New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-08
Nsh 0rleans Bully Grtsttut.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1859.


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WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1859.
THE DELTA IN "CONNlPTION FITS.
Somebody had better hold our wretchedy afflicted
neighbor OF the Delta, or else the wild thing will
assuredly commit violence upon ITSELF It has the
conniption" fits terribly; and consequently fires
around at random, wholly careless as il would seem,
whether It shoots itself, or friends enemies So
far according to judgment, it has only crippled
itself and wounded its friends. Not solitary oppo
nent has been damaged.
As suicides generally tell the truth before relieving
themselves of world which has become dsagreable
to them, 1t pains much to be obliged to infer |
that our friends of the Delta not only intend to omit
this most important portion OF the interesting cere
mony Of leayetaking, but to make their supporters
remember them as long as possible by rejecting upon
them in the most dsagreeabe manner. This, we
assert bluntly but kindly, is positively cruel.
Our cotemporary's editions Of yesterday morning |
and evening are delicious specimens Of what dsor
dered imagination can do when it 'spreads" itself
It's capacity for the marvellous the awful and the ut
terly improbable is truly great and would be refresh
ing but for the painful idea which forces itself upon
the mind, that insanity to be succeeded by sudden
dissolution, is at hand If our contemporary is
not in sad condition. why should it pervert the
record for the purpose Of bringing reproach and
singing contumely upon the first leaders Of the very
party it assumes to represent? We ask this question
in sorrowful sincerity with the view Of arousng the
friends of the patient to early and prompt action. If
strong applications not applied speedily, burnt
brandy" will prove nefficacious in the premises.
The Delta, with all the premonitory symptoms of
craziness upon it, proceeds to assert and intimate in
| aggregate and detail, that Mondays election was
characterized by deeds Of violence and bloodshed al
together deestable and horrible. Nothing could we'll
be farther from the truth than this Its statements
and inferences, in this regard, far they have
general bearing, are as unfounded as the widest
| flights of feyered dream Mondays election in
stead OF being violent or disorderly, disgracefu
was the very reverse. 1t one Of the most quiet
peaceabe, and unquafedy apathetic elections ever
held in this city In the Second, Third and Fourth
Districts there were no disturbances worth speaking
| about Hardly common, ordinary fst-fght, en-
vened those three great quarters of the city, Indeed
so outrageously welldisposed were the people of
those respective localities that about o'clock our
principal reporter back to the Office in despair
and ayowed his determination to throw up his stua-
| tion as there evidently a popular conspiracy on
foot against newspaper reporters We tried best to
soothe him, and succeeded to some extent. He then
went out in the First District in search of items.
How he succeeded, our readers who peruse this and
yesterday mornings Crescent will know
In the First District the only disturbances of any
moment occurred None of these were serious. The
most serious, 50 far as are able to understand
happened among quarrelsome members of the sue
cessfu party. No Irish or Germans were touched
molested naltreated. The Superintendent of
Elections, and one of his Chief Deputies, and perhaps
Three four ticket tables broken and here is
the substantial extent of the damage cotemporary
makes such terrible ado about What an insane
attempt to create mountain out of mole hill
Not satisfied with this Misrepresentation of facts,
all of which we account of the desperately
idosyncratc condition of neighbor, it proceeds
to attack its friends, and to the Superin-
tendent of Elections-the worthy Gen. Lewis-all of
his Chief Deputies, and all of his Ordinary and
Extraordinary Deputies, of downright poltroonery
and cowardice! Could anything be more unjust or
unfair? Could more lanentable proof of alteration
of mind be brought forward? We regretfully say
that we fear not.
Does not the Delta of yesterday evening say, in
plain terms, that two men routed the Superintendent
of Elections, all his Deputies, Ordinary and Extra
ordinary, and played hob with things generally
Certainly it does No other idea or inference be
drawn from the language fuses. Well, what set ol
unmitgated towards these men must have been
clothed they with supreme authority, to have
permitted such things, if the Deltas account be
$ rect None of these gentlemen in our deliberate
opinion amenabe to the charges indirectly alleged
against them by the Delta. So far as we know them
we consider them brave high-toned, honorable men
: and although it is not likely we coincide with many
of them politically we feel bound to defend their repu
tatons against the unfounded, indirect aspersons
i the Delta. .-..=
For these reasons, as above set FORTH we hope som
sure speedy and ecacious means, will be devised tt
b prevent our neighbor from perpetrating the sin o
sefdestruction. He has merits and qualities of value
and if, unlike the cornered rattlesnake, he can b.
prevented from injecting his own poison into himself
l. having nothing else within striking distance upo
!. which to employ his fangs, something useful am
d good may yet be made out of him.
THE YELLOW FFvER AT New OKLEANs,-We lear
n by private advices from New Orleans that the Ye
low Fever has made its appearance there. The frs
is cases developed two weeks ago, and now ther
e are about four or five cases per day.
/ st. Louis paper.
We have great curiosity to see one of the Munchau
sens who get up such private advices as the above
: but they wisely keep themselves more private tina
deceived prints abroad do their advices, which, a
every one hereabout knows, are without shadow
foundation
All the wit and wisdom of Boston did honor