The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-07

The FASHIONABLE WATERING PLAcrs.-The
buds OF May are beginning to burst, the trees to
put forth their leaves, and the country all around
to put on vernal and almost summer appearance.
Now Is the time for the watering places, either in
the interior OF the country, away up in the noun
talns, or down by the sea-shore, to make the ne
cessary preparation and arrangements for the
coming season. According to all appearances and
representations, there will be a great number of
foreigners from England-fashionable foreigners
too, and perhaps many from the continent also
coming to the United States TO regale themselves
with our scenery hunt on our mountains, study our
institutions, and ruralze all over the country.
For the last thirty years the wealthy aristocracy
of England have generally spent portions of their
summers and autumns in France, Germany, Swift
erland and Italy; in those counries-particuary in
Germany, Italy and Switzerland-the arrangements
made at the hotels and watering places, have been
of the most admirable description. The hotels at
the German watering places, and all the hotels
on the principal travelling routes in Switzerland
are very superior in certain respects, to any Of the
hotels in the United States, out of the large cities,
or in the principal public resorts. One great adj
vantage which the hotels the old continent pos
sess is the system of cookery. Every thing is cook
ed in the most exquisite stye-beef tastes as beef
mutton tastes as mutton-poultry has the flavor of
poultry-and duck can be really known as duchs
This individuality of character in confined
cookery, arises from the individuality of the pin
ciples prevailing in the kitchen. In the gpfht ho-
tells in the United States, the principlesq pkery
are too comprehensive and too much LIKED.
Beet, mutton, pork, poultry, duck, . ketimes
even fish, are all cooked in close prozd1iy to each
other, IN the same atmosphere, and the favor of
each partakes of the same general uniform charac-
ter, which is neither fish, flesh, nor fowl, or good
salt herring. Now this must be all amended and
corrected by our fashionable and leading hotels, at
all the public places which are patronized by those
who can afford to pay and pay well, for their en-
tertainment.
Hmany Of the fashionable and wealthy people of
the old world, during the political disturbances
there, should come to the United States, we think
there will be great improvement and revolution
in this country in the kitchens. 1t is probable, ac
cording to appearances that there will be revolu-
ton, next November, in the kitchen cabinet; but
it is time to have general revolution in all the
kitchens of the country in this respect. Let the
proprietors of the hotels, and those divine ar
lists who luxuriate and preside inthe kitch-
and they may be able, sooner than otherwise, to
retire snug fortunes on some conntryseat in the
neighborhood of some central metropolis.
THE AsroR PLACE OPERA CoNcERN.-The jus
indignation of the community towardA the recent
swinding and disgraceful conduct perillgated at
the expense of the subscribers to the laf5NItalian
Opera, is beginning to act in the proper way and
IN the proper quarter.
1t is we'll known that the abrupt termination of
the Opera season has left due from the managers
and proprietors of the Astor Place Opera, about
twenty nights, which have been paid and sub
scfibed for in advance, amounting in the aggregate
to about five or six thousand dollars. We now
learn that preparations for legal steps have been
made in the right quarter to reach those persons
to whom the money was paid, and who have APP
piled lit to other purposes than those avowed at the
opening of the Opera season. 1t is also well known
that the management Of the late Opera was very
mixed and mutifarious concern. There were the
ostensible managers, Sanquirico and Patti; there
was the cashier controlled by different set of
men; and there was also a private committee,
which controlled all the above; and then. beyond
all these, there was a court, caba, of proprie-
tors, who had the control over all the particular
money of the department. The Opera manage
ment of the Aston Place Theatre was, therefore,
as complicated and mixed the British 60
vernment is, or as some of the multifa-
rous governments on the continent were
The public that is to say the subscribers paid up,
at 1.-THE beginning of the season, over $4,000;
which money has been applied in way that ought
to be known. Twenty nights, equal to five or six
thousand dollars of this money, are yet due and
owing to the subscribers. In order to reach these
persons who have received this money, we UNI
derstand Sanquirco and Patti, the ostensible ma
nagers intend to bring action at law against the
real managers, whoever they may be, who are hid
behind the curtains to whom the money was paid,
and who have retained it to this day.
We have obtained private and special history of
all the original steps and foolery which led to the
downfall of the late attempt to establish the Opera
at the Astor Place Theatre; and think it due to
the community, to the subscribers and to the sue
cess of the unfortunate artists who have been de-
ceived and duped, that the whole history and affair
should be calmly stated and unfoded, and laid be-
fore the community This shall do at our
leisure, and let the lightning bolt fall in the right
quarter.
MoLNo DEL REy.-We received in letter yes
terday, from L. U. Jones, Asst. Surgeon Y. - Ar
my, a rose pucked from the bloody field of Molino
del Rey, spot which has been haowed by the
blood of hundreds of the bravest and best Of our
land. 1t is of the wild order, but much more fra
grant than any of the same description that grow
in this region.
Theatrical and Musical.
BowERy TnEArRE.-Thc Seguins concluded their en-
gagement last evening" and for time at least the ope
will have to make room for the drama the Bowery
Stage Mr. Hamblin has been quite enterprising in his
management up to this period, and he u.s. we under
stand determined to keep up his spirit of berality in
his future movements Tomorrow night there win be
produced the play Of jacob Leislcr' original
historical tragic play, by American writer. Mr..
Murdoch who the hero of the piece has been