New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-22
TALK oN 'eHARGE.

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i The Chief talk yesterday was about Columbus,
KY the great fight which is to CONS off or take
place that vicinity. The Hessahs viii meet with
q reception they little expect Their spies and
! sympathzers can hardly reach Cairo before some
important naval arrangements are carried out. 1t
VIII be well for the inspectors on the railroads and
steamboat comInandersto serutinize closely every
Eperson embarking on board, orSho leave the city.
Ia tact 1T Would have been wise to have suspended
passports for three OF four days, particularly BY
railroad. A strange person visiting any of the
villages or towns in the interior ought to be closely
attended to,
/ There were some remarks about the Fingal. She
has, beyond all doubt, arrived in Savannah, This
is confirmed by the receipt Of letters which came
BY her, written in Glasgow and LiyerpooI. ana
post marked Savannah, Nov. IA, showing that the
arrival is as fixed fact" AS regards the renorted
capture of a British steamer by Yankee man Of
war, and taken into Key West, it cannot be the
Fingal.' There was steamer in Nassau short
time since, bound for the Southern Confederacy
Since the kidnapping of Messrs slidell and Mason
the British flag is doubted. These Yankee armed
vessels may take the mail bags Off Of British YES
sells violate them and steal their contents Tbere
viii be no protection hereafter under the English
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Of several of our citizens now supposed to be en-
route for home via Havana ON board of these Eng.
lish Ilaiiboats. Some 81 them were required 70
takethe oath Of allegiance 10 the Lincoln ynasty
in order to have their passports pise by the Black
Republican officials resident in England and
France; in case Of REFUSAL their names were for.
warded to the Gorilla State Department at
Washington. In all probability the commanders
OF the fanthn nc, haa,,-
the names Of southerners now en- route They will
be subject to arrest. Our British resident citizens
feel sanguine that their Government will resent
the arrest, detention Of the Trent and the insnIt IN
their flag. Some Of them are very sensitive and
think the talk has been rather personal in reeard
70 the official of the Consulate's office in This ctv
On this point they reason without cause, and to re-
hege any outside impressions, we venture to assert
that There are no stronger friends of the great
southern cause than oqr citizens of English birth
and extraction. Our country readers are also
under the, impression that our English merchants
and Citizens residents, favor the course of Eng
land. Notsat all To relieve them of this impress
sio we have to state that so far as we know, they
nave subscribed and paid literally to all associa-
lions for the fitting ont of volunteers, and that
thsfe are organized companies of British subjects,
VINO Wilisb found shoulder to shoulder with the
sons OF the South in defence OF the soil against the
Hessians, Yankees and Lincolnites, should thew
have the temerity to invade us.
The private letters received by the ri neal con-
firm the impression that England is altogether mis-
led by the Northern accounts of the position of
Affairs in the South that it is seldom q Southern
view of the great crisis reaches them. The latest
Of severe battle received was that of
Lexington, and that, it viii be perceived, was con-
siderea a serious blow, though it was Northern
account.
Cores Liverpool Commercial Advertiser, of the
18th of October, says
The the eaptare of Hatteras was an insignificant
item against all the reyerses of the North.
= And further, says:
The disgrace at the battle of Bull Run wouId not
De expunged by tho success of scoreof naval en-
peaitions undertaken against a power without anv
power whatever. ~
GIVE Us yonr hand, cold Gore" YOU reason
justly, wisely, phlosophicalIY. We have perused
your Advertiser for forty years past though Won
may nave changed from mortality to immortality, |
Jour name is there.
As before alluded to, the Fingals letters are
highly important. The opinion prevailed that
Middling Orleans cotton would, by the end of This
month, command one shilling per pound; that
speculation las going on inAmerican descriptions
among all elassesi money was cheap, aud even in
i59nagn Y as eottqnsdealing moving The opinion