New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-03
Heavy Federal Reinforcement.

Heavy Federal Reinforcement.
far soUrnwEsrERN AND AMERICAN LIsEs.l
From Pensacola. ... .aa4.g"
PENSACOLA Jan. Ia Confederate steamer
going to the Navy Yard to-day was fred upon by
Fort Pickens, when Gen. Bragg's batteries replied.
The firing still continued at last accounts.
. PENSACOLA, Jan. 2.-The engagement was COM
menced ON yesterday afternoon at half-past 2
O'Clock, by the enemy fsing on small steamer
lying at the Navy Yar8 wharf The firing soon
became general, though slow and deliberate on
both sides. The last gun was fired from our side
at daylight this morning. The shells from our
guns were thrown with great accuracy, but the
effect on the Fort is unknown. The steamer
escaped without damage and no casualties are re-
ported The only damage done was the burning of
two or three wooden buildings in Warrington by
the enemys hot shot One Federal vessel was
outside but not engaged in the fight. All quiet at
- O'Clock, NJ, with no prospect of renewal of
hostilities. 9s2 Sa7 -s4fna aaa -rl 4 s.,Ess y
7s Official Report Of General Bragg. yg'
RICHMOND, Jan. 2.--Gen. Bragg communicates to
Government that the firing commenced yesterday
by Pickens firing on Confederate steamer, which
was replied to by the Confederate batteries and
continued during the dav till night, casualties
our side. Col. Anderson was in command, as Gen.
Bragg was absent, but he returned early this morn
ing. Pickens did not renew the firing this morning
and no further demonstration made on our side.
The Enemy at Biloxi.
Gen. Mansfield Lowell has kindly favored us with
the following telegram from the operator at Hands
boro', Miss: ls -+.... So 7er-.s-... - r.-r
HANDsBoRo, MISS, Jan. l-Gen., Ne LoveN.-
The enemy came as near Biloxi yesterday morning
as they could get, with three small steamers. Two
U. S. officers. with sixty men, then landed in small
boats, and demanded of Capt. Farrell, command
ing that place, any property in their possession
belonging to the United States. or munitions of
war of the Confederacy, giving Capt. Farrell one
hour to decide whether to fight or surrender. @sa3
Capt. Farrell surrendered The U. S. Commo-
dore then took two small cannon, and made in.
quiry for the arms of the Home Guards, though he
did not get them.
Gen. Butler and his command were at Ship
Island, and could not say what he would do.
The enemy remained in Biloxi a few hours and
returned to Ship Island. ....e,..5 ~
This is through reliable gentlemen of this place
and Biloxi. .... -..... --..
Private Dispatches. ... ..
MISSISSIPPI CITY, Jan. L. Fn,. Barnes, Is COM
mon Street.-The enemy landed at Biloxi yesterday,
and took all the guns. They say they will occupy
the coast. I shall try and get to Covington. There
is awful excitement here. LII. D.
MISSISSIPPI CITY, Jan. 2:-Wne. Barnes, Is
Common Street. All is quiet on the coast to-
day. The Federals have all left the coast. Biloxi
is considered in possession of the Federals and
they are expected to occupy it soon. shall re-
main here for the present. l.. Il. DAVIS.
The Trent Affair
RICHMOND, Jan. I've have no further infor
nation here in regard to the disposition of the
Trent affair at Washington, since the report from
Centreyille of the surrender of Messrs. Mason and
Slidell, which telegraphed you. That report is
generally believed in Government circles here.
The following telegraph was received by Gov
Moore from prominent gentleman and official in
Richmond:
RlcnMoSD, Jan. 1.-slide and Mason have been
given up. Stewards letter to Lord Lyons occupies
Of In Roll GrIp md
cludes with saying he "delivers up the Commits
sioners with pleasure. whenever Lord Lyons
chooses to receive them."
have this information from a gentleman who
read SeWard's letter in the Sun, but l have not
seen the paper myself.
Release Of the Confederate Commissioners.
RICHMOND, Jan. 2.--TLe Richmond Enquirer
will publish tomorrow, from the Baltimore Sun of
the 30th ult., the demand of the English Govern
ment for the restitution of Mason and Sldeli the
answer of Seward and the response of Lord Lyons,
the English Minister, which is short and pointed
Seward surrendered instantly, but closes his reply
with multiplicity of words, and argues, through
tirstlys and secondlys, that the Southern Commits
but says, however, the laws of nations, while
justfying the capture of the enemy's Ministers, do
not, as in case of property, provide formulas for
adjudcating the capture. This might have been
avoided, he says, if the Trent had been detained
by proceeding against her, which would have
been morally decision of the case of the Com
missoners. The moral certainty of the character
of Mason and Slidell would have been sufficient to
meet the spirit of the law, but the Trent being
dismissed the service was lost. Seward says, sub
stantially, that the capture of Mason and Slidell
was in opposition to, and the restoration demanded
by all those principles which ever obtained in
American policy and craftsmanship, and to vndi-
cate which the United States went to war with
England. In declining to surrender the Commits
sioners he would violate long maintained dogma
of his own country, and which he approved.
En0ujrerS editorial
First, The. capture was right when tested by
justice, law and decorum; second, its advantages
must be surrendered upon an assumed technicality
in a cosrt where there is no pleading third, the
capture was wrong, as judged by principles
always maintained in the United States, even to
the extremity of war. To Stewards abored effort,
Lord Lyons makes brief reply, and to the point,
says he has sent his (Seward's) words to England,
and will see him soon and receive the Ministers.
The Philadelphia Bulletin says: " Whatever has
been yielded is only owing to the imperative ne
cessity of avoiding foreign war while we have
domestic one on hand. We had better not stand
on punctlios, and run the risk of the Union being
destroyed by an alliance between the rebels and
the leading powers Of Europe" s5r.
The New York Express says " This surrender
to q necessity will soon impose on us other neces-
sites in connection with Great Britain which we
must yield or fight. Ninety days will not elapse
without further insulting demands from the Eng
lish oligarchy." -syz.
The Express advises instant preparation for war
says the Administration has given up Mason and Sill
dell not to law, equity and right, but to necessity.
The American Eagle in its trials and troubles, hum
bles himself for the first time to the British Lion.
Rebellion on land drags down the flag never be-
fore humiated before England. Let us Americans
hang cur heads because of our humiliation and
dismiss the subject with as much silence posi-
BILE. The National Intelligencer says Stewards
course is approved by every member of the Cabi-
net, and says war with England and France is es.
capped by it.
From Charleston.
CHARLESTON Jan. "A private dispatch from
Pocotaligo yesterday, says the Federals attempted
an advance from Port Royal Ferry, but were re
pulsed by the Fourteenth South Carolina Regi
ment, under command of Col. Jones. The Con
federate loss was fifteen killed and wounded One
Yankee taken prisoner. mT
1t is reported here that large feet of Fedora
vessels were off Tybee yesterday.
L. From Richmond.
RICHMOND, Jan. l.--Prvate dispatches state tina
the Federals are landing troops at Biloxi, which il
| one hundred miles from Mobile and eighty miles
| from New Orleans,
RICHMOND Jan Ia dispatch has been received
in official quarters, stating that the Baltimore Sun
| of tha 9nth ult nuhlishes Snward's diSpatch tf