New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-17
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thing till it ceases to excite or amuse them. Hor-
rihle murder is all the rage with us at present.
The Great Eastern has failed to sustain the sensa-
ton her arrival created, Her directors by impos-
ing so high tariff on her visitors at the commence
ment Kept the crowd and rush away and now That
they have lowered the price of admission, the pub
lie excitement and curiosity about the monster
steamer are on the wane, and cannot be revived
and wroughtup to the pitch at which they might
have been kept for long period. had more polite
measures been adopted. The sovereign people re-
bel against the English notions of serving the arts
tocracy and gentry first and like other soveresns,
are apt to insist upon having the first cut or none.
The Great Eastern is as yet in a very unfinished
state She contains numerous nnsightly barn,like
departments, and her deck rough and unpublished,
will not compare with one OF ours made of beauti.
| full American yellow pine. Her grand saloon is
! more gorgeous than chaste in ornamentation and
heugh her model is excellent, she is, with the eN
ception OF her Titanic size inferior in every re-
| speet to the Adriatic. The visitors Of the Great
Eastern think her officers rather supercilions: but
| Capt. John Vine Hall is q modest hearty, thorough
| seaman. He and his fellow-oticers were enter
| tanned on Friday night at the Iafarge House, by
the proprietors of the New York Illustrated News;
but this recognition of their services is the only
| The ten days encampment Of our favorite volun-
teer regiment, the Seventh, or National Guards, at
Camp Scott, Staten Island, has proved as great an
attraction to lovers of sightseeing as the Great
Eastern. Thousands Of our citizens have visited
their brothersn.arms, for the sake of a holiday
and of seeing how it is possible for respectable
trades-people and shop keepers to live outside Of
solid brick walls, like Indians. General Scott him
self was requested to witness their evoutions upon
| the ground named after him, but the veteran wrote
| Col Leherts u fattering and lame excuse for
declining the invitation. The Chicago Zouaves are
| however marching hitherward, with the view of
taking the shine out of crack regiment, if not
| of stormng Camp Scott in a sham fight on Friday
| next. To relieve the tedium of martial duty, the
1 men have resorted to practical jokes, with which
4 they have greatly perplexed and alarmed one
another thus affording material for long yarns to
| be spun in after days about this serio.comie cam
| pagn, or military picnic, which will, we under
4 stand be wound up with a concert and tGte
| chdnp6t5e.
Before proceed any further must get one or
| two horrible murders off my mind. most fiend-
| ish one was peFpetrated on Monday morning, in
| the house of a German named John Henry Schu-
maeher, in Seventy-second street. Francis Hoff-
| man, q fellow countryman Of his, whom he had
previously employed in his market garden, during
his absence early in the morning, stole into the
bedroom of Mrs. Schumacher, beat in her
skull with hammer, killed her infant in the same
manner, and robbed the premises of some 5000 in
money and other property. The murderer was
however soon suspected, arrested, and, after mar
rowly escaping lynching, committed to await the
action of the Grand Jury.
Mrs. MCGEE, of Jersey City, the mother of twelve
| children, was on Thursday last awakened in bed
by one James Gray, who was attempting toyolate
her person. She had hard fight with her assail-
ant ere she bafiied his purpose and elected him
from her room; and from the weakness of q recent
confinement, suffered such internal injuries during
the struggle that she died on Sunday evening in
: consequence. Before she expired, she knelt and
called down seven curses upon the head of hel
! murderer.
J On the evening of the Fourth, the wife and
sister Of an ex-Councilman were yachting on the
East river with an Alderman and two other civic
officials whom they regarded as their friends and
protectors, but who suddenly turned upon them
and attempted to rob them of the " dearest jewe
woman owns.n The screams of the intended
victims were heard on the shore, and must have
frightened the pirates themselves, for they were
soon content to land their fair cargo on Randall;
Island and sail away from it but the consequences
} were not so easily avoided. A relative and cham
pion Of the injured ladies has since met Of thu
! woud-be rayishers, and told him to arm himsel
forthwith, as he wanted to shoot him on sight
The Alderman has fled, and the other guilty
officials are begging for peace and forgiveness il
the most craven and pitiful manner
The Great Eastern" John Brougham's las
burlesque, was produced by the Florences, at Wal
, lacks, on Monday last. For all the connection
the title has with the piece it might as well hav'
9 been called the Man in the Moon. Broughan
4 wrote this trife for them as prologue or intro
+ ductory to their season. emitting it The Tycoon
A for which purpose it would have answered yer
# we'll but the delay and the misnomer has spoile
|, it. IT is devoid Of the slightest pretenson to Pic
d Or story, and amounts to nothing more than pre-
miseuous dialogue, few pretty scenic effects
% some poor singing, worse ballet-only redeeme
/, from positive dizziness by occasional witty an
l; sparkling hits Brougham cannot help making
! Brougham himself is taking his farewell of us 6
y Niblo's in his nimitable burlesques. The hous
N has been throngingy attended, and Pocahontas
and . Columbus" have enjoyed second you'll
81 proving as endurable as thing of beauty.
1T Bourccault is also going to Europe and taking a
is destinations and self.applauding adleu of IL
,e American public at the Winter Garden. If viii
ut Dion publishes be true, we are very ungratef
lie people to let him go without offering him the I.
to coonship of America, he it is to whom we a
IN indebted for our independence, dramatically spea
IL ing. He is now passing his recent dramatic ada
tations in review before the public. Tonight Il
r. grand operate Garibald benefit in aid of the Sic
ian war of independence is to take place. Yeste
ne day l was present at the sale of the late W.
Id Burton's wardrobe The best garments had, pf
It's sumo, been CHILLED from it, and | thought the Q
pi things brought their intrinsic value. The boxes
to MS. plays, for which it SO hard TO get b
were dreadful to behold, melancholy as nigl
o. mare went to the sale in expectation of witne
d. ing some fun but came away sadder and wis
ce man.
ad 1t seems to hard to believe, but neVerthelt
"a many try to convince me, that Laura keene v
not return TO this country. Her wardrobe a
ia, other portable property has been quietly ira
'es ported to England, and her gentle and courtee
= coadjutorn is said to be in no enyabie frame
10 mind.
ho The Walton and Mathews murder is still envel'
70 ed in mystery, which will probably be unrave
DIT when the Burdel murder is explained clearly,