New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-11


Nancy Walker, +. W. c., accused Of insulting and
abusing A. H. Bement Leopold Dryfuss, charged
with receiving stolen goods Mrs. 0'Dowd, charged
with insulting and abusing Ann McCauley ; and
Jerry Cook, accused of insulting and abusing
Bridget Lyman. .-. a. ....s,S ss ii A. -,s .s,r
James Peyton charged with dangerously wound
ing Daniel Hickey, gave $500 bail to appear when
wanted - = Fla ."fT,la u 't'l.z - 90
James Ryan, for larceny, Ann MCGOWAN and
Bridget Dowd, for being drunk, were all sent to
the Work.house. The first for sixty and the others
for thirty days. ~
Letter of L. l.. .. to the Times. -,s.
THE SPIRIT OF THE NoErn-wnY GENERAL x'cLE11AN DOES
NOT MOVE. ..-. .=.-rs. e.
! WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-There is no use in giving
advice to an angry man. The North ia very angry
just now, and all the counsels which addressed
to it from Europe in the interests of moderation
and peace are disregarded, or employed to incite
it to fury, as aording proof that the great Powers
are determined to interfere with the blockade, or
that their sympathies are with the South. 1t is
certainly difficult for the North, or for the Govern.
ent of the United States, to listen to such advice
as long as the South is in arms. Defeat exasper-
ates the Northerner, but does not intimidate, and
it will be long before he believe the Southerner
is able to meet and beat him in the open field. If
two large armies are assembled, at vast expense,
to look at each other for indefinite periods, the
people on both sides will become tired of paying
for an empty and enormously expensive pageantry !;
and 1t IS OF some moment to see which is likely to
show the first symptoms of WEAKNESS. ~
l have already pointed out the difficulties in
Gen. McClellans position here. The last thing
he would like to do would be to attack the lines at
Manassas in his present state. And yet he cannot
venture much beyond his present lines without
bringing on an engagement which would lead him
to thatvery point; nor can he debouch his columns
on either flank without incurring similar danger
and risk, which the results of the action on Mon.
day will not induce him to encounter. But there
is impatience breaking out now and then. It
shows itself North and South. The latter will
show greater self control and greater qualities
than their enemies will give them credit for if they
bear the depressing effects of naction better than
the Northerners. Any offensive movement would
be an indication that their leaders were obliged to
yield to popular pressure, for in defensive atti-
tude they are infinitely stronger it is, in fact, the
exponent of their whole case, and the best repre-
sentative of their strength It fortifes the argu-
ments OF their friends and furnishes excuses for
the lukewarmneas of those who would be forced
into the ranks of the Union if any invasion of the
free States were attempted On the other hand,
the North is bound by its declarations, and by the
nature of the war, to invade the Southern States.
am assured by the Baltimore papers, the great
bulk of the people of Maryland, particularly of the
landed gentry, strong Unionists, and it never
nleless requires martial law, Gen. Dix, Federal
Hill, Fort McHenry, fortified camps, and some
25 900 men to keep down the miserable minority of
Secessionsts-if their violence is SO great that in
order to keep them from walking Maryland out of
the Union it is absolutely necessary to break up
the Legislature by armed force, and commit the
members of it to prison without chance of ap-
pealing to a jury-what, l ask, must be done with
the States in the South where, it must be admitted
the Union sentiment is sound asleep, it is to all
appearance stone dead The Northern papers are
beginning to find out the whole South is in earnest
in the matter-nay, more, they are actually hold
ing up their nnanimity, their sacrifices, their reso
luton, as examples to be initiated by the Union
lists. ...--. ~. .#.z=t sd. to ... .a, g -..
In proportion as the time when England was to
be suffering the extreme pangs OF want from the
exclusion of cotton draws nigh, without any ex-
hibition of the dangerous symptoms, the North re-
news its nvective against our neutrality, and the
South reiterates its assurance that France and
Great Britain must recognize the Confederation.
Tobacco is the prop of the French throne, as cot
ton is the base of the English monarchy. But cot
ton has good deal to say to the destinies of the
Bonaparte dynasty also.s 1t is largely used, not
only in the factories of Reuen and the valley of the
Seine, and at Mulhouse but it is essential to the
manufacture of numerous fabrics mixed with silk
made by the dangerous people who live in that
terrible city of Lyons.
NJ. Belmont, whose visit to the Charleston Con-
vention is said to have been attended with such
dreful results, has had severe lesson in the seizure
of his tobacco at Richmond, and may now feel that
his quondam friends are very sincere enemies. But
beyond the personal question there is a real con-
vcton that France must have tobacco and cotton
IRON AlIlerlCa OF perlSn anu am assured, II tne
Northerners succeed in landing at any port in the
South, the planters, proof of their determine
ton, and as punishment for non-recognition, will
lay their cotton in flames ON every acre of their
soil threatened by an enemy. 4, who have seen the
fierce beatings of the fervid Southern heart, can
well believe in a cotton nMoscow-nobody here does.
They all believe in dollars; they are satisfied the
planters will yield to many cents per pound for
cotton. Stand by and let us see.
In spite of the animosity which exists the efforts
pf fha nfS tn oh lich tba
tice of sentry stalking have met with success, and
the war is now conducted in a more civilized man
her. 1t is, however, lamentabe to witness the
depredations committed by the troops in Virginia,
and shall have occasion in few days to describe
what have seen over there, illustrations of the
excesses of the contest between North and South
The debatable land between the outposts must be
indeed land Of grief and mourning-of dreadful
suspense-days of fear and nights of torture.
The Policy OF GEN. McCLBLLAN.-Checke in
this demonstration, it remains to be if another
will soon be made. The movements of the Con
federates have caused concentration Of troops
to be made on the Maryland shores, opposite then
batteries down the river but no inclination is vis
bic to make an offensive movement towards Manas
sas, whittier the enemy have evidently retired. II
is more than a month since the Federalists ad
vanced to Munsons Hill, and they have since ad
vanced at the rate of some 100 yards a day. II
looks as if Gen. Mcclellan was not disposed to ex.
pose his infantry to the action of the enemy till he
has procured an enormous preponderance of ar.
tlery, and that he hopes to beat the Confederates
out Of their position by prodigious fire of shot
and shell, under cover of and after which his
columns may hope to advance on the lines of Ma
nassas with every chance of success.
There is much trouble caused by refractory Of
ficers. Several have been arrested some have
been forced to retire others have Voluntarily re-
signed, unwilling to appear before the Board fol
examination as to fitness for duty 1t is dangerous
to meddle with some of these Colonies, as they
are active politicians, and they can do great dea
of mischief in the large cities, where their popu
larity procured them the command of regiments
by nveighing against the injustice they have re
ceived and the management of affairs. The Navy
Department is also aagitated BY nnruy members
Here is Captain Scott, of the Keystone State, tt
be arrested because he left his cruising ground tc
take his prize Salvor into Philadelphia. He be
haved with some disregard of the amenities and
proprietes to the United States Marshal at Key
West and would not pay any heed to the warran
of the Judge at that place, who desired to arres
him for his conduct.
Two officers of high rank in the army, one
General and one Colonel in the West, have beer
frequently named in the Journals as men Of notori
eusly incorporate Maidstone being occasionally
seen drunk in the gutter."' 1t is not wonderful
if such statements be true, that the New Yort
Times should have to say of such affairs as Ed
wards Ferry, that " the retreat was made aftel
the Bull Run pattern, with slight improvements
the men rolling, sliding, and almost turning somer
saults down hill to escape the calling fire which
now assailed them from all points" | am assured
that the Massachusetts, regiment behaved well, bg
that Tammany was not quite SO becomngly repre-
sented. As to the courage of the Confederates al
agree. They were seen to form line and come intt