New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-17

vermiionpot and got the worst of it, AS ghosts are
lgain IN fashion, we think they should be handsome.
ly treated. No one can rise from reading Of % Foot
falls on the Boundary of another World, with Nara
tive Illustrations, by Robert Dale Owen, formerly
Member Of Congress and American Minister to Ma
pes, ".yithout being convinced that ghost politics
are on the rise.
For ourselves We honestly confess never TO have
seen any matter more ghostly than the tremendous
entity, Man whose eye pierces space and reaches
stars Of which the light travelling ninety six million
miles in seven minutes, requires four thousand years
to reach this little damp earth-ball; whose sou
weighs the sun, and whirls in mathematical fellow
ship with planets in all their elliptic wanderings: and
even when the visual ray cannot detect an Grant
oro' like god supplies the void and gilds il with
world. This is the ghos, Of ghosts: why then when
nerves diseased confound the truth, play with
Fsyche' and collect gost certificates as though for
patent medicine curing all ais from colo to con-
sumptionl
Me- Belinda Belwether, for example, tes;iGes that
on the night Of July G, 1856 while seated in her cot.
tage, in Hoptoadshre, which ovorlooks the church.
yard and engaged in reading 1.-THE Three Span
iafds," suddenly the cathedral bell tolled One Al
that instant door connected with pantry, joining
clothesprsss, Leading to a cbicken-roost, opened;
aud, 10 her translation, appeared the figure Of her
husband Captsn Skalliwagg Belweiher, Of the
Barque Several OF More pedlers: tina, on bis head
was tar-paulin with blue ribbon, the ribbon che
herself put on, willie he sang Backeyed Susan, just
az they were about TO part: that the figure had on
rough-wcather gear with saucer buttons: that the
figure raising finger pointed s. by S. f., shook is
head monrniGlly and then yanIshed that she then
tainted, and when she came to her sonses, it was
daylight and feathers were strewed about the room
no though there had been a cock-Gght during her
sSoon:-tlis testimony being taken on oath before
tho reighboring magistrate Blank Dash Esq, who
gave it full credence: that two mouths afterwards
copy Of The Canuibal Advertiser and Royal Daho-
ney Gazette arrived announcing the news Of the
wreck Of Several or lsrc Ied'ers, On the night in
question, all aboard ingudsg valuable cargo OF
500 slaves bound Tor Cu< being lost
Did space and occasiss aNw.. we might multiply
cases which arc equally welBtiested, although they
do not convince u.s. but our desire Ii that both sides
be beard.
We have before us biography Of Mr.. Cots
chalk We there learn that twenty years ago, when
Mr.. Gottschalk was Master Gottschak, aged ten
years, lie delighted tender bosoms and manly hearts
in bis own native land She late United States as
il reads South, with his digItal versihciiOn. LAe
Pope he lisped in numbers. Then he was transferred
10 Paris for culture. at the Conseryaore he took
the juvenile hcnors, and made public essay in the
presence Of critical Paris to its Advertisements
Successfully next ne played before various En-
perors aud Kings and Prncesses, and was loaded
with honor and compliments. Then be came among
his sovereign coun,ymen. We would remark thai
because he wiz an American there were plenty TO
.brug their shoulders. Bat he cut his way through
the meaa-souled crowd.
Next he goes abroad again; and now once more
among us, shows bis immense power. lie u a thor
ouch artist VIII give concert tonight in Niblo'H
Saloon. And tlen aud there sweep over seven oe
caves as though uoy were bus aV'on Hot-r' Ahd
surely, as bis lures never miss note, or middle a
Our American Cousin is become "A bore. Gre
nted by the twang OF Jefferson ard the lispth OF
eou,horn-it did rot bear fragile as il lie, different
handling. A new piece Peep o day" is advertised
"a in active preparation.
AT N.blos Garden there have been varied pre-
.euta,ions OF comedy and tragedy-no new piece
however. calling for special criticism. Mrs. John
Wood and Mr.. Collins viii appear tonight in The
Colleen Bawn.
AT the Winter Garden there has been a revival
Of The Serious Family, Mr. j. S. Clarke Personating
Auindabad sleek, aud the entertainments finishing
with the excellent aud truly Spanish dancing OF Mad
ana Cubas aud the ballet, and the remarkable spec
tacle Of tho Naiad Queen. The houses have been
excellent and tho applause great.
AT Waacks the Kaleidoscope Of The Old
Comedies, has been vigorously shaken revealing
one less known than tie ayerago-' The Wonder or
f. Woman Keeps O Secret This venerable and
admirable picture OF bothered lovers, inexorable
fathers. closet-hidng, clever Escapades-with such
bustling businessman SO free from any digressive
dialogue-is very well received-perhaps the most
30 OF any Of the pieces this season.
AT Irving lall the French Company viii per-
form tonight.
AT Barnums the drama, dwarf, and beasts and
reptiles are as popular as ever
The Philharmonic Society are pursuing their
rehearsal in view of their next concert.
Our critical remarks are necessarily brief be-
c,pse we have had to record but twice told tales.
That the public have thronced to some Of tie thea
tres is proof that the attraction Of the acting, with
out the novelty of the subject treated is recognised
So much the better for the directors. For the prep
ara,ion of new piece is very apt now that there is
regard for scenery dress, decoration, and costume,
10 involve considerable outays Of solid cash-alwsys
valuabe-and many fold more 20 now that taxation
rre.ent and prospective throws its pail over tho
land; and if after all the piece so Literally illustrated
should fail, there enures 10 the manager the sorrow
OF loss.
The public may hardly know that sometimes "a