New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-12
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL II, 1862.
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letyesterday. On st. Charles street and the grand .
boulevard Canal, there were large assemblages OF !
citizens to witness the funeral of the lamented /
Gen. 3. S Johnston. Notwithstanding the weather
was unpropitious, there was a large concourse of /
people here, there, and we may say everywhere.
There was no later intelligence from the seat of /
war, or the great battle field Of Shiloh, that is, of
any more fighting. The details Of the killed and
wounded are being received. Though the losses
are heavy, they are not TO the extent that was at
first reported. The largest loss of any one com
pany received up to this time is that of the La
fonrche Creoles, the killed and wounded being
twenty-eght The Yankees, with all their large
numerical force, were not in condition to resume
fighting on Tuesday or Wednesday,. In the mean
time, the talk is, push on the column If compa-
MES regiments cannot be furnished all desirous
Of aiding the holy cause should go on their own
hook.
There is doubt but that many guerrilla parties
| could be raised if they were sure of being fur
nisheda with arms and ammunition. In fact, guer-
rilas can live and subsist on the enemy just the
same as the privateersmen on the ocean did in the
war of 1872 and 1915. Scouting and guerrilla par
| ties are working admirably. We very seldom read
Northern accounts that we do not learn of the ar
rival of the bodies Of this that Yankee officer,
killed in skirkmish, "pieked off, by some Of our
sharp shooters.
In conformity to instructions, we learn that the
authorities took into possession yesterday several
parcels of flour and wheat, which will be accounted
for at prices according to the tariff which will pay
the cultiyators raser5 about 200 per cent gain.
| If present prices of breadstuffs and provisions
should be maintained for one year, the farmers and
growers would be the capitalists of the country.
| There are some receipts of flour and corn from
Red river, which will serve, with some supplies
from other sources, to maintain the demand for
daily and city consumption. There are large
stocks of wheat and flour in Virginia, which would
be forwarded hther under the tariff prices if there
| were any means of transportation. The railroads
are all taken up for the use of Government. How
ever we shall work through without any real dis
tress. Our planters ignoring cotton and plant
ing corn. We say, plant corn, raise hogs and cat
tie. As for cotton, do not think of planting more
than one-fourth of the ground of last year. We
presume from all accounts before US that the
question of planting cotton is settled the season
is passing. But we say again. plant corn.
The course of the wind yesterday was very
pressing on the levees, and fears were entertained
of breaks and crevasses.
There was some talk of dispatching vessel to
Cuba to import few cases of g Bronze John,' to
help the Yankees to some unmentionable locality.
The day closed under stiff gale from southeast,
attended with rau which, of course, will be of
shoIt duration.
To show the spirit which anmates our Louisiana
volunteers, we append the following extract of a
letter from a member Of Company F, Fifth Regi.
ment Louisiana Volunteers, Col. Theo. Hunt. ]
appears to have been written in reply to reques
to the writer and others to reinst:
| MULBERRY ISLAND Va, March 2e, 1862.
Dear Sir-You say it is the wish of yourself ant
that should volunteer for the term of tn.
!, | war. Your remark was unnecessary, as j
of the war in May last; yes, it the lasts fol
twenty years l am ready and willing to stay and
see it out, provided no ill-luck Details me, or
| should become victim on one of our battle fields
If fate calls am ready at any time to die, and
have one consolation, that is shall die in good
be willing to sacrifice them in trying to gain the
. independence of the South. I presume that yor
l are not aware of our regiment being the pioneer
i regiment of the Confederacy. It is so. We were
the first regiment in the service that volunteered
: for the term Of the war; yes, the glorious Fittl
claims to be the pioneer regiment of the Confeder
acy. We volunteered our services for the entire
war on the 10th of May last.
= There is not much news here. We have been il
service nearly year, and have not yet had figh
beyond two skirmishes, but they did not amount tt
l anything, as the Yankees invariably ran when WI
: ma de our appearance. have had but one shot a
: them since I have been on the peninsula, but
think we will have some lively times in few days
! as I think the Yankees intend to make an attemp
to get to Richmond by advancing in this direction
: I think they will have very good time in gettin
o. there. Yours, etc.,.
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