New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-04-17
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Mon Che, Coto,iel.-This isle has been nearly
startled from its propriety during the past week
by The wars and rumors of wars which Old Abe's
military preparations have acquainted US with.
Long before these lines can reach you the war
viii have been commenced, and refer to the sub.
iectonly to express the general sentiments of New
Workers proper, which were summed up in the
remark of an old Knckerbocker to the subscriber.
He said, 81 would rather give the South anything
else than powder and shot,
In order to while away an idle hour and sepa
rate myself from the q,sid sancs who were quar-
reiing about the destination of the troops, went
yesterday to the exhibition of paintings by the
National Academy Of Design. There are no less
than six galleries. containing altogether five hun
bred and seventy ven pictures. y tnese, twenty
oil paintings OF the five hundred and odd pic
lures in oil there are not twenty which | would
hang up in an attic. The pre- Raphaelite painters,
with their hard reality, and Church, with his the
atrioai effects, have quite ruined our painters. You
see nothing now but purple skies, crimson sunsets,
and SO on. The tableoatg de genre, the Chinese
view of art, seems to rule. Eastman johnson,
whose Old Kentucky Home y you may recollect,
has the best picture in the exhibition. It is farm
interior, wiki a husking party. He has likewise
two pretty little things in the style of Edward
FreFe
There are the usual number of notwithstanding
!" gentlemen and pink and white ladies'" These
portraits are fearful and wonderful things TO
template. Elliott is the best of all the portrait
painters hereabous, but he has nothing in the ex-
hibiton this year. He was dissatisfied with the
hanging of his pictures at the last show, and cut
one of the frames with his pocket knife. They tell
rather good stery about Elliott and Durand, a
respectable old gentleman who does the very heavy
society dodge, and has been President Of the AGA
denny many years Elliott occasionally takes in
larger cargo Of whisky than his hold can accommo-
date. On one occasion, when he had been filling
the flowing bowl until he did run over, Charles
wendell his devious way to Durand's studio, where
the artist was at work, surrounded by q number Of
his admirers. The following colloquy ensued:
E2iott-How do. Msher Durand.
D,a,and-( eoldly )-Ah how do you do, Elliott?
Take a seat.
ERio9- shank you--in hurry. You're painter
Durand, blieve.
Dardasd- with dignity)--Yes SIR
EaoH-Wha, what dye paint-portraits?
Du,dn6- II maGnifcently) mo sir landscapes.
EllioH--AlI right, old fel. Here, take and make
q landscape Of me.
In is unnecessary to say that the commission was
declined.
It is a fact that art has not progressed here in
twenty years can count up the artists who are
worth commissions, on my ten fingers. They make
up in Dragging, however, what they lack in talent.
Louis Lang has done a painting representing
Mary Queen Of Scots dividing her wardrobe among
her people the night before her head was cut off
The subject is absurd and the treatment exc
cradle.
The only really good things here are the crayon
portraits Saintin shows several which are really
admirable.
The theaters are pretty lively for this season of
the year. Forrest has been nipped by the govt in
his left hand, and cannot act for the present 1t is
all circus now at Nibois, and pays well. While
Nixon was away, the concern lost ten thousand
dollars. The receipts of the of nights to Forrest
were sometimes under $50. Nixon owes Forrest |
about 5000.
rs. Clarke has made a great hit at the Winter
Garden. wrote you last week about The Babes |
in the Wood He has since added IPddlilope in
6 To Parents and Guardians TO his repertoire
and s wonderfully funny in it-funnier, | think
than Burton. Mr.. wilkins comedy, Henriette,''
still draws crowded houses to Waack's and will
probably run through the season. Ned Booth sue
oeeds Clarke at the Winter Garden then comes
Jefferson and Mrs, John Wood, and afterward Soth-
ern, with his !. American Cousin at Home"
The French Theater closes for the season to-
morrow, to reopen in Wallack's old house in
September. The sudden death of Jerry Bryant is
very sincerely regretted by his associates and the
public at large. 1remember Jerry as a member
of Dumboltonfs Serenaders, fifteen years ago. Next
to Peel, Bryant was the best Bones ;: ever saw
After wandering about here and there, Jerry and
his brothers pitched their tents at Mechanics Hall
Broadway. Ned Christy's old stand. They did the
old plantation style OF business, in opposition to
the genteei darkey order of things, which the
5Bucsioys and Henry Wood in vain attempted to
introduce. The Bryants were successful, made
plenty OF money got married, kept horses, bet on
the Benlcia Boy, and generally led the sports of
the metropolis. Jerry fell a victim to late hours
and the extreme conviviaty of his sanguine ner.
snnited ont in the same way. Jerry left widow
in comfortable circumstances.
Another well known character, Stephen Van
Rensselaer, came to his death this week. Steve y
has been well known about town this fifteen years,
He was The third son Of the old Albany Patroon 5
The family once owned an immense amount of |
real estate, and is still wealthy Steve has always
been q great scamp, and threw away the most | {
splendid opportunities in order to reve with loose
fish Of both sexes. He discarded by his own
family long ago, and married, about two years 1
fhh nnft1., AZ.
rmony did not seem beneficial to Stephen who
waged worse as Benedict than he had been as a | :
bachelor. On Monday night he went into drink
ng-shop in Broadway, kept by q woman of the |
name of Hight, and took his last drink brandy and
laudanum. He died in about four hours after. G
This Is another warning to rapid young men, but |
notice they don't pay much attention to warnings.
The amiabe editors of the Tribune announce
that that agreeable sheet is to-day twenty wears of
age: Greeley has rather boastful article on the
sueleet, and gives his whole circulation daily,
ton of the daily Is $4,000, that of the Herald 9
1900. Greeley has IS subscribers in Texas 40 in
Louisiana, 81 in North Carolina, AZ in Alabama !
% 10 GeoIgis, ~ IN south Carolina 81 in Mssis
bune is now stereotyped by new process, which t
is described as follows: I
: The page TO be stereotyped being prepared, it
is covered with sheet of a peculiar kind of soft |
paper; in fact but little more tenacious than paner
pulp. This sheet is decately but firmly beaten
With hair brush to indent the type thoroughly
neV ING pdPeft WINE YET wet and soft, oher sim
lar sheets are laid upon it, and the indentation
With the brush repeated. This process il con. +
snued until the layers of this paper are sufficient
% make strong card board upon the page. tho o
'oughly compacted together, and indented to a
proper depth with the type Of the page Passed
,Ver steamtable, this indented card board is IA.
,idiy dried Taken out, it is easily removed from Q
ne type, and is ready for the last process. which
the reception of hot fluid type.metal poured into
he indentations made by every letter. word, SEN :,
ence and paragraph of the page.'i
But little time is lost in this process and if saves
great deal in the wear and tear of type.
In the musical way, we have the opera folks c
,eek from BOSTON, and the ladies await the arrival
d their pet GottschaIk, with feversh anxiety. Z
Lne opera opened on Monday with "Irhe Ballo in | q
hasonefa ,"--Golson, Brignoli and Ferdi House CT
.p vi performance very shaky. Brignoli's
lolce laliea MN twice; too much Boston east \
%ihas suppose Colson was excellent, as usnaI
ine y Jewel a. the first water Last night Miss ot
Aeiiogg sung the = Sonnambula - at RronkIvn ii
rhe people across the water have aIres5v haty,n in
Q be weary of their new play thing "es"ii pr
Inc season here ends with Noses in Er,,n+ ), N
q be gwen as an oratorio next Sunday nirh+ an
Then the artists depart for Cincinnati, 81 ors e re
lineage, filling up the time till the frst If INV be-
Attle ullman has managed to get $1,000 ont of
lime DAngri, and expects to bring oyer larsa !, e.
numbers of artists from Europe next season ~
Italian opera in New York is curious institutinn
hink Of 80 StsS eah
The newly-apponted Northern Ministers are in
en- hn1 Has, Al