New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-31
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Matilda Jane, who has been in the habit of getting
, sufficient sum in presents to set up smafEsize
iewelry shop, had to put up with some trifinl
thing, d bouquet or box Of bonbons. The Jewel
ers and silversmiths complain bitterly of the falling
off In their branch of trade, and the liquor dealer
declare that business has never been SO bad wit
them at this season. Let us fervently trust tina
through adversely they viii be brought to see til,
error Of their ways and to improve the quality o
their goods, il liquor be good ofwhch there
Is Some doubt in my mind, especially on the day
after Christmas.
4 do mot suppose thatw are economical because
we have no money. Quite the contrary; every
/ body has plenty of money. The deposits in the
banks are in excess over the usual amounts, and
this in spite Of the fact that great many people
have become frightened and have drawn down
their balances. People seem to BIZ troubled with
/ vague, indefinite fear that something terrible is
! going to happen, and they are getting ready to
! meet the blow with fortitude. Every day public
confidence in the Government declines. People of
oil parties do not hesitate to say that the President
/ is the meanest and most cowardly specimen of q
public officer that the world has seen in these
/ latter days. Even the runaway King of Naples is
! q respectable person alongside of j. B. Doctor
| johnson said Of George the Third that his mind
was far from being contemplate, and had a
similar idea about Old Buck retract it all now.
You may imagine what the state Of things is here,
when leading journal comes out and boldly
charges that every member of the Cabinet, except
| Cass and Holt, has been mixed up in some job or
other and that the real parties in the robbery of
the Interior Department are Cabinet Ministers.
What spectacle! The highest officers in the
Government of great nation pilfering like ras-
| cally shop boys!
With such things as these coming out day after
day-one woe treading on the others heelsyou
| may imagine that we are not much inclined TO
put our faith in the future or to make any special
arrangements ahead. At this time of the year it
is customary for manufacturers to prepare for
the spring trade, which begins in February But
now nothing is doing. Even in the prisons
there is no work. OF the fourteen hundred con
yicts now in Sing Sing prison, two hundred are
idle. Among them is the illustrious w. Mulligan,
Esquire who behaves himself like an angel. The
Inspector tells me that after the LIST Of January
tho number of idlers Will be doubled. 50 we may
expect to hear of rows in that direction.
The panic has knocked the opera into cooked
hat, but has not as yet materially affected the
theaters. The papers are making themselves
absurd by pitching into the stockholders Of the
Academy Of Music. This body of martyrs number
about one hundred and eighty persons, holding
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of
stock and debt of one hundred thousand dollars.
Each share carries with 1t secured seat and some
Of the heavy stockholders, Wolfe, Stehbins, Dun
can. Sherman 4 Co., and r.. B. Cntting, have
proscenium boxes, where the younger branches
OF their families cut tremendous swell. The
front Of the second tier is occupied by open boxes
or pews, and the best Of them are taken by stock
holders, SO tile public can't get into them at any
price. This makes the theater SO unpopular, that
the stockholders have been compelled to elect |
between giving up their places when the theater is
let for lectures, philharmonic concerts, benefits,
etc. else to see it idle and pony up for interest
taxes, insurance, and so on.
The Academy has been rented 10 Ullman for
500, 600 per annum, and it earns, exclusive of the
opera, over $4,000 in rent that is enough to pay
the expenses but not to give the stockholders any
dividend That they expect to get in music. The
lessee is bound to give them forty performances
during every season, that is SIS worth OF music,
Or little less than per cent. The opera man.
agers pay their rent when they are flush, which
happens nnfrequently. During one year, when
UlIman gave about hundred performances, he
paid only four thousand dollars rent. The stock
holders in 1859, lent strakosch $4,000 wherewith
TO engage artists in Europe, and he brought out
two or three fair ones and the rest very shaky.
Only part of this money has been repaid, and the
stockholders submit that in view of their suffer
ngs the press ought to let them up lightly. Mean
while, the artists are sucking their thumbs. Col
son. Brigno & Co. have become tired Of singing for
nothing in the Provinces Gin Philadelphia they took
nrd hot ia fhayp old aba
$500 for the privilege of entertaining the broad
brins) ndreturned to town for the holidays. Freq
zolini ia lying about loose, the two contra, D'Au-
gri and Miss Phillips have nothing to do. Stigelli
the tenor, and Formes are doing good deal in the
pratorie way, and, indeed, were it not for the Ro.
man Catholic Churches, among which there is
great musical rivalry, some of the singers would
be compelled to take in washing, saw wood, or
starve. Popular music, however, pays well enough.
People throng to Brants and go crazy over
Dixie. The Campbell Minstrels are also doing
well, and Canterbury Hall is positively jammed
every night when that elegant vocalist and re-
fined gentleman, Mr.. Sam. Cowell, sings. The
Germans make all manner Of fun over the troubles
Of the Academy. Invent last night to the Christmas
fee of the Axiom Singing Society. They have their
in Stanton street, just out of the
Bowery. They did an immense amount of drink.
ing, a little singing some eating, and had Punch
and Judy show, in which Ulman, Formes and Fab
bri were the chief figures and were satarized mer.
silessly. The conductors of the Axiom, Absolute,
Bergman and Hartman received costly souvenirs.
The Society gives series of concerts at Irving
Hall, new place directly opposite to and for.
nidabe rival of the Academy. The Germans are
III down upon the Academy, and the native public
cd tod no