Amusements

Lincoln ,1. Carter, author and manager of "The Fast Mail," lias wrltten and produced six melodramas, all of whi'ch have proved artistic and lina nc ia 1 successes. The manager of the opear house has booked for Friday jveixing, Xuv. 20, the ffreat railroad melodrama, I,i'ncoln J. Carter's "Fast Mail," wlii'h will be given a graad Bcenic prodnction, that in madiy respects promitees to be one of the most remnrka.ble ever in the city. The play is constructed on strictly Inodern principies. The interest starts a.t a terrific i:uv, ad nis mot allowed to flai? for an instant. The inci Jents are madi doubl.v thrllllng by the snechanical and Bceatb effects that art employed. There is the rattle and clatter of a patrol wagon as i't comes down the Street, the whistles, bi'lls, etc, of a Mississippi Bteamboat leavlng he.r wharf, moonltgnt effecta on the ttver, the glowtng turnases of yhe boa.t, and the explosión and bi'eaking wp of the steamer. A gtoantte piece of real Water gcenery is presented in the Niágara Paite' scène, where ihe enormcms catartict is repreeented wlth the r'oar of the water, the seethlng foam and the risinii mist. A [relght train of fourteem cars is run acroBfi the Btage. The eaboose is Jighted and the englne carrlea the englneer and fircnian. It is cvcrywiicrc acknowledged to be an unsurpassed achirvcmi'nt. in railroad Boenic effect. Itere s cms to be no limit to the iiossilHlities of stage mechanism, but "The l'ast Mail ' sccms to have COVered all the u"ound tip to the present date. The company is higlily .spoken of, and thft play i's wel! eonstructeil. with a stront; tinge of comedy In oif-srt the seiious ' icments.