The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-06

6gure In the prisoners box, or 10 be discharged.
Yesterday be addressed plsintive note to thi'
effect to the Mayor. I think, also, he would
have no objection TO shaKe hands with those
$4,000 which Oakley Hall the Muni6cent pro.
missed TO supply out Of his own private purse.
We are going soon to enjoy quite a batch Of
small novelties in the way of amusement.
Kate Reynolds Is living quietly in town
preparing for The Shddow of Crime, and
R5chetteu at Str'een, and locking very young
considering she is young no longer, aud the
amount of travel she has endured. Miss
Marriott the English, tragedienne, will make
her hTst appearance in this country on the goth
of the present month as "Hamlet.n There are
various opinions entertained as to her proba-
bility of success. Abroad Miss Mariotts soubrt-
qIet is the "Elephant;" and since sylphs seem
to possess the only attractions popular here at
present, 1t is scarcely cafe to assert that elc-
phantine charms will draw large houses. AT auy
rate, Miss Marriott has reputation as an actress,
which is more than Mrs. Scott Siddons bad,
and the roe of Hamlet" enacted by female,
may be called a tragic leg-part In the Legitimate
business, as much so as Rosalind is in comedy.
Then Mr. Jehin Prume, who has already con-
certified here somewhat, is going to try his
hand again. As a violnist he is great; as any
thing else lie is said 10 be nothing. OF him (as
II was similarly said of Goldsmith), he plays
like an angel and talks like poor Poll. On DIT
that he is excessively illterate and understands
absolutely nothing but "the fiddle and the
bow" Then, on the 9Th of April, the French
mot the English) opera boufe is to have per-
manent home at the little theatre now known
as Brougham's and John is to go don't know
where. Perhaps to England, where he has
hosts of friends. l am afraid he has been
"PIaying with Fire." and IN the management
offs theatre has discovered too many "Fles in the
Web Finally, young German named Moesin-
ger, who has learned English, is to debut next
Wednesday evening, at the New York Theatre,
in the play Of Htrko o.. King and Erecutioner;
adapted for him from the German, by Professor
Froblsher. Great things are said of MIR. Moe
singer by his agents. l saw the young gentle
man yesterday morning. He looks not more
than twenty-five or six, has a swarthy COM
plexion, like Spaniard, long black hair and
black burning eyes, suggestive Of some of the
thousand faces in Vandykes pictures. Sixthly
las VeTges would say, Miss kellogg is going
to essay "Violetta" in La 1Fa0iatd, at the
Academy on Monday night, and Miss Lisa
Weber takes her bright hair and her blonde
wig away from Niblo's after this evening, and
| Mr.. Beckett, the astounding "Hassarac" OF The
| Forty ThieUes returns to London.
Fire Marshal Bracket is disting aishing him.
| self IN his way as much as Assessor Webster in
mis-. He has been making a raid on the
| insurance companies, and insisting that they
| shall make monthly returns OF their losses, or,
at least, at certain intervals, as often as
! subsequent consideration may prove to be best,
| hand in such statements of their receipts
| and expenditures as the public has a right to be
made acquainted with. ALI BABA.