The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-23

sing, we may add, ''aeas erceltem, and in ae
"6ea French TASTE" He moreover informs us,
that the new tenor, Signor SrBFANI, had
certain tendency 10 righteousness, while the
new baritone, Signor FLoRENA, Showed
disposition 10 ooer,ceep his music." Turning
now to the critic of the Courier and Eaquirer, we
find that the PIcCoLMINI has neither 'the fearless
"brilliancy of JENNY LIND, or the dramatic in
"tensity of GRIsI the mellow richness of
"ALBoNI, or the exquisite grace of SoNTAG"-that
'her voice may be called soprano STE sjogato, and
admirably combines sweetness clearness, and
'fexibility; but that her acting 'was of the very
"hghest style of dramatic art, worthy, we might
"almost say, of a RIsTom or a RACHEL" The
critic of the New York Herald also pronounces her
voice "a good soprano organ, but not great
lone. The lower notes, W he says, "are especially
good, and with them she produces the remark
liable effect which the French call the tears in the
voice Neither does the critic of the New
York Times regard her as an astonishing voca-
list: nor as gifted with voice of extraordinary
power, but simply with a voice as fresh as voice
"can be, and as supple as youth without much
experience can make it, He, however. accords
so WIDE range OF emotion that it overshadows
everything else.' So much for the artistic in
crinoline. Turn we now to the artist in brogans.
We, of course, know that he belongs to that nu-
merous tribe vulgarly called the Roughs-that he
subjected himself to a course of training to harden
his muscles and reduce his superhuous fesh-that
he has ian iron nob'' and fists '1ke trip ham
mers and that his language like that of his ad-
mirers, is gracefully interlarded with such choice
expressions as ''mauleys," ''bread basket
"smeller," 'tapping the claret," "fbbnen and
host of other ornate phrases much more graphic
than polite. The man, in brief is a common, vul-
gar rufian, who, like others of his order. keeps
tavern, where ''the fancy" congregate, and, occa-
sonally, to use the slang term in vogue ''travels
"upon his muscle" ''Probably, no human eve"
says correspondent of the Tribune ''will ever look
upon so much rowdyism, villainy, scoundrelism,
"and boiled down vicousness concentrated upon
$50 small space, as was compressed into the few
'feet of seeing room about the ring of the NORRIS
''sEY and HEENAN fight of October Goth, 1853"
We are not disposed to dispute the fact, nor do we
desire to deprive New York of the smallest modi-
cum of whatever honor she may derive from fos-
tering such q concentration of blackguardism in
her midst. The brutes who fought, and the brutes
who witnessed the fight, governed only by their
brutal instincts, and nothing for private CEN
sure or for public denuncation They glory in
their depraved taste, and applaud as vocierously
the champions that administer to it, as the unim-
peachably respectable personages who attend the
Academy of Music applaud a successful dJuante
like PICCOLoMINI. In both instances the homage is
genuine; but in the one case it springs from the
fierce delight which merely animalized natures
take in Witnessing skillful displays of muscular
strength, combined with great powers of endurance,
and in the other it has its origin in that educated
taste which enables its possessor TO appreciate at
its just worth whatever is in the highest degree in
tellectual and refined All populous cities, how
ever are full of sharp contrasts. If there spen
dor there is also squalor if there is knowledge
there is also ignorance if there is some virtue
there is likewise much crime, and where all these
marked distinctions exist it is as natural for vice
and ignorance, and brutality to herd together, and
to rejoice over the exploits of one of their own vu-
gar heroes, as for people of higher class and of
superior culture, to regard all such exhibitions with
loathing and disgust. We might here close by de-
ducng from the presence of these social antago-
nlsms, moral, drawn after the best manner of
those solemn platitudes, appended TO the fables of
EsoP and PILPAY and GAY, but we scarcely think
it at all necessary to make any practical applica-
ton whatever of so plain text