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


| Special 10 The New Orleans Creseent1 g
\ @i# In MY ATrtC }
| @4@se New York Feb. Is, 1861. :
mon Cher Coloae{-The brief but very brilliant
4 fashionable season of 1861 is over; tulle. crane
crlnoline, honiton, pouH de sole, have been laij
ASIDE. Browns young men are relieved from active
| dancing duty-the gate was shut down upon the
last grand party (Russell's Of Bond streeD at i;
O'Clock last night and to-day everybody is sup
posed TO be in sackcoth and ashes The fashiona
pie world has been none the less gay because Of
the political troubles, although the action of the
South has produced the topic of drawing-room dis
cusson. few prudent people have retrepched
out on the whole, trade and social life in the me-
tropos goes along about the same as ever. The
only sort Of trade which suffers particularly il tho
Vaie . trailc. Years ago it was the fashion to
SEND very costly love missves some as high as
Sioo Or ssoo' out lattery the custom has been
voted Vulgar, and is confined to working girls mi.
nor CLERKS and practical okers. The trade is there
iore cohhned to cheap articles, and the profits are
slnaii compared 70 those in the good old times.
10 the operate way, we have at last a sensation
serdis Ballo in Maschera.n MASK BalD was
brought outat the Academy on last Monday to the
only good house of the season-recejpts s205G
Inns was only shade better than BROOKLYN. where
on Wednesday, of last week, Miss Binklev snno
Rostna in the " Barber . and did large amount os
Star Spangled Banner to sl957, and Madam CoIson
on Saturday, sung Etuira in g Ernani," cher hen.
ehD to Sl858. The Brookiyners, who are varv
airy just now, declare that the excess here was
made up by visitors from the metropolis across tho
river. As to the new opera / think it is bettor
than the Yespres Siciliennesn and not so good as
the rroyatore.a The critics, except Richard
Grant White, praise ii. White writes for the Mons
daily, the World, which doesn't notice tbeaters
Mhite applied for whole cow OF free seats for his
anhts, nncies, cousins, and so on and didn't ret
'iein. 80 he takes it ont of poor Verdi, who will
pfoaapiy De able to bear up under the attack
me ploe OF the new opera is pretty nearly the
same as that OF Auber's Gastaye IIT,n which I
presume q quite familiar to your readers. There
y capital tenor sung in the first act, which Rro
noh sings admirably. Then comes a pretty air for
the Rage, eMiss Hinkley), and finale in yerdi,s
beststyie. In the second act there is nassiono+o
duet between the tenor and soprano ff,oisonIs.a
minding You little Of the tfra,, Dio in the q IT,
atasD but more Of the " di. Santa nfe,o,,;1,,, !,
the Polinto. Coson threw her whole sonl into n,;s
music and made tremendous sensation Jco,ta,,
you, Colonel, that we owe you good deal az ora
tltude for giving US Colson; she is the best Of ali
the artists, in every way. On Saturday night sbe
sings in Ernani. On Sunday, she rehearsed the
new opera from noon till three in the afternoon n
was present at that rehearsal, and mighty slow ii
wasl and on Monday her voice il as fresh as d rose
and as clear as bell. ANY other soprano would
nave declined TO open her mouth before Wednes-
DAY. Brignoli, who had rested four days, and did
not sngi except soto uoce at the rehearsal, was