New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-17

Tered ladies' and gentlemen to become men
Ders BY the payment of five dollars I'll
rooms OF the association are open every 6lf
from 10 a. NJ till p. NJ. We hope that til
matter will receive the attention it deserve
for more holy cause never appealed to IL
charitable Of our city the. objects of the asst
citation being to supply Confederate soldier
with limbs, to mark and protect the graves
the Confederate dead and to relieve the
destitute widows and orphans. We are sur
that our people viii not be appealed to i
vain fol such purposes
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THAMES To the officers Of the steamer
Merrinack and George Washington for Lat,
Northern favors
last evening We were favored by the Off
GERS Of the National Express Office with Jack
son papers IF the morning. Quick time.
fr. g. J, Sherwood, Of the Southern Ex
press, willsaecept our thanks for late papers
from different points.
Cur thanks are rendered to a friend
unknown for late Shreveport and Alexandria
papers
NYeare obliged to MIR. j. b. Posey, the
attentive clerk Of the Nina SHINES for late
Mississippi favors.
t'llq ~ o'ar tai'lllks 90 the ofneefs OF the
sseallieI managerial 1or late Texas files
NJ I assliA 1ssaleys agent oft the southern
l.Ai'iess, 9as Rllelly furnished rs with Gin
e,iiills W. CAFES n tne l5th' and baltimore Of
4 4'-'sA' :
TIE NATIONAL THEATEH. The German ele-
ment forms no inconsiderable portion Of our
population. Iii point Of figures, it is esd
mated by some as high as twenty-five thous
and ~ point Of energy, industry and hon
esty. it, value cannot be reckoned in figures,
but would do honor to any race IF neo,,l6
In the genius which the German mind mani |
tests for music they stand as the first; and
doubtless some Niebrr will ere long discover
that it was among the vine clad billsof fI,a
Rhine, and not in Arcadia, that Apollo tuned
his Tyre.
The best evidence We have Of their passion /
fol- sweet sounds, is the National Theater which I
is now being erected in our midst Of this
building, we propose to give "a few words Of
description
The outer shell of the building Is already
nearly completed, and stands facing Perflidco
street, between Baronne and Carroll. 1t is
240U3 l6eGA an deptns 90 Wide, and from the
ground 10 the blocking course, 100 feet high.
It's built of brick, and will be succeed and
have double gable in front when completed.
The sides Of the building are adorned with
iron pillows. It's general architecture will be
4 mixture Of the Dorica and Tonic styles. The
gables will be bordered with cornice to cores
pond, and in the center Of the lower viii be
National Theater' in giltletters The block
ing courses Corners of the upper gable Will
be adorned withmasked faces and the central
ornament will be wingled Tyre fanked by
dolphins.
The ground floor will be built to contain
eight stores. The theater proper will consist
OF q parquette and three galleries. and win Z
contain sixteen bundled seats altogether. IN
lts general arrangement inside Il illresemble
the New. Opera House. with the exception =
that u the dress circle there viii be triJta,es
rising l behind the open stalls, as inthe Berlin
Opera House, instead IF the lattieed boxes Of 4
o1lr present Opera House. The auditorium !,
'7lll pc slNty-elshtteet IN depth, and ifty-four
and q halt teet wide. The ceiling will be of Il
shape ana oe 1reseoed and adorned i
s ,,sa eso9 h ae srs ahs 5sass will be
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