The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-15
New York correspondents.

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Caiharine Hayes-Notiee Of certain Structures.
New YoRK, October l3.
Truth is the backbone of journalism, although
such does not appear TO be the prevailing belief
among all journalists, and due attention to facts
is as imperative duty in humble correspondent
as in more responsible and important member of
the press. Believing in this myself, hesitate to
mention good many interesting reports from not
being perfectly of their authenticity.
| The Express denies the fact that noticed last
week of there being no Jews among the regular
members of the Board of Brokers, and states that
the secretary of the board, Mr.. Bernard Hart, has
not forsworn the faith of his fathers and that Mr.
| Henriquez, another Hebrew gentleman, is also a
member.
| But was perfectly correct in my statement.
Mr.. Bernard Hart is superannuated old gentle
man, who, for many years, has been the nominal
secretary Of the board, and receives pension of
one thousand dollars year in consideration of his
| past services. The actual secretary of the Board
| of Brokers is Mr.. George Broadhead, who receives
for his services fifteen hundred dollars year. AS
| for Mr.. Edward Henriquez, the other Israelitish
member in question, he is in Europe, where he has
| been some time Ispoke of the men who did bust
ness at the board, and not of its nominal, or super
animated members. However, I only mentioned
the fact that Jews were not the leading money
| mongers of the New World, as they are of the DID,
to prove that they had no natural aptitude for such
business, and that they were only driven into the
| money dealing business by the disabilities which
shut them out of other honorable employments.
| The Express ought to be well informed on such
matters, for it's Wall street editor is an Israete-
with as little guile probably any of his tribe
who was once Levathan among brokers, and his
"money articles are the most intelligent, clearly
written, and reliable, of any that appear in our
| daily papers. His facts may be depended upon
| his reasoning is generally sound, and his predc-
| tons accurate. This department of our city pa
pers is of great Importance, and is probably that
which is first looked at by nine out of ten readers
There was a greatly improved feeling in Wall
street on Saturday, and this morning the rise in
every stock on the list, excepting Eric railroad,
showed adegree of buoyancythat has not been man
ifested before in many months AT the second call
Erie felt the influence ofthe upward tendency and
improved half per cent. The fact that the Baltic,
on Saturday, carried out but ten thousand dollars,
was one of the chief causes of the improved state
| of feeling in s'the street."
| There were ocean steamers, and all full of
| passengers, left here Saturday afternoon be-
| tween twelve and three O'Clock; and as they all
started from the north side of the city, between Ca
nal street and the Battery, they created good
deel of liveiness in the North river These steam
ers were the Baltic, for Lverpool; the Empire
City, for Havana and Chagres; Florida, for Sa-
| vannah; the Roanoke, for Norfolk; the City OF
| Richmond, for Richmond; the Glasgow, for Glas-
gov; and the Southerner for Charleston.
Our citizens are beginning to move towards
fitting demonstration for the reception of the illus
trious Kossuth, and there is doubt that he will
be greeted in such a manner, his landing in the
Ill
not only among freemen, but among people who
delight to honor those who fight in freedoms
cause, The liberal offer of Mr.. Genin to give
thousand dollars towards raising sum of ono hun
dred thousand to be presented to the iliustrious
Hungarian his arrival, will doubtless be the
means of considerable amount being subscribed,
even though it should not reach that sum. Mr.. Ge-
MINIS gift was unconditional; and, whether any
more should be collected or not, he gives his thou
sand. Professor Anderson gives the receipts Of his
last performance i'll this city for the object.
The professor is avery great wizard indeed, and
is perfect master of the art of taking money out
ofpeople's pockets and putting it into his own, al.
though he is no great magician in other respects.
Catharine Hayes gave her last concert at Tripler
Hall on Saturday night, and was honored with one
of the largest audiences she has yet attractcd the
oftener she has been heard the more she has been
admired, and the decided appreciation of the crit-
cal audiences who have thronged to her concerts
since the hullabaoo of her first night was over es-
tabshes her position among the first female vocal
ists that have visited Miss Hayes is a very
sweet, tender, and accomplished singer; her exc
cuton ia almost fauless, and, in the expression of
sad and plaintive feelings she excels any vocalist
that have heard her manner is exceedingly
gentle and winning, and there is an entire absence
of the actress in all she does. In this respect she
is charming contrast to the French and Italian
singers to whom have been accustomed. But
she is not great in the sense that Jenny Lind is,
neither does she magnetic her audiences the
Swedish nightingale did; and to attempt to insti-
tute comparisons between them would be absurd,
as they wholly different. Jenny impresses you
with the idea Of person of original genius, who
does every thing from her own powerful impulses,
while Miss Hayes simply appears like highly
educated, amiable young lady, with fine voice
| and most womanly instincts. In pecuniary point
of view Miss Hayes has been highly successful,
and her performances have fully equalled the cx-
pectations OF the musical public. She leaves here
this afternoon in the Fall River steamer for Boston,
| have just seen, since commenced writing
this letter, for the first time, structures in the
National Intelligencer on my letter giving brief
account of the reception of Miss Hayes her first
concert, which surprised me good deal; for do
not think ! wrote any thing in the slightest de-
gree disrespeciful to that lady. Most certainly
intended nothing Of the kind only gave truth
full account of the affair." and, as am rather fami-
liar with such things, could not but note the diff
ference between the conduct and appearance of the
audience at her first concert, and the phenomena
on the debut Of an Italian prima donna.
The correspondent of the National Intelligencer,
/ imagine, must have attached meaning to my
| remarks that nobody ese would have dreamed
of. He is angry because called Irish pri-
ma donna an anomaly, as If irish prima dom
mas were plentiful as Irish pototoes; and, to
confound me, drags in Tom Moore, Mac
ready, Curran, Grattan, Stephenson, Bale, and
McLise, (probably meaning Maclise,) as if these
illustrious Irishmen we're things of that sort. If
an Irish prima donna is not an anomaly, why did
he not name another AS to the cheap bouquets,
they were, although very large, of that kind, and
were very suspiciously plentiful, particularly as
the greater part of them came from one particular
point. However, we understand the art of throw
| ing bouquets here toleraby we'll | have seen an