saws:
The Confederates are being reinforced, and they
are confident thev can hoid their nnsition
NoRyoLK. Feb, l3-The French war steamer
Gasseud arrived at HAMPTON Roads on the 10th
inst Commodore Gautier and two of the officers
arrived here to-day. -
The Federal forces took possession of Edenton
yesterday morning, The inbabitants had nearly
all left and it is reported they proceeded mn the
Roanoke to Plymouth, -
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w estern Military Correspondence.
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All Quiet at Columbus osanizaon of the Kennedy Battalion
into the Twenvfrst Louisiena i.egimen-A Few Words
on the subjec:-Three Correspondents. nii sns-New
Picture Of all Old Kentucky Hums-our Model Postmaster
and his Son --Boahcy ameny the Whisky Sellers etc.
special 10 'he Ne" Orleans oreseens.l
=, oohcNEes N.Y. teoFuaty = 1907
mr. Ednor-He are as quiet as ever here, and
our only talk is of the Federal raid up the Tennes
see and CumherIand r;varu and tho h-;dx,o- -hrrn
49,, 49, oea >, "no .uo o''use'ufn'
,nss anu cahnoladlnes on those deVoted streams
But need not attempt to tell you what we hear
as you in New Orleans will have heard Of it ali
long before anything of mine could reach Won.
To-day was all GLORIOUS sunshine. without a
speck OF cloud from morn till night; and although
it was freezing cold most of the day, the powerful
they could get full play. Tonight is as beautifully
clear and moonlight, and the mud has already re-
lapsed into the original granite. We expect a
spell of dry weather now and drying up of the
mud, which has SO terribly obstructed our iocomo.
ton and hauling for the last fortnight. -..-
The Kennedy Battalion has ceased to exist
The eighth company being filed, it was this morn
ing organized into the Twenty-6rst Louisiana. or
hcCown's Regiment. Lieut.. COL Kennedy was
unanimously elected Colonel: Major West Steever
was unanimously elected Lieutenant Colonel. and
Capt. John Newman of Company A. 1.-THE Bonford
Guards) was elected Major on the third ballot over
Capts. Sam Willis, of the Askew Grays, and d. M.
Soria, of the Campbell Guards. - :. = !.
At subsequent Champagne blowout. given bv
Major Newman at his quarters. Col Kennedy
heing properly complimented, rose and proposed
that the new regiment be called the McCown Reg-
ment, in honor of the able and esteemed General
commanding this division. am sure that the
compliment could not possibly have been better
bestowed. Gen. McCoWn's sagacity in military
matters, and the earnest and impartial attention
he has bestowed upon the various corps COMPRISING
his command, have at once won for him the atfec.
ton of his division and the respect and esteem of
the whole army. And may add that be has some
reason to value the compliment have mentioned.
Under the constant and rigorous training of Lieut
Col. Kennedy, his battalion soon took It's rank az
one of the best drilled and disciplined bodies of
men in the army here; and as time passed, it be.
came still more conspicuous for its ambition to be
doing something, and the aacritv with which It
obeyed any order promising either fatigue or dan.
GER In bringing the battalion to this grade of az
cellence, the Lieutenant Colonel was not a little
assisted by his Major West Steeyer, a Young gem
tleman of military education and some WarliRe az,
perience, in whom older officers recognize high
promise, if the war spares him.
Now that the battalion has proved its ui,,s by
swelling to regiment under obstacles and troubles
which have rather tended to reduce regiments into
battalions it promises to take a front rank in the
expected troubles here or wherever it may chance
to be SENT and this promise seems a certainty
when the MCGOWAN Regiment is led by officers SO
brave, energetic and able as Col. John B. G. Ken.
Newman.
Speaking of military elections, I may add that
Major has at last been elected ia the Eleventh Lou.
isiana Regiment. This is Tor was) Capt. - Mason,
whole regiment.
"When shall we three meet again ~ was the in
quiry propounded to myself this evening, upon
finding two other correspondents seated with my
self around hospitable hearthstone, with blaz.
ing wood fire upon it. As the Delta, Crescent and
picayune are all close in row on Camp street, in
New Orleans, were we three scribblers for those
three papers seated in row outside that hearth
stone with the fire on it, in Columbus 1t was at
the residence of MIR. Jollee, plain old gentleman
of the Kentucky school, with q most amiable and
good-humored wife, and modest and rather
charming grown-up daughter; not to mention a
son, absent in the army at Bowling Green, and a
younger son still in the family circle. There is
something novel, if not romantic, in the situation
OF this family. 1t is situated in the very midst of
the camp on the hill, and is the only family left on
the hill The necessities of war have compelled
the removal of all other families from the vicinity;
and this family would perhaps have had to move
also, but that Mr.. Joee had already suffered more
than one man could Afford in the occupation of his
fields and houses by the army, and that it seemed
cruel to remove the ladies' from home thew loved
so much they being willing to stay there and take
all the chances of the war. Only the cottage and
surrounding lot left for the homestead all else
is taken up by the army All around where last sum
mers sun shone upon the placid corn fields and the
shady groves, and where the only music heard was
that of the birds, may now be seen naught but the
grim structures of a warlke outpost-high banks,
deep bitches, redoubts black muzzled cannon
grinning at all points whole colony of tents.
shanties and cabins, Of the most outlandsh appear.
ance imaginable; horses Gathering, men tramping,
swords Changing and muskets cleaning, ali the
time perpetual blast of music sometimes
sweet, and Sometimes harsh and discordant,
when the brass bands and fife -and-drum
bands around join in reveille or tattoo. In the
center of such scene as this stands the quiet
little home of the Jollees. It might seem curious
that ladies, for all their love of home, could con-
tent themselves in spot so warklike; but they
became used to it by degrees, as the army gathered
around them, and now say they think they can
stay there as long as the soldiers. The first time
the Hessian gunboats sent their shells over this
place. Mrs. Joee and her daughter were filled
with terror and sought safety in cellar The