The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-22
The Rev case Abroad

The Columbia Is. g. Telegraph speaks as fol-
lowsi
THE ABDUCTION CASE IN NEW ORLEANS
We did think that the greatest Of all modern bores
and the dryest, was the Artesian wellin Charleson
but New Orleans has found lin the lowest depths
a lower deep still opening to devour" public pa
tence, Between contested elections, cFeVasses,
cholera, and other exciting topics, that city has
been kept in such state Of constant hot water,
that some grand excitement is now a necessary
OF life with its mercurial population. A tTifing
fellow by the name Of Rey-a Cuban-went off 10
Havana, under circumstances that looked susp-
cious, being very drunk the time Of his going on
board, and having expressed fears previously, that
plots were on foot to abduct him by violence. Upon
mere suspicion then, prodigOus clamor raised;
grand public investigation had at the expense OF
several thousands Of dollars to the public purse
| the New Orleans papers groaning under columns
/ OF testimony like Gray's 3" long passages that led
tO-nothing' editorial indignation lashing I'M The
| whole population into fever Of excitement-when
10 and behold the captain of the ship returns from
Havana steps into court and swears that it is " all
a hum. THAT Rey went off of his own accord
/ Mr.. Campbell, our Consul, makes the same state
ment On the authority of Rey himseE-but even
tins wall not satisfy our prosecuting friends, VINO
swear il is an a ruse-that Rey has been bEbed-
and that he should be forced TO come back to prove
10 the satisfaction Of the community how and why
he went away Now il does strike us that this
requisitOn is a little unreasonable and if carried
| rather a preearious thing. The editors Of the
Picayune and Delta mightnever be allowed to get
more than half way TO New York, as suspicious OF
their being abducted, or going on board " with a
brick in their hats, might justify the requisitOn
for their personal appearance before Judge Bright
and M. NJ. Cohen, u. s. Commissioner, who have
spun out this Rey case to its present interminable
length. The patience of the yicinage seems giving
way, for the Mobile Advertiser thus groans over
the indiction in its last ssue--and we condoe with
CATION about the abducted Rey, as tappears in the
New Orleans papers, is a bore. Benton's speech
about Kearney, came near being the death of those
who attempted to read it. There is no knowing
the effect Of the Rey proceedings. Worse than
the cholera we think" o.
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
THE " REY AFFAIR. ''-The examination of the
persons charged with having abducted ReY is fin
shed in New Orleans, and the result appears 10 be
that a great cutlery has been made about nothing,
the proofs lacking the essential requirement of COM
ing anything near the allegations. Il was alto
gether improbable that a man could be seized at
his boarding house, thrust into carriage with
dirk at his throat, and in apprehension Of his life
carried 10 much frequented hotel there RECALLED
himself for a half hour or hour without making
any attempt to get away from his eaptors and then
carried out Of the country by force.
The jackson tAIsa) southron comments in
another style
The Juan Francisco Rey abduction bumbug has
exploded in New Orleans, and left moi even he
smell of sulphur behind These owsel ovglS'
boys are great set Of arks, and will soon become
notorious throughout the Union for the number If
their dry and prOsaic Jokes There was certainlv
peculiar prbpriety in their adopting that vvacios
bird as embematie Of their character; and, we hone
that, TO an owl rampant, they will add a goose
pendant, as the most fitting and appropriate coat
of-arms for themselves and their dupes. After
oifrhf mr. mir 1aun of
filling the newspapers with hundreds Of columns
Of silly and impertineht questions and answers,
/ (which could neither amuse, instruct nor edify
either auditors or Teaden,)it turns out, after all
that Rey was no political" offender that he
positively denies being abducted and obstnately
| sPufns the profleTed assistance Of the American
consul al Havana to bring him back to the United
spa'es' So much for that affair."