New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-13
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Az This lis ID question we are continually asked, and
its repetition is becoming very annoying, owing to
the reason that we cannot satisfy numberless anx-
ious interrogators. We publish all the news we
can possibly obtain, except what we withhold, and
what we withhold we are not going to tell anybody,
" except those properly authorized to receive it.
This il luminous. explanation, and il it don't sat
isfy everybody and his curious wife, it ought to.
'When's there going to be fght2" Really,
my dear fellow, we don't eGactEy know. When it
takes place, twill be sure to come off, JEFF. Davis
won't tell anybody what he is doing, what he is
going to do, or when he is going to do it. He is
confoundedly silent man--isn't he? But, it is our
private opinion, publicly expressed that there
will be a big fight, two or three Of them perhaps,
before long.
aWiiI our boys whip ,em?n Yes, sir! tour
boys fighting for liberty, for their fresides,
for their mothers, wiyes sisters, daughters, sweet
hearts-for the hottest cause in which sword was
ever drawn--and the myrmidons Of fraud and ia
natcism will swept before them as chat is swept
before mighty wind.
How about Pickens?n Don't trouble yourself
about Piekens. 6 Gen. Scuryy was playing the
Deuce in that fort at last accounts and if Gen.
| Bragg don't hurry up, ssGen. Yellow Fever will
do the business for the Abolitionsts Santa Rosa
4 Island, inside Or outside Fort Pickens, without bis
help, not TO speak Of the crews ETC., Of the Van.
kee war ships in the offing But, having greatcon-
fdence in g a little more grape, Capt. Bragg we
fancy We hear the booming of heavy ordnance
coming from the direction Of Pensacola.
g When will the blockade commence2n 1t is
| already in full force--on paper! If Lincolns pro-
\ ciamations were equivalent to large and well ap-
1 pointed fleets, we would be in a bad way for a
short time, hut as he hasn't one good shipfor each
/ hundred miles of coast he has declared to be
strictly bloekaded, we are rather disposed to be
4 mirthfnl. BY the middle of September there will
be no blockade even if the semblance of one is
4 attempted to be kept up in the meantime.
4 When will the war end2n Just at the very
moment, dear friend, when the independence Of
the Confederate States is recognized by the Lin,
coin Government and peace is concluded -not
before.
i If the above answers are not full explicit, com
A plete md satisfactory, we can't help it, and are
not going to try to help it. "What is writ. Il
4 WRIT Would it were worthier.
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4 REPORTED FIGHT In Sr. LouIs.-There was
7 rumor in the city yesterday that a collision
occurred in St. Louis on Saturday, between tn,
Federal troops and the citizens, resulting in los
hlleu anH TpHhQeu on Jne part OIL LII
" latter The report originated on the strength 3
private dispatches received by gentlemen Of thi
Z city, We trust that the intelligence is not correct
g ard as all telegTaphic news from St. Louis mus
( necessarily pass through Illinois and be inspeete
by Black Republican officials, We think the repoi
il greatly exaggerated If true, it will not be lon
before summary vengeance il taken by the peopl
y of Mlssonri
The New York Evening Post, which used to be
8 decent paper, raves and foams at the mouth whe
8 commenting on President Davis message Tina
Q calm, able, digniaed and truthful message is al
\ tucked with all the savage ferocity Of tiger. "
shall not soil our columns with the Posts billing
N gate ana maIedietions Il, however, consolatpt
70 u - see how the wounded pigeons fetter.
knosy, then, that every shot has told.
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= OLD ABE on BaNpsls The Memphis Az
{ alchesof The sti says:
Nellaye direct and nnqnestionahe intormaHi
from lenan jtss from Washington, thai Al
Alilesoln llas been dailS ii 4 stare W heastiy
tescatiea since the capture N iaort Sumter