New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-24
ADJUSTMENTS THIS EVENING.

TIE ORLEANs.-Auber's opera, " The Crown Da-
monds," will be performed; Mile Angelo Cordier,
Nine Wade, Messeurs Lucien Bourgeois, Villa, Du-
tasta and Debrnay, sustaining the principal parts.
The VARIETIES -Bulwer's comedy" Money" will
be brought out, cast from the strength of the COM
pany Garland pas de Tros," dance by Misses A.
and h. Gale and jackson preceding the afterpiece,
:" Conjugal Lesson" by Mr.. Owens and Miss Denim.
The ST. CHARLES" Hamlet u will be played,
with Mr. Edwin Booth as the Royal Dane y the
farce, "a Ghost in Spite Of HIMSELF concluding the
entertainment.
THE EAMpHITHEATER.-Gran equestrian, gymnas-
tic and acrobatc performance, in which M lie Loyale
will appear in her unrivalled feats Of horsemanship.
The museum with Alex Montarg, the living skeleton,
and live anaconda and boa constructor, will be open
for visitors
MASONIC HALL.-The Rumsey & Newcomb Camp
bell minstrels will give an entertainment, musical,
with Ethiopc delineations.
ODD Fellows HALL.-The Christy's minstrels
will give an entertainment, musical, with Ethiopic
delineatlons @a@ ss 5s
ARMoRY HALL.-Prof. o. S. Fowler will deliver a
lecture this evening for the attendance Of gentlemen
only. Subject" sexuatyn n
The YOUNG MEs's Soo1ETY BALL.-The first Of
the Young Mems Society Balls came off on Friday
night at Odd Fellows Hall. The bad weather Of the
day seemed to have had effect upon it for it was
largely attended, and gayer and happier assemblage
of our city's youth and beauty we have never had
the pleasure Of beholding.
| A great many of the ladies' and gentlemen were
handsomely and tastefuy disguised in fancy costume
and acted out their characters with the full spirit and
yvacity belonging to SO pleasant an occasion. The
young gentlemen managers were on hand, forwarding
the gaiety and participating in it with all the grace
and happy management which has characterized
them and rendered their balls so popular heretofore
We spent several right merry hours at the ball. and
were 10th to leave when 1eeting time gave US the
hint so delicious was the music Of Hoefners band
so bewitchng the luster Of the accumulated beauty
80 exhiarating the dance, and so pleasant the evi
dences Of the management in every detail. Our cor
ISOLATION in leaving was the reflection that the secon
ball Of the series was only two weeks oG-to tax
place on Friday, February 4th.
MuRDER.-On Wednesday night last, q man name
Cyrus Obery shot and killed his brother-in-law, W.,
Stewart in Memphis, without the least provocatio
He had opposed his sisters marriage with Stewal
and killed him because he visited her at OberlJ
house, where she had lived for some time. The mt
derer escaped.
A STRANGE CEREMoEY.-William Moses, Chief
the Tonawanda Indians, gives notice through t
Batavia Herald, that the yearly festival Of burnt
the "White Dog'' commences on the 18th of JaAual
1859, and will continue for eight days. The two d
days are not Of much interest On the 18th insta
at o'clock in the morning, the White Dog" is
be burnt, etc. This will take place at the lower col
v Gil on the Tonawanda reservation.
A MuRpRR CoNrrssRp.-A man named Lawreu
Laer has recently been arrested at Prairie du Chic
Wisconsin, on his confession thatin 1856 he had mi
!. dered his wife, burned her remains, and bribed
:, silence Of neighbor who was aware OF the crime,
deciding to him 40 acres Of land.
sLAuaHrER OF BuFFALoEs-A party OF hunte
out in the Red river Valley lately, in three wee
time, killed ak hundred bnfaloes and sent the me
into selkirk for fall use. Another party OF eight,
the same length Of time, killed two thousand y
N hundred the meat being dried for future use. and