The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-03
a. HEAD ATTEMPTS TO WRITE A
LITTER.


Mr.. IRVING s TAVERN, New YORK Dec. %.
II is the witching hour OF about lunch time that
l sit down to inform you that New York is not
yet finished. They are still putting up new build.
ings and putting down new psvements, which lat
ter, as soon as laid, bear above them so much Of
wealth, luxury, misery. toll and clstter! Over
the pare drives with equal right, the scavenger
and the scoundrel, the gambler and the gamin, the
wealthy and the weak the wife, the widow, the
broker and the" broken
BROADWAY
Is lively as ever, the shops as thropged, the jam
as great sround the vicinity of the CASTOR" but
not 10 last II is but the excitement attendant upon
the holidays, and then! To-day the merchants
Of New } ork are as hard pushed as they ever
were, previous TO a financial crisis no matter what
may be said to the contrary. The hustle. the
noise, the excitement continues as ver-les !!
But when standard merchants ask for ian exten.
sion for only thirty days." when "jobbers" draw
upon their retail customers 10 smaller cities, days
before they have the legitimate business right
giving no excuse for so doing, except that they
get the of the money few days if the draft is
refused acceptance; when you see merchants Of
fering ten and twelve per cent. per annum for
money and "people " offering that per month for
Z" the whesewith" and giving The best of collateral
security at that, then begin to believe there is
trouble ahead and that somebody is going to get
hurt. Tive big concerns went up only yesterday
and others are preparing to " follow in the foot
steps of their ilustrous predecessors"
But have got of Broadway and must hurry
back. Everything betokens that the holidays are
at band. Jewelry stores, book stores, fancy
goods stores, and even grocery and wine stores,
hang their banners on the outer wall and pro-
claim, Goods for the Holidays )" " Christmas
Gifts" Presents for the Million !" etc., etc. The
hotels do not yet propose Christmas Gifts of board
bills the boarding. houses are equally as selfish,
ard the places of amusement are as stingy as ever
There was q ]" dollar store" started by some en-
terprsing Yankee on Broadway few months ago.
Now there are three of them, and Of a very extern
sive character. No man ever started anything in
this country that was successful, that he did not
have host of imitatsrs and competitors. Once
there was only one hotel in New York. Now
there are several So with the dollar stores,
which advertise " anything in this case for 81 ~
and they are crammed from morning till night.
Some of the articles they sell would cost more,
most anywhere, while the great majority would
cost less. Of these matters you must be your own
judge.
"Our brave and patriotic soldiers " still con.
time TO grind handorgans for I" the best govern
ment the sun ever sbone on,n and for-their
bread They are TO be seen and heard at every
third or fourth corner. They have forbidden them
even this pension " in Washington. Senator
Trumbul made the remark one day to a certain
colonel, who has claims for transportation against
the government remaining unpaid for four years,
that the soldiers had been paid for their SER
government
tions TO them further 20 and Senator az ac6 /"
Chandler, of Michigan, reiterates the remark. 1t
will be buried back at them on the floors of Con-
gress in the most public manner, this session
While write, messengers are constantly arriv-
ing in the Office of the hotel with boxes, bundles,
baskets and bales, containing presents that will
carry Joy to many a youthful heart. But how
many in this great city will have but one present
The ever 90 them miserable present! And the
future-who can tell 1t!
"THE wIcKEDEsr MAN"
in New York has been found. 1t is he who stands
in q gilded saloon, behind a black walnut bar,
where the thirsty but unwsry believes he will get
glass of good liquor for the stomseh's sake
and thine often infrmties, and who deals out the
worst of manufactured liquor and liquid poison.
There lie hardly first class' hotel in New York
among those best known, or gilded E" saloon''
from one end of Broadway to the other, where
they keep liquors fit 10 drink The Metropolitan,
the st. Nicholas and the Fifth Avenue are no ex-
ceptions 10 this rule. What shame that these
hotels, first class in every other respect should be
any other class in this one. There is plenty of
money made on good liquors why keep poison
GUS slops ! shall call these hotels right out by
name ii they don't do better
The places where they advertise large plate
OF beans six cents" "single biscuit buck.
wheat cakes.n custard pisn and "a fish balls, p at
the same price, are doing, as usual, good bus
ness. IL rs worth while TO step into one of these
Iestsurants;" you go IN and seat yourself; a
1,
comes and stands at the end of the table with
the dignity of ten year old mule. You tell him
what you'll have he sings it out ct the top of his
voice be gets the order, brings ii and throws il
at you, together with dirty red check on which
Is the price, with " Please present at tie coun-
ter" You pays your monies and you takes
your shoise."
There is enough ia this line for snybodys fas.
tic ious taste.
4" IxiOn,n running at W God s Museum, is great
success.
MRS. Scott Siddons has been success, individ.
uslly, at the New York Theater, but such sup
port
+" Humpty Dumpty," a, the Olympic is as at
.ractve as ever. Something new is constantly in.
troduced.
"Genevieve de Brabant,'' at the Theater Fran
Gals, end "6enevieye de Bryd1a,r at Bryant's,
are drawing.
nearly complete. He has begun by engaging
Edwin Adams as leading man, and proposes TO
follow il up" by engaging first class company.
This will insure success, even if they should bring
the great Fechter from London, or ANY other
man,
Pixies Opera House may prove good inve ST.
ment. It's out of the way.
After Dark" still keeps the boards at Niblo's,
but it is not a success, no matter what is said to
the contrary.
Miss Olive Logan is a success as lecturer,
onlg tributes to Abraham Lincoln and the Republic
can party has nothing to do with Paris, city Of
luxuriesri
Tammany Hall, the celebrated, is to be q second
Alhaubra of London, and will be a success
A variety entertainment, with Leonard Grover to
manage it, will be the attraction.
The bulls and bears" are running up and
down Wall street, hurting some people and anus
ing others.
Teeth are being extracted daily on Broadway
A good first class stabbiDg. shooting or slung
shot entertainment can be had, day or evening, il
the principal streets.
The " Grecian bend =" has ceased as diversion
Holders of stock are selling out
A. Head is preparing to lecture on behalf of the
moor, on which occasions, he has, with the creates
reluctance, consented to appear as :" the poor ,
himself.
Peacefully for now,
ANONYMOUS HEAD.