New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-27
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.


4Hf, Edu0f'It Is hafd TO reallze tne Iact tnat We
have passed through so much since lastwrote to
you, only week ago. We have had one round
OF excitement as school girls say of their holidays
in town, and thoroughly used up must that man
be who has, in this city during the last seven days.
suffered at all from ennu We have been enter
tanned pleased and Mortified with exhibitions of all
kinds. One of the greatest spectacles our citizens
have enjoyed lately, was the public execution of
Albert W. Hicks, the murderer of Capt. Burr and
the crew of the oyster sloop L. A. johnson, which
took place on Friday forenoon on Bedloes Island.
The scaffold erected within twenty feet Of the
water and in position to be seen plainly by some
ten thousand spectators, who had foeked to the
scene as to festival. A mass of small boats ex
tended from the shore to the distance of hundred
feet, and beyond them yachts, gay steamers with
barges in tow, and countless craft were plying to
and fro, or keeping opposite, so to afford their
excursionists as full view possible of the dying
agonies of the murderer. The sun shone brilliant
", the bay looked beautiful, and the spectacle was
splendid. Hicks, who was got up rather gayly for
the occasion, and had passed through prior ordeal
with remarkable fioid, gazed from the foot of
the gallows upon the vast throng and magnificent
| sight before him, with Satanic hardihood; and
though he caught sight of the sloop E. A. johnson,
which was in attendance, with her burgee dallying
with the breeze, and looked long and ntently upon
| her, he never iinehed, remained mistaken TO the
last, and died more easily than any man who has
/ been hung in New York and its vicinity for many
/ years. His widow waited till late in the evening,
! at the cemetery Of the Holy Cross at Flatbush for
the arrival of his corpse, but in vain, for he had
4 been conveyed by mistake to Calvary Cemetery,
and there inferred.
1t was notenough that our much Wanted Seventh
| Regiment should infect our quiet citizens with the
martial fever. The fierce Chicago Zouaves dashed
into the city on Saturday morning took itby storm,
| and heightened the symptoms to the utmost degree
consistent with the preservation of present peace.
1t was well that the Seventh Regiment had their
grand tate ctaHlp6tre (Which with the aid of Chi
nese lanterns fireworks, music, dancing, etc.,
| proved very brilliant affair) at Camp Scott on
Friday evening, and breaking up their encamp-
| ment returned to town. early the next morning;
for they no longer the lions of the day, the oc-
cidental Zouayes having completely out-roared and
! out-manosuvered them. We are immensely taken
| with our gallant guests. Their striking and pic
turesque uniforms-easy, oriental and ferocious-+
their rapid and magical drill, so replete with yari-
ETY. and nterest-thcir startling bayonet exercise
and thrilling howl, have taken our amateur soldiers
all aback, and delighted the popuace beyond
measure. The Chicago zouaves have been hand
somely entertained at the Lafarge House with
supper, given by our Sixth Regiment, Company
| H., Capt. Schwartz) and have gone through their
4 celebrated skirmish drill at several Places and
are at this moment performing the same on the
4 deck of the Great Eastern. They are advised to
| take the Academy of Music for one night, charge
fifty cents for admission to witness their mannuyers
and thus remunerate themselves for the trouble
and expense of their journey to Gotham. They
have, understand, accepted the proposal in order
that the ladies may enjoy an opportunity of seeing
| their exhibition, and tomorrow evening is appro
| prated to the purpose.
| The last performance given here Con Wednesday
4 evening" also military in its character, in aid
/ of the Sican war of independence, and was "A
thorough success, netting" twelve hundred dol.
lars, to which the Italian element of our popula-
ton largely contributed The volunteer singers
were warmly applauded, and really deserved APP
probation, especially the inspired and grand Cor
| test, who sang in the second act of q Luerzia,n
! and Musiani tas Edgardo in Lucia y whose fire,
sweetness, force, and spirited defamation are un-
/ pnralIeled. Frezzolini, as Lucia, sang with con
/ sunmate art that ought to have compensated for
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