New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-15

Is dong pretty we'll with " Aleen Aroon.s IL IL
too palpable an imitation of Roarccault's " Col
leen Bawn Y to have any very great success. The
opera season closed on Monday with g Linda d
Ghamouni' mot very well done. Uman purposes
to open about November l0th with the illustrlous
Formes in the " Huguenots."
The sale Of the Burton library commence on
Monday. Either the best books have been dis
posed of at private sale, or else tile comedians
collection has been overrated. Here and there
you may find really valuable book, or rare
edition, bat as general thing the library contains
more trash than anything else. Al the booKs
worth having bring very high prices An edition
of Mrs Behon's comedies, marked very rare
sold for 81 so per volume, just double its value
Very few actors have attended the sale !; the pur
chasers are book collectors and dealers. In add.
ton to the books there are some "curiositesp
which are not all curious, and some pictures which
are euriously bad. The catalogue itself is a curl
osity of literature. Dick Stoddard, who does those
clever photographed burlesques for Vanity Fair,
has tried to make fun of it, but can't be done.
1t out-burlesqles burlesque.
Barney Williams and wife have started ON their
Southern tour. Eddy is also going your way, and
Mrs D. vingut who made her debut at Boston
the other day under the nofrase df lteater Of Ger
trude Argyle, (she must have got that out Of
play book). The Cortesi troupe not into finan-
cia crisis at Boston, and are off I'd Matanzas for q
load of doubeons. John Owens has returned to
town from his Pennsylvania farm, and is busy
completing his company for the Varieties.
I am going to wind up this letter, Colonel, with
bit of romance. You will see that it is quite inn
possible that there should be any truth in the fol
lowing;
Very few American Journalists ARE better known
than Mr.. William H. Fry, formerly Of the New
York Tribune. He has been the musical critic
of that journal since its establishment, and has
contributed extensively to its general editorial
columns. A brilliant nervous, sometimes ineom.
prehensible because too technical, but always
entertaining writer, q clever talker and popular
orator, Mr.. Fry made many Personal friends out
of political enemies. He was one of the best
:. dinner men / ever met Az one time he held
some shares in the Tribune, but sold out several
years ago. and lost his money in other speculations.
Since then he has saved nothing, and now finds
himself far gone in consumption and without a
dollar in the world. He has rich relations, who
are really very sorry, but they don't see that they
can do anything for him; they all have families to
take care Of His old colaborbrs of the Tribune
have notified him that his pay ESQ week only)
will be stopped after the LIST Of November. There
is some talk now Of a subscription for him, but
how far it has progressed | am not informed.
know you won't believe thai this can be true
of those pure, virtuous and higfprincipled philan
thropists who conduct the Tribune. Then there is
a pendant to the picture which is still more i'm
probably drawn. The Tribune is very fond of
abusing our merchants, accusing them of being
deadened to all the genter and more humane emo
tions, because they prefer whitb men to negroes,
yet there is not a commercial house of any stand
ing in New York which would treat an employee Of
any grade as meanly as the Tribune people have
used the man who has worn himself ont in their
service. Then they (he Tribhnitarians) indulge
in very excellent homolies against those literary
gipsies call Bohemians people who work hard
while they are at it and spend their earnings be-
fore they get them, if credit j. to be had. And
yet these wicked people manage somehow to take
care of their own.
But little while ago, literary woman (there,s
no occasion to mention namea) died in this city at
the house of friend, likewise writer, likewise
Bohemienne, that is, in spirit if not in absolute
fact Il believe that the peraon last named has a
little, and very little, property in her own rightly
The ''party Of the first part' was very poor, and
the eparty of the second part invited her to make
long visit She eame-ras in delicate health
continued so more than a year, and finally died in
the arms of her friend, who had attended her
throughout long illness, ami bore the expenses
thereof "a heavy drain upona slender PURSE with
out murmur. And this is 4 woman without any
principles worth mentioning. The Tribune has a
great many
That is the end of my romance, and I remain,
Colonel, in the faith Of the Tribune, very devotedly
Yours, LtEsFANT TERRIBLE.