New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-10
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE,

continually has possessed them unusually early
/ this season. They have given out that they will
| open the Academy of Music on Monday next Sep
TENDER Sd, and avail themselves OF the opportunity
! afforded by their announcement to instruct the
public concerning the nature, expense and benefits
| of the opera, for which we are assured by them
we have a most excellent taste albeit nothing but
republicans. The dulcet little Adelina Patti takes
the lead this season in 9. Somnambula p supported
by Rrgnoli and Amodio. Music conducts, and has
written an original opera called g Semisariaa for
the Academy, in which it will be produced during
| the season. Max Maretzek is to cooperate
Mesdames Golson, Strakosch and Fabbri, Signoris
Ferri Susini Erran and others have also consented
to lend us their sweet voices for handsome con-
sideration which may be approximately estimated
| by means of the statement made by the Directors
to the effect that their expenditures for the season
will amount to more than four hundred thousand
dollars. Madame Cortes and Signor Musiani, I'M
ryaled in the school Of imprisoned and impulsive
singing, will alternate for fortnight with Patti.
Carl Formes is also secured, but the engagement
of Tamberlik, who will come up rather late in the
season. is the greatest triumph of which the man.
1 agement can boast Being anxious to visit this
country, this most celebrated Of living tenors was
\ brought to terms with less difficulty than is gene
rally met with in securing artist of half his fame
and talent. Such is the glimpse afforded US of the
4 operate programme, but to expect rigid observ-
ance of its promises, express and implied, would
be to look for that jewel consistency in politicians
The campaign is begun too early, but those en-
| gagged in it rely for the present upon strangers
more than our citizens to sustain their premature
commencement, and we trust their dependence
will not betray them.
The gymnastic tournament at Niblo's Garden,
in which g outsiders are counted in has been
conducted as yet without the occurrence of any
serious casualty, the accidents happening to the
amateurs being such as are calculated to excite
more merriment than sympathy. The latter have
not outdone the Hanlon brothers. but some of them
successfully emulate the feats of our professional
athletes. Mfr. George Jordan and Miss Jane
Coombs have succeeded the Florences at Wal
lacks and brought ont The Wife's Secret
with success. l remember the keene's in this
play, but Jordan's Colonel AainoH has supplanted
my previous recollection of the part. Miss Coombs
was not SO successful, and her representation of
Lady Eeelifae proved mmeasurably less natural
and touching than Mrs. Keene's, (Ellen Tree's)
but was still great Improvement on any effort Of
hers have witnessed hitherto. Prof. Andersonis
Psychomantheum at the Winter Garden, has been
thronged most oppressively, and though to me his
tricks seemed as old, they are applauded with
heartiness that startled me. Am growing so old,
or is the world growing young again? To me, the
Professor does not seem half so entertaining as
formerly, but his family, youthful, charming and
talented, is very interesting. Mrs. John Wood
| takes her benefit tonight at Laura Keene's.
| Jenny Lind I and " Our American Cousin
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patrons and admirers, who would fill the Academy
Of Music as quickly as this b1ou theater. They
will regret to learn that she starts for Europe next
week, where her professional engagements are
likely to detain her for long time to come. She
is the queen of soubretes and in caricature and
burlesque opera, she is unapproachable.
men who omitted to seal up a gas pipe in a tene.
ment house on East TwentyNinth street, family
, of six persons were last Thursday nearly burned
to DEATH and the interior of the building rendered
perfect wreck by the force of the explosion.
On the same evening the Boston whortleberry
i wherry man, having roWed all the way from Bos-
ton to New York in two weeks, subsisting all the
! time on berries and watermellons, arrived in this
city, and was afterward fed at Dr. Trails water
/ curei' on vegetables till he thought he would
4 burst, and it is wonder Yegetarians don't, con-
/ sidering the quantity they deyour. The next mar
rowest escape was had By our excellent Police
/ Superintendent, General Kennedy, who has been
/ SO full of his success in managing our Meropoli-
tan ,that had he not got off his quarterly re-
port the moment he did, he too wonld have ex-
! poded In this report there is Of course no ord-
| nary proportion of gas a sediment of available
| truth, and better promise than ever that New
York will in time have apoliee able and willing to
protect her citizens and strangers from swndleIs
| and rufians. The occasional forays our officers
have INDUCED in at the expense of female street.
walkers, has, however, met with slight check in
i the decision of Judge Sutherland, who regards the
practice of committing them as Migrants illegal
4 and argues that no statute law of this State has
| declared common prostitution crime. Some
| score of female prisoners on Backwell's Island
will be glad to hear of this " Daniel come to judg-
4 ment.n
4 Our police are still making great havoc with
cur juvenile burglars. Six OF the latter, after hay
/ ing broken open half dozen stores in Washing
j ton street, were discovered and captured in the
4 garrett Of Messrs. Mer& Lukins' fruit warehouse
4 Several Others, mere boys, but equally resolute
4 and daring, have since been arrested. Besides
many bnrglaries we have had to record several
i cases Of old fashioned highway robbery, and
4 bold attempt by one Walter Smith, as he calls
| himself, to rob the inmates of carriage six in
4 number in the Second Ayenue. Smith had Just
/ read and been carried away by the Life of Dick
4 Tnrpin.n but his imagination proved more power
1 fnl than his body, for the yenturesome youth was
/ captured by those he intended to despoil. But
| the most considerable criminal that has of late
been shewn up for an edification, is a Portuguese
| Countess ofroyal blood, Sonora Donna Pedro, who
claims an intimate acquaintance with every distin-
1 guished person you can name. For her nobility
wealth and high connections, some of our landlords
and trades.people have been willing to take her
| own word, and have been consequently swindled
most numerically 1t is said that she is nothing
but dealer in fast women, whose charms she has
been in the habit of Wanting and selling to fast
| young and old men for as much as she could get.
The number Of her victims is legion, but, though
| confined to vile durance she sticks to her title
and nobility.
The past week has been one of the dullest of
the year. except those absorbed in politics. The
Bell and Everett men had an enthusiastic time last
evening at their headquarters in Broadway. Ex-
Governor Hunt addressed them in q clear, logical
and eloquent strain IN spite of the spite and de-
termination of the euphonous Gen. scroggs, the
Union party is gaining adherents every hour; but