New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-15
NUMBER sG.
THE sTUP1DAss LETTERS.
Communicated to the New Orleans cre,cent.7

| maps can worry through an hour with YG17 with
| ont deserving the appellation of bore Race>week
has left me, however, in very equs7ecaI possion,
| both mentally and gecuniarily and, therefore am
likely to prove an nninteresting correspondent
| Since, however did not ntrude ufyen you Iaat
| week, and depending in the present instance upos
the Latin injunction AZ the beginning OF 1hs may
| posaby be ehdurabIe at least. .
Biockhead,s successes on the track like my
| own, were fuctuatng : we had both bet hugely
| on the four'mile day. Had a Munder6oI fallen
at our feet, we could nos have been more shocked
than at the strife made by lightning ); iFsrested
panic in our pockets: and was more ti.an half
inclined TO curse my uniaesSy planet. To he sure,
It is beneath the dignity OF an old sport to be
down on his luck )" still i requires no oraiTate
| temper theyeat.
Variety s the spice of life. Well, Isuppose q js
Ihere IS nothing very original n the remark to be
| snfe-lt mas been said before. beg to qnots it
Just now, because it may be made applicable 10
| the theatrical novelties of the week.
With the end of race week came the close of tie
regular season at that beautiful bijou of theater
coDjecirred that the weather was favorable to the
| production of cheerful, breezy susamer entertain
| ments; and to that end retained the cream of his
ekcellen! company, aud began the summer with
| the come drama of Henry the F0urthn u written
by that rising young author, ". Shakespeare, ESD.
| We saw i, Blockhead and I, and,were very much
| amused at the humora of Fastaf, ard sympathized
severely with the imprudent yorng man NJ
Percy.
As far az we could understand, Young Percy
refused to hand in all his checks to the Governor
which, OF course, irritated the equaaimity of his
anolnted majesty, to the necessity Of delivering
IN treble denunciaon, bis ultimatum: to the effect
mat the irate Percy must at once fork up; and
admonshed him furthermore, that he'd better look
| out; then suriously gathering himself up, leaves
the house: while the intrepid Mr. Percy, giving his
hghness ample time to get out of hearing refused
point blank, then and there, to do it, The inpru-
| dent brayado OF this hot headed young man. re-
| mo of INV ira
| your pocket at the schoomaster was looked upon
BY your companions as the achme of wel-defned
| resistance.
There is another very agreeable Young fellow.
| called monmouth-anuther Henry who. being the
| proprietor Of few mines in Wales, is known az
| the Prince OF that region. This young mans chief
CHARACTERISTIC, seens to be- his desire to bring him
| self to the level of q foot pad :: keep the worst
| company: and generally disgrace himself and
| family, by his unblushing fondness4or all the vices
exfant: and in few lines, he gives the audience
| the agreeable intelligence, that he does SO on the
principle, that the lower he becomes in the estla-
ton Of the virtuous, the louder he'll shine should
he ever deem it profitable to return to the path of
| rectltude-demonstrating his mode of accomplish
ing this prase-worthy resolution, by repairing, in
the course Of the play, to his fathers domicila and
| in neat speech, requests the old man to look
leniently on his devils own boy''-aading his
readiness TO prove his sincerity and become a
Christian, by cutting off the rebelliOus head Gears
and any of the intolerant young man, yclept Percy
The old man at once admits that he always thought
his boy no slouchn-and intimates that he don't
care Gl&SS for nnumerabe Percy's now.
Mrs. Percy doesn't take very prominent part in
the play--merely taking occasion to rebuke her
husband for his selfish reserve, in not acquaintng
her with the particulars of his next row her ami
able husband mildly informing her that, as bloody
noses and cracked crowns were to be thought Of is
might, perhaps, be unnteresting to the ady's ears
and, therefore, he thought he wouldn't trouble her
with recital
The battlefield of Shrewsbury was suggestive
enough the fiourishing of drums and trumpets,
| the din of war, accommndatingly pausing when
| ever necessity required the combatants TO hold
folIoquies or indulge in little dialogue. The
| meeting between Sir Walter Blunt ana Douglas was
| an agreeable diversion-the Scotch warrior mis-
| taking the King in the person Of Blunt, owing to
| the peculiar resemblance between the fated
| Blunt and his anOinted majesty, although it was
| not observable to the audience, owing to the re-
| markable disparity in their sizes and the opposite
| character of their costumes. We were very much
| struck with the gentlemanly reccntre between
! Mossrs: Percy and Wales, who took on the field
| the earliest and most OpoortGne moment to COM
pment each other on each others brilliant points,
Blockhead, who had never seen the play offered
| the odds that there would be no fight. An unfor
tunatc boast, however, on the part of young Wales
upset the hope of peace, and The fight begun--the
termination of which was prnbIematical until the
imprudent Percy, too coutiding, ventnred to turn
his back deliberately to the intrepid Wales which
OF course the latter took early occasion to notice.
much to the expense of the hot-headed Percy.
Rebellion being dead, there is no further occasion
to continue the play, suggesting at once that the
"humors of Fastalf'' were but seeondaiy in the
interest.
"First appearance of Miss Joey Goueenheim at
the St. Charles, supported by the full company
from The Mobile Theater." BnGkhead aud I
rambtcd over there, expecting to have class
treat. Now, Mobile is not one-horse town-in
fact, Mobile is by several degrees removed from a
one-horse town; and having certain items in our
memories locked, we labored under the perhaps
| insane belief, that We were going to see Mobile
appreciation represented strikingly.
II, u 1rn tiAr nnfo
with SyiVanus Cobb, Dion Bourcicauit and "a
gentleman Of this city" has given TO che world, as
| one Of his happest Efforts, the Unequal Match"
so called probably from its ghtness of style and
| proneness to be rubbed by the critics. We did not
arrive at the theater till the second act of the play
A time 'houorcd and worthy veteran of the stage
was snnlfting away to q beggerly account of empty
boxes, while lighthaired, extremely theatric
looking gentleman endeavoured. by foppish as
sumption, to make the unskilllul laugh though his
entire want OF success in even this did not make
the JudtclOus grieve. Then there au aged afff
| wiggy looking Observation-Disclosures knew he
| was blacksmith from the gorgeous and varied
nature of his costume; his hreeches of that
quiet, yellowishshGe peculiar to the Qninten Matsy
fraternity, and the white hat red face and round
sonorous voice, were essentially horse -shoei-h. We
| were impressed however, with the blacksmith
| paternal, aud did not fail to express unequvo-
! cal appreciation. We observed some of the full
| Mobile company, who possess that extraordinary
| ubqlity, as to have been well known faces here
| all the winter.
rlue matte baF0net, who Jnurnied from England
| to Germany in rich aud generally Genteel robe de
| ch0Tn6Te locked MILFORD to the hfe !! You felt AS
you regarded him, tlnt yeu not looking on u
Careless imperfect actor, who came on the stage
as ho came OF the street, with unbiacked boots,
etc, and with the mere exceptions OF throwing on
morning gown aud slapping on a grey wig, AZ if
| in violent hurry but one who made up as the
| broken down old T0Ne, after the approved style Of
| afi GOOD Sir Harc0urt Gnnrtcys. His lady simply
reminded one of the pretty little girl with the blue
dress on,'' who gave interest TO ihG character by
| ocalizipg it, in reading most apparently. the
| last German issue, The " New Orleans Bee"
| DR.. BItcheiby, in violent state Of hessians and
| blue cont, looked gnod.nstured en0ugh to pre-
| scribe any amount of bread pills home pathically;
| gave us the author verhanm-which very
| Kind of him, for, as Boekheud suggested, lhe
author aforesaid had given him by no means d
small dose. Ne awarded him praise for his eec,
tricity, as well as his gorgeou>y stupendous orna-
ments and unique travelling cap in the last act.
The husband Of the lovely Hester was very tall in
his performance, getting over vast quantity of
literary ground in incredibly short space of
time the 7th regiment coat aud nicely-hkrug Mas
sanieliO head gear were in accordance with the
fnreign tongue he spoke. BnCkhead took a mem,
of sentence he spoke, which, ! am of opinion is
one word In admonishng his lovely rustic spouse,
he rapidly observed, E" Observation-Disclosures
ofsociety!n Perhaps you can translate this for
us, Colonel?
The lager-beery landlord and prepossessng Ger.
man peasantIy were neat, and strictly legitimate ;