The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-07

| Walker, late of the Crescent, is enjoying a good
| practice in the law, and has already gathered
around him as warm friends as he leftin the Sunny
South. Randolph, too, stands in the foremost rank
at the bar and his picturesque little cottage on the
outskirts OF the city, looks familiar as our own
pleasant hOmesteads in the land ESQ far AVA. "
hendlg Is at the head OF an extensive auction house.
IN the full tide OF success. Tobin is obtaining by
business tact and untring application, a mete re-
turn. Mr.. Horst, whose musical attachments are
so well known with us, is here awaiting the arrival
OF shipment oil his superior iron frame pianos
Boston, the lively correspondent of the Delta
mas tofsaken the pen and the MUSES. to deal in pork
and huter, and seems as much at home in the dus
ty avenues OF trade, as when climbing the heights
Of Parnassus.
Business men may now ask impatently for mat
tiers about dollars and cents, and will briefly dis
course on this interesting topic. Dry goods are sold
at wholesale at prices which will not remunerate
Hardware, boots and shoes, and fancy goods do
Groceries are looking up but except the staple ar
ticIes, better rates can be obtained in New Or
leans. Stationery, books, ETC., pay well. Provi-
slons are advancing mess pork is worth S27 flour
sells readily at S2S per barrel butter from II to
30 cents; lard II cents These, however, are
wholesale rates, for | have before said rents
make fearful increase of profits when the retailer
has the article in store. Boarding costs in private
houses S25 per week, and that important article,
washing, requires an outlay of s. per dozen. Ne
chancs receive from SO to $l2 per day, and the vast
improvements progressing give constant employ
ment to thousands. Furniture is sold low; every
style can be purchased from the plainest chair to
diyans of silk and satin. That great pioneer of
civilization, the Yankee clock, is set in motion at
81, while the deliberately gilt time. piece graces
the mantel at a less price than Hyde g. Goodrich
could afford. There seems to be no avOcation or
trade, article Of use or trinket Tor display known
in the States, but finds its counterpart here: and
in city improvements, San Francisco stands with
out a rival for the astonishing rapidly with which
hills are leveled streets graded and bad thorough
fares paved.
very neat little theatre is open nightly to good
audiences. A son of Capt Marryatt young off
Ger of the British Navy, on leave of absence. ap-
pears as an amateur on the boards, under the nom
de gaeyre of Warren" He plays very well, and
is quite favorte. Two crcusses are also open,
and well patronsed. Churches and school-houses
follow the march of las Yankees, as a matter of
course; and here We have several neat little tenn
pies where hymns of praise ascend with the Sab
bath air up to the God of our Fathers
The Press is well represented; and this depart
ment will bear profitable accession to its mum.
bers. Here is the Evening Picayune," is shouted
forth by the news-boys with all the vehemence
which characterizes the enumeration of that pecu-
liar class in the Crescent City.
With this hurried sketch of the Gate to the
Gold Regions, leave you to CLEAN from the files
l send, the news from the interior. One week in
California has not enabled me to descant in the
usual knowing manner of letter writers upon events
borne only to the ear by the tongue of rumor, and
bide my time before l venture upon further re-
marks. Yours,