New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-11
Mftp OrIfars DaiIp Grtsfent.
THURSDAY MoRSING, FEBRUARY II, 1858.
Talk on Change.


The talk yesterday after the receipt Of the Liver.
pool accounts by the Indian was what is the market
coming to on the other side, or what is TO be the re-
suit of the extraordinary advance of 3D. in the short
space Of ten days7 Buyers were taken all aback-
something ike white squall. They do not pay
much regard in Liverpool to the New York Bears
Those and sgd. gentlemen can stand aside for the
present The $4,000 bales estmators can retire
until next season. nevertheless, the prudent opera
tors in the staple and those who deal in exchange are
not satisfied with the accounts received yesterday
The advance is too rapid in the face Of larger stock
than last year. The general talk is that ruse is
going forward the other side having for its object
to up prices to large shipments. This may
be 50 and it may not yet. we candidly express our
belief that some great and gigantic scheme is going
on among spnners in Manchester. They have the
money or the control Of it at low rates. and can pro-
duee wonders. In the meantime there is strong
proof that cotton is again king-that it is monarch
for a time at least.
The arrivals yesterday, it viii be seen, were numer-
GUS heavy loads of cotton, with the usual daily ar
rivals of Western produce. 1t also talked about
that there was President, which proved to be a
fact when the Tennessee landed at the ievee bring
ing Mr.. ComOnfort, President or ex-Presdent Of
Mexico The cause of his leaving his country is ex
planned elsewhere
The Northern mail failed yesterday. OF course we
received mail on Sunday, another on Monday and
part OF another on Tuesday; ought not to expect
another for day or two. 1t was reported that we
are to have incumbent in the Post Office Of this
city, and that Col Samuel F. Marks is the appontee
II we are to have an appointment from outside the
city, the Colonel will be satisfactory as any other
We were in hopes that the mantle of Office would
have fallen on old citizen Nicholas G. Hail. who
has resided here since the year lsl3 and filed Offices
of trust and is also old merchant Of forty years
duration.
We congratulate Col. Marks on his success, and
welcome him to the Crescent City
THALBERGs CoNcERrs>-We have before US the
programme of Thalbergs first concert, to take place
at Odd Fellows Hall on Monday evening next. 1t is
certainly very brilliant one.
Thalberg, on the plano, is to perform selections
from :" L'Elisere D'Amore," Moise,n and Massa.
nello" Veuxtemps, the great violinist, is to play
" Fantasie Caprice" The Witches Dance" and a
selection from Lombardi" Madame Johansen is to
sing an aria from al Trovatore," a cavatina from
" Ernani,n and duet with Miss Annie Kemp, from
" semramide." Miss Kemp sis to sing two English
ballads, " The Dearest Spot" and When the Swal.
lows Homeward fly besides assisting in the duet
above mentioned.
The manager of the Thalberg concerts wishes it
distinctly understood by the public that the sale of
tickets and reservation of seats will be done on the
fair and square principle. He has given two days
previous notice Of the opening Of the ticket office to
take place to-day for the sale of tickets to the first
concert and will give the same notice in advance of
the sale of tickets for the other concerts and gives
notice that tickets will be sold in advance under
any circumstances This with the fact that the seats
are to be ticketed and sold at two dollars for the
choice ones and one dollar for the others-the dollar
seats being safely secured as the others-must sat
/ isfy all who intend patronizing the concerts.
! In view of the interest with which Thaberg is at
present regarded, we append the following extract
from an able critique upon one of his concerts in
New York. 1t is from the " Musical World -
=" While waiting for the appearance of Thalberg at
his first concert on Monday evening got to specu
latiDg upon his name as it stood before us on the
programme. Tha Berg-valley mountain accord
ing TO the literal Specification. How to reconcile the
t7o? The sense of the appelation seemed fairly
| cancelled
We had not long to think. In Thalbergs very
name appears to have been hid the secret of his fu-
ture success. He has accomplished seeming contra
dictions in Art He has united the two extremes of
the panotorte scale the depths and the heights the
mounts and the wales of music His was the inven-
ton to throw melody into the middle range of the
| instrument, performing it mostly with the thumbs,
| while the two extremes were commanded by the
| ieety-passing hand, upward and downward. The
wonderful eflorescence of modern piansm-the luxu-
RANT foliage OF tones, thrown around as simple melody
was Thalbergs original idea. This idea is the
grand basis OF the modern piano school. While we
admire his many gifted disciples, who have so bril-
antly carried out his conception let not forget the
inventor. Great as the genius of Liszt may be-and
undoubtedly ishe has not so distinctly left his i'm.
press upon the music of the Present has Thalberg
Thalberg's appearance is not of the kind to en-.
courage great demonstration, of any kind. He is a
quiet man. He never aggrayates the applause by
! bowling and by those various tricks of profession so
well understood by Others He is too respectable
looking for much nonsense. Cleanly shaved, simply
dressed he has none of the redundancies of modern
fashionable artists, which young ladies are apt to
hang so much admiration-and sometimes their