New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-19

the third here9 is the best of the piece.
4 The allscene was very stability done, the ballet
4 being cheap and very lanky. The getting up of
the affair was positively shocking. The singers
4 were good, all except the baritone, Ferri, whose
| voice shakes like old Stephen Hopkins hand when
he signed the Declaration of Independence. The
opera altogether is better as play than musical
work. 1t has only two or three airs worth remem-
boring. We have now only two nights of opera
here, while Brooklyn has three. Between the two
cities the opera is made to pay butthe profits are
not equal to the salaries the artists received before
they set up on their own account The common
wealth. you will recollect, included Colson, Brig
noli (who is getting awfully fat) Ferri and Susin
Messrs. Phillips and Hinckley are paid. Phillips
has father who keeps sharp lookout for her
4 tin, and Hinkley's ma goes and does likewise.
The opera annually flourishes in lent, because the
balls and parties stop, and profane people must
have some place to go.
The most extensive thing going on in the theatre
| cal way, Just now is the Booth and Forrest war.
| Young New York, masculine and feminine goes in
| for Booth, while the cid guard sticks to Forrest,
| who has reached the twenty third week of his
/ gagement at Nblo's. Booth is in his second en-
| gagement at the Winter Garden. At Niblo's For
rest has carte blanche directs every thing and puts
| the pieces on the stage very carefully. At the
| Winter Garden, Booth has been wretchedly "sup-
| ported y and the theater is the shabbiest in town.
| Still Booth has so much of the true fire of genius
that he succeeds in spite of all obstacles. This en-
gagement commenced badly, but has worked up,
| and last night saw him play SEJlock to magnif-
cent house. His trial scene l consider the best
ever saw. He really looks as if he would like to
'schaw up'' Antonio, Bassano and the whole crowd.
As for Forrest his latest essay is Peruvian RoRa in
which, of course, Booth cannot touch him. The
play is pretty well done; Fisher is Pizarro, Con
way is AlUa,,zo, and Mrs. Conway as Eluird. This
latter is rather light papers, but they couldn't do
better. Mime Ponsi refused to play Jack Cade's
mamma, kicked up her heels and seeded. So, if |
Owens wants heavy woman, Pony is in the |
market. Wal!aeR has new piece on the stocks |
to be done on Thursday. 1t is called Central |
Park, or the House with Two Doors ~ and has been
altered, hear, from ''All in the Wrong a comedy
Just one hundred years old. For the off nights at
Niblo's Garden, they have been trying English |
Opera commenced last night, with Anna Bishop,
Annie Kemp Bowler, tenor, and Cook, baritone,
in Linda Of Chamoun" The thing won't do.
Bishop is used up. As one of the papers says "She
is a finished singer IN every sense of tie lC0rd."
The illustrious Professor Anderson has commenced |
his "magical soireesn over in the Old Bowery but
they don't draw over much. We had enough of
Anderson last summer. Once in seven years is
often enough for him.
The Daily Times of Monday says:
We learn that new candidate for hlstrionc
aurels is about to appear in the person of q lady
With whose career not little of romantic interest
IS associated. She is the daughter of a LAWYER
formerly very eminent at Albany, and has lived
many years, studying art and literature in Italy.
She is said to possess an exqusitely graceful figure
and face already familiar to the public in one of
he most brilliant and celebrated pictures lately on
1nbc exhibition in this city. 1t is not yet certain
1t which OF our city theaters she is to make her
tc0W; but we promise sensation when she does.
The lady is Miss Page, wife of the artist, and she
vas the original of his celebrated Venus. Row in G
he family believe.
l don't often write about the weather, but our |
experiences for the last week have been SO queer
hat am tempted to tell you Of them. On Thurs I
lay morning found the thermometer at coo and
ny overcoat oppressive. In the afternoon there was
brief but violent rain storm, and at o'clock the {
Weather was clear, the wind blowing gale from
he Northwest, and the thermometer had fallen S
orty-hye degrees. The wind turned everything t
eminnes included, topsy-turvy the cold still in
creased so that at midnight the mercury marked :
i've below zeroi Several persons were found in
the streets frozen to death. About 1000 applied
for lodging at police stations. The next day it was
awfully cold. Saturday it moderated, and this
week it has been moist and warm. To-day the
weather is delightful, and I am writing with my
windows open and no fire in the attic. Good thing
Tor ME, as coal goes up with every cold snap.
The benefits of being free niger have lately
been amply Illustrated in the District Court of the
United States, sitting here. Some time in 1859 S
AZ 4 al ...1-s-
md thence for London with crew of five negroes,
The vessel was seventy days from South America
o southampton, and seems to have been float
ng hell
The treatment of the sailors was dreadful. The
rst mate, one Gordon Hires has been on his trial
or killing John Little, one of the crew, and the
econd mate IS likewise to be tried for the same
'dence. 1t appears that Hires beat futile 81
'sdly that he was obliged to take to his berth,
rom which he was dragged and absolutely choked
nd stamped to death by the mate. His ship mates
ound the body floating about in the forecastIe,
which was full of blood and bilge water Hires
vas convicted of manslaughter, and will have at
east ten years.
The Courts have been occupied with different
ind of litigation, also illustrative of the sutferiDgs
f Beechers colored brethren One joseph Grundv
Soi"tS ii'lhS oii oeIsey street, was brought |
p in the Special Sessions charged with swindlinp
ourteen free negroes out of ST so each. It an
ears that these negroes had been sent away from
he South, and were en- route to Hayti Grundy of. A
cred to make Free Masons of them, and went
trough a form which is fully described in the Dis
atch Grundy was bound over for trial. and has
naily been sent to the penitentiary for one month
lie did large business in the secret society wav
bundled :" Grand National Compact of United
omans,h and for the sisters, The Ancient Order l.
the Grand and Cordial Daughters of Ruth.
ere is bit about them which is very woollv in.
eed
The two Societies, however, which seem tn he
he principal monuments of Mr.. Grundy,s penins
e the " Grand National Compact of Tinted Ro,' -,
ans" for men, and the Ancient Grand and Cor. W
al Daughters of Ruth," for women. The defense of
It up In the present was that the prisoner
% only taken fees for Initiating members for the sh
rider of Free Masons. The other society, as its SCI
me denotes, was for the benefit of females, in
ongh Tickets of Dspensation " were issued to oil
ale members also. OF course Grundy was on de
e Dispensatcd list, to which also was added nv d.
me way, in court, the of the counsel assist co
6 complainant in the prosecution. The certif
lie bearing his name subsequently signed at
e request Of one of the Justices, by one of the
lsoners witnesses, who testified that she derived
T authority so to do from her position as Queen -
Queens, and Associate of the High Crimson
leen's HOUSE" in the Order. The Society has its