New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-17
Nsn ORLEANS laiIp Grsstsnt.
NEWS FROM LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI,
VIA CHICAGO AND CINCINNATI.


From the Cincinnati Commercial Of the 18th inst
we extract the following amusing article. Those
who are fond of romantic and sensational read
ing will be abundantly entertained by the follow
ing rich developments:
t'ISsASITY IN New ORLEANS. Under this head
the Chicago Press and Tribune publishes the state
ments made by business man OF Chicago just re-
turned from New Orleans. The informant of the
Tribune must himself be insane, or liar Of the
first magnitude the reign of terror in the South
is even more terrible than it has been represented
by the most extrayagant accounts heretofore pnb
lished. We select few paragraphs from the Tri
bune's article: g.E-
PRoposlTIoN TO AssAsIsATE L1NcoLS AID HAM
LIN.-The st. Charles Hotel is the center of the ex
ctement. That house is the common resort of the
most violent of the fanatics, who between their
cups and their cursings amuse themselves with
hunting up, insulting and driving off Northern men
because they are Northern men, When our friend
left the city, the ruffans had made clean sweep I;
and that carayansary was without resident OF any
Of the free States within its walls. They had all
been compelled to leave--some to quit the city and
their business, Others to look up more decentquar-
tiers, where violence and ruffansn are not the rule
One evening, in the reading room of that establish
ment, the crowd were assembled as usual, ana as
usual the Abolitionists were the theme. Becoming
excited, one man, said to be wealthy and influential
pulled out his pocket book and said Here are
$4,000, which will subscribe to fund to procure
the assassination of Lincoln and HaInlin. Who'll
$40, 900 had been offered for this infamous purpose
and the names Of the subscribers were taken down.
The witness Of this transaction is far from believing
that this was mere gasconade.
DAMNED ABoLITIoNIsT HANGING BY THE ROAD
Our informant says that on his way through South
ern Mississippi by coach (the railroad track being
washed away for many miles) he saw the dead
bodies of two men suspended by the neck from
trees by the roadside In answer to the inquiry,
"For what were these men hung?" he was told,
because they were id Abolitionists!h and the
excuse for the barbarty displayed in permitting
them to remain, rottng in the sun, was, that Mis-
sissippians would not ponute the State by having
id Abotionists buried in the SOIL" This fact,
says our informant, displays as forcby as anything
else, the temper by which the extremists OF that
| section of the country are ilnpelled.
| ESCAPE OF o. NJ. MITCHELL, THE ASTRONOMICAL
further proof Of the insanity, he relates the escape
| of Professor Mitchell, the eknown astronomer,
| Of Cincinnati. He was on the cars, going South
| and when near Jackson, Missssippi,a man some
| what inAamed with liquor, but more with pro-
slavery hate entered into conversation with him on
political subjects. The professor was cautious and
reserved but venturing to say he thought Mr. Lin.
| coin was a conservative man and would not do in
justice to the South, his proslavery friend was
greatly incensed; and whenthe train halted attack
| SON. jumped to the platform and shouted to the
! crowd about the station "There's a id Abolition
list on the train! Lynch him !" Lynch himm In
| santly at least fifty men jumped on and commenced
| a search for the offensive specimen of Northern
opinion, but before the Professor could be pointed
| out, the conductor, seeing the danger, pulled biz
| bell-cord and the cars moved of, and with then
| the Professor, with whole skin.