New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-09
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Special Correspondence Of the New Orleans crescent
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NEW YORK, july z, lobo'
The European steamer just arrived brings us
the news Of formal declaration of war on the
other side. 1t has not affected our market to any
extent. Gold advanced slightly and reacted.
Money is very plenty, in fact drug on the mar
ket. Some excitement in Erie shares to-day, one
house having purchased ten thousand shares, and
another bid for any part of the capital stock. The
price is now about 6S4 rise of only two per
| cent, notwithstanding the heavy bids.
General business is dull and / am under the inn
nression it will be much duller after the new tariff
| takes effect 1t seems as though the government
were killing the goose, as it is almost certain to
reduce importations and increase the price of
home manufactures, by giving American manu-
faoturers clean sweep to put prices just where
they choose Why we cannot support our govern
ment in future on the same income which has met
its expenses during the past five years. is certainly
inoomprehensible however, let us see where our
smart and patriotic Representatives will stop. Ii
may be they will conclude to " let up before they
bring political and commercial ruin upon the
country.
1t is satisfaction to most people here to notice
the call for national convention in August and it
is hoped that great and good may come from it
for the benefit of everybody. President Johnson's
conservative policy towards the Southern States,
and in fact his general course thus far, certainly
deserves commentator, and meets the approval
Of majority of the people here as opposed to
the radical policy of Thad. Stevens Il Co.
In connection with newspaper advertising, mer-
chants are using, to very great extent, large
show cards, elegantly gotten up, some of them
making very handsome pictures The business of
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drawing or something of the kind; but none that
have seen is so perfectly original as that of
MessTs. D. Hrsch s. Co., tobacco merchants, in this
city, and certainly reflects credit on this house for
the tdea 1t is picture of lion standing alone
with two feet upon serpent, and about six other
wild animals considerably smaller than the lion all
about him. One on a tree Immediately over him
and in the distance is a monkey perched upon a
bush observing these several animals, naturally
antagonistic, now joined together for the purpose
of trying to whip the lion in connection with the
serpent, who in skulking, unhanded style is try
ing to undermine him. Still the king of beasts
stands perfectly quiet, as uneoncerned as possible
knowing that he is supreme. This firm are repre-
scented by the lion, while the other !" small fry y
hang about doing nothing but trying to get their
business away from them.
The theaters are doing fair summer business.
Dan Bryant is still running Wallacks, and Broug-
ham is playing his pleasing comedies at Winter
Garden. The Broadway is closed for repairs. The
Ravels are drawing well at Niblos. Aurora
Floyd" dramatized from the story, is the bill at
the Olympic. The French Theater furnishes French
plays and English opera. The New York circus
establishment has a Spanish company there for
short season, and few nights since, while the per-
formers were doing the trapeze, a young man
slipped through the hands of another and, falling
about sixty feet only sprained his ankle, much to
the establishment of everyone present. The new
and old Bowery theaters are running the " Buislay
Family, Y in pantomime, and Little Red Riding
Hood, and Barnum, as usual wishing to beat them
all, purchased the building next to his museum,
on Broadway, making an addition of forty feet
front, two hundred feet deep and FIVE stories in
heighth, which is to be used for Van Amburgh's
menagarie, consisting of two separate troops, one
Of which is now travelling in Ohio and the other in
Michigan, both together working two hundred and
thirty horses and one hundred and eighty-fve men,
comprising elephants, ten IONS three tigers BEARS
hyenas, giraffes etc.. all of which will be included
in Barnum's present price of admission, and where
person certainly gets the most for his money of
anywhere in the city.
We are to have a new museum called the New
York Museum, which is gotten up by an associa-
ton, who have commenced the erection of their
building on Broadway near Twenty-ninth street.
It will have front of eghty-fve feet and extend
back two hundred feet, will be built of brick, and
be four stories high. It will contain theater in
the rear, and leeture.room below for the purpose
of exhibiting scientific experiments, etc. The
stage Of the theater will be the largest in the city,
and hall Of statuary and gallery of paintings will
be among the attractions The association has a
capital of 100000, divided into three thousand
shares. MFR. John Banverd, president of the asso-
citation, is to have the management of the museum.
We came very near having no Fourth of Ju-pen.
lence this year, as our city fathers have made
away with all the money, and we have notking in
the treasury. But the Messrs Edge are going to
Eight us up on the promise of the mayor and
comptroller that they will use their influence with
the next Legislature to induce them to make an
from which they can be paid.
A few more fat jobs like our new courthouse will
keep US out of fireworks and everything else
which the people want, but which does not con-
vince our worthy common scoundrels that if they
cast their bread upon the waters it will return to
them milk toast. EYES AND EARS.