The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-12

From Our ousn Correspondent
NEW YORK. Feb. u, 1870.

NEW YORK, Feb. ~ 1870.
A New York Bohatuienne.
The other evening accepted an invitation of
somewhat peculiar character, and paid visit to
q certain feminine reputabillty who at one time
was exceedingly well known as queen in BO-
hemia. That time has long since passed, and
the woman of good abilities, who might have
won a fair success upon the stage, or with her
pen, now lives from hand to mouth in one
wretched room, dealing out spiteful gossip in
excellent language, smoking strong cigars,
drinking raw whisky sandwching her sem
fences with highly-navored oeths, cramming
herself with spiritualism, and indulging largely
in "reminiscences of~palmier days, when tfia-
monds and laces were plentiful, and she one of
the giddiest Floras Of the period.
The acquaintance who introduced me pro-
missed me should see o strange sight-to use his
own language, "an intellectual woman going to
the devil!"
The description was a just one. 1t was very
sad to see that woman lying therefor 1t was
past midnight and she was in bed-her hair
streaming upon the pillow, the rumpled frills of
her night-dress betraying more than blonde
buriesque amplitude of BOSOM her cheeks more
becomingly hectic than any rouge could make
them, and her eyes flashing like generous dark
gems With a carelessness which sho neither
apologized for nor attempted to remedy, the
as we entered she flung down the book-it was
Swedenborgs "Heaven and Hell"-and greeted
us with saucy self-possession which the airness
of her attire rendered rather piquant. 1t was
like visiting played-out Cora Pearls cocoHe
in her last days when the first two syllables are
gone out of the bubble-and-squeak of existence,
and only the squeak remains. She had come
down to the soup mdigre of life, after having
dingered long, 10th to depart, over the grouse
and pheasant. Some valuable diamonds she still
retained, and one magnificent cluster she had
fastened around her neck. The furniture of the
room was extremely cheap and common,
and the various articles of the toilet were
''slung" around with a greater regard to the
convenience of the moment than the eternal fit
ness of things.
How she talked 1t was painfully gratifying
to hear her. Her power in conversation was far
beyopd that of any one else in the room, and she
welded 1t necessarily and with apparent relish
during the hour we remained, now giving anec-
,dotes of Lola Montez and Adah Isaacs Menkcn,
(whose portraits decorate the walls of her room,
and both of whom she intensely admires) now
yehemently declaiming against what she termed
the shameless hypocrisy Of a woman who notori-
ously apes morality and scandalizes for spite's
sake, profession she never possessed the ply
sical charms to succeed In. Putting the very
etrong cigar that one of the men in the room had
offered her, bullying her guest for not having
brought her so much as mug of ale from the
restaurant below, quoting thoughtful aphorisms
from Bulwer and emotional passages from
Byron, expressing sensuous delight in children,
and especially in boys, swallowing raw liquor
with no greater apparent flush either in her
face or emphasis, proudly trampling down her
sense of degradation, and boasting that right or
wrong she meant TO fight 1t out on that line to
the latest day of her existence, defantly an
nouncing that 1t was her principle in life to do
as she pleased, without caring - what any
body thought, the woman was spectacle not
easy to be forgotten. She was one of those fas-
cinating sinners whose repentance angels are
said to rejoice over. viii she ever give them
chance? .r.
That which is employed at the public enter
tainments of the pupils of the Deaf and Dumb
ASYLUM, in One-hundred-and-sixty second street.
Last night they performed in public one of the
fayorite pantomimes of the extinct Ravels,
Mazulrne; or, The Night Oact and realized one
hundred dollars. The pantomime was none the
less effective for being involuntary, the deaf
mutes' lack of the usual complement of senses
appearing to enhance such natural aptitudes as
they possessed for pantomimic expression.
seats at NibiO's
The impositions which the public is forced to
suffer at the hands of the managers of Niblos
have reached such height as TO be endurable
no longer For instance, 1t Is advertised that at
such an hour seats are to be reserved at the box
office. You present yourself as near the open
ing hour as possible, prepared to pay your two
doars Chat is the price of the enthusiastically
and are then informed that the seats you desire
to select are only to be procured at a certain
store on Broadway. You proceed to the store
and are there subjected to q fresh burst of in
telligence, viz, that seats are securabe only at
an additional price of twenty-five cents. Thus
two seats which in any other theatre in the city
would cost three dollars, cost nearly five at
Niblo's and all TO see actor who is not better
than two or three native American artists.
The Bal d'Opera Italien
was a dead failure. 1t appears to have run Its
course, and to be incapable of resuscitation
At 10 o'clock only two carriages were before the
door of the Academy, and when l stepped upon
the dancing floor at midnight, the spectacle wai
more like that of quiet private party than of 9
great public ball. But at any rate the guests
were not prim, and probably enjoyed themselves
much more than they would had all the snob
who go to the opera because It's ''the thing
been present.
Broadway snow.
For once the officials to whom is COMMITTEES
the well-being of Broadway have performe
their duty. That thoroughfare has been spotte
kha Iaa dau Will IF who's