New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-20


freely on he intelligence from England, OF the 18th
iust., brought by the Europa, which came over fhe
wires right before last, and was announced yester
day morning. The chief talk was, how are Lincoln,
Seward & Co. 10 get out of ''is scrape, which the
South Sea explorer (Wilkes) has brought them in ?
| We read in old books about the great South Sea
Claw bubble We read in modern history of Mr.
| Commander Wilkes, who was chief of the great
South Sea Exploring Expedition, fitted out some
years ago for a three years. cruise. His flag YES
| sci was the yincennes, which was SO ,efectually
Whipped at the Southwest Pass OF he Mississippi
river on the 18th of October last. &c.
The general talk is, that Lincoln's cabinet will
all resign before backing down or acceding to the
| demands of England that a new cabinet will be
! formed which viii accede to he surrender of
| Messrs Mason aud Slidel and obl.at war. We
shall see. = the meantime, good feeling prevails,
and cotton is talked of, but low prices ere aimed
at. u 'he event of the blockade being raised,
which cannot happen, under all circumstances, be.
fore February, it viii take from five to sx months
to gel the crop now picked to the shipping or sea
ports. WemHst talk in Il 8 way: if the embroglio
between England and the old defunct Union
reaches a contest, to be decided by powder and
bal, it cannot attain o elimination for several
weeks or longer. As for the last telegraptic dis
patch yesterday, saying that Minister Adams had
demanded rs passport rom the British Ministry, 1T
is all fol-deroI. Mr.. Adams can leave England
jrst when he pleases. There is an immensely of
talk about public character demanding his pass
port or permission to leave, which amounts to just
nothing at all.
There have been many remarks about the cap
tdre and desti action of the ship Harvey Birch by
the Confederate steamer. Nashville. This is, Of
course, called by the Northern papers piratical
outrage, but the outrage of Charles Wilkes, of the
Sand acilto, in arres ng the Trent is called a su
blime affair. The Harvey Birch was in our port a
year ago, and took q large load Of cotton to
Europe. She was owned by j. Il. Brewer & Co.,
New York, who have been largely connected with
the Southern trade, particularly Texas, out of
which they have amassed a great deal of money;
10 fact the Harvey Birch, well as other vessels,
was brit out Of Southern profits. The owners CT
the Birch were good friends Of the South as long
{. the dollars went TO the Eight side of profit add
loss account. 1t is impossible to say how they
stand at this time or have stood since April last.
Possibly, like many others, strate friends long
as the almighty dollar ruled. The Yankee steamer
Iroquois did not meet the Sumter. Very good
reason-she did not care much about meeting.
The Iroquois is second or third class screw YES
sell, carries six guns and ll6 men. The Sumter is
about her equal, of which the valiant Captain Of
hoquois is probably aware. Tho talk is that the
Sumter ought to have first gone to the British
Channel, there captured, burned and destroyed
the homeward bound Yankee vessels, living on the
enemy. Coal and provisions would have been
procured in abundance from captured vessels.
True FLOODED Yankee, Scourge and Rat
tesnake capturing prizes daily during the war of
1872 off the coasts of Great Britain carrying terror
and destruction to all insurance companies and
ship owners. We met two days since an old eiti-
zen on the flags who was an officer on the Seourge
in her brilliant cruises in the British Channel and
Eorsh Sea in. 1873. If the Sumter had proceeded
last July forthwith to the British Channel, she
could have destroyed property to the value of
twenty millions of dollars For the information of
the world at large, we desire to state that the
Sumter is not privateer or private armed vessel,
but regular commissioned man-of-war Of the |
Confederate States of America. ,te& .,
Z We observe that one of the Virginia regiments |
of volunteers, Col. starke commanding, has been |
ordered from Western Virginia to the South Caro- |
ina coast. This commander is our old citizen, |
Col. w. E. starke, of Carondelet street. We ex.
pectto learn Of the Colonel making his mark if |
The Hessians give him chance. We regret to |
learn that the battalion of Louisiana Volunteers
Known as the Jefferson Davis Battalion, lost all |
their tents, camp equpage, stores and baggage, |
including winter clothing, in retreat ordered by |
Cen. Floyd in Western Virginia. We are not in
formed whether these losses have been replaced
the mails from the West brought nothing but
lsmors yesterday. That great fight in Kentucky |
has not yet come off; possibly the delay is occa-
stoned by the rapid breaking up and disorganiza.
ion of the Yankee and Hessian invaders. A party /
rom Louisville says the change in the course Of
he Louisville Journal was brought about more by
Treasury allowances, or the want Of them, than
,therwise that the Linconites paid forty thousand
dollars of debts of the Journal, and agreed to adj
rance twenty thousand dollars more. But this lat.
er amount was not forthcoming; hence the
'hange. Bythe-bye, the inquiry is often made,
low comes on the sequestration suits against the
banks Of Kentucky, particularly the Northern
Bank of Kentucky, the Bank of Kentucky and
Bank Of Louisville. They loaned largely to the
inconites to conduct the war against us. Let an
Example be made Of them. WhiteWashing ought
. be greatly below par at this time %r
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