Southern Relief Fund Benefit Concert

“Few charities of recent years have received more encouragement, or have better deserved the favors which have been extended on every hand, than the Relief Fund which the Ladies’ Society in New-York have formed for the purpose of sending aid to the suffering and starving people in the Southern States. It is pleasant to see aristocratic dames who never felt a pang, or knew a want which money could relieve, busying themselves, as with a matter of nearest life and death, in the interest of those poor sad ones of the South, whose appealing sighs are heard above all the din of that prosperity which may in a manner be said to hem us in here at the North. In select circles the programme of a series of amateur entertainments, to be given for the increase of this fund, and in which the very flower of the best society in New-York is to take the leading part, is now the exciting topic of conversation.”

“Amusements. The Southern Relief Fund…Last evening the first of a series of charming amateur concerts which are to be given at the private residences of the ladies of the fund took place at Mrs. Stoughton’s, in Fifth-avenue. The attendance was most brilliant, and the concert, which was wholly by young ladies of society, was certainly worthy of the fervid applause it received. The gem of the evening was the duet ‘Tutti le Festi,’ [sic] which closed the first part. The young lady’s [sic] voice in this was one of marvelous richeness and facility.”