New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-01
a(en Orleans laiIp Crsstent.
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.


NJ ATTIC, =
New York, Sept. 25.}
Nh Dear Coyonel-f have the honor to salute
you and to tell you that | write you very stupid
letter.
One may as well be frank, you know; and 50 |
don't hesitate to make tile startling admission
written down in my first paragraph. ! advise you
not to read this, much less print it, However, you
can do as you like.
am stupid, because the town is stupid. Not
that there is any falling off in the floating popula-
ton or dearth of amu8eFnents Quite the contrary.
We are quite full. The people who come from
the South to the fall races added the last feather
to the came's back, and crowded the hotels to
OVERLOOKING. The New York has added the 81.
Julien round the corner in Washington Place to
| its Broadway dominions, hut stiL cannot find
| apartments for its customers. Colonel Cranston
wakes fat, and will look down upon William B.
Aston one Of these days. As for the races there
has been d good deal Of "cussing' about the
| twenty thousand dollar sweepstakes, for which
Planet, Daniel Boone and C0ngdree were entered
'Danel' scraped his shin or something, and his
owner paid forfeit willie Planet distanced Conga-
rec with ease People who came a thousand miles
or more to see a contest between Boone and
Planet were naturally Disguised. They were to
be seen all over town, and particularly in the halls
of pleasure, swearing "worse than Uncle Toby's
comrades in Flanders.f We expect something
better on Friday, when ifitddy com runs against
If1ogs Neck.
Next to the races the chief thing in peoples
minds, who have nothing but other peoples affairs
to think about, is the Prince of Wales ball. The
u. w. being quite close to US, the excitement is
eliminating. All the milliners, dress-makers, jew
elers and SO on, are in high state of excitement
about tile BALI but their troubles are nothing to
those Of the people who expected TO go and can't
get o ticket. Only twenty-eight hundred invita-
tons are to be issued and there are at least one
hundred and twenty-eight thousand people who
think they ought to be asked to the ball The
young men are particularly wrathy, they say that
not man under fifty has yet been invited, and
that the old coves expect to get up ball without
dancing mem As you may remember, it was re-
solved that each member eff the committee should
have seven tickets, to be issued to his friends in
the proportion of four ladies to three gentlemen.
Now The World gravely announces that this regu-
lationwil pre-induce prepondcrance of crinoline,
and therefore each committee man is not bound to
produce more than three ladies, and the odd ticket
is to be given to dancing men, who promise to do
double duty in place OF the old fogies So the
bellies may dry up the tears which were about to
flow.
There was grand row at the New York Hotel
F. last night between some Southerners and the Re
publican club called Wide Awakes. The head
quarters of the Central Club are at No. 728 Broad
way, directly opposite the hotel, which enjoy:
the larger amount of Southern custom. Some
time ago, the officers Of the club requested from
Cranston permission to extend rope for Lincoln
banner over to the hotel Cranston declined tc
| tt,, Ii1a
proceeded to rig up an affair which looks shock
ingy like gallows tree, and suspended about hall
J an acre Of canvass from the piece. Th
banner was dedicated last night by the Widt
v Awakes, who paraded in uniform aud with torches
+ in front of the hotel. A large number of person
opposed to the Lincoln party had assembled upo
= the balconies and about the portico of the house
and while the Wide Awakes were parading in tn
street they were soundly Kissed and groaned al
Subsequently, man emerged from the crowd an
y expressed his readiness to fight any Wide Awak
who desired the honor. No candidate appearing
the pngnacous individual ''Gispersed," and imme
diately afterwards the captain of the Wide Awake
ordered them to charge on the crowd, which the
did striking right and left with their torches, an
seriously iniuring several persons. The polio
now appeared and arrested five gentlemen of til
hotel party, all of whom were conveyed to RI
publican station.house, and in the morning fine
by a Republican magistrate, who took SO from
y Douglas man, and s. from supporter of Bell an
Everett. This demonstration Of the Wide Awake
will iniure the party seriously in this city. Til
idea of a body of two or three hundred ruffan
Unfortunately charging upon the residents Of
respectable hotel is little too strong. Don't yo
think so2
About the theaters: Mr.. Forrest Is still attract
ed ing immense houses. The receipts of his frs
night amounted to twenty-five hundred dollars
and tie theater has been literally packed wit
u people every night when he has appeared.
on The critics are after him as usual with shar
ID stick Stuart, who furnished the elaborate art
~ cles that appeared in the Tribune, when the En-
nent played his last engagement at the Broadwt
W theater comes out in weekly review in i
Times in which he says that Forests Hamlet
..bul( beef without any fat" and that wht
og Charlotte Cushman comes along We shall see som
- thing artistic. This is particularly rich, when u
Is come 10 consider that o. c. is as violent as Fore
ba himself ! have seen her knock Macbeth about
,ut if he were football. While think of it, let
lie tell you that Gushman does the very heavy a
e dodge now. She travels with Miss Hosmer, Mi
All Stebbins and several other spinstcrs who ha'
been younger once than they are now, and
"sGuiking . I0f II living. 41pSltIGf Is Il hoatOlld
and dresses in semi.Inalo attire. remember til,
she fell desperately in love with Lewis Mestay
- when he did the Lord Charles Augnstuses at tt
Boston Museum, aud before lie got fat Wheth
Lewis, who was rather gay at the time, let Ii
pine as one without hope, Or what happened
= dontknow, but the nextI saw of her was in Rom
OF making busts of people, and very good busts 81
made, too Stebbns is sister Of the stock. brok
who was formerly President of the Dramatic Fun
Association, and all three, Hosmer, Stebbns al
y Cushman, are down on the trousers sex. Gus
ls man lives with the stebbinses talks art and gal
ct bles occasionally in stocks, the Colonel letting
- in for good thing once in a while.
the But to return to muttons. The erudite cri
of the Courier Sunday goes into long rign
y role about the origin of Hamlet and takes /
n most improbable legends for historical facts 7
Y Mercury thinks Eddy's (Hanle1 is better tn
lew Forests, and states that like all other actors
plays some scenes better than others" The Ne
81 mas column which no can understand. The
IS is. however, rich bit about 0plSetia's voic
Nv "After Olieliu loses her wits, Mrs. Conway a
ties much better and more in keeping with her part
VI 7 bnar Tho heartil1r ~