Daily American organ., 1856-03-22
Cuba. A Large Estate.

mas 70 De renewed dnnuAlly-here once In ten or
fifteen years. 1t is hauled in carts drawn by oxen
to the sugar mill which is usually located in the
centre Of the farm. t
Formerly the grinding was done by OK power,
but recently the American engine has been intro
duced. The buildings and machinery on this estate
cost three hundred thousand dollars. They work
eight hundred hands and about one thousand oxen
for five months in the year. The mill runs night
and day-Sunday and Monday. Three hundred
acres are planted in vegetables, fruit, &C., for the
negroes. They will make this year twelve thou
sand boxes and two thousand hhds of sugar, be-
sides several thousand hogsheads of molasses The
product of this farm would be worth in the Charles
ton market $l,0oo,0O0. ss
Destruction OF the Covent Garden Theatre.
AT an early hour on Wednesday morning, the
5th, calamitous fire originated in C0vent Garden
Theatre which speedily reduced to mass of shapes
less ruins that magnificent building During the
whole night the theatre had been the scene OF d
Bat Mdsqme, under the management of Professor
Anderson, the so-called Wizard Of the North, and
the revels of the dancers had not concluded when
the confagration broke out. The theatre was well
filed throughout the evening" and the entertain
ments were kept up with the vigor which generally
characterizes such recreations. Many of the dan
GERS left between two and three in the morning /:
others remained much later, and, as FIVE o'clock
approached, not more than two hundred persons
were assembled in front of the temporary orches-
ira, which, on this occasion, was thrown back to
the extreme end of the stage. The last orgie was
completed and Mr.. Anderson, observing the flag
ging spirits OF his guests, gave the signal to his
master of ceremonies to close the revels with the
usual finale O" God save the Queen"
At this moment man, who was engaged in
conversation with Castles, the fireman, observed
bright light shining through the chinks and crew
n of ,h IL
over head.
Mr.. Anderson himself was the first to give the
alarm Of frel" and the terror and tumut which
this announcement occasioned may readily be
imagined. The few remaining masquers rushed
precpitately to the various entrances Of which the
police with ready presence of mind took immedi-
ate possession, and we're thus enabled to rescue
from the selfish alarm of many of the stronger sex
their terror-stricken partners. Several women
were trampled on, and some were carried out faint
ing, but none were seriously injured. There was
something bideous in this sudden change from mad
revelry to ghastly fear. Already the rush of air.
towards the roof had famed the FIRE into brighter
life and 6ercer energy. Wreaths Of white smoke,
with here and there lambent fame, began to curl
from under the proscenium into the body of the
theatre The musicians leaped from their seats
and fled, in many cases without even saving their
cherished Instruments " Fl
" shO OhthO ehCatrc HOtuiHg remains But the
skeleton and ruined walls. All the scenery---the
exquisite productions of Grieye and Telbin--the
splendid properties of the theatre, the wardrobes,
the mountiDgs, the dramatic library, the valuable
operate scores-some of which can never be re-
placed, as the Elsir dAmore of Donizetti, and the
Oberon of Weber--all are gone.
The value of the properties destroyed is some
thing fabulous. An approximate estimate may be
formed from the fact that in producing the several
operas contained in the repsrtoireo Of the Theatre,
when under the management Of Mr.. Delafeld, no
less than 100000 were expended, of which the
four operns, the Prophet the Huguenots, Lucreza
Borgia and La Donna del Lago, cost Ell, 600.
The valuable dramatic library of the Theatre
unique of its kind-is gone in the general, wreck.
The original MSS. Of the School for Scandal, the
Miller and his Menspnd the Opera Of the Slave and
hundreds Of other curious works, were here pre-
served. The armory, consisting of more than a.
hundred suits, and occupying . series of rooms,
is wholly destroyed In fact, nothing is spared.
There was only an insurance of 10000 upon
the whole establishment. hl t'