New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-11-01
TTw YoRY CORRESPONDENTS.

h = f.
spesis, i III Nv orleans Crescent
NEW YORK Oct. %, 1859.
Messrs Editors Dull and gloomy weather just
now in our great city, and particularly cold. Not
much time in quantity, has passed away since l
! last wrote you, hut the hours have been pretty
well occupied. The Harper's Ferry-whatg Row
/ revolution - tragedy insurrection riot-out.
| break-bloody episode - reasonable plot-esca
| pade-rebellio mad-cap enterprise war
affair." Yes, Harper's Ferry affair suits the occa
sion.
The subject is serious. What can be more SO to
rejecting people than the uprising of slave popu-
lation! In the present case, it has been made abb
surdly ridiculous, and there is getting around it.
The idea of twelve white men conquering the
United States arsenal and 200 men-taking village
of 1000 population, and holding one hundred or
| more prisoners-the scared slaves who ran away
and hid in the bushes to avoid being made free
the address Of Wise, who called the Harpers Ferry
people Il flock of silly sheep"-the rousing out
| Of thousand armed men-the capture of old
Brown etc.. ETC.. all items extremely ludicrous,
/ and to no persons will they appear more so than
to q courageous Southerner, who is not afraid of
1 his own shadow.
As for any plot or combination in the North with
1 the extravagant Brown farce, it is all sheer
sense. There is feeling of honor started in all
classes. The idea shocks the Northern mind. Had
| success attended the Harper's Ferry affair say,
| gladly, that ninetenths of the Northern people
would have risen to putt down. It had no sympathy
in the free States hate to read charges rejecting
upon our innocent community such as have seen
| in Southern papers, 1t is bad taste, to say the
least of it, for any paper South that states
| fact, design Of any party in the North to
incite the negroes South to bloodshed. do not
believe it. A few bad spirits may desire to
blood split in the South; but they are few they
are mere handful among millions who would go
South tomorrow, if necessary, and shed every
drop of their blood to protect Southerners against
an uprising Of negroes, or an invasion from out
siders. Give even the Devil his due. don't think
the Republican party would exert itself to get a
negro uprising in the South.
Those amusing ducks the Fifth Avenue Demo-
Gratis, Originally Everett House purity party are
going it with perfect looseness. Money in mil
lions The party have adopted new name. Now,
it is g the New York Democratic Vigilant Associa-
ton.n They have organized permanently. The
cause of removal from the q Everett House y to
Fifth Avenue Hotel is beyond my ken. The active
men in the new machine are Watts Sherman, Joel
Wolfe and Arthur Leary. W. Sherman is one of
the great banking firm of Duncan, Sherman Il Co.,
well known to your merchants. Joel Wolfe is a
retired corn merchant, formerly President of the
Corn Exchange, great distller in Holland, and
brother of Udolpho Wolfe. Arthur Leary is the
son Of Leary, the Astor House halter, and an ex-
tensive shipping merchant. These are the moving
spirits of the Viglants. The bother is, " what to
do?'' The Vigilants will take large room in
Wall street. Ozone already.) They will start a
weekly, called, The Record Of the Vigilants,' to
be edited by Col. James F. Lee
Some of our latest, LATEST, egotistical Office
holders thought to ring IN the Arstocratic Demo-
CRATES! This was met by the following resolution;
ResolUed, That John j. Cisco Sub Treasurer of
the United States, Saml. F. Butterworth, Superin-
tendent of the United States Assay Office, Emanuel
B. Hart, Surveyor of the Custom House, John
Cochrane, Daniel E. Sickles and other Members of
Congress, be excluded from the Association. We
are satisfied that our integrity will be best pro-
noted by their names being left Off
Poor sick Federals What ingratitude! The
Vigilants intend to show their power on the Mayor
llty candidate. They will make tdsco. The
Boys " will be on hand, for the money, and the
Vigilants could do wonders-if they only knew
low. hope they may.
The news of Hon. John G. Mason's death at Paris
las reached here since my last. There is a vacancy
low! There is $4,000 up for a bid $4,000 outfit !
md $500 salary per annum. Who will take it
DON'T all speak at once--the Office is gone. WHO
las got it," My own idea is, and has been, that |
ONE months ago the President promised 1tt office
0 James Gordon Bennett, arlten Mason resigned |
he Office is vacant, and it will be given to Ben
ett There is hardly doubt about it. Queer
rorld. Why should not Bennett have it? He |
as earned it. He has served James Buchanan
aithfully- Bennett as Ambassador will not |
make fool of himself or bring ridicule on his
ountry. He would not live six months after he |
appointed. The change in his habits would be |
90 great. He is an old man. Bennett will never
ee 10 again. He is the future Ambassador to |
rance.
Our Croton water broke loose one way day last |
Teek main pipe burst in the Fifth Avenue and
CODED acres of cellars, houses and lands A large
ortion of the city has since been in that water.
t will be fixed again by Tuesday next. Any acct
ent to the croton is terrific We can do very well |
Tithout many things, but we must have water.
Our city amusements are lively and money |
making. Old Henry Wallack has arrived from
Europe. He goes to your city as stage manager
Or the Varieties Theater. He came in the Canada
icing his 43d passage Henry is the father Of
Dung James w. Wallack who married Mrs. Seton |
I'D Jem is "A and Henry 7s-in years he will be
0. Only think Of that-an so year old stage |
Those Walacks are all trumps in their
Tay.
John A. Washinton, the late owner of Mount
vernon, has burst up, and gone to smash; specula-
ion is the cause of it, whether faro or stock, can't
ay. The ladies who have paid him $l75, 900 are
ddled out of their money. He can't give clear
tile until all his old liabilities are cancelled. He
yves 100000, it is said.
The Great Eastern is expected daily-over the
eft. don't bet, but if / did, would bet Anne
lea, or no part of the Continent sees the Great
Eastern Mis gear.
Lola Montez has returned from Europe. Sc
iously, Lola has become intensely pious. She has
plan in her head that will revolutionize religion
n this country. 1t is love in everything. Lola
means to do good to her race, and to her sex. She
will establish new Church, and order of
hings. While absent, she has made arrangements
hat will astonish man and womankind, when
made known on this side of the Atlantic.
/ am quite sick of the /" All-England Eleven !"
humbuggery. What would those fellows take to
go home and keep quiet the rest of their lives /
don't like an Englishman, any how-never did,
never shall
There is another English fool out West, hunting
-.