New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-04
TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY !
SNsh 0rltans 9ailp Grtstsnt.
Talk on 'ch.nge.


At an early hour yesterday morning the talk was
of the arrival Of the America at Halifax, with the
European accounts up to the 18th Of December, max
ing passage Of fifteen days, which will require two
more to reach Boston, that the mails will not
reach here before Tuesday, the 1lth inst While the
talk was going about the Americas adyices, the
mails by the Asia Of the 11th were in course Of de-
livery at the Office, or rather such part of them
as were received for be it known, that notwith-
standing there are two mail routes and two schedules
between this city and New York, yet there is no
regularity. Yesterday and the day before there
no mails via Mobile from beyond that point on
Saturday and Sunday the failures were on the Jack
Railroad, or through its connection. This is pro-
voking at this season Of the year. The PostOffice
department must consider that the great business of
New sOrleans is not conducted altogether through
dispatches that many of our prominent operators
still depend the old fogy system of goose quills
and letter paper. At all events, the early part Of
yesterday occupied in perusing the letters by the
Asia. Many inquiries are made from the other side,
"what keeps the market or prices up on this side "
An enlarged and comprehensive view might be taken
of this inquiry. Sure enough, "what does keep it up
above the ideas of our transatlantic customers?n
Is it the redundancy Of money in the cottongrowing
sections or is it that growers getting each
sive year out of debt and dependence and place
| value on their labor and productions? The Amer
cas accounts report the sales for the week at O0e
bales, of which spectators took 900 bales and ex
porers 900. This would give 81 900 bales being
taken for the trade alone considerably in Of
| the weekly consumption. 1t will be seen that the
fayorte topic of telegraphc advces has experienced
decline-that is, consols had gone down to 81.
| Some jeune" factors satisfied that the worst
| had come to hand. There was another momentous
dispatch and for fear it may be forgotten, and send
the cotton market up half cent, or knock it down
quarter we talk it over. 1t is follows " In Tur-
key Every good on Christmas and New Years Day.
| it is expected that Fuad Pasha will be appointed
Grand Vizer." There we breathe free now the
public is informed cotton factors and cotton buyers
can consider the importance and the bearing of the
appointment touching their interests or not The
talk is, that we all know, or ought to know this
morning something of Mr.. Fuad Pasha. There is
however, some mysterious political news which was
the basis of talk There is talk of sedtion and
treason in Ireland rumors of political revolution
impending in Italy, and Ministerial crisis at Con-
stantnople. Well, sum up all the advces brought by
the America, and they will not amount to much,
though they ought to- We shall be to-day at the
close of business about where we started from this
morning-that is, there will be exciting change.
There will be sales of cotton, dealings in sugar, buy
ing and selling of exchange, and the great monarch
of rivers will continue its as usual There will
be arrivals of boats, vessels, mail steamers and rail.
road trains but whether there will be any mails can
only be answered by the powers that be at Washing.
ington. In the meantime there is some talk regard
ing sugar and molasses. The inquiry is made, how
many hogsheads of sugar and molasses will be pro
duced?' We estimate the final result at three hun
dred and fifty thousand hogsheads of sugar, and as
much molasses as was ever before produced. The
gimlet rangers have had rather a muddy and unplea
SAINT time for two weeks past There has been plenty
of mud at, in, on and about the grand depot Two
or three days of such fine weather as yesterday will
put the depot in good order Sugar planters mus
not complain, for their clear, nice looking hogshead
and barrels encounter good deal of mud the way
from the sugar-house to the steamboat. Therefore
gentlemen do not lay all the blame of mud to tht
. sugar depot and arrangements in this city. By ou
. marine list it will be that the arrivals of boat
: continue large through every bayou in the Stat,
where there are dozen bales of cotton or dozeI
"a hogsheads of sugar, there boats arriving. Al
immense quantity of cotton is landing comparatively
in bad order. Baggng torn, Or ragged bales rope
off in gross covered with mud and for all of which
it is supposed factors will be held accountable, with
out shadow of cause or reason.
Only part of the Asia's mails were received yeste,
day. The next steamer from Liverpool will probab
be the North American for Portland of the 22d Dec
"a The Africa for New York the steamer of the 25tt
The City of Baltimore Zone of the fast screws leave
Liverpool on the 22d; and looking nearer home, W
expect the Quaker City from Tehuantepec tomorro,
night or the day following. The General Rusk, fror
Brazos was due last night She will be at the lane
r, ing this morning.
THE VARIETIEs.-Human sense is naturally incline
to censure in its Judgment for blame rises spontan
y ously while praise is extorted that something
= other which, compounded of common intellect an
experience, constitutes the ability which is defined
critical sense" inevitably impels the critic to loo
for faults rather than eXcelencies in whatever CONF
under his professional observation It was thus th.
= we looked at The Road to Ruin,' as played la
night at the Varieties, and we constrained to CO..
fess that object oiled for we could detect
fault of the players of sufficient prominence to
digniied by published censure. 1t could scarce
have been better cast this comedy with its Aogart
g ian costuming and its word painting of the old E
glish sporting life which Hogarth satirized vii
pencil as powerfully as Dean Swift did with pen.
Mark Smith played the beautiful character of 0
Mr.. Dornton very finely, in its moving portio
pumping up emotion to the ladies' eyes. It cou
not have been better done. The careless, extrav
giant and righthearted Harry Dorntono of Mr.. Jord
was good and very effective where the author inten
ed it should be, the slight mannerisms which are ge
orally apparent in this actors work being scarce
md perceptible Mr.. Davenport trotted through in
rattling 24O STYLE (not exactly to our taste the
of the sporting, horse talking Goldnch, with his j
key boots and untring whip lash. Mr. Owens was W.
derfully transmogr6ed from his natural man il
Silky, the shaky, gold clutching old shylock Of
: money lender-his makeup, his action and hisspee
being each trumphs of histronic art; his performar
~. was study for lesser actors Mr. Holland lost
ON. identity in the character of the gruf but hone
hearted old slky, and played it, rather seemed
Ell let it play ITSELF he born Suky not Hola
osh Mr. Briggs did what Mr.. Milford had to do, W
vo. proprety.
Miss Susan Denim played the part of Sophia F,
and loue tellngly. is exceedingly awkward char
ter--a young lady who has been "kept back" by
e. mother, still matrimonialy inclined widow, v
ns insists that the Miss, though eighteen years
~ age, shall not "come OUT, but wear short clothes
,nl act and feel if possible, ASA child, until the goa
'ne twenty-one is reached. Miss Denim carried off
'se' these disadvantages, including a iumpinr rome