, 1873-05-04

are STILL personal friends and the latter seeneo
tn he almost the only gentleman holding am1car
bic relations with his brethren OF me press.~It
lid not sec any one Of the fraternity speak 70
h;mse1f aloof. rs il afraid he might be spoken to-
Tho-teru,s on which the principal Boribes we're
at that time have not materially changed since,
though Greeley, Bennett, and Raymond have
nuitted this planet for ono, let uR hope, IN which
there is more professional courtesy and esprit
AN EXPENSIVE ES1Enri1sa1ENr.
The Pcto dinner, by the by, WAS one OF the
moet elaborate ever given here. The menu was
superb, and the wines, consiating Of twenty on-
terent kinds were Of the rarest and costnest'
Some Of the champagnes wore $40, and the Chao
team Youem was $50, bottls.@ The air Was bur
thened with the choicest e1otics; there was e1,
cgllent music. including Clsra Kellogg, and
eyer-t.,ing indeed that could make the enter
taiua1ent re,s,erche and expensive. Inc Ruests
numbered $780, and the b paaa ny or ~ oaeon aeat
$50 head.
Peto pIayed the host in magnificent style;
and ~nor long after his return to England, rs you
maY remember, became bankrupt, and narrowly
escaped imprisonment Tor alleged Ifeeulalltles
in rallHay-management.
FEcHTEn's DEBUT
as Edmund Dantes, at the Grand operacHouse,
On Monday evening, was an immense success-
'1'Monte Cristo" was put upon the stage with
ali the care and splendor that have marked
Augustin Days management. from the frat.
be called felicitous; but Fechter's. :impersonar
tion Of the hero is most vivid, intense, and pic
turesque. He e1cels in just such parts, and,
aided By Days enterprise and lbe1alty. bis
nervous and romantic acting has most worthy
and gorgeous setting. No drama that can re-
call has been so finely mounted, and am sure
it will enjoy uninterrupted prosperity until the
end OF the season. DAILY merits, and can hardly
fail to receive, the fullest success for his very
Liberal management OF the Grand Opera House
8ALMAGUND1.
The members OF the Tribune association have
determined, I hear, upon vast brick building IN
the Florentine style, nine stories high, and sur.
mounted BY q tower Containing an illuminated
clock) Of over 200 feet elevation, It promises to
be grand structure, and it will entirely over
shadow all the surrounding architecture =.
Turner's Venice" which WAS withdrawn
from an suction, the other day, because 1t would
not bring $4,000, looks more like 9 piece o.
Washed-out calico than ANYTHING else. There u
Turner'S name, it would soon find. its way to ar
old junk-shop, and be sold for common lumber.
Alfred H. Guernsey, for twenty years Or more
in tho service Of Harper Brothers, and Tor hal
that time editor Of their Monthly, ia now IN the
employment Of D. Appleton & Co.
aided By the Handel and Haydn Society. is uni
.versalIy pronounced the finest classic entertain
ment this country has yet seen. The Nlntl
Symphony Of Beethoven was simply magnificent
~..Nasby "Locke will soon make this city hif
permanent abode, having determined to become
the metropolitan partner Of the Toledo Co..
BLADE. He expects, among other things, to have
an interest in m Advertising agency here:
At some Of the theatres, ticket-speoulators art
again becoming nuisance Booths s Theatre Il
the only place Of amusement in town where theJ
have nerer been allowed, and We are indebted to-
their suppression to the energy and pluck OF J
Henry Magonigle, the efficient business-manage'
~ that honse- .e-..'. CoIsTouN.