New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-05
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.

WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
, Special to The New Orleans Gresc.nt.I
H WASHINGTON, Feb p, 1861.
The "natal day. has been celebrated here in
grand style. People from the adjoining cities and
counties gathered here by thousands, more to wit
4 ness the parade of the small federal army than
anything else. This came of about 5 O'Clock P. NJ.
on Pennsylvania Avenue. The troops posted them
/ selves opposite the Center Market, near Seventh
street. and made an imposing display with their
cannon and horses. Suddenly the bugle sounded
| a charge, and away the cavalry and howtzers
| dashed up towards the Presidents House, making
great noise, kicking up mighty DUST but elicit
| ing no cheers. The populace was too scared for
| that All feel as if war must come, and that
military aespotism is inevitable. Out Of some
thousand citizen soldery (includiDg the mflitia)
only one company refused to join in the ceiebra-
ton. The National Rifles turned out, but took no
part in the general procession. The men who com
pose this company, by far the best drilled in the
city, are Southern and do not intend to fight for
Marse Abe. Lincoln's speeches at Trenton and
Philadelphia leave little to hope that he will
not practice coercion. /. II may be necessary to
set the foot down FIRM And the New Jerseymen,
the truesto of all the Northerners to the South, ap-
plauded loudly and long. He willing to live and
die by the tindiscreet things" he uttered at IndiaL
apolis and would "rather be assassnated epse
sfotr-notice the anti-cmax " than abandon the
principles which gave liberty to all the world''-
negroes not excepted, of course.
That villainous sheet, the Washington Star,
thinks that Arkansas has initiated the counter
revolution in the Confederate States, and the States
and Union quotes recent DEMONSTRATING article,
letter or item, which appeared in the Pieayune of
your city, the tendency Of which is to confirm Lin
coin in his coercive policy. Nothing would please
the fanatics of the North more than to see South.
erners cutting each others throats for the sake of
| getting back into this glorious Union.
That incarnation Of mendacity, the New York
Times asserts that letter has been received from
member of the British Government, which says
that not only will there be no recognition of the
Southern Confederacy by Great Britain, but every
thing on her part Will be done to disconntenance
disunion. Stuff Disunion is the dearest wish of
highlands heart. But, surprising it to be true );
grant that John Bull takes sides with the Yankee:
what them Why, as Senator Wigfall says, when
they tell him the Southern army win have to en-
counter million of men the moment it touches
Northern soil "the more the merrier., The more
war, the more glory; the greater the odds, the
better the fun for the 3oui5auians il they are as
5plucky as Gen. Lane pronounces them,
Pennsylvania said some time ago, :" The peo-
pie of the South are honest, but id SIMPLEX
The course Of even the strongest Southern men in
the Peace Congress proves t. They have suffered
themselves to be completely fooled by the North
ern men, who pretend to be always on the eve Of
doing something, but really mean 70 do nothing
exceptto keepSShe Congress here till the 4th OF
March, and then patch up a pitiful humhug com
promise. The shameful fact is known that in this
Peace Congress Southern men got up and told their
enemies not to give them the Crittenden Com,
promise. Summers, lam informed, is one of their.
And now we behold the Virginia Convention wait
ing anxious1y to see whether Lincoln sells himself
to Seward or 10 Chase-to coercion outright, or to
the cunning sapping and mining policy of the arch
traitor Of the Universe. It makes me sick to think
of 1t.
Recent elections in New York show the true
anirnus of the people. In spite of the split be-
tween Weed and Greeley, and in spite Of the fnan.
cial pressure and distress which prevails every
where, the Republicans have gained largely in the
vote for Lincoln on the 9Th of November. Rest
assured, the Yankees think they can crush us, and
intend to try it.
'lViNt tlto aEDstdtS sun VI tue oOhtn, now Sec
rotary of War; received a suspicious box from
South Carolina yesterday. He declined to receive
1t, for his guilty conscience smote him. When
opened, there was seen a wreath of beautiful
flowers, whichthe eSpressmen feared to touch, lest
an explosion should follow.
Extensive arrangements are being made for Inau.
gpration Day. The big ballroom is nearly ready,
Every precautson will be taken to save Old Abe,s
life After his arrival here tomorrow they aIe
going to keep him Gagged till the day of his glory
arrives. Old Buck is more scared than Abe is.
The crisis il at hand II will be relief when it is
over, war or no war. Three months Of constant
suspense il more intolerable than death itself.
Rarey, of equine fame, gives horse tanning ex.
5hibition here next Wednesday night, in building
erected expressly for him, on the site of the old
National theater. In the absence of other ex.
elements, some enterprising Yankees have set up
number OF shops on the Avenue, where You can
getanything on earth, from fine hat down TO a
complete service Of massive silver, inlaid with
pure gold Y for one dollar ua