The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-05
Our New York Letter.
[raon OUR SPECIAL conlEsposDrsr.l

New YORK, December 9O.-Hundreds Of newa-
bows running about in every direction with extra
wildness IN thoir countenances, and extra"
papers in thoir hands hundreds OF little newsooya
with big voices, and big boys with little voices, oil
bawling, screaming, yelling, as though their lungs
would burst-such sights, such concerts excite no
surprise hero, for they arc things of every day
occurrence; they are not, however, things Of every
night occurrence also; and 30, when the sight is
seen ut ten o'clock at night-whon tho concert ID
heard at n time when other concerts are going on
whom the theatres are open, and Whcn some 8OOd
folks have gone to bed, then there ls some ea-
element and overy ere who has few penmes ID
his pocket invests eagerly, that he may learn the
news thus proclaimed at this unreasonable hour.
Last night such sights wore seen, such bawl1ngs
Thre heard-newsboys crowded the cars-news-
bows besieged the theatres-nowsboys stood on
your door stoop and called you up from your Deds,
till looking out from the window of your chamber
as Brabantes did when Iago md Rodrigo awoke
him with tho cry OF thieves-you listen to the cry,
and listening hear and hearing learn that there ls
nows of the great yacht race. a moment moro,
mud nowsboy ia a few pennies richer and you
few pennies poorer ;yct, you grow excited and in
terested as youVend hat tho three yachts have az
riyod safely ont and that tho Henrietta ls the win.
ner, having made the run in the unprecedented
time of thirteen days and twenty-five hours. Had
could hardly lave created greater excitement
james Gordon Bennett is in all ecstatic state OF
beatitude, and 80 is the gentleman who laid wagers
to the amount Of one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars on the result, backing tho Henrietta which
has won.
Brooklyn was the scene Of o very extensive and
destructive conhagration yesterday, IN wfnch
three oil refneries and distillery were consumed
a Thousand barrels Of such inhammable Nationals
as parafine and gasoline in blaze at one time,
caused such volume of smoke and fame that the
fire was distinctly seen even us far as Newark N.
J. Tho loss is estimated at about twenty-five
thousand dollars.
Ono Of the most extraordinary theatrical per-
formanees that has ever taken place in this city,
and certainly may add one Of the best, came OH
lust night mt the Winter Garden, where Othelo
vas presented, Dawson impersonating the dusky
Moor in German Edwin Booth as Ingo in English,
whilst the gentle Dosdemonn (h1adame Scheller(
PLAYED in German in tho scenes with Othello, and
in English in scenes with the other dranatiS perSo-
,lo Long before the night of the performance every
seat had been sold ut prices advanced one hum
ence wero Germans, who. during the first act ap-
piauded Dawson till the rafters rung and did not
pay much attention TO Booth; but as the play pro-
gressed tho transcendent genius II tho Amor1can
tragcdian grew moro and moro MANIFEST and
stirred up even tho Germans to such a pitch Of
honest enthusiasm that cries Of Booth Booth 7"
arose from every mouth, and he was called bofore
the curtain after one of luis great efforts. Dawson
was also called out several times; in fact, the
two great tragedians were for tho most part
called out together, except where Bo5th's
acting was SO magnificent that it produced the
result I note above; and then, as he bowed
and retired, the German was also comPh-
mcntcd as he deserved. say MS he deserved, for
Dawison's Othello peasos me nluch-for whilst
do not consider it as fine rs Forests, there is
much originality in his conception of the charac;
ter with some faults, howeror) and many beautiful
points in his acting. Booths Iago was master
1,;ooo he is beyon6 MI dfht tho prpntegt 1apO on
the stage. Madame Scheller acquitted herself
handsomely, and the other characters we're well
performed. The entire affair dramatic treat,
such as is seldom enjoyed; and, strange to say the
beauty of the performance was not materially
lnarred by the circumstance that it was not all
given in one language Ira Aldridse, tho great
audience by his magnificent acting, although he
always performs in English whilst the rest of the
play is given in the language OF the country s
night was ridicned before it came off, but now tho
ridiculers have naught to say, for it is acknowl-