New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-12-20
Street Music.

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with the commencement Of each winter season thi
city is invariably favored with the arrival Of great mum
bers of itinsrant musicians who if they do not equa
Ole Bull in ability Jenny Lind in melodiousness, ART
than three times the supsrors Of both in the gene
rosty with which they dispense their notes and the pub
LEFTY with which they publish then HAYS bad every
conceivable style Of wind instruments and barrel organ
blown and ground BY the musical outcasts Of foreign
Countries toted up Camp street and down st. Charles
from Lafayette to the Lower Cotton Press from the river
the swamp Their melodious oupourings are the first
sounds audible in the morning. and the last that fall upor
the ear at midnight They commence sooner than the
lark and die only with the death of the owl They in
habit the alleys we'll the avenues and though at
home in the best restaurants are not alien to drink
log saloon courtyard in which they are tolerated
Men and little children engaged in the labor
OF dispensing cheap music 10 the'sars Of thu outside
millions who cannot tickle their aarcusrs with Bordas at
the French theatre, Dueld ut the st. Charles or White
at Placide's. Itssns, Germans spanards, venitians
and sbrewdly suspect nondescrpt Irish and ntrgu-
log Yankees rival anothsrn the popularity snd profits
Of trade reputed to be remarkably taking with the
citizens Of New Orleans They grind out niger tunes
and blow forth the national airs they vary between the
gems of the opera and Jordan hard road TO trabbe
believe.n They run barrel organ into your stomach
at the street corner stick fiddle bow into
| on the street crossings assaa ys..s, az z
Aside from these pefambulatory rusieAl machines we
have however fixed stars of double and most ire
sistably insinuatng tones There Is pale Niger on
almost every street who from the hours Of ten until two
pounds with monotonous vgor unstrung drum There
hast seasons agfinorga ID front Of the Commercial
Exchange another tho st Charles and Graver
streets and third at Dan Rice's Southern Museum
This the three last machines have been consolidated
into one gigantic earpercing monster that half hourly
shreks forth IFS melody from the Southern Museu We
have bsnd Of music at the Amphitheatre which every
evening" and occasional Afternoon astonfses the air
directly opuoeite we are uhable to catafoaue
the entire iat Of armonicai which nfsst
our highways and by.ways They are legion in number
and terrible in power They come at al times aud places
in season snd out Of season and have knack Of
lduciur themselves worthy Of Paul Pry :. -set-
1t To chronicle to.sv recent and nov
addition to the forces Tie
Of the pruids are among IA mot mt ali venerable in an
pearancs or reysreptiai IN conduct but exceedingly ana
BILE aoderceednsly Tie Hsrtefs OF old
returned to s or ths Harpers Of New York have
quilted their burned tenesents for more nomsdc and
n,elodlous life We have met within the last week 1t
least half dossn urchihs unwsshed and uucorted With
mighty harps on their shoulder ana mighty melody in
their souls. True instincts Of former days these
revived Pyhagoseans haunt now as heretofore those
places where bodily reresment is EXCHANGED for inteliso
tual qualification where food and drink may be expect
cd In return for music and melody They require little
urging but onthe contrary accept The slightest requests
and thesmaiest rstrss They have got as far al Com
mon street. Whence they come whittier they 10 or
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hans thea. vsu6y l.eaue.r. ss,cs,Ssa f,o,, ~
nIsce n al 20 shs,, ans,a 11orao "a ..l... ~.
wish that cU i, co. r,d,qntlth.t thew NAV els,r on
soon for more ast.stab,a ,,oses vs,a
before nsde eItfet In tb,s voy, or th tb., -
We never heard or rssd or 5re. ,.5 - th., =
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HoRAIAlk MuRpER.--ws learn from the Cleveland
Psindsalsr that most attrocious murder was committed
in the neghorhood of that town the 7th 1t seems
shot tame turkey and bia Il ,,ndsr ,oe let ,s
ton Of carving Il awsv !, soma ,oa .h,.
act was witnessed by . man pamed Josenb Tho,nnsor
who followed him and dsmsndsa tbs nrsc. ~ ,s
which West refused to raw 81 III - :, = -
Z Thomson insisted. west s.,a n. v.r,a az.
didn't Kin hin, - and sn,t,n, N. a,,,o,, =. -,
cooked beth barrels az hisxun and di,cba,vd and
~ Warmly. ~ thomson VINO $1,000 not more
sl"n less oua tns oa.rse when was vary heavy
0ok elect in the tn,sn OF left leg In.
ncung aitesrns wound and severins number Of arts,
TIVE Ane n0e enough 70 run nand In with
90 inc companions OF the woundsd man sprAns upon
Aae seceeeaeu tne gun rom DIS grasp
sVus1 aSooarss tne other barrel AID was Oh.
tanea anu ne was safely secured. mgr -1 -Lif-'i
Thompson taken tothe house and medical assistance
applied but he died from excessive bleeding in the
Of an hour I u-gs. s. sEg u - ge7--1 If
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