New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-09
A Redheaded Thief

wish to make a plain and brief statement of
facts, for the benefit Of The rising-generadoa,
On Tuesday, January %, 1866, | was in New
Orleans on my way to Georgia. awaiting the ar.
rival of DR.. Beasey, Of Arkansas, who, according
to promise, was to meet me there and bear me
company. called on board a Camden boat lust
arrived to see if the doctor had come down. But
he was not there. leftthe boat and was directly
approached by q man whom recognized as
having seen on the boat. He told me that Dr.
Beasley was at the St. Charles Hotel, and that he
would go with me to see him. He seemed very
accommodating and solicitors for my welfare and
ease. He proceeded on with me some distance,
when he remarked that he would have to return
and pay little freight bill; but then he concluded
he would let it remain until he returned, and
would go on and help me hunt the doctor.
We had not gone far before we met another
man, whom also recognized as having seen on
the boat. The man with me then innoCentlY sug-
gested that if [ would loan him fifty dollars, his
friend would go on and pay the freight bill and
thus save him some trouble, perhaps; and that
after we found DR.. Beasley and returned to the
boat, he would refund the money. | at once
handed him the amount. We proceeded on short
distance, when he halted and told me to hold until
he went up stairs into building and he would
return soon and go on with me to the St. Charles
Hotel. waited and waited, but he never re-
turned, and l have never again seen either the
man or my money-neither did find DR.. Beasey
who never met me in the city at all. This thief
was man weighing about one hundred and fifty
pounds spare built, with red whiskers and hair
He seemed to be a nice fellow, but a great
rascal.
warn the rising generation against lending
money to strangers. feel that DR.. Beasley Justly
owes me the fifty dollars, which thus lost in wait
ing for him to meet an engagement which he never
hned according to promise. have tried to serve
God all my life, but have never before been
tempted in this way. trust the Lord will forgive
this red-headed thief, so that he may escape the
flames of that he'll which seems so justly his due at
present. | understand that some of my old ac-
afTtl IN Np1n I1rr, l,,a
like manner lately-men who were much smarter
than profess to be but / do not think any scoun-
drel will get any more of my money in this way
no matter what color his head and whiskers n ay
be, REV. EPHRAIM STRICKLAND.
May 5, 1859 Claiborne Parish, La.
ANOTHER New ENGLAND SwINDLR.--During the
past four years, says the New York World, the
whole of the Southern congressional districts
have been unrepresented in Washington, but it is
believed that they have been fully represented at
West Point. The board should examine into these
rotton borough appointments thoroughly. Let
the public know if the radicals of Massachusetts,
Vermont, New Hampshire and other Northern
States, have not been appointing boys professedly
from Florida and Georgia, and other Southern
States, and thus not only swindng the treasury,
which pays for the support and education of these
boys, but swindling the Southern States, in these
clear cases of false pretenses If there is single
cadet from one of the Southern States in the
whole academy, diligent inquiry should be made
as to how he got there, and to whom he owes his
appointment. Small matters of this sort were
lost sight of in the greater radical assumptions
and ASSERTIONS of the war.
1t is a good time now to ventlate the matter.
The appointments are too valuable and too
eagerly sought to be matter of mere party ped
ding. 1t is Said that for the vacancies which
occur this summer, every Congressman has an IN,
limited list of solicitors, and in conversation, not
long ago, the President said that for twenty-five
appointments at large, he had at least eight hun
dred applications whole new class will soon
be entered, and, in view of the probable speedy
restoration of the Southern States to all their
rights in the Union it will be well to see that their
Congressional districts are not represented by
cadets from Barkamstead, Podunk Pittsfeld, and
other g Southern towns and villages in New Eng
land.