New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-17

J, WEEKLY, 70 FER YEAR.
{ : ,ss9 ..at.sssg5 ~ NUMBER 293.
. " " letter from yirginia.. y Is
Special to the New Orleans ersseens.l Hs5s s8
q f.x,s Id ygEzLss RicHsosD Feb. 8, 1852.
9 Taking advantage Of the winter season Of our
country, the Yankees have set to work to tear the
rebellion in twain. The capture Of Fort Henry
and the burning Of the bridge over the Tennessee
river, which the Richmond papers, IN true Yankee
fashion, declare small matter, Is the severe pre-
lude to grand war overture at Columbus Mat
ters are in critical condition there, and strange
to say, our people here look to Louisiana and to
New Orleans for aid more than to all the other.
States put together. AT the earnest solicitation Of
Congress, New Orleans General ID persuaded TO
leave the army Of the Potomac, Of which he was
the idol, and to assume command at Columbus,
and now, when the Yankees are cutting into the
very heart of Tennessee, you will find Tennes-
seeans themselves, Members of Congress, relying
upon 10, ,o0e men to be sent up from the Crescent
City,. The truth 5is, that city has shown more
energy, more forethonght and more generosity
than any two other cities il the Confederacy.
= az not believe Beauregard will call In vain,
should he see fit to second Gen. Polk's request fer
reinforce ements. !" Little Bonyn is worth 10000
men himself, for he ID the herald Of victory and The
terror Of the North. Louisiana will not permit
him to call in vain. Sustain Beauregard. give him
men and munitions, give him what he has never
had on the Potomac, the liberty to use his men as
his genius may direct them. and my word for It the
Valley Of the Mississippi will be saved. It ID known
here that Beauregard desired to fight the Yankees
at and in rear of Muuson and Mason hills, but he
was over-ruled by Gen. Johnston. Not that John
Ho ia oyairr In
dent, careful Of his army, little too fond, per-
haps, Of strategy, but brave as a lion, clear and
strong headed, and when he hits the Yankees lick
i will#be terrible one. Beauregard on the other
hand has the daring and the fertile enterprise Of
genuine military genius; he exeels alike In stra.
tegy and tactics, tthese terms being contra dgtin-
suished among military men by app1y 1ying strategy
TO the Operations Of an army before meeting the
enemy, and tactics to the movements in the face
Of the enemy in the feld), he has the burning en-
thusiasm Of a man whose every hope and aspira-
tons are enlisted in the cause he is, to speak,
the incarnation Of thef revolution; and it is easily
of Fairfax Court-Houa could have beensput to
trial, the whole aspect of affairs would have been
changed. This was in October last. Mcclellan
cenld not have kept out Of the fight and he would
certainly have been whipped, for while we were
far off from our entrench chments, his were near at
hand, we knew the ground and be did not, our
men had the prestige OF victory, his of defeat, and
the issle,in all human probability, would have
the risk was very great but think Of the results Of
a victory then and there. Let US hone that now
are in such stl ats at Columbus some consider.
able liberty will be extended to Beauregard, and
that reputation which the South SO much eoYets
of being brave, even to rashness,
| Day after day the flag Of truce boat brings into
Norfolk batch after batch of Northern papers, all
Europe. Each succeeding mail brings better and
still better tidings. But am glad TO see in the
look and talk of the people here that they have
at length learned to distrust all news from any
quarter that does bring the tidings of victory
won by Southern arms. Selfreance is the order
Of the day at last. Still it is abundast!Y evident
that the great day Of Northern financial collapse
and of armed foreign Intervention cannot be far
distant We are tod by the latest news that the
London Globe, which is, believe. an official jour
nal, is in favor Of war with the United States in
any event. while the Times, the organ Of the monied
classes, is opposed to il, though SVehementy pro
testing against the stone blockade. The policy oi
the Times is very transparent. It is to save
English funds invested in American stocks, and tc
bully Lincoln into allowing the blockade to be
opened. fear the plan will carry, for it is the
best that Lincoln can do-infnitelN better thar
war with England and France combined, which he
will have to face if be opposes the raising Of the
blockade. There is another point worthy Of notice
in onr recent foreign advces, and that il the plain
statement that Louis Napoleon intends to hold the
city of Mexico for some years to come, or unit
country. This looks very like circumscribing the
area OF slavery. No matter. Let MS once be free,
we can bide our time in the matter OF extension.
We own already millions on millions of virgin cot
ton lands, affording ample area for negroes for
| many generations to come. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof'b The Yankees are trouble
enough, without bothering our brains about
Frenchmen and the future.
The suppressed portion of .Beauregard's report,
concerning which SO much noise has been made,
turns out to be no secret at ALL Do you recollect
a synopsis of the report which appeared in the
Dispatch some time last fall? Well, that synopsis
contained every word of that dreadful secret
which SO exercised the public. the President, the
Congress and the rest of mankind. The great Sc
cret is nothing more than plan suggested by
Gen. Beauregard of joining our scattered forces
and falling upon the separate columns of the en-
envy and cutting them up one after another-just
the Napoleonic mode. Unfortunately, the Presi-
dent thought he forgot that this plan had ever been
submitted to him. But the proof was positive.
Hence, when Congress commended the report to
be published, it became necessary for. the Presi-
dent to attach little commentary explaining the
feebleness Of his memory, and to insist on that
being printed along with the report. After many
weeks of hot wrangle, it was decided to suppress
the plan and suppress the commentary. ,Koila
tout! MALou.
L. ..y ~ p