New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-02-15
from Yesterdays Evening Picayune.


very extraordinary card, to which the signature
OF Denis Corcoran is attached appears in this morn
ings Delta, of which paper that gentleman is one of
the proprietors 1t gives his attempt to recoect the
him last Saturday night which has been attributed to
nightly proWlers and assassins who are known in part
OF the newspaper press as sThuggers." Whether Mr..
Corcoran is IN condition now to remember more than
is suggested to him, Or whether he was in condition
at the time to make probable that he can remember
anything distinctly, are questions which we shall pass
over for the present at least But the effort to CON
meet Mr. f. A. Lumsden of the proprietors of this
paper, who IS now absent from the city, with the com
mtting or abetting Of murderous assault upon Mr.
COrcorn, demands OF the associates and friends of
that gentleman the most prompt and indignant notice
The tlimsy grounds upon which this atrocous
charge is based add contempt to this Indignation. Mr.
Corcoran descends, at near midnight from protract-
ed wnedrnkng up stairs into to the barroom of the
st. Charles Hotel, which he says he found to be
crowded" Among the hundreds there, he only re-
members to have recognized f. A. Lunlsden, and
Baugher Co." whom he describes as professional
thuggers - and he adds that % Lumsden seemed by
his motions, to be exercising control over the band Of
thugs This is all the genteman's memory supplies
him OF facts Or what seemed to be facts described
with hesitation which expresses the doubt which
must linger in his mind whether he saw even these
things clearly The rest is all deduction he left the
hotel-he was attacked and hurt therefore these par
tcular men must have been the assaants; these men
must have followed him to assa him; and there
fore" Lumsden, because he had been in q crowded
room where they were, and " seemed" to unsteady
eyes, to have control OF them must have been prvy
to the murderous intent" 1t is upon such incoheent
gabble as this-the distempered effusions of mind
long jaundiced by personal i'll feeling towards Mr.
Lumsden and not at the time of this occurrence nor
since, in fit condition to give responsible opinion
that the attempt is made to blast honorable gentle
man as the prOmpter of dastardly crime! It is an
attempt which, in just community, will recoil fear.
fully upon the slanderer.
Mr.. Lumsden is, as we have said above, absent from
the city. What course he may decide to take in this
affair, we are not prepared to say for him but we
shall not wait for his return to pronounce the charge
| against him base calumny, to which we are sure
there cannot be found fact to give color and which
is utterly alien to his whole nature.
We will take advantage of his absence to say of him
personally what we might be restrained from saying
from scruples of decacy, if he were here to be sup
posed consenting to his own eulogium.
No man breathes who is more incapable of mean
or ungenerous act than T. A. Lumsden mpulsye
he Is, and Jealous, to the verge of rshness in what
ever he undertakes but he is generous in his i'm
kindly and honest heart does not beat in a manlier
bosom. He would no more do wanton injury to his
| worst enemy than insult woman and every man
that knows him in this wide city, except perhaps Mr.
Denis Corcoran and his advisers, feels instinctiyey
| that Mr.. Lumsden is infinitely more likely to have
pered his own life by rushing to the defense of any
person taken at disadvantage by others, even thai
Of Mr.. Corcoran HIMSELF than to injure hair of the
meanest of his revilers
We say this in simple justice to absent associate
not that we fear the calumnies of Corcoran will ruit
| the confidence in F. A. Lumsden of any man who
| knows him.