New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-08
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The following articles from late Northern papers
we take from the New York Herald Of the lSth:

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The following articles from late Northern papers
,vatsre fram he New York Herald ofthe 18th:
Sd @ 4fkrom the Adams Transcript. MI, s.,t
5Is,nn,,Y No NERO AND BURNING RoME.-Ihe hrss
ham a,-sr given at the White House came on
last Nedne day evening. M tha armN ofcers.
csssion Ministers, leading citizens etc., 70 the
number of FIVE hundred were present WIN tnea
wives and daughters. The ladies were dressed III
The highest style of fashion and extTava gance:
The gentlemen were generally plainly attired.
About IL o'clock the supper;room was thrown
open and exhibited one of the hnest dlspiays OF
gastronomic art ever seen in this couhtry.a
temple of liberty, afort a war steamer admirably
nodded in candy, and a ton of turkeys, DUCKS,
venison pheasants, partridges, ETC., all esquistey
prepared by Mailard, of New York, at costsot
While the country is shaken as by an earth,
quake, by the mightiest and most unnatural olyli
war recorded in history, and on the eve OF oank-
ruptcy and ruin; whiieit is even nova qnestisohHI
fearful onewhether We are 70 DC ,a,sn laa
are to become the subjects of anarchy, . second
Mexico-we say, that while these g. dreful caiam-
tiles are threatening our very lite as nauoh,
such an extrayagant and foolish display is shock
ing. AT any time, such mimicking and aping OF
European courts is disgusting in the capital of
republic: but at such crisis as the present such
q wanton display of extrava gance and indIerence
on the part Of the administration is an outrage to
the interests and feelings of the people, it is
tempting a kind Providence to our destruction.
What will be thought in Europe of such fryoity?
How forcbly and unpleasanty it calls to mnd the
addling OF Nero at the burning of Rome!E That
same night, while in Washington all was wanton
and gay, the hunted Unionist in our bloody border
land stole in secret from his den, and, aided by
| the giimmering moonlight, looked ono more upon
4 the ashes of what was once his happy home.
/ The same night wounded volunteers died 1n3the
hospitals for want of care and comfort, and our
aoblest sons and brothers pined in the loathsome
horrors of Southern prison, and signed hopeless
y for release while on our Western frontiers the
houseless mother .clasped her starving babe, and
4 the prairie wolf gnawed srayenously the bones OF
the loyal dead. And still with bands playing, ana
streamers flying, and the noble old ship Of State,
ttempest tossed and drifting along the very verge
lkof an abyss, the august wisdom ofthe capital"
are merry with wine, jolly and indifferent toast
ing and feasting, dancing and capeflng aponI the
White House With devil-me-care imbecility, as
i though life were intended for pastime-cvlt " ar
| an agreeable tableaus Shade Of Belshazzar-a ashes
l of Nineveh-golden calf of Ashron-come forth,
| We are wanted in Washington. s5 g,aR Ky
LNeoLH's BAIL! The first ball ever given at
the White House came off tonight, says the Tr-s
i bune's correspondent of Thursday last We have
read Of the crews OF sinking ships, when all hope
| had fed, throwing Of all restraints, human and
divine, and mingiing their revolving orgies and
/ mad earousals with the avenging spirit Of the
tempest, which was hurrying them to a swift and
| sure destruction. Are the incumbents of the high
| places of trust and power, mad or demented, that
Lin the dark hour tof our destiny and our hopes,
they desert their posts Of duty to inaugnrate the
reign OF fashion, and worship at the shrine Of
1 folly Or was this q shameless funeral wake oyer
| the unburied remains Of a defunct Uuion.
Il ssMost of the Senators and Members of Congress
and generals of the army were there says the
reporter. Painless betrayers Of people'strust,
4 was flor this that you were sent to Congress or
placed in command of our armies2 Are we incur
ring an expenditure of two millions of dollars per
day, and sacrificing hundreds of lives, that you
Il may congregate and riot at our expense
| Again, says the Reporter: " The supper was set
i inthe. diningroom, and is considered Of the
finest displays of art ever seen in this
i country. It was prepared by Maillard, of New
1 York, and cost thousands of dollars and this was
/ while Secretary Chase was urgently impo tuning
Congress to adopt some measures to repienish an
i empty treasury. 4,s s.,5,,
Again. says the faithful chroncler -" The tables
fairly bent under the expensive Injuries heapsd
4 one upon another.y& Only one week before, Mr..
i Wilson had astated, in his place in the Senate,
that he had seen certificates from sick soldiers
| that they had actually to go to the swil tubs to
enable them to live in the hospitals at Alexandria.
Is the White House to be made the scene of dis
graceful frivolity, hilarity and guttony while hun
dreds of sick and suffering soldiers, within plain
Il sight of the dome of the CAPITOL are left to suffer
fort he bare neoessaries Of life, unattended and
i cared fors There must be moral malaria in the
atmosphere Of Washington which stupefes the
tnte1ect, and dims The perceptions, while it dries
i up or posons the fountains of human Kindness ia
all who enter the Transforming circle. Slavery and
| treason still live and flourish there. The last dol
lar was paid from the national Treasury, and the
nation stood face to face with hundreds of millions
of debt unprovided for on the day of this unseemy
festiyty. Our wounded and diseased soldiers were
suffering dying, amid the hardshps of the camp,
while the contractors, who had wronged them out
of most Of the limited comforts which the necess
ties of their situation permitted, were parading
amidst the splendors Of the social pageant. -, |
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