New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
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Mon Cher G5lonel--We are gettins nsote an
more blue as the certainty Of Southern secession
III nfsde palpable. All sorts Of trade mas become
stsgnAnt. Usually, al this time OF the year, Jus
hefcre the holidays, tho Broadway shop-kespers
are doing 4 smashing business ~ hiilng advance
orders for books b0asesie, toys, clothing, and, II
fact. ali sorts Of things for Christmas aud New
years presents. Nov, the business. IS near
ram sf,tt,e Of The most Important houses, has
saSien al at least fifty per cent, with asnrospect
N fssr4her depreciation Everybody IS shortening
an and preparing for tough times.
N, this city, it would be very hard TO find five
sl,orssrd " lie twenty-five thousand voters who
declared for Lincoln. There Is very uneasy feel
inn abroad In the community, the streets are full
81 unemployed laboreFa, and should not be at all
auxnIfsad il serious riots took place during the
winter. There has been an attempt TO form q
yiggHrf Association, ard some people talk seri-
ousr Of pulling down the Tribune office. The
ramon that an attempt would be made upon the
uropsxty III tIe Spruce street philosophers became
e well defined that the Tribune alluded to it in q
half iacose, half defiant mauner--one not calcu-
Yafea. ~ any means, to allay public feeling.
a movement has been made by some OF the
merchants, who propose to sssd to the Legislature
petition, with at least one hundred thousand
SIGNATURES. praying that the city Of New York, the
counties Of Westchester, King Queens and Rich
H, III IN fror ia rest f tie State.
~ a,,d ~, bav new STATE with more than
..;,,;, ~, alf II ;nbabitants viii, real and
,,srsoa, nronerty IN the amount of seven hundred
,,il,;ons Then. n tl,e event Of secession New
ssas txrn,s Ia 4 free 4,ort sy1ppathzing with the
s.,nthsrn raafeseracy. me Legislature viii hot
asa 81 tle nation, because the Albany
;s.;s.,s will MAYER release their clutch upon the
as..4 a,s,s hxt yrl,sn sIr nrnner anpeals have
s;sra,.rssed NJ 81, Of Ns,s yorh ,on lake
- ;. "A ,,,t 6,1aas And the CITY of
IN g hittar1r ornosa II black Rennb
8 -, - srs, orleans That he
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s1,s eTw marh fYn that II this revolutionary
sara,,.esion sra rnust come Il last. Lincoln viii
not i,af owr, an inch from the Chicago platform
re ysilI ntair,. AZ ven al liz can, the principles
81 TX, Marty which elected him. The theory of the
Rac, Rs,,nhea, ,eaers in tbe first Mace il that
the eYp II secession II t1e South IL ali nonsense !;
and secondly. thar il the Cotton States do go out,
ti,ev win Ia very ulasl 10 come in again. In Con
gress thev viii az their best to squash debate
mon te secession question and push forward the
routine business IF the country. Lincoln is to be
inaugurased Ill due form, and the revenue vessels
viii be Immediately dispatched 10 blockade all the
Southern ports. Mr. Buchanan has been in Q very
bad way lately, and has succeeded in disgusting
everybody. He has sent orders here for troops
for Charleston barber, and then backed down. He
has haa tie Harriet lane steam cutter provisoned
for a long cruise, thoroughly armed and provided
with double THE usual quantity Of ammunition, and
then slapped. The Harriet Lane il now waiting
orders.
Some wicked people have been impugning the |
political character Of our worthy Governor, D. d.
Morgan, one Of the bright and shining lights of the
Black Republican church. Morgan made . snug
fortune ID the grocery business, and then cut il,
to follow as Mexican Buchanan's bographer,
saysl ths pursuit Of q shipping merchant Last
winter, Morgan 3 Co. came into the possession Of
rakish looking Baltimore bark, named the Cora,
and scId her high price to house engaged inthe
Chill trade This was early in April The Cora was,
however, intended for the ebony trade She had
fhe marks ot from stem 70 stern. IN May, Morgan
y o.. wrote 70 The y. S. District Attorney to the
aasct that they feared the Cora was better than
she ought to be-, whereupon she was detained upon
suspicion She had cleared regularly for Loando,
nj. o. Il, and with the usual slaver's cargo How
49, M Hy,t,,nr;t;es released her she sailaa ,non
her voyage, took her negroes Ito the number of I