Weekly Trinity journal., 1861-02-09
Artenas Wnrd Secs Forrest.

Durin recent visit to New York the under
sined went to see Edwin Forrest As I'm into
the moral show bizniss myself. | gnrally 90 to
Barnim's moral Museum. where only moral
peple air admitted. parickly on Wednesday
afternoons. But this time thot I'd 20 & see
Ed. Ed has bin actin ont on the stage for many
years. There is varis pnions about his actin
Englishmen ginrally bleevin that he is far supe-
rior to Mister Macreadv; but on one pint all
agree, & that is that Ed draws like a six OK team
Ed was actin at Niblo's Garding, which looks
considerable more like parster than gardng.
but let that pars. ! sot down in the pit took out
my spectaces commenced peroosin the evenin's
bill. The awJince was alfred large & the boxes
was full Of the elitty of New York Sevra opery
glasses was leveld at me by Gothum's fairest
darters, hut | didn't let on as tho | noticed II,
tho mebby did take out my new sixteen dollar
silver watch & brandsh it round more than was
necessary. But the best of us has our weaknesses
& if man has gewelry let him show it, As
was peroosin the bill grave young who sot
near me, axed me if I'd ever seen Forrest dance
the Essence Of Old Vrginny? Hes immence
in that" sed the young man. " He also does a
fair champion jig" the young man continnered,
but his Big Thing is the Essence af Old Virgin
ny" Soz /, "Fair youth, do you know wha.
I'd do with you if you was my sun 81
"No," seq he.
"Wall," sez l, "Td appnt your funeral to-
morrow AFTERNOON Il the korps should be ready
! Youre too smart to live on this yearth." lie
| didn't try any more of bis capers on me- But
another pussy lanermuse indivdooul in a red
vest patent lether boots, told me his name was
Bill Astor x axed me to lend him so cents till
early in the mornn. ] told him I'd probly send
it round to bin before he retired to his vrtoous
couch, but if | didn't he might look for it next
fall, as soon as cnt my corn. The orchestry
was now fiddlin with all their might, d as the
peple didn't understand anything about it they
applaudd persifrussy. Presently, Old Ed cum
oat The play was Otheller or More of Veniss
/ Othetler was writ by VIM. ShakspeeT. The scene
/ is laid in Veniss. Otheller was a likely man &
was ginral in the Veniss army, He eloped
with Desdemony, darter OF the Hon. Mister
Brobanllo, who represented one Of the back dis
tricks in the veneshun legislator. Old Brobantio
was as mad as thunder at this & tore round CON
siderable, but finally cooled down, tellin Otheller,
/ howsever, that Desdemony had come i over her
Par, & that be had better look out or shed come
it over him likewise Mr.. & Mrs. Otheler cit
along very comfortable like for q spell She is
/ sweet-tempered and luvin-a nice, sensible fe-
| male, going in for hefemae conventions, green
cotton umbreilers and picked beats. Othcller
is good provider and thinks all the world OF his
vile. She has lazy time Of it, the hired girl
dom all the cookin washin. Desdemony, in
TACT, don have to git the water to wash her own
hands with. But low cuss named Iago. who
believe wants to git Otheler out of his snug
government birth, now goes to work & upsets
the Otheller family in the most outrajus ste
| lago falls in with a branches youth named
Roderigo wins all bis money at poker. Uago
alters played fOul) lie thus got money enuff to
carry out his onprncipled skeem. Mike Cassie,
lrlshman, is selected as a tool by Iago Mike
was q clever feller oriccr in Otheller's army.
lie liked his tods too well, howsever, d they
noored him, as they have many other promsin
young men. lago injuccs Mike to drink with
him, lago slyly THROWN his whisky over his
Oi IoJ e.
allows that he can lick a yard full Of the Vencs
hun fancy before breakfast, without sweatin a
hair lie meets Roderigo * proceeds for to smash
him. A feller named Montana undertakes TO slap
Cassie, when that infatooated person runs his
sword into him. That miserable man, Iago, pre-
tents to be very sorry to see Mike copduk hisself
in this way, and undertakes to smooth the thing
over to Otheler. who rushes in with drown
sword * wants to know what's up. IagO cnn-
ningly tells his story, and Otheler tells Mike
that he thinks a good deal Of him but he can't !
train no more in his regiment. DesdemOny sym
pathises with poor Mike and intercedcs for him |
with Otheler. Iago makes him bleeve she does
this because she thinks more Of Mike than she |
does OF hlsseif Otheler swalers lagos lyin tail |
& goes to maxim noOsence of hisscl If gnrally. He |
worries poor Desdrmony terrible by his vile in |
situations * finally smothers her to deth with |
pller. Mrs. lago Gums in Just as Otheler has
finished the foul deed givs bin fits right * left
shown him that he has bin orfully gulled by her
miserable cnss of husband lago Gums in. & his
wife commences rakn him down also, when he
stabs her. Otheller jaws him spell & then cuts
a small hole in his stummick with his sword
| Iago pnts to Desdemony's deth bed q goes OFF
with sardonc smile onto his countcnance
Otheller tells the pepe that he has dun the tate
sum service they know it axes them to do as
fair thing as they can for him under the cir
cumstances, d kills himself with lishknife, which
ist be most sensible thing he can do This is
breet skedule of the synopsis of the play.