The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-22


see that direct appeal is made to the phlan.
tbropist 1t appears to us, then, tina. those
gentlemen who are lecturing in this city aud
elsewhere could have no better chance to prove
their sincerity in the cause of snti-slavery
than by contributing freely to this undertaking.
Fashionable Amuseme nts-An operate
Irrepressible Conflict Ahead.
The fashionable world stagnating in the
desert of mid Lent, deprived of its party, its
Opera, or its dancing tea, is fain to live just
now upon the hope Of what is to come next
month. Now, while the politicians are knee
deep in excitement, and The merchants up to
their eyes in business, society proper is doing
nothing Society is, in fact, in state of mas
terly inactivity. Society would like to do
little shopping; but the dust in Broadway
makes journey over the desert of Sahara
comparatively easy task compared to trip
from the Fifth Avenue Hotel to Canal street,
now the outpost Of civilization, in pro.
menading point of view. Therefore, society
does the penitential, and gets ready for grand
outbreak when the spring is fairly opened.
We are close upon that suspicious verpal
season; that delightful period when the song
of the birds, and the perfume Of the violets,
and the murmurs of the brooks are happily
commingled with souvenirs of catarrhs and
rheumatics, and shad at terrific prices, and
DowniDg's splendid oysters when those of
every one else were never so poor, and sus-
picious. veal and attenuated lamb at two
shillings per pound or upward, and strikes and
umbrellas and nasty streets, and many other
things with which the ETHEREAL mildness Of the
gentle goddess is more or less tempered or
calculated, as the case may be- We account
the opening Of spring from Easter Monday,
which falls this year on the 9th Of April. The
season promises to be, a busy one in every
way. Trade, especially in dry goods, Hourishes
more braveiy than ever. The Southern orders
which have been diverted from Boston and
Philadelphia have more than made up for the
| few that were withheld from the metropolis,
and which latter must come, directly or
indirectly. AS trade will be lively, the fash.
ionable world, which rests here almost entirely
| upon mercantile basis, is sure of plenty
| of money to carry on the war with till
next winter. The consequence is that we may
expect to see lively times in April, May and
June, with fair prospect for busy summer.
Next month the city will be thronged with
strangers; the hotels churches, theatres and oil
other places Of public resort will be thronged,
aspect. The Opera managers, as well as the
hotel and shopkeepers, are preparing for the
new season. Ullmann and Strakosch are just
now at Washington, where, it is to be hoped,
the dulcet tones Of little PATHS voice will
soothe tn e savage breasts of the Capitol into
at least an outward semblance Of decency. The
whole company is to return here in season to
open at Irving place on Easter Monday. At
the same moment Maretzek, with all his forces,
has returned from Havana, having finished the
work Of unsteady celebrating the taking of
Tetuan, and proposes to pitch his tent in
the Winter Garden, and give the Academy ma
hobs battle with the fiddle and the bow. AS Ma
retzek and Ullmann are as fond of quarrelling
as any ITishman at a fair, and are never so
happy as when they arein row, it seems very
probable that hostilities will really be com.
menced. Maretzek, in addition to his former
troupe, has some new artists, the principal ad-
dition being Madame Fabbri, who is expected
to make great sensation. She has just come
from South America, and brings strong recon.
mendations from Madame Lagrange. Against
Maretzek, Ullmann and Strakosch have the
prestige of the Academy-which is a great deal
for the OPERAS well as several very popular
artists, including Patti, pet of the public, and
they purpose making some new engagements.
Among other movements, it is understood
that Signor Muzio is negotiating with Frezzo-
lini for her early appearance at the Academy.
Frezzolini, it will be recollected, came to this
country in 1857, with first class European re-
putation. Owing to her illness and a combi-
nation of other unfortuitous circumstances,
this artist did not make very great sensation,
and returned to France. After short absence
Frezzolini revisited the United States last sum-
mer. 1t is very probable that Frezzolini will
be pitted against Fabbri, in which case there
will be most interesting contest 1t is under
stood that Frezzolni has been for some time
under the care of a very distinguished physi
clan in this city, and has entirely recovered her
health, that her voice is in perfectly good con-
dition, and that she is prepared to take the
field in as prime order as when she made her
early successes in Italy or carried the Pari
slams into the seventh heaven of enthusiasm.
So between the Frezzolini and the Fabbri
there will be a grand artistic tournament If
it were possible, now, for the Democratic Ma
tional Committee 10 change the place of meet
ing for the Convention from Charleston to New
York, our spring season would be the gayest of
the gay. Ii the politicians became inharmoni-
GUS We could appease them with the Opera,
and while We have Washington Market they
never. need fear that the provisions will run