New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-16

From the Philadelohia Agel
Az P,r1,si. a pict,rcsque radical. He is his
~ III IT, - al,iys IN nm. attitude He began
iifa nv darcinr on tie tight rope in Boston, and
H. arotItic fgat was turning heals over head
III Ei,J, Gnn-ri9p in the House Of Representa-
tfyes A. he now writes letter invoking all sorts
S'S 20 1 az On Ne poonle OF New Orleans and |
a. p.i5ent we are trnlpted to remind ourrcad-
~ ~ to ganTpeul Ranks is In the war he was
els ~ = ~, ". 49,, ,c, - Yankee major generals
orS W to fiiowy lie footsteps OF Butler in
5aI.:,,o Tb,ra' bn affiliated with Mrs. Bona |
Tertn and her detectives in prosecuting ladies and
PSao,t4 IN rbrprfuinnss the order 10 Urrestand
SLj ~ MILAN thn NarqIanl lagslatnre In such
a. i. X N, ,yas ouife All home He had some slight
thongb not 1,eriIous share in the di-credit Of
Rails R}uT, but he never crossed the Potomac TIL
'g S sn2 cre NE disastrous campaign of 1862 of
,lin6 tfe most rictvresoue incident according to
nrr rarnilnrtion was Banks when running away
So, General 1nrl,eon sJ0uping 10 abduCt run
49,, borafoHtrl MORO bow He left pretty
,af .rerrtInrL elso 6ehind and tie Confederate
nnr1r,i.sariat was for months supplied by the
YANKEE notions slrewed from Manchester to the
riy-Gr Then he had "a share in pope's disaster,
heinz again badly be ten by Jackson in the pre-
limiGary battle at Cedar Mountain. Alter TINS,
Ranks subsidized reapprariug ut a later period at
Nav Orleans again following Butler. Here he
had q ray time. BY daylight he organized con
yentions. and ut night took part in masked balls,
and all the dfIusSeRenS Of the creole metropolis,
Htadrnons octoro0n- and all. The convention OF
1884, a most rigkety und unnatural birth, was his
nrorsncv and when he went up the Red River
with ATfpiTnl Porter, hn was nUry VIII pOlltigS
and cotton. and hut for Porter and franklin would
have lost hi. army. There Is some curious tesu
nonv on this pOnt which is not without nteres
nov Admiral Porter, a rough, plain spokel
gnfIor testified thus before of the commit
fees on the conduct Of the war:
gs When pot to Alexandria, ! found the arm,
n n n ~reaf state Of stampede. did not see any
thn@ TO be frightened AT myself, but the arm
Was goino 10 clear out at once and go down tn
river / told Gen. Banks that out of tn
crceiinn There was the most perfect stamped
frg4, .1rr
tior IA co into battle | wrote to Gen. Bank
Trattv stiff,v ON the subject and told hmif he di
20 and descrt the feet The people of the Unite
States would never forgive HIM as long as b
lived -
Grain. he saws:
"Iien, Banks had come up the river in IL
steamer Black Hawk loaded with cotton spec
lat0rs. baCgng, ropng, chao payne and ice, ct
The whole affair was cotton speculation 70
+nn killed the expedton in my OPINION
But Banks had other aims beside cotton T
was irving to have himself nominated for Il
PTesiSc;ncY in the place of poor Mr.. Lincoln
Cant Breeze. of the navy, testifes:
On one occasion Gov. Yates came with
4ateamer and a number of persons with him, a
wanted to come mn. They had permits from sen
official authority which the naval officer at m,
mouth of Red River would not recognize. In
with Cen. Banks. and then came up. The arranG
ment come to was this There was to be an eli
made in the coming Presidential campaign TO no
tnasG Te pGnma bt ma ono ha6 any exnectat
10 would he snccessFpl Therefore they w
ooinp ostensihlv To nusl him az hard az they cou
bbnt q tbe and ihev ynra T0inG to bring forWi
90 panke Win va In he a coiunromise car
5atp and there was no doubt he would be elect
Pnt tbnv wanted nancy to nuah the thing throu
end thew wanted Cen BlIiEg' influence to h
+La;r frionds The obiacL of Gov Yates's nal
~ 7 rn5nretoo1 IL was IN aur,hose cotton to I
ssots tba interest Of Gen. Blpks as the comtr
Mise candidate for the Presidency
"a onr orc wonder thot an expedition