New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-01-06
Talk on ,Change.

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/ markable import turned up yesterday. There wer
rumors at an early hour Of Liverpool dates of the %
ut being at hand, the purport Of which was not full
divulged last evening. A great and mighty bushes
is going on in this city at this time We refer to th
levee and landings, to the brskness and activity OIL
Tchonptoulas and Poydras streets, to the animation
Fulton street. to the iyeliness on Front and Leve
streets to the hurriedness and enthusiasm Gravier
Common and Canal streets, to the joviality among
the gimet rangers at the sugar depot and the ever
lastiag ding-dong going on at the numerous cottor
presses and warehouses. As for Carondelet street
and environs, it was doing very we'll. Money is
cheapening, and will be drug ere long. Very few
solvent and sound men will want the dross at over
six per cent. per annum. There are no symptoms oi
speculation in cotton at this moment notwithstand
ing the favorable advices from Liverpool, there are
very few buyers for that market. The most Of the
purchases the past three days have been for Northern
account.
Our mails are all in confusion. We cannot keep
the run Of the number due at the PostOfice from
day to day Those by the old route via Mobile are in
as great state Of rreguarty as those by the Jack.
son Railroad. Some old dates of the 9th December
were received yesterday. There are dates from
Chicago three days old. That is about as near to
as we desire to be for the present The next arrival
OF which great interest Is taken, will be the Quaker
City from Mnatitlan She is due to day or at furth-
est tomorrow.
r. S. Since the above was written, and at late
hour, the arrival Of the North America at Halifax
was announced, with four days later foreign news
See telegraphic column.
THE Sr. CHARLEs.- Mr.. John Sayages play,
sybiln was produced at the ST. Charles last night
before large auditory, from whom it received tri
urnphant reception. Asan acting drama it has points
of effect which will keep it upon the stage when the
actress for whom 1t was written and whose monopoly
it now is, shall walk the boards no more Though
often trembling on the very brink Of the blood and
thunder abyss Of the meodrama it is constantly res.
cued and assured to responsibility by the purity and
lotness Of expression and by the unexpected denoue
nsents Of the minor complications The staple of the
plot is Of nature so delicate as to require most gin.
gerly handling, and we confess that we were sur
prised and pleased by the skllful manner in which
the dramaist has managed it. The minor scenes are
discreety made only SO long as Is necessary to the
continuity Of the plot.
The part Of Syba study, for tits the most natural
unnatural character that we can recall in the range
OF the drama As to Its performance, we never saw
Miss Jones In any other part approach to the tragic
power she displayed in this. In several scenes she
stirred up wild enthusiasm of applause, and in all
she held the auditory in SPELL We were not aware
before that she could throw 80 much energetic in.
tensity into emotional expression.
The part of Clifaen was well played by Mr.. Pope,
and the same may be said of the manner in which
Mr.. Hamblin acquitted himself.
While there is no expression which can offend apy