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

INV YoRxs April 3. 1858.
E" Opening day" HAVING now relieved the ladies
from their annual spring excitement, everybody
hiss settled down to the reality that the nrst Oh
Nay il rapidly approaching. when those VINO arr
40 unfortunate Is 10 be obliged TO move, expect
20 undergo the not TO be envied job OF ripping up
their dues, and transferring them to another haoi
tafioD.
The rents this year are IS high as ever, aud for
parts of houses much higher. ~ they are greatly
"a demand ID consequence of the severe reduc-
lions in incomes. M 'Ia
The great furore over furnished houses has
ceased, and people have swskeue TO the fact tost
the enormous prices asked for them Is "a immense
fraud. a4
Uufurnished houses we're hired By the dozen last
year. ard furniture of poor description placed 10
them, ard then rented for enough to pay Tor
the furniture entire, as well the rent oil the
mouse and profit besides. Parts OF houses W
GOOD localities are commanding an average CT nve
hundred dollars hoor, and In AL houses on the
bon ton streets, q thousand dollars per annam Is
thought by landlords fair price tor three or four
rooms.
lhe spring trade thus far has been simply moth.
ing OF any consequences. Nov and then house
may have days work. and that Is all, but As for
anything Ike former years. there can be no com
psrison. Those concerns who have done one haif
Of their customary trade, have considered them
selves extraordinarily well paronized.
The impeachment sensation fails TO receive mucn
very frequently the advice OF "impesch him,
gwen for almost every thing one may chance to
do which hsneighhor might not like, Ne~ Workers
have become generally Disguised.
The people have been materially more Coz
cerned about the proposed amendments to the
excise law, than they have shout the impeach-
meDt of Mr.. Johnson, and just nov, hoase 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
Railroads. and compel them to use horses below
l3eth street instead Of steam, which on the former
comes down TO 30th street. and on the latter TO AID
street. f9le ga f N
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 50 thickly populated about the
Park, 1t becomes proper that the use 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
30 tar up town that no further point need ever be
| designated but the growth OF the city has beea
| SO much more rapid than any one ever supposed.
that the present limit is only about the center
| Of il.
Dickens tickets for the final course OF Eve read.
ines have had a fair sale, and his first reading
takes place on the 18th inst.
| The Worrell Sisters New York Theater closes
| for the tomorrow night, the present week
| being devoted to benefits exclusively.
Naack reviyes oliver Twist" on Monday
| next, with j. w. Wallack and 4. L. Davenport
| and the same company as before.
At the Broadway Chsnfrau has been drawing
| well with De Walden's new comedy Of joe"
but that gives way to "Our American Cousin at
Bomen next week, after which Mr.. aud Mrs.
| Barney Williams enter upon an engagement.
Humpty Dumpty," at the Olympic. is cram
ming the house every night, so that "standing
| room only" can hardly be found. The piece is q
conglomeration of magic. ballet. drama. and
everything elre pretty much which can be COM
| blned in a theatrical performance.
lBateman's opera company open tonight at the
| French Thester with LA Belle Helene"
4 The "Limbersr at NibIo's, In the White
! Fawn,r stiil hold their own and draw the stays
wonderfully well, the piece having been run ow
eighty times. Stuffed calves and all the etceteras
are good loadstones, and have proved to be the
best money making commodity yet introduced
here. EYES AND EARS. /