New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-08-23
Letter from New York.


Correspondence Of tbr grrsrtnt:
New YORK, August l., 1888.
The cold, damp, rainy weather We had last
week has been succeeded by the most oyerpow-
ering, unendura bic, indescribablc heat, unmit-
igsted BY breezes, and continuing even during
the nights with unremittng intensity. You.
with your soft south winds and deliciously cool
nights, can form no idea Of our sufTerings The
city seems like an immense oven, heated to the
highest degree; and the inhabitants feel as If
they were being roasted alive. Deaths from
the effects Of the heat are of frequent occur
: renee. yesterday twenty persons died from OK :
posture to it. An incredible number of pocket
handksrchcfs are daily drowned in perspira-
ton, and there is no counting the mint iueps,
sherry cobblers and other cooling beverages that
are daily and nightly quahed Ice carts are
hailed as blessings, and old signs Of " coal are
regarded as worse than eye sores, as positive ag
gravatons, insults, injuries The Thermometer
yesterday stood at SO in the shade, at three
O'Clock 7. NJ, and Mt IS all night long Were it
not for the yellow fever would return to New
Orleans to enjoy cool Weather
| | visited the Crystal Palace on Tuesday last
4 The exterior is beautiful resembling an oriental
| palace; but the effect is somewhat marred hy
the additional wing being still unfinished II Is
| impossible to carry away any clear impression
| Of tbs interior, or one-fitteth of its contents
during one visit The Multiplicity If objects il
beWlldsrlnG. The statuEry attracted more Of
my attention than anything else but owing to
my ignorance Of art, almost fear to express a n
opinion on the subject. Christ and the Apostles
group by ThorWalsden, is exhibited in an en-
closure by itself-the enclosure, however being
small, and the figures very large CHAT of Christ
colosss) the work is seen to great disadvantage.
noticed in the figure of Christ what seemed to
me a fault, and one quite common in Scripture
viz she great thickness Of the hair where it
parts on the forehead, having the appearance Of
wig. The drapery is beautiful, falling in soft
graceful folds. ST, James and st. John struck my
fancy more than any Of the others, particularly
the latter; the face is upturned and the expires
sion winning in the extreme This being the
only figure without beard, | had the pleasure
of adnring the beautiful chin, feature which |
when well formed should never he concealed, |
even by the most jetty and hushy Of boards
In the very centre Of the building, right un-
der the dome, stands Asrochettis colossal |
equestrian statue Of " ashington. a bronze Seen |
from below, " the Father OF his Country " pre- |
sents burly, stumpy appearance, very unlike |
the elegant proportions with which he is usually |
represented. Seen from the gallery the squire |
though less ungainly, is still clumsy or tho |
horse will not presume TO speak, never having
observed that animal when bestrode by the |
nobler one
Not far off is piece representing young
Amazon on horseback, aiming 4 spar at a IL
ger which IS clnging to the breast and neck Of
her horse, and fixing its fangs and claws into
the flesh Of the terrified creature The face
and form OF the woman are strikiugly hesut-
full, and her attitude So expressive Of strength
and determination that one almost wonders, on
taking Il second look, to soe the spear still
poised, the blow still innsbruck
Behind The statue u Warrington at some
distance from it, stands statue which but for
the attitude and roll Of parchment in its hand,
would be taken for coutrynNn returning from
4 fight The figure is clothed in q rough look
ing great-coat, aud tho face di,fSured ~ an
immense swelling in the esatre Of the fyrehe ID
This figure, ] was informed, is statue Of Web
ster, by an English artist named Carew No
body would ever have recognized the noble
head Of the Great Expounder i'll that deformed
Uranium.
In the Austrian department there are several
lesds Of yelled females The effect is strange
and beautiful the features are distinctly seen,
as through a thin gsuzy texture. and it il almost
impossible to realize that the Wheeis of marble
The veil s represented as touching the face and
gathered together under the chin Ia the same
department. ! observed cage Of Cupils The
little wicked uIelius are struggling TO esesrc
rom the confinement TO which some benevolent
power has consigned them. Female 6sures
almost, and some quite, nude ara scattered Tra-
iuscly around but my companions psssel them
all without lingering, and did not like to shock
their msiesty BY gratifying my taste for the
beautiful in that line
When next | visit the Crystal Palace intend
10 60 systematically to work, and examine each
department separately by which means shan
he enabled 10 give a more satisfactory dsserip-
ton Of its wonders than is Possible after one
ramble through it. Yours, Laura LEA.
DREApFUL SUFFERING ANp DE44a, Ar E4,-
Captain Young and the only known survivors
tten in numberl Of The ill-tatei bark Arsvle.
which recently tOundere1 on her passage from
Bristol to Quebec, arrived al Quebec on the 9Th
INST She was loaded with iron, as has been
before reported Captain Young states that
their suterings have been dreadful They were
nine days ia one Of tue ships boats, Drifting
about on the ocean, ami six Of these davs we're
passed without food or water-durng which
uIne Seven Of the men in the boat died Of ex
n"ustlon and hunger. or the survivors two
are females--Ons of whom is an old lady turned
over ~ years sf age, who, to add TO her suffer.
'"ss' was doomed 10 see her sds fine strou, ,
young man, - years old die Of hunger NJ
ner hde' The other female is "a young woman.
anu strange to say, both Of these females W.re
exposed To the same priyatious thar Nh. mon !
were, anu yet they lived through Them Tbars
~ W.. i've persons On board the ARGYLE
,n'ee passengers, viz the young uo
took themselves to two Of the shT,s H. "no'a %
which has not since been heard ~. an 9'i1 =
feared that but ten of the TWENTY-FIVE have teor
left to tel the sad tale.