New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-28

NeiUnGr the Cama0cQ6S HOT tOS IOuk@WGS
could ever compete on equal terms with the
Indians of the mountains and those who had
been removed from Northern soil TO the dis
tant and unsettled regions of the West-the
Blackfeet and the Delawares and the Shaw
nees. Years ago we wandered over great
portion of that section of country-then the
primeval forest and the virgin prairie-where
the axe was still unheard and the pillow I'M
known, where the wild deer, the buffalo, the
turkey and the prairie dog were not whit
more guarded and cautious in their move
ments than the duslly primeval men that
roamed the solitary wild-each one of the
latter, like a true son of Ishmael, with g his
hand against every man, and every mans
hand against him." During that period
the Tonkawa was kind of fabulous
parsonage. The dreaded Camanche whose
hunting grounds lay nearer the frontiers Of
advancing civilization was better known both
from his location and his aggressive and pre-
datory habits. The tales told around biyouac
fires and at the boards of the uncouth log
cabins were startling and wonderful. The
hunter the trader and the trapper, like the
mariner, excelled in their relation of the mar
velous and terrible Many story have we
heard in the far West from those adventurous
men 10 make the blood curd1e and the hair to
stand on end If they had had classical lore,
they would have tried to persuade their audit
ors they were
With Hercules aud Cadmus once,
When in 4 wood Of Crete they bayed the bear
With hounds OF Sparta
But the stern and memorable advance Of the
white race has dispelled all the romance and
the talrors which used to surround the red
man, and Chingachsook and Uncas, Poca-
hontas, Logan and Tecumseh are looked upon
as the creation of fiction, whilst the degraded
wretches that come at long intervals into our
markets with game, furs and medicinal herbs,
are only to be distinguished from the dregs Of
our purlieus by their tawny complexion and
their horse tail hair
Our public spirited and distinguished fell
low-citizen, the Hon. Jacob Barker, has
caused to be published number of copies Of
the grand jury's report upon the riot Of the
30th July, and prefxed q few appropriate
Although we do not entirely coin
eide with that portion Of Mr.. Bankers
which allege indiscretion against
the police, still we subjoin this as a whole
for the perusaI of our readers:
The erroneous statements which have been pur-
posely put forth concerning the occurrences of
the memorable 30th July last, are calculated to
misEead the public generally Whether such
statements were designed to perpetuate mill
tary rule or were the illusions of ignorance, they
are equally injurious to the fair fame of louisiana
Mr.. Barker asserts without fear of cOntradic.
ton, that the residents of New Orleans, as gen
eral thing, did nottake any part therein, nor did
they know anything about it until it was over. 1t
came on them like thundergust and passed over
before they had time to learn what it was all
about.
It seems, from reliable information, that a
scheme to enslaYe US was cOncocted at Washing
ton, Of which the police had full information and
that when the conspirators, with their deluded
sable brethren attempted to execute their nefaTi-
GUS purposes they were interrupted by the police
without the aid of the community. A few hun
dred idlers collected about the scene of action as
they would have done about fire, or to observe
an eclipse of the moon, or to witness donkey
race. The inhabitants, however, white and col
ored, generally remained quietly at their homes or
places of business; they deeply regret the sacrifice
of the lives of innocent or deluded men, and should
not be made to suffer for the indisCretion of the
police force, or for the criminal conduct of the
authors Of the premeditated invasion Of our CON
rights.
The Christian Waterman of Mississippi
states that the Roman Catholics have resolved
to revise their English version of the Bible
and circulate it freely among the people.
They have also begun in New York city the
publication Of tracts on a large SCALE which
they are to spread throughout the country.
Al Troy, New York, a few days since, a
man hired son Of John Day, of Albany,
an insurance upon the life Of the
gor. and then endeavorad to kill the latter to