New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-14
FRoAI HAYANA.
Especial Correspondence q the Crescent j

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\ js5ss ~. 5s5 HAVANA, Feb, 10th, 1866.
Congratulate u.s. dear CRESCENT, for at last we are
gay again. The stupid dullness of tropical sum
ner apsed SO late into the fall and winter months
this year that We had began to think ourselves for
gotten by the outside world, and henceforth stran-
gers toprosperity. Butpioa the scene has changed.
Pleasure seekers and business visitors throng our
streets and crowd our hotels. The money tills of
the retailers are again in active operation Those
cosmopolitan thieves, the hack drivers, are once
more reaping golden harvest The circus boil
ing over with nightly audiences, and the opera in
the full tide of success. Could it only last !! but
" there's the rub8 dear CRESCENT; buta few weeks
more aud then we will be left to our long solstiee
Of heat and solitude The weather this wnterhas
been magnificent, skies as clear as those Mr.. Mel
mott once told his Pauline about, while the air al
most intoxicates withits balmy fragrance. Asyou
may suppose, our visitors have enjoyed themselves
One sees them everywhere, on the pasao at the
places Of amusement, and Shocking to the Cuban
! ideas Of propriety) shopping on foot. 81 s3l
| The Havana ladies, you know, all ride, a carriage
or volante as Indispensable to responsibility as
three pronged forks. In the language of ( Hoben-
sack, no family should be without iani they amt
It is family 'joss,' with the Cubans, and always
kept shriyed in the parlor, among the chairs and
the pianos. The horse, matter Of considerably
less importance, being generally stabbed in the
kitchen. Snug way Of living, is it not? III /. ;tj
Az usual ut this period Of the year, ! whenever
| we CAM, we get the opera fever. 1t 5is now rag
ing Indignantly. Mr.. Grau, who has just finished
season in the United States, is the happy recip-
4 lent of Cuban favors. Two weeks before he open
d ed every box in the Tacon Theater. 1.-THE largest
but one 10 the world was subscribed to for the
al Ar1 e.,
of nights have also been, until the present time,
Il equally well patronized The opening tTroyatore)
i was, of course, q splendid success. Kids were
4 split and doves thrown du 'egle; but this was
a more in anticipation than in reality. The subse-
\ quent performances have not quite reached our
Il ideas Of excellence, and theimpression is gaining
ground that Mr.. Grau's company don't amount to
much. Three nights ago they essayed .sErrani,n
4 when the tenor broke down, and amid q perfect
bedlam Of hisses, Traviata was substituted. For
q this hasco, the authorities who take the public un
Il der their objection in all matters of amusement
! lined the manager go ounces, (sl0029, and or
dersd him TO give an extra night gratis TO the sub
4 scribers, to make amends for his failure. OF
u course the sufferers are all oyerjoyed and com
mend the authorities highly for their action in the
j matter.
The theater going public here are excellent
judges of all classes advancement and are willing
to pay generously for the best but will not tolerate
any second rate affair for this reason, the Ravels
\ WHO have Just closed an engagement, did not sue
coed ais well as they anticipated, and Mr. Grau j;
/ in great danger. rs 81.
Like I'LL otfier localities in these days Of emanci
paton Cuba is suffering from the scarcity Of labor
coolies are now arriving at the rate OF about thres
hundred q month, but the mortality among then
bef Imported doubt II The population at presen
onI the island. amounts to forty Thousand. Til
Chine 10, with very enyiable patriotism, beliey
that when they die, they all go to China instea.
q heaven and consequently Whenever .hsy Sc