New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-13
Letter from Virginia.

ecial 10 the New Orleans Crescent.1 ..

RICHMOND, Jan. d. leo2
3f.. Elior-The year opens briskly. Mason
and Sidell surrendered, Yankee.doodle fat as
pancake under the paw of the British lion, Pic
ayune Butler performing at Biloxi, Brown sending
the compliments of the season to Bragg, Buell.
bsck-tracking from before Bowling Green, Burn
sides fleet under full headway for Evansport or
elsewhere, and Shermans hounds bayonetted by
Gregg's boys at Port Royal Ferry. Truly, a
sprightly beginning for his youthful highness,
1862.
Our New Years day was celebrated by recep-
ton at the house of President Davis, which was
largely attended by citizens and strangers, male
and female. of high and low degree, and by an
old. fashioned appletoddy treat at Cow Letcher's
The night was made memorable by the burning of
the theatre and several other houses adjoining
That the FIRE was applied by an incendiary is
proved by the fact that it broke out in almost
every part of the building simultaneously, and
that this incendiary was Baltimorean is strongly
conjectured. As came away from the smoking
| " Well we is all here, we is. We is de real Bal
tymo' Plugs, amt we we?'-showing how familiar
the name Of Plug has become among the lower
orders here. The sublime effect OF the towering
flames, the terror inspired by the sparks which the
high wind prevailing at the time carried as far as
the Basin, and the excitement of the citizens and
tiremen made the scene one OF appalling grandeur
The effect was le16nleueu Dy Lue dpDedId III
the street of one of our most beautiful city beiles
clad only in loose wrapper, her fair hair stream
| ing down her marble shoulders, and her small
hands clasped in an agony of alright and forget
funess. --a.
After the burning of the theatre in 1911, by
| which the Governor and sixty citizens were con-
sumed, the prejudice here against theatres was in,
| tense. When, in 1919, it was proposed to build
another the subject became the theme OF an eN-
ceedngy bitter. controversy, in which everybody
| took part, and the Rev. DR.. Plumer and the actor
Jones' better known as Count tJohannes-thet father,
| believe, of Mrs. Mowat Ritchie's pet, Ayonia
| Jones' who, by the way, is now astar on the Lon
don boards and highly praised by the newspapers :
| figured conspicuousy. No such prejudice against
theatres exists at the present day, and the owner
OF the property, a widow lady, announces her IN
| tention to rebuild it at once.
| | have waded, as | suppose you will, through
Stewards elaborate and sophistical reply to Rus
sells curt though courteous demand for the Con
federate Minister'S The document ls so utlerl,
briefest possible manner. feel assured that TN
great powers of Europe, disgusted at the disavowa
Of an act which the Yankee Congress had not onl.
approved, but applauded, will be nauseated b.
Seward's mean and hypocritical method of creep
ing out of it. Nothing has been left undone u
make the humiliation of the United States com
plete, and do not marvel that the New York ES
press should fear that this humiliation will serV
but to invite '' further aggressions."
Congress- lost hitherto in the log OF secret ses
| sions, has at last asserted its existence and ~
power bY ordering the reports OF the DralnesVili
fight and the battle of Belmont to be pubnsned
Rnmor afirms that the report of the battle OF Na
f | nassas is also included. .,-.-
!. Hon. Robt. G. Scott, late Consul to Bio Janeiro
brings the strange tidngs that the Brazilian Gov
ernmept sy1npathises with the Yankees. The En-
peror of this kingdom of shareholders is said to b
an abolitionist Maj. Ellison, the engineer, we
known in connection with the Virginia and lei
t nessee railroad, and an excellent southern ma
a | while in Virginia. is now rank Black Republcai
+ The neglect of regimental drills in the army
| the Potomac the frauds in the commissairiat, tn
, payment of the interest on Confederate bonds, tn
e prevalence of Yankee officials in high places l
l. the Confederate departments, the absolute nece
e sty for rcenlstment next spring, and the aduato
/. paid to one King. released Yankee prisoner, al
the chief topics that exercise the intammable ten
| per of our city prints. ,
Mr., Hoeninger, the enterprising lessee of tt
:, Spotswood Hotel has been giving line dlnn'
> | to the correspondents of the New Orleans al
= Charleston papers. These gentlemen are hel
- taking their Christmas in joyous style. They al
" the greatest beauX of the greatest bellies in tow
| don't blame 'em. They need a holiday after u
If rough life at Centrevile. ...--.,
u Jno r. Thompson and nine other promine
IL literary gentlemen will give series of lectur
~ here during the winter, in behalf OF patriotic pl
~ poses. So many riots and fires have occurred
- late that military company, for local defence,
~ to be organized. Fifty dollars bounty Is oifert
10 as an inducement for persons to enlist. III
IL "Queen Sisters and the g Harmoneans supp
~ us with not the highest order of amusement.
~ new work of fiction, by H. W. Hilliard, "
~ shortly be published by West & Johnston.
"a | population in and about Manassas being 60,0 ,0OO
g more, newspaper and @ theater are to be start
o. there -. MALoU