The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-13
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The debut of Miss Patti last night, in the grand
opera Of Lucia was as complete success as her
warmest friends could have desired. Known to
our musical public from child, it needed no her
aiding to secure her the hearty welcome which was
last night extended to her. As an executant she
mas never been surpassed and her rendering of the
uiincuit role of Lucia must have given satisfaction
even to the most cynical of critics. Her voice,
without possessing great volume, is pure, flexible
and sympathetic, which, added to her graceful
manner, arrests and fascnates her audience Like
Lind and Piceolomini, she charms as much bv her
acting as by her singing. In word she is the
iavorite she was and always will be.
Stlgeli was one Of the most attractive features
Oh the evening. He possesses a smooth, liquid
voice, which he manages with exquisite tact and
Judgment, and which consequently, without any
stralnng after effect, always tells.
Ferri, the baritone, possesses immense power, but
his continuous tren,olo is at times disagreeable
modification in this respect would render him all
that could be desired
1t is almost superfuous to mention that Miss
Patti was called out last night at the end of each
act, and that the usual manifestations in the shape
OF bouquets, &C., attested her triumph. The other
artists were not forgotten by the grateful public.
Tonight Madame Colson, most deserved favo
rite, will appear in Ernani, together with Sigeli
Ferri and Susini, the latter of whom is new to u.s.
but brings with him an enviable reputation
Madame Colson is one Of the first prime dome Of
the age, both an actress and vocalist, and the
opera of tonight is admirably calculated to display
her powers. We are gratifed to learn that the
season promises to be emnently successful.
LIEUTENANT MULLAN's WAGON ROAD PARTY-We
have been shown letters of the date of December
81, 1859, from of the officers of Lieut. Mullans
party, which is now constructing the wagon road
from Wala Walla, on the Columbia river, to Fort
Benton, on the headwaters of the Missouri The
party had encamped for the winter near the Bitter
Root river. about 259 miles from Walla Walla, and
60 miles to the eastward of the Coeur dAlene Mis-
sion. number of the men had suffered severely
from the cold-one of them so seriously that the
amputation of both his feet became necessary. A
great many of the animals were lost by starvation.
Although the weather had not on the whole, been
much colder than it usually is at Baltimore in the
same season, it was at times much more severe. On
several occasions, the thermometer fell to ten or
twelve degrees below zero, and on the 9Th of De-
cember it indicated AZ degrees below zero, and the
mercury remained frozen for some hours. Cabins
had been constructed, in which all hands were
comfortably housed, except few officers of the es-
cort, who preferred to live in tents About the
first of March it expected that the weather
would be sufficiently moderate to permit the party
to resume operations, and as the difficulties to be
overcome were comparatively light on the eastern
slope of the mountains, it was thought the road
would be completed to Fort Benton by next July or
August.