New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-01
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS
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4 WAsarSGroS Jan. rs, ls6l'
Mr. Etlitor--r don't know how it IS IN your LOWE
but in this village the sigu-painters make grea
snay Of pictorial art in order TO attract attentoh
On seventh street one Of these painters challenges
/ the admiration of mankind by pair OF human
i 6oures which not only publish the artists Skill pu
| convey a 4 morialH as wholesome as that at The
close Of Wilkins and his Dinah, or any of those
i deduoibIe from Hogarths series representing the
career Of the Idle Apprentice. One of the figures
| il dressed in good clothes, and wears happy
| face. Over his head is inscribed, "Putty is up
The other is clad in patched rament, leans agains
ahogshead and is the very image OF dlsslpated De
lection, His name and superscription are, Patty
is down.
So is it here iii the metropolis Putty IS " very
| ssdown !" in Washington. Since there is to be nc
fighting anywhere, we have all had relapse
Rust-good, kind-hearted, sympathetic gentleman
that he stried to console us yesterday by getting
up a fight in the House with Dunn, of Indiana
But it was no co. at least not there and then. Pts
tolls and seconds, hacks, coffee and doctors, were
ordered outside, probably at Bandensburg, or,
more probably, nowhere. Hindmanas soul was in
arms or rather the arms were (not In his soul
but in his breastpocket, and eager for the fray.
Little Cox of Ohio, was much perturbed, and flew
round like 3 fritter in q frying pan, eyincing a
number of anxieties to lambaste almost any amount
Of bodies. So the thing ended.
Intently as we watch the revolution, we are
quite unable to tell or even conjecture what will
Be the end Of it. Some say lit will carry out the
Border States, others say it won't. I am of the
latter class. But we are all in the fog. No land
marks are visible. The wisest and most weather.
beaten sailors are at fault. Seward, who has been
throwing tile lead all the time processes to believe
that the ship of State will soon enter the haven
Of peace, without spar or a plank missing. Yet,
all this secession surely means something. It is
not 10 political dodge, e a conspiracy to break up
| the government by few scheming politicians,
as many still suppose Or if it were only this
III the beginning, the colossal results already
reached indicate the existence of influences work
ing i'll the depths of the popular heart and destined
to mighty consequences, Of which no man dreamed
at first at least none Of those who looked to Sc
cession as a political expedient to accomplish
party purposes.
We have had some disgraceful exhibitions here
during the last few days. Clemens, Of Virginia,
has made a speech of which Sumner might be
proud, and followed it up with personal expiana-
ton about his broken leg and his reeking wound,
Of which an idiot might be ashamed. Alas for
Virginia. How are her mighty fallen! Emerson
Etheridge has eelipsed Andy Johnson, for he has
declared that if Tennessee should secede he would
take sword in one hand and a torch in the other
and make war against his own flesh and blood.
When ambition for office leads a man to such an
excess as this, well may we suspect the soundness
of his intellect. Etheffdge's gait and demeanor
show that his mind is not well balanced. Suppose
this bloody bid is accepted, and he gets place in
Lincoln's Cabinet, what set they will be. First,
Lincoln himself, county court lawyer, no more
fit to rule this government than many negro who
tolls on your levee. Then comes Seward, man
without soul, and inspired with Economical hatred
of the most profitable institution on earth, the
basis of American prosperity Then we have
Bates--an old granny, who ought to be attending
to his spiritual welfare, instead of trying to govern
a nation. Then, probably, comes Cameron-a
cunning Wire-worker, as mercenary and unprin-
eipled, where money is concerned, as mortal man
can be- Lastly, we have Etherdge-a man whose
declarations ought to place him lower in
the scale Of animal existence than the beasts of
the forest or the reptiles Of the swamp. When
the wicked rule, the people mourn,' says the
Bible. What they will do when governed by a
junto of maniacs, imbeciles and thieves, 'twere
hard to tell.
We expect to hear by telegraph, tonight, that
Louisiana is no longer in the Union. Benjamin will
bid final adeu to the Senate. Hunter will be
alone. Of all the able men who represented the
South, one only will be left. We can no longer
count Crittenden as on our side for while he denies
the coercion speech attributed to him in secret
sons,f the Senate, he owns that he did say the
Government had the power and the right to compel
States to remain in, and that is all the Aholitionists
contend for. Even they differ about the expediency
of coercion.
The city is filed with armed men, but they are
studiously kept out of sight, only permitted to
go about in squads of two or three. Buchanan and
Scott seem to have to their Senses and SO far
as they are concerned the Southern Confederacy
has nothing to fear. As soon as the Governments
organized at Montgomery, and sends ENJOYS here
to demand the forts, they will surrender them. But
the matter will have to go before the Abolition
Senate, and what that body will do is a question.
They may be fools enough to refuse. War follows
at once and inevitably.
Not a single copy of the Crescent has reached
this city for three weeks. Letters come, but no
papers. MALou
Ex-PREsIDENT TYLER's MIssroN.-A dispatch Of
the 25thfrom Washington says:
Ex-President Tyler had another interview with
the President to-day, at which he endeavored to
impress upon him the policy of non.action on the
part of the Government in regard to the public
property in the Southern States. Any movement
looking to the protection of such rights Is depreca
ted by tie South as likely to provoke collision and
naueurate civil war while the seizure of forts,
senas and arms by their authorities is to be over
looked entirely. This ia substantially the policy
which Mr.. Tyler recommends, and to which Mr.
Buchanan really subscribes.
STARTLING DIsoLosuREs.:A man named Huff
man was tried and convicted of some felony, about