New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-08-10

We learn fr.n the Fort Smith Times of the LIST inst
that the Creek Indians have held A grand council
OF thor tribe, which was attended by six hundred
I delegates, and unanimously ratified the treaty en-
tered into some weeks since By Capt. Albert Pike
on the part Of the Confederate States, and the va
rious. Indian nations Of the frontiers.
1t will be remembered that this treaty was en-
tered int, by all the Indian tribes with the excep
4 ton Of the Greeks and Gherokees, the latter d
whom have sought to maintain neutral position
but viii ii all probability soop come to terms will
the South, as the Kansas naarauders have recently
been harassing them almost beyond endurance
There II 10 doubt of the fact from alive can learn
that steady reaction has been progressing among
them in our favor for several weeks past 1t is
4 stated BY some of our Arkansas exchanges that
Mr. Ross, their chief, has announced bis intention
to call session Of his executive council, which will
decide upon the question of convening the national
council With the view Of taking some more definite
position ia the present crisis. The Cherokees Will
undoubtedly follow in the footsteps Of their cotem
poraTy tribes
PREN1leE BoUGHT UP The following appeared
in late number 81 the Boston Gazette:
George ID Prentice of the Louisville Journal,
was born ii Preston Conn, in 1904, and graduated
ut Brown University in 1898. Our Boston mer-
CnanfS nave gwen recently Su0Sbtlnttdb5 pT0Qi Oi
their appreciation Of his manly course, and we
trust Others will do likewise.
The meaning Of this is that the reereant of the
Journal has been properly estimated by the trad
ing Yankees of Boston. They found out his price,
and bartared him into the tratorous position he is
occupying gaust his adopted South
We have heard this charge repeated before, says
the Memphis Appeal, by gentlemen in whose in
tegrity we have the utmost confidence. No other
logic, indeed, can account for the stultied posi-
ton Of the paper. s8#
THE FEpERAL SOLDIERS IN WAsHINGToa--In s,tb-
ordinattb4s aud Crime. From an editorial in the
New YORK Times Of the 3lst nit. we extract the
following paragraphs, which forcibly suggest the
idea that Richmond would just now be an exceed
ingiy pleasant place if the Grand Army had not
given up The proposed visit thereto:
We behave that the want of control by the regi-
mental officers, which was one cause Of our late
disaster, began much earlier in the purlieus of
Washington. We speak but tho universal opinion
when we say that there never has been in the city
of Washington, since the war began, poorer mill
tary police. Since the Monday after the defeat,
these ev5lssof INSTRUMENTATION and general drunk
enness and dissipation have reached their climax
In the capital For three days without effort to
prevent, the public saw the remains some twenty
regiments scattered about the city, the men sleep
ing dorsteps, in barns, cellars, restaurants and
hotel Easements. often begging charity and fed by
private citizens, without order, discipline
Etraint the officers iouuging and smoking in bar
rooms, Indifferent TO theiro responsibilities and
atae public dshonor Crimes of every kind dis
graced the Capital. A day did nor pass without
murder, Or rape, orquarres OF drunkenness. Even
as late AZ Friday last lady was shot by an int0xi
Gated soldier.
No effort was made to collect the men, or get
Them into camps. or feed or house them. Some abb
Bolntely suffered frem hunger No one knew
where tlis headquarters OF his regiment was, or
what haa become of his officers. The army was
o mob. Wherever the stranger went, over George
town, Arlington, Alexandria aud Washington, he
met there wandering soldiers in search of regi-
from Gen Mansfield, giving a rendezvous for each
regiment and threatening arrest if the soldier was
found gging after the expiration of six hours
from thesiate of the ORDER Then to cap the climax
of stupid encouragement, no officers or men were
detailed 1T many OF these different rendezvous, to
give information ais to the various camps, and some
poor feliVNs after spending twelve hours at these
places, went away again hungry and disconsolate
In search b their regiments.
These three days were another defeat of our
forces as bad as the canseless rout of Manassas.
OF some Of the regiments, it is doubted ii they
ran ever DO collected and reorgauiz ed, so thor
crimes which have been committed in Washing
ton and IN neighborhood, the last week. would
disgrace New Orleans.
Certainlyafhe would, if New Orleans were part
and parcel Of the nation that has possession of
Washington. But New Orleans, in common with
the Conf derate States, has shared long enough in
the disgrace attaching to the corruption and crimes
of the Federal canitaI and ahaixas n f fnravar