Litchfield enquirer., 1872-10-10

LucoA's FIRST APPEARANCE IN AMERICA. The world-renowned prima donna, Mime. Pauline Lucca, made her first appearance in this country at the New York Academy of Music, last week, before very large and fashionable audience. The Tribune in the course of an admirable criti- cism, says:
 "That the debut of Madame Lucca was successful everybody will take as matter of course; but that the part of SelikG in IL Africane' is the one in which she most captivates mankind is not so certain. The ideal Selika requires certain elements of grandeur which Lucca apparently does not possess. The charming and beautiful ar list, who conquered New York by her face before she had sung note, gains her gen. eral laurels probably by qualities far diff ferent from those of greatness. Piquante and winning ill her ways, quick In her im- pulses; woman in passion, tender and wo- manly in feeling, and unfailing in her in- telligence, she has nearly all the best gifts of an actress: but her bright sunny nature was not made for sublime and commanding roles. Hence, fine as her personation was last night, and despite the impressiveness of her two principal scenes, the duet with Tasc0 in Act ". and the death passage at the end of the opera, wemissed some thing, in lack of which the effect just fell short of greatness. Her Margherita, to- morrow, will be much grander, and in comedy characters she must be inimitable. Of her rank as vocalist, tSeIikG hardly qualities the critic to speak decidely, but so far as her requirements were tested last night they seemed to be all that report had painted them. Her voice is rich, strong and true, full of warmth and sympa- thy without being phenomenally brilliant, little sharp in the upper register, yet without one harsh tone, and with some notes of an indescribably touching quality; a grand and magnificent voice that would be fortune alone, even without the fasci- nations that accompany 1t. Finally her gifts are regulated by fine dramatic in stinct which never lets her overstep the proprieties of the scene, and never allows her to sacrifice the situation for the sake of round of applause or recall. In the last scene especially this artistic restraint was admirable.
 JAPANESE VESSELS TN SAN FRANCISCO HARBoR.-Two vessels flying Japanese col ors have lately entered the harbor of San Francisco. The Chronicle of that city says that the first of them-Fu-ju Maru- was built in Amsterdam, and on her arri- val in San Francisco was sold to an Amer ican firm. Her crew returned home. The second-Sen-Zai Maru-was built on the 1 Clyde, and is owned by Yokohama firm rejoicing in the name of Kaiso, Turin, Atski Go. She brought cargo of rice. She is manned by nineteen Japanese sail ors commanded by three white officers and three Japanese. The crew is described as stout, fne-looking fellows. They are on ly troublesome when they have whiskey aboard. Their dress is unlike that of the Chinese, the principal garment being a long, large-sleeved robe, that is wrapped tightly around the limbs. Thatis, itseems, ouly word on state occasions, as the sail ors appear very often in complete undress. Their saws, adzes, etc., are made of finely
 tempered steel. The crew are very intel 1 igent, all of them being able to read and
 write their own language, and some .oi
 them the English. The Japanese make
 good sailors, and will doubtless soon have
 large merchant marine.