New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-19
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Itisan old ia ring that .one must go from home
70 learn the news, Such seems, indeed, to be the
tease at the present time with regard 10 the condi-
a tion Of the sonth. We can pick up any Abolition
journal from New York, Philadelphia, or Cincin-
matt and learn fan more about The South generally,
about Louisiana. and about this city Of New Or.
leans, than we can find oathere, right at home.
For instance, We happened.to be looking oyer
the New York Tribune the ether day, and came
i across whole budget of late news respecting cur
\ selves. which our local reporters have sadly me-
elected to serve up and whichis sefresh aud enter
tanning that we cannot resist the inclination to
spreat il before chr readers It is in the shape of
! a correspondence from Philadelphia, and the fol-
! lowing extracts viii suffice:
/ You have doubtless noticed how careful South
ern newspapers are in retaining from giving any
faccannts of the condition Of money, labor prices
etc.s IN their several neighhorhoods. They avoid
these topics as carefully as they would conceal the
yellow fever. Occasionally some garrulous print
let's out q fact or TWO; bpt as q general thing the
whole Southern press IS studiously coneealing from
the North how deplorahe condition they are in.
But many sources of information concerning it have
been opened to my notice. heavy house in that
trade, embarrassed by the failure of remistances
and the protest OF innumerable notes. some weeks
ago dispatched two clerks on different routes to
make collections as the only remedy fer suspen-
sion. One OF these clerks traveFsed the country
along the sea5oard to New Orleans. At many
points ne was assured that payment now was i'm
possible. The debtors had no money nor could
they collect any from those In the country who
owed them. In fact, all money seemed to have
disappeared Cotton was at q dead lock, down in
price and no buyers. Real estate was utterly IN.
salabie: Negroes were ruinouslg depressed. AT
many places he was grossly insulted aud threatened,
and at New Orleans escaped lynchBg only by Sc
creang himself on board a vessel sailing the next
morning for New York. He returned without hay
r04ihnfpu a 4t1 faba
almost destitute of food and looks to Hreat suffer-
Ing among the slaves from that cause.
The other messenger Jared no better i'll Tennes-
see and Kentucky. His employers believe that he
was actually lyRched in Mississippi, though he is
resolnteiy silent except as to repeated insults and
threaienings which he encountered. His Northern
origin was enough, as soon as known, to compel
him to leave. Everywhere the same depreciation
Of plantation values prevailed while the want of
money was universal. Yet in the midst of this
breaking uI there was nothing heard at the taV-
ems and railroad stations but the mad cry for dis
union If aeontrary feeling existed it was among
the mercantile community only, or off among the
owners of plantations, who had everything at
stake. while the ronghs around the grog-shops had
nothing at risk
Here's d batch Of news forus that We are quite
certain we never could have learned at home.
Thus tile fact that Southern papers are careful
not to give any account of the condition Of
money, prices etc. is a piece of information we
tcept in the journals of the North. II is true, we
had abored#under the impression that such things
| were daily discussed by g Talk on Changer and
other financial and commercial writers for the
Southern press but it seems ne were mistaken.
Those topics, it appears, as carefully avoided
we 4 conceal the yellow fever;n which, seeing
that we don't conceal the yellow fever at ALL when
ever it is here, but publish official bulletins con
two statements entirely consistent, the one with
the other.
There is, however, one assertion made by this
writer, the truth Of which is apparent at glance
1t is that q the Southern press is studiously CON
8cealing from the North how deplorabe cond
ton they are in.n Thai is SO. We are bound to
admitit. Not being in a deplorable condition at
all, and the Southern press, unlike that Of the
North, having d strange habit of sticking to the
truth it is perfectly natural that that which does
not exist at all should be " concealed from the
North Is this writer unreasonable enough to
expect Us to exhibit to the gaze Of the North
things which are invisible to our own eyes?
The other items of news that will arrest the
attention Of the reader are, that in the South all
money seems to have disappeared;n that G cotton
is.at i dead lock-down in price and no buyers ~
that real estate is unstable, and negroes ruin.
ously depressed" All of wir;sh is, of course,
strictly true, (oyer the Lefty may be ascertained
at any moment on Carondelet street, or from any
of our auctioneers, bankers,or brokers.
q Now, the real truth of the matter is just this
Cotton, within the last two weeks, has brought
higher prices in this market than for several years
past, and every bale that comes here has gone off
!" like hot cakes and been paid for in cash. Real
estate, 50 far from being utterly unsaable,n
was sold by Col. Walton the other day, at the st.
Charles Exchange at prices that astonished every
body. And, in general terms, the picture which
this Abolition writer draws is in every sense of the
word precisely the opposite and the reverse of the
truth. It is nothing more nor less than batch Of
lies from beginning toend.
1t is by such things as this the Northern heart is
poisoned against the South and the Northern judg-
ment led astray. Allsorts offalsehoods are cooked
up, greedily published, and, we fear, too greedy
swallowed No wonder the feeling in the South is
80 unanimous to cut loose from a people who are
50 reluctant to believe anything good of u.s. and so
eager to believe everything that is had.