Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1873, Page 9

ca 1y . THE PLANS, Description of Those Submitted by Messrs. Randall, Willett, and A, L i b = Robb. . eatire stricturo’ is designed by ono. areiitect, from foundation t6 pinuacle, which ha slvays ‘buildings, and it ounght to, par- ticularly in Chicago, being & young, enterprisin, | city, s wonder s admirati 5 stylo embodies the true feelings of its people, ‘which is excelsior, onward aud 1 QP in: this design it will be found that the:renaissance - tion of. the age. Tho . fpward ; ang 8 strictly.carried out purely in all .its partioular.- arts andl points, both oxteror and interor. Tl - proved the greatest Euccess of construction in An Explanation-—-The Next Ifeeting of the Committee. i "In giving the doscription of six of those plana- Incloded in the lacky eighteen selectod in the firat straining operation performed by the Com- mittes, it was prothised that, if tho othors of the eighteer, which wers omitted foind & place smong the luckier nine, they should receive such notics as the others.” Not one of thom sncceeded iz finding & place, but, a8 the whole forty-nino-| eta still to be chosen from, there yet remains g microscopic chance for each’architect in compe-. tition. And, to do justice to all, wo give to-day all cases, - . In designing the plans_for tho different com- paxtments, tho architeot has mado it Lis particn- ar study to keep the building as far from the lot lino as possible to give-the grand- effect of the exterior structuro. necessary, sssisted by.the grand rotun i a-reflector.at the top, throwing s mild-glowing J:s}:t through all the main corridors and rooms It has all the light that is , having | joining. In aadition to that, there are sevon large light shafts - to- incronse the light-in the larger rooms, and also some small rooms adjoin- ing the light-shafts, which does not leave a dark Toom in tho whola building. Thoy. also improve the ventilation of the building by their conatruc- tion on the roof, and there is amplo ventilation by other means. Thero are eight -ventilating towers on tho- main centres rising about S : tho roof, also . four adegcription of the' plans of Mossrs. Randall, | twenty foet nkove the —roof, also. g Robb; . This il ontilalors in tho cornors.of tho Willatt, and Bobb: . This will be the last butchof | Yory n nfig' which. 1 carried up o whare {ho plans described, a8 before next Sunday tho Com- mittee Will havo selected six, and it is supposed that but of this’ number will be made the final” salection of three for preminma. . 2 “The stylo of architecture chosen for this de- xign, is that generally known as the Italian or Palladisn style. In the absenceof any spécial {nstruction as to siyle or amount of ornamenta- tag is formed on-the exterior, Tho bace- Paent floor boiag raised ittlo above grade, gives- the advantage of constructing cold air ducts in connection with all those .ventileting -shafta which will causo ‘o continual current of “air throngh the entire building. © - - ’J.'lluagcubicsl coutents of the building are 9,600~ 000 cubic,feet, which, at 27 cents parfoot, will ivo ae tho Cost of tho: building tho sum of £57565,000. Tho principel 1toms of materials aro 20,000,000 of brick, 815,000 faot of stono for cnt- lion, the architect has chosen ' this one as being | i '3 000 squares- of ' firo-proof flooring, 5,000 the best adapted to the purpose, and has aimed 16 givo it such a form and character of detail that it sholl not look heavy nor over-wrought with ornament, while at tho same time its thick extarior walls, which are, on an average, bout four feet, its dooplyrocessed windows and doors, und the boldness of its projections generally, will at once impress the beholder with an idea of stability and permanence. He has filled the walls with windows both on the strect oleva- tions aud within the courts, and an inspection of the several floor plans shows that overy office 3d ell Tooms of snyimportance are 5ot onl well lightad, but that they aro thoroughly wel Lighted. The-depth of the building, from the foundstions, 2,000 cords of masonry; plaatering, c:zo,oou ; smith and iron founder, 200,000, etc. ote. e cubic yards of concrote, 60,000 fest of stonefor A'CORRECTION. At the meeting on Wednesday, it was stated by one of the-Aldermen that Plan No. 2 had the vaults arranged upon_ iron columns. This, it appears, is not correct. Tho vaults are built upon solid foundetions from the ground up, and aro entirely fire-proof, but, a8 these vaults aroof large size, it will ba impossiblo to spring an arch for the ceiling the -whole size. bayo placed iron columnps ineide the vaalts, to sustain the ceiling. It is not expocted thatit The architects front face to the courts in tho centre, | will ever warm _enough inside s [5such that many of the most important offices | firo-proof vault - to - destroy the - iron {md .court-rooms are lightod ‘both from the | columns, Brick piers oo have. been iltroets end the courts. 3 £ The central court or opening for light and air 1 very large, being sbout 120 feet from north to south, and 170 feet from east to west, in the up- per and 4 parl of the socond stories; and beloy, this aréa is divided into four courts of less di- mensions, but each entirely sufficiont to admit, an abandance of Light to all the rooms requiring light from thia source. "The. division of this large court into four smaller ones was for the purpose of introducing corridors crossihg each other at tho centro, thereby giving access to every part of the build: Ing from either one of the Main entrances, and that, too, withont the necessity of separating any of thie principal offices from their respectiva caults, and, at the eame time, to bo enabled to |, %eep all the offices fronting on tlie stroets. On Clark and LaSalle streets there aro porti- 208 of & lighter construction, and _two stories in | height above the basemenf. These are each sopporied by an arcade of piers and arches, on a Hoor raised four or five stops above the sidewalk, snd throngh these the main east and west por- tals or entrances to the_building are reached.. Thess entrances, . thongh less imposing than those on the north and south, being but one story in height, are nevertheless vory spacious. Opening the door from either straef, the vista through to the other sireet is unbroken. * Pass- ing in boyénd tho ofices, we come to a roomy and spacious fli]?.\: of gtaira on one gide of the corridor, and lighted by a flood of light Iet in from the courts by "the several windows therein indicated. This.arrangement is tho same from LaSalle and ‘Clark streets. Beside these main entrances, there &re several others, as, for in- stance, the Mayor's private entrance, on LaSalle street, and others. Thegeneral plan of the building is rectangular, with an open court in the contre; this court has arms extending from the central portion of the court to the public corridors which run around the building through the middle of each story. Thera aro bold projections a the centres at tie oast and west fronts, and slsoat each of the four stréot cornera. There is a tower atthe centres of the cast and west fronts, desizned to contain bell and clock, and also at its lighest foor, to have & fire-look-out; this look-out will Do 235 feot above the gradeof the street, and | will -communicate with the proper ofices by means of a telegraph wire. The clock will be 207 feet, and the top of the vane 331 feot above the street. 3 : Thera zre four elevators, one at each of the main entrzaces. These run from sub-basement to fourth story, and oro_designed.to be large, and capable of accommodating from fifteen to twenty-five persons ot once; the smaller eleva- built in place.of the iron columns, would not malke 50 good & finish for th of the vault. * This explanation is made in jus- tice to the architect, who might- have attributed [ the rejection of fo the statement. TrIBUNE to attempt to select or reject. lnip]m‘ Tho Committes may do that, aad take tho ro- | sponsibility. # IT I3 THE INTENTION : of tho Committes, after choosing the next six, | to send for their authors and allow them- to_ex- plain tho merits of their dosigns, after which |. they will select the thres wlich deserve tho premiums, but, they e interior his'plan, should it be rejected 5 famot tho Infontion of To REVIEW OF AMUSEMERTS, THE DRAMA. The closing performances of * Alixe,” ot Hooley's Opera-House, attracted good audiences, . and the run of the piece Was remarkably suc--|" cessful in view of the bad weather. night, the ** Ticket-of-Leave Man " was produced on the occasion of the complimentary benofit of Associate Managers Blaisdell and Padget, who enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing their frionda and admirers out in such numbers as to com- pletely pack the house in ‘every part. Asa whole, the cast of the play was tho strongest ever geen in Chiesgo, introducing Mr. Blaisdell 88 Bob Brierly, Dalton, Mr. Dillon 88 Green Jones, Mr. Norris as Hawkshaw, Mr. Soggs 8s Meller Moss, Miss Meck as May Edwards, Miss Gloverns Emily 8t. ZEvremond, Miss Cowell as Sam Willoughby, and Mrs. Macder s Mfrs. Willoughby. Itis hardly necessary fo say thai-the *‘Ticket-of-Leave Man” was admirably produced by such a combi- nation of talent. It will bo continued, with the sate cast, on Monday and Tuesdny evenings of On Friday Mr. Padget .ss . Jim this week, and then is displaced by * Frou- Frou,” which will be given at the Wedneeday snd Batarday matineos, and on Wednesday and Thureday nights. Of course, it will be finoly acted and beautifally put upon the stage. day night John Dillo: takes & benefit, which will take care of itsolf a3 soon a8 the atiractions are announced. The week closes with the lest per-~ formance of. the ‘! Ticket-of-Leave Man”: on Saturday nigl Dell, entitled *'Risks,”is to bo produced mext week. Tri- Anev play by Bartley -Camp- M'VICRER'S TIEATRE. o ! 'That most excellent actor, -Mr. Mark Smith, tors are at the side entrances. 1 ‘Tomaius for another week at McVicker's Theatre, There are four circular stairways in the ‘small towers at the four main corners of the bnilding ; these have entrances from the street, and are intended to be used by the officials who do busi- ness in the building (and not for. the general public); they give ready nccess to offices on dif- fTerent tloors, which have to communicate with each other. Thare are four principal entrances to the build- ing; one ot the centre of each of the four sides. The main entrances are underneath the towers 0 the east and west fronts of the first story, 2nd are reached by ontside steps; underneaih these steps ore the entrances to the basement, the fioor of which is thres feet above tho street | - grade. « Tho side entrances ars on the north and south fronts, opening directly pinto the base: ment. = There are intormediate floors in the first, sac- ond. and third stories. .The /@ TOOmS TuN TP the full height of tho story, while the small Tooms are ruade 14 feet high, and another ‘floor is thus gained over the igprovement, inasmuch 6y are too high, have a very bsd echo; by making two fioors of them to & story, they aro of theproper height, and additicnal room is gained. Phessintermedistefloors are resched by stairwsys teading from main floor of ezch story, as shown in drawings, and are generally attached -to tho" offices : balow, 88 jury rooms, . commibt- tee: rooms, etc. ‘There are public ' corriz dors on_ench story running entirely -around the building, and giving access to all the rooms;. thess corridora are lighted at the centres by the windows in the stairways, and at the ends by large windows looking ont into the open court at the corners of the building, consequently they are both well lighted and ventilated. There ero four small entrances from the street to the small torers at each .corner ; those are intonded 88 private entrances.. The whole building is intand- &d to be fire-proof, no wood or other. combus-: tible material be‘i::g usad in any case, unless for interior finieh, such as doors, etc.; and-not then unless flentinih B b Thoroo! is the ordinary gabled roof, and will be thoroughly fire-proof, bfiu entirely of iron, and covered with slate, 1o wood whataver entor’ Ing into. its construction. There ars no flat places on the roof. The walls, flcors, and ceilings of the vaulta will be built hollow, and will be not less than three feet thick. The several dopartments on each floor are so ety i rrangod that the goneral business rooms. oo | Arinclon whg. Golion; Bentiental beLARE By nect y with the public corridor, while the | Tyryell, Bumridge, snd Kayne; snd tho other rooms attached thereto can be entered through private” halls, 80 that each of these emall rooms can be reached without going L!gcngh other rooms or out into the publio cor- vidor. - Mr. Villett has made the elevations after the modern Gothic style, but xnot ** irrey Gothic,” and the plans do nok necessarily tompel that siyle to be used. An Italien out altering the plans in any essential particular, but & Gothio design will cost. considerably less, And, in the architect’s judgment, make o better ippurmca. This_is. found to be the caso in ngland at the present time. There the modern Gothic atyle has almost_aitirely superseded the ciasaic Italiah, or rensissance style for public buildings. The Gothic style allows of & building being more readily adsptod to modern require- ments, Thera aré 9,776,000 cubic feet iri the building ; veluing it at 25 cents per cubic foot, which is be- lieved fo be sufflcient, it Wwould cost §2,444,000; but, allowing it to cost as. high as S0 conta. per eubic foot, it will cost £2,082,800. . The style of archites tnmm;sdap(efl in’ this e style o ec in design ia ths ‘renaissance and it s conceivod that thig siill is the one most oee, xd that in the accompanying design it rendered thorougnly. effective and harmoni- | comedians in negro ous. ' This'style, above all others, excels in ifs [ ton, and Rico; tho . very k. o ‘been kn to recsive, and Soblintee 0 B grandous, and eiloct, i | S ‘have . 6vor _60én—Air, - Kembls, . who | &3 Popiormor bad eres bewn known fo tecelve acd relieved enongh with its eharp_ projections.to |-has also - acquired .o national celebrity as | already the pomsessor of s considerable. fortune, the ve the grand effect of light and shade, reliev- | mandger ,223 ~ sctor; " by far the_finest | exmings of fivo yesrs of professional fi:fi; g that monotony observed, which is in B many | donble éong and dance frtists who have ever ap- }éon- a8 Mwen =‘-u mpgu?':lxng :‘ :&"’ the peared in Chicago—DMackin and Wilson ; & vocal | mseam of Jowelry and - Ero E’Ecpn._fldingn, Bo that the more one looks ot building tho more ono dmires the design, Byer seeing something new. The detail is not Matorate or exponsive, but sharp, refined, | s Mlective, and massive. The ronmaissance genercl has gained favor in compe- S et ot ponnt of tho play by zolo, and the genc: ormance of tho play by McVicker's Company ) commendation. In the ovent of an improvement m the westher, it is expected an hoped, for tho credit of the taste-and appreci- ativeness of our thoatre-goers, that tho patron- age.will be moro nearly commensurate with the merits of the entertainment. A is being * The stage at this theatre is to be occupied this ook by & new dfamatic combination, at tho head of which is Mrs. G. O. Howard, who has acquir~ ed somo celebrity a8 Topsy in- “ Uncle .Tom's. Cabin.” MMrs. Ha\:?td has x;ude thig clum‘;hr o “specialty-for several years, having sppeared £uo-. :‘E:shflgin Great Britain and America, - u‘nfiggammt at Aiken's aho will be sup) little Howard as St " Uncle Tom, Mr. James Harrison ts_ George Harris, and other charaoters by tho company. lington, Cotton, and Komble Minstrels at Myers’ Opera-House, atd the lovers of burnt-cork entor- tainmont par excellence who do not attend will haye to wait something over throe months for another opportunity. e to-morrow mgh% and it is sure to be & rousing one, for he haa frie rich bill is offered, Including in the first part the medley of _popular airs for' the finale..- In the . second part, Billy Rice -expresses him. eclf with reference to “The Modoo Question followed by Tyrrell, Surri in a . choice Rice s the in thair s ings," b{ [ gthins;lnd I’;irog 3 .;31 the @ ital bur- lesque of *‘Juck Shej and Jose, or renaidsance elevation could be mads withe | by th et posep! given thronghout the week. On Monday even- ing, May b, the gmznunnhagm anengagementat Myers' Opera- afior this weel ed * provincial . tour three months. ‘We confidently bespeak .for then tho most sbundant. muccoss, bocsuse of their peculiar and distinotive merits a8 g min- strel o) the least, o1 which has sccomplished 8o much in Chicago, holding its own with 8o many competitors for amusement yintron;ge, can hardly fail of pleas- .ing the peop! in the course of the tour. 1 b its equal will be found on the road this summer; appropriste to tho | certainly, ita : Deosing de faclades thres of tho best.and most volabrated chestra & perfect gem in respect of training and efticiency. Such is the company which has get a and will continue his artistic impersonation of- Jaques Fauvel, in the drama- of **One Hundred Years O1d.” Peoplo of culture and discrimina- +tion resdily recognize an_extraordinary degree 's finished rendition of the a8 excited the warmest of - dovoutly ACADENY OF MUSIO, e Little Nell, the California Diamond, with.a dranmtic company of her own, appears this week at the Academy-of Musio, pxoé time in n delin, the Fire Waif,” scene which is said to be singularly effective. Little Nell personates seven different 1 in the play, viz.: Fidelia (the Fire Waif, adopted Tooms; thus i an | daughter 25.8mall rooms, when | @ lucing, for the first. Chicago, & sensational flny entitled ¢ Fi- in which occurs a fire characters of tho Phenix Hose Company); The s of Liberly; Ike Tower (volunteer mem- ber of the Phenix), & street singer; Edward Round, Esq., & fast young man; » Tentonic dia- Ject part; and AMis: - young lndy. -The company embraces names new to Chicago. s Markham, sn interosti A complimentary benefit to Manager Gardiner gjzcnzaed among his friends.: - 3 : pahan with “ Pocahontas.” greatest of living tragodians, excelling all others -for his geason of four weeks in ' Monte Chri ‘way, above Twenty-first strcot, and Stuart is to & comedy, Which was recently performed byama- ‘gotten up by Americans. .| we watch the gradual effacement of Heaven's - that it is human ; we sorrow for the victims of AIEEN'S THEATRE, In her £ ortod l(zjv Florence -Newman as Euva, by. Mr. G, 0. Clair, Mr. Joseph Delmor as - MYERS' OPERA-HOUSE. This is the last week of the scason of the Ar-’ illy Rico takes benefit 08t8 of friends in Chicago. -, e, Eayne, and uartotte ; Arlin Gotton, ang e Graces;” in and Wilson b songs and dances ;. ¢ Quiet Lodg- L neskin,” 0 entire company. The same bill will be ] the Kitty Blanchard burlesque or- ouse, . % The Arlington, Cotton, and Eemble Company, ombarks upon an extend-. lssting °a_"little . over anization, than which there is, to say. no betlor in America. A company o of the cities osed to ba visited 4 is doubtful whother _vuporior will not.. The compazy —Arlington, Cot-. interlocutor uartette of surprising excellenco in Messrs. lyrrell, Burridge, Lang, and Kayne, who are fine oloists a8 well; and in Mr. Hunneman's or- -sonted on the tage. - W confess to n secret sat- lioni made her debut at the French Opera in tho stage, achioved & complete triumph in o field wheso “only tho bi appearance of the young danseuse at this time is | attern -of elegant and refined minstrel ormances in Chicago, and has thus established 2 standard which visiting troupes will find it dif- ficult to reach, much less to exceod. Their ro- turn will be heartily wolcomod. ° NIXON'S AMPHITHLATRE, i The McKes and Rogers combination, headed by Andy McKeeand Btevie Rogers, both veall Iknown as artistic minstrel performers, opens at Nixon's Amphithontro to-morrow ovening, an- nouncing a_ programmo which -includes min~ strelry, -burlesque, pantomime, songs, dances, and athletic performances. Tho entertainment. ‘boging with *“Tho Sumiambulist,” by MoReo, *Chace, Barton, and Lottie Dumont ; followed by Stevio Rogers in his artistic clog-dance; evolu- tions ou the invisible wire by Leo; banjo eccen- tricities by Wm. A. Huntloy; Irish sovgs and comicalitios by Pete Cannon ; * Rooms to_Let,” by McKeo, Chuel Dillon, and Davis ; the French Twin Sisters in ““Please Let my Brother Go;” lightning Zousvo drillby W. C. Burton and Minnie Rsinforth; McKee and Rogors in their specialties, * Robocea Jane™ and tho * Rurlesque Ballet ;" Frank Dillon in bis vocal yersatilitiés ; double - trapeze performance b Goraldino; and, in conclusion, the pantomime, - * La Image,” by Robert Burton, John Foster, Dillon, *Chace, Butler, Franks, and Minnie Rain~ forth. There will be the usual Wednesdsy and - Buturday matince performances. . & - ROBERT COLLYER'S LECTURE. It has now becn dofinitely nrranged that Robert Collyer will formally closo the Btar Course on Tuesday_evening, the Gth of May, when ho will give, for the first time in_this city, tho lecture which has been received withso much Leopold an tion and triumphs, res; those widch £ell beforo her oot e story of her triumphs was repeatod & i in Earope, nd vhen, 18 1847, tlo retteed forerereid, tho stage, the name &ho left with a ringle f e s et g e 1d portion of it in o maguificent restdence in Veatoe, o another on the banks of e cioty was for yesrs much sought after, and for o acs siderablo period Ler residencea ‘est atiractions of European tourists, sesocizted vith Ler mame, soveral osed Lierself, are: 4 Cendrillon, % Guillsumo Tell, @ Nathalie," ¢La Bylphide,” and “La Bells du Dennbe,s the centze of attraction, much bitter ; hich, Bowever I 20 a7 detrattes souousy follo 2 vay da from her reputa- ly enthusizs~ Hic capital, her success Was more aatonishisy tal, %nu:d the oven more gratifylng, than tif) in Paris or in Landon, behind wes untarnishe ailure. Tho fortune she bad Ameery s rudently invested a the Lake of Como. Her so- ‘were among the great- Tho great kalléta of which sho cora- "¢ Floro et Zephire,” e, La Revolt au Berait,” music. The opera .season Wwill not commence until May 5, and, until that time, musical matters will be comparatively quiet. A concert is annonnicod for to-morrow evening at Martine's Hall, com- plimentary to 8, H. Rhys, the Scotch einger, in which Mesers. Ben Owens, Farini, and Schultze, and Miss Fannio Goodwin will aesist. The pro- gramme is of a light and miscellaneous charae- tor. On Tuesdsy evening, Mr. Emil Liebling. the feacher of music ai the Young Ladies’ Col- lege, Lako Forest, and a very prominent pian- delight'in-all parts of tho comiry during fho . ; past wiater, tho muggestive s, of whith “;.*'“kg“‘"’ B cheab. o Ehaux ©Hal, ** Our Folka and Other Folks.” Thoso who aro | \Voukegsn,. ~upon which = occasion - Le acquainted with Mr. Collyer's peculiar style will recoguize the felicitous clioice ho has made, and will expoct & most enjoyablo treat from his lac- ture. With no exception, Mr. Collyer has, this winter, filled more engagements than any other locturer on the platform, and the fact that in nearly oll the places whao Lo lostared. during the carly part of the season he was ngain requested to appear during tho latter part of tho year, i8 an evidence of his popularity. Tho ala of tickets for this lecturo begin next Saturday morning, GENLRAL GOSSIP. Spain has 834 theatros, . " An afternoon thentro is to be established in Lgnldon for the convenience of country resi- 8. Liont. Julius C. Shaler, of the United States Marine Corps. The Bhah of Persia has mrde liberal offers to John Brongham to open the new theatre at Is- Balvini, the Italian actor, is said to bo the who have attempted the character of Othello. " Mr. Fechtor is to recoive £28,000 as s at the New York Grand Opera-House, Duke George of Saxe-Meiningen was pr vately married to an nciress named Fraulein 8 Franz, at his ducal palace, on the 18th ult. Purssell, the baker, has made money enough to build a theatre. It is to be located on Broad- mansgoit. M. Story, the scalptor, in Rome, has written teurs at & private entertainment in that city, Mrs. Oates and her husbard, Tracy Titus, will sail for Europe in June, and will return in Sep- ‘tember to San_Francisco, where she will begin .an engagement at Maguire’s Opera-Honse. Lending lady, stoutish (with just indignation on reading cast of noxt performance) : * What ! I not play Juliet? After having played it thirty “years. No wondor thero'sno chance for real talent now-a-dayal” . Managers of traveling tronpes now evado tho Civil Kights bill in Mississippi, and exclude negroes from reserved soats by advertising thoir shows as “ privato entertainments,” which gives them the right to select those who shall paytheir stamps for admission. The Boston Safurday Evening Gazelle acys : “Itmeynotbe generally known that the late Charlos Barras was affianced to the protty and talented danseuse CoraAdrienne, late of Niblo's, and that their nuptials were to have been cele- ‘brated during the present month.” The Gazetle is in error, says the Buffalo Courier. Mr. Barraa g: }’gffl;’“"gv;mem 0. Carl Maria Quadrille, wes aftianced to the daughter of Mr. Iane, fromwhoso houso at Cos Cob the fanoral took pluce., The ninth snd concluding volume of the Bolio- misn tranalation of Shakapeare, which Lias bsen produced at tha expenso of the Bobemian Mu- soum, has sppeared st Praguo. It containa # Pericles,” ‘¢ Romeo and Juliat,” ** The Taming of the Shrew,” and_“Tho Tempest;” and it also contains ‘anelsborate cssay,” by J. Maly, ¢ On Shakspearo’ and his Works,” The translation, sehich is considered by good judgoa to be an ex- cellent orie, was commenced in 1856, . Mr. Bandmann's Macbeth has been very much | * admired in Ediob , where, in a letter by the Entl of Southesk to the Scofsman, tho following paseage occurs : - Horr Bandmann has studied the character of Afacbeth with that mingling of reflection and insight that belongs to the German mind. Interpreted by him, Macheth is no com- mon assessin, but _rather a man of an originally Doble and Lighly imaginative nature. We Sco the first entrance of evil, we follow its progress, image even until the fnal ruin ; butamid all our hatrod of the 'crimes—nay, contempt for the hypocrisies—of the tyrant, we are able to feel ‘hellish arts ; wo pity him 2a he cries, grief-o'er- I1aden : A have lived long énough ; this way of life Is fallen into the eear and yellow leaf ; or when, with s folorness 80 abeolute, he re- colves tlio nows of tho desth of his ever-faithful wife.” x X : Tho Lafayette Journal admires the Hamlet of Eduin Booth, but eays of his eupport: 8o far sind the noisily empty Laerics, as thoy were pre- isfaction at the poisoning of the Quecen, who in rouging hor cheoks, got s double doso on tho end of her nose, which fecling was only marzed by, the certainty of her premature resurrcction ; end we experienced a malicious joy in ihe un- gkiliful stabbing of Laertes, who deserved death, if for no otherreason than for his unaccented commentations over the demise of a horse-fiddle sister, whoee departure should have been to him & source of joy. The grave-digger did well, not only in his professional work, bat in effeckually 1. Sonata. 2. Song—* Looking Back 8. Duo Concertante, 4. Aria—4 Creation ¥, Miss Emeling Zavistowski lias beon marriod to | 1. bflrtunl' T . Miss Ella 2. Song, * Erl King’ ¢. Waltz—* On the'Beautiful Rhine" ‘The pro; afternoon 18 as follows : 1. March—* Good Templar™. 2. Overture to * Magic Flute’ 3. Waltz—* Almack's Dance”. 4. Potpourri—Sounds from Schiller..,. 5. Goncerto for Oboe. ... . r. Bai 6. Polka—* Golden Robin”. . Qresture-— Nasanlello” Holds the Bread.” song, and as it is a musical defense of the farm- ers against mannpo}i very popular among West. b . 5 Louisville, Ky., for a brilliant'fantasie for piano on themes from * Ern: aty, WHitaoy Ars, J. . ) Annie Louise Gary, were also imported from New England. .Bome of the New J umbrage Bt this fact, but Theodoro went on his ‘puro was the glorious volume will havo the assistance of Miss: Ella ‘Warrer, and Mesors. Foltz and Bischof, and Mr. Lewis, the violinist, who haa too long been absent from the concert stage. The programme, a8 will be seen, is a remarkably excellent one : PARTI Hr: Fritz Foltz, Hesors. Win, Liwsis and Emil Licbiing. e, . ..o Warrenand 3ir. Enidl Liebling. 1 King™, Bchmbert 7 Atr, A, Biachof. . {3 Targhott, fro Sonata ado - Qb. Scherzo.. tain 4. Aris, *Don Juan,”. Mozart 5. Fantasle, God Bave the Queen,”, Gottachalk Mr, Emil Lieblin, . THE OPERA SEASON: The opera season will commence at McVicker's Theatre on Monday, May 6, and will include four evening porformances, oo _Monday,” Taeaday, Wednesday, and Fridsy, and an_afterncon per- formance “on Enmdi{. Lucea and Eellogg will s Tuesday, Kellogg in ““Ma Luces ond Kellogg in “Mignon.” The operas :for Friday and Saturday are not yet announced. The sale of subscription eeats will begin on Wednesday morning of this week, and of single _nights on Thursda; Verati, the princip: Havana Company, Abrugnedo, whose irregularitics caused 8o “On Monday night, ear in “ Faust;" on a;" on Wedneaday, morning. ‘A new tenor, _tenor of the Tamberlik Lias been substituted for mouch tromble here during the recent ‘sesson of tho troupe. As this is the fare- well- season of the troupe, being the last :ipenmu of Lucca, and also of Kellogg, ‘who ortly gocs to Enrope, tho soason will nue ¢ _Boston is enthusiastio over William Warren’s i ‘?‘u mo{g v, ‘i‘: ;; °".°l 1‘!;:: z Ye:\;s gm‘" ggz:ztadly & very pleasant and successful Flobe says it is s “‘lofty and grand effort ; 5 —— zoble In. ita dignity, tonching in ita pathos, and | 1 gecona musieal entertaument ander the ‘ustural n ove 8- suspices of tho Park Avenue Library Associa- tion will take place ot the Park Avenus Church, corner of Roboy street, on Monday evening, the 23th. will grammo are Mrs. Dr. Willard, son, the Misses Clarn and Kato Skeer and Lena Hastrelter, Behultze, IWright, Bigelow, Bliss, Thomaa, Alle Ayres, and Blackmer. ‘Those who take art in the g{m— fm, George Ma- and Mesars, Martin Schultz, Edward n, TULNERHALL. The Turner Hall programme for this afternoon is a8 follows : 2. Overture— In Search of Happincss”. $. Introduction to *Semiramide’ 4. Potpourri from “Indigo”. &, Trombone Halo.... ... H. Braun. [o-hele”, THE GERMANIA CONCERT. 0 for the Germania concert this reither. NEW MUSIC. 3 Wo have reccived from Messrs. Georgt Root & Sons a new song and chorusby the senior member of the firm, entitled ** The e F. It is. peculiarly s farmer's it will undoubtedly be 0 Granges throughout the We are also indebted to D." P. Faulds, ani,” by Ernest Zoellger. THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL. In the: absence of any local musicalnews, there are some facts concorning music abroad, which are of interest, and smong these is the festival which Theodore Thomss tho last week, in New York, ' Its most notable feature - was the fact that the chorus was com- posed of the Boston Handel and Haydn Soci- gave during and_that . the vocal soloists, Mr.-B. W. - Nelson Varley, Mr. Hiram Wilde, West, Miss O. A. Brockett, and Aliss orkers took | 28 Hamlet's madness is concorned, ho must have | way quistly, and bad: his festival nevertholess, been = most remarkable man nat to havo gono | and.compelled ‘the New Yorkers to go frantic mad in the midst of such tors as Lis aim- | over _ the ificent siging of = this -lesg mother, tho insipid and discordant Ophelia, | splondid .sociély. Unable.. to. sbuse the chorus; the New York critics- vented their: rago upon the soloista. k i which is the only conscientious paper in musi Toatters in that city, was an exception. . It gayo Just credit to tho sol tho performance’of *Elijah " It says : The New York Tntum oists, and_of the chorus in It was the chorus, though, that made this perform- ance 8o remarkable, . How ehall we begin to point ont particular excellences whero all was 8o grand 2 We did Dot notico one mistako. We could not detect ono false note, Not one passage was elurred. The tume was ir- Toproschable. The ailack wos splendid, Tho halsnce ‘How sweot and strong and ho parts e T of the sopranos ; how burying the ill-dressed Ophelia. W never ai- | Bioy bisra o e i fongod b Pamsral with more plesasrac” T ok dene T tamm. “Tho.. ooat - knotvs . THEATRICAL CONVENTION. [ith s scleun opening “Help, " Lord ! wilt .- It is now definitely sottlod that tho theatrical | thou ~quite destroy we” _and ihat won and amusement managers generally, together with tho *Btars” and leading members of the profession, are to assomble in New York, in July noxt, in convention, to take action in relation to obtalning special rates and_ better - facilitios on the principal railroads. It is proposed to form -themselves into & co-operation Society, elect offi- cers, and meet each July in New York City, in fartherance of their interests. Such trunk lines of road es shall work in harmony with this or- ganization will receive the entiro patronage of Its members, ‘each one of whom will pledge himself to use his influence for'such roads as shall extend to them tho best rates and facili- ties for their traveling intorests; and it is also in contemplation that the 200,000 bills daily dis- tributed in the- principal cities of America shall ‘make favorable mention of such roeds as extend to this organization the best rates and facilities. G MARIA TAGLIONL. 5 - The- New York Times gives the following gkotch of the life of tho celebrated danseuse, | Maria Taglioni, the Countess'de Voisona : : -As her name iniplies, Maria Tagliond was of TItalian ntage, but was born in Stockholm in 1804, whers B father, Fillipo Taglioni, was a popular ballet- master, Bignor_Teglioni sppeared at all the grest pera-houses of Europe, in his professional capecits, and waa enabled togive his daughter o thorough cdu~ cation in the principles of his art, In1827, Maria Tag- ‘Paris, and, a8 was said at tho time, by ber first bound upoa jghest types of her art wero tolerated. Tho f ke of in, the most enthusiastio terms, hor Porsonal beauty being o wonderfal harmony wi exquisitely siry grace of her dancing. In 1832 Tagliond Arst apresred in Berlin in the grest ballet 4 Ls Bayadere,” and achicved another. overwhelming triumph, recelving, it issaid, the highest remunerstion ever puid ta » danseusoup to that date. Sho was the recipient of moro public favors from all claeses than ) m Berlin Taglioni migrated to Londonm, only to re- peat her Continental famphs, 1n London eho becamo the eucceasful rival of the prime donne who were en- geged to sing in operas on the same evenings o which ahe danced, and, as the danseuse immediately became tiva what they have a taste. - The ruzh to tho 18 merely o fashionable whim ; the giggling, chatter--| ing, laughing, end exhibit of bad enerally, ‘ronders the music, above the sober, staid area of tho ‘parquet, almost inaudsblé, - Peoplo flock Lo an oratario 880 gort of quasi-religious exerciso; and ope can judge, by the topidity and vapidness of the’ Church Music Association sudiences, how Lttlo of tho merea e of the grand schoel of oratorio music is compre- ‘hended in Now York—a school which, has become oa familiar as household words: yawn through * Elijah,” and doze through the “ Bes- spactabliity Vacnity. salary e Two thousand dollars are paid in several in- stances. Tenors who last year sang for a thou- #and dollars, this year demand and receive fifteen hundred. Bassea in the general rise of derfal o that follows, The harvest now is over,” Produced s mmediats rensation. Ths efect npon tha sudience grew more and more marked as tho cven- ing worc awsy, The mngnificent crescéndo’ in * His mercios on thousands fall;” tho exquisito besuty of * Blesscd aro the men who fear Him ;" the spl the Pagan chorus, * Baal, we czy to thee,” were all fol but ot tho conclusion of. the *Thanks be peoplo broko throngh the ordinary restraints, and many of - over Israel ” was as good a8 it could possibly be. * Be- hold God the Lord 1ee chorus, with 10,000 voices, ever equaled tho majesty of ‘some of .theso glorions choruses. Hero one found the truo grandeur titudo of trained voices, Here was tho music which 1ifts up the heart nd brings moisturo to the eyes, endar of to God " the them shouted with delight. “He watching by ” was sublime, No Jubi- and bells and ' cannon, mal- . Concerniug the tasteof the N&wlYurkoi‘s, the Graphic very pungently says : ‘There ia no tasfe for oratorio musle amongst the cul- ted classes of (hia clty ; in fact It s donbifal for o " with a self-complacent demeanor of stupid rc- absolutely irritating from its fnano CHOIZ MATTERS. Choir singing in Now York. is fast becoming very lucrative. Tho tariff of salaries has beon greatly enbanced of-Iate.. A few years of $1,000 ‘wag considered o vi ist, while 8500 to exacting Boprano. 3 ‘s dozen arp;nom organists who receive from £2,500 to £3,000 n y soprano ¥ .merated with 1,000, Obe lady. of eminence in ; the i de- clined the offer of e stipend for an organ- ]::Ei]y satisfied the most Now, . howover, there are car, and the average thinks herself Ybut poorly romu- mausical . - profession. recently . o pml five-thousand-dollar from one of our principsl carches. and altos, of course, musical values. Christ Church is investing hesnlzog:mmxc. The choir of that church costs 810,000 per year, of which Rufus Hatch, the banker, pays §5,000. Mr. F. Packard, now the tenor at St. Paul's, Boston, goes to {his church, where he will receive & sal- ary of $2,600 n year, and Mr. Nelson Varley, the English fanor who 'accompanicd Mme, Ruders- dorfI to this country, will be sdded to the same choir, where is already of the best Boston bas- 808, Mr. M. W. Whitney, who receives for hissor- vices 83,0002 yoor. Mrs. H. M. Smith has also just comploted an engagement with the church at $4,200 & year, and offers almost as lucrative have been made. to rs. J. N. Osgood, now tho soprano of the 0]d South Church in Boston. VUBILEE GILMORE. The irrepresaible Gilmorc has on hand a mam- moth Jubilee festival in England, for 1874 He has abandoned for tha prosent his offorts to or- nize at Washington a National band of sixty- ive pieces,' the money difticulties in the cace ving 00 great for even his indefatigability, uch an organization would cost upwards of $125,000 8 year,—for skillful performers could not be obtained for less than from 335 to §40 & week,—and Congressmen scemed to be about unanimous in the opinion - that such an expenditure would be considered an unwarranta- ble extravagance. Finding this echome impracti- cable, Mr. Gilmore has concluded to_ remain Lere until fall, when he will go to London, and in conjunction with prominent musical entre- preneurs begin preparations for- the . festival, “The project is_not yet enfficiently far sdvanced to determine whether any American talent will be employed, but the probabilities. are that be- yond two or throe soloists the participants in the Testival will bo selectod from English cities and from the Continent : MURICAL NOTES. - - [ Viouxtomps, the violiniet, is playing st Bor- deaux with great applaunse. - 5ohr haa celobrated his eighty-eighth birth- 5. . Gounod has composed two choruses, thres airs, and two marches, for & drama whose hero- ineis {‘Joan of Arc." " Mr. Henry Smart s composing an oratorio on tho subjack + Jacob, " which will be produced at Glasgow. The Ogcm-Hmua in Now Orleans will be sold by the Bheriff on the 12th of May. Bignor, Brignoli has been singing with great success in Naples. i L Mlle. D'Angeri, Mlle. Foses, and Madame Bulli-Paoli, three of tho new debutantes at the _Covent Garden Opers, have met with equivocal “Buccess. Mme. Jonny Van Zandt is to be the principal solo singer at the musical featival at mmfl, Vi, in May. - . . The concert tendered to Miss Carey by the cit- izens of Portland, Tuesday night, was brilliantly successfal. 4 It is now reported that the Roeas are about to en a Beason of Englich opera in London. 2dame Boss hes recently won some splondid successes in Cairo, Adelina Patti’s voice is in such splendid condi- ton that it is believed sho can not come to Amer- ica for several years. 5 Liszt, whose monkieh cowl could not shut out the glaro of the foot-lights, will mako a senson ot in this country, : “LaRoslero @Ici” is the title of the latest opera bouffe which tickled the fancy of tha Parisians, Neazly ail the American girls ‘studying for the operatic stage, in Milan lodge in the same ‘houso. i A set of diamonds recently presented to Patti E: lla&) Czar of Rusaain person is valued ab £60,000. - Wachtel was knighted and mede an honorary member of the ducal theatre in Gotha by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Goths, while sing- ing in that city. Mr. Mapleson, the impresario of D Lane, ho is also Liottenant-Golonsl of tho Northesst London Volunteers, has invented a new and im- ‘Pproved military tent. Pappini is the name of the next great violinist ‘whois to excite the interest of the music-loving. §_e has been recsived with great enthusiasm m ice. 5 ; Mlle. Schneideris no longer the . queen of opera_bonffe in Paris. She lias been displsced by Nidue Judic, who hes set naughty Paris wild With enthusizsm.’ : At the Grand Opera, in Paris, the other even- ing, Mlle. Hisson was playing Leonora, in “I1 Trovatore,” when ghe wss suddenly taken ill, bursting into tears and exclaiming, ‘“My voice fails me—I canuot sing—pardon me!”™ She could not go on, and the cartain foll. Wagner’s “ Lohengrin " has been withdrawn from the stage of La Scala, in Milan, &fter threa stormy representations, though the tenor, Cam- panini, and the baritone, Maarel, won the favor of the auditory. Tho receipts were about $2,000 tho first night, and less than §500 tho third. * Haps von Bulow is to make his first_appear- ance in London on the 28th of this month, play- ing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (No. 5, E flat) 8t a concert of the Philharmonic Society. = Thera is talk of Wagner’s going to London to conduct _| Evening Post_eays: $hrce grand concerts. _For this service, howaver, e demands & thousand guineas. Aimeo is giving *‘sacred ” concerts in Boston, which prove very attractive to those fond of solemn music. . She mnflf Licked the tenor in the mouth becauss he failed on a high note, and an old deacon_remarked he would give £50 if he had not left his specs at home. ’ AL Offenbach, will, it is said, insugarate his new- mauvagement of the Gaite by = popular drams, in fivo'acts and eight tableaux, entitled ““Robert Miron; Provot des Marchands,” the name of the author being as_yet unknown. The nd_drama, “L’Officier de Fortune;” by AL ictorien Bardou, ia to follow, - H The heason of Italian' opera at Covent Garden Theatre, London, opened on the evening of the “1st inst. with ““L'Africaine,” which was pro- doced with great splondor. The delika of the ocesion was 5 Mllo, Anna Angeri, a Hungarian by. birth, who has & mezzo-soprano voice of ‘mgreeabls and telling quality, which has been cultivated under the ion of Madame Mer- chesi, the well-known Vienna professor. " The Hof- und National Theatre of Munich (Court and National Theatre), has been the first in Germany to give a_benefit for tha Grand-Na- tional:Festival-Stnge-Play-Theatro at Bayreath. Thio opera selected was_**Dio Mleistersinger von Nurnberg,” and the performance came off on the | 28th of February. ‘I'he house was crowded, and the whole of tne receipts, without any deduction 3 ;hntevsr, were handed to ihe Musician of the 'utare. H Mme: Nilsson-Rouzeaud has abandoned her intention of giving o series of representations in Brassels, thoreby sacrificing an engagement of .o less than £200 L&ar night, for the sake of keeping her word with.the deceased composer, Michael Balfe, to create the part 6f Edith Plan- tagonet in his posthumons opers,” “II Talis- mano,” Bhe is now in Paris, studying the music aud preparing herself to take this new charac- ter, prior to going to London for the rehearsals. A curious resuscitation of a poetic d.mmxéme .music by Bach, has taken place st the Salle Pleyel, in Paris, at a concert devoted msfleunu)y to the great tone-master’s works; it is called “ The Quarrel of Phebus snd Pan.” The soli wers .gung by the French opera-singers, Mlles. “Marcus and Adele Mounier, MM. Bataille and Grisy, with M. Charles Lamoureux as conductor. M. Delaborde and Fissot also ‘played concertos on the pianoforte, by the great Bach, who had in his days only the. tinkling bharpsichord to writo for. In the score of the classic opern he does not use horns, bassoons, or trombones ; but the instrumentation is confined to the string quartet, three trumpets, two oboes, tio flutes, drum; an cymbal. - 5 oy A late Hamburg newspaper contained this ap- .peal:” *Israclites! Riclard Wagner is among us and intends to.brinig* out’ somo of his picces. You know this man is the author of *Judaism in" 'Music.’ “In that infamous pamphlet he insalts our religion—doubtless because it teaches this “sacred precept : “'hou shalt not covet thy neigh- bors wife. lites, be truo to yourseives, and Jnow how to make yourselves respocted, if you wishto be respected. Stiflo curiosity in your sonls, and do not yield to the desire of hearing that _pagan’s muiic. Don't carry him your Tho Paris correspondent of the Now York **Lhége *Lenten times® produce no end of concerts. Madame Alboni is expected to sing on the 29th of this month (March) at the Grand Hotel. - T had the pleasure ‘of meeting her this weck at a friend's"houso. Apparently she has not grown old at neither ‘has her shadow become less. She still retaing that humorous twinkle of the eye which Burton never exceeded, sud her . laugh rings with fan and jollity.-- 8he is 46 years old, and would out- “weigh 'three- well-developed ingfish‘ ‘women: Alboni lives in this ity with her brother. The “tender care ehe fook for, two ycars of her lnts husband during a fatal malady, to which she often | came near being & victim, hes placed her charao- teor on a solid basis.” A SAD STATE OF AFFAINS. There is 5 88 state of affairs in Indiznapolis. The Lucca-Eellogg troupe opened there on last Mondsy night with * Faust.” The critio of the 8- editor. Sentinel,—who, by the way, Chicago, whera he had ¢ of the New York Tribune “ Buraw " during the last Presidential campaign,—having made arrangementa to lay himself out,” left the opera beforeits conclusion, and wrote up_ the most. stunning crifique that ever appeared in a frontier newspaper. The chi sceno was thus expatiated on - Noremorse was ever moro terrible, no horror or self-upbraiding ever more intense and rcal than thoss whick the heart-broken Marguerite interprets in the church—no penitent ever grovelod with more abso- lute desire and unspeskeblo, abandonment thax, that witnessed in the churchaisle, Tho pathetlc nai mess of that owful sceno deprived tho audlenca of the faculty of appreciation, for judgment or criticism” were lost in - tho ome. en- trancing, abeorbing interest of“the wrecked soul struggling on the stage before, them, It is safe to ssy that the actreas—the- singer, wera forgotten in that m‘;&z ¢1z$md':,dlnd 0;‘1:; ia n;}flng mr!lylnnp'{‘n presentation, The wildly swaying, suppli- cating outcast, the leering domon, the shiinking and ffl gu:nrgmgm, wer, u{ar the Dot e only fleah lood, but the actusl baleful circum- stances of the heart-breaking scene. Now cores the joke. The church scono was Dot put on at all. - Tho management * cut” that delicato bit out to shorten tho programme, The Journal says that thero *was no upbraiding nor struggling of wrecked souls on the Btage, nor groveliig, nor ‘wild swaying, nor anything of o sun."by'l‘he Bentinel 18 now engagod in getting even by abusing the compan; Tike _pirate, and denouncing Maretzek a6 & fraud for advertising to present an opera and ot doing it. Tho Sentinel critic explams him- Belf thus: Being pretty familiar with tho opera and Luces’s methods, the Sentinel critic left tho Academy to attend his dutics, presuming that the opera would go om 18 uszal. In the course of a hasty comment, as was nat- ural, allusion was made tothe church scene, where the contrast in the soprano’s aiternations are most marked. The substance of the comments wns based on the study of the progresaive action from the simplicity of the Jewel sccne 10 the horrible despalr of tho climax, and’the ides was not 6o much from that night’s per- formancs as o reminiscence of other reprosentations of the game opera, Friends, however, complained that the Sentinel joined the manager in the perpetration of & vory contemptible fraud, Gentlemen familiar with the opera inform us that after the third act, when the eritic left, tho text was abandaned with outrageons effontery, and tho nudienca openly and shamelessly swindled out of the best mucle and tho most effective scenesof the opera. The Sentinel joins the public in utter condemnation and shhorrenca of such low-lived robbery, and trusts that if this man Maretzek ever ‘has occasion to come this way again, that the memory of the swindled citizens will bo as retentive os their sppreciation of Lucea was strongand sincero. Is-well known in PARIS. + Special Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. Panis, April 12, 1878.—Great hubbub hias been, and still is, made here about Aons. Victorien Sardou’s piay, “L'Oncle Sam,” which has been played in New York, but which is interdicted bere.” It is intended to be a severe satire of republics. The lash is applied to. tho Unitad Btates. The blows are intonded for the French Republic.’ I do not mean to say thet Dons. Bardon is averse from striking us. Fronchmon detest us, continually scoff at us; the singers, musiciang, impresarie, who go 'to.the United States, caricature s on their return, jeor the applause bestowed upon them (often with good reason; bow many worn-out hacks of stage and concert-room palm themselves off on us for excellent artista!l), contemn us for paying them such prodigal sums of money. Eversbody hers thinks us the stinglest, meanest, most ignorant, most domoralized race under Heaven. We are hatéd by the Fronch because we.are wealthy, prosperous, powerfal, and ‘& hit - given us gratifies their detestation “of wug. The Board of Theatrical Censorsinterdicted *“L’Oncle Sam™ upon the pretext that it would bo offensive to Americans.. Our country people are hore in great numbers; hundreds of them bave made Paris their permanent home, and American purses pour animmense deal of wealth into Paris. The pretext given for the interdic- tion of ** L’ Oncle Sam ™ is a mere pratext. The real cause of the interdiction is that 3lons. Thiers is averse to Irritating Mons. Gambetta and his friends. Mons. Victorien Sardou’s play # Rabagas” greatly annoyod this party, and it gave Mons. g'rhiem to understand it would not forgiva s ropetition o tho offene. _Tho Radical party; e provinces, especially, was indignanf Bt Enhag:!:a » hadb’en:x;)amm’ed by the Cen- sorg. If was allowed to sco the foot-lights from Deginning to end in scarcely a single provincial town. 'Che Censors told Mons. Sardou, “L’ Oncle Sam,” (the title of tho satiro on the United States), might be played if he could obtain AR, WASHDUENE'S CONSEXNT. B 8o the dramatist went to our Minister and aeked him to declare that he had no objections to seeing *‘L’ Oncle Sam brought out. Mr. Wash- burne declined to express an opinion either one way or the other. He said ‘it was' none of his business. The Censors then told Mons. Sardon that, if Le would get the written consent of the Governor of Pans (‘gxen. Ladmirault) the picce might bo played. o Governar of Paris re- fused to reccive him. The press took the mat- ter up, and there was & long discussion upon it. The Cenaors were generally blamed, even by the counservative Republicans (Ze Temps, Le XIX Siecle, for instance).” Meantimé the Vaudeville Theatre, which had reckoned on ““L'Onclé Sam” to keep the bills for at least four months, found the old plays it rovived fatled to draw the pub- lic, and LEnL an enormous loss was nightly fall- ing on' its profit ‘and losa sccomnt. Its .manager (Mons. Carralhe) determined to make another sapplication to Mr Washburpe. He represented to the American Minister the enormous loss which would fall Tipon him if the pley were interdicted. Scenery had been painted, costumes made, actors:en- gaged, no other piece was ready, none could be got ready boforo the sesson closed, and he ap- ecled to the American Minister in the name of iberty, of freedom of stage, to say he could seo 10 objection to the performance of the picce. 0. WASHBURNE BEFUSED TO MOVE in the matter. He said it was none of his busi- ness ; tbat the United States had not sent him over here to play the part of Consor of the Peris theatres ; hie declined to read the ph{’, or to hear an analysis of it. I say Mr. Washburne acted wrongly, because, being tho representative of a country which has made freedom of all sorts the foundation of the glorious political edifice' of which we all are 80 proud, ho sought to have re~ moved obstacles to freedom when he wag chal- lenged to do so. Such an example would. have dulled satire's edge. Judge tle venom . con- “LIONCLE mAY,” for here is an analysis of if. Decide afterits porusal if such & pea blown from a Frenchman’s pop-gun could make a blue. mark on the Ameri- man epidermis. The curtain riscs on the saloon of “‘one of those splendid steaniboats which daily K:ly between Chicago and Now York City” Ssz‘n). hio sconory ropresents the steamboat’s saloon vigwed from the stern, with -clear way on each side of the saloon and with the upper deck. The ealoon is furnished as befits an American floating-palace, It is full of passengers. * For iustance, there”is Samuel Tapplebot, Sarak (his nioce), Marquis Robert de’ Kochemaure, Mme. Bellamy, AMr. Elliotf (an American newspaper ed- itor), rancis Briot (a Fronch viobmat), G4 (s rofessional politicisn), Grace Tapplebot (Sam "applebol’s dsughter,) ilr. Finsbury. Sam Tap- gmt is intended by Bons. Sardou to represent o .thorough American, with his vices ‘and virtues. The former are many, the latter are few and the virtues of tho shopkecper, not of the gentleman. Sam Tapplebol was a lucifer- match peddlerwhenhe was 12; ran errands when 15; . manufactured blacking when 20°;° then he’ furned grocer, and .made a good deal of ‘monoy by spgculations in sugar, all of which he Tost in ventures iri cacso ; -dabbling in cotton, ho graw rich sgain, doubled his fortuue by ventares in petrolenm oil, and becamo immensaly wealthy by transactions In gusno. . Sarah, his piece, is 5 representative American girl, who knows a-dol- 1ar contains 100 cents and 1,000 mills, each po- tont ; who considers life given man that he may swap all the time, getting something. to boot on each bargain;. -who regards -earth s nothing but s mart. Graco Tapplebot, e first cousin and Sam's dsughter, is- another specimen of an American girl. - Ske don't think, or care for honor, chastity, marriage, or any liko effete, 01d Worldnotions. Bhe hes been married to Elliot, is married to Finsbury, wishes.to. be divorced from him and to bo re-married to Elliol. Marquis Roberl de Rochemaure is a Frouchman, who is fond of fravelmg, and.who has gone to America to sea if the New be like thoOld World. Ho is, of course, the pearl of the piece ; ho is perfection itself, & gentleman in tiio midat of & nation of black; shopkeapers, thelr.vulgar wives and vulgar daughters. He hasahead, he has a heart—things unknown in America! ' France is likewise. represented by AIme. Bellamy, who is introducad to show how infinitely superior French good, sound common eenso is to Yankes cuteness ; - tho fommer has, 00, honesty and good naturo united with it ; the Iatter has but meanness, love of cheating, want of principle with it. You_seo the French aro 5s gogs‘wmpmsd with the vile American. ' Eliotia ‘specimen -of an .American ' néwspaper "Ho has_taken under his .protection Francis Briot, » French violinist, who has come %o Amorica to mako a fortune, Ho had not been ble to attract people to his concerts, and ho uges in round terms Yankee love of music and art, and declares Yankees care for no music bat the chimes of gold and silver coins. Eliot re- plies: * Nonsensel you have only to be puffed a littls to get a8 much money a8 you want; don’ give up.” Briot follows Elliof’s advice and zivea another concert. The hall is crowded. The in- stant ho sppears ho is greoted with thunders of 2pplause, and at the end of each pisce tha audi- ence'aze uproarions in therr demonstrations. “The concert is no sooner ended than an_ impressario calls on himrsnd offers s contract o tmenty cancerts, Briof to receiva 21,000 cleer profit for ¢ach concert. Briof ia delighted, and hustena to iot, saying: I wus mistaken, The Amerie cans are oxceliont judges; my fortuné is made:™ ° ZLlliot replies : Al that ghows the advantages of m z. Read this.” Eiliol gives his now: el to Briot and the latter ufl! the ynmrBDEsI iaf has written : “Everybody is. familisr with young Francis Briofs talents, for every concert ho gives in w triumph for hirh, nevartlisloss o poople are familiar: with the history of hix Tamous bow. Hore it ifin a few worda: Mons. Zriot was traveling in tho North in & train whicn was attacked by the Flat-Footed Inaians, those terrible red mon whom civilization- fortunatel: daily decimates, All the passengers fiod tortified at the Indians’ tomahawks—.fons. Briot alone, with thoroughly French energy, snatched up hig violin case and dealt tho Chief of the Flat-Boot- od Indians such blow on his head he fell dead, But the violin-case was shattered to atoms and the bow' had 1 ost allits hair.: The violin—a Stradivarius—alone was uninjured. AMons. Briof, dishoartened by theloss of bow and bo: at his adversary’s corpso. Suddenly a sul spiration came to him; he_adroitly scalpe Indian Chiof with his bowie-knife and dotachod {rom the red man'e skull the long mass of hair ‘which adorned it. This hair secured to the bow aod well resived gave to the Btadi- varins almost - human _accents. - Hear- ers - are. ai . tfimes npearly ready- to swear that Flat :Foot's sonl groans - under tha greesure of bis own hair. Everyhody in. New ork will .wish to. mee thia charming Fronch- man and to hear his valuable and singalar how.” Briot becomes furious upon. reading this puff, and exclaims: ¢ This is horrible. I ams dis- honored’ man.” Ziliolt replies: *Nonsense! Areyourich? Deny that and you wil see how your andiences will melt sway.” That is the way the vile Ameérican press humbugs the vila dAmax;lc;ln °pv'r°ir§: Al;ilis %&:@I}uflm Briotfalls ecply in Icve "appiebot, who is a brilian faat isnist, and he toll3 Afme, Hellamy history of his ¢ flirtation.” “Oh! in the Unitod Btates; as in France, & man‘who knows how to it has no dificalty. M. ds Rochemaure is still in the poetry of firation. I, since, g:utexdl,y. float in its full prose—'tis agrae- able, but still ‘tismerely prose.” Afme. Bellamy, who' suspects Francls Briot bhas been made a vicHm by one- of ~those astuta Yaokee girls © who are over on the watchi to entrap o man and maka him s husband, saya: “Tell me how yonmanaged” *Ohl ’twaa very easy. I went with Betsy to the sem sido. ‘Wa walked about hand in haod. Sh 1aid eyes on sn elderly, and very respectable-tooking gentloman, ~who' was scated, quictly’ mpping chocolate.” She enluted him. ¢ followed har ex~ ample. He offerod us a cup of ‘chocolata Wa -sccepted. AsI took a chair Irscognized Rep eren: iak, the pastor who invented ths Ro- pairing Vermouth and the - Calestial Bed - Quilt, Betsy then seid to “him: ‘Well my Reverend, since we havo met, you must give us your bless~ ing.* “Tho old fellow replicd with » paternal air “Willingly." - And while I was enjoying & moth- fal of “chocolate he added: 'You will have in. & charming companion, Mr.——' Ire- plied: ‘Mr. Francis Briol, born in Paris in 1840 T'was obliged to introduce myzelf, secin Betsyhad forgoiten to do so. Zedediah aske me: ‘Would you have Belsy ‘for your wife " I answercd as distinctly ss my full month permitted . (that made no: sort of dif- ferenco o - Zedediah !—just _ think] the invenfor of the Jelestl Bed Quilt!): ‘To Le eure I do’ He tumed to Bits and askod her: * Would you have Francis Brio for your husband?' She answered ¢ Yes’ ‘hen he said: ‘Then my children I give you my blosss ing—in the presence of those gentlemon luckily yonder as witnesses.' Thia 8 all, dear Ame. Bellamy, ind aftarwards Betsy considered mo hot husband.” Mme. Bellamy repliod : ““No wonder L You were hor husband[® ~ “Her hus- bandl What do yon mesan?” “Imean thatin the eye of tho Inw and of Zedediah, alt reverend inventor af the Celestial Bed Quitt thongh he ba! Aye! aye! dear sir, you ary regularly married —au chocolat ! - This sumé Ame. Bellamy haa been outragecusly ewirdled by Sam Tapplebot, Ha has sold her for eligible building Iots some swamp lands which are g0 fluid and so unhealthy that no foundation could be Iaid in them, and even had terra firma been discovered, no tenant could bave been found to inhabit such a spot.. The transaction has completely ruined Mme. Ballamy Lt one Frenchwomanof good sound 8cnse i6 more than & match for 10,000 cute Yankees. She does not despair. Sam Tapplebot owns lots adjacent to those he sold to her. Bha offersto buy all of them. Buspecting she has discovered a mine or other vluable property in them, he asks donble tho price at which he #0id the first lota. . She accopts, He zskaa still high- erprice. She accepts. His demands again risa, She accepts. Sam Tapplebotassumes & conquer- or's airs as he eays: ‘ Beg pardon, Mme. Bel- lamy, but a clausein the dee(f:l eale reservesms. the right to annul the sale any time within nine- ty dys, Tho ninety days have not expired. I annul the sale and ‘repay you the monoy you gave for.the property. Here itis.”. Tho deed cancelled, ho takes her aside and whispers : ¢ Come now, won’t you tell me what yon have found there in that land 7. Mfme. Bellomy re~ plies : ““The art of getting my money refunded ; that is all T wasafter.” Sam Tapplebotexclnims: “\hat & smart woman you are!” Ho offers to marry her. BShe refuses. I presént the charac~ ters to you, ome after another, withont standing on tho order of precedence, for there is none, as plot there is none. The picca is o sort of magic lantern through which ‘slide after elido is g\mhad without attention to cone noction of subjects. Here'is Gyp, an election- aering agent who knows where the best brass bends ‘are to be found, which tunes make the bost impression on the mob's oar, and who has not his equal in the world for gettiug up torch- light processions, for suggesting subjects for transparendies, for employing to most advantaga the 300 ‘“‘roughs™ -he keeps in pay. Ho has, however, juat been outdone by a rival _election~ eering agent, who has placed in the headquartera of tho candidate the Istter supports a learnsd seal who smokes & pipe’ and - says “papa ™ and “mamma.” The public are admitted to see him upon payment of “ono Lalf-penny.” A ticket and Gyp does not give up. His candidato is a shoo- maker. Hoinstantly has struck off a great many handbills in these words: ‘‘John Smith, the Democratic candidate. Shoemaker! Shoos .maker:! Shoemaker!!! Bhoemaker!|! Citizens Tiay daily sco tho famous philacthropist, John Bmith, in his shop in Fifth avonue, where he, will mako fwo pairs of shoes in their presonco. These shoes are sent to the poor in Albany.” John Smith is elected by an immense ' majority. Sarah Tapplebot . has deteomined to marry Aariuts- de Rochémaure, She fovériehly in. tri 2nd iakes him write a declaration of love i, by him ‘in hor memorandum book. 'hile “2arquis de Rochemaure makes & passionate dec~ laration 6f love to her, sho guietly interrupta him in his most fervent with: ““What aroyou worth 7 His breath is taken awsy by this question. She oonstrues his silence to ba caused by his inability' to understand what she said, 8o sho ‘ad: I mean, are” you rich #* AR that's what you mean. Why, yes, very rich, 816,000 & year.” “Well invested?” ‘In Government bonds and real estate.” “Is your real estate in a- vine-growing country?” ‘‘Yes, near Bordeaux—but, desrest Sarah—" ‘“What sort of wine do you make? Does it soll well 2” ““That depends upon the season; we have good - and we have bad seasons. But, darling Sarah, believe I love you deeply, truly, ar- Sarah " runs . off . with ;him to "Newark, the = mos fashionable and delightfol sea-bathin gplm in the United Btates. Bhe soon sees he has not the remotest intention of - g, flies from im, and returns to New York. He follows her. Hb istold by her family he must marry her. He refuses to do so. Then he' must pay ed. “Very well.. I don’t know how much Iisa Baral’s honor is worth ; but make out the bill, and I will pay it.”. Sarah growe indignant at thia chaffering, at the reduction to” Federal currency of ber honor, and insists upon- all being broken off. “But she has an~her suitor for her hand, Fairfaz, who. deteriiines to avenge her. He tells Marquis de Rochemaure that he has treated Miss Sarah a8 po_gentleman would trest alady, and that the ingtant ho quitted tko drawing-room b should shoot him down like the dog he was. Fairfaz osks : *Will you go out first 2 Alarquis de Kochemaure roplics : * Cortainly,” and walks out. Fairfaz es his revolver and would fire, but Mme. Bellamy mmakes her appearance, sces thero is a %mn-c), keops Marquis de Roche- maurebeck, snd makea Fairfaz leave. Fairfan bides under the staircase, and when Robert al 128t comes out Fairfax begina to fire.at him. The Marquis runs back to the drawing-room, followed by Fairfaz. Earah, attracted by tha pistol-shots, suddenly appears, throws her arms around De Rochemaure, confesses she loves him. -Tho Marquis asks and obtains her hand. Such -ia_ Moms. Bardou’s- famous. piee. It hasnot even the merit of being amusing, t 68 an exhibition of -his. gross ignoranve and big inca- - pacity to understand us. The Germans hed, t'other day, a masked procession in Metz. It as des ed to throw ridicule on the French. ne of e figures was a gruckm,.whm head was bent over s map. French ignorance of geography was the meaning conveyed. Tha eatire was deserved. a speech of the candidate are to bohad to boot. * es to make him kiss her on ‘her fomhur_é . r 1