New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-27
TALK ON CHANGE,

For two or three hours on Saturday the shady
side of the flags were well thronged. The chief
| talk was about prizes prvateers, seizure of ves-
sells, and now and then an individual asserted
that it was somewhat hard to seize vessels coming
into port since the declaration of the war. These
parties must study the rules of war. The Black
Republicans do not appear to have the least COM
junction about Selling and making prizes of Con-
federate vessels and property, but they go some
what farther, and seize neutral vessels and car
goes as in the case of the Hawatha. We hardly
think that the British Government will submit to
this. The steamer Suwannee, belonging to the
Southern Steamship Company of this city, was
seized and is now detained at Key West. 1t would
be supposed that the Southern Confederation has
the same right to seize vessels.
There was also some talk that the vessels which
have arrived since the 9th inst. owned in the old
defunct, and have secured freights, should be
seized and sold that the cargoes can be allowed
to co. particularly as they are for foreign account
There would be very little detention in process
of this character. The Judge of the Admiralty
Court can issue the summary process, and do the
whole business in fortyeight hours without inter-
fering with the cargo promising at the same time
that the shippers of the cargoes would have no OBJ
jectons to purchasing the vessels. AS the Northern
Government intends to seize and capture everything
that floats if they can, whether under their own
other flags, it is well enough to let it be under
stood that it is game two can take sides in.
Talking about vessels, there is q ship in port
called the American Union, commanded by Capt.
Lincoln. She has been seized. The Geographic
operators were somewhat COMPOUNDED two or three
days since when the Captain Q4incon) called on
them to send dispatch of this nature:
W. V. & o. Moses, Bath-American Union in the
hands of the enemy.
(signed) A. LINCOLN, Captain
The operator would not let it go. "Why not"
says the red-haired Yankee Captain? Operator
replies, " the Governor must countersign it." The
Captain inquiries, "where is the Governor?n On
Canal street at his office, replies the operator.
OF goes the Captain to Governor Moore presents
the dispatch, who was taken all aback, and so
much amused that the American Union, Captain
Lincoln, was in the hands of the enemy, that he
permitted the dispatch to go, saying with a smile
to the Captain that it would be so by-and- bye.
The ship R. d. Shepherd, which was built some
eight years ago by the late Judah Touro and Mr..
Shepherd, which arrived here since the 9th inst -,
has been sold and papers changed. Whether she
will stand the test of boarding officer from some
of the Black Republican cohorts, we cannot say.
The further talk is that it is almost time for our
authorities to be taking some decisive measures
towards protecting the Balize and the mouth of the
| river. The steam towboats can be converted into
| gunboats at short notice. Where is the Mill.
tary Committee? Why have not breastworks or
batteries been thrown up at the middle ground,
near the head of the Passes at the Pilots Station
at the coal-yard and at Pass a,rOutre? One or
TWO ordinary ganboats Of the present day can enter
the river by either of the passes, and taking up
tnef position at the points named, can, without
much trouble Or annoyance, effectually stop all
egress or lngress to and from the city, This course
has been suggested by some Northern naval officer
to Lincoln, Seward & Co.