New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-22

Roanoke to West Virginia.
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Az INGENIOUS SwNDLER.-The Cincinnati Ga
zette Of the 16th inst. relates the following:
Some days since an ERgIishman Of good address
appeared ID our city for the purpose as he repre-.
| senteF,of investing in real estate, Some years
| ago ne made the acquaintance in Paris of prom
nent l5ncinnati artist aud one Of bi5 5ifst ssens
| here vas to find his old friend and present his
comp iments. In this he was. successful. He was
kindly rGc5iged, and the EOsptaIss OF 6le aFtiss
were extended to him. fhe intimacy thus formed
! he USED to secure an Introduction to one OF the
Third street banks. As-s9On as this was fairly OBJ
taineC, he appeared ons day with q neatly CON
strucIad icon box, upon whiuh was tastefuIly
painted,the name of the English gentleman and
capitalist-as was supposed. He informed the
OtficeE3Of the bank thafthe box contained $40 OU0
in gold, and polit ly asked the favor Of depositing
It in tae v@uit for koeping, stating at the same
time shat he was negotiating for the purchase of
real cGtate and should, In few days, Rant to use
the Contents OF the boz
Sosn.thepeafter he called at the bank, and stat
ing tsat he had made s3gle purchases, and that he
nee0ea ius& then the use Of the smaA amount Of
$780, which, if the CASHIER would kind hand him
hold.Bg his specie deTost as security, he would
call sBe next day and settle The request was un-
usp6Gtingay granted.
The English gentleman then disappeared. He
did 19t ap pear next Cay, as promised. The box
was examined. handled 9sd weighed, Qby Aaud)
and seemed to be all right, The weight was such
that it WAS beAieyed IL contained the precious
tai Il represented. The owner of the box, how
evarb did not appear tho next day, nor th4 next
| ana then suspicion became strong. II was finally
| decided to take a peep into the box. The lock
| WIS accordingly piaksa, the lid Eaised and the
sGrprss of thB bank offers may be imagined when
! it was 2scov sred that it was filed with number
| shgeo shot, neatly packed, and arranged in man
| ner TO decBi Is is needless to ada that the
4nslish gentleman has not since made his ap-
pearARce.
| CuFFY's FRIENDe.--We copy the following eX-
| traal from the correspondence Of the New York
Times. The letter is dated Beaatert, North Caro-
! Ina, June4:
I There is no doubt that the freedmen here ara
lrsomewhat demoralzsd. They have had among
Ihem during the war q large aumber Of phlaR
thrOpic speCulat2Ts, who, while they made money
ont of them, ins,iued foolish IDEAS of antagonist
y toward their ola masters. Rhey call the neEfTa
whites rebels and speak of them as their 9se
| mics" and nse the pet phrases common with tAei
money-makng Yhhite friends from the North.
q No one will pretend to deny the fact that sher
are honest philapthropists lathe Southlahorng TO
! the benefit of sae freedmen but from what AhaY
seen and heardy am always half inclined to put
man down as a rascal who is engaged III adm
!, them,
i IL is certaialy very suspicious circumstance
, that many of the Massachusetts, "friends," VIII
u came down here several years ago, almost penn
less are now going back with plenty OIL monei
n The truth Of the matter is that the freedmen hay
a been plunaered by aESsharks from the Mort
J.; disguised asfriends, who are now leetsS6G them
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them to hate. The fsmale school teachers Sc
r down hers by benevolent associations, are abo
Al, the only true philantEn1pists that ipa, aud tn
" are often usedby outsiders as metSaters betwet
le them ana the money Sf the blacks. 1t may see
IA strange to some tltat the blacks are now SO pc
IN when taey have in many instances worked ha
X and faithfully duning the 8ast few yeai
- but Is IS easily accounted Tor when it
OF known, that .ths2f friends aGve grown re
n Instead of eoo43my, they have been tang
rk TO bS oXtraEagapb, for it onie aeeded,an examp
I'd in ORDER to devsl9p astouNdsng wasetnl abtltlt
ThGir tastes fqn bright oo4ors, sweetmeats, le
st elry buggy. Y1iing and $ FAST things genera
he have proved perfect mine to the false men
A WAOm they tnusted.
Under the prudent management of an exct
tlonal phAanthropst, whose name am sorry
e.; have Forgotten the freedmen OF Beaufort have
e. ganzed d savings bank, in which they have abe
M $500 OGa deposited. How it was that they 81
ceeded in keeping so large an amount in their o
possession is a perfect wouder and the d. 60
&c, Samaritan " who assisted them is deserving
great credit for his extraordinary honesty. I
IA money, it seems, however, is owned by few oI
t~ and therefore, is of no benefit to the masses,
still remain in deepest poverty.