The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-08

FAsHeNABIE AMusEMENTs-CLosE or THE
OPERA SEAsoN-Anniversary week, whica
usually is the drtiest and dreariest meteorologi-
cally speaking, in the whole year, has con-
menced with laughing skies and summary
SUM-. Sunday was q delightful day, and thos-
sands Of toll worn citizens drank In the delights
of the vernal season at the Central Park or IN
the suburbs. Yesterday was gotten up on the
same delicious model as that of Sunday. The
fashionable world has come out arrayed In
spring attire, and the ladies are Of course lovely
beyond all description. The Central Park,
these fine afternoons, presents an array Of
beauty which neither the Bots dc Boulogne nor
Hyde Park can approach.
The spring brings, a. matter Of course.
changes of all kinds While the feathered
songsters of the grove are piping their earliest
lays, and doing it CON amore, the crinolined
singing birds Of the coulisses are giving
to the public their last notes before tAeV
migrate to gentler skies beyond the blue
Atlantic. Last Saturdays steamer bore
away Albertini (whose Lucrezis Will loag
remain as q most agreeable souvenir for ~
connoisseurs Of Manhattan); BanH, the only
prima donna ON record who denied the soft
impeachment of indisposition, has also gone,
we believe; Gszzsniga, who has been q
an operate raid in the benighted districts
of the South, and returned laden with
double eagles, sails in the next Cunard
steamship from Boston; and it is said that
Frezzolini will shortly sing her Last
song under American Skies Frezzolini's de-
parture will be much regretted by the more
cultivated and refined habitu<s of the Opera
No artist who has ever visited us understood
better the requirements of her art than Erminis
Frezzolini. In the pure Italian school, both
serious and comic, in the "Trovatore" or "Don
Pasquale," in "Rigolesto" or "Don JUAN" she
was always superb. In some respects, Frezzo-
liDi has no rivals on the European or American
stage. Under the skilful treatment of an emf
nent medical practitioner here, she has re-
covered her voice, and goes back to Europe
ready for new triumphs. Madame Gsssier, one
of the best artists of the day, also goes to Ea-
rope on Wednesday. Signor CASTER Is en-
gagged for the present season in London.
These departures reduce our stock of prime
donne materially, leaving us in fact only Ade-
lima Patti, Inez Fabbri and Adelaide Phillips.
Fabbri sings only during this week, at the Winter
Garden, and we presume that the Academy will
soon be closed for the season. In the mean
time, the evangelical opera rules at both
houses-"Moses in Egypt" having been done
last night at Irving place, and "Nebuchadnez-
Ear" pending at the Winter Garden. 1t may 10
that the managers have been suddenly con-
verted by the ordinary operations Of the means
Of grace; but we are inclined to think that 70
the pious legislation at Albany last
winter must be accorded the credit
Of bringing Messrs. Strakosch and Maretzsk
to see the error Of their ways. 1t is very we'll
known that the effect Of this Legislation has been
to bring about the strict observance Of the
Sabbath; 10 prevent drinking, gambling,
theatregoing, dancing, and all profane
occupations or amusemens on the Sab
bath day. The Germans now drink only
water, and stay at home studying their cate
chisms; the Irish have given up fighting and
whiskey, and have Joined Pilsbury's church,
and the rural editors, who used to come to New
York for spree on Sunday, are quite disgusted
TO find that the great city IL - sober -
Quaker meeting. This blessed Albany infa-
ence, combined with the gentle ministrations OF
the rural brethren who have come to town for
the anniversaries, has ramifed through all
classes, affecting equally the bulls and bears
| of Wall street, the rowdies and thieves of the
Points, the elegantes of the Fifth avsnue-pugi-
lists and prime dome, tax gatherers and tenors,
all have forsaken their mundane passions,
and, thanks TO Governor. Morgan, look
| upward instead of onward. So We
have Patti and Fabbn In operas 70
which the moot serious evangelical family
could not object, while Brignoli, Ferri, Susini,
and the rest, think of wearing white cravas In
the morning, and, with their managers, joining
Doctor Cheever's church.
OF course the Opera, sanctined In this man
ner, will have . double attraction for the
strangers who flock into our city for the ami
versaries. We advise both strangers and citi-
zens to make the most Of the Opera while II IL
going on; for In very short time the public
will be left without is favorite amusement
until September or October. Let everybody
come to town now, when the weather il fine,
when the Opera is in full feather, when
the parsons are doing their most eloquent
sermons, and when the metropolis Is in it,
best trim. Notwithstanding ell the sttrac-
tons and the rush which will come with the
japanese, there will be no increase in the
charges of the principal hotels, and every oas
shall be guaranteed good eating and drinking.
and enough stated preaching to lest them the
remainder Of their lives
HARD Ur FoR CAsH.-Tt n pretty generally
believed that the reason why the Charleston
| Copv sntiop adiourued an eoou Was because the