The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-02
Our New York Letter.
lFRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE


lrRoM ouR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
New YORK, February 27.-The large hall Of the
Cooper Institute ~ein flied, on Monday night
by select audience Of thirty hundred colored
ladies' and gentlemen, with about half-dozen
whites, inclusive your correspondent whose curi
osity was excited and duly gratifed. The occa-
sion was grand concert, given for the benefit CT
the Cclored Young Mer's Christian Association by
the Black Swan Operatic Concert Troupe, of which
the Black Swan herself and brown sssouthern
Nightingale" arc the shining lights Candor COM
pels mo to admit and to record it here, black or
white, that the audience Of the most order
~ yassemblages have ever seen collected together
in any place of amusement, and that the ssgentle-
manly ushers' were US polite as French dancing
mastors
Tho Black Swan is one of the ueliest cid
maurnas" have ever seen; not fair fat and forty,
out black, fat and dfty. She plays the piano most
aoomlnably, sings rather wel and her chin is
adorned by an embryo beard that enhances the
beauty Of her ugliness. The Southern Nightin-
gaze IS beautiful young girl, and sings e1traor-
dlnarlly well, and with modesty Of demeanor that
it would be well for many Of our white concert
singers to imitate. number Of other colored per
sens took part in the performance, and your cor
respondent was well pleased with the entire affair,
with the exception Of unlocked ior ieaiure not
on the programme, and which caused him involun-
tary to grasp his stick more tightly and reflect on
the propriety or impropriety Of hurling it on the
stage at the features Of the unlocked for feature
Just as the performance about to begin
and whilst all eyes wore turned towards the stage,
where sat select committee Of black and colored
gentlemen and ladies, a white man, with hypo-
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his way through the crowd and advancing to-
wards the stage took seat thereon, and looked
around as who should say-eI don't mind sitting
here, applaud me-" but no one applauded, and he
sat down looking rather sheepishly. moment
elapsed, and thought seemed to strike him (just
about the time that had half an idea Of present.
ing him with my stick )-then suddenly turning to
q negro on his right, he shook hands with him for
five minutes, and next repeating the performance
with an Othello on his left, he seemed once more
to say applaud but no one applsuded, and the
negroes on the stage seemed to blush for the COM
pany they were in. The performance went off
well, but the white negro went of when it was
half over, having made dead failure in his at
tempt to become white lion among tic black
lambs.
The great French restaurant, the Maison Doree,
has come to grief The proprietor died about six
months ago, and since then the establishment has
been going behind hand to the tune Of about two
hundred and fifty dollars per day. The building
has been sold for two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, and on the 1st Of April large dry goods
establishment will take the place Of the fashions
BILE restaurant that failed to take the wind out Of
DE1MoN1co's sails.
Professor AaaAsH delivered q very lengthy and
exceedingly instructive lecture at the Cooper In
last tho 49,
discussed the point whether or not men and mon
keys spring from common origin, arriving at
the conclusion that man is man for all tlat.
though he may look like monkey that mon
key ls monkey for all that, though he may re-
semble q uaan; and that sethe idea Of community
OF origin Of man and monkeys, and Other quad
rupeds, is fallacy." However ugly some Of Us
may be- it is certainly great satisfaction for us
to Know that we are most positively not descended
from family of antedIluvian apes.
De GARMo, the celebrated dapcing master, gave
q reception yesterday at his Academy on Fifth
avenue to two or three hundred of his younger
pupils. Many Of the pretty little creatures were
between the ages of four and ten, and it VAS
astonishing to note how they succeeded in mas
tering the intricate difficulties of the popular and
fashionable German"
have never seen the streets in this city in such
3 horrible and muddy condition there is not q
single crossing in Broadway where the mud is not
ankle deep; and yet there is one honorable excep-
ton known as II BRooKs' Bridge" between the
Metropolitan Hotel and Brooks shoe store, the
proprietor of which establishment has about half
dozen men employed from morning TO night bat
Ting against tho mud and keeping the bridge
swept clean. "a.
The famous STuYvEsANr pear tree, which was
planted two hundred years ago by Governor srEY-
vEsANr. and has stood since then at the corner Of
Third Avenue: and Thirteenth street, has been
destroyed by the carelessness Of an unromantic
cart driver who upset his wagon against it yester-
day, and knocked it down. Sic transit gloria ar
b0res.
On Saturday next matinee is to be given at
WAILAcK's, for the benefit Of the Southern Relief
Associ alton, when will be presented the comedy
Of Ours" which has had SO long and successful
3 run. l.g
The Black Crook draws as well as ever, and, Of
course, run on in it's Notwithstanding course.
Merchant Of Venice viii run till the end or the
month, when the tragic muse will retire and come
dy take its place at the Winter Garden in the