New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-10
Late Northern Intelligence.
From the Meg1phis Appeal


The London Times correspondence says a
New York letter writer in the Philadelphia In
quirer-was to sail for home in the Arabia, which
left New York on the 29th inst. He says he has
written all about this miserable country and war
that can be written, and that the people do not
appreciate him.
1t is stated that the late strikes at Government
navy.yards were caused by an order from Wash
,ngt9n to reduce the pay ten per cent and require
much excited, and held an Indignation meeting.
The Chicago Journal learns that on account of
the high price of cotton, and the greater durabil-
ity Of hemp. the Post Office Department is substi-
tutng mail-bags made of hemp for those of cot.
ton, which have been heretofore wholly used. The
some paper also adds that the manufacture of
goods from hemp has been brought to high state
oi perfection, and the material is particularly
seryceable for articles of strong and coarse tex
ture. Hemp is now raised to a considerable ex-
tent IN some OF the Northern States for the seed
and yields good profit for that purpose.
me tribune prays for a " chilling frost" to har-
den the mud in Kentucky. This, the editor thinks,
Is all that is now required to put the Federal ar
nles IN motion, and he adds: " An, advance during
the past week has been impossible on account of
the moist rainy weather, which has converted the
lneater OF war into an ocean OF sush and mud.
we ought soon to experience cold snap,' and
then expect to hear some news that will mark an
epoch in history.n
They have been aresting civilians at Chicago
who were stuttlng the streets dressed in soldiers
loSSeiJ. aAuutHS 10 Inc IaCE, Tie Times says
There is anothe, class for whose benefit a sepa-
rate order should be issued at once. 1t is the mig
gers darkey in the dress of soldier! What
next can be, expected? A monkey might with as
much proprlety put on the waistcoat and collar of
gentleman, and, with cane in his paw, strut the
streets as independently as any one
Lincoln has accepted the resignation of Briga-
dier-General Reynolds, from lnuiana.
The Boston Commercial Bulletins list of failures
gives three in New York, one in Boston, one in
Providence two in St. Louis, and thirteen in other
places-a total Of twenty for the week.
Dispatches from Mr.. Gorwin, with treaties nego.
tiated by him, have been received in Washington.
One of the latter said to be an extradtion treatv
provides that neither nation shall surrender to the
other fugitive slaves or political offenders. The
other, postal treaty, differs in important particu-
lars from that negotiated some months ago by the
Mexican Minister at Washington.
letter from James Guthrie the Secretary of
the Treasury under Gen. Pierce's Administration,
generally sustains the financial view taken by Sec
retary Chase. 1t also approves of Gen. McClel
lans defensive position upon the Potomac but he
thinks that offensive operations by the Federal COL
umns are the best plans for driving the rebels out
of Kentucky. General Buell. is made the subject
of his high commendation.
The New York Evening Post says that during the
recent illness of Gen Mcclellan, when his friends
thought him in a somewhat dangerous condition,
one Of the urged upon him the propriety of con.
fding whatever military plans he had devised to
some competent and trustworthy person. His re-
ply was, bnat Ills plans were understood, and that
when it began to storm the people would hear the
thunder all around the sky.
BY order OF Gen. Sherman, correspondent of
the New York Times has been sent from Port
Royal on accountof alleged dsrespectful language
used in speaking of the officer named.
The Louisville journal, of the alst inst, Says A
Brigadier-G General while walking along the street
in Alexandria, having been shot at with pistol in
the hands Of q drunken Lieutenant the Provost
Marshal Immediately issued an order for the seiz.
.nre and destruction of all liquors found in the
hotels and restaurants in the city. The order was
visited every rum-hole in the town. A large GUAM.
tity of the ardent was destroyed.
The St. Louis Republican states that John
Loughborough, late Surveyor General of Missouri
with an apartment in the military prison.