The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-09-25
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of the last week aud, though the Park offered The at
traction Of Wallacks benefit, the demonstration oil
white gloves on that night was at Niblos And lhls
is but brick in the steadily built prosperity OF the
Garden theatre Mr. Niblo IS a tactcian of the first
order, and knows his " dear public"
| saw only the first act of Lucia de Lammer
moor" and found little TO admire except the per-
Torrance Of the orchestra. Sgnor Antognine GER
ainly did not come up 10 bis reputation a tenor
and he is the great star OF the company He is a Gu
rious looking man 10 play the lover. The muscles
Of his face pull, every one, upon his nosrlls like
" taut halliards,n and with eyebrow pointing dercely
at the bridge of his nose, and mouth like an angry
dash of pen under emphasized word, lac looks as
Mephistophh one of Retzchs drawings Ma
dame Majocchi, the prima Donna is fat woman
Wi a fat voice. She has good conralto footing
in her throat, but her soprano notes are painfully
tiptoe, and you are glad when she Is comfortably al
the bottom of her oadet=a The company appears
pretty well drilled but they want p'na donna, and
if they could find priyid donna In want OF them
CASTELAR,, for instance--we might have good opera
They say that Antognines voice is only grassgrown
from neglect, and that he would do brilliantly alter
little practice. Considering the certain fortune that
waits upon fine tenor II Is surprising that tsere
should be SO few aspirans for the honors of Rubin
for il cannot be that there only half dozen OF
so many Of human voices possessing his capabilities
OF tone and cultivation. There is probably I" full
many a" postilllon de Lonjumeau born tor =" waste
his sweetness on the desert air - and ii would be
good speculation 10 look the up and buy ie-nte-
rest IN their thoracic capabilities.
A gentleman has written me a very courteous let
ter demonstrating my misuse of the word setting,
as it appeared in the following sentence of last
weeks lntegencer Yesterday several gentlemen
were setting round an excellent hre.n Now, call
upon the nmi,y of your type setter to make his
'dayy to an in the manuscript The third Editor OF
my In direct line, and accused of that bunder
But shame to that in the letter this criti-
cal gentleman ias,ens an ellipse upon that will
hardly "hold water" did write, hot sings
usurped G. the iced julaps and cobbers' emitting
The places ot-but not through ignorance. My cores
pendent gives me also an amusing account OF his los
ing bet to some Englsh gentlemen, who had declar-
ed that The distinction between the verbs " TO lay
and " to lie" was almost unknown to American VIII
tiers. The day after the remark was made, an Alba
ny paper said Of steamer that she " laid during
a storm" Twenty dollars wagered that if the
sentence pointed out to the Editor erroneous,
he would only the latter of its two
The note sent, and corrgendom appeared IN the
next days paper, abiding only 10 the superiluous
"o"' The Englishers walked of, of course, with
the triumph and the money. comparison between
the presses Of the two countries would be very unfair,
however. In every English printing establish
mcnt there is employed, for prool-reader an ac-
com plshed lnguist and grammarian. lie has
library room TO hIm elf and reads his proofs sur
rounded with dictionaries, books OF synonymcs, and
all the classic authors for reference and comparison
lie not only corrects any lapses or errors IN gram
mar spelling, and acceniuauon, but he puts query
proof-reader of a celebrated London publisher came
down to me, ten miles In a stage COACH 10 submit
what he thought an instance of bad taste in book OF
mine then publlshing-the press having been stopped
meanme.' With such dilIgent supervision as this,
there need be little wonder at universal good gram
mar in English books and with the almost total de-
pendence hasly memory with which Amer,-
cans write and go TO press, there need be as tile
wonder if our literature IS full OF errors And no.
thing but an amendment Of the copyright inc will ever
lie rs n hPl he a. hl
reading and supervision insiaDced above.
And ap1opoS Of my sins Of correspondence, ind that
proprety begins to require that all words sisnying
exhilaratng drinks must hcneeiorlh be decently dir.
embowelled that cobbers must be written c--s,
and iulaps is, sings s-s, and punches
p--s. / have had three letters and one poetical
appeal addressed TO me, remonStratve against my
shameless mention Of these Ubiquitous beverages IN
exemplary paper as the lntelgencer, consi-
der this exponent of the leading enthusiasm OF the
era, and willingly gave way. One OF my rebnkers
attacked me particularly for what he consider
ed a sighting allusion 10 the coming OF Father
Matthew TO America. To this, in intention at least
plead not guilty. revere the character OF that
great reformer aud consider his mission sacred and
salutary My submission shall be more emphatic, Al
necessary.
! wish one OF your particular troop Of we'll
informed occasional correspondents would give US the
philosophy of the decline y peaches. have seen only
tolerabe peaches tins ycart for the last few
indeed, and the magnificent fruit we used 10 get in
stage-cosching through Jersey j. vanished with the
lost Pleiad a man would deserve well Of his coun-
Try who should restore our faded gorcs in this par
ucuar.
am minstered TO while writing to-day by the most
deciously tempered autumn that ever inioxica-
ted the heart Of rpening grape. only lament that
the distinct pleasure feel IN every pore and fibre
will not channeed into the nib of my pen aud flow
to you in rhetoric The wind is little norhery,
however and it may bring you sample. Yours, SC.