New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-15
MORE AND MORE.

would not begin to help q person in chasing uu
effectually, all the falsehoods that have been
/ put in circulation concerning recent affairs in
New Orleans, by the correspondents of the
Northern radical newspapers AS genera
thing the truth has at last some sort of {
chance to tone down and modify exaggera
ton and misrepresentation, but in this case
the falsehoods increase SO rapidly in number
and magnitude, that it is almost impossible tc
take in their dimensions at one view, and quite
impossible to enumerate them.
4 Principal among the persons who have been
zealously occupied, for some time past, in trying
J to stimulate Northern rage against the South,
and in pandering to the depraved appetite Of
a malignant faction for tales of blood and
horror, is the correspondent of the New York
, Tribune. EBut this frantic person rather
''over-cropped himself at the start. His story
} Of the two Confederate flags which got pos,
J session of the city and captured Governor
Wells, came too soon. He began with climax
which ought in the nature OF things, to have
constituted the astounding termination of a
gradually augmenting series of horrors Con-
sequently his later efforts have lacked artistic
effect, and have seemed poor and weak in
comparison with his first attempts. For in
stance the following:
The assassination of Union men may be looked
for by the hirelings Of the mayor. Already sew
eral attempts of this kind have been made but the
personal courage of the assaied has shielded them
4 from harm. Every day Union men are receiving
notice to leave, under the penalty of assassination.
This story is defective. It should have as
serted that the hirelings of the mayor" are
assassinating Union men by tens, scores and
hundreds, and that the sanguinary chief mag
istrate of the city himself is using their
"loyal blood for red ink with which to write
his truculent proclamations. If in addition
to this, the correspondent had declared that
he himself had been twice shot through the
heart and three times through the BRAIN that
he was regularly strung up to alamp-post every
night, and that he was compelled to write his
dispatches with bowie-knife in each hand
and pen behind his ear, he would have
achieved that happy combination of marvel
BUSINESS and probability, which is wanting in
his published kilograms. Failing in this, he
has found himself compelled to return to the
flag story-that perennial fountain of amiable
yindictiyeness and perpetual inspiration of
solemn amazement to the gentle and confding
radicals. The following, which we find in the
Tribune, is the latest on the flag question:
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. Z, 1s66.--The fol-
lowing special dispatch to this bureau, from the
Tribune Bureau, in New Orleans, dated o'clock
is received tonight at l0l. The fact of a rebel
flag having been displayed on the day of the riot
am told, is generally admitted by citizens who
mn the in No 4bn4P ,4,
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. My statement in ref
erence to the Confederate flags will be sworn to
by the party who Witnessed it before the military
commission. Large sums of money have been
offered by interested parties to control the re-
ports from this city. Incontroyertible evidence
Of this fact can be had, if necessary. The sworn
testimony Of trustworthy gentlemen now on
record before the military commission will show
that my reports, instead Of being exaggerated,
fall far abort Of the faets.'
This is pretty good, but is not quite up to
the mark. A fresh emotion is needed, and
the Tribune correspondent owes it to his en-
ployers, to an anxious public, and his own
fame, to furnish it without delay. Likewise
it is his bounden duty to find convenient Wit |
nesses for his facts, and to get the facts sworn
to before the military commission He is an !
enterprising person. and will not find much
difficulty in accomplishing this purpose -as
we infer from the above dispatches.
Another person who seems to be emulous
of the reputation of the Tribune, informs a
Boston paper that Lucien Adams is chief of
the New Orleans police; that he made ar
with Hyde & Goodrich to furnish
the New Orleans populace with pistols, and
tIok
that there is no such firm here as Hyde &
Goodrich and that Lucien Adams is not chief
Of police, the Boston man has done Yery
we'll An additional merit which he dis
plays is the fact that there is not word of
ruth in anything he says. VIII his facts
too, be proved before the military commits
sion, by the testimony of respectable gentle
men?
Here is another story, but it is rather weak
and lactagneous
Rebels are complaining that they did not kill
enough Yankees and conventiOners, but brag that
the time is coming when they will finish their
york. Union men are afraid to 90 out on the
streets after dark, and invariably barricade their
ZONES. While the present police is composed Of
hugs, life is terribly insecure night or day.
Even the correspondent of the New York
Times does not seem to have escaped the gen
raj infection; for he informs his readers that
dr W. R. Fish was badly beaten by the po-
ice while on his way to the station house
whereas the fact is that Mr. Fish was totally I'M
lurt, having received neither wound, brnise
Tor blow. And yet this is the testimony of
N eye witness.
Altogether, it is safe to say that the affair of
uly 30th, in New Orleans, has furnished a
anger stock of fa1sehoods for the uses of bit
er and malignant faction than any event that
as ever before taken place in this country.
We do hope that the correspondents of the {
adical papers have taken out copyrights for
heir letters, and that they will Issue these de-
sctable compositions in book form, as q COM '
cement to the adventures of the redoubtable
aron Munchausen.
The CULTURE OF ToBAooo IN FRANoE-A Paris &
says t
In regard to the culture of tobacco, now an i'm
ortant item of French agricultural industry the !,
w is even more stringent. Tobacco being h
monopoly, no one can grow even a
ngle plant of tobacco in his garden without @
ermit. If a peasant wishes to plant field with i
lbacCo. he makes a deelaratiOn 10 that affacf tn