The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-11

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~ NV YoRK. April 3, 1868.

4.
Opening day" having now relieved the isdie<
from their snnual spring excitement, everybody
has settled down TO the reality that the nrst OF
Nay 10 rapidly approaching. when those who arr
20 unfortunate as 10 be obliged TO move, expect
20 undergo the not TO be envied job OF ripping up
their dues, and transferring them to anosaer nsoi
ta'ion.
The rents this year are as high as ever, aud for
parts of houses much higher. rs they are greatly
"a demand ID consequence of the severe redac
lions in incomes. ya'4
The great furore over furnished houses has
ceased, and people have keue to the fact tost
The enormous prices asked for them ia "a immense
fraud. M r
tufurnisbed houses we're hired by the dozen last
year, sId furniture of poor description placed 10
ibtm, ard then rented for enough to pay for
the furniture entire. as we'll a. the rent OF the
mouse and profit besides. Parts OF houses IN
good localities are commanding an average Ct I'VE
hundred dollars floor, and IA Al houses on the
bon ton streets. q thousand dollars per annom Is
thought by landlords fair price for three or Tour
rooms.
The spring trade thus far has been simply moth
ing Of any conse quence. Nov and then house
may have days work, and that Ia all, but as for
anything Ike former years. there can be no com
pariso0. Those concerns who have done one nall
Of their customary trade. have considered them
selves extraordinarily well patronized. -
The impeachment sensation fails TO receive much
attention now, and with the exception OF hearing
very frequently the advice Of "impesch him"
gwen for almost every thing one may chance to
do which hisneghhor might not like, NeT Workers.
have become generally disguised.
The people have been materially more co.,
cerned about the proposed amendments TO the
excise law, than they have about the impeach-
ment of Mr.. Johnson, and just now, house and
store rents receive decidedly more attention than
any other subject.
Another movement Is now on foot to make an
onslaught on the Hudson River and New Haven
D.fIx 4a o.A. hal
l3oth street instead of steam, which on the former
down 10 30th street, and on the latter to AID
street. ft ltH rr t.arn
The residents and citizens generally who drive
out make complaint that horses are frightened
and lives endangered every day, and now that the
city is becoming so thickly populated about the
Park, Il becomes proper that the of locomo-
tiyes should be prohibited below the point men
toned, which is better known as Harlem. When
the prohibition to use steam below the present
boundaries was enforced, people thought that was
so tar up town that no further point need ever be
designated; but the growth OF the city has been
so much more rapid than any one ever supposed.
that the present limit is only about the center
of it.
Dickens tickets for the final course OF Eve read
ings have had fair sale, and his first reading
takes place on the 18th inst.
The Worrell Sisters New York Theater closes
for the season tomorrow night the present week
being devoted to benefits exclusively.
Nallack reviyes . Oliver Twistn on Monday
next. with j. w. Wallack and Il. L. Davenport
and the same company as before.
At the Broadway Chanfrau has been drawing
well with De Walden's new comedy of " joe"
but that gives way to "Our American Cousin at
Home" next week, after which Mr.. aud Mrs.
Barney Williams enter upon engagement.
Humpty Dumpty,n at the Olympic, is cram
ming the house every night, so that +" standing
room only" can hardly be found. The piece is
conglomeration Of magic, ballet, drama. AMI
everything else pretty much which can be COM
bined in a theatrical performance.
Bateman's opera company open tonight at the
French Thester with LA Belle Helene.n
The climbers at Niblos, In the " White
FswD," still hold their own and draw the stays
wonderfully well, the piece having been run now
eighty times. Stuffed calves and all the etceterss
are good loadstones, and have proved to be the
best money making commodity yet introduced
here. EYES AND EARS.