New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-08
Tell Truth and shame the Devil.

Tell Truth and shame the Devil.
Since the establishment and spread of railroads
and telegraph communication, American newspa
pers have Wed with each other 10 such an extent
in manufacturing startling and improbable tictions
regarding current events as to excite abiding dis
trust and incredulitv in every quarter of the
country. This unceasng system of distortion and
exaggeration of the truth has almost ended IN
rendering useless and nugatory the dispatch which
is given to news by express and by the electric
telegraph, People are generally suspicious OF
the Geographic summary of important events,
and prefer to wait for the slower and more relia-
BILE old time information by letter.
There seems to be, in Washington and New
York, 4 consistent and settled plan among news
paper correspondents, both epistolary and tele-
! graphic, to invent news and rumors when they
have no reality on hand--not only that they may
give public evidence of their assduity and ell
cheney, but that they may have food for next
days paragraph in denying the story of the day
before.
There can be nothing in the history of Journal
ism more reprehensible than such practice, II
destroys all confidence not only in the patrons Of
such papers, but also in foreign countries. The
cry Of g wolf is SO often shouted to no purpose
except that of deception that when the truth is
accidentally stumbled upon, nobody is found to
| give credence, on either side of the Atlantic.
| The frivolous and unfounded bulletins which,
during the late war, were daily and hourly
| sent over the wires by high functionaries of the
4 Federal government at Washington to their subor
dinates in New York. are still remembered. They
first excited wonder, then increduty, and finally
| contempt. The example, however, was not to be
withstoed by the emissares of the Northern press,
who have profted by it with such skill and
assiduity that Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was no
circumstance to them.
| A case in point is to be found in late number
Of Flakes Bulletin, published at Galveston, the
editor of which complainant in this wise
| We publish this morning another of those dis
patches, with which correspondents delight to be-
| foggle US. We are told that Collector Smith has
been removed at New Orleans, because he was
| mixed up in the universal suffrage business. A
few days ago, the same correspondent reported
| this same gentlemen coming home with creden-
tails in his pocket provisional Governor of Lou
isana, and with power to kick Mr.. Wells out of his
place, whether he held it by election or appoint.
ment
therin-law of Gen. Grant, has been appointed Dis
bursting Agent at New Orleans in place of Mr.. Geo.
s. Dennison, transferred to the Treasury Depart.
ment. In this out Of the way place it is generally
Treasury Agent at Galveston.
The ITALIAN OPERA.-The New Opera House
was crowded on Saturday night at the perform
ance Of Rossini's immortal G Barber.'' The over.
ture, which we believe was that of the Gazza
Ladra, was very finely Played and the opera
ITSELF with few incongruities of which we shall
presently speak, went off with satisfaction and
applause.
The sBarbiere di Seviglia,' from the beginning
to the end, overows with airs of the most elegant
and enchanting harmony. Like the G CARNIVAL
de Venise hghtness, pathos, humor and
sublimity alternate with each other in its raptu-
rous strains, and were it not for the unceasing
variety and change g from grave to gay from
lively to SERENE" the mind would clog with the
excess of genius which the work displays-"age
cannot chill custom stale its infinite varietyn
Why, then, should " Kathleen Mayourneen" and
" Edinb'ro' town" be interpolated? Madame
Strakosch is q fine singer, and makes a beautiful
sweetheart for the sprightly Almaviva, but who
ever heard of Spanish girl, away back in the
remote, almost traditional city of Seville bursting
out, in the fullness of her heart, with an Irish
lament or highland ditty?
Then we heard an exclamation in English, and
one in very bad French, from the burly Don Bar.
tolo, which created a good deal of merriment
among certain portions of the audience. But we
would suggest that though the great majority of
New Orleans auditory may not understand the
Italian vernacular, they fully capable of re-
belling at any violation of good TASTE that when
they frequent the theater for the purpose of listen
ing to grand Italian opera, they expect, and, in
fact insist that it shall be aged as it is played in
Vienna, Paris, London and Havana.
No a,t
in s Martha for the whole opera hinges on that
air; and Mozart's old melody of ssLife Let Us
Cherish would not sound anliss in Rossinis opera
of semiramide," for, although it is not intro
duced in that work, the whole opera is founded
upon it; but may heaven save us from such limo
vations as Kathleen or Ednbro, in q II Barbiere .
They may do very well in horse operas, potpour-
lies and travesties but let us have Luoie as Lucie
Norma as Norma, and the Barber as the Barber
Otherwise, in this fast age, we may be yictimized
into hearing !" John Browns body lies Wondering
in the grave chaunted by choir of British Druids
just after Casta Diva yillikens and his Dinah sung
by Edgar in reply to the touching despair Of Lucia
and Yankee Doodle warbled by Figaro whilst he is
in the act of lathering the puffy cheeks of the
venerable Bartolo.
Let the shoemaker stick to his last, ne sutor,
etc, and let us hear no more at mye be for
years and it mye be,n etc, or que sec sa in the
performances Of italian aee"a in New Orleans.
Tonight we are to have repetition Of :. La
Norma, in which the chaste acting and beautiful
voice of that fine artistic, Madame Glfion and the
powerful organ of Susin, can be heard in their
full excellence
MILE ELIE's THIRD CoNcERr.-our reader
will bear in mind that Mademoiselle Marguerite