The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-12
From the ". 7. Express. ]
ADVENTURES OF A BALLET DANCER WITH
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THE INDIANS.
Espinosa, the little ballet dancer with the big |
nose who was attached to the RaVel company |
some wears ago, and made quite a hit in ''Esmer- |
aida, ;" at Niblo's, and who lad in reality an IN
usual degree Of dramatic and saltatory talent, Is
said to have experienced a singular adven-
ture since he last seen here. On one of those
tours taken by theatrical people in search of the
den fleece, in which they sometimes make the
most maj veous perambulations and undergo the
most moving accidents by flood and field Espinosa
found himself in the Rocky Mount ains; not intend
ing to set up ballet where Fremont raised the
American flag, but with a view to eventually
reaching California and discovering placer
However, he vas destined to perform before very
different audience from those which had applauded
his prouettes in the parquette at Nlblo's Garden
He was captured by tribe OF Indians and doomed
to torture While his masters were eambohng
around him in their uncOuth style, it suddenly oc
Cured to the young Spaniard that his own re-
markable friskiDgs might amuse them; CT else he
was shocked at the bad style in which they per-
formed, and became anxious to instruct them in
the movements with which he was familiar. AT
any rate, be induced them to loosen his bonds, and
began to dance. His pranks were so
so novel and unprecedented, his twist
ings and turnings, his jumpings and vault
ings so entirely surprised the unaccustomed audi
ence that they stared in stupid amaZement. 1t
must have been strange scene. The naked, dusky
Indians grouped around this little Spaniard, ready
so soon as he tired they tired of him, to put
end to his life as well as to his dancing, and be
caperng away madly for their amusement! TINS
was indeed "the dance of DEATH But he intend
ed it should be the "dance of lie." He so fascina
ted the savages that they became intent on nothing
else; and finally when they gathered around him
in complete circle he introduced dance that
many New Workers must have laughed at and
wondered at when they saw.it the stage. He be-
gan running right and left, backwards and for
wards hitting here one, and there another dis
persing his audience, touching one with his arm,
al and do
lighting them; and while their surprise and pleas
ure were at the height, suddenly leaped into a
vacant saddle on one of the feetest horses of the
band. The Indians thought this too was one of
the pranks of his performance, and did not discov-
er their till Espinosa had shot so far out of
their reach, that no effort sutfcei to recapture
| him. He arrived safely at the company from
| which he had originally strayed, more fatigued
than after any of his dances in the opera. His au
| dence shouted and screamed but not with admira-
tiOn the last; and be could boast of having crea-
| ted more genuine sensation even than Elisler or
! Cerito, or any of les deeses de la danse.
INFLUENCE or THE AMERICAN CRISIS UPON THE
| CoMMERCE EURoPR.-C Commercial Treaty Betpeen
| England and Frdnce.-The Chamber of Commerce
| of Amens has again addressed the Minister OF
| Public Works, demonstrating against any abridg-
ment of the period for the execution of the treaty
with England.
The Amiens Chamber of Commerce would fail in
its duty if, in present circumstances, it did not
submit some new observations on the day accord
| ed for the execution fixed in the treaty of COM
MERGE with England.
Among the reasons it alleged in its letter of the
2lst of December last for the maintenance of the
period the chamber pointed to the commercial
and financial crisis which pressed upon the United
States and forced the English manufacturers tC
realize there at reduced prices the considerable
quantity of produce exported to that country.
Since then the state of things is still more diff
cult The political crisis which threatens America
| with civil war has aggravated the commercial
| crisis. With prospects so formidable, the English
manufacturers no longer venture to export mer
| chandise, which, should war break out, would re
| main unsod, and would occasion them enormous
| loss. The consequence is that goods cucumber
their warehouses, and it is easy to see what tht
mass will be if the American market, which is tht
greatest consumer of their products be lost to Eng
| lish industry.
| The English manufacturers comprehend the dan
gers of this state of things, and seek to avoid
least to diminish them. A numerous meeting of thu
| manufacturers and cotton spinners of Blackburn
and the neighboring districts has been held, and
was resolved that reduction of five per cent
should take place on the wages of workmen Othe
manufacturing districts will doubtless follow tn
example.-London Post, Feb. 81
WHAT DOES IT NEAN?-ln the items clippe
from the Charleston papers of Friday, and pub
lished in our issue of yesterday, there we're som
intimations of some movements that would short
be undertaken in Southern direction. Th
Charleston correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch lets in some little light, as follows
The project of an invading army, find, is no,
the order of the day, and that the battle grOun
will be changed from South Carolina to anothe
locality not ten thousand miles from you, is in m
judgment fixed fact. If | to predict, tina
in sixty days the city of Washington would b
RACED so that plough-share should be run owe
| the place where now Lincoln nervouslY rests, an
that magnificent monument of former greatness
the Capitol, would be blown sky-higb, might no
| in such prediction be false prophet. /, lik
many Southern man, have few cents investe
in that other monument begun years ago to tn
memory of George Washington, which monument
if left to Black Republican keeping, hope to Sc
rent in twain from top to bottom. Some of you
submission readers may call this vandalism. l
matters not with me what they call it; that monu
ment will never be allowed to stand on Black Re
publican soil, and you may take that as snothe
prediction. If you will look to the Courier of tn
date of the 9Th instant, you will see my invading
plot limited at there. "The Southern heart
fired" now, and that fire will not be easily quenched
nor will it be, fear, unless it be quenched il
| blood
The London Field, of the 9th ult., says Ton
Sayers, the champion of England, has changed
| his mind. He is not coming to America.