New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-28
LETTER FROM GRGsCsMTA.

Dea, Crescent Having been busy all the week,
have had but little time and very few items for our
weekly gossip. How hope pleasure in this
gossip is mutual for it has grown so upon me that,
fear me, i shall never be willing to give it up.
The cool, refreshing showers that have eniVened
the city generally gemning the trees and shrubs with
diamond drops has contributed to the elevation OF my
spirits; and following the example of coming sum
nner-wlo, pTovdent matron, is already DOMINIC her
sunny garb-I have been laying in the endless little
articles Of ladys wardrobe, and my feet are some
what wearied by my constant strollng. How pity
the toing dry-good clerks, just now, with their end
les showing of new and pretty goods to neverto-he-
satisfied ladies'. wonder who gives them absolution
for all the little white bs they tell in regard to their
uneq1aled goods ~ For who ever yet saw the man
who had anything to SELL that would own its equal
could be found. ,..
was astonished to see the number Of strangers who
now tlrong our Streets and at the long line OF steam
ers at our evees; and yet so at the number Of
those winged birds Of passage that go down to the
deem seas A forest of deadened timber alone, could
furnish comparison for the long, long Of nasts
that now line our wharves Surely, the many predic-
tons as to the decline Of New Orleans hear, have
been uttered by those who have visited cur city
of mighty commerce. or, at best, have paid it flying
visit They have never stroed along its lengthy
wharyes and seen the busy turmoil upon them. They
have passed with closed eyesf they have passed at
all-along our crowded Streets where the side walks
are completely taken up with boxes bales and barrels,
to the great deliment Of ladies' specially,
those streets where they keep the honey Of the
South
Ladies in New Orleans have some half dozen things
Of which to complain. Crowds of pcrsons who call
themselves gentlemen collect upon corners and cTiti
else upon the promnadcrs who pass them by without
the slightest regard to whether their remarks
overheard by the subjects Of them The closest
tiny is given and comments, more forcible than ele
CAN'T made Gentlemen say ladies should not wear
wells and yet lady will be stared out of countenanee
and kept in constant blush, did she walk ous with
out some sort of covering from the annoyance to
| which all are subject.
Then again, there loose stones in the pavement
which after shower will fly up, if touched scattering
water and mud upon the neat dresses in which ladies'
have robed themselves for their walk-in many in
stances, where the material is not washable in its
| ture, entirely running them And have seen gentle
men, seated in store near one of these nuiSances,
burst into roar of laughter at occurrence Of this
atlre-as though there was something very funny in
the sight Of neat dress spoiled and lady dsconft-
ed. Remarkably Well-ralsed gentlemen, indeed they
must bel u.
Again, there is nuisance Of which y0u have COM
pained-and that is, the street crossings after the
watercarts have crossed them Now, to ME, dust
is at any time preferable to mud and nothing disfg-
ures ladys appearance more than dragged skirts ;
for were | young man, in the heyday Of romance,
could not admire Venus herself, did see her with a
soiled dress And nowaday, ladies sweep the streets
with their most costly garments. Omnibus drivers,
too, make point OF selecting out the deepest mud in
the whole street, when they halt their vehicles to let
lady OUT thus compelling them to jump, at risk of
fall, Or to step over shoe top in mndether (which
ladies undoubtedly find remarkably pleasant
But will cease, Crescent, lest you deem NE in the
vein of complaining this morning, (Which am not
being of remarkably placid disposition,) and will
close by requesting of you the favor to tell friend
Laura Franklin, that 1chen send out bridal fayors
She most assuredy, will not be forgotten. now bid
you adieu. CREsCENTA,