New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-03

banks remain in the rivers mouth until it is apparent
that there is to be no fight the Cuban question
Their formation there at this crisis may be an inter
position Of Providence to save New Orleans from de-
struction. She is again defended with barricade
constructed Of asaple production Of Louisiana, mud
| in 1915 cotton was used
In the event Of war with European power
though there is certainly small probability Of il oc
curing in our generation New Orleans would be at
the mercy of an enemy that could run three or four
war steamers into the mouth Of the Mississippi and
which, without pausing to compliment with broad.
side in passing the harmless specimen Of a battery
which is slumbering in the swamp between here and
the Belize. would crack all steam up river and be
perfectly satisfied with the results of their expedition
If they could gain but halfhours privilege Of steam
ing up and down in front of New Orleans, Shooting
and Smelling the city and shipping, and almost ami
hilatng both, before they were compelled to surren.
der or run for it.
They would calculate the cost, as when ireship is
sent into an enemy's feet, and conclude to "gor
few steamers on New Orleans, and would make some.
thing handsome on the transaction, casting up eprot
and loss or rather the loss that would esue to both
sides OF course they would never certainly antici.
pate getting out Of the trap after running up the river
They would blaze away and destroy by shot and fire
dozen millions or SO worth of shipping and city
property, and then, il they found there was bad
chance Of their getting out of the river, they would
run their ships ashore, fire and blow them up, and
surrender prisoners Of war with perfect amiability
and content unless troubled with nervous foreboducs
that their necks were in danger In consequence of
their violation Of the polite amenities Of civilized war.
fare, which prescribe that only men in arms shall be
killed though under various circumstances anybody
may be killed and among these circumstances is the
circumstance Of unarmed civilians being SO unfortun.
ate as to be caught in city that is in state Of siege
90 caught, they may be killed cautiously and
politely, as per rules of civilized warfare.
He Il not Myth.
After having inquired "Who is General NJ S. Rem.
nean9' until they are tired out, without receiving any
reply the Northern papers have come to the concu.
sion that this negotator for Conchas loyalty Cuban
revolution and independence, who sprang SO sud
denly into bold and countrywide notoriety, is
myth, o nobody, somebody who never was, but
merely suggestions individuality, got up by letter
writer's to play part In the narratives of fact which
they culled from their negotiations in short that
the General was dnckling offspring of the great
ca''ard which has SO agtated conservative nerves.
But such ideas are mistaken, for General N. s.
Renneau, the laborer in the cause Of Cuba, is no
myth but an actuality, very decided entity, as we
can attest from having seen and conversed with him,
IN the very Office where we now write, about week
since. He Is very quiet, staidseeming, middleaged
gentleman, and not sort Of cross
between Don Cesar de Bazan and one of Schiller's
Robbers, as the press generally seemed to imagine
until they came to the later conclusion that no Cen
eral Renneau existed at all.