The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-16

Special Correspondents Of the New Orleans Crescent
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. IL, 1868.
The citizens Of the Crescent City who are nov
luxuriatlng in q temperature of AZ degrees, Fair.
enbeit. should be thankful. and doubtless are,
that Providence has permitted them to cast
their lines in such pleasant places" while We,
their fellow mortals. are shivering with cold.
Mercury 10 degrees below zero at O'Clock this
morning Think of that. ye blessed dweliers 10
an almost tropical CLINE, and 1 am sure your
hearts will melt with compassion. Old Boreas is
welding his ecepter with gigantic vigor he is
doing lis level best and giving US hail Col.
umbia. You ought TO see Us get" while on the
street in pursuit of " filthy lucre :" we waste no
time in cordial greeting of friends we may chance
TO meet, but hurry to our destination and back
again 10 that coveted gaol, our red hot "sanc-
tum." At the date of my last letter it was cold !;
but, Jerusalem the weather then was such as we
experience in the merry month OF July" COM
pared to that we are sufferiOg from now and to
make matters more dscouragng, there are no in.
dcalioDs of any abatement. Excuse me while
poke the fire, colonel) All, now | will try again
but this letter will be brief you can bet your bot
tom dollar, for it's too "blswsted cold" to re-
main away from the fire sufficient length of time
to make il otherwise, and if IL prove void of in
terest to your readers trust it will be an excep.
ton to the general rule, and that under the cir
cumstances they will pdrdOnnez MOI.
Business is played out" aud tots subject may
be quickly dispensed with. Business why, man,
people are kept busy enough to-day in avoiding
being frozen TO death. Matters on the landing are
nearly wound up for the present. ALI the upper
river boats have suspended operations and those
announced to leave for below to-day Lady
Gay and Sionewsll-sre burrying their cargoes
aboard with all possible rapidity, with view to
getting out before the Ice impedes or efectuay
prevents their progress outward. The river is
full of floating ice to-day and the volume Is becom-
ing hourly heavier, and gorge between here and
Cairo may be expected at almost any moment
The Olive Branch and Peoria City are announced
to leave on Saturday, but it is somewhat problem
aticsl whether they will do So Capt. 10. Brown,
president of the Virgins Ferry Company, has his
sisunch ram indicator in readiness TO force
passage through the ice for the ferry boats in case
a gorge occurs. BE does not intend that we shall
be ce-bOuDd and cut of from communication with
our sister State, Illinois, this winter, as we have
been for several winters past. He is the right man
in the right place, and when he announces his in
teDtiOn to accomplish anything We can bet on It's
being accomplished.
Among the boats first due from below are the
Continental and Thompson Dean.
The following New Orleans guests were regis
tered at the hotels yesterday Southern-Wm.
Hicks st. Nicholas-W. Stoughion, G.. Miller !;
Planters'-Miss Z. Edgar.
Amusements are such as would under ordinary
circumstances attract full houses. bat people in
such weather ss this prefer to sit around the fire.
sides. Lolita at De Bars and Owens at the 0lym-
pic are both up tor benefit this night the former
appearing as "a the female detective" and the
latter as "Self" and Live Indian" A spec.
taculsr representation of Shakspesre's " Midsum-
mer Nights Dream" will be produced next week
and continued indefinitely.
The Varieties "houTishes like green bay tree,
barring the chilly drawbacks SO frequently re-
ferred to above on the day and year last above
prone cay Time Z"
Frigidly yours, RAINBOW.