National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-07-02

to collect such sureptitiOus strains
as might float through the lofty
windows to give eleemosynary de-
light to the whole Back Bay.
Another grand spectacle was tho
ball Thursday night, open 70 every
one who could pay for ticket
Four miles of gas pipes supplied
twenty-five hundred burners with
the wherewithal to give five thou
sand couples the light TO dance,
tlirt and be merry. Gilmore and
Dodworth led the six hundred mu-
sicians who furnished the inspira-
ton, and the whole affair was mo st
enjoyable from its novelty as well
as its real attractions.
The accommodation furnished
the Press were all and more than
could be asked, and were duly aps
preciated by the hundreds OF its rep
resentatiyes who were present. Tel
egraph and postal offices were open
ed in the building, quiet rooms well
supplied with refreshments were at
their disposal, and the unObtrusive
efficiency OF all the arrangements
were compiimented on every hand.
The city was crowded, but hotels
and hospitable private houses ex.
lpandcd so as to be able to accommo-
date all who applied for shelter or
food.
On the whole the Jubilee in il.
self was a success, even beyond
what its most ardent friends had %
right to expect. If at times the
crowd was uncomfortably large, that
was clearly it's own fault, but it
could not mar the effective excellen-
cies of the performances which were
truly marvellous, both as to their
size and, comparatively, their perfec-
ton. OF course the laws Of acOus-
ties could not be changed, and if the
auditors on one side thought the al
tos sometimes dragged, and those
on the other attributed the samo
fault to the sopranos, and people in
the middle believed tho ten Ors and
basscs to be hopelessly in the rear,
it was because they did not fully APP
preciate the time it takes for sound
to travel two or three hundred feet.
A good evidence of the merit of the
Whole is the tone of the New York
papers. Generally speaking their
reporters went to cast slurs if they
could, and to carry out the hum
Ous rivalry which exists between
the two cities. Their progn ostica-
tions and first reports changed with
such ludicrous rapidity as to show
clearly the success of the expert
ment they had come to decry.
The enormous sales of tickets
have happily placed the patriotic
builders of the Coliseum beyond the
reach of anxiety. Great as the ex-
pense has been, a large sum will re-
main for charitable purposes and for
fitting tributes to the men of genius
who have conceived and borne the
burden. What the object was orig
inally is hard to discover. Some,
with an eye to personal profit, believ-
ed in the influx of hosts of mer-
chants who were to repleniSh tho
ample magazines OF Boston jObbers,
and a few of these last prepared
collations in their stores that clerks
might lose as little time as possible.
But the crowd came to see and hear,
not to buy; the collations were
wasted, and after the second day
shops were very generally closed.
AS an advertisement of the liberali.
ty and local patriotism of the 'Hub.
ites,' it may serve n better purpose.
1t is hardly probable that much mu-
steal good can como of it; the per-
iormance was not an aesthetic one,
but it may tend to divert the Amer.
lean mind from its habit of celebrat-
ing great occasions with discordant
fish-horns and popplngcrackers. If
hereafter we shall follow the exam-
pie Gilmore has set, and bang our
guns, ring our bells and light our
bonfres to the gentle strains of flutes
and recorders, the Jubilee will not
have been in vain.-Frceman.