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

Our New York Letter.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, February 27.-The large hall Of th'
Cooper Institute was well filed, on Monday night
bya select audience Of thirty-fve hundred coloret
ladies and gentlemen, with about haEdoze1
whites inclusive your correspondent, whose curl
osity was excited and duly gratifed. The occa
| sion was grand concert, given for the benefit
the Colored Young Mems Christian Association b,
the Black Swan Operatic Concert Troupe, Of which
the Black Swan herself ard brown :"Souther1
Nightingale" are the shining lights. Candor com
pels me to admit and to record it here, black o.
white, that the audience was one Of the most order
ly assemblages have ever seen collected together
in any place of amusement and that the ssgentle
manly ushers" were as polite as French dancing
masters.
The Black Swan is one Of the ugliest ole
''maumas" have ever seen; not fair fat and forty
but black, fat and fifty. She plays the piano mos
abominably, sings rather well, and her chin il
adorned by an embryo beard that enhances ths
beauty Of her ugliness. The Southern Nightin
gale is beautiful young girl, and sings e1traor
dinarly well, and with modesty Of demeanor thai
it would be well for many Of our white concer
singers to initiate. 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 one unlocked for feature moi
on the programme, and which caused him involun.
tary to grasp his stick more tightly and reflect or
the propriety or impropriety Of hurling it on the
stage at the features Of the unlocked for feature
Just as the performance WAS about to begin,
ind whilst all eyes were turned towards the stage,
where sat select committee of black and colored
gentlemen and ladies, white man, with hypo-
critical and vllanots cast Of countenance, pushed
his way through the crowd and advancing to-
wards the stage took seat thereon, and looked
around as who should say-"I don't mind sitting
here, applaud me;' but no one applauded, and he
sat down looking rather sheepish!y. moment
elapsed, and thought seemed to strike him Gust
about the time that had half an IDEA Of present.
ing him with my stick k)-then suddenly turning to
a 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 ssapplaud;" but no one applauded, and the
negroes on the stage seemed to blush for the COM
pany they were in. The performance went of
well, but the white negro went off when it was
half over, having made doad failure in his at
tempt to become white lion among tie black
lambs
The great French restaurant, the Maison Doree,
has come to grief. The prop prietor died about Sic
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, md on the 1st Of April large dry goods
establishment will take the place Of the fashiona-
Bile restaurant that failed to take the wind out Of
DELMoN1oos sails.
Professor AaeAsH delivered a very lengthy and
exceedingly instructive lecture at the Cooper In
stitute last night on the subject Of monkeys, and
discussed the point whether or not men and mon
keys spring from common origin, arriving at
the conclusion that man is q man for all that,
though he may look like monkey that mon
key is monkey for all that, though he may re-
semble man; and that "the 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 ore most positively not descended
from family Of antediluyian apes.
De GARMo, the celebrated dancing master, gave
. 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 tho ages Of four and ten, and it was
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
horrible and muddy condition there is not a
single crossing in Broadway where the mud is not
ankle deep and yet there is one honorable e1cep-
Metropolitan Hotel and BRooKs' shoe store, the
proprietor Of which establishment has about half
dozen men employed from morning 10 night bat
Ting against the mud and keeping the bridge
swept clean.
The famous STUYvEsANT pear tree, which was
planted two hundred years ago by Governor sTEY-
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
bores.
On Saturday next matinee is to be given at
WA1LAcK's, for the benefit Of the Southern Relief
Associ alton, when will be presented the comedy
of ssOurs," which has had SO long and successful
run.
The Black Crook draws as well as ever, and, of
course, run on in it's greenback-making course.
Merchant Of Venice will run till the end Of the
month, when tho tragic muse will retire and come
dy take its place at the Winter Garden in the
Spring. BARNEY WILLIAMS and his wife drawing
finely at. the Broadway, MOULTRIE.