The New Orleans crescent., 1869-01-17
Ghe gew Orleans Grestent.
LETTER FROM NEW roar
Special Correspondence OF the New Orleans cre,c.ntl


Special Correspondence Of the New Orleans Cresc.n. .
NEW YORK. Jan. o, 1869.
Sueb an opening OF the year as New Yorker,
have seen since the commencement of 1850 !,
almoat enough to give everybody the double
breasted blues, even II nothing else worried them
The tear was ushered in amid hail and rain. then
slusbI land mud. an hours freeze and davis tbaw
which IS You msy imagine tpve rendered outdoor
enJoyfments rather below par. The city Is improv.
ing Dpw however, as the snow is disappearing
gradually, and If we have any more winter
weat4erl as we certainly have good reason IN sx.
pect,I streets may in the course of a week get
to bel psssabie without the necessity of a canoe
10 scqiI pne about to avoid sllshy bath.
sDse lhe holidays the shop keepers have done
Len pestto lnveigle the ladies' into buying. but
all u 70 account. Notwithstanding elessn,In
dressed Windows and gorgeous display of eIegan,
goods Wtthin. the money has not come forth. and
IN many cases because it has not been in the
pockqI 70 come forth. The one blessing and one
eng * ~ r.. '.e warm weather we are now having,
anu ~ lfct the moderate winter we have had TINS
lar, nSs oeen that the poor have been relieved in
grey neasure from the intense suffering thav
woqlG otherwise have undergone.
n9n. =. Oakey Hall, our new mayor, follows
up me- reputation while district attorney as being
an enemy to instigstors of crime, by issuing a
procifD Anon Offering rewards amounting to s45OO
ior djserent kinds OF information as TO the mur
oeIer ~ Mr. Kodgers, who was so brutay de-
prlvehof bis life on the last day of last year The
statuts only empowers the mayor to offer $500 re-
ward, bla he takes the chances of reimbursement
from tbciState Legislature, which are not positive
by any Neans, when you know that It ia Radical
snd the mayor Is an out and out Democrat of the
old schgol.
1t DOS seem as though life is no longer safe bv
DAY, noE to speak of it at night, when a man Is
tmuroerfo 10 orcad daylight in front of his own
nOQGp. a haar ~ fba af@~
oil the nlqst respectable neighborhoods ii contains
From the clues which fell into the hands of the
police: 81 appears very strange why some definite
mold las not been obtained of the murderer, bat
as yer all is quite on the Potomac" and we are
movlDys0n toward the next tragedy in life which
Is to TEMPORARILY shock the public mind ana then
be lsie P-ide as one of the things which have been
and aEe:np more, without even yielding the ordi
nary .pfnsit which is expected as the result of
dearly EtTchased experience. Instead of the no. |
ice aitenaing their duty guardians OF the pub.
lie peaeeS we find them holding private caucus |
at hesgqFsrters, for the purpose of raising funds
and appointing committees to lobby bill for an |
increase pf pay through the next Legislature.
Upon this move dsmper fell to day, however. in |
the shape of,orders from the board forbiddinQ any
such proceedings, and allowing NJ officer of any |
rank 10 t.e absent from duty without special per. |
mission FE the board. The blue coats think this |
rather ~ as they understand how to work |
up" ass fry case better than they do murder
th1 usN lSinmsny hall mas been so trans
formsG ':iat the delegates from out of town to
the lase convention would not know the place. |
AN ent.Fiainment s given there which lasts until |
midnight, Ind is so varied in its character, az 10
interest any one who may droD in from the com. |
meneeIaeht to the end. For fifty cents one gets
little ballet, burlesque, pantomime, tight rope
waking by female, theatricals and most every.
thing vhieh can amuse and entertain.
The successful run Of the Emerald Ringn will
come TO aclose next week to make way for Solon
Shingle eud his barrel of apple Sars," by John
L. Overs.
The 'bFil season has opened most brilliantly. and
from DoE until April some one will occur most
every nlsht. The Dramatic Fund takes a benefit
On Mor,'sy, next in the shape of an annual ball at
The Acsdeiay, which promises to be one of he
hnsns oi 'tHe season. EYES AND EARS.