The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-13


WONDERFUL PROGRESS IN TELEGRAPHING.-Joseph
s. Wilson, Commissioner of the General Land
Office, at Washington, yesterday morning received
a teegraphic despatch from Portland, Oregon, via
Sacramento, California dated November LIST, 1860,
thus reaching here within twelve days, an unprece-
dented achievement in magnetic telegraphing, and
striking instance of the progress of the age.
MUsrcAL.-It will be observed by the advertise
ment in another place, that Madame Ines Fabbri,
assisted by Signori Stgelli and Formes, will give
a grand concert at the Assembly Rooms on Thurs
day evening next The gentlemen named have so
frequently and so acceptably been heard here that
particular account of them is rendered unneces-
sary at this time. With Madame Fabbri, the case
is different, as she will make her debut before
Baltimore audience on this occasion, and some
description of her powers and capabilities is there
fore necessary. We condense, then, for the benefit
of our readers the opinion of the critic of the New
York Albion, journal which never descends to
mere puffery, and which has keen and sensitive
taste in matters relating to art. Speaking of
Fabbri, this journal says:
"Madame Fabbri's debut in La Traviata was I'M
quafedly triumphant. What her especial
merits2 These: she can sing better than any pure
ly dramatic artist who has ever been i'll this
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cessors. 1t is of astonishing volume and the rarest
quality. To speak briefly and clearly, she is not
only remarkable singer, but an astonishing ac
tress. Her voice is pure soprano, particularly
rich in the upper part and scarcely less opulent in
the lower. She has special vocal excellencies, such
as the trl or shake, the clear execution of the
cending scale, ard the knowledge how to use the
voce-the latter a gift, more rarely ap
precated. Facility is not generally characters
tic of purely dramatic voice, but Madame Fabbri
is nevertheless the exception to this rule, and is
markable in this respect. In the third act of Err
mani, her voice rolled out in such magnificent vol
umes that after being called out twice, the rndte
had to be repeated.
Such is the judgment of of the best critics of
New York and we may remark that it is confirmed
by the unanimous judgment of the writer's OF that
city and Boston. The latter are particularly hard
to please, but they admitted, after hearing Fabbr,
that New York judgment was for once right. In
South America and Havana, also, she created the
greatest excitement, and after two years cam
paign, was parted with, with the greatest reluct-
ance. Mr.. Richard Mulder, pianist of celebrity.
from Brussels will preside at the piano-forte.
We shall have the opportunity of hearing this
great ariste Thursday right, constituting, with
Formes and Stigelli, the most famous trio in the
world. Seats will be fol sale to-day at Wig's,
Stoddard's, and Miller Bescham's
PRoFEssoR ANDERSON, at the Holiday Street The
atre continues to attract crowds with his very
traordinary and amusing mechanical, chemical,
and slight-of-hand experiments. The performances
of the bell, automaton, and table, quite wonder
full enough, however, without being made the me.
dunn of revelations of such questionable taste as
those enumerating the descendants of the marriage
previously predicted. If this old joke is not worn
out, 1t is high time it should be.
New Misunderstanding Machine Polka By Chas
KunkeI. Dedicated to Laid, Webster d Co., Gin
cinnati Published by j. Church Go. We are
indebted for the above to Henry McCafrey, music
publisher, 207 Baltimore street.