New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-11
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Letter from Virginia. \
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I& # RIolsMosp, December 2, 1851.
In allowing five days for my letter to reach New
Orleans, / made an excellent caloulation-for
your paper of Tuesday, the 26th, reached here
yesterday, Sunday, December l, just five days to a
dot.
| / have been blaming myself for not having al
luded, in my last, to your magnificent review.
Where in the world did you get 2s, 900 men from? :
Got any quick way of making them to order!
Turn 'em with q lathe, or mould EN- like bullets,
or how? That review started me 70 cypherlng,
| thus: If jackson, with Q handful OF rltemen and
few bales of cotton, whipped IL 900 Engiishmen,
how many Bull Runners can be whipped by $4,000
Louisianians- best fighting men in the world,
as old Gen. Joe Lane often declared to me last
winter, and as they proved AZ Oak ELL and Bel
mont |? A million, Of least, should say. Set up
| your Yankee pirs, Mr.. Linkum Set 'em up.
Copy Mrs. Greenhow's letter, which appears in
this mornings Wing. If the outrages perpetrated
on that poor woman do not make your blood boil,
nothing will or cam ;sE,r Ss1 81 iass7,f5g G,E
A friend has just come in to tell me that the Yir-
gina Legislature has convened and elected Jas. L.
Kemper as Speaker by a unanimous vote. Poor
old Crutchfeld Is dead, you know. Kemper is one
Ct the original Secessionists, has been acting as
Colonel and afterwards as Brigade Quartermaster
in the army of the Potomac, and will make first
rate presiding officer. s&s 1E5
Some Of your Southern papers, I observe, are
talking about moving the Capital from this place
to Nashville. Not SO. The seat Of Government.
will remain here for The next five years, and Mr..
Hunter says, Tam told, for the next seven. More's
the pity. Let me tell you what effect it has had
on Re q Imagine yourself at the Spots
wood Hotel. On your left flank are two eating
houses and barroonls- of them a New Or
leans house; on Your right flank is frst-class
faro bank lately smashed by Mayor Mayo, but still
Illuminated Of night /; in your front there is an
apple stsH, with bar-room in the rear; just be-
dewitt an oyster cellar in the basement OF wooden
house; turn up, Ninth street, and you come to
another eating house in the middle of tomb
stone yard Just opposite is Rueger's lager beer
saloon; inst beyond Rueger's, ON Bank street, is
the State Exchange, another bar-room; beyond
that is Manassas Hall; next door to that, an oys-
ter cellar; next to that, a barroom !; across the
street, little way, Is fCrawfords bowling and
Ninth, there are three more drinking houses; and
this brings you back to the Spottswood again. If
you make another circuit from the Custom-house
round by the Wing ONCE to the Exchange, and
lager beer houses, billiard rooms faro banks,
oyster cellars, etc., etc., is literally innumer-
able and appalling. Add to this the fact that our
hotel circles are getting to be as gay and fast
on your knees and pray that New Orleans may be
delivered from the horrors of political Capital
The Virginia Convention will adjourn on We'd
nesday, having done all it dared to do in the way
than that aif.way work which people despise and
won't stand. The telegraph viii tell you whether
Congress is in session, what it is doing and going
TO do. have washed my hands Of it, and am !
pleased with their cleanness. 5Et6 '&f 9I ny
Mr. Edward A. Pollard, the author of 6 Black /
Diamonds" formerly the 'Ixion'' OF the South, /
{Pryors paper) and now one of the editors OF the |
Examiner, jumps this morning upon MIR. Sam.
Leteher, whose denunciation of Mr.. John M, 4.
Daniel was noticed in my last letter. 1t is aston
lshing how pleased people are with personalities.
Every body in the street is saying, Have You seen
the Exaniners It is rich as cream this morning.''
fear the taste of the Confederacy is in nothing
separation from Yankee land. WIN
can't we adopt the English plan, and keep our
private quarres to ourselves?
/ Having written to this point, cturefste cazdno.
and feeling little dizzy, rushed for fresh air to
The nearest bulletin board, heard the good news
about sMontgomery's Jayhawkers, {would to-
heaven we had bagged the illbegotten wretch, l.
lin Lane) rushed to the Dispatch Office and got 7
copy. of the Governors message, and returned.
Eonchlng said message, more anon. I'd W. tslsa@ s5l
1t turns out, according to q dispatch to the Gin
5innati Commercial, that Seward lcas at the bot
ON of the National Intelligencers article on the
NasonrSlde affair." just as conjectured. Rejoice
md be exceeding glad, in that you have so smart
John Ball is going for to have his finger, nay his
Whole big, brawny, bony fstin the great war-pie
,reiong, you may rely upon it. 7 ,,t5f.aNg&S
4 don't know when have laughed so heartily as |
did yesterday morning at waggsh young fell
ow, who insisted in making an engagement with
,ur iandiady to " set up with her corpsen when
he died. Now, that's what call gallantry y r. N
They say the Exchange is so crowded that mem
'ers OF the Legislature have to sleep three in a
led, and serious fears are entertained lest the itch
nd the hog-cholera should break out and become
pidemic. y.s5y e,5s,G,E.,y 5.r 1870 -. h
It is showing, slightualy, so no more at present
rom years WEI detn. MALoU.