The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1876-06-02
From Our REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

| New YORK, May II, 1876.
SPECIE, FOR AND AGAINST.
Those old fogies who feared that their
children would never know a silver quar-
ter by sight, have their forebodings made
vain by the little furry of it from the treas
ury. 1t is no unusual thing down town to
get dimes and quarters, and it is the cor
rect thing for ladies' stores up town to pay
out at least one piece of new silver with
the change to each customer. But the
streets are not exactly flooded with it just
yet, and there is not so much in circulation
as was anticipated, for the reason that when
to hoard it up those Who had large SUMS
to sell when it was at premium again, and
those who had little, kept the first quarter
paid them for pocket-pieces. The business
| men and banks find it difficult to get enough
specie for their wants.
PRIVATE AND PROFITABLE THEATR1cALs.
The Amateur Theatrical Society, made
up largely of young people connected with
MIR. Frothingham's church, has plenty OF
laurels and substantial success to look back
| to at the close of it's season. 1t has played
ON Staten Island, and believe in Brooklyn
| for charities, and in New York repeatedly
| for the Centennial and for benevolent OBJ
jects, realizing over 5000 clear. Their
last entertainment this week was by no
means their least flattering success. These
| theatricals are quite recherche affairs, the
audience all that is most fashionable, as it
is something of a favor to secure tickets,
which are only obtained from the commit
tee, and the playing is good enough to call
out special commendation from the best
critics of the daily papers. Mr.. Geo. VIM.
Curtis of Harpers' Magazine, dramatized
his old sketches, "The potiphar Papers y
for this society, prominent among whose
members are Calvert Vaux, the Architect,
and MIR. Frederick Stedman, the oldest son
of the poet Stedman; while daughter OF
the artist Frank Carpenter, counted by
Judges one of the most beautiful girls in
New York, is one of the favorite actresses
in ladies' parts. Judge Barrett and his
daughter played in one piece, week or SC
before the Judge left the city, in which be
took the part of young man, looking about
twenty-five, while the daughter was his
sweetheart. a4~gsaa y
FEMININE DEAD BEATS.
: There is misery enough in the city, bu
there is a pitifully ludicrous side to not
few of the appeals made for aid. For in
stance, there is the lady-usually of South
ern extraction-who has suddenly lost
large property, and is thrown on her own
resources, and must make living by he
. talents. Mind, it is the talents, pure ant
single for she cannot for such trifies al
training and business management. Sh'
either elects to go on the lecture platform
or gives readings, for which somebody ha
Q to provide her with costume, more or les
gorgeous. and a hair-dresser. There use'
: 10 be a mlddleman for this sort OF thlng, Il
the shape OF an unfortunate lyceum agent
but not very long continued course OF y
: ceum bureaus having sufficed to bring ever
Y one connected with them to bankruptcy
4 the fair aspirants have to do business them
selves. A well-dressed woman comes int
!, ones office. suaye and smiling. She ma
heard of you as q man Of hberaiity an
taste; she has had occasion TO admire 70
often for your success in anything you nal
pen to pride yourself on q little; she tel
! her piteous story Of destitution, names ~
: address at four-dollars-a-day hotel, an
= becs you to assist her BY taking ten
twenty tickets for her coming lecture. =
J. asking the subject Of her lecture, iDau'i
reveals she does not knoE-she las not y
decided to choose and the lecture Is nett
ar written nor announced. You are to tai
the tickets, all tho same, and pay for the
on the spot; for the lady wants the mont
= TO live on, and, al she remarks, "sne
q such 4 child Id these matters, il y SO na'
: for her 10 have 10 70 round and dlstrlDu
/ them III this way. This is no fancy pie