The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-24
Ole hill.

OLE BULL returns from his New England TOUR anu
gives one Concert here Friday evening next pre-
vious TO his departure for the West. The enthu-
siastic favor with which all classes in the East
received the great violnist, has been quite indie
scribable. brief recital of his progress will be
interesting, and that attempt.
After leaving Boston, where his triumphs exceed
ed anything in that peaceful city, he gave
a concert at Providence, and although only one
days notice had been given, eight hundred tickets
were sold. At Lowell upwards of five hundred
persons attended his concert He was at first I'M
willing TO go there, but lady in Boston who had
been enchanted by his performances, and anxious
that the pretty girls of Lowell should enjoy the same
| exquisite pleasure, prevailed upon him TO go. AT
Salem, the audience also numbered about five hun
bred. AT New Bedford eight hundred tickets were
sold. At New Haven five hundred and fifty tickets
were disposed Of and on the night OF the concert
they were selling at Sc each. At Hartford, the
demand for tickets greater than could be sup
Piled In Albany his success was equally great.
At Utica, at least twelve hundred tickets were sold
At Rochester tickets to the full extent of the
commodation afforded by the Hall, were sold two
days before the concert was given.
Worcester, Springfield, and several places in
New England to which he had been invited, have
not yet been visited by him. He will, however,
give concerts there en- route to Canada From
Canada he has innumerable invitations. The
officers of the garrison at Montreal have guaran-
teed the sale of twelve hundred tickets
After his tour in Canada, Ole Bull will visit Sara
toga, about the middle Of August. Then he will
go directly West without approaching this city.
Many interesting Incidents, illustrative of the in
tense interest created by this great artist in New
| L. l. ILL.,
numbering upwards of eighty winters, followed
him to his hotel after the Concert, and begged a
lock of his hair, without which, the venerable pas
tor said, his wife would not consent to go home -
In New Haven, one of the most distinguished pro-
fessonal gentlemen of that pleasant little CITY, sent
his wife to measure Ole Bulls finger for ring
| and next day magnificent ring was sent a slight
| token of the admiration and esteem of the donor.
Everywhere, young and old, all classes, the pious
and the gay, the fashionable and the puritancal,
all We'd the expression of their enthusiastic adj
| mlration.
All this enthusiastic love and regard admits of an
easy enough explanation Against Ole Bull not one
ofthe old purtancal objections to artists players
theatrical performers could be awakened He did
not go amongst them, even professional artist
Himself the son Of clergyman-educated for the
| church-a poet, philosopher, and genius of the
highest ORDER but whose tastes and genius had been
| led by accidental circumstances to concentrate
| themselves on the pursuit of musical science, and
whose mighty soul had found an apt instrument OF
expression in the violin. Ole Bull recev
| ed by the people of New England as a great
moral teacher, as the accredited expoundeI
| of the hidden mysteries of passion and feeling, as
the ministeriDg spirit of soul-ennobling science,
pure and as elevated as the heavens from which il
was sent, to inspire, to cheer and to purify the uni
versal heart of man. None other but such lofty
original, pure minded genius could have opened, a.
Ole Bull did, the flood gates of such tide OF i'm
FASHIONED feeling as that which burst forth attel
him, wherever he went Broad, and deep, and tu
multuous enough betlmes, is the tide of enthusiasm
IN the sober heart OF New England, but only wher
touched by the rod of Meses leap forth the gushing
stream of that Horeb.
Like an angels visit, will be Ole BULBS to us this
week. But it will be priced as it should be-more
alas than be always said of the visits OF the
| angels.
COMMON CoUNcn-R EFoRM.-This Board meet
this evening to further disappont the hopes and ex-
pectations OF the citizens of New York, whom they
have so shamefuIly deluded by false promises OF
reform in the abuses of the city government
which have so long existed in this city. They
meet this evening to waste in idle defamation the
public time lin discussing the political qualifications
of some applicant for the office of Inspector o.
/, Lime, CT some such subordinate office; while oul
streets present to the public eye, in every quarter
the city, the most shameful and disgusting evl
dences OF neglect on the part of the authorities
calculated to bring splendid city into disgrace
in the eyes of every orderly and good citizen.
i, We expected much from the present Reform
1 party-se -called-who have crept into power OF
the abuses of the old corporations Aware of thes
abuses-and OF the necessity for their removal il
our rapidly rising and populous city, we advocated
the principles upon which they rode into power
and now nearly two months in office, what hav
they done? The full amount of reform with whic
they have repaid the great body Of our respectabl
citizens, is in wasting the public time in idle dis
cussons about the removal of few of the old off
Gals and subordnates, and the appointment OF thei
own friends to fill their places
, The crowds that have fiocked forward at eac
meeting of the Board, since the party came int
power, would lead a stranger to imagine that SOM
grave question: involving the peace of eur citizens
was under discussion; but this interest is createt
in relation TO few appointments, while the i'm
, portant reforms in streets are Obstlnatey ne
gected-the lives of citizens continually endan
gered by furious driving of omnibusses in our tho
roughfares--the water which was designed t
cleanse the public sewers kept shut up in the ny
drants; while green and putrld filth is allowed t
accumulate about the streets and IN the channels
endangering the health OF our citizens; and var
Gus other crying abuses staring the public in tn
face. On Sundays, in every ward in the city, an
particularly in the Fifth ward little urchins desc
crate the Sabbath by the firing of crackers an
rockets; but it would be task to point out tn
numberess abuses that require prompt and immed
ate reform.
A few poor apple-women prevented tn
means of earning a liveihood-the cigar stores ar
closed on Sundays-a few grog shanties are locke
o up, in ludicrous mockery, the Sabbath