New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-29
INCENDIARY PUBLICATIONS.

| A 'FSubscriber ~ on Tchouptoulas street calls
our attention to the fact that among the other in
cendiary publications read in city is the & New
York Mercury And in proof of it he encloses rs
an extract from that paper, full Of bitterness to-
wards the South and urging vigorous prosecution
of the war to the end that the South may be at
once subjugated and made obedient.
We do not think anything is clearer than that all
such publications should be stopped from circula-
ton in midst If not by public opinion, by the
strong arm of the law. The mischief they do is in
| calcuable. Every community has the natural
right to protect itself from danger of whatever
character, and it is of the first importance that
| Northern fasehoods should be prevented from
gaining currency among our people. The cities OF
Memphis and Nashville have excluded the Louis
| vile Journal from their midst and yet we of New
Orleans permit other publications equally recl-
less and unprincped to circulate freely among all
| classes of our population
After awhile-and very soon too-we shall have
Southern literature superior to that of the North
| and there will be ne excuse for anybody TO buy a
Northern publication. Their circulation, in fact
ought to be made penal offence, except in such
cases where we satisfied they do not tell lies
on us. The North has treated us atrociously
we ought not to put dollar in their pockets unless
we know that nobody but friend will get the ben
eft of it, If we want literary reading, and we are
very far from discouraging it, we have already
Southern publications worthy of our support and
patronage. There is the Southern Literary Mes
senger at Richmond, Virginia, monthly Maya
zine, which we have before called attention to, and
which we have been surprised not to see for sale
at our book-stas. There is the Field and Fireside
at Augusta, Georgia, weekly literary paper of
great merit. All of these things will come right
after awhile, but the best way to make them come
right is for people to steadily discountenance,
and refuse to purchase, every publication that
comes from North of Mason and Dixons line unless
| we know beforehand that it is not packed full of
| lies about the South and the Southern people.
The DINCoLNIrEs CAUGHT IN A TRAP IN BRANTON
| COUNTY, VIRG1NIA.--A few days since, says the
Richmond Enquirer of the 23d inst, Colonel Tyler
who was formerly Yankee fur trader in the North
Western counties in this State, aud who is now
stationed at Weston, in Lewis county, and COM
mands Lincoln's ruf1ians there, determined to make
an excursion into BraXton county; but the Colonel
was frustrated in his designs. Some Of the BraX-
ton boys, learning his plans, determined to head
him off, and, accordingly, selected a point on the
road he was travelling suitable for theft purpose,
| and accomplished their designs III the following
| manner:
AT point where the Colonel had to ascend a
long hill, they feed trees in his path and fell back
70 a convenient point, where they laid in ambush
anai ne passed. They then fell trees in his rear,
aiSo, mus completely catching him in trap. They
.neh hfed upon him, killing some fifty sixty Of
| ms nieh ana capturing many Of his horses, etc.
Inns enterprise, We understand, was conducted by
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