New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-11
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL ii, 1862
TALK ON ,onANGE.

IAllt ON efJt1ANSxE.
It was sTemarkably quiet on the flags yesterday Il
not solitary sale to our knowledge, either Of cot
Ton, tobacco, stocks Or bonds, though there was
talk. Oh course, many remarks how things are /
going to result the present and next week. there
were some remarks bout the passing OF five Of the
.enemy's guhboats Island No. 10. It Is supposed
they were getting where COM Heliins could reach
Them The holding of Island No. 10 cannot be said
TO be any consideration after the evacuation Of
New Madrid. ssl,5 s Z. E5: e y
There was some talE Of q battle going on in |
front Of Yorktown, Va, but nothing of defined
character was ascertaned up the close of busi-
ness. %s7s tys s4ss
MS We give up much apace this morning to the fol.
lowing details from Mississippi Sound, hundredsof
our citizens being more less interestedi ia the
villages on the seacoast ssss5r y
Il The following correspondence from Mississippi
City explains the cause of the landing at Biloxi
and The attack on Pass Christian village. The firing
on the flag of truce was altogether wrong and
unjust fable. But the Yankees could not go of
without stealing few negroes which they wanted
perhaps to make cooks Of. We embody the letter
in our Talk, being dated
75zzss55. ~. k1ssIssIPrI C1rr, April I, 1862.
It appears that some:day or two before their
landing in Biloxi on Wednesday theysent a flag of
truce ashore at Biloxi with a little girl four years
old, the daughter Of DR.. Pension of New Orleans,
who, together with some passengers. were taken
from boats that left a vessel that was lost in the
Gulf This child and some letters from persons re.
tanned on the feet were left5with Judge Holley in
Biloxi, and when the flag of truce started for Ship
Island, she got aground and was fred at by some
persons from the shore; they were boarded after
being being fred on, and desired or commanded to
surrender, which the officer refused todo.s Atlast
they got of, and on arriving at the island and re.
porting how they had been treated, the General
sent ashore force Of about eight hundred men,
whoson landing, at about snn-down, surrounded the
town and remained until morning, and desired to-
find out why their flag had been fred on, and who
had done il. II seems they found ont who they
were. but were not able to dnd them. They posted
notice on Browns gallery, saying that no pri1i
vate property would be molested, and desired the
citizens to report any soldier who shonld be guilty
of any misconduct. they then went and cut the
Telegraph wire and took all of Eimer,s negroes.
men, women and children, who went down To- the
boat and asked protection, and one OF the negro
men told them that he had wife at Cailayet,s
where they sent file of men and asked her if she
wished to go with her husband. She said yes, and
they took her. They took all the goods out Of
Emers store and lot of wood, and told lis me-
groes to help themselves to what they wanted.
and they tried to get Elmer himself, but did not
succeed. They seemed to think that he had some
thing to do with the flag Of truce affair. They then
went after Fewell, but not finding him, they took
one Of his children to Biloxi, saying that if Fewel
did not come in they would take his child off
| Eewell then went in and they treated him we'll
asked him if he knew who fred upon Them and if
he had no control over the matter. He informed
them he knew nothing Of it, and had no power to
prevent it. When he went home they took one
soldier prisoner, who was drunk in Biloxi, and
made some fuss there. The commanding officer
then said that he had stayed long enough, and as
he had not seen our Colonel, he would go to Mis-
sissippi City and hunt himup, as he had not come
to see him. as he wanted the persons who fred on
theiu that they had no intention Of landing if they
mad not been fred on. 81 r. - s7s47sss So
This Information give you as I received it from
Judge Holley, who Is now with me. Before day
the next morning we were all on the lookout for
/ something, and all at once a heavy firing COM
menced right off the pier head. The flash Of the
guns looked splendid in the dark. We could see
no vessels, and thought we were about to be
treated to q few shells, but soon day broke and
there were our gunboats right amongst the Fede.:
raj boats, three on side After shar fight our
boats went off to the Pass, where the Federals fol
lowed and landed, throwing a few shells into the
town-one went into BTill's house and bursted,
one went under Leovy's house, and one struck a
back house.of Hiern,s. After landing they took
the Confederate stores, takng aboard the hay and
corn and giving the meat out to the people on the
Pass. They opened Carter . suter store, and dis,
tributed his bills notes and goods ont amongst the
lnia
and went out drawing the pieces by hand to the
camp, and then attacked our soldiers, who fell
hack over a creek. I beeve that no person was
hurt. They then cut and tore down the telegraph,
and on going back asked to see the leading citizens
of the town. They had confab, when the officers
informed them that they did not intend to fire on
the town, and were sorry they had done SO, but
fhey done it because some parsons set fire to the
nay on the pier head as they were about the land,
and they thought The place intended to make q
4 fight that their objeotwas not to interfere with
private 5propefty This idea they seemed to try to
mpiess on the minds of all the officers, and told
the men that if any Of them, under any pretext,
i went itIto any house they would be punished
severely. They said also that the Oregon had fired
INTO thsir boats and hure their men. They then
left about O'clock in the evening. Next morning
i the same boats at daylight lay right off the pier
head, and we shought we were in for q visit but
IN about an hour they went to Ship Island , and we
have seen nothing Of them since, and now all Is as
quiet on the coast as usual or could be expected
Il after so much excitement. y
i The enemy will not make much on the sea shore.
It's too far from their base Of operations never
thsless, the villages should not be left unprotected
i from these =maranding parties. It is now ten
months since the Yankees first appeared in Mssis,
Iysippi Sound.
In our Talk yesterday regarding the quantity
Of leather which the Confederate Leather Manu-,
featuring Company could turn out daily, the guam
tity should read four hundred sides per day. We
urge on the company to hurry up their lcathef-it
4 is much wanted st5ssS5 ~ +5 s5'Ss
The day closed quiet though there were some
remarks about the Yankee squadron below the
forts; but inquiries were made about the Yankee
army; where is Gen. Butler! The swamps below
city are in splendid condition for field service,
that Isl they can be rendered so in something Of
a watery way by the aid Of the Mississippi river.
There was intelligen on the flags at a late hour
that the appointment of q prominent official had
haan yna1a and ta auestioYlg settled in repard In