New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-07
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.



New York Jan. 29 iS5I.S I
Mon Cher Coonel-The last census gives some
very curious statistics with regard to the colored
population of this city. The whole number OF ne
groes domicied in New York is 13 ,sl5, decrease
of 2os4 since 1850. OF this number 1926 are
blacks and 5000 mula&toes. More than two
thirds of the whole number are classified as SER
wants, walters, laundresses laborers, cooks, por-
ters, sailors, and whtewashers. There are nine
Methodist clergymen, and the number of bar
tenders, eight music teachers, and as many doc
tors, two printers, and three Baptist clergymen
| The number of negroes born abroad is stated at
| $40: in slave States 1903 in free states, 1888.
Of those born in the slave States the greater num-
ber hail from Virginia and Maryland. Eighty-fve
| of these eolored "pussons'' own real estate
valued (by themselves) at 1855 ,415 1873 claim per-
| sona estate to the amount of S2i3,7S5. The law |
| requires that negro voter must be possessed, oil
real estate of the value of $780, and under this
rule we have only seventy colored voters out of
| 10000 registered electors
Other facts, collected by the takers, go to
show that the negro population of this city will be-
come extinct before many years. The emigrants
from France Ireland, Switzerland and Germany
make better hoase-servants than the blacks; and
white mechanics will not labor with negroes. As
for their moral condition. it is quite impossible to
describe it. They generally live in filthy holes; the
men are almost always drunkards, and the women,
with very few exceptions, harots. There is matter
for profound reflection in these hard facts, and
have been waiting patiently to hear from Beecher,
Greeley & Co. on the subject They are too busy,
however, in getting up Lincons Cabinet, and pre-
pairing for the coercion of the South to think about
the condition of their coored brethren.
| mi. ~, o1n
for the South is still continued The police, you
| must remember, not of our choosing. They
are forced upon us by the Black Republican Legis-
lature at Albany, and the General Superintendent
. . of the Department. John A. Kennedy, is red hot
, Abolitionst. Several seizures of arms have been
o made, and the result will be that the State will
n have to pay swinging damages to the consignors.
q Persons who have bought arms here need have no
o fear that they will fail to reach their destination.
e There are more ways than one to kill cat, or to
: | ship case of muskets or cask of gunpowder
v The other day the police put their foot into me-
tallic burial case supposing that its shell covered
l. q lot of firearms.
) The general feeling of the public here is in favor
q of conciatory measures, and the merchants are
very strongly opposed to the repeal of the sugar
n duties. Everybody, from the Tammany Hall Dem
~ ocracy down to George Vandenhoff, is hard at
e, work trying to save the Union and turn an honest
III penny at the same time. The Tammany folks are
10 making desperate effort to obtain the control o
the Democracy here, with view to the city and
40 county spos and so they have called a Unior
at Convention, to meet at Albany the day after
to tomorrow. All the old party hacks, John Var
OF Buren,, John Mexican, Bill Miner, August Bel
n mont, George MLean, War-horse' Purdy Dar
Sickles, Jim Brady Hart the Surveyor, Charles
e. O'Connor, Clancy of the Leader, and others are
he among the delegates. The Convention has beer
ls called by the State Central Committee not to
the Union, but to try and patch up the Demo
cratic party in this State It is all bosh and stut
and nonsense. The old party has gone down amonl
I'm the dead men, and saltpetre won't save it now.
de The town talk now is chiefly political, but W
70 have little scan. mag. to vary the monotony Q
idle speculations about the future which no maj
,rts can penetrate A little Jew lawyer named Lame
IN reux, was detected last week in an assignatio
house up town in fagrante delictu with the wife G
,ad a downtown merchant, and the gentleman of til
long robe was so soundly thrashed by the hus
on band that he has been confined to his bed eve
ny SINCE Lamoreux is one of the Dodson and Fog
ess style of attorneys, and takes divorce and erin
lis- con- cases on speculation He don't charge h
Ice fair client cent unless he get it out of tl
tbo other side and then he takes it all. know or
de- of Lamoreux's victims, now in New Orleans, an
the I can fancy his satisfaction when he reads tn
dn in paragraph
If The end however, is not yet. After thrashn
ess Lamoreux within inch of his life, the outrage
md Benedict ascertaned that his wife had still anothe
=, lover, salesman in swell dry goods house VIII
,;J having watched the lady, and ascertaned the tru
and about Lamoreux, used the information as mea
ned to compel her to yield to his solicitations This nj
2s; young man had good togging, and then Monsie
,or rested from his labors. I am not able to infor
re- You as to what became of Madame. These thin
'es turning up every day, with hundreds which are
hw dcated by the personal columns of the Hera
the and never found out, show that we are work
along towards rather high favored state of M
uch aty. By-and-bye, Paris will be no where VIII
va compared with New York.
f, of Things heatrical look about the same as Il
II in week. The two Neds, Forrest and Booth, q
otn ~ doing good deal Of Ric'e!iem. Booth came ba
and too soon, tried the alternate night dodge, and
un- to give it up. His houses were awfuy shy a
ates the of nights still worse. Richeheu" " was
We We up at the Winter Garden and at Nblo's on NJ
di. day. The audience at the Winter Garden was s.
Hpe- and Booth being discouraged, played very bad
Sf0' Forrest had crowded house, and acted spl
st SUI of didly. He made special point upon the Ii
"put up the sword; States can be Saued ,CNs
,ver- Hn whercupOn the house rose and gave II
Nmhlh m cheers. That shows how much we think
oonds q Greeley and Bryant's theory of coercion,
fore carrying things with the strong hand.
lited Rarey gave his last "lecture at Nblo's, on
aud urday, and was lucky enough to get hold 0
ta+ tough customer in the shape of rongrey ho
n re. as big as house and obstinate Garrison
laws Aboltionist. Rarey had tussle of an hour an
the half with this horse but finally subdued him.
smit. of the opinion that had the horse held out
true minutes longer, Rarey himself would have
ment tanned. As it was, he was pretty nearly knoc
An9 and up 1t was a case of nip and tuck, but RI
, nro- was little ahead.
I'd de- The opera folks have had rather curious tin