New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-11-22
NEW YORK CpRREsP oN pE.N CE,!.
Special TO the New Orleans oreseeat.l

lle UeSE SECURITIES nave DbCbulS IHsCSuiS,
the merchants are almost frightened to death by
the secession cry from the South. At first it was
thought the affair would blow over, and that there
would not be much Of shower, but now even
some Of the Republicans are beginning to be
alarmed. The Democrats and Bell men reproach /
their Republican friends with bitterness, and there
is good deal of hard swearing and bad feeling
on both sides. There is the very greatest anxiety
to hear from Louisiana. People say if that State |
is all right, that South Carolina and Alabama will
be alone, and will have to give the thing up.
The discussion of this question has been the topic
of the week, but some people who were of the |
opinion that talking politics after election was like
twice told tale have turned their attention to art
of which we are going to do good deal this win |
ter They gave at Goupifs the other night pri |
Yate view Of Dubufes pictures, the Temptation |
| and the Expulsion. The "Temptationr represents |
our first parents comfortably seated on messy
bank in Paris. They are not, of course, eneufn-
| bered with any garment whatever. Eve leans up
against Adam " like sick kitten to hot brick,
and is insinuatng into his hand very large red
/ apple. Eve looks ike what they call in Paris the
queen Of the ballet, (she always has an old uncle,
keeps coupGe AMI wears two-button gloYes.)
! Adam gives you the idea Of one Of those men-
women who are found at abolition conventions
1 meetings of strong minded females iokers who
have to stay at home and rock the cradle while the
old lady goes out to tea. He is not looking at Eve
or the apple or anything else particularly. There
are some fine effects of color in this picture, and
the figure of Eve is very well done.
4 The "Expulsion'' is awful. Eve kneels in the
foreground, weeping, while Adam stands over her
with outstretchcd arms. Over his head comes
lurid light, and behind him you see the advancing
II pnN Tt,f No ut, r,ir-
ture there is a sleeping lion-rather good speei-
men In this the lion is supposed to be aroused,
and to be tearing around ready to eat up all orea-
tion. But the effect Of all the row that has been
going on has been very disastrous to the animal.
He has become much smaller and meaner in APP
pearance, and no respectable menagerie would
give ten cents for him. In fact these pictures are
in the ultra French sensation school, and are very
nice things for people who like them. They pro-
woke many worthy people to scorn and derision
and they are sources Of the greatest amusement to
the subscriber.
Save other matters at Goupil's, including splen-
did Newport sunset scene by James Hart, and a
proof Of the engraving of Holman Hunts famous
pre- Raphaee picture, The light of the World, -
are worth looking at. There is also a good cattle
piece by Troyou, and pretty tabeon de genre by
Z Edward Frere schaus has received new picture
from Antwerp. 1t is called Cinderella" The
neglected one is sitting desolately in the chimney
corner. She is German blonde of the soft and
sunny type found only in the valley Of the Rhine,
4 and which Rubens loved 50 well TO paint The
h proud sisters are just concluding their extensive
9 adornment for the ball. and on the right an aged
i domestic is putting the finishing touches to the
n dress of the scornful beauty, who is gotten up
ofexpense or taste. As usual witt
the Dutch painters, this artist CHS name has gone
out of my head) has sacrificed grouping, spirit, in
telligence dash and in faeteyerything to the mere
!, elaboration of detail.
= Thus you think you could pick up Cinderella
. overturned spinning wheel, and the golden EN-
, brodery upon the dark brocade of her sister
:, dress absolutely seems to stand out from the can
- yas Other than the figure of Cinderella l could Sc
? nothing admirable, except the mere meehaniea
. details in this picture. can tell you what it il
u Colonel theresa good deal of what Mr.. Sparkle
r, calls bigot nonsense about European pieture
n. Here is one for which $4,000 is demanded, and if
ro should be sold at auction as the work of an u
known or native artist, it wouldn't fetch over $50
!. Church, Gignoux, Hart, Eastman, johnson al
~, ~ George L. Brown, are artists that may be safe
backed against any European artist, past or pre-
nv ent OF course, exclude Rosa Bonheur and Ian
y. ciaIity with any American artist of note.
Il, The executors of Leupp the leather dealer, wi
le. died very suddenly short time ago, sold his pi
mo- lures at auction on Tuesday. The collection ";
.ht chiefly of American pictures, and was very fl
ed one Itnumbered eighty.tw pictures, which we
oo sold for s9s17 80. Coles g Mountain Ford fetch
rt 1916 " Keniworth," also by Cole, brought s5C
mo Singnar-perhaps not singular but true-that t
In. same men who now pay high prices for Coles p
# lures after he is dead, permitted him to strugg
in with the pangs of poverty while he was aliy
>: Forrest who is getting to be an art connoisse
of and bibliopole, was heavy buyer at this SALE
80 well as at that of the Burton library. He bong
Allston's q Katherine and Petruehio' for 500,
l., portrait of John c. Calhoun, by DeBloek, and
W. other Of Henry Clay, by Linnen. Leutze's p
nv lures sold very we'll. This artist, to whom a
~ indebted for many fine tableauS illustrative
o 1t striking events in American history, is now
work on picture of meeting between Calyt
- and the Indian chiefs in the neighborhood Of
- settlement.
W. There, Colonel, presume you are tired Of
. talk now, and want to gossip about something ell
'' The latest sensation up town has boen caused
y. the announcement that that eminent pnblic fu
'i"e tonary, Mayor Wood, has bought a new house
> the Fifth Avenue and is about to take to hinsel
new Wlle, (ble llTu) III tAe person Oh Piss Al
va Mills daughter OF wealthy grocer (ghoesale,
'as, course.) p. W is waxing rich apaee. The fo
'on' dation of his fortune from his first wife, "
, at had an interest in what's classieay termed
oia' mill y in the Fourth Ward. Here Il. W. served
at liquor and politics in equal quantities, and worl
,ge, his way into Congress. Now you wouldn't tn
@ leai that that Methodistical looking man. who pa
WIZ Broadway with such selfsatisied air. was
person who has been accused of all sorts of sh
cir practice both in business and in politics. But
ther use profound philosophical term, seh is III
5ov. Another distinguished individual, Lola Mont
10th has gone and made an anchoritess of herself L
tho summer she suffered very much from a paral
peo- stroke, caused by smoking cigarettes day
ven night. She lived for while with Buchanan,
'cer the old public funetionary at Washngton) Bucl
If it au, the florist at Astoria, and disappeared
can thence about a month ago, refusing to give
hbit next address to her most intimate friends sh
and now living in Seventeenth street, spends her
iston in meditation and prayer, and goes by the nam
ghed Fanny Gibbons. Fact, assure you.
,ome am like George Selwyn, fond of murder