Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-13
NEW YORK NOTES.
PATTI AND HER NICOLINI
Politics in the Pulpit-The Land League
Young Mrs. WinthrOp-Agog for the
Jersey Lily.

Politics in the PuIpit-The Land League
Young Mrs. WinthrOp-Agog for the
Jersey Lily.
NEW YORK, October 11.-Colonel Mapleson
and his singers arrived on sunday-that is, all
except Patti, who will not come until the last
moment. and then with her dear devoted Nico.
| lini. The infatuation of the good-heareed and
gifted prima donna with this fat, fudgy, greasy
and ugly little tenor. is an insolvable mystery.
She adores him. That is enough. AS a conse-
quence no manager can induce her to sing
without him, nor can any amount Of money
Manager Abbey, who conducted her season
last year-that is, after she failed under her
own management-told me to-day that
| he offered to pay Nicolini Just
as much if he would not sing. Patti was in
dignant. II she sang SO must he, was her ulti-
matum. Colonel Mapleson must have had the
same difficulty. Car, the divas lover, is to sing
with her at the Academy OF Music this season.
Nicolini sings horribly fiat. and mars the ef
forts of others. PATHS devotion is admirable,
but that Is very unfortunate for the public
Mr.. Mapleson has changed his tactics. Always
before he has began his season by making san.
he was going to produce, and the
magnificent voices of his new singers.
Each time he has failed to keep
his promises, and in consequence he has
| almost Invariably concluded his season amid a
howl of dissatisfaction. This time he refuses
to say what he will do In his English buster
ing way. he has made very curious structure
upon our mus cal critics here. which is that
they have imaginary standards, and that they
| should travel abroad and find out what good
music comparatively he brings out here at the
Academy. warming up, he said he would give
hve tn ousand dollars towards fund to enable
these newspaper chaps to go to Berlin, Vienna
and other European cities. Bah Here's
| British buster for you in large Doses So
money goes to Patti that she is the only star
in the company. The other singers are nearly
all strangers. Several old operas will be re-
vived-the Colonel says, but it, is iudicious to
say perhaps-including lie Pronheta," Meyer
beers IL Etoille du NOrd' Tin which Patti will
appear as Catarina), Donizetti's "Lucrezia Bor-
gia " and RossiDi's "Semiramide" am still
in hope that something may happen to Nico-
lini.
The only speeches thus far made have been
delivered by New York and Brooklyn preach
ers, who were set going by the infamous Sara
toga forgery. Henry Ward Beecher was the
first TO pour out the vials of wrath He was
in favor of the denomination of Cornell. and
he shook his heavy head in wild denunciation
of the tricse cry that made this impossible Mr.
Beecher has always taken great interest in
to many OF his sermons he usually makes one
or two stump speeches during the more i'm
portant campaigns. With the exception of
jolly Colonel Bob, he draws a larger audience
on these occasions than anybody I know of.
Talmage has been preaching politics, of course
Here was too good an opportunity for him to
let slip, and he made a sweeping charge on
politicians of every degree. He says both par
ties are too badly broken to be mended. and he
wants somebody to stuff his nostrils and bury
the fragments fifty feet Deep Mr.. Talmage is
much a fha
mouth pastor. Politics interest him be-
cause they are corrupt and furnish him
text for sensational sermons; He is in his
most furious mood when cudgeling politicians
over the head. The Rev. j. Hyatt Smith is
| another Brooklyn preacher who figures in the
political arena. Heis member of Congress,
but he still, In measure, preserves his minis
ter1al functions One of his reasons for going
to Congress, as given by him last Sunday, was
that he might help to Christianize it. This is a
worthy object, but what vain endeavorl The
Rev. ]. H. s. was elected with great eclot
during the last Presidential campaign and
when he returns from Washington his house
is literally mobbed by his admiring con-
politics of this city is the Rev John p
Newman General Grants pet pastor He
preached a political sermon too last Sunday.
But he took care with General Grant almost
under the pulpit, not TO scourge Lord Roscoe
| nor condemn his Lieutenant, Stephen B. Proxy
F Bout, one precious Alderman, as held up by
him, would make good cartoon. He has, said
the reverend satirist, brogue in his speech
brogans on his feet, and a shilIelah in his fist
and is too unclean 10 be approached except
| just after bath. Like some Of 5hakespeare's
villains. they deflle the air around them Yet
these men are our rulers. AS this graphic de-
scription applied more particularly to the
Democratic Alderman, General Grant smiled
We have not had the last of the Turnb1Il-
Loubat affair after all. Nearly everybody had
forgotten about it except the gray haired and
rosy checked old fellows who sit in the Union
Club parlors, every day, gossiping, and who
will never forget it nor cease talking about It
until they fall over some day with apoplexy
Mr.. Loubat 1t is said. rather enjoyed the glory
he achieved by posing as a sanguinary
hurt, as a gentleman, at being
so incontinently thrust from his club So
he has brought suit againt the Governing Conn
mittee with view Of being reinstated. 1t is
rather a complicated case, and there is no fell
ing what the result will be. Mr.. Turnbull goes
regularly to the club. where he is a very promi-
nent figure. frequently see him sitting in one
Of the large plate windows. He gained rather
than lost by the scandal, l am told
The Irish here are having their sensation ev-
cry week. They are in fact unhappy unless
they succeed in making an uproar every few
days; and when there is nothing else there is CO.
vert talk about something dreadful that is going
TO happen. This week there has been a fresh
outbreak among the skirmishers, who are still
seeking for the last skirmishing fund They
might as well look for the last treasure of Can
tain Kidd. The latest phase Of the controversy
is proposition on the part of the
O'Donovan Rosa faction to start a new
fund. If this is done Rossa should
not be permitted to carry the bag There has
been an uproar also in the Land League
Patrick Ford, the editor of the Irish World.
startled everybody by declaring the Land
League dead, and sending in his last remittance
as Treasurer, to Mr.: Egan at Paris. This move
was so sudden that the Land Leaguers were
struck dumb, and could say nothing for several
days. But on Sunday there were several meet
ings, and it was declared that, while the
League was not particularly lively lust now. IL
W dead II he cafA hat
but genuine patriotism kept it from meeting
its death long ago. The League meetings have
been usually held in the chapels of the Catholic
churches on Sunday afternoons. or in dingy
halls in the lower parts of the city. Two or three
priests, wearing their robes, would sit on the
platforms, and other men and women promi-
nent in the movement. Mrs. Parnell was always
present at some Of the meetings, and would
make q speech or read some infammatorv
verses on the wrongs of Ireland. She was always
eorgeously dressed in a green silk, and had
green silk bonnet strings. Before Mr.. Par.
nell lost his great popularity, Mrs. ParnelI who
is his mother, was hailed wherever she went
with a wild sto m Of applause. Miss Fannie
Parnell who died recently was q very hard
worker, and also Yery popular. One of the most
prominent figures in the movement here was
Stephen J. Meeny, who was recently arrested
on suspicion in Ireland John Boyle O'ReillY
the poet, occasionally came from Boston and
made most incendiary speeches. His classic
head and features looked curiously out of
place. For some months there has been a
great lack OF enthusiasm, and il death has not
come yet to the League, it is not very far Off
In England they say the land act killed it.
Something, in sooth, has given it mortal
wound.
The new piece at the Madison Square
Theatre, which was produced on Monday
night, has met with approval. 1t Is called
young Mrs. Winthrop and is the work of
Bronson Howard. The story. which is in a very
serious vein, is that of a man and wife who
gradually become estranged and separate
This arrangement is brought about by the
husband devoting himself to his club and other
pleasures instead OF en- leavoring to make his
wife happy. She on the other hand diverts |
herself BY leading a life of gaiety and fashion. |
They are brought together Ia the last act, The |
piece is thought to be superior to any work |
thus far from Mr. Howard's pen. AS it is the |
custom of this theatre TO send out companies |
with every play that it brings out, you will ]
probably see it before the end Of the year.
The pier OF the Guion line of steamships was |
crowded with people on Sunday. They were |
looking for Mrs. Langtry. She did not come |
and does not intend sailing for a week yet. |
This demonstration may be taken as an indica-
tion OF the curiosity existing to see her, AID |
unless all signs fail she viii create great SEN
sation when she does come. Why should she |
notf There is nothing so much admired as a /