The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-03-13
Novelties in New Orleans.

w. have Frequently heard foreigners say that
ssNew Orleans was very beautiful place, but
that dem it. it had no places of amusement
We throw back the remark, with the most excel
lent good humor, into their very teeth, and sin
cerely hope that they may never have any thing
worse than the best toothbrush that can be pro-
cured to clean their masticators with. New Or
leans without places of amusement! Why the
very idea, gentlemen, is absolutely absurd. If
there be any individual in the community who has
Santa Annals favorite passion on the apex of his
heart-which remark meaneth furious desire to
he present when the Gallo emblem of nationality
spurs himself for the fght--he at all times be
accommodated in the lower municipalities. In
certain locations he will be permitted to cry
Grow, Chapman Chapman, crow!' to the full
est extent of his lungs Does the gentleman desire
to see an Attakapas bull Gust imported from Ha-
vana) speared by artistic of celebrity If So.
his wish can be fulfilled by visiting Algiers and
The Third Municipality, in the pleasant season OF
our Southern summer. As for masquerade Balls,
we can only be beaten by gay, gallant, chlvarous
Paris: and in the way of operas, we can't be beat
en- at all There's the French opera at the Or
leans Theatre, with its magnificent Troupe; and
occasionally we have those addicted to music from
the g Fa.her-and,'' who sing to our uneducated
ears strains of the most mysterious sweetness
Again. once or twice in the course of the theari-
cal season. we have gems of genius in the way OF
vocasts from the 8 sunny skies of fair, classic
Italy, who sing as if their very blood had been
intermxed with the red currents that flow through
the hearts of nightingales. Therefore, Bonn
bastes says
Since Music is the food of love. -,
Play Michael Virgins once again ~
If a person wishes to perforate his intimate
friend or nsoent enemy, he has only to go to some
one of the numerous shooting galleries i'll New Or
leans, and by the joint aid of a few dimes and
! three davs' practice. he be taught to split a
bullet against the edge of pen-kniie, at the dis
lance of ten PAGES. Those, too, who fond
of playing with edged tools, will, by applying to
some of our fencing masters, be taught how Il
pink gentleman in manner that Chevaliel
Bayard would have wept at. More than this could
not be desired.
Now, as for our National Drama, we have al
the materials necessary Stars from Europe, from
Britain, and, aye, sometimes from our own wild
| Western States, appear week after week at the
! different Theatres-which . temples of the drama
are. we suppose, better latroniZed than any other
in g the land of the free and the home of thu
brave" Those who come TO visit us, albeit for
season, must never think that the Queen City Of
the South is deficient in am'isements-ior they cal
enjoy themselves at any thing in the way OF drink
ing, from glass OF the waters OF the muddy Mis-
sssippi, up to golden goblet filled with Roman
punch in the way of eating, from nouldy sea
biscuit with a slice of rusty bacon. up to broIle'
pompano with tie rrapin eggs and asparagus; an
in tie way of music, from the footing OF penn
whistle, up to a soul-entrancing strain oil sllve
bug!e, in the still, solemn hours of night
The fact is. that in this goodly city. we can g
through the whole aphabet of enjoyment, and a
they say in the West, not miss letter from A t
| lizard.