Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-05-12

10 loek beautiful prospects, either in this world
or in that which is to come, and pious women are
my alteration! Besides, as am like ST. Paul before
his conversion, as yet sinner, who knows but 1
may be converted to religion, by few fair pious
guests.
MORE SYMPTOMS OF DECREPIrUDE-THE Coz
RiER AND THE NEW YORK PILoTs.-Thc Cou-
rier" is ont with savage article against the New
York pilots, threatening to blow them " sky high
with =" a mahogany stock and percussion cap, eight
inches long,
The impudence Of this bloated, bankrupt conc rn
is only equalled by It's impotence. The New York
pilots number about sixty as excellent, worthy, no.
nest, hard working men the country show
The charges made against them by the Courier, are
as false they foul-and trust and hope that
no honest member of congress will pay any atten-
ton to the idle ravngs of paper the stages of de-
crepitude. 1t is not the New York pilots which the
Courier hates most-h is the Ne,c York Herald
And why! Because every day beating that,
and every other paper in Wall street, not only in
local and foreign news, but in the collection Of the
earliest ship news-the very point of their exist
ence. The Courier imagines that the New York
pilots aid and assist crew of news collectors, by
which we enabled, almost every day, to publish
important ship news in advance Of them. These
dirty, dying papers, have the exclusive aid Of the
miserable loafers Of New Jersey, who
petent to pilot ships in out of the harbor, the
soap-locks Of the Bowery to do a decent deed be-
tween hours on Saturday
The pilots of New York want nothing but fair
competition, and that they will have
&C. FANNY ELssLER will probably make her
debut at the Park Theatre tomorrow night, or, at
furthest, on Friday night, in the 'Cracovienne,'
and the " Tarantula" She and her ballet master
have been hard at work. for the past week, in get
ting up the piece. The difficulties they have en-
countered in the miserable sticks which Simpson
has furnished them to be fashioned into something
like grace and attitude, can be better imagined than
described. Now is the very crisis Of the fate and
fortunes Of the Park Theatre. If Mr.. Simpson will
only put little more Of the efficient manager
and avail himself Of his present chance he can re-
cover all his lost ground, and, what is better, his
lost money
The arrival Of Fanny Elssler has created fresh
furors for thcatricals, which Forrest, Kean Hack
ett and all the bloods Of the legitimates never
could have started into existescc. What is called
the legitimate drama is going to perditien. We have
too much intellectual excitement in the daily con-
Germs Of real life, to put any value upon the intel
lectual amusements Of the stage. We want relief
change, variety, when go to the theatre. A
beautiful ballet, with the divine Elssler, splendid
collection Of paintings, sweet opera, brilliant mu-
sic,thcsc arc what interest and excite the
intellectual age. This il the philosophy Of the
public taste. Hence the complete failure Of the
attempts to revive dramatic legitimacy, and the
irrepressible energy with which the whole public
start into enthusiasm at the prospect Of seeing
the Elsser. This enthusiasm spreads over society.
and will probably give new direction to American
theatricaIs.
But not only does this singular out-pouring exist
in the public, but like all excemcns in this conn
try, it describes zig-zag direction, like the flashes
Of lightning across blue sky. All the fashionable
people Of New York-the Costars, the Astors, the
Kings, the Livingstons the Homes, running over
each others heads, and calling upon Fanny. She
receives them with equal quiet and simplicity
goes where, Wits where, nor takes any notes
She is swallowed up in the love Of her art Poets.
artists, photographers, engravers, painters and prin-
tiers all at work to mark the present singular
revival in certain departments Of the drama. As
our taste for music and opera is dated from Mali
bran, may taste for the ballet living statuary
and the poetry of motion, be dated from the debut
Of Fanny Elssler.
PoLirIos AND PLAyAcrIsc.--IIamblin Of the
Bowery is the most interesting, original, managers
that ever was ruined by hard times and thin houses.
During the last three months he has tried tragedy.
comedy, history, pastoral, histori-
capastoral, tragical-historcal, tragical-comical-
historical pastoral, sccne-iudvdual and poem I'M
Gil his Theatre. He has paid in pufs 10 penny pa
mn. =