New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-01-31


BRoADWAY-THH MEXICAN LOAN FIASGO-THE
COMING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN NEW YORK
-DULINEss IN BUSINESS CIRCLEs--MUsTCAL AND
DRAMATIC RESUME ETC.
New YoRK, Jan. 90, 1856.
Close on the heels of the coldest snap felt in
'l's part OF the country for twenty years, comes
one OF those abominable January thaws which
turn the Northern metropolis into a. hugs mud
Puedle, and render locomoton az difficult and nm
comfortable az charging battery in the mids, Of
thc Chlckahominy swamps. The male Gotbanfte
must submit to liberal spattering over all his
CLOTHES, from the crown of his shining castor to
the tall OF MS long overcoat while the ladies' must
transform Themselves into aembIance Of ballet
girls, if they would save their precious skirts On
day like this, the navigation across Broadway
the vicinity of the Astor House, has been aptly
compared to the tabled horrors of the middle
passage" Were it not fer the barly policemen who
conveys little bands of pedestrians through the
maze and crush of omnibuses and carriages, the
crossing Of great thoroughfare would be liter
ally impossible. Some sensible correspondent of
daily paper suggests a relief to the suffering
| public, and only wonder that his idea has not
| oeen acted upon Before. He proposes that the
Guy authorities erect iron bridges Broadway,
al the most crowded points, as to enable citizens
to cross with safety and cleanliness. They might
| be built from the second stories of the houses
and reached by stairs from the sidewalks. Some
years ago the enterprising halter Cenin offered to
put up structures of this kind at his own exneuse.
but the authorities fancied that the bridges were
intended to serve as advertisements for hats. and
| 80 rejected the benevolent proposition.
Down Broadway, near the Battery The eye Of the
pas9er by will be attracted to a window in which
hang lovingly entwined the Mexican and American
Tln.t
was substituted for the other on the heights Of
Chep1Atepec. On this same window an artist in
gilt lettering has emblazoned the1sgend; Agency
for the sale ofthe bonds of the Repnblic Of Mexcof
Dear visitor to Gotham if you are as sanguine as
General Grant the future of the liberal cause and
have few greenbacks to spare, walk in and in
vest in those extraordinary bonds which offer seven
teen per cent. interest per annum. You will find
| several gentlemanly clerks behind the counter, who
| will drop their newspapers. or awaken from their
| sumbers, upon your appearance, and with whom
you can make the most liberal negotiations.
Seriously, the scheme to raise loan for Juarez in
New York, is dead failure. Though there is plenty
ofcapta in this city, always seeking for investment,
it does not require much shrewdness on She part Of
capitalists that the Me xican tIelsuTy sa well
| without bottom. From present appearances,
it is not likely that the fugitive President Ell Paso
will get more from this country to support his
cause, than the buncombe of the New York editors.
| As spring advances, people begin to talk of the
| cholera, which is to sweep this fair land of
| ours and kill what the scourge has spared.
| The adyices to-day from the West Indies bring
news of the devastation by the cholera on the
Island of Guadaloupe. So terrible is its ragagc,
that it is feared the whole population will be swept
away. 1t is apprehended by some that the disease
| ri1 in itv in tba rl Of I'll
in former vsitations. Our authorities are doing
nothing to prepare against the unwelcome guest.
The streets were never more filthy, the habits
I of the lower classes more reckless l hear the
well-to-do people talking of moving their families
into the country during the summer There will
be general exodus of our weather. families, but
really they are the people who have the least to
n fear from the cholera. The epidemic is deadliest
+ among the sums, and cellars, and tenements OF
9 these over crowded cities, where human beings
herd like cattle, and breathe poisonous air and eat
~ unwhoesome food. How the grim reaper will cut
into this ripe grain next spring the history Of the
past tells only too truly.
a Dulncss reigns in business circles during this
ID month. 1t is too early for the country merchant
who buy their spring stocks, yet the fears of al
| epidemic in April will doubtless induce many
intending purchasers to hasten their visits. A
d present, clerks and shopkeepers have plentiful
Fl lack of nothing to do and the general stagnatior
is the cause of the usual repining among the mer
a chants
9 New York, theatrical center, is only sur
passed by Paris and London. Perhaps we are moi
u so far advanced in our musical tastes, and small
cities in Italy may show more devotion to the
= divine art than ours, but New Workers are enthu
D sastically addicted to the drama. Witness seven
first.cass and five second class theaters in full
blast on Broadway and the Bowery And yet
these, apparently, not enough to supply the
n demand. new tirst-class theater has been build
e ing at the corner of Fourteenth street and Sixth
Avenue, and will be opened in April by George
= Fuller, late manager of the Louisville Theater
and E. L. Davenport, the accomplished tragedan
l. Laura Keene has purchased site at the corner 0
0 Twenty. eighth street and Broadway, and viii
, - commence building Immediately. Pike, of tn,
;. Cincinnati Opera House. is looking for place tt
h build. A new German theater is projected on th
Bowery; theaters are talked of on Eight
i. !. Avenue and at Harlem, and the Herald i
writing up new opera house in oppositio
Is to Maretzek's. The ground for Barnum's neJ
museum, on Union Square, will b
u broken the first of May. The present theater
ia are sailing upon the full tide of success. Ou
II greatest actor Mr.. Edwin Booth, is playing Han
|
i, Garden Owens is solacing himself with fu
ID houses since his return from Europe. He appear
Mt in version of S0lon Shingle at the Broat
way. At the Olympic, f. L. Davenport has pre-
duced hisfne play of - St. Mare, or the Soldier O
Fortune.n At Woods new theater Chantrau
playing i'll an extravaganza entitled = The Balloo
NJ Wedding" At Nibos, the sensation is Miss Bate
NC man in Leah" This is her first appearance be
l's fore an American audience since her wonderful
'S' success in England. Her Leah ran year in Lon
~ don, and was especially patronzed BY the Prince
IT'S of Wales. That youthful blood was in the habit
lai visiting the Adelpi theaer frequently to taxi
lc- part in the weeping with which the audience re
nt' coguizcd Miss Baeman's pathos-which led Pune
NY TO remark that it was not strange that I" Vale
lot should bubber." Wallack's and Lucy Rushton'
OF theaters are producing comedies and dramas wit
es, thcir stock Companies Tom Pacide is one of tn
on- attractions at the last named house. Wallack
'se playing a sensation piece dramatised from Mis-
81 I,ruddon's novel of The Outcast. A French dra
he matte company occupies the Academy of Music
mt On the first of February, the Italian opera troup
TO will return from provincial tour, and a series
he twenty.four performances will be given.