New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-09-17
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
speeiaI % .he New orleaps cteseent.I


! M. E1aor--As the battle deepens the smoke
grows thicker, and little is distinguishab1e but the
one fact-that the Union party is gaining ground
at every charge and rally in the fight. The Lin
colntes rampant and oyerweening; the Doug
| lastes nconsiderate and uncompromising the
Breckenridge forlorn and desperate but the
supporters of Bell and Everett calm, impartial,
perseyering, logical and mighty in the truth and
Justice of their viewg. An old politician o
pulsory slave at Tammany, unwarily admitted to
me the other day that almost every man who
voted according to his conscience, not fanatic or
a mere partisan, would give his voice in favor of
| Bell and Everett, as the only eligible candidates
for Presidency at this conjuncture This man is,
however, an eager worker in the Douglas cam
paign club and denouncer of the idea of a union
| with the Breckinridge party, whose overtures for
fusion have met with a most cavalier rejection
on the part of the Douglas State Committee. A |
grand Douglas barbecue takes place to-day at |
Jones' Wood; the Kentucky OK doomed to be |
roasted on this occasion having been carted about
the city with great state and melody on Monday, |
exciting much commisseration among tender |
hearted vegetarians. The Black Republican and
Wide-Awake clubs make night hdeous with their
night professions, darkness seems to be their de-
light and do not seem inclined to allow either in
dividuas or the nation any rest from hypocritcal
: camor and demagoguism. The Democratic dis |
sension is their opportunity, and their success in
their New England strongholds and the obstinate
divisions among their enemy, have nearly driven
them frantic with ecstacy. They now mouth and
yaunt their reasonable purposes boldly, and will
thus forewarn all but besotted bigots of the dam
! ger and ruin with which they threaten the Union.
Murder is as rampant Black Republicans in
our midst and in spite of their pet metropolitan
police, crime is steadily increasing nl this metro
polls. They assured us that, if we would only
allow them to shut up liquor stores and theaters on
Sunday we should cease to be wicked and approx
innate in righteousness to themselves. They were
permitted to have their own way, their own police
: and their own say and our morals, instead Of
!. mending have grown and still growing worse
y under their sanctimonous regime.
- About midnight on Monday last, John Fitzpat
= ;. rick and James Farrell, neighbors on Fortieth
:. street. renewed an old dispute and carried it to
= such pitch of evaporation that Fitzpatrick
plunged his knife thrice into the body of his adver
/. sary, inHicting wounds of which he died in few
ir minutes afterward. The deceased was a laborer,
and leaves wife and seven children the assassin
4 is a married man and experienced in iniquity and
g. homicide. At the same hour, young burglar
a. named Adams was busy in Hiram Cranstons New
"a York Hotel. He was making a fortune as rapidly
II as lucky stock broker, till Pat Smith, the night
watchman of the place, nerfered with his
~ full operations and shouted for help, which appeal
Id was answered by gallant Col. Dehor, guest Of
at the house. The thief shot at his opponents sue
he cessively and brought down the Colonel, whom
d- he wounded in the leg. His broadside, however
at caused the boarders to swarm to the spot like
bees and accelerated his own capture. He was
Al found to be in the full rig of " cracksman, 7
nd laden with iewelry, paWntickets, forty keys ant
let other implements proper to his vocation. Thougl
r. but twenty years Of age, many hotel robberes arr
,bt attributed to him. On the same night, a fireman
w. named Richardson Gray fatally stabbed, oil
the corner of Clark and Dominick streets, with
lin cheese knife snatched from neighboring grocer.
k store, by some person who had drunken and in
an comprehensive quarrel with the deceased in th
yn dark alley near by. The murder seems to hay,
zee been committed during scrimmage'' or fre
he fight in which the worst characters of the vicni
all took part Charley Manhattan, painter, abou
Ter twenty years of age the party suspected of th
ng homicide, but though at first identified by thu
he woman who keeps the grocery as the stealer o
it'll the cheese knife now she has been talked to,
re- not so likely to have the deed fastened upon him.
is, For sample night in crime, none since I las
of wrote to you surpasses that of Monday, albei
en- the week. mania has of late possessed ou
criminals to escape from their lawful confinement
we The notorious Tom Kelly, having conspired wit
SIX his felow-felons, attempted to break from Sin!
an Sing prison last week, and was only prevented
ad the eost of lives ten times more valuable than Ii
ege own. Several instances have recently occurred
ef the Police Courts of prisoners attempts to escaI
eh- by jumping from the windows of the building
sur some succeeding and others failing disastrous
ppi to be likely to end fatally. An ingenious ro
son. berry was detected last week in Mr.. Boardman
ana wool warehouse on Pine street. 1t had long bee
our a puzzle how it was effected, and deed the Wig
I'D, lance of the police but found at last to HAY
e OF been managed by lahorer left inside Of Il
our building who pushed the bales upon the roof
inc let them roll off into the back yard, where CO
me- federate watched for an opportunity to take ca
anu of and dispose of them at shop only too CO
IL" venient.
hay Poor Frank Ward, who lately forged the nam
.eel of the proprietors of the Washington Hotel to
Vi check for 500 is proved and declared to be hop
MS lessly insane. crazier man than he calling hil
self Christ, the Saviour of mankind, alias Christie
thy Gorschakoff, mounted on jaded mule fantasti
ON ally dressed, and unable to speak aught but Ge
'le man. startled citizens in the park the other da
aro Some wags directed him to the Tribune Office,
ehe he was arrested before he reached that asylum
she the newest and maddest isms.
The Italian Opera, which has started like a pr
Gnu ~ rie on fire, has not lacked Patti, who
o Bhamefully oyerworked, is deemed as delicious
10 ever but she will not long continue so, if she
"ta not exercised less severely. Cortesi and Mu
siani have sung like inspired beings, and created
ANU corresponding furore. The Winter Garden open
ou on Monday with its regular company and Mr. a
Mrs. Barney Williams. Laura keenes, with hers
az a"u and supporters, and translation from
So French (La Petite Pologne) christened atre
,ttl ptn- .The Monkey Boy;" and Walaek's is thro1
NV open to the public tomorrow evening to dlspl
-, its famous old company in an adaptation from
Gallo. Dolly Davenport has returned to N
80 -. York, and welcomed by his myriad frleI
like one risen from the dead He is little Ian
- and his wounds would, were he soldier, in
cate that he had not been playing at war.
9Ss ea jocose ac9uaintances declare, however, that
nm lameness is gotten up in imitation of veteran
- lack You have, doubtless already published
- death of the esteemed gentleman, George G.
Al l.,srn L1o yhn