New Orleans daily crescent., 1861-08-29

ground, so far as concerns tie treatment of
prisoners. captufed by either side, and On either
land or sea.
ARREST OF A FREEcHAAa CHARGED WITH BEING
TRAITOR, AND SENT TO FoRF I4AEa yEpTEr-Fort
Lafayette is destined to be the abode of traitors of
all natienalities. We have already there English
men, Seotchmen sIrishmeu, and yesterday aFreuch-
man, claiming to be q citizen Of France and not a
natHrazed American was sent to dwell, not In the
marble. but the brown stone halis of the formF
dabe Fort Lafayette.
Mr. Albert Sanford, United States MafshaIof
Rhoda Isiand brought to this city id his ar1stedy
| from Newport, R. j., French gentleman, named
Leus De Bebian, q resident of Wilmington. North
Carolina and charged with secession proeliYities
It appears that III. De Bebian vas contemplating
voyage to Europe and was suspected Of being in
the service of the Confederate States. BE SAYS
that he has been resident OF Wilmington for sew
erat years, and being aesirous of going to Europe
to see his family, he took passage on board a Brit
ish vessel, called the Adseso in order to nleetone
of the Cunard steamers at Halifax. The Aaeleae
| sailed from Wilmington without any obstruction,
but during the storm of the 18th inst she was dis
abled, and the plain bore fer friendly port the
vessel being in distress. She arrived at Newport
safe.
On arriving there she was Immediately boarded
by Lieutenant Bennett, of the revenue yacht Hen
rietta Lieutenant Bennett, as5ertainiHg that the
| Adeleso had from Wilmington, N. G., one Of
the rebel States, took possession Of her and placed
[ a prize crew--one officer and five nlen-en board,
sealed up the trunks and papers Of the master and
passengers, and made them all prisoners. The pro-
| cess for libel and condemnation was isaaef by the
| capters in the Courts at Rhode Island.
| Monsieur Bebian requested to be permitted TO
! see the French Consul at the port where he was
captured, butin these dangerous and daring tnles,
when rebelsstak abroad, disseminating discomfort
and disunion, the Lieutenant in command very pro-
perly refused TO permit bis prisoner to 60 ashore,
and sent him on 70 New York.
It is stated that the prisoner had letters of credit
to the amount Of $4,000 with which he to pur-
chase clothing, arms, iron, and other seemfaTt to
the enemy y for shipment to Wilmington, N. c.,
4 and other Southern ports.
The Frenchman was conveyed under an escort
to Fort Lafayette there TO await the orders
of the Government. IN. T.: Herald, 2lst.
LINcoLS's Lo4N.-1he Baltimore Exchange dis
sects and exposes the hauibug loan bf City mtions
which Chase is reported to have gotten from the
Northern Banks, and winds up q vigorous. al .iele
on the subject as follows:
The whole scheme is a wicked and #ilfnE at
tempt, on the part Of Mr. Chase ana the bankers
he has borrowed from, to deceive and defraaid the
Epeople of the country, who are not yersed Ill the
devices of rotten banks or the tricks of penness
brokers. It is deliberately concerted plan d en-
tice from the middle and lower classes of the coun-
try the small sums they have been enabled 10 lay
by from their hard-earned wages, and is only on a
par with the gross frauds and deceits WHICH haYe
in almost every instance been practioed upon them
by the Government, from the Beginning. TIE her.
aiding to the world of the negotiation Of loan of
$l5h 900 900, from which the Government viii pro-
baby realize about 50 00n,t 0D. is. in fact, even
greater fraud than the announcement OF the snroll
ment Of full regiments, many of which were never
more than skeletons at best; or of the coneenra-
ton al Washington of 100000 soldiers, when there
/ scarcely $4,000 under arms; onzof the promises
:. made of bounty, and even dalTypay, which have
been SO utterly disregarded:
+, DESPERATE PRorEorIoS.-Ths Danville Re-
5 gister says: ..r
n The Government at Washington, in retiring Gov.
+ Butter, tenders to him the desperate proposition
that if he will return to Massachusetts, and rise
t division of 5000 men, he take another gloss OF
t ,ghisky with old Abe. II they had authorizti him
e to oyerturn the Allegheny with a croW-bar, there
might have been hope OF success. AS it H. old
Picaynne will have to purchase his own spipis for
the future. -
The New York World complains that the mill
tary spirit is dying out in the Northern States.
!, HEBERr's GALLANT LOUISIANA ANs,-The cnrres.
pondent of the Van Buren, (Ark.) Press, in deserb.
$ ing the battle of Oak Hill, says: PAS.
!, The Louisianians led the fight, and drove the
!. enemy up the hill, using ammunition until within
sixty feet of them, when the gallant Hebert order
H.