The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-07
LETTER IRON ST. LOUIS.
sciaI Correspondence Of the New Orleans orsscsutl

Special Correspondence Of the New Orleans Orescent
ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 8, 1869.
The delightful weather of which we have been
Boosting for sometime past, terminated with the
close OF the month of January, and to day we are
being entertained with storm Of snow and sleet
straight from the north. 1t is not cold. bat damp,
chilly and altogether disagreeable- a day,
in short, as makes ones Office or Preside seem
doubly cheerful.
Yesterday was cloudy and rainy. and IL the
grounding came forth to view the situation, as
they say he is wont to do, he must have been
highly grati6ed at the near approach of spring.
Tradition has 1t that the aforesaid animal comes
out of his winter quarters on the I'd of February,
and If he sees bis shadow goes back again with
the expectation Of alternating for period Of six
weeks longer, but Il 1t be cloudy and he fails to
see his shadow, winter has no more terrors for
him, and he do2't care a continental whether
school keeps or nat.
Business to-day Is at low ebb. The weather
is 30 Internally disagreeable that people care but
little whether they do any business or not. On
the landing. thus fer during the week. business has
been tolersbly fair, The Mollie Able departed
Monday evening well laden as did also the Olive
Branch last evening. and the Henry Ames is an
nounced for to dap, but probably will lay over till
tomorrow. The mammoth Bismarck arrived at
mission receiving 10 leave on Friday. She always
gets big trip Of freight and people, and though
pauper may occasionally smugge himself on
board, as was the case on her last trip, what of
that! Had she NIT been well laden the fellow
could not have found hiding place. The boat
is popular one has popular commander and,
in fact, the best looking middle-age one on the
Mississippi and hh can sport more festive necktes
than any other captain sailing out Of st. Louis.
Fair hands wrought them for him and as q New
Years gift were they bestowed.
At last St. Louis county is to have a new Jail in
place of the miserable one now In use at the cor
ner Of Sixth and Chestnut streets, aud which has
been reported ss nuisance successfully by every
grand jury impaneled here for the past ten years.
1t is located In the heart Of the city and withal
very convenient tb the courthouse, but its dimen-
sioDs are too small, and prisoners are so closely
crowded as TO render them uncomfortable and in
many instances engender diseases. The new jail
will be located OF the site of the old Chouteau
mansion, on C!ars avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, and will be as fine q building Of
the kind as can lss found In the country. The es-
timated cost Is 500 00O and it Is intended to have
it complete IL abaut one years time.
In amusementf this week, we have the great
tragedienne, JsAauschek, at DeBar's Opera
House, who thusfar has drawn large and appre::
cative audiences. On Monday night she appeared
as Elizabeth and on Tuesday as Meded. She
played most successful engagement at the
Varieties last winter, and the present one promises
to be none the lees so. Leffngwell, the comedian,
opens at the Olympic tonight He has more fun
In his composition than any man on the American
stage, and the patrons Of the Olympic have bat
TO laugh and grow tat during his engagement.
which lasts sixteen nights. "Kenon Is the card
at the Varieties. and is said TO be good one.
Tom Thumb and company opened at Mercantile
Library Hall yesterday, but owing to the beastly
been encoursgihgly large. They remain all the
week. RAINBOW.