The register. (Monroe, La.) 185?-1861, 1860-04-05
Letter from New Orleans,
NEW ORLEANS. March "a. 1860.


Letter from New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, March "a, 1860.
Enron OF THE REG1sTER-Sir: Your readers
may perhaps not be displeascd atsyear laying
before them q few notes about Crceeent City
affairs at the present period; and II you ad-
judge the following to the point, they are at
your service for publication. .ts5 "A
Thus far, we have not reached, feyer-hcat on
the subject of the coming Presidential contest,
although the Douglasites are exhausting their
efforts to force us into it. Not day passes
without their staggering about the wonderful
position their idol Of hope holds before the
country Believe them, and be is The beau
ideal Of political immaculacy, an archangcl Mi
chael in the pandemonium of corruption and
misery which he has come to purge and to save,
the sole safety of the North and the South
and the East and the West, and everywhere else,
the one great Juggernaut before whom all
the faithful are submissivcly PROSTATE, while
unbelievers and backsliders incontinently sa-
crifcc themselves beneath the wheels Of his
crushing car, seeing no trust left for them but
in the penalties Of repentant martyrdom. List
en- to their sweet voices and harmonious hymn
ings and there is no glory but in him; and the
people are weeping with anticipatory joy at
his triumphant coming to the White House, and
the Nation is in mourning that prophecy should.
in the nature Of things, keep coming events in
gremio temporis But, "charm be never so wise
~" the charmer finds no response to his cauti-
clcs on Carondclet ST., or on Poydras ST., on
Canal st., or on St. Charles st. The st. Louis
and the St. Charles hotels are thinning off with
the advance of the season, the City and others
keeping them good company and no political
voice has yet been heard at them which would
be unworthy Of even the gentle Cordelia." p
The Garden District is smiling in placidncss
and verlnre, and the Old Third plods on in
quiet labor, while the Creole and American
adjacent districts are bustling on in gradually
decreasing hurry and hope, anxiety and stca-
diness. complacently shaking hands over the
Clay statue in course of erection on Canal st.,
at the intersection of St. Charles ST. ; and, as
yet, no further overt political manifestations
disturb their duties or their dialogues. All,
all, but the ceaseless Douglas drum and cymbal
and brazen selfglolffying trumpet is calm and
seemingly Indifferent; no braying or crashing,
, 10 asses'-skin thunder or sheet-metal lightning
has yet terrified anybody here into fear of
threatened storms, or served to cause even an
appearance Of excitemcnt.
What the folks at the Louisiana Club" are
doing, is one of "the secrets of the prison.
house y and there is nothing but conjecture
adoat among outsiders as 10 what action either
and co-civic rulers, will take,-wbcther they
will continue their immaculate concert, or
whether the Inauguration of the Clay statue
will not be made the starting-point of new
tentative proposal ola Wing candidate for the
Presidency,--in the person, let it be taken by
way Of hypothesis merely, of Edward Everett.
Mo has been invited 10 be present on the &C.
casion.
Yes, let IT lie rcpeatctlks politics, III New Or
leans were, in the words ofStcphen Blackpool.
aw mudale,'' did not Douglasitc confidence
in Grad srindism relieve the melancholy scene.
Let lis turn from it, till it take somewhat
more inviting aspect. As has neutrality-suspicious.
supererogatorily- intimatcd. the business
season begins to show signs of tendency to-
wards decline and amlsemcnts, though abun-
dant enough, are not what they were up to the
close Of the carnival. The Orleans Opera Houes'
has closed, for want of sufficient support, and
the disappointed artistes are compelled TO appeal
TO the public to patronize concerts they pro-
pose TO give in order to relieve themselves from
the straits into which they are necessarily
thrown. Poor people! they merit sympathy,
and ought not to fail of it in generous, gaiety-
loving New Orleans. The New Opera House,
On The other hand, has proved decided sue
cess. The building is universally approved
now, although just before it was opened it was
generally believed to be unsafe and i'll. adapted
for its purposes the company is an excellent
one, though no better than that of the old Or
leans was il as good and the uninviting char
acter of thc'site of tho place is forgotten Or
overlooked, beauty and fashiM crowding it on
the regular nights anahBoudousquie triumphs,
but, it is not less true with very little pesaoral
sympathy.
1t is in our great hotels, however, that we
must look for the more accurate guide to the
business condition of the city, and they confirm
what has been predicatcd above. Those pala-
tial caravanserais, the st. Charles and the St.
Louis, to which citizens of every cline and
country fly with the rolling year to enjoy the
luxuries and gaieties and comforts Of this Paris
of the New World, say, too, that Spring is gill
ding swiftly forward towards the hot embrace
of coming Summer, with full hope of there
basking in the dreamy rrpose of the dolce far
n'ente. Not that they are not still full enough,
in all conscience, for the general comfort-not
that their most hospitablc and excellent hosts
are not still kept ever busy. night and day. with
their vast undertakings-not that their salons
are less microcosms than they were month or
so ago, but simply that the great ceaseless
whirl, the resistless rush, after business and
pleasure, then seen in them, are now cooling
down. and preparing for the peace of the days
at hand.
Those who know to appreciate such cstab-
lishments as these, will cordially sympathise
with the affictinn w1,ir1, hoa Gollon ~, Tho nro.