The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-06
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The Eleotion---Isoo YAix Candidates in The Third
District- Puodi-- Candidates yor Office among The
Editorial Corps-Stotss IF Calhoun -Popss and
has Works-4dnecd0fe 0f ham.
NEW YoRx, Nov. 4, 1850.
The great political struggle will take place to-
morrow, and, from q pretty extensive acquaint-
ance with all the wards of the city, have hest
tation In declaring my belief that the result of
morrow's contest will be as satisfactory to the
friends of the Administration and the Union as
the great meeting of our citizens at Castle Gar
den, last week The differences between the
friends Of Rodman, the regularly nominated can
didate of the third district and Bowen the irregu
lar candidate, unhappily have not been adjusted
yet, and, uness they should be before night, the
election of Mr.. Hart, the Opposition nominee, ia
inevitable.
There is great commotion, as usual in the city
on the day preceding an election; but, amidst all,
there is abundant surplus Of trifers, Sybartes,
and foreigners, to give a greeting TO Parodi the
new queen of song-who appears to night at the
Aston Place Opera. house the first time-such as
| the greatest man the loveliest woman in the
ton could not command. The great business of
life with vast number of our people, at this time,
is to indulge in the purely sensuous pleasures of
music. In the days of Horace Walpole the squab-
of State, and the frat Lord of the Treasury was
sometimes appealed to, to compel refractory
basso TO open his mouth. Happily for us. even in
| these days, when there ia music for the million,
| and the poor have Italian bravuras sung to them,
politics and print donni quite distinct affairs
Every seat in the opera house has been taken for
| this evening, at So 80 each; while admission to
the amphitheare, as the upper gallery is called,
which ordinarily is but TWENTY five cents, has
been raised to dollar, when Parodi sings.
| On Saturday night there dress rehearsal Of
Norma, at which none but the most exclusive of
the very elect of fashion, and the gentlemen Of the
press, whose vocation ia open at all pub
lie places, were permitted to be present. score
of young gentlemen, with moustaches and white
gloves thronged about the doors of the opera hou
trying to get in, and looking disconsolate as
peri at the gates OF paradise listening to the gush
of melody within. Parodi has neither the beauty
vivacity, passion exibility of voice possessed
by Malibran; but, after her, she is the finest ope-
ratio singer we have had. OF course Jenny is left
out of the question, as being too much beyond any
other vocalist TO be named in comparisons; and fur
ther, che has not appeared in opera, and we
only judge Of her powers dramatic singer by
hearsay.
The editorial fraternity this year, furnish the
Wings three candidates in the city. Mr.. Ray
mond, of the Courier and Enquirer, and Charles A.
Dana, the Socialist editor of the Tribune. are both
nominated for the State Assembly; and Mr.. Brooks,
of the Express, is nominated for Congress There is
fair prospect of all three being elected.
The recovery OF the statue OF Calhoun, from the
wreck of the unfortunate brig Elizabeth, has graft
fed much as it has astonshed the public. The
schooner having it on board has not yet arrived,
and it is not known whether it will be exhibited
here or not but it is devoutly to be hoped by
ry lover of art that the South Carolfnians will al
low it to be set up here short time before it shall
be removed TO it's final pedestal in the Palmetto
State II n said to be the greatest work Of its great
sculptor, whose productions deserve place by the
side of the finest examples OF Grecian art. There
are fewer busts by Powers in New York than in
any other city of the Union. South Carolina can
boast of two Of his statues Louisiana and Ohio beth
have copies of the Greek Slave; there som e-of
his fl nest heads in Boston, and Philadelphia can
boast of of his purest ideal creations. But
New York has nothing to show Of great
American artists chiselling. We came very near
having Of his portrait busts, though. One OF
! our wealthicst merchants was travelling with his
| family in Italy few years since, and when in
| Florence called, a matter of course, at the u
dio of Powers. Being in the home of the Medici,
our merchant felt within him stirring of the
nedicean spirit, and resolved to have his bust
cut in marble by his distinguished country
man. He inquired the price OF bust, and
was informed that five hundred dollars the
! low est the sculptor had charged. 1t was
a large sum, TO be sure, but our merchant
resolutely made up bis mind to pay it, and gave
the artist the requisite sittings for the model in
clay, and then left Florence for Rome. In few
weeks be returned and calling again at the studio
OF our countryman, said to him
"Pray, Mr.. Powers, have you done my bust
YETI"
al have not commenced il in marble yet" re-
piled the sculptor.
"Then you needn't" replied our merchant. 81
have found Italian artist in Rome who has
agreed to make me one for two hundred and fifty
dollars"
every well" replied the artist, quietly. But he
keeps the clay model in his studio and shows it TO
his visitors monument Of the liboralty OF a
New York mere liant =. h. s.