New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-17
rHERxoxETR1cAL OBSERVATIONS.
JANuARY, lsse. ~ LEwEs 3. TAYLoR, Esq
Month I 4. Nil. x.Isp.m.

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Mean average days temperature IS. 49, IS 1877
Quantity Of rain fallen this month, 40 1000 inches.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Special 10 ths New Orleans cre.cent.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. s, 1859.
Piccolomini sang in Don Pasquale last night. The
nobility, gentry, cabinery, snobry, squrtry, prod
lery garrote collar and breechesry, newspaper
corespondentry clerkry, and few Of the bilbefore
Congressry, were there. Barely standing room was
left OF the opera itself will not speak, save but to
say that It's execution not extraordinary. Little
Pic Is certainly pretty, arch fresh and winning, yet
she Is not quite the wonder that the papers would
have US believe. Gas light helps her good deal.
As for the bewilderlng beauty Of her everlasting
lips Of which N. r. Willis has made more than nom
sensical mention, that's very much concet of asmal
potato poet than fact. There are sweeter lips in
New Orleans, certainly in Virginia.
word as to the pronunciation Of her name. From
the best information can gain, it is not Pickle
hominy, nor Pickie-lo.meen-y, but Pcklelotcminy.
Her singing does not equal that of Laborde, who,
spite Of her age and her homelness, still sings with
more ease and as much sweetness as any woman
hear OF Carl Formes, his heroic face and bear
ing and his marvellous voice, which, at times and
most unfortunately, resembles exactly the ntonations
OF bulyearling when in state of vernal agitation,
have already spoken. He did not sing last night,
but appears tonight as Leporelo in Don Giovanni.
Tomorrow, at l o'clock P. NJ, we shall have
an opera matinee, in which neither Formes, La
horde, or Piccolomini appear, but only the frag-
ments and subsidiary personages composing the
troupe. Take it all in all, am more pleased with
handsome little first fiddler who plays in the or
chesra than with the whole rest of the concern put
together, for fiddle is my weakness.
In the political world there is nothing half SO fresh
and attractive Piccolomini It is Pacific Railroad,
Thirty Millions, Tariff, Retrenchment, and Retrench
ment, Tariff Thirty Millions, and Pacific R. R over
and over again. Morning after morning, the news
papers are compelled Il. announce that Mr.. Hunter
made his usual and Intellectual efforts to take up
this, that or the other appropriation BILL the session
draws to close nothing has been done, no time is
to do anything in and the chances increasing
10 favor OF an extra session-which let us eryently
hope, the gods will forbid.
All goes to show that the Democratic party hope
lessly demoralzed. Indeed, the contemplation of
the thorough Reorganization everywhere in this the
only really existing party, is well calculated to excite
alarm. One by one, the adherents of the Admins
traton have fallen away, until the smallest Of the
many factions into which the Democratic party has
been sub-divided is that faithful band Of welLpaid
Swiss who cluster around the person and Cabinet Of
Mr.. Buchanan and the much depleted, but still not
absolutely empty Treasury. Douglas has gone off,
carrying with him the strength Of the North and
Northwest; Wise has vanlted systematically out Of
the ring, taking with him the Richmond Enquirer,
several militia colonies and aid-de-camps, two or three
dozen pardoned criminals, and an occasional legal
aspirant for Congress Hammond has kicked and
spit upon the Lecompton Constitution and the lesser
lights Of Democracy have fled the presence of party
fealty from pestience or an appalling phantom.
Pryor, under the very of the Executive, has I'M
dertaken to whip in the discordant mob Of rebels and
fngityes. His Is truly whip Of scorpions, and he
has chosen to apply it in such manner as to secure
the safety Of the party at the expense of the Admin
istration The Democracy are scared as they were
never scared before Hence this wild scheme Of put.
ting enormous sums in the Executive pocket for
purpose obviously impractible, nay, iDsanely SO
hence continual caucuses, which come to conclu-
sion and hence lastly, the wild schemes at retrench
ment and reform -cutting down everything, by be-
ginning at the top and looping off dozens of little
twigs, instead Of applying the AK at the trunk Of
the extravaganza. Every movement in Congress
shows the confusion the disorder the absence of con-
troll, which characterize panc
There is but hope for the Democracy and that is
found in the fact that the party has been brought
of its disorganization in the middle and not
at the close of Mr. Buchanans Administration. Aware
of its desperate condition, it is possible that remedy
may be found, which, if promptly applied may arrest
decay and retrieve the errors of the past. 1 think
see plainly that the remedy selected by the as
tutest Democratic doctors in the land, has been def
nitely chosen It is first, to frighten the rank and
and permit that fright to work its worst in pro-
a1ing very chaos of conflicting factions. Second,
70 p1,ss Mr.. Buchanan to terms of conciliation and
ms oaolne to at least decent degree of extraya.
gance Dy meas Of these party divisions. Third and
lastly' 70 snow WIN the divisions have been healed,
that not Mr.. Douglassut Mr.. Buchanan has been in.
side the pale of Democraic princne. This seems to
be ths programme.
sum carrying said progranme out. the marty is
almost csrtain to fall between tso stools The hit.
1erness OF Mr. Buchanan'a enmity aid the blindness
s opposition to Douglas, and indeed to eyeryhodv
else "ne does sot yield to him, will protract the mo-
1'es u reconciliation until il is too late
" sle o1ner nal the very effort to overcome the
Aualns.ras'oh ~ ence'ragng temporary disorpan.
ization OF Tue party, may Cd In producing foct;n
too numerous and too hostile eve. ,oa;n - IN
dnated and brought under one coIn..-,d r. :.
scarcely possible for both Of these dilemmas !. -
ended. The country, sckened and enraged BY :. -
profigacy the corruption and the petty animosities
Of the Administration, and desparing of any union
among the rags and tags Of Democratic faction will
turn eagerly anxiously, to some new organ
ization. All signs point to the imminent, the mper.
alive need Of a new party It is known that such a
party is now In process of formation. Upon what
principles it will be based. by whom formed, and by
what men conducted, remains to be seen. We of the
South, must bide our time.
The passage Of the Agricultural College bill, the
Democratic caucus on Saturday night aud the daily
little doings Of Congress, need no comment here.
Tremendous placards announce that Madame Jessie
Marion, white Mario will lecture tonight in behalf
of the cause of Italy. If her temper is as hot as her
head is red aud her anger lasts as long as her waist
it is not to be wondered that she is reyolutionst
Your women lecturers wont do. MALou.
A SURPRISE PARTY.-The Hartford Press relates
That as young Clergyman was skating down the Con
netcut, at great speed, he came SO Unexpectedly
non group of young ladies that he could not turn
10 avoid them. and. therefore to nreyent accident