Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 10, 1872, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUN AY, NOVEMBER 10, 1872 NEW YORK. When It Was the Federal Capital. A BReading from 0ld Days---Ilow Washington Was Inaugu- rated. His Reception---The First Cap- 4 itol Edifice. From Our Ouen Correspondent. * WasHINGTON, Nov. 3, 1872, The files of Tre Cmicaco TRIBUNE, burned up more than one year ago, aro not to be replaced. This loss might stimulato many a msn to keep his files. A newspaper-filo for a long standard term is & valuable piece of property, and a whole library in itself. Iattempt in this letter to fur- wieh some old news not t6 bo had in & book : 'WASHINGTON GOING TO BE INAUGUBATED. At an early honr in the morning, on the 23d of April, 1789, Washington reached the marshy point of Elizabeth City, and a scoue like an saquatic picnic was spread beforo him. Flags were blowing over the high ridges of Staten Island; Newark Bay was dotted with eails and pennons bastening toward the rendezvous; through the Kill von Kull came boats from New York, and by the Sound camo music from Amboy. Abarge of large size, superbly fitted up, rode at tho pier, and thirteen pilots, dressed in white, manned tho oars theroof, while a large fleet of craft, of all sizes, from sloops and schooners to yawls and pinnaces, scudded to and fro orlay stanchor. Tho old Executive Gov- ernment—Jay, -the Foreign Secretary; Knos, Administrator of War; Hazard, the Postmaster General; and the three Chiefs of the Treasury, Osgood, Lee, and Livingston—was fully repre- sented, enda Committee from each Houso of Congress 6tood by to welcome the new master of affiirs. As he dismounted at tho water-side, cannons announced the glad fact, and other can- pons passed it to the distant Capital. Then, with musie, speeches, and mutual congratula- tions, tko President took his seat in the barge, the oars struck the water, end, as the Doges of Venice went in state to wed the Adristic, the new President proceeded by the salt tide to com- plete the union of thenew American Govern- ment. ‘PROSPECTIVE. He little conceived, perhaps, what -stately villas were to line the shores of those pastoral hills, what hotels were to arise there for tho pleasure of the future millions of tho neighbor- ing city, what Bnug Harbors" were to shelter ber old sea-capta ins, and what merchant-princes were to be born from the ranks of the very pilot amongst whom he sat. : ‘THE FIRST CAPITAL CITY. After & time; the Bay of New York opened be- fore the regatts, and the pulses of the occan were felt beneath theirkeels, and tothenorth the little city of the Dutch and’ English showed its curious spires. The scene was destituto of all those stalwart steamers which, st & later day, were to put to sea &0 _tamely; quiet fields au steep and bent gabled farm-houses stood for fu- ture towns, and fishermen for commerce. There a8 no Brooklyn worthy of the name; there was ne Jersey City whatever; the golitary clump of Bergen appeared on the Jersoy shore, whero the NorwegiaLs had planted it 8o airily; but the atmospere of & mighty city was repliced by the stmospnere of the mightier sea, which was to nuree New York to strength ond_ assist it to splendor, The population of the whole basin of New York Bay, including the city,—which was to pess 2,000,000 in_eighty vears,—was not, at that time, zbove:50,000. The Island of New York, s year afterward, contained but 33,131 peo- pla, ahd the State only 350,000, or less then that of th future Brooklyn. It is not probable that the bighest estimate of Washington—who was not a sanguine man—reached within a tenth of the actual progress to b achieved in this richly- endowed basin ; but, even at that time, tho ad- vantages of Netw York over either Boston, New- port, or Philadelphis, were conceded. New York City was then (1790) valued, in es- tate, st £2,563,000, and_tho taxes were, in bulk, £15,446, or 60 cents on $100. In eighty years, the Yalue of property was torise to £1,000,000,080. THE FIRST CAPITAL IN PUBLIC SPIRIT. Amongst American citiesof that day, New York wes alrcady the most popular. Althongh occupi¢d for seven years as tlie British head- quartets, converted into a prison and & barrack, &nd nearly ruined by pillage anc fire, the situa~ tion of the city,—80 accessible to tho great post- road of that day, the ocean,—and the Jarge, ro- bust, worldly spisit of itg peoplo, hnd made it the favorite of all the Colonies. In like man- er, the British had esteemed it. Itsinhabit- ants had neither the exceeding righteousness of the Puritans, the querulous inquisitivenessand small apprehension of the Quakers; the grasping penury of the Scotch, nor the swaggering, opinionatedness_of the Southern planters. Hearty, volatile, charitable clements softened tho manners of the population. The French Huguenot and the rollicking Dutchman, the frank Swede and the Spanish factor, wero mingled with tho more aggressive and matorial English and Irieh, and the hard Scotch element as comparatively weak bero, Drissot, tho ex- ecting Republican, aftorward the chief of the Girondists, said of tho city, the year before it ‘became the Capital : “Tf thora ie & town on the American Conti- nent whero the Englieh luxury displaya it fol- lies, it is New York. You will find here all the Englieh fashions. In the dress of the women, Enuwil! gse the most brilliant silks, gauzes, sts, and borrowed hair. Equipages aro rare, but fhey are elegant. The mon have more sim- rfidzy in their dress; they disdain gewgaws, but hey tako their revenge in the luxary of the ta- ble. Luxury already forms, in this town, a class of men "e)fidnngeroufi to society,—I mean ‘bachelors. e expense of women causes mat- rimony to be dreaded by men. “Tea forms, as in England, tho basis of the principal_parties of pleasure. “ Boarding and lodging by the week is from four to six dollars ; the fees of lawyers are ex- cessive,—out of all proportion. “ Elegant buildings, in the English style, take the place of those sharp-roofed, sloping houses of the Dutch. You find some still stand- ingin the Dutch style, and they afford some pleasure to the European observer.” + EXPENSE OF LIVING THERE. Other suthorities show the coudition of social life in the first Capital City. For example, the price of board and lodging was eight dollars & week at the popular Tontine Coffee-House, the Delmonico's of that dny,—wine not being in- cluded. Yet, as to luxury, an English traveller eaid = 1t is probable that all the jewels and dia- wmonds worn by the citizens of the United Btates, their wives, and daughters, are loss in valie then those which sometimes form & parb of the dress of an individual in several countries of Europe.” That the most exacting Puritan statesman Liked Nevw York, is appareut from this passsge of Oliver Wolcott, written to his mother : “(The manners of the people are favorable to the plan which I have in view. Groat expense i Hiot required, nor does it add to the reputa- tion of any person. _Thero appears to bo groat regularity in the city. Honesty is 88 much in fashion aa in Connecticut, and I am persuaded that there 18 a much greater attention to good morals than has been supposed in the couutry. o far 88 ar sttention to the Sabbath isa_crite- rion of religion, 8 comperison between this city and msn;\phm! in Connecticut would be in favor of New York." THE METROPOLIS IN THAT DAY. The Island City, however, was a mere cross- roads cluster compared to its present extent and that of its sggendag&s. Instesd of covering two-thirds of the long, lance-shaped island, its farthest limit of dwellings was Chambers street ; Broadway ceased at the City Park, which muuflg covered by & %qnd; a country road roceeded up the North River side some die- fmee to the village of Greenwich, now swal- fowed up in New York ; and the Boston tarn- pike, ing the route of the present Bowery, rolled through green fields and orchards, where the densest population on the American Conti- nent now resides in tenementsand taverns. The East River was the chief water-front of the city, but along both rivers there were more privaie gardens and summer-houses than piers. 4 trav- eller relates that, at the very timo Washington spproached, the commercial enterprise of the ty was expanding. They are making wharves of tranks of trees, framed into an encasement, and sunk with stones. On all gides, houses are risipg and stroeis ex- tending. I soenothing butbusy workmen build- ingan At the same timo they are for Congross.” The expenecs of the City and County of New York had amounted, in 1787, to £10,110, of which one-third went to almshouaes, one-soventh to lampe, and one-tanth to ronds, atrcots, pumps, and wells, These items of expenditure suffi- ciontly show the slow, primitivo comforts of & city whose gas-lamps now stretch, by tens of thousands, twelve miles northward from the Bat- tery, and whose drinking-water travels forty miles by ‘a superb aqueduct. In that day, & gallows. stood by tho side of the future City Hall, and a poorhouso next door to it, 8 fish-pond kept the site of tho future Tombs pris- on ; tho King's Arms tavorn ornamonted Broad- way near the spot of the future Astor Houso ; Pear] streot was o cow-path ; the first American Mothodist Church, in Jobn' srect, was barel 35 years old ; Sandy Hook lamp had beon lightc tho same number of years ; tho fortifications of tho Revolution ran along the linc of the future Grand street, from river to river ; tho futuro City Hall Park had beon iriclosed by o post aud rail fencoonly fivo years; by tho filturo Becl- man street, amongst tho subsoquent rumoring newspapor offices, stood Goldon Hill, whore the citizons of Now Fork rioted with the British soldiory two months beforo tho Boston riot ; and where, in the present Atlantic Gurden, on the Bowery, tho Toutons drink their Iager-beer, tho merchants of Now York had met in tho solitudo of tho country, in_1765, to resolve upon import= ing nothing from England. Tho heart of the city was_at Wall and Brod strects, where the old City Hall had been hastily turned into a' National Capitol. 'No sidewalks appeared upon tho unpaved streets. Amougst the occasionnl nandsome dwellinga of tho moro prosperous citizens, tho notcliod gables of tho 0ld Hollanders ran up here and thero, and shado and’ gardens nbounded plentcously. Two or three slow forries wero sustained, whero now stoam forry-boats ply evory third minute ; and of tho East River ferry, now most noted of all ferries in tho world, our authority says : 4 The ferryman &mo) should keep six boats ; and, s it happened that two men, on account of tho wind and tide, wero often unable to bring thoir boat across tho river, so thal passengors had to labor st tho or, or otherswiso endur « te- dious passage and suffer groat loss of time, it was proposed that threo men should bo employed in ench boat ; that two of tho bonts should ‘be kept for the oxclusive use of tho passongers, tho Te- ‘maining four to carry passengers as well as cat- tle, wagons, goods, etc. ; that a time should ba fixed for tho departure of each boat at cither landing ; and it was computed that a boat rowed by three hands might, under tho grcatest disad- vantages, cross the ferry in one hour and twelvo minutes; and this portion of time, divided by the number of boats, would give twelve minutos for each boat to remain at the landing.” Perisugers ran from Old New York to Powles! Hook (Jersey City) and Elizabethtown Point. “ A periauger—a sort of two-masted ferry-boat, now obsolete,—took us to Powles' Hook.” If tho wind was fair, we got overin balf an hour; I have, however, beeu threo howrs in making tiis pasedge” 4 periauger, wo further find, was & at without & keol, with two masts and two large sails,—the lack of keel being supplied by lee-boards. Mojor Hunt's was the tayern at Powles' Hook, up an acclivity ; “ en old-fashioned man- Eion,—the roof descending from an immenso eakl to a largo piazza,—which sheltered travel- ors to Philadelphia and elsewhore, this being the storting point for nearly every place by stage south.” . ESPENSE OF LIVING. TLooking further, we observe how thrifty and moderate were themen tnd oxpenses of that quaint ewly dsy. Tho most exiravagent por- sons in Philadelphia aud Now York lived at an expense not beyond £2,000 sterling a year ; and we are further told thet the * lawvers of great practice_get from £500 to £2,000 currency & year. The profits of none exceed £3,000." ~ We may get an ides of the alue of property in the neighborhood of the first Capitol from the record that, in 1793, tho dwelling and lot of General Alexander Hamilton, on the south of Wall street, sold for £2,400, the dimensions be- ing 42 by 108 ; and, in 1794, a house and lob on Wall strect, 41 by 51, sold’ for £2,510. These houscs wero_immediately in the neighborhood of the first Capitol edifice. A minuter account of the cost of living in the old city is afforded by Sonator Oliver Ellsworth's Iotter to his friend, Oliver Wolcott. Wolcott, with his private prospect, was loth to accept & emall salary and a eotni-dependent placo ; £0 his friond wroto to him, explaining the cost 'of liv- ing in New York City, which ie_ curjous reading for ofice-liolders of the present day at Washing- on : New Yors, Sept. 15, 1780, Dear Sir: You may wish to know what would be the probable expense of your living in this place ‘House and stable wonld be about. ‘Wood, per cord (best). ‘Wood, per cord (oak). ‘Hay, per ton.... . Marketing is 25 per cent higher than at Hartford. Tt would not be expected that your oflico should sub- ject you to more expense of company, or a ditferent &tyle of living, than you may choose. It is my opinion that you could live within £1,000, s your family now is, and that you might expect, on some future occasfon, such further advancement a8 your talents and eer- wvices will entitle you to. I wish to sco you trans- planted into the National Government, for its sake and Your own. And am, sir, your humblo servant, Ortv, ELLSWORTH. Oliver Walcott, Jr., Eeq. GEORGE SEES NEW YORE. It was toward this city, which every momont was revealed moro distietly above tho green lawn of Governor's Island, that Washington's mind and eye wero turned ; for it was to be his Dabitation, as it had been the scene of muuy of his perils and misfortuncs. Alreads he eaw the flags waving above the sharp roofs, snd people darkening the summits of hotels. The poel of bells, variod by the sound of cannon, rang over the quiet’ gray reaches of tho boy, and, as he drow noar tho landing at the foot of Wall streot, he saw the civic procession, the populace, an: the dignitaries of the city and Stuto waiting to recoive him formally. It wes government al- ready, in gravity and obodienco. r THE AUTHORITIES. Tho Mayors of New York City during tho Fed- eral occupation were Jamos Dusno, of mingled Dutch and Irish doscent, and the son-in-law of TRobert Livingstone (nof the famous Jefforso- Disn editor of Philadelphis); aud sftervard TRichard Varick, of Dutch deécont. Tho latter fived until 1831. Duano had beon amem- ber of the Provincial Congress, and Varick an Aide-de-Camp of Arnold and of Washington. The Governor of Now York, st that time, was George Clinton, & handeome, atalwart, vigorous soldier, lawyer, and magistrate, aftorward Vico President of tho United States ; and, throngh'his nepher, DoWitt Clinton, and his son‘in-law., Citi- zen Genet, the influenco and powor of his fam- ily continded for another half-century. Ho do- forred to none in strong will, urbanity, popular- ity, sound judgment, and love of country and devotion to his Commonwenlth. Whilo & friend of Washington, and a zealous co-worker and _fellow-traveller with him, he was an inde- pendent thinkor, and bo placed Limsclf, from tho foundatioa 'of tho now mation, oqually against the somi-monarchical projudices of Ham- ilton and the insinuating and unscrupulous am- bition of Aaron Burr. At that period ho was 50 yoars of ago; well-to-do, but not rich; public- spirited, and & resident of the city. THE PRESIDENT ARBIVES AND LANDS. At the foot of Wall street Washington disem- barked, amidst huzzes and testimonials of earn- est welcome, and & procession, with music, es- corted him to his_ofiicial residence, in Cherry Strect. That day he took dinner with Governor Clinton,—the most distinguished officials and their wives being present,—and, for one wack, there was slapsein the lifo of the Executive, {he Capitol edifice being tfll in the hands of the carpenters and painters. Dm’in&:hls week, the breezy and ehady littlo city was flled with poli- ticians and aspirants for office from all the States,—tho ofiicors of tho lato army being Iargoly represented ; and, as hurian pature di not greatly differ from what we perceive it now, e may presums that many shrewd devices were emploged to obtain access to the President, aud ¢ gound ” him wupon his views and purposes. Washington's ofice, however, was held by him in jealous guardianship ; he was very sensitivo to Dlame, if he coulddeserveit; andbeheld grave and reverend viows of the Magistracy to which be had'been summoned. He used no covert or cunning means o discover public opinion, pre- ferring to rule under the Constitution, by & larger standard of observation, and by enlight- oued. judgment ; and hence there is little ro- cordéd of his pursuits during_this week of rest, when, robatly, he was sciting his housoin order, and contriving the particularsof bis in- suguration. THE FIRST CAPITOL. . The first Capitol of the United States occupied the most commanding eite in the city, on_the ridge of Wall street, with & fine, desconding, curved syenue, Broad street falling away from its portal toward the East River; and thua show- ing, at 8_considorablo distance, ita classical facede and cupola. On that site now stands the United States Custom House. It had been the City Hall of New York; but, tho posscssion of the Capitol of the BnKub].w belugcpmun_mcd to Do great advantage, the Common Council made hasteto tender the Congress of the United Btates tho use of the City Hall, on receiving & notification that the National Legislature Would probably sitin New York. To oxpedite the conversion of this edifico into legialative chambers, some publit-spirited citizens lvanced upwards of $30,000 in money ; but, even with this encoursgement, the work Was not done on the 4th of March, though, fortunately, mo quoram was presont at that time, and it was eight weeks before tho old City Hall was ready t0 bo lionored by the inauguration of Washing- ton, Possibly the delay was in part attrid- utable to the scripulous, but extravagant, tastes of its architect,—the same who afterward built tho palace—never completed—of Rob- ert. Morris, the banker, and laid out tho perma- nant Federal City on the Potomac. To ndapt the City Hall to the necessities of & Capitol, this Major Le' Enfant—a French engineer—super- visad the alteration and improvemont. Le'En- fant, in this as in many of his engineoring and acchitectural enterprises, outran tlie boutidarics of expense, and a lottery had to bo es- tablished to pay for his experiment. Even then, the first Capitol was estcemed by some a failure esan cdifi ‘o for its purposes; but this remark s captiously mado of all Gapitols. 5 FATH. e S SURSUM CORDA! What though by numbers we're o'erpéwered, ‘Though in tho contest we're defeated, “The Right is right, defamed, deflowered, Or high on thirono triumphal scated | Lot scifish Fear, and sullen Hate, ‘And Bigotry With forchead narrow, To-duy ercct their heads clate,— Truth, Hope, and Love huve still To-morrow! Brweet Is Succeaa ! but eweeter still (Though hurd tho lesson be), Disaster ; /¢ ia tho Victor whose firm will ‘Grapples with Loss, and comes off Meater; ‘To whom Reverso doth only stir New courage for the new, bold onset; Whio can foresee—zud wait for her— ‘Daybreuk belind the stormicst Sunset. O'er him the venal, vulgar throng, < With whom *succeed ? s tho only maxim, My hoareen toroat and weaken lung, Whilo with his prostrato plight they taxbim. ‘Undannted, he can bear thelr scoff, With chemic skill, draw streugth from laughter, And, shaking each encumbrance off, Renow th fight the moment after. Such be thy spirit, auch thine aim, 0 Party of Conclliation1 No ono man daro thy fealty claims - ‘Thino is tho Future of the Nation. The time shall come, not long deferred, When signal Victory shall cheer thee, And gather round thy g tho herd 5 Of ‘thoughtless people who now jeer thee. O theu, baware! long-scated Power, “That often Latches rank pollution ; The hour that secs the great, that hour ¥ Plants the slow germ of dlasolution. And we, whoso beards are gray with strifc, Though piping-tuncd with welcomo hearty Will grect once more, cre leaving life, The comingof the Detter Parly ! C.3 L Caicaco, Nov. 6, 187 ol e D S RELIGIOUS. Mrs. Van Cott wears her bonnet when she preaches. % Afirza Sulaimen, a grandson of the ex-King of Delbi, s been converted to Christianity. —Abbe Bauer intends to prosccute the Paris ZLiberte for announcing that ho was about to be married. £ —The Episcopal Recorder (Low COhurch) and the Church Weekly (High Churth) have both ‘ceasad publication. —Tho Committeo appointed to prepire a Book of Praise for the Presbyterien Church hope to bo able to submit the work to the next General Assqmbly for adoption. —The Rev. Prudy LeClere, of Lafayette, Ind., is o promising young preacher,—pretty, popu= lar, and not half as prudish as hor name would indicate. —Pero Hyacinthe -as entirely ignored in the conference of 0ld Catholics at Cologne. —Some of the largest and weelthiest churches in New York and othor cities have disponsed with quartotto choirs gs an _expensive And un- profitably luxury, and are now returning to the old plan of_congregational singing. It is said that, & few months before the la~ mented Arclibishop Spalding died, he playfully put his gold chain end cross eround the neck of Bishop Bayloy, and remarked: * That will soon bo yours; hera is the next Archbishop of Balti- more.” —Dr. Manning, of Westminster, will, it is be- lieved, bave a cosdjutor assigned to him. This honoris destined for the Right Rey. Monsij Weathers, one of tho canonists who framed the definition of Pepal infallibility submitted to the Ecumenical Council. —Some of the early English Bibles, as Mr. Disracli states, contains as many as 6,000 errats, which were intentipnal, consisting of pessages interpolated and meanings forged_for sectarian purposes, sometimes to sanction tho now croed of a half-hatched'soct, and sometimes with the intention to destroy all Scriptural authority by tho suppression or omission of texts. —A curato in the English Diocese of Peter- borough,—the Rov. Mr. Peter Robson,—varied the servico & Sundays ago by challenging an agricultural laborer to fight. After a good deal of provocation, the latter accepted, and several rounds wero cxecuted, in_the prescace of tho the congregation, who could not get into church. ho curate has béen roported by tho bench to his ishop. —Says the Methodist Protestant: * An illus- tration of the amount of principle involved in many church squabbles, is furnished by &n in- cident which was recently related in our heare ing. A controversy aroso in & cortain church about using an organ in the Ssbbath School. Elevon of the members stoutly opposed_the organ., They were out-voted, howevar, and the organ introduced. Thereupon our eleven with- drev, and then joined anothor church that has threg organs!” —A rare occurrence in the annals of the Ro- man Catholic Episcopacy has just occurred in Austria, namely, the rosignation of the Bishop of Laybach. The stap taken by Mgr. Widmer datos from 1860. Foreseoing that the dogma of infallibility would bo adopted by the Council at the Vatican, and not wishing to eubscribe to that ionovation, ho asked to be_relieved - from his ecclesiastical functions. The resignation has, howaer, only now been aceopted by the Tope. There arg at present two sees vacant in ‘Austris, those of Laybach and of St. Hippolyto. —Tho Giornale di Roma makes the following statoment with regard to Cardinal Cullen's vieit to Romo: *Tho mission of his Eminenco to the Holy Sco was o urgo the Papo to movoin behalf of the Catholic clergy of Galway, who are’ suf- fering persecution. The Holy Father,who always censures the excesscs of thoe Irish clergy, por- emptorily refuses to interfere, saying the Irish only obeyed the Holy See when thoy could tarn its instrnctions to good account, and willingly disobeyod it rather than eacrifice thoir pas- sions,” —The - Presbylerian_gays: *Revivals and camp-mootings are held in great Lorror by some of ‘our High Church friends. _The necessities of the case in some parts of the Western States are causing a modification of taste, if we may judge from a case in Iowa. In Dalias County a Prot- estant Episcopal parish that hes no cburch building, lately chartored a train and went out to a beautiful country grove, whero thoy had eev- ersl days of worship, and whore Suuduy was tho great duy of their foast. A Bishop attended, snd actually preached under the trees. This was not, of conrso, & cump-meoting, but that is just what tho MotBodists call i ~Last yoar tho Ladies’ Missionary Society of the Mothiodist Church dispatched a young lady from Now York as femalo missionary teachor to Indin. The expenso of outfit and passago to India for a missionary is 81,000. No -sooner, however, had the young lady arrived in the country than she procceded to sccopt the atten- tions of Rev. Mr.—, a missionary sent out under the auspices of the Amorican Board. As & result, they were in & short time married, Tho Ladies' Missionary Socicty have sccordingly mede o formal demand upon the husband for the payment of 1,000, that being the amount ex- pended in getting his wife to the country, and &ho consing to be of auy use for the service de- manded, viz.: That of o gingle female toscher. Tho reply of tho Lusband hea not yot been re- ceived. It certainly scoms like s rough proced- ure against him. & s Hostom. From the Christian Union (New York). It is odd, but if you happen to meet, in any part of the world, what is dignified, or brilliant, or beantiful, or in any way lovely, you can al- ways tell in 2 momont whence it comes. The Radical Club of Boston had a talk, the other i just returned dsy, from Colonel Hjfimmn, from Engrand. The Colonel was descanting on tho bossted refinement of the English aris: tacracy. *But, after all done and 6aid, he had found mothing to convince him of the superior rao0 or culturo of o lisuro class, as & wholo.” o gonght diligently for this roprosentative man in manners, and whon at last he thought he hod found him, and _ “solected, one dsy, .in the House of Lords, an ele gant _gentleman_who seemed o him the 1deal Peer of tho Realm, he was told that he Was & Bmspem\u morchant, who went long ago from Boston.!” *Tis ever thus; you may never ‘encounter ¢ 5 sweet-facod man, 8 -proper man as ono shall seo in » summer’s duy, almost lovely, gentleman-like man,”—in short, what the ne- gro sexton of Boston styled a ¥ prima facie man,” without guessing his exact’origin, the first time you try. —-Mrs. Green, of Shawnee County, Kan,, has ‘x::x? \‘éehpnverl o{u 3 for;.ly-p.nunfl‘ encysted tn; . e en on having i it i e cyn g it removed if if 'already familiar to the public, and has { to come to this country, in company with Wach- AMUSEMENT REVICW. THE DRAMA. The almost unearthly quietude which has preveiled during the pest week has been a ter- ribld trial to amusement caterers, who had all provided unusually powerful attractions, at a moro than ordinary risk and expense. One of Chicago's strongost favorites at one theatro; at another, tho greatest pantomime perform- snco on the American stage; the same pieco eluborately and fincly produced at o third; an oxponsive spectacular drama 8t a fourth; two ~very euperior minstrol companics in difforent parts of the city, and tho unusual quantity of Narioty entertainment—altogother one of the most notable of amusement Weeks in point of”| attractive power, and yet productive of & poorer financial showing than Chicago manngers have overknown. Thoy have borne the trial with char- teristic nerve, and in their entertainments have maintained as high a standard of excellonce as though the box-sheots weronightly defuced with thoso interesting pencil-marks which indicate that overy seat is sold. Their enterprise and courago will not go unrequited, for thoy may safely count upon good returns in the future from the sharp oppotite which comes of long abstinence. In no other city in America would tho theatres have expericuced such damaging conscquences of the horse-epidenic, for the tel, a new element of discordance is introduced, and wo may soon look for o lively triangular fight. 'The contest is beginning to grow intor- esting even in Chicago, although the troupe will not arrive hero until noxt May, and an enthusias- i st sonds ua the following: To the Editor of The Chicago Tribunc : Siz: Inareccnt issucof Tue Tais: communication cdaceriling tlio two rivaly; Imeca dnd Kollogg, Tho writer of that communeation, T pre- sume, has never hourd Lucca, Iadmit that Kellogg i agreat singer, but she cannot compare with Lucca. "It is kmowa through the wholo musical world_that Lucca i8 the greatost dramatic singerof the age, and that her voice i more cultivated than that of any othef femalo eingor (1), Now, if this person, who calls himstif “Opera, knows ‘moro sbout Lucca than the wholo world, I would very much like toLear his name, 3oy- erbeer, th great composer, aid, when o Leard Lucca singiug: * Thero ls my Silica.’ Bho is the best T can find.No other cen reach her. But we will wait ond Dear bier sing in Chicago, snd i then any person of “*great musical taleut ¥ tells mo Bellogg sings_better than Lucea, I will admit it, bis A TBODABLE AFFLICTION. Meanwhile an operatic infliction, worse than awar, is throatoning us from tho Southwest. St. Louis has got an_opers troupe, made up of the talent floating rouud in the country, organ- ized, of course, by Leonard Grover. Noother man could have woven such s patch work together. Look at_its organizatio Sopraui, Louisa Lichtntay, Fanny Slmonsen, and Marie Ziegler ; contralto, Zelda Seguin; prima donna loggicra, Clara Cathart; tenors, Carl Bernard, Brookhouse Bowler, and Waltor Birch; baritone, Gustayas Hall; bassos, Carl Formos, Joseph Weinlich, Thomas o'Becket Dartleman,, and Edward Seguin. If Chicago shall be afflicted [i 1 read a ‘majority of ours are situnted in what used tobe | fipic it e e L. known a8 the burnt district, » mile or more dis- | ties unparalleled in history. tant from the nearest residenco portions of the city; but, at tho sume time, wo beliove the ‘managers of no other city would have viowed the gloomy sitnation with such plucky cheerfulncss a8 ourshavodone. Thoyhavedoubtlessderiveda melatcholy consolation from the fact that hun- dreds of otlier well deserving business eutor- ‘prises kept thom company in tho dreary period of dulnces, and that the timo of compensating rosperity 18 close at hend, when their winter of iscontent will be mado glorious by the summer Sun of—pound und healtby horecs. 2NSS MAGGIE MITCHELL, at McVicker's, whoso engagements herotofore have always been among tga most successful, has ployed to tho lightest of houses, probably for tho first time since sho reached Lar high po- sition a8 ono of America'sfavorites. **Fanchon,” with Mies Mitchell in the titlo role, has Leld tlie boards through tho week, elegautly placed upon the stago, and finely onacted by the star and er support. ' Previous to her appearance in “ Jano Eyre,” which we regardas the best of all her plays, and in which she acquite herself with groater distinctive power than in any other, Fanchon was usually accopted a8 her finest agsumption, 2nd not without reason, for tho story is peculiar- 1y simplo and touching, and the chatacter is one in which she stands alono and unrivalled. The pure womanly element of stago life owes much to Maggie Mitchell's shining qualities a8 a thor- ough Iady and an cminent artist—qualities which Chicago hus genorally appreciated in_tho_past, and will aguia when circomstances render it pos- sible. WAGNER. "It will bo o matter of very general interost, tho aononncement that Wagnor hes reccived an invitation from Clicago to be presont upon the occasion of the colobration of the rebuilding of tho city. Tho givers of the invitation promised to puy Wagnor's expenscs, and slso the cost of briugiug oub ono of Lis works, upon which occa, sion Wagner wag expected to lead. The great composer bas declined tho invitation upon the ground that ho will be occupied at that time with tho festival at Bairouth. HOME NOTES. Tho subscription to the fund of the Cincin gt biloe, ot dovwan for May e, bas resched 29,950, The first of Thomas’ new series of Symphony Soireos took place in New York last evening. Tho Now York Phifharmonic Society gavo its first rehearsnl on Wednesday last, undor Carl Borgmann. The numbors were' the overture to “Tannbauser,” Baothoven's Seventh Symphony, and the overtre to * Princess Tiso” (new), by Erdmannsdorfor. The last was damned with faint praice. A matter-of-fact Danburien being asked if he saw Rubinstein when in New York, vacantly re- spouded: “ Why, no ; was ho looking for me ?” Tt is probable that the * Dettingen Te Deum” will bo tho first picce of music given out to tho gecieios for rohesrsal for th Cincinnati Ju- ileo. The San Francisco newspapers_montion_con- figued pectormances by the Fabbri Opers ronpe. Madame Murio Celli, Lotti, the tenor, and the prima donna, Mrs, Clara Brinkerhoff, hive givon Tp o stags and gono to toschifg in Now ork. Myron W. Whitney, the Boaton basso, will malie his first appearance in New York, in con- cert, since his roturn from Europe. Walf Fries, formerly the violoncellist of tho Mendelssohn’ Quintette, is now concertizing in THE BLACK CROOK. With o single cxception, tho lighter grades of amusement have held swey during the week, pontomine, spectacle and minstrelsy almos ‘monopolizing the limited patronage. Tho only instance, howover, of marked financial success Lasbeen ot the Academyof Music, which is located close fo tho demsoly ' populated residence_districts. The sccident of lo- | New England. cation, it s to be presumed, rathor | Nelson Varloy, the English tenor, will shortly than 'the superior attractivencss of tho | make his debut in New York City. “Black Crook, ” has been chiefly instrumental | The first concert of the Brookln, N. Y., Phil- in crowding the house, a8 legitimate cntertain- | harmonio will be given Nov. 30. Miss Kel- monts at tho Academy huve alwaya been libor- | logg and Miss Mablig will appoar. ally supported, and would be now, beyond ques- codore Thomas has boldly entered the field tion. The “Crook" now is very much as we have spasmodically endured it these many yesrs, excepting, perhaps, that the dramatic cast is rather more than ordinarily effective, and the ballet is superior to most of those that have pre- coded it in point of personal appearsnce and good training. The list of dancers include the igl sisters—DBotty, whose grace and refinement have gained for her a high place in tho estima~ tion of the more critical portion of the auditory, and Emily, o girl of remarkable beauty in face and form, and & fine dancer as well ; with Mlles. Elise and Proscher,—both good in their special- ties, and a well-trained force of coryphees. goor budget of variety acts, together with the smouch working of the machinery and scenic ef- | Songs, Five Poems, by Lenau, Op, 90. fects, assist in rendering tho piece acceptable Mr. Geory nL.Osfi; . T satisfactory to tho lixgo sudionce. Wotan's Abschled, from **Die Walkuren AIKEN'S THEATRE Hephisto Waltz.. has farod better than -tho other South Side places, n tho mattor of attendanco. ** Humpty umpty,” with Geo. L. Fox and his excellent support, has proved itself to be one of the strongest attractions of tho season, and, under ‘moro favorablo auspices, the engagement would, doubtless, havo been notably successful. The distinctive points of excellence,—the_inimifable and only Fox, the cat duett by tho Martens, the suporb acrobatic feats of the Wilson brothers, a tho velocipedo riding of the bal Venus and | ever written. ) Adonis, the admirable stage appointments, etc., | The Austrisn Government cautions Joung —are such as to entitle * Humpty Dumpty” at gu‘ls with musical talent not to go to the Unites Aikeo's, to decided prominence in the list of | States, eaying that those who have gone there ‘motloy entertainments given in Chicago. havo cither been dofrauded out of their wagoes MANAGER HOOLEY or led nstray. 3 has also indulged i Humpty,” producing ina | The Composer Kusoni, .author of an_opera stylo fullyup to the standard of oxcellonco | ‘* Camoens,” which has boon played at Naples, which has been established at this beautiful | i8 no other, it is stated, than His Majesty Dom thestre. Under the spur of active competition, | Fernando, of Portugal. Bo says the Espana an oxtra effort has been mado to provide a bril- | Musical, and adds various legends of thia royal liant performande, and if the effort has been but | maestro, who is & sort of musical Haroun al poorly rewarded, it is the fault of the epizootic | Baschid in his way. £ snd not of tho management. The Kiralfy | _ me. Nilsson Rouzeaud had loft Paris for St. troupe, in their yarious ballot and tablesu acts, | Potersburg, where she was to appear in * Ham- Dhave contributed largely, and n strong list of | let " onthe 26th, A saloon carrioge had been varioty artists help to swell the sum total of | sent to the Russian frontier to-await hor g}i:g. merit. are, = had been done every yoar for Mme. atti. Gounod has signed with M. Verger for his “Deux Reines,” which will thus be produced at tho Theatre Italian, in Paris. The person who first nsed cannon asa musical adjunct wea Giusoppe Sarti, an Italian, who Tived at St. Petersburg. In 1738 he composed a Te Deum to celobrate the capture of Fort Oc- zakow by Potemkin, and beside enormons vocal and instrumental masses, he had placed in the courtyard of the imperial palaco many cannon, of Various calibres, to deepen the bass at givén times. Ho produced a reéonant effect, Cathe- rine II. ennobled him after'this. At recent ealo of musical copynEhta, in Lon- don, Meyorbeer's * Huguenots” brought 185 7s 8d. At the third of the London Crystal Palace concerts, Oct. 19, a new concerto for 'the organ and full orchestra, by Ebenezer Prout, was given, which is very highly spoken of ; also, Cherubini’s overture to ** Ali Baba,” Beethoven's Second Symphony, and Mendelseohn's overture to “Ruy Blss.” It is announced that Liszt and Wagner nare again on friendly torms. It will be remembered that Wagner eome years ago eloped with and married Liszt's dsughter, who was already - the wife of Hans von Bulow. € Ambroiso Thomas is at work on s five act opera, on the subject of Francesca di Rimini. Johann Stranss has gone to Madrid, where he is to givo twelve concerts. A Terlin paper says that Mle. Mario Krobs g\:\de $25,000 by her concerttour in the United tates. % The building of the Bairenth Theatre has, at the prosent time, attained the proportions of a hole, some 60 feet in the ground! which is to contain the fonndations of the structure, with the machinery of the stage, &c. Mme. Anna von Flotow, formerly Mlle. Theen and wife of tho composer of * Martha,” died at Vienna on the 26th of September, at the age of thirty-nine. Mlle, Nins Lamprecht, too, known on the stage under the name of Lamberti, died on the 23d of the same month in her thirty-seo- ond year. - At the conclusion of the performance of an or- atorio in the Roman Catliolic Cathedral, Marl- borough street, Dublin, a fow weeks ago, the riests of that church presented sn address to le. Titiens in recognition of her many kind- nessos during o scries of years, The nddress is written on seven pages of vellum, and is illu- minated in the highest style of art. The amenities of musical life in Vienna are striking, to ni the least. Not long since one of the actors at the theatre remarked to a compan- jon: “Niemann (the with his Symphony Boirees, against the New York Philharmonic Society, and has secured Rubinstein, in addition to other attractions. Thomas' determination is clearly shown b{the fact that hehas placed the same symphony upon his programme which the Philharmonio Society is to play a week lator. His first pro- gramme is a8 follows: PART X. Overture, “Iphigenia in Aulis.”. 5 The Ending by Wagner. Recitativo and Aris, from “ Belmonie und Con-_ stanze... PR ‘Mr. Georgo L. Osgood. Symphony No. Tt...... FOREIGN NOTES, Tho Menestrel sunounces that Sig. Arditti has been engaged to_sccompnny Adelina Patti dur- ing her tour in the United States. ig. Tito Mattei hag writton an opers, entitled “Maria di Gand,” which is to bo produced in Paris ot the beginning of next senson. Bach's Passion Musio_has been recently pro- duced in London, and, it is sid, with success. 1t -containg some of the most beautiful music ANNOUNCEMENTS FOE THE WEEK. There aro no marked changes of programme to note at either of the theatres. Miss Mitchell continues in_ Fanchon at JcVicker's, Fox and « Humpt‘i Dumpty” remain at Aiken's; Mr. Hooley keeps on *Humpty " another weelk, Totaining the strong featuresof the Kiralfy combination, as well as the cat duett, and intro- ducing many now specialtics; at tho Academy of Music the “Black Crook " holds over, with & completo change of the bailet, and variety acts, regorving, wo are agsured, the beat for tho last} tho Arlington, Cotton and Kemble Minstrels ab Myer's Opera House introduco the Abyssinian dwarf Tommy, 8aid to have been brought to this by Stanley, of Livingstone fame, and the nsual variety of rich itoms; tho Georgia slavo trmx‘;e of minstrels stay at Nixon's Ampitheatre another week. A PROSPECT OF RELIEF. By the recent putting on of tho steam dummy line on the Bouth Sido street car line, together with some arrangements for evening traing, con- templated by the Ilinois Ceatral, & prospect of zoliof is afforded to the amusemont-secking pub- lic. Tho State street cars will run evs{{ hour up to 11 o'clock, nnd an oxtra train will also go northward at half-past 7, with particular refer- ence to theatre-gocrs, Myers will make it o special point to cidse the minstrel performance in time to enablo his patrons to catch the 10 o'clock State street cars, while tho 11 o'clock train will accommodate those from McVicker's, Hooley's, and Aiken's. Music. The week which has just closed is almost a musical blank. With the exception of the sec- ond of Mr. Goldbeck's pleasant matineos, which ocourred at the Indiana Avenue Conservatory, on Thursday afternoon, an interesting feature of which was tho excellent singing Of Miss Ella White, the contralto, thero hos been nothing to disturb the epizootic monotony. This weok, however, there will again bo an opportunity for the concert-goers to come out in force to attend the Patti-Mario season, which, however, is a brief one, and will not seriously tax their ener- gics or resources. ‘Tho concerts will bo given at the Michigan Avenue Baptist Church, on Thurs- day, Nov. 14; at the Union Park Congrogational Church, Friday, Nov. 15 ; and 8 matinee ot the Michigan Avenuo Baptist Cburch, Saturday, Nov. 16. The artists in the troupe are Carlotta Patti, Signor M. 1’0, Anne Louise Cary, con- tralto; Teress _rreno, pieniste; and Emile Sauret, violinist. With Pattiand Cary all concert- oers are familiar. Those' who have not heard ario have-heard of him. Carreno is a joung and handsome Spanish pianiste, of whom rumor speaks well ; and Sauret i3 oue of the risin stars in the musical world. Their concerts wi undoubtedly be both pleasant and curious. ; THE OPERATIC WAB. In the present lull of music, the operatic war looms up on the borizon as an interésting if not sanguinary event. We refer to the contest be- tween Lucen and Kellogg. The casus belli is” - grown ont of the fact_that opera-goers in New York Lave patronized the Lucca nights moré liberally than the Kellogg nights. That the season has been s failure is universally cofceded by the New York press, Luccs charges it to g‘ma.t German tenor) i8 & good-looking fellow, but he hes no voice.” *Who has_no voice?” rang out behind the ;Yelka.r, and at the same time he received from r, Niemann himself, who had overheard the criticiam, & blow in the face. The *‘companion” imprudently agked the active tenor ‘‘what he ‘meant by this conduct,” when he got an answer in the shape of & stinging slap on the ear. “At this critical juncture, some of the employes of the theatre who were near, whe liked the actor and his friend, aud who hated Niemann because of his rudo ways, pitched into him heavily, and drove him from the field of battle. ) B = mmageet Sh —Mr. Bacon, in one of his letters to the Bos- ton Advertiser, ssys that Julian Hawthorne will call his novel ** Bressant,” after the name of tho horo. The work is in the psychological vein, and somewhat radical in ils views. The sceno is Kellogg, ~Kellogg charges it to Lucca, | in ‘Berkshire—Stockbridge, perhaps ; and one and neither aro right, the real Tenson | whohas read the manuscript copsiders that, of -the failure being in the stupidity |“while thera is evidence of a close study of his of the management. Meanwhile, as Mallinger, father's romances, ¢he young author is no mo Lucea's old in rival, is ennounced as abon 5 8, the young T re copyist, but displays a talent which needs only enYLivnfiu-u to ripen successfully. THE FASHIONS. Latest New York Styles. From Harper's #4247 FOR LADIES, The Louis Quinze costume is one of thg most stylish dosigns for rick silk dregses, that may be usod both for dinner and carriage toilets. These dressés 2o often of silk and velvet combined, bhaving the dppar ekirt, basque and pockets of velvet, while the slgaven, vest and lower ekirt arc of &ilk; or else cashmots Is used in the place of velvot, with silk of the same slisde, A border of silver fox fur or of black marton {# often used 88 a trimming. Some of the most elegaut black costunics aro of this design, partly faille and partly velvet, arranged in the manmior just do- scribed. Colorod kil suits ard sometimes trimmod with o velvet plaiting or bias frill, odged with luco, fringe or porhaps only a rufile of wilk on the velvet. Suits mado entiroly of silk are trimmed with silk of & darker shade. Lbuis Quinze ih‘!?se! of the blue-gray silk and velvet of plura-color; olive, Londou smoke, and ey dark garnet are impoeted, by the modistos, and sold for $300 or 9400, ‘iticro is usually & bonuet to mateh, make of the velvet and faille. A Valencicunes Jaco frill with e long jabot, rnd fully ruflled under-sleaves, completo the cose tume. Ono of the most comfortable, graceful, and ueeful E“mcnm now in fashion is a double- brensted redingoto of Indies' cloth, cashmere, or camol's hair. It is warm, stylish and con- venioni oithor s an independent wrep to wear with various skirts, or clse as part of a suit for shoppiug, travolling, aud general use. Thiso aremade in & simple fashion, and are Ela‘ rimmed with fringe, braid, biss silk, 2 large buttons., The skirt with which they are worn may be of cloth to matcb, or of cashmera with deop Kilting ; if a richer toilet is dosired, a faillo_skirt, or one of silk-faced velveteen, is used. There is a fancy here for red- ingotos of _rough camel's hair, either gray or brown, thickly wrought with ool embroi~ dory. The dress-skirt iy then silk or velvet, and may bo either black, brown, or gray. Fora 1 suit of cashmere there can Le no_better modol than this pattern. The revers, cuffs, and belt with sash should be thick gros grain of the samo shade as tho cashmero, lined with stiff foundation net. A plain dress-waist is needed underneath the rediugote. Instend of brenkfast sacques for ladics, the furnishing houses are offering_sailor blouses of navy blue cloth, not belted, but gathered by a rubber band in_the hem in the way children’s blouses are made. Thsy have large eailor col- lars of white, palo blue, or scarlet cashmere, and cost from $7 to §9. For modemizing black silk dresses of last vear, we commend tho now scarf over-skirt, as it is stylish, easily made, and does not cut the material. Itis simply four yards of silk trimmed around with narrow lace and jet passe- menterie. Take the middle of the scarf, and fasten it at the top by a hook and loop to the midddle of the dress skirt just below the belt; then pass it sround the sides, leaving the fron] to form a wrinkled apron, and tie up the back in Tong loops and sashes. A batd of black velvet, a fucing, or a simple hem sometimes serves for trimming, Among French lingerie are dainty camisoles of India muslin, with many rows of "Valenciennes insertion down the front, and a jabot of sholls of 1ace down their enlire length. 'These are lined throughout with rose or blue.silk. Tullebodices made of aliernate pufls of finest tulle with bands of Valencicnnes insertion have bows of faille ribbon and sashes to match. These are worn at dinner parties with skirta of black or colored sl and o sleoveless basque of black velvet, made with heart-shaped neck, and trimmed with thread lace and transparent insertions. Braces or bretelles of black velvet ribbon, with sashes of colored China crape trimmed with point Quchesse lace, are among the small and dressy extravagances. FOR GENTLEMEN. The novelty for business suits is their short, jaunty, double-breasted coat, generally calle the pon-jacket. Tho suit is made of dark mix- tures, with almost invisible plaids formed of threads of white, The entire suit, coat, vest, and pantaloons, is made from the same piece of cloth, and costs from 375 to $85. The overcoat for, 6uch suits is a long sscque of rough cloth, such as Elysian and fur boavers. Semi-dross suits for church, visiting, etc., are mado of black or blue cloth with raised curled gerpendicnlnr lines, or indented checks, or the asket-woven goods, instesd of the dingonals 80 long worn. The whole suit made of this fabric costs $85. The coat is the double-breast~ ed Prince Alberty with longer ekirts than_those of Inst geason ; the vest is ainille-bre!emd, with notched collar, and buttoned high to wear with aacart; both cont and veat are bound; the pan- taloons are of medium width, shaped to the limbs. Sometimes the single-breasted cut-away Newmarket coat is preferred for this suit. By Way of variety, an _extra pairof pantaloons is provided to wear with this cont and vest. These are made of thick rough-surfaced Scotch mix- tures in shaded gray strif‘enu. or else grayish black grounds with white lines, or & faint sug- gestion of warmer color. Price $20. Thero is an_effort to introduce for carrisge wenr the English driving_coat, of light drab or cream-colored beaver. It is long and double- breasted, with collar of the same, and two rows of buttons down the front. Thereis no change in fall-dress suits. They remain of solemn black, with swallow-tailed coat, low-rolled collar, and_ pentaloons all made from the ssme roll of broadeloth. The English overcoat for opers and other full- dress occasions is the double-breasted surtout. Instead of this light-fitting gurment, the profer- once hera is fora loose, ensy -8ack overcoat of light grey or croamy brown cloth. Dreasy silk hats for gentlemen sre taller than usual. Their crownsare six and & half inches high, and of moderate_ bell shape ; the brims are two inches wide, with open D'Orsay curve and not much roll. Price $9. ‘Undress hats for business are of stiff felt, with Stiff crowns sbout 5 inches decp, aud almost square; the brim is2incheswide, aud shaped like these just described for silk hats; price 36. Now soft felt hats have slightly tapering high crowns, with curved brim heavily rolled on the sides. The best quality cost 36. Black felt hats are most worn. A few of dark brown and London- smoke color are seen. Seal-gkin and otter caps, collars, and gloves are the fashionsble furs for genflemen. The favorite fur cap is & seal-skin Canadian turban, or, o8 hatters say, & band turban. This has a high, soft crown, with a wide, Stifl band, or ‘brim, turned up sl around and close against the orown. They cost from $10 to $25. Beal trim- ming for_overcoats will bo much worn this winter. This is a border or facing for the whole coat, with cuffs and collar of seal. Entire overcoats and short, double-breasted jackets of geal skin are also shown for mid-winter. There is no change in the fashion of ehirt fronts. Doubled linen bosoms, with three cords stitched a quarter of an inch from the edge, and just outside of the exulnb—holes, remain popular for goneral uso. A elight vine of very fine needlework is added for dress occasions, or else a medallion of embroidery is wronght | around the studs. Theso bosoms are usually interlined, making them *three-ply,” that thoy ‘may retain the starch better, and are sloped hal? an inch narrower at the bottom than the top, to prevent DLresking in the middle. Such bosoms wear far better than those made with plaits. For conservative fi;&ntleman who have always worn plaits, and will always wear them, no mat- ter what is the fashion, bosoms are made with one wide plait on each side of & box-plait in the middle, or else two narrower plaits are on each side, making four in all. The French yoke shirt is the favorite shape. Wamsutta or New York Mills muslin, with Richardson’s or Peake's linen for fronts, is the material for shirts. Vory high standing collars are worn in_the English shape—mads sll in one piece. Cuffs aro’ verylarge and deep, snd are sometimes turned over at the corners, or cut away, to match the collars. The newest made-up scarf is the Count Sclo- pis, This has a large square fold at the top, with two wide fiat ends. Price $2.50. This i8 in favor with demuro elderly folk, while young gentiemen profer tho ‘*classic” scarf, with its Sory narrow sailor knot aud ends. Repped fab- rics are most in voguo for such scarfs, and they are shown in all the quaint dark colors now worn byladies; but theso are unbecoming tomany, and 160k outre npon most men; and the safest plan is to confine a gentleman’s purchases to black or blue scarf for general wear, with white and lay- ender for drossy occasions. Windsor ties of ‘bias twilled eilk or setin are shown in the Eng- ligh stylo, with dashes of white, or else Japanose figures on & colored ground. For midwinter days cre cashmere mufilers, squares of bluo or gcarlet fine wool, with silk edges, for $2. Silken mufilers are 33.50 or $4,00. Long shawls for travellers aro invisible plids of gray, white, and black; price 12, The strap to hold them is $1.25. e Rochefort’s Children. Paris (Oct. 18.) Correspondence of the New York World. A very besutiful girl, just eigh- fcon years old, rented for m week & chamber ins furnished lodging-houss, 49 Rue Qe Vert Bois. She paid in sdvance the rent. This was Tuesday. ast night at 9 the landlord, sur- prised at not seeing his new lodger, dotermined to knock at the door. He received no answer. ‘The door was locked on theinside. He sent for & locksmith and opened it. He found his lodger 1ying dressed on bod and & corpse. A chaf- ing dish, with some half-burnt pieces of char- coal, rovealod the oause of death. The police were summoned and investigated the matter. They discovered the poor girl was Hearietta M- , daughter of one of Henri Rochefort's Tmistresses, who hod fallen into abject poverty since his imprisonment. Honrietts is believed to be one of Rochefort’s daughters. Tho un- happy girl, despairing at sight_of her mother’s vrotchadnoss, rosigned life. Rochefort's father died racontly in grent poverty. One. the favorite, doughter of Rechefort. was seduced by & _young }:néfiiahmuu‘ who really intended to marry her, and who took ker to_England to make her his wife. His family aaized him (he was under age) and sent him,to sea om a saiiing vessel bound to India, and sent the gicl bock to France. Alis fortune seems to pursue eversbody connected with Rochefort. e LONGING DESIRE. YROM THE GERMAN OF ACHILLER, From this carth, with mista hung over, With eternal storms oppress'd, & Could I but o path discover, Al how deeply were I blest ! Clottied in bioom that ne'er shall wither, Fonder bills lluro my efo Give mo wings, nud quickly thither, O, how quickly, I would fiy, O, how sweet to dwell and wander ‘Wheze the sunlight gushics free! Balmy airs that wanton yonder, Ol, how RoCthing they must be— But fhis fierco and fonfing river ‘Pours aloug in raging might, And ite mighty torzrent evor Fills my beart with wild offright. ook at yonder bark cazeering, Oarless, o'er tho swollen tides Sell-impslled, I see it nearing,— ‘Bure, ome blessed Bpirit guides! Onward, then, with soul nndaunted ! ‘Heaven vouchsafes no belping Laad : Or%)' can lmbark M}:Chntn“ldn'fl 2 nd, ear to that enchanted o ——————— A TERRIBLE EVENT. Somec Recollections of It A correapondent of the Lynchburg Virginian in & late issuo says: . “I am gn old mau, Old age dwells much on the st ; and amongst the multitudy of remembrances of Tmy boyhood and youth none are more vivid thau thote conpected with the burning of the Kishmond Theatzs, . on the night of the 26th of December, 1811, Two gene erations have since come and gone, and perhaps what 1 write may be of intercst to rome now living 7 441 was then a echoolboy in Richmond, very nessly 13 years old. My parents residingin the country, were fntown for {he winter, They gencaally eschewed the theatre, but _that evening were persusded by some young frienda to_nccompany them. Others from our Doarding-house, to the nymber of nine or ten, like- ise attended, ~The play was over, and the afterpiece had just begun. The actors paused, and seemed cou- fused ; and at the same time tire fell on the stage. An sctor then camo forward, and anuouaced, * Ladiesacd gentlemen, tho theatrois on fire’ Instantly all wus fumult and terror, Partics separated, each rushing forward, to find mcans of escape. Of those who went from our bearding-honse, 1o two got out together. The pit of the theatre waa on a level with the street 3 and escapo thence, through the only outer door, was easy. Many from tho lower gellery clambered down into the pit, and saved themselves in this way. A good stairway, beginning 8 fow from the outer door, led to the gallerics. The house was full; cnd in the frantic terror that prevailed, most of those in the first gallery rushed towards the head of the stairs. Hero the pressure was fearful, Many were thrown down and trampled to death, iy parents were forci- Dly separated. Ay mother, without the slightest effork on her part, was thrust upwards on tho heads and shoulders of those beginning to descend the stairs; and, 50 dense was the mass, ehe was_ carried in a re- clining posture to the Lottom on her feet; and then the outer door, just beforo her, afforded ready egress, Teaving with an acqusintance a message for her hus- band, she set off slone for the bearding-house, up Grace strect, moro than half a mile distant, She lost shoes, bonnet, and cap; ond when I resched the par- Ior she had arrived, and, with her halr streaming over her shoulders was recounting some of the terrible scencs of the fire, Sho was the first to reach the ouse, “The father of the writer escaped, in s different way. Justafter his wifo had been carried down the stairs, tho staircase gave Way, and then masses of frantio beings went rolling over each other to the fioor. Beelng eecape by the stair cut off, the writer's father sought ofher means of deliverance, Wil forced: along, ho felt current of coal air, and looking to the Jeft hio saw an open window a few feot off, He was & stont, heavy man, and by 8 violent cffort reached the Window and feated himself on the sill. ~He then wrapped his great coat around Lim; and, holding by The outer-odges of tho sill a3 long as possible, dropped. eafaly to the ground. g “The writer's half-sister, 16 years’old, was in the house with her materpul grandmother, With whom she lived. Tho old lady wos leaty sad belpless; and making little or mo efort to escape, was burned. Her nd- dsughter sprang to 3 window and leapol out. The Yall Shattered her right socle bone so udly that ehe could not move. Afte s timo a gentlemon Trom our ‘boarding-housa recognized her, and with other help, carrled her off o house ono square off, There she suifored wgony for muny weeks Lefora removal was possible; and a ear elapsed before she could walk, and ‘Waa lame for life, “ An sunt and cousin of the writer bad been attend- cd o the theatro bynyoung lawyer, When tha alarm was given, fear appoared to deprive both of the power to move. In vain the young man besought them to flec for their lives, ~In nite of entreatics,bots sat still, whils® tho heat and smoko became each’ mc= ‘ment more insupporable. The gentleman remained with them until bis nose, eye-brows,and whiskers wera badly scorched. The instinct of self-preservation {hen drove him to window near at hand, wheace be leaped for his life, Ono knee was badly sprained. The Indiea kept. their seats and met their doom. “Tho writer's mother wos somotimes reluctantly persuaded to describo the horrors of that night. Just a8 sho left the theatre, she observed o large, heavy old ‘man, Iyiug on his back, bencath a window, perfectly Qead, "Sbo used to siy the look of agony in that ghnsily face haunted her for years. “A touching incident, well authenticated, wes thiss Lieutenant Givbon, United States Navy, was betrothed. 1o tho most beautiful girl in Richmond, ~ (Ho was the &on of Major Gibbon, Collector of the Post, who, in the War of the Revolution, led the forlorn hopo” of volunteers, being Lieutenant in command of tba Storming-party, in Wayne's attack on Stony Point.) Tho Lieutenant snd his betrothed werein tho thea- tre; but, when the slarm was given, he was mok at her side. Ho hastened to Ler rescue, and, find- ing a lady, whom, from her general appearsnce, he- supposcd was the loved one, Lo struggled manf: o safety, and at length got_her without the building, Tere, to his dismay, the bright light revealed the fea- ‘tures of un unknown lady. He instantly rushed back into tho house, Row 2 moss cf firo; but tho adverso throng delayed his progress so much that, just s hie ba found ber whom he scught, the roof fell in, and boths perished. “Doctor McCaw, o _prominent physiclan, was - strumental in saying many females, Ho sat nstrids window sill and persuaded them to get on the spat, then, holding o band Armly in his, they were gently lowered 0s far as he could resch, and dropped safely 0 the ground. Al 8o nided escaped unhurt. When all whom he could influenco had been thus saved, the doctor, finding the firo close at hand, leaped from tha window, but in doing so_he injured one knee, Wl rendered him Lumo for Life. Ono who attends tho Monumental Church, in Rich- ‘mond, sees In fronta kind of mausoleum, within whicl i3 8 monument inscribed with the names of Buventye 10 vicms of tho fire. Tho mausoleum occupiea the site of tho old theatre, ‘The Governor of the State was one of the victims, Soma of the writer's schoolmates ere in the Louro; but, by pushing under tho elbow® of the crowd, sl escaped.’ . ——————— LITERATURE. Fifty new American novels have been pro- duced this fall. A —The King of Saxony has published eleven volumes, no one of which has paid expenses. —Colonel J. W. Foster, of Chicago, has near] ready ap_extensive work on ‘The Mound- Builders,” a subject to which he hos devoted several years’ rosearch. S —Mr. Edward Jenkins, suthor of *Ginx'a Baby,” etc., is to treat in his_Christmas stor the position of the agricultural laborer. It wi be entitled “ Little Hodge.” He has also nea Iy comploted a novel intended bo_illustrat the ‘oolie system and the relations of the races iy the West, Indies. 3 —The History of the American Flag has been thoroughly written up by Captain Geo:ee Henry Problo, United States Navy, vhose book, *Tha Origin’and Progress of the Flag of the’ Unite? States of America, with an Account of the Sym- Dbols, Standards, Banners, and Flags of Ancien! and Modern Nations,” will be soon brought ouf by Mansell, of Albany. A '—Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkins'& Hodge recently gold by ceution about thirty autograph letters of the poet Cowper. Une of tuem, containing a sonnet written by Cowper on behalf of a printes at Leicester, who had got into_prison for sellin some of Tom Paine's publications, fetched for ineas and a half. . —Nast is illustrating *Pickwick” for Har per's Household Dickens. Mr. C. S. Reinhar! will illustrate *Nicholas Nickleby,” and Mr, W S. Sheppard will do the same service for Dom bey & Son.” e o ~Victor Hugo's next production will be the long-promised sequel to “La Legnde det Siacles”—*Dien.” That is to be shortly fo lowed by ‘“ La Fin de Satan,” though we can ses 1o reason why this should ba published befors the millenium. Besides these poems, M. Huge has in preparation- **Les Quatre Vonts doIEs prit” and “‘Le Theatre en Liberte.” —The concludir part of the second volume of Mr. Herbert Spencer’s “ Principle of Paychok ogy” will soon be published by B_Ap‘glatona It completes this portion, and with it the firs/ half of the whole series of volumes which are t comprise Lis System of Philosophy. . = R Ire. Harriot Boccher Stowe is editing » Li brary of Famous Fiction, which is to embracy in_a singlo volume -¢~:> Dilgrim's Progress, “ Robinson -Crusce, . .iiver's Travels,! # Vathek,” and five other of the mas English Imaginative literature. Ford will publish the baok, with numerous illustra tions, uniform with Bryant's Lil-ary of Poetr; and song,