New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-10-06
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENTS.
NEw YoRK, Sent. g. 1853


NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE
New YORK, Sept. %, 1853.
Special to the New Orleans Crescentl
Our city is now in its most coquettish and fascina.
ting mood, the scene of a grand high carnival in
which wealth and poverty, industry and Incidence, +
satin and calico, pety and profanity, refinement and
vulgarity modesty and impudence, broadcoth and
rags, genius and charletanry, are all mingled to-
gether in one common animated Kaleidoscope Broad
way-the pulse which indicates the health disease
of the municipal c0rporocity-is beating full and /
quick with the living tide which courses through it
its payements are covered with brilliant equpages
and gay pedestrians its nagazins filed with pur
chasers, and altogether it is magnificent mirror in
which is visible almost every element of human ma
ture. All nations, races, countries and tongues are
represented, and as | write the floating population
cannot fall short of a hundred thousand people.
The salt and spice of metropolitan lie which, during
thesummer seasoned the eghboring watering places
has returned to favor the city dish the Theoretically
sealed palatal mansions of Fifth Avenue have been
unlocked, dinners receptions sociables the pleasures
of the theater and opera, etnbellish the hour and
fashion, feathers, and fummery reignin full state.
The morale Of all this s, that New York, indeed,
the whole country, is waking up from its long inan-
cia slumher Of the past year. and is rubbing its eyes
and making its toilet before entering upon new and
more auspicious era. They are the symptoms Of re.
turning confidence, fresh vgor, and OF commencing
! influx Of prosperity through the recently opened
f channels OF industry and enterprise.
The cable having ceased to be as talkatiye as it
was few weeks ago. the public beginning to in
quire into the why and wherefore Of its dumbness.
Some joker says, that the marriage between the two
countries must have been q very happy one, no
5ootiS hare passed betace them since the bridal day
Mr.. De Sauty, the electrician at Trinity Bay has
been made to come out of his past mummy,lke
silence concerning the real condition and prospects Of
the telegraph and has agreed henceOrward to feed
the public appetite with all proper and desirable in.
, formation. Hope deterreth maketh the heart sick,
and Yankee impatienCe will not wait long before it
4 will be at work with Yankee capital ships inst1u-
ments and men, and lay Yankee cable that in point
of conversation at least will sustain the same rela
ton to the present lame affair that village gossip
r bears to a deaf mute
Gen. Scott, who, few days since, tripped and fell
down stairs at West Point, has far recovered from
his injuries as to lie able to attend to bis private and
. official duties. Considering his advanced age and
large frame, his apidrecoyery sa matter Of surprise;
the old General has enough stamina left to make two
: or three young men yet.
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fractions. In the performance of whatever he under
takes, whether it is be first at fire or a fight in
feat Of peril or public parade, he is animated by
w an esprit du corps, which makes him go the whole
figure" We have just had a demonstration of this
4 fact. The Warren Hose Company having been on an
excursion to Phiadephaforth days, their brother
. fremen at home determined to give them glorious
reception on their return, and accordingly on Satur-
. day night, twenty-siX companies, numbering some
fifteen hundred men, accompanied by their apparatus
and thirteen bands OF music, turned out in torch light
l. procession, and made Of the finest displays OF the
season. The usual ebultions of red shirt enthusiasm
in took place, consisting Of lung and gastronOmic exer
else, aud the affair terminated about the time the
rest Of The city were waking out of their nights
v sleep.
'V Speaking of turnouts, I am reminded of the un
50 usually large number of target parades whcl
= have taken place this season. Hardly day passe
y without the appearance Of ten a dozen eompane
u ofyoung men, varying from forty to seyenty-fve il
le number, in borrowed clothes and equipments, o.
VI their way to the suburbs for the purpose of large
Il, practice need not say that the devoted bull
g eye is much in the position as the boy in tn
len pin alley, who was told to stand in among th
m pins if he didn't want to get hit
+, The chess men of the city are considerably exer
e. cised over the recent news that Paul Morphy hat
"a been beaten bya German Jew named Hartwitz, Of
no the first trial.
on There is no idea, however, that he can be umatel,
beaten, or that his match exists. What gives still
more force to this impression, is the fact that the New
b. York Chess Club are wiling to back him against th
world. lie has a mission to perform IN Europe, ant
d. Will not return nome until the entire chess WORT
b. small acknowledge tnat IN chess, as IN other matters
Of : Westward the star Of Empire takes It's way
ID the "ey language OF an enthusiastic correspondent
~ "nouse to argue the point at all II you don't be
y Iieye it. down with your metacss and let yonr con
:" science or vo,I,. nile he yonr limit
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