The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-03-05


thars and not the small fry only: or these de-
scfsnts of which we hear SO much are only in
tended to delude the public into belief in the
efficiency Of the new city government. Mayor
Wood and the police must choose one horn
the dilemma.
THE OPERA TRoUBLEs.-All the world is at
war. The Western Powers are at wur with
Russia. The Asiatic tribes are at war with
the English. The people of England fight
with their mobiles. Political parties in the
United States are engaged in death struggle
Alvarez is battering away at Santa Anna.
And to crown all, the members of the Opera
company at the Academy of Music are at war
with each other. Indeed, hostilities at the
Academy, as the reader will perceive from an
extraordinary bulletin elsewhere in these col
umns, have been carried to the extreme point
of an exploson-sn abrupt, unexpected, unfore-
seen, and most 3amentable explosion. This is
worse than Sebastopol Santa Anna holds out
better. Ole Bail must fall back upon his Penn
sylrania farm-or his fiddle. Who comes next !?
One of the ladies who has recently been
engaged to sing at the Opera, has sent us the
following note and card. The former is appa.
rently averbal criticism on our critique of her
performance; and we have no objection to let
Madame Vestvali have her say. The latter
speaks for ITSELF Additional cards may be ex-
pected on this subject =
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD.
S6 FOURTH AVENUE, March 2, 1855.
DEAR SIR:-ln report upon my appearance yesterday
in the "Favora, so just, that sincerity sympathise
with, you make observation which is erroneous by
designating performance of the role of Leonora
you acquainted with the fact, that by accepting this
role, (for which have been not engaged being Con-
Ole Bull to whom it was to put an her opera
in in short time, under present
as have not the honor, to be personslly acquainted
with you sir trust you will pardon my boldEess by in
trudiDg you with this few lines.
truly felicia VESTVALI
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
DEAR sR-win you ooge an artistic in strange land
by inserting the following lines in order that may be
justified in the eyes Of the public which only recog
nize as those to whom feel bouad to give expana
ton, concerning my non appearance on Saturday eve
ming in the Sacred Concert in the AcademyIv ENGAGE
ment at the Academy has been from the very first
pleasant by the obstacles thrown in my path by Mr..
Maretzeh, who previous to my engagement did every
thing to prevent it, and when am connected TO
the Academy he and his friends do everything
be unpeasantto arte. Mr. Maretzek is the musical
director at the Academy consequently all musical mat
tiers belong to him He asked me to sing piece at the
sent to in order that he should for
the orchestre II was not able to get that piece nstru
mentated, and was waiting the whole of Saturday
instructions from the manager, but received As
Mr. Maretzek did not for some cause unknown to me,
prepare the said piece or give me any information
regarding IT, leave II to the public judge if it was in
Mr. Mare,zek had probably prepared the speech which
he delivered to the audience ON Saturday evening,
already on Thursday, he knaw then perfectly WELL
could not sing without music
am happy to be in a country where women enjoy
n n sci md
have the courage TO unmssk enemy, and to defend
myself when am most basey and causeessy attacked.
II Mr. Ole Bull the man ger, had not been nois posed
trust that this unpleasant circumstance would have
been avoided Your o0sdient servant Ty qt,r, s,,,
Yet look at the law. Some years ago, another
opera was in existence in this city, and quar-
rels broke out among the members of the compa-
ny apparently similar to those which now disturb
the family party in Fourteenth street. Almost
the firstwe heard Of the matter was arequest
from one of the lady singers, Madame Trufi, to
publish card in which she related her Attic
tioDs and rated some of those with whom she
was placed in business intercourse. We could
not refuse SO civil and simple q request and
straightway, other cards flowed in, and we were
deluged with demands on our space by the bel
ligerent yocalists The end of it was that hay
ing tried all we could to satisfy the exasperated
artistes, and having furnished for our readers a
faithful chronicle of what was going on, the
manager Mr. Fry one day starts up, and says
we have injured him to the tune of twenty |
thousand dollars. Stranger than all, jury |
was actually found to award him half that sum;
and if the wise restraints Of our judicial ystem
had not enabled us to have this foolish verdict
set aside, we should have been fined ten thou
sand dollars for doing what Madame Vestvali,
in her easy ladylike way, requests US to do at
the present time.
We must take care. Ten thousand dollars is
a large sum; and despii our regard for the
Italian singers Of both sexes, we cannot afford
to pay the piper for their quarrels. We will
however, publish all we can and if more mana
gers should call upon us to make amends for
so doing, we can only pray that Heaven may
send US merciful jury ard safe deliverance.
MORE Fusion AT TAMMANY.-The Central
Democratic Union has called great fusion
meeting, TO be held at Tammany Hall on We'd
nesday night next. The design Of the af-
fair, we presume, is to make arrangements
for the succession in favor of Marcy The list
Of speakers announced contains the names of
members of Congress from all parts of the
Union-a perfect constellation of talent. The
adjournment Of Congress will make lively
lines among the New York politicians, and