New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-24

thirty-seyen were whites and one hundred
and ninety-one blacks. sas
s. ST Denis, we'll known racer was ruined
for running purposes. last week, bya cor :sion
on the Adrian, Michigan, race course. He
was valued AZ S10, 900.
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Neither Sehurz nor Butler ever made 6
truer remark than that there was a great ttea
Of funkyisna in the Southern 1oyalist eonyen.
tion---partiotllarly when they were about.
5sai4
Our thanks are presented to Frank Nelly,
ESD the Southern Express, for late Cinein-
matt and Memphis dates.
We are obliged to the officers Of the steame-
Matagorda for very late Texas papers.
BEHIND THE SeRNEs. Repainting and
repairing and cleansing ana carpetfng
have beenbusily going on during the past
summer atthe Varieties. And as that theater
is to be reopened ii a week, the public will
! soon have an opportunity Of seeing for them
selves the sextent Of these Improvement For
ourselves we have been too impatient to Wit
ness what was going on, and have already
penetrated into the mimic world But that
world little while longer is still lifeless the
manufacture Of the thunderbolts has not
yet been resumed, nor have the ightnings
commenced their play. The lay figures have
not been set in motion; tailers are at work
upon new green curtain squatted about
upon the very boards consecrated to the
tread of the footlight celebrities
and Thespis, in short, Is not vet
ready to hold bar high court and reveIs. To
go into any unused place, that has ever beeu
the scene. at any time past, Of Life and ac-
4ivity, produces melancholy effect, but it is
especial the case with q building that, like
this, has been the stamping ground Of gaiety
and fashion. The region behind the curtain
seems only a desolate lunlbeE-roona, in which
all the by-gone trappings and fnely that have
been used in the world s pageants have been
Ahrown asida-4spe shields, oroziars, the
sceptre Of the king and the peasants distafs
Ropes, pu1leys, tombstones and parlor furni-
trre, are all, apparently, hopelessly mixed
together, and ID. those undsrvalued supas, whoI
bring the latter articles upon the stage know
WHARF, TO put their hands lpon them when they
Wish, they deserve much nore credit than
they are generally accorded So far as we
could judge, il must require some consider
able educationa8to elevate the drop curtain
and situated as those galley slaves are who
tod away at this business, in the highest part
Dc the building behind the scenes, we could
easily understand how they sometimes drop on
the performers in front and cut off their re-
treat. PEG
NY 50 far as we could judge from liasty
glance. Mr.. ST. Germain, the treasurer, has
proVements he has undertaken. and has made
some valuables mechanical additions to the
stage. We look forward with eagerness to
the arrival of Manager Floyd and his company
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LADIES BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF LOUIS
lama, We have, upon more than one occasion,
pointed out wherein this association dese1 yed
the assistance of the charitable of our city.
From circular published in another column
of the CRESCENT this morning, an idea can be
formed Of the progress the organization has
already made in its great work, and what they
have yetto do. We sincerely hope that all of
our people will extend a helping hand to it,.
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NEw Music From Mr. T. Grunewald &
90. we have received a copy Of the Crescent
Hall Polka, composed by Th. La Haehe, and
dedicated to Mr.. A. w. Merriam, of the Crea-
cent Hall Also copysof the Minna Polka
dedicated to Mrs sMinna 0sterman Robert
Meyer.
THE GAY SEASON COMMENCED. The second
grand anniversary ball Of the United Brethren
Association, will be given BY that order on
Saturday evening September goth, at the Ma
sonic Hall We see the names OF L. Leonard.
the president of the association, and those of
other wen known citizens down upon the
committee of reception. If the present.
weather continues, We predict that this, which
We believe is the first ball Of the season, will
be well attended. !
i DExTHR. In Chicago. on the 18th inst, the !;
one-haH interest Of the late George Trussell Il
in the celebrated trotting horse Dexter was e
sold to a. W. Fawcett, owner of the other !,
hall, for ten thousand dollars. Dexter was n
originally purchased for $4,000. Trussell /
vas murdered, recently, in Chicago, by his 6
mistress, and his succession opened in the b
courts of sat city and an account fled from a
which we extract the following items, showing 9
9exter's earnings during the last four nlonths !
from June 10, 1866, to July rs, the n
amount received was ...... s9,I36 90 a
ASH paid OUT. .,....... 2,042 90 o
1904 90 !
RECEIPTS m CHICAGO, i2
ept. Gate money !. -. So ,s47 SO s.
IS. 5-Amphtheater and Or stretch. SIS 60 Ia
S-Amphitheater and or stretch 1873 81
State money a. &c.,. - & a02 40 i'd
$I2,sl5 Is p
sss expenses. ,.t....... $40 90 &C
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