New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-25
From Our Own Correspondence.

NORFOLK, June 90 1851
| Special to the New Orleans CRESCENT
| General Confidence in the Success of Southern,
41nts-1he South, can Bide hes' Iln7e-A INF
| Jldn Dru1nnled out Of Portsmouth, A Yankee
vessel Chased in Hampton Roads, etc.
An abiding confidence appears to prevail here
among the soldiers and among all classes of citi-
zens, that wherever we meet the Northern inya-
defs on anything like equal terms in passage at
arms, they are destined to suffer defeat. This is
not blind, unreasoning confidence but is horn of
that felance IN the justice of our cause and the
strength of our arms, without which the soldier
goes into battle little better than trembling cow.
ard, and the possession of which forever secures
a brave people against subjugation The slightly
altered maxim, 60 Thrice 10 he armed who hath bie
quarrel just, and six times who hath a good Coils
revolver, IS quite applicable in our case for Wa
| nave just quarrel and are well supplied With re-
polVers, Whlle our enemy has at least a nIentfn1
| lack OF the first and most important of these re
| qusites. 10
me confidence reposed by President Davis and
MS Generals in the superior prowess of their rank
ana ME VIII not, with men like them, abate one
lota their watchuness over the progress of
nor the caution and vigilance of their moyementa
as recent events clearly show. That the mongra}
hordes whose footsteps now pollute Southern soil
| are loredoomed to ultimate and ignomnious over
throw, felt on all hands to be fact as cartain f
accomplishment as decree of fate and no 5onbt
they begin dimly"to foresee it themselves with ali
tnelf boosting and arrogance: and wfiIe if io not
hais inas pfoud'splrled and mpetuous people
should chale under necessary DELAYS that contirnn
the desecration of their soil by hated foo ~
would pc stlll more strange if Generals of the a.
knoWiedged military abilities of those in command
Of U o FORCES should peril the certainty
OF maj success for the chance of suddenly ovaT.
"htlhing our enemy by bold but doubtful nova
ment. This is pretty well understood by the neo.
pc p,e OF virginia and nothing much reconcies
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mamma myrmidons as the final hone If Settino, |
mem completely within the tolls, and then winin9 |
OUT the old score with a bloody and ample ven7 |
geance. P0 'oH
Among the myriad falsehoods aoonst tba co,4,,
winch make up the great staple of Abolition Tnanl
oacity, appeared not long ago statement that
respectable ladies could not walk the streets If
~ without being nsuted by drunken
fuLhan sotdlers. A incident which occurred last
sunday shows whether outrages of that charactor
would be punished here, and offers an annrnnriata
c coti upon the baseness of the wretched fabr
cauon. a soldier, crazy with liquor insuItrd ann
assaulted lady on the ferryboat tearing bar da
before she could be rescued from his hands He
NUS az once arrested on the arrival of the boat nj
no Ultslo gu ana next morning pacard was
10 insult o Woman." and de of men from +Ra |
regiment TO which he belonged with fined havn
5ets, pointing at his person before and behind
VI nm az over and out of town, to the tune
OF Yankee Doodle, which on this interesting ocra
SION was substituted for the Rogue's March. His
aeglmentals we're then stripped off, and with few
f hc bestowed by way Of Zagnappe sup
pose, ne was turned adrift. The fellow did n6t
s eSSg to the Louisiana forces or he might in
fsoma 70 these pleasant and polite little atten
.os, nave found himself minus his ears and nlns
no " ssr and feathers. This is the only instance
bg so nusna Of IN which lady has been insuIted
re" Gays ago the pilot steamer Emnre Cant
tn n. Saasen aYankee steam craft down Hamp
rmsrIand u4fe5 the very guns of the frigate
pa ne pursuer ana put stop to the chase T6s
ifE Is small vessel and carries but one gun
coming within an ace offfeetng The can,nre Sn.
aIr as mas sae repp,ation Of being the best rot
emnding lue In dcportment and person Of MANI r,ta
u our Balize> pilots. vi many
Noshlng OF II military character has transpred !,
IRE Tor few days past to greatly interest the
Instant reader. Troops continue to arrive, but not
Rfeas numbers, and probably there are quite Re
ne enemy can make III this department. '''N0A b
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