The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-18

We give the following interesting programme
Of the Pasdeloup concert for Sunday:
CONCERT PoPULAIRE
NUsIQUB CLAssIoUE AU CIRQUE NAPOLEON.
Overture De Strne-see.... ssysrbssr
hymphone Beethoven
Ad.gs QnAtuor seo eI'cute tOuis les ,s.ru
Marcbs Hsrrlsys-orshesree =. .......... ssrioE
sops. dub. suit eee ovsitars aIsgro aspsssoaato-
(ScherEo-HoetG ne-ksr.hs). .hsndeisssha
Among other masterpieces. we notice the
"Songe dune mutt d etc " Of MendelssOhn. Do
we not know what 8 musical feast it is! How
charming How mystic We can only compare
the scheTzO to a host OF fairies. We hear them
laugh and whifper in every meditation. We see
them in every note. We follow them enchanted
and when the scherzo ends, as It does with peal
of smOthered laughter, we know that they have
left us, snd that materiality has once more laid
her cold hand on our thrObbing pulses.
There is peculiar charm in the music Of Men
dessohn which distinguishes him among all com
posers; and as Mozart is the sun Of the soul in
music, 20 is Mendelssohn traced in the stars and
the dewy nights and the ioWers-those syren
night flowers which give out their doors only
when the HlGtindl part Of life is dormant, and the
spirit believes its dreams to be real. In the pOr
IIsit Of Mendessohn are found all the refinement
OF fentiment-sn that purity Of thought which
oharscterzes bis music. dis head is large and
fine, with clear, open brow-his hair Is ane and
curling. There is delicacy in every feature-deli-
cacy Of soul. combined with strength Of thought.
His eye il large and beautiful, his face has
oval FORM and bis mouth and chin would serve IS
q study for pnrity Of expression and form. He was
The son Of a banker, aud as biz genius never knew
tie shackles Of pecuniaTy difficulties, We h1d his
music full Of his own free spirit
There ia an important piece Of news disturbing
fbe sbopp6s OF the ''ItAensr lust now-La Patti
j. going to be married 10 six weeks to the Marquis
deCsux; and the Musical Journal, which seems to
know what il asserts, adds, that engagements with
London, PaLjs and st. Petersburg, will forbid her
retiring from the stage before three years Bal
holt cafA 7 - WUee 81
nat lie Z inteViqeHcep Balzac knew his error, for
he got married himself as TO The =" Italiens," one
excaims, in white kids and dress coat, What
Aboninable trash!" Another equity old gentle
man on the arm OF young ard "a 4ndsOme wife,
says, what an orchestra! They deserve to be
hung, every one OF them, for their Indifference
and iDattention." And young fop joins in the
complaint, g but then; monsieur, NE alWays come.
because we hear la DiUG.'"
There is good story icing told to-day, which
indicates strongly the tyranncal rule Of servants
IN England; and we ask ourself, of the two evils,
which is TO be preferred-lise we poor South
erneTs, to have no service at all, or to be CON-
PEELED, by fortune and high position, to have too
many? The story il q rebellion in the pantry Of
chHteau in DOrsetshre, the property OF a member
Of Parliament. His servants determined TO CON
plain of their food, and Drofted by projected
visit of the Duke Of Cambridge. Consequently
about thirty asked an audience Of their master.
" You astonish me ~ cried the squire; " do you
not have for your breakfast ham aud eggs, tea
" Yes, your honor" " At your lunch do you not
find bread and cheese and ale on your tablet"
"Yes, yOlT honor" and your dinner-do you
not have soup, roast beef, vegetables pastry, and
the fruits OF the season ," - Yes your honor"
"Then il is Of your supper you complain do you
not have cold meats and bread and cheesew
" Yes, your hOHOr-but the servants Of a respect
able house should have mutton chops. beefsteaks,
veal outlets, etc, with various sauces; and il your
honor refuse US what We ask we shall be com
PEELED, though with regret, to leave your hOnor's
service Immediately" The poor squire burned TO
have them all thrown out of The window, but he
expected the duke daily, and 10 order not to offer
an unworthy hospitality TO the prince, he accorded
them what they demanded
Now who would change the loaf OF contentment
on deal table, broken with loved ones, for such
a chateau?
The old year has left US, and we have entered
upon the duties and trials of the new one. Shall
our beloved Louisiana find, in the span of the
coming tWevenOnth, any prosperity! or shall
she go on in her maTtyrdom tossing hopelessly like
a ship whose souls have all perishedl Shall
worthy, strOIg spirit be found TO take his place at
the helm? and Courage and Industry, shall they
lie dead forever at the foot Of the masts whose
sails they once managed prosperously?
That shy which we first saw above our cradle
must live enshrined in our dearest affections, and
that land whose beauty and fragrance made its
gardens an Eden, is dearer FAR than all the world
besides, although there be found now only waste
and thorns. We gaze upon the splendor and
wealth OF other countries, but the heart cres out
in the midst Of sill pleasure "0h better the
thorns of my native land than the roses of this
Sweeter fer her adversely than this prosperity
There the very trees, the plants and the grass
under foot have claims upon me!n
In the dismallitte side street, GOdOt de Maurois,
there exists o restaurant 30 famous for its buck.
wheat cakes, pumpkin pies, rice cakes, Indian
cakes ETC., that elegant lveried carriages are to
be found at the door every day, and on such oc-
casiOns IS Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day
there is no getting place, or even piece of the
famous pie. All American travellers go there,
and the old woman who keeps the establish
ment has made a handsome fortune, the story of
her goodnessbn prosperity may not be de trop:
Some years sgo there lodged some young students
Americans, from the South. She kept the house.
One of the students fell i'll and died. The old
woman nursed him and showed his friends every
kindness. One of the young men, who knew how
10 make buckWheat cakes, taught the old dame.
Another ornamented her walls with his drs wings,
in memOry of her kindness; and others left their
portraits. Their drawings hang still upon her walls
aud with the receipt for buckWheat cakes she has
made her handsome fortune.
Since writing the above, the papers announce
that the Patti marriage is broken off.
Nilsson, who is engaged at the Grand Opera.
appears shortly in new opera" Hamlet"
She plays the part of Ophelid. VISTA.