The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-09-28
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As this distinguished young Baltimore trage-
dian will appear the boards of the Holli,
day Street next Monday night it NAV interest
our readers to know what is said of him in
the Athens OF America. no hos had a great
success in Boston. lie played Hamlet eignt time
to crowded and dis tnguished houses. Miss Cush
man is said to have recently pronounced his per-
formance as the finest she had known, and as near
perfect could expect the character to be ever
played. His audiences have not at all decreased
during the past week. 1t is fair to suppose that
Hamlet is his most popular character with Bos-
tonians, as each representation of that tragedy
filled the Howard. He repeated Macbeth during
the week, and also played Claude Menotte for the
first time this season.
Mr.. Edwin Booths popularity is in no danger of
being diminished, to judge by Monday evening last,
when the Howard was filled with an audience as
intellectual as enthusiastic, who greeted the yonnr
actor with the utmost cordiality. Although alb
sence from the stage for briet period produced
temporary hoarseness, Mr.. Booths Pescara was
characterized by the same intensity and malignity,
the wonderful power of facial expression, the
same rapid action, which have been noticed in his
previous assumptions of the part in Boston, and of
which we have previously spoken at length
Mr. Booth has during the week appeared in GER
tain characters, his deineations of which have
heretofore received their due need of praise in
these columns Boston Courier.
At the Howard, Mr.. Edwin Booth is greeted by
packed audiences. He bas never played so well or
imbued himself so thoroughly with the characters
which he has assumed as at the present engage
ment- Boston Journal.
Mr.. Edwin Booth played Richard at the Howard
last evening, to one of the largest audiences that
ever squeezed into that building. Fair women and
brave men endured the heat (for it was rather
melting, even at the Howard, with stoical cOmpo-
sure, absorbed were they in following the move
ments of their fayorite actor.-Bostom Courier
September /.
How am A srIrrr,t- Mr. hog y,lo
Hamlet every evening during the past week. Star
and manager have reason to regret the size of the
theatre, for large parties have on one or two
sions found it impossible to secure even standing
room in the lower part of the house, while the
densely crowded family circle has proved that the
legitimate DRAMA properly presented, is still popu-
lar with all classes of the community.
Mr.. Booths Hamlet is to a Boston public one of
! the most pleasing of his presentations. Very much
better does he play the part than when he first es-
sayed it here. Experience, study, care, have
sOothed the rough points, and now he acts the stu
| dent prince most admirably. His solilOquies are
read with prOprety and judgment, and while
speaking them he carefully preserves the manner
of the philosopher, which too many Hamlets are
apt to lose sight Of The interview with the Queen
| as rendered by Mr.. Booth will long dwell in the
memory of the spectator as showing the young
| actor in his most brilliant light. In it his genius
is most evident, his manner most natural, his pow
er over the hearts of his auditors most complete.
Certain passages have been judiciously restored
| from the original text in this production of Ham
| let. The restoration of the third scene of the
third act is most sensible, and is example that
should be generally followed. The effect in the first
act-the gradual disappearance of the Ghosts
ceverly managed-BostoR Paper.
| SNAKE KrLLING.-A note from Mr.. S. B. Cornutt
puts us in possession of of the most wonderful
snake killings that ever before heard of. On
the 23d of last month some girls the Iron Noun
tain, not far from this place, gathering whOrtle
berries, were startled by the sight of an unusua
number of rattesnakes. Giving the alarm, Mr.
| Samuel Brewer and others proceeded to the place
and succeeded in killing almost at the same spot
81 snakes; IA of the rattling sort, and of kind
| called Pilots. Those called pilots to US,
| but it is said they often found with the rattle
| snake. Some of them were not more than Is inche:
| in length, while others measured more than feet
Some had but one rattle, while others could shake
| more than doZen.-No,mtaiH Neos, Va.
The OYSTER WAR-Sheri; Ireland and posse
have recently effected the capture of four vessels
| for violation of the oyster laws, and advertised
| them for sale. The oyster catchers of Annapolis
| some fifty or sixty in number, have formed them
selves into an association to further the execution
of the laws against oyster pirates They had ar
| informal meeting Saturday evening last, and
will meet again to perfect their organization. The
Sheriff OF the county has requested them to notify
him of any infraction Of law, and has promised tC
use all his power to arrest and punish the pirates
1t is eminenty proper that this association should
be foEmed, and we look for great good to eventu
ate from it.-Ammupolis Gazette.
THE SICK MAN OF EURoPE.-A letter from one o
the Professors of the University of Athens, ir
| Greece, written last month, and published in the
Boston Courier, says that the state of Turkey ii
daily growing worse-that the recent massacres il
| Syria have only partially revealed the moral anC
political condition of the country-that secret hos
tility and rage against the Christians exist all
the empire, and may break out into actual violence
at any time-that peculation, extortion, extrava
CANT expenditure, and oppression of the Christians
have reached their height-that two-thirds of the
revenue wasted in the Sutan's palace, and that
notwithstanding, his private debts amount to ont
million of pounds sterling.
The NUMBER Losr BY THE LADY ELGIN.-The Mil
waukie Peoples Press thinks that the number o
passengers on board of the Lady Egin, at the TIM
of her loss, has been uuderrated. In consequence
conversations had with several of the survivors, th
Press is confirmed in the belief that there full,
five hundred souls board the ill fated vessel anC
that consequently four hundred were lost.
Yhe Princess Autonia, youngest sister of Pedrt
V. King of Portugal, born Feb II, lS45, is to b.
T married to Prince Leopold of HohenzOern Sigma
ringen, born Sept. %, 1885, the eldest of Prime
Charles, President of the Prussian Council of Stat
and Ministry, and of Josephine, a daughter of the
late Grand Duke Charles of Baden.
1t is rumored that, in order to silence all cavil
and settle the great question, "Who shall open tn
. ball with the Prnce?" the New York committe
! have properly awarded that muchcoveted honor (