New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-28

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by mail, a copy of the Mexican Times, of Januar,
goth. The Times, rs our readers already know, il
edited by our former fellow. citizen, Hon. Henry
w. Allen. sH
The Times announces the arrival in the city Of
Mexico, of Judge Oldham and the Hon. Mr. Ran
dolph, of Texas, and Col w. L. O'Bannon, OF
South Carolina.
Juarez is still at Ell Paso, and has issued decree
extending his functions President (so-called) to
an indefinite period. ng,I .
We take from the Times the following items:
Within the last five days the laborers have begun
work on the railroad at Toluca.
The 322 soldiers, who came in the last French
packet, belong to the Foreign Legion.
Her Majesty the Empress has given $500 to the
wounded soldiers of Yucatan
Col Dupin the celebrated French cavalry officer,
| who has fought so many battles, has arrived at
| Vera Cruz, in the last French packet from St.
Nazaire. He has already joined his command in
the field. s
Ell ST.. Hidalgo, Mexican Minister to Paris, has
arrived recently in this capital.
Ell. Sir. Nora the Grand Master of Ceremonies
has gone to Brussels to take the compliment of
condolsnce and grief of their Majesties the Empe
He sailed from Vera Cruz on Saturday last.
We have received recently letters from several
immigrants who are settled not far from Mazatlan
near Preside. They are planting cotton and doing
If,d
cultivation is rapidly increasing, and in few years
it will be exported largely from the empire
The Times, in speaking of the opera in the City
of Mexico, says they have been having :" perfect
flood OF most delightful music" f. 'FE
Among the amusements advertised for Sunday
afternoon is bull fight, and ga combat between
a lioness and bull.'' a.. ....,.-
The Times publishes the following "obituary"
of Gen. Butler:
Rejoice, oh We citizens of Louisiana, for Beast
Butler is dead! Gentle reader, do you wish to
know how he died? Did he die by gunpowder?
No. He hates with holy hatred GO the viainous
smell of saltpeter.n Did he die by cold steel in
honorable combat? His coward heart never dared
to meet any but women and children and non
combatants. How then did he die? He died not
by the bottle, but in bottle! Gen. Grant killed
him with one stroke of the pen! You will see
him in Frank Leslies pictorial, corked up tight as
dead as mackere He is not only dead, but his
carcass stinketh immensely Ladies of Louisiana,
rejoice, for the devil has claimed his own at last
Good devil burn this bloated, bottled beast in
birthstone and fire forever and ever, and you will
receive the thanks of thousands whom he has in
suited, spit upon and tortured in this sorrowful
world. 10 Gen: Grant is due the thanks of the ma.
ton for killing this bottled, bloated beast.
The Times publishes letter from Gen. j. A.
Early, prefacing the letter which he wrote some
time ago to the New York News. From the con-
GiuuiHS puruoHS Vi tne iOrDler lettef we take the
following extract: r+@ E.Nm
In the overwhelming odds in men and resources
which the United States had against us, are to be
found sufficient reasons for the failure of our cause
without looking for Others and no man with a
proper sense of proprety can read, without feel
ings of unmitigated disgust, the abuse which
few writer's in the Southern States, who contribu.
ted nothing to the success of the cause themselves
have attempted to heap on President Davis.
feeling of self-respect, if nothing else should
restrain every Southern man from utterng aught
of reproach against our leader under his present
misfortunes, and the generous everywhere can but
respect the prisoner of Fortress Monroe.
In ride from the State of Virginia through the
States of North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi Arkansas and Texas did
not lind a solitary good man or woman who did not
express the deepest sympathy and profoundest re-
spect for Mr. Davis, and it may be assumed as
certain that, wherever any pretended Confederate,
at home or abroad, is found denouncing him. that
man has either done nothing for the cause himself,
or has been positive injury to it.
President Davis, during the long and severe
struggle, which he sustained by the energy and
integrity of his character, may have committed
errors of judgment as to men and measures-not
to have done SO would have required him to be
more than human-but when the history of that
struggle is fairly and truly written all men will be
compelled to yield him credit for the purest and
lOftieSt patriotism.