New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-14
MUM MBER 242. !.
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Letter from Virginia. :

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Special to the Eevs Orleans III Scent W as@ = SS S5
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Mr.. Edstor--| Going 1T, aionei' is Sometimes
good thing at enchre--seldom at CORRESPONDING.
This il the fifth letter l. have written to- the
Crescent, and / have yet to- learn that. latter
No. l has reached yeu; for, within the last
few weeks, only three copies of yous5 paper
E7aye reached here. Bat, as Lam a patriot, make
no complaint Of the mails; and, as ana a man
very faithful to engagements shall gein TO fnlfl
my contIacts egardIeas of the unfaithfulness Of
mail contractors Ny letters will nsyer reach
you, but that is nothing 10. me nor to the Post,
office either, SO long as put two green stamps on
each of them. '2&a4 "a Gf45e f1s@ 2sz7441as# s@
On this continent. no other building deserves SO
mach attention as the old. ugLys dilapjdated capi.
toI on yonder hill The Virginia Convention,
the Virginia Legislature, and the Congress of Of The
Confederate States, are all in that building. What
an array of talent, OF patriotism, of oratorieal
power of statesmansbip; is there Can the whole
Unite9 States Of Yankees. With tleir capitols,
their Faneuil and Mozart Halls combined, show
speh;an array? Nay; truly. Do You ever think oi
the capitol at Washington? How vacant. the
Senate without Hunter, Mason, Toombs, Benjamin
siidei Breckenridge, Chngman, HemphiI, Wlgfall
Mallory, Chestnut, fveraoo, Hammond, Clay, Davis
Fitzpatrick, BrownL Powell is there, to his shame
be it spoken, and go is Green of Mssour. in the
city, if not in the Senate. Kennedy and Fearee,
from hapless Maryland, are there; and Bayard
from .little Delaware. How lonely they mnst look
and feel in the presence of men whom they despise
playing puppet to such hounds as Andy johnson
and Garlic, to Chandler and Preston King. What
a picture the House must present, with only
Horace Maynard to answer for the whole South.
We turn from that splendid pile Of arble and
gill;; filled with bloody minded knaves, to the
humble building in Richmond, containing, as it
does, the mind and the heart, the experience and
the public virtue of our beloved land, and gaze
upon it with renewed interest, for We know that
hnnn IEnA iafrf
spicuous as the Parthenon, the Pyramids or the
Coliseum. q ~ s@5SI'
The Legislature has just organized Its commit
tees, and the speaker, Col Kemper, has gone to
lead his regiment into, the expected fight at Cen
treville. The Convention has adjourned sine die,
leaving behind it Constitution but little improved
by its cobbling, and Congress works noiselessly
along in secret session. The ropndeay of busy
life goes nnder the soft Indian summer sun, if
the good Lord, in answer to the prayer of the
Episcopal service had indeed delivered US sc from
war,pestilence and famine, from battle and mur-
der, and from sudden death.n Our thoughts too
seldom turn to Columbus and Bowling Green, to
Sherman at Port Royal, when the fleets Of Bntlet
and OF burnside shall have joined him, and when
the cruel scarlet day shall come upon the devoted
men who stand up in our defence beside the Father
OF aters, and upon the polluted but not snbjuga
ted coast OF the Atlantic. e ''E -''ts
We have received ithe message Of the grand
Yang -keang khan and Gorilla at Washington, and
we have read it with palid lips protruded tongues
and eyebals, erected hair and knocking knees
fol, 10. we are rebels, great BIG REBELS agafrls
" our mothers as Sherman calls the United states
against s just and paternal Government asDis
tells the people on the Eastern shore; yea, eyer
against 9 the Vice-Gerent Of God' as John Coch
raue hath it-by which, suppose, be means for rs
to understand that Lincolnis the s Ape-ostoc sue
cessor' of st. Peter. Don't you want to dress VI
in salt sack filed with ashes, bow down, and kiss
| the Vice-gerential Springfield toe?
There may possibly be some local news of inter
est, but declare to you the warm weatherh has &c
debitated the industry of your correspondent tina
he is barely able to sign his name as follows
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