New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-09
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.


Special to the New Orleans Crescent.l
5 WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1861.
, mfr. Eaaor-1 wish you could have been in Ger
Lanes room on last Saturday night. Barnard, til
telegraph operator, came up with his tissue pape
budget of news. The old General was reading
Barnard began: Passage of the Secession Ord
nance by the Louisiana Convention. The vote TO
immediate secession, lis; against it, IT." TIL
/ General took off his spectacles. sRead tina
again, Barnard" Barnard read it. The Genera
rang the bell. I'VE must drink to that" said he
As the occasion demanded something warm, W.
/ unanimously selected hot Scotch whisky punch
and if ever people were heartily pledged, you al
were.
1 The General told us about the New Orleans bows
under his command during the Mexican war. SucI
men for fighting he never saw. They were always
ready. Other troops would fight when necessary
| but the New Orleans men loved il for its own sake
| and whenever anything desperate was to be done
| they were chosen by him above all Others. IF old
20 Lane isn't trump, true to the South as the
needle to the pole, you may as well give up all
search for one. He is dead against reconstruction.
1t has been mentioned to me in confidence that
man by the Nance of the Washington Cores
pondent of the New Orleans Crescent took two
hot Scotch whisky punches that night, and such
was the effect of the punch upon the bad and trait
orous wretch, that he delivered secession speech
an hour long to Tennessee member. He glori-
fed Louisiana. Rejoiced that she was, as he called
it, Free" In the fury of his madness, he even
abused this glorious Union. Yes, sir, he did it. 1t
can be proved on him. shall have this menial-
this tool of the slave power-arrested.
South Cardinals nOn.accentsncn nf lois
mediation is endorsed and applauded by every
man of spirit here. All feel that it is high time
these Northern fools should be taught that the
South is in dead earnest about the matter, and
that they are not breaking the Federal fiddle
merely to glue it up again and draw a sweeter
Union tune out of it with the horse-har bow of re-
construction. They are making an entirely new
harp:ofsa thousand strings-all spun
Of cotton.
Scott is preparing to throttle Virginia. He is
pointing the guns at Fortress Monroe upon the
people. He is going to protect them against
hemseEues! Consequently the old woman's dan. |
Ter is getting up at last, and in six or eight weeks
rom this time you may expect to see the fur fly;
md it will fly fur when it begins or I'm mistaken.
The clerks of the Census Bureau are being EN-.
'loyed, by kennedys order, in distributing South
I'm submission speeches, like those of Millson and
clemens, throughout the Border States. The only
ear is that this shameful action will have the effect
Q paralyze Western Virginia and Eastern Ten
lessee. But from the way things are working in
iemphis and at Richmond, "you may gamble
IN Eastern Virginia and West Tennessee. They
ire not going to be kept in the Abolition Union.
Never!
]. D. Ashmore, late Congressman from South
CAROLINA, has addressed letter to Horatio King
he acting Postmaster General, in regard to the
Use of the franking privilege; to which Mr.. King
esponds, that the privilege may be used, on the
pleasing and interesting ground that tte theory of
he administration is that the relations of South
Ja1ott'ad haze been IN nothing changed 6u he,
eceld act of secession" Now, this is a pretty
heory, as we would wish to see of a summers, or
ather winters day. 1t reads charmingly on |
aper. But have my suspicious that it is going
be badly gunpowdered in the course of a very
w days. and then it will be somewhat illegible.
specially to the eyes of secessonists.
DR.. CartWright's curious and interesting treatise
n serpent worship by negroes, received confrma-
on last night from gentleman to whom | read {
de says that his fatherinlaw, who resided in
labama, sent negro into the forest to cut wood,
he boy neglected his work. The gentleman told
i'm he had snake in box up stairs, which in
rmed him whenever he (the boy) was idle. A {
wv days afterwards he went to see how the bow |
as getting along, and declared he never saw so
uch wood cut by one niger in SO short time in ;
his life The boy never doubted for moment f
e supernatural power ascribed to the snake. C
You will find in the Northern papers accounts c
hich show how run mad the Yankees are because -
the loss of the cotton States. They are project
g cotton culture by free negro labor in Central p
merica, and will do their e est to get u
exco into the hands of the British All in vain.
0 part of the world except the Gulf States will n
ow the kind of cotton most used and imperae Q
'ely needed. England must have this cotton in
rye quantities, and constantly and regularly sun
led. She will fight Yankees or anybody else who y
Lertere with this supply. So hold your horses, Of
g. your bales) for few months, and you will SC
G the lveliest exhibition of Anglo Yankee pyro- l.
clinics that was ever witnessed outside of the y
ernal regions. !,
Weather brilliant and very warm. They tell me
will be heap warmer at Pensacola and Charles n
4 in few days. They 90 say it will be sort =
cheated term"-something like an unexpected.
nbe and twisted, three-ply August. And man
orms me that they are going to sing an old song
a new tune down there, viz 'Shels Of
-shun! p Have you heard anything about it? De
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