New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-07
MUM BER 3D.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
Special to the New Orleans ,'rs-i- Gls.ceaI-7 ..

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-=.. NEW YoRK, August l. 1860.
-Nr. Edto1'-Onr exeitements have died ont. and
we have had to fall back upon the Great Eastern
for sensation. She made a little stir on leaving
this port on Monday afternoon for Cape NAV. with
two thousand and eighty-seven passengers, each of
whom paid ten dollars for the round trip, and ex
brilliantly for everything he was enabled to pro.
cure on board, even for water, which was charged
at twenty-five cents per glass and one dollar per
basin. am not given to croakiBg, hut cannot re-
gard the Great Eastern "a lucky vessel. Mr..
Matehin her first officer, was severely beaten on
Saturday last by several of his crew, who seem to
be very drunken and disorderly set. The sight
she presented, while sailing down the Bay, sur
rounded by fotilla of other steamers, looking
like Goliath among hundred Liliiputians, was
behed by many thousands from the Battery and
Staten Island with great delight and yociferous
cheering, and the spectacle was indeed very ami
mating and magnificent. But the excursion, as
foretold, proved complete fdsc0. The stewards
got drunk, let their water and ice run ont, and
neglected 10 prepare any accommodations below
for the ladies, SO that many of the latter, we'll
as the majority Of the gentlemen on board, had to
sleep on deck. The provisions were ex-
haustetl, and, though the passengers were not
compelled last resource to devonr one another,
their salvation from such an extremity is more at
tributabe to shortness of the voyage than to the
foresight or able superintendent OF the directors.
The walters extorted fees for the slightest assist
ance and there seemed to be neither responsibility
direction on board. Tie baggage was allowed
to remain strewn over the deck DodswOrths
band for dancing refused to play unless it was
paid twenty-five dollars in advance; no water
could be had for abuton the eighty tnn anchor
was nearly lost; the bow Of the vessel was almost
stoven in; the rudder chains broke, and the
steamer was guided by her engines for forty
minutes, and allowed to run out of her course
thirty miles or more The cry Of fire raised in
the middle of the night, for mattress had actually
been set in q blaze by a lighted cigar; and the
han
thirst given by the plying heavens, which
favored them with sharp and drenchng sho yer
Of rain early in the morning, as they lay on their
coarse mattresses on the decks IN picturesque dis
order and dirt.
Indignation meetings have been held on board
and elsewhere: many persons refused to return in
the '' colossal humbug," as they profanely called
the Great Eastern and went home by the way of
Philadelphia. The company board was alarm
ngy promiscuous, and scenes OF the most ludierous
description were constantly occurring during the
trip, which would fain depict if | had the time
and space to do them justice. The Great Eastern's
speculation tour will hardly pay, with her present
management, and certain self-conceited Brtishers
will regret that they did not accept the bona
fide bid Of 100000 for the privilege of making
show of her q Ia Barnurn in our principal ports.
The twelve thousand bottles of champagne that
| were not drank at the grand Japanese reception
| given at the Metropolitan Hotel, and other costly
| items in the same account amounting, even when
pruned down, to sI05 O0O are to be paid for, it
seems after all, and in spite of the injunction ap
piled for by Mr.. Levi S. Chatfeld to restrain the
! Comptroller from settling the bill Mr.. Chatfeld
| ayers that the Lelands' expenses connected with
the Japanese Embassy and the great ball afore.
| said did not exceed ten thousand dollars. albeit
| that sum has been multiplied by seven in their
| account, But it seems like idle peonasm to refer
to so ordinary, though 50 huge swindle M as TINS
think it would fall if the evil were too suddenly
4 eradicated.
The theaters present no novelty. Mfr. J. NJ. Nixoi
has recalled his equestrian troupe to Niblo' 3
and the Rayels are playing their thousandth fare
well engagement at the Winter Garden. Mr
Florence is making fortune out of Burton's OLE
Clothes {the Capt. Cutie and the Toodles dresses
and threatens to drop his unknown and unexam II
pied Irish brogue altogether. His imitation Of tn
great deceased is ghostly and startling in its del
ity. "Our American Cousin - at Laura Keene'
is running as il did of yore, but at this period it
only noticeable feature is Mrs. John Woods Flor
ence, which, though somewhat out of her usua
line compares favorably with Laura keene,s care
full representation of the part. Mr.. 3. Eddy ha
been carrying everything before him by storm
the new Bowery, during the last three weeks.
The old Bowery is again lifting its dropping head
under the auspices Of George Wood, another for
lorn hope.
cases of the ordinary rum.deriyed description, hu
| no murder of an out-Heroding Herod enormity-
but our incendaries have done some brillan
things and are remarkably busy just now. 1t
warm work for the weather, but then it pays, n
doubt.
The Washington Templars paid us visit las
week, and made handsome show on Broadway
The Emmet Guard of New Haven are now enjoy
ing our hospitality and the cry from other quarter
is, still they come. But all fail to impress use s
strongly as the Chicago Zouaves, in consequence 9
whose visit all our gymnastic young gentlemen ar
going into baggy-red pantaloons, piratical jacket
and other Algerian eceentrcities.
Lola Montez is slowly recovering. The paralysi
from which she has suffered WAS caused by an Ut
expected and cruel stroke of ingratitude on th
part of a former protegt of hers, whom she ha
rescued from great distress, fed clothed and 81
up in life. Lola met Mrs. A---e S. the ingrat
:, in Broadway and was rushing into her arms wi
= delight when the latter drew back coldly, and to
= | the Countess that she had not the honor of h
Il acquaintance.
why, don't you know me, I'm Lola Montez
''Indeed,n said Mrs. s., with affected disdai
neither know wish to know you.''
: This blow was too much for poor Lola-it amo
4 killed her.