Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-01-10
respondence of the Vermont Phoenix

Correspondence of the Vermont Ph0nix'
Nrw-OnLE,Ns, Dec 25th.
Mn. Enron
"This is the day nc celebrate" as
the fat pir insinuatcd to the turkey ono Christmas
Morning I'm this most Catholic city Christmas is
tbougbt much more of than at the north. 1t throws
,bc Fourth of July into the shade, and as write,
tbe noise of frc-crackers and other denominations
rings in my cars Everybody seem to think they
have right to get drunk to-day, and are enjoying
said right to its fullest extent The "Sons of NAL
ia" Uhe a might with propricty be left outI and
the artillery are paradng the Streets ana every
one is having a GLORIOUS time"
Although this is, in more respects than one,
great city-though it affords the greatest facilities
for getting rid of surplus change, and getting the
least value in return therefor it is by no an
earthly paradise and the more one sees it the more
he d-s il. One soon sickens of place where
there is not a hill six feet high within n hundred
miles, and where you might see the other end of
creation, if it were not for the cypress swamps,
Who is it says emusic hath charms'" Is it the
man who wrote Shakespeare He never was in n
Orleans, or he wouldn't have said it. The people
here arc music-mad. The very dogs howl by note
the drays rumble dulcet sounds, and little nggers
stand on their heads and play Verdi's operas on
the Jewsharp. The city is crowded with what
Mrs. Malaprop might call "natural progenes"-
men who can do more with their toes than any one
else ever thought OF doing with their hands.-fat
women ,-wonderful babies, (hc latter are common
enough everywhere and beasts with seven heads,
nine tails, and seventeen horns,--and every one
has his corps of organ-grinders, who transgress
the statute BIZ tutoring false notes the whole four
'and-twcrty lonrs. You cannot escape this music
T1aguc. Do you fly to the Cafe, it is there in the
shape of two fddlcrs, harper, and two bagpipcrs;
and, ten chances to one, the gentleman WHO rooms
next you, amuscs himself with solos on the cornet-
a-piston Had music the same power now as in
the time Of Orpheus, New Orleans would long since
have danced itself into the Gulf of Mexico.
The ladies here Especially the Creoles) are re-
.markably handsome, and seem to answer the pur-
pose for which nature designed them viz being
stared at through lorgnette. Whether they are
good for anything else, this deponcnt knoweth not
But they certainly not behind their Northern
sisters in "enarging their Spheres (physicallyO
and, owing TO hoops and crinoline, sun roydgc au-
tour une dame is no longer laughing matter.
To an admirer of the beautiful, (when not pecuni-
arly ntercsted,) it is delightful to stand Char
tres street, and see them sweep proudly by, like
Spanish gaeons, bent on the agreeable diversion
of shopping
have always considered our Vermont Legsla-
ture too puritanical in prescribing theatres, but
they to become schools Of vice, in this city,
I cannot blame them. The public taste here is aw-
fully depraved, and the licentous comedies of Con-
greve or Farquhar always draw the fullest houses
and Camille" n play which deifes prostitution
has had unprecedented run. But not blush
is to be the checks of the fair Creolcs; (le
us chariably suppose It's owing to the paint) the
"cullud pussuns'' may, but it is, alas, invisible
reminding one of the sweet words Of the poet
"Pu many a niger is born blush
And waste his sweetness the desert air.
Spaulding Rogers have opened an amphitheatr'
and museum here, and have brought their thee
circusses One of the celebrated "liying giraaes
is no longer living, but her remains are enshrneC
in glass case on st. Charles street. Like many
other females, she made fur pas, and fell int
tne hlSSisslppl, which 10 tOp lpi
Besides these, the city is crowded with charlatans
who reap good harvest out Of the gulls which
flock here annually.
Preparations arc making for celebrating the bat
tic of Ncw-Orlcans on the sth proximo. The new
of Walkers difficulties has created some excite
ment, but is generally discredited The weathe
has been cold for the past few days. actually say
ice in the strces-but it has again grown comfort
able. Nuf ced. Yours, ii. {. W.