Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1873, Page 8

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1873. TERMS_OF THE TRIBUNE . TERNS OF smu;.;*nox (PATASLE IN. ADVANCE). .00 | Sunday 2., 212:081 e 8380 To prevent delay and mistakes, be sure and give Post Ofico addressin full, includicg Stato and Connty. Remittances may be made either by draft, cxpress, Post OfSce arder, or in registred letters, st onr risk. TERMS TO CITY SUBSCRIRERS. Daily. dolivered, Sunday cxcepted. 2 cente per week. Datly, delivered, Sundsy included, 30 cents per week. Address 'HE TRIBUNE COMPANY, ‘Cornor Madison 2ud Dearborn-sts., Chicago, TiL. BUSINESS NOTICES. ROYAL HAVANA AT AT fhst, T R0 oo B e of 5 7. Girc Sont: iaformation. & . MARTINEZ &CO., 5 Bankers, 10 Wallst.” P. x 4685, New York. OPEN ALL NIGHT —OUR CLARK-ST. BTORE I"m‘ifl kept open hereafter all night (Kigo:asnigxbmu %mg;l‘:ts."!j)nson:gfi e poaitd tho Oourt House, and 57 West Randolp! =5 MIRACULOUS CURE OF 'ASTHMA.—DR. 5. . WE—] Sir: drertise thet any porson buying i Tan poge g Core amn Tonty e sl » &e. of *asthm.n &o. 1 havo dono eo, and my 3 , G gono., T {nduced a frich e S ios distaat, (o 1r5 It Bo did sa, s i Lo, 12 gone. thma, I commencad it on the Binef Novemiver Jase and my friead on th sfh“ox T of o ot 1 sifod, “Allow ma to ere, a4 {0 tho onlyhinted at, and to them and any other person or persons here, &8 o ‘personal standing and reputation. e, Howe, very thankful, grateful, for what your toodicine has done for me, independent of every other e enndoration whatever. Ballovo T, OB 1 vo maaed sentleman s 030 of e raost epocia- Blo fawpars 1athe city of Eimirs, tod Dr. Howe has Do crand of lotters of & clmilsr import. Seb advertise- vy D, The Chicage Teibume, Sunday Morning, June 1, 1873. EXPENDITURE FOR DBINK. A report of the Escise Commissioners of the City of New York discloses that in that city there are 8,403 places where liquor is sold at retail, which is equal to one saloon for overy 115 of the population. In the Gity of Chicago there are 2,300 Jicensed places for the retail of liquor. Adding to these the various other places whore liquor is eold and drank on the premises, and which pay no licenss, the aggregate number may e feirly stated at2,500. "Assuming the total pop- glation at 350,000, this furnishes one ealoon for each 140 perscns of a!l agesin the city.. It iscari- ous to inquire the proportion of the populstion who visit and eupport these saloons. The cen- £ms tables put the proportion of population in Tllinois under 15 years of age at five-elevenths of the whole. This would give of this agein Chicago sbont 158,000. Of the remaining 192,000 population, 90,000 sre women. These two clasges may be safely computed as non- Qrinking, or not patrons of the saloons. They number 248,000. This leaves for the num- ber of males over 15 years of sge 102,000. But the whole male popula- tion of Chicago do mnot visit and pat- ronize driniing saloons. There must bo doducted the thousands of Doys who do Dot visit the saloons,and the adult meales who do not drink liquor atall. Then there is avery large class who only drinkat home, and who never visit a aloon. The numbers of these can only be estimated. The followiug table will, per- ‘haps, approximate the true numbers of those who do not visit drinking-saloons at all : 6. Males who drink at home,, Total.. T.eaving au tha nambar o ual ur zegular customers.of the ealoons 62,000 persons. This number divided by thenumberof drinking-places gives about 25 persons for each saloon. This is Dot too low. Of course, it applies only to the resi- dent popilation. It ehould be remembered that inall large cities there is s constant influx of strangers, and tho better classes of these estab- lishments derive a great portion of their support from those who spend bt a short time in the city. The whole Northwest, 60 far as it travels, & ceremony.. They .were not remembering the day to keep it holy, and thia loss of life. scems 50 | 8l tho more sad from this consideration.” The same paper lsments_that. Chief Justice Chase spent his last Sabbath afternoon on earth “riding in the Park!" A still more striking instance of this style of bigotry is manifested by the editor of the English Church Herald, who, in epeaking of the Iale Jobn Stuart Mill, ssys: “His desth is no loss fo anybody, for Lie was & rauk but amiable infidel, sind a most dangerous person. The sooner those “lights of thought’ who sgres with him go to the same place, the better will it be for both Church and State. We can well spare the whole crew of thom, and shall hear of their departure, whethor one by one or in & body, with calm sat- isfaction.” it is pitiable that the Church, ss & whole, has no means of defending itself sgainst euch bigots, whose bigotry would be of little consequence if its influence extended no further than thomselves. Unfortunately, howsver, it reflects upon the whole Church by misropresent- ing its real character, and does almost irretriova- ble damage. — OVER-FOPULATION. In the domain of economic science the doc- trino of the Rov. Thomas R. Malthus on Popu- Istion has long held an established position. There has been a vast deal of dispute as to what -and that asa nation sdvances in education and Mr. Malthus' doctrine really is. When his Es- say on Populstion was published it produced nn- wonted excitement in the religions world, be- cause it directly antagonized the prevailing dog- ma that “When the Lord sends mouths He will send meat.” Mr. Malthus showed by an ex- baustive review of the various famines which have afflicted the world that this dogma was false. Some persons claimed that his book was impious, because Jesus Christ taught us fo take no thought for the morrow, what wo should eat or what wo should drink or wherewithal we ghould be clothed. Mr. Malthus replied that in point of fact all his assailants were habitually disobeying that injunction,—that they were en- gaged for the most partin taking thought of those very things,—that ho only insisted that they should take the same thought for the chil- dren they were bringing into the world'as for themselves, lest nature, or, if you pleaso, Divine Providence, should mercilessly level the popula- tion of the world to the means of subsistence by periodical famines ‘and by the plagues which result from s scant supply of food. As for Mr. Malthus' religious character, he ived and died a clergyman of the Church of England, and in all respocts, eave ss to hia ¢ hard-heerted doctrine,” was as orthodox as 8t. Paul himself. ) Unluckily, Mr. Malthus attempted to put his doctrine into mathematical form, stating that population tends to incresse in & geometrical ratio, whilo the capability of the earth to pro- duce food increases only in an arithmetical ratio, thos? Each pair of human beings on the average will produce four children, while an acre of ground on the aversge cannmot be made to producs more than double the quantity of food in one generation that it producea in the provious generation. Therefore, at the end of thirty years there will be four persons re- quiring subsistence from the same amount of 1and that formerly subsisted two persons. Im- proved methods of cultivation will answer to produce a double quantity of food. At the end of cixby years oo will Lo vight porsuns 10 be fed from the same ares. But improved methods of cultivation will not suffice to increase the productiveness of the land by. more than the smonnt which it produced st the beginning of the sixty years. If it produced enough for two at the beginning and enongh for four at the end of thirty years, it will not produce more than enough for six at the end of sixty years. So there will be two persons unprovided for; and at the end of ninety years there will be sixteen persons, and only enough food for eight. His findsits way to Chicago during the year,and, ex- cept & comparatively small percentage, these visitors patronize the saloons, billiard-halls, and reataurants liberally during their stay here. Nevertheless, the fact that 2,500 places for the sale of liquor and beer at retail are support- ed and maintained ehows the large smount of ‘monoy expended in them. Thess 2,500 szloons support as many families; they pay large rents snd employ exponsive help. Estimating their snnnal average profits from the sale of liquors of all kinds ot the moderate sum of $3,000 each, tho aggregate profit annually is 87,500,000 As- ing that this profit is sbout 25.per cent ‘on ‘the amomnt received from the sale of liquor, and we have as the aggregateof sales of liquor by retsil in this city $80,000,000 » sear, which is, perhaps, bolow rather than sbove the actual figures. If to this sum be edded the large expenditure for cigars and tobacco, any one can computs for himself how. formula stood thus: Increase of population ‘Productiveness of land. This formuls, which. was introduced by Mr. Malthus for purposes of illustration merely, has been assailed for want of accuracy. That it is mot dccurate has been proved, but all that Mr..Malthus claimed was that population increases faster than the pro- ductiveness of 1and can bs made to increase, and that after all the available land on the globe shall ‘have been bronght under cultivation (snd even ‘much sooner than that, since the difficulty and cost of colonization are very great), means must bo taken to prevent the full natural increase of population, else there will béan increaéing num- ber of persons born to a 1ife of penury and starv- ation. What the Malthusian doctrino really con- nists of is stated by its suthor in these words: The increase of populstion is necessarily limited by the means of subsistence, Populstion invariably in- much is expended annually in'a city of this size for drink and smoke at retail: 2 There are persons who will ba startled by these figres ; but Chicago is not peculiar. Like ex- penditure for like objocts is made in all paris of the country, including Boston, where prohibition 18 the law, and in all parts of the civilized world. The fact is established that a very large propor- tion of the earnings of every people is expended for stimulants and narcotics in one form or an- other. No Iaw or regulation ever made by Gov- ‘ernment has everhad any effect in restraining this appetite of mankind. The expenditure for liquor actually consumed is by no means confined to the ealoons. The more expensive and better gradea of wines and liguors are consumbed in-the privacy of the domestic household. Thero has ‘een a¢ all times & war made upon the use of in- tosicating drinks, but it has bardly made any percoptible impression on its consumption. No legislation has ever been effectual ‘i breaking up its use, though in smell communities it may havo suppressed its public salo at retail. Under these , circumstances, would it ~‘not “be s wise policy on tho part of those who 8o . zeslously devote thomselves to the extirpetion of intemperance, to apply some of their_enprgy to tho corrsction of tho great #rauds and injuries done by the sale of poisoned degoctions, inder the name of liquor, which are really nine-tenths of ell that is consumed ? If 8 man will drink, is it not 8 great end accom- plished if he can be induced to substitute bear or pure wine for alcohol ? - And if he insists on drinking aleohol, would it not be something Eained if he wasnot allowed to purchase fusel oil, or drinks compounded of strychnine and other deadly poisons ? The extravagance and bigotry of certain creases when the means of subsistence increase, un- Tess prevented by powerful ind obviods chieckd, These checks, and tho checks which keep the population down to thelevel of the means of subsistence, sre moral Te- straint,vics, and misery, . - The whole argument of Mr. Malthus' went to enforce ‘moral restraint™ as the only admissi- ble- remedy for the evils of over-population. ‘What is meant by moral restraint is defined by Mr. J. 8. Mill, in his Principles of Political Econ- increases with the meaps of subsistence. 3r. Senior's theory, or rather thonght, for he didnot reduce it to & theory, was, that, in the sdvance of the world toa higher state of civilization, population will not necessarily increase with the increase of the means of eubsistence. Hence the millennium, so far as embraced . in the dogms that when the Lo?d sends mouths Ho will send meat, which was clearly not truein Mr. Maléhus' time, is not impoesiblo of realization. Mr. Malthus retortea with statistics, which cer- tainly did support hie side of the case, and from that time to this there has been litile or no sclentific opposition, though much grum- bling, against his doctrine, And now comes Mr. W. B. Greg, in his recent- 1y published work entitled “ Enigmas of Life," to reinforco the forgotten battle of Mr. Senior. It cannot be said thathe has added muchto what Mr. Senior said. He admits that he has not beon able to find any. statistica of sufficient scope to refate Mr. Malthus, but he thinks that he has. obsorved in England, where what is called *“moral restraint is less practised than anywhere elso in the civilized world, a marked diminution in the number of chil- dren born to the families of the well- to-do classes. Ho thinks that cere- bral dovelopment is opposed to fecundity, intellignce the power of multiplication dimin- ishes in obedienco to a physiological law. He belioves that this is a fact, and suggests investi- gation by statisticians and medical men. If this be not true, he says rightly that the Malthusian doctrine is the most stupendous of all the enig- mas of life—being apparentlyan insurmountable barrier to human progress; for, if the human race is bound to increase faster than the means of subsistenco, with no other correctives than | war, pestilence, and famine, and with no othor hindrance than moral restraint, which he re- gards 8s practically no hindrance ‘'at all, the grest mass of mankind Fave nothing to look forward to in this world but penury, degradation, vice, diseaso, and crime. We trust that Mr. Greg's suggestion will bo taken up by statisticians in this country, for we feel tolerably sure that it will be found that the size of families has diminished in a very marked degree among the native American .stock during the past fifty years, notwithstanding the moans of subsistence have increased in a still ‘greater ratio. BECTIONAL A NIROSITY. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Sm: Thero wassn articlo in Tuesdsy’s TRIBUNE, reflecting upon the action of *the Grand Army of tho | Republio” in reference o tho decoration of the Con- federste graves at Arlington on the same day sppoint- ed to decorato tho graves of the Union soldiers. AsI am 5 woman, and, therefore, not one of those bugbears of the radical press, *the military,” pleaso allow me to eay a fow words : “The Grand Army of the Republic” may or may not be a * political organization;” but 1t would seem that, when they choose a day to do honor to thelr desd. comrades,—a day recognized oll over the land as sacrod to the memory of thoee who gavo their lives 10 crush o most wicked Reballion,—*it is an in- &ult to wish them to offer the same honor and respect t0 the loyal and disloyal alike,—to placo on the same Tovel the men who gaved the country, and thoso Wwho fought to destroy it. Wo rhust not pass over a man's mistakes or crimes becauso be has gone where We cannot help or hamm him. His deeds live after him, and by thom he shall beg| judged. They are written on the pages of history; and we must honor the true and condemn tho false. An unjust war cannot bo excused becauso s faction choote to #think tkey are right.” What pation has’ 1ot thought 50, 00 matter how unjust the war? Theroisn groat amount of sentimental sympathy wasted upon the South; but, only a few wecks ago, one of these men and “ brothers” was rejoicing at the death of the gallant Gen. Canby, another added to the, long list of Union Generals who have passed away. May “ the Grand Army of the Republic” long keep Decoration-Day sacred to the memory of tho Union soldiers, and keep alive n zpirit of loyalty and grati- tude for their services. M REMARKS. ¢ ‘We were not aware that anybody wished “ the| Grand Ariny of the Republic” to decorate the graves of the Confederate dead, or expected that they wounld do so. All that was desired was, that the relatives and friends of thode dead : might bo permitied to pay & tribato to their, memory. Canany person of common sense, to 8oy nothing of common decency, seo anything.| wrongin that? And, ifa friend of the Union. cause—one who mourns tho loss of & noar and| dear one who fought in the Union ranks—should placo a garland upon the mound covering tho body of one who marched under the opposing fiag, and who, howover wrong the cause which he espoused, believed in its rightfulness, . gave his life in its behalf, and left behind him a desolated home, could any person of common sense, to say nothing of common decency, regard such an action otherwise than as a doed of ‘mag- nanimity,—0s & deed worthy of high praise? Was not the decoration of the grave of the Rebel Captain at Calvary Cometery o noble act? Did not Judge Stecle, at Springfield, speak rightly | ‘when hogaid of the Rebel dead: “Letusnotforget, while wo condemn their course, that they were flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood ; and in pity, then, lot us pause and drop flowers upon their graves”? Did not- Gov. Washburn, of ‘Wisconsin, "@o honor to himself and his posi- tion when he suggested “ the propriety of laying floral tributes on the graves of our late enemies, not 88 countenancing the crime or errors of those who sought to destroy the Union, but as omy, as follows: Unhappily, sentimentelity rather than common sense usually presides over the discussion .of these subjects ; and whilo thero 18 o growing sensitivences to the bardships of the poor, and & ready disposition to admit claims in them to the good offices of other people, thercis an all bit universal unwillingness to face the real difficulty of their position, or advert at all to the conditions which naturo has made indis- pensable to the. improvement of their physical lot, Discussions on the condition uf the leborars, lamenta. tions over its wretchedness, denuncintions of . all who are supposed ‘to be indifferent to it; projects of one kind or another for improving it, . were in 7no -comntry and in mo tHme of the world so rife as in the prescat generation ; but there is a tacit agreement - to ignore totslly the law of wages, or to dismiss it in 2 parenthesis with such terms 25 “* hard-hearted Malthusianiem,” 08 if it wero not & thousand times more hard-hearted to tell humsn ‘beings that they may, than that they nmy not, call into existenco swarms of creatures who are sure to be mis- ‘erable and most ikely to be depraved ; and forgetting that tho conduct which i is rockoned so cruel to dis- approve is s degrading slavery to o brute instinct in ome of the persons congerned, and most commonly, in the other, helpless submission to a revolting abuso of power. e During the lifetime of Mr. Malthus, Mr. N. W. Benior, an eminent English economist, present- ed some views or suggestions in opposition to “the conclusions of . the former.. He believed that in an advancing state of civilization there is & tendency to diminish rather than increase tho “gize of families—tha} among those who really . have an sbundance of this world's goods the sverage -fruitfulness is a di- minishing rather than an increasing quantity. Church newspapers almost pass comprehension. The United Presbyterian of Pittsburgh, speak- ing of the falling of the bridge at Dixon, says : *The Christian conscience throughout the conntry cannot help ‘sssociating ths fact that it s7as the result of - an unneceasary usoof the ZLord's Day. People were on the bridge, not to wyrorship or hear the religious rite, bat to witness Whether this might: be dus'to physiplogical or to social causes (including in the latter a greater defarence to the physical health and well-being of wives), he believed it Would be found that such a law existed If it does exist it is cer- tainlyat war with the general drift of Mr. Mylthys’ doctrine, which assumes that population the token of adeeire to bury in the grave all bitterness and animosity of the past”? Was not anoble sight presented at Jefforson Barracks, when, after orations by both Union and Con- federato officers, tributes were paid to Blue and Gray alike,—of 14,000 graves mnot one being passed unheeded, no distinction being made as to Loyal or Rebel, white or black? Our correspondent speaks of *f sentimental sympathy wasted upon tho South;" and cites, 88 & reason why no. sympathy should be extended to that section, the fact that s Boutherner rejoiced at the death of Gon. Canby. Does the SBouth hold a monopoly of foolish and. unfeeling people? Does not the letter of our correspondent breathe the eame spirit asthat which actusted the Southerner to whom she refers? Does not Gov. Washburn properly characterize this spirit when ho says that The bitterness engendered by the war is only kept slive by the machinations of bad men for base purposes”? And is it not desir- sble, in the interest of the North as well as of the South, of the Nation as well as of Bociety, that this spirit, on both sides, should be _extinguished as soon as . possible,—should be utterly crushed out by the weight of popular in- dignation and contempt; and that, in its stead, —to use the language of tho Rebel Col. Slayback, —there should be ‘‘peace, reconciliation, frater- nal foeling, and hearty co-operation in all things calcalsted to promote harmony and conduce to the prosperity and glory of our common coun- trym? The sentence of whipping and pillorying has been pronounced against a calored girl in Dela- ‘ware, who has been convicted of murdering her ‘baby. The Governor of the State, however, has remitted the sontenco until the 14th of June. Meanwhile, the most respectable Delaware' papers are calling upon the Governor to spare the State the disgrace of such a punishment. The punishment of the Iash has never yet served the purpose it was intended . to -fulfill, and the enforcement of this relic of barbarism hag only tended to disgrace the Stato of Delaware in the oyes of the whole couniry. It is sincerely to be hoped that the Goyernor of that Stale has both judgment and human- ity enough to commute this .sentence to imprisonment.’ The whipping-post is the punish- mentof o eavage, and the sooner the Legisla- ture of that Btate abolishes itthe better will it be for all concerned. As long as it stands, Dela-~ ware is in need of being civilized. HOW THE FASHIONS ARE SET. Thero have béen two suits recently of simal- _taneons occurrence and similar character, one in London and one in Paris, the incidents of which aro entirely novel, from an American point of view, and instructive, as showing how and by whom the popular fashions of dress aro set. Tho aefendant in the Paris suit was Mllo. Cora Pearl, in the London suit Mies Walters, better known ns ©Bkittles"—botn conspicuous characters. Mies *Bkittles,” - who testified that she was mever called ‘Miss” but “Mrs.” or * Madame,” had retained 10 less & personage for her defense than Sergt. Ballantine, who complained that the opposing counsel had designated his client bys name which was very unpleasant to her. The suit was bronght for about £1,770, claimed by Creed & Co., ladies’ tailors, for making and ropairing throe or four garments. The defendant had de- clinod to pay the bill becanse it was exorbitant, but offered to settle by paying £1,000, which the ungallant ladies' tailors refused to accept. In undertaking to determine tho value of the arti- cles which had been furnished, & mass of = testimony was submitted on both gides, which brought out that the ladies’ tailors are & much more exacting set of people than milliners, which would scarcely have been credited as possible a fow yoars sgo, They de- seribed Mina ¢ Skittles™ 8 being *‘ exceodingly fastidions and particular.” Bhe was accustomed to demand not only that patterns should be cut and submitted for her approval, bat that special drawings should be mado and sppropriately tinted before sho would pass on them. Bhe was also in the habit of making the foreman come to her house and await herleisure or pleasure, at a ealary of § guiness s week. These items, of entered into the cost of the gar- ments, and the bulk of testimony of experts was that the gross profits of Iladies’ tailoss should be 50 per cont. ‘Lady readers will be interested in knowing some of tho principal charges. A black riding-habit, with silk’ lining, was put down at §70, thongh Miss “ Skittlos " protested that sho always wore ¢ the simplest riding-habits.” There was s mero alteration of & black poplin dress, the original production of Aff. Worth, of Paris, which wes charged at sbout $25. A single shoulder-knot bad cost over €6. A bluosilk costume, consist- ingof tunle, body, undor-skirt, and jacket, was valued at $90. A black silk under-skirt, trim- med with velvet, was charged $95. A brown Baxony-cloth costume complete cost Miss * Skit- tles” just £200. The whole bill came to $1,770, and, as the jury allowed $1,500, these items are & fzir indicotion of the charges thatsa ladies’ tailor may make. The information is im- portant, as & ladies’ tailor has recently set up in ‘business in Chicago, to the intense gratification of the fashionable ladies, and to the profound disgust of their husbands. B The defense mede by Miss * Skittles” was unique. She demanded first that her tailor should bring & model of herself into court for the displsy of the dresses; but the plaintiffs counsel claimed that, while he had no donbt that this would be véry gratifying, especially to the younger membors of the bar, it woud bo & very difficult, if not impossible, thing @@ do. This was in the nature of acom- pliment. Miss * Skittles” then set up that ehe had made the fortune of Mr. Poole, a ladies’ tailor, who had been making her garments for many years, and that Mr. Creed, the tailor who ‘brought suit, had been delightod when she had gone to him and when he found out who che was. The force of this point can only beap- preciated when it is known that such women a8 the Bkittles in London and Cora Pearl in Paris furnish the fashions for the haul-monde as well as the demi-monde. The tailors whom they take under their patronage are mado men. Miss Skittlos evidently thought that this should have been taken into account,.and that Mr. Creed ought to have chiirged her less instead of moro. She admitted that she had paid 8700 for asingle dress, but then there was laco onit. Thero is littlo doubt that Mr. Creed was ungrate- fal, but we can understand that ladies' tailors should have an experience calculated to sour against the world, and to make misanthropes of ‘men who would otherwise be kind, gentle, and generous. i, Miss Cora Pear] has beon sued in Paris fora bill of sbout ©700. This is the iady who, at & bacchanalian entertainment one night, took s hat from ono of her admirers and boasted that she could transform it on the spot to a ladies’ hat that would be the rage of all Paria within a month. - A wager was made, Cora Pearl punched the hat in the side, pulled & plume from her hair, adjusted it to the hat in hand, and noxt day sp- peared in the Bois with the hat onherhead. The result was precisely what she had predicted. Within a week every milliner in Paris had hats of this pattern in her window; within two weeks no fashionablelady was complete without one; with- in & month the impromptu had crossed tho British Channel and prevailed in London; the mext steamer brought it to America as the mode, and 80 it became the rage on two continents. -Mile. Cora Pear] hes now set & new fashion which has brought her into & lawsuit. . Some time ago she it upon the brilliant idea of having a cast made of her hand, and disposed of terra-cotta fac sim- iles to hor numerous admirers. Her first order was for twenty-four, and then orders followed in rapid succession to supply the demand. - The jdes was not altogether original, - for, when Liszt, the groat musician, Wwas the furore of Paris, a great many years 8go, in his youth, it was common to find a cast of his right hand as the cherished object of lris Iady adorers. Mlle. Cora Pearl eeems to have at- tained an equal devotion, though among the other sex, and in a different manner. Bhe, also, had a hand carved in marble, and a vase of elab- course, had squandered all his money, and the mercan- tile manufacturer of hands and vases sued Mad- emoisello herself and obtained judgment. As ghe Is living in a house valued at $120,000, the git of Prince Napoleon, it is thought thers will ‘be no difficulty in collecting the money. These bo the women who furnish' the modes for the world's fashionables, who invent novel- ties or popularize them, who bring out ladies’ tailors and maks their fortunes, and whose follies and extravagances find a ready imitation all the world over. If there isnot a certain degrada- tion in tho thought an account of the position of the Cora Pearls and Bkittles in Lon- don and Paris, their imitators must experience & feeling of repugnance when they learn that these women are no longer even young and pretty, but as old, ugly, and repulsive in their looks asin their characters. There is s certain incongruity sbout the whole situstion that ean only be accounted for at' all because **It is the fashion.” THE BOCIETY PLAY, The Black Crook marked a distinct era in the ‘history of the drams. It supplanted the stand- ard English plays, and substituted in their place 8 spectacle which was made attractive and fasci- nating by all the scenic and mechanital re- sources of tho stage, and by an unblushing displsy of balf-nude women end Iascivions dances. The Black Crook set the fashions for & Bcore or more of other spectacles, each more pronounced than the other in purely sensual appointments. It created s morbid and un- healthy public taste, which refused everything except the most highly-seasoned food, and was digsatisfied with s plsy which did not combine the glitter of tinsel with the fascina- tions of indecency. Nevertheless, this sort of exhibition had a short rup. It does not take long to exhaust the resources of tho stage in this direction, and indecent exhibitions can only be carried to a certain point without coming under police regulation. Having atisined the ‘mazimum, thereafter there was no variety, snd the real friends of the drams hoped that tho public wonld once more return to the legitimate drama. That hope, however, has been disap- pointed. The Black Crook and kindred spec- tacles fiave been ehelved, itis true, butaninfinite- ly worsespeciesof drama has taken their place— worse becauso it is more insidious andmore sug- gestivo, and because it openly displays vice under s thin gnise of virtue. The Bocioty Play has taken the place of the spectacle, and in almost every theatroin the country the foulest details of domesticlite are nightly developed on the stage to fashionable and refined audiences, who manifest no disapprobation, but, on the other hand, sppland the sentiments and situations. The Now York Sun gives a summary of one of theso plays, which is now drawing largo and fashionable andiences atone of the largest the- atres in that city, and which, having been a success there, will of course find its way to this city sooner or later. The storyof the play is substantially as follows: A young man sbout to bomarried givesa supper to his bachelor frionds ahd invites a bevy of prostitutes. The brother of his intended, accompanied by a clergy- man, arrives unexpectedly, and the latter having retired, the brother is induced to join the party, nnd in the course of the revel falls in love with one of the prostitutes. *This ends the first act. The brother, who has come to town in search of s gl who had received some injury at the hands of his family for which he wishes to make reparation, finds her in the person of the prostitute with whom ho has fallen in love. Acting upon the advice of his elerical associate, he resolves to take her to his home, and present her to his mother and sis- ‘ter, and offer her his hand in marrisge. This is the endof the sccond act. In the third act, she is found domiciled in his family, and the mother and sister, after s _slight remonstrance, ocsive her as a daughter-in-law, and the priest extends his benediction. After a time, the sister’s intended husband arrives, and ‘is somewhat astounded when he learns that this professional prostitute is ~to become his sister-in-law. He orders her to quit the house, and threatens, if she does not leave, he will take steps to make her. ¢Don'tdo that,” cries the prostitnts, “or I shall denounce you— for you were my first on tholist.” I kmow better,” says the young man. “It is true, so help mo Heaven,” replies the girl, in the most approved melodramatio manner, which does not- failtobringdown the house. Hetheninforms her that if her victim marries her his fortune will be forfeited. The broken-hearted prostitute then dotermines to give up her lover as & bad invest- ‘ment, for which on each evening she is rewarded by adouble call beforo the curtain. This endsthe third act. The last act is one of blasphemy. The prostitute is about to be absorbed in the church, not of ropentance for her past, nor with the de- termination to lead a better life in future, when the wedding procession of her lover crosses her path, and ehe dies. Buch is the story which is nightly told, and of the performance the Sun says : Among tho crowded sudience that witnessed the first represontation of this drams we noticed some of the wealthiest and, so-called, best families in New York. Brothers with their sisters, fathers with " their young daughters, young wives beside their newly-married ‘husbsnds, . We looked long and wistfully in thoee sweet snd pure upturned young faces. We felt sure that ‘most of them, perhaps all, would fail to understand _tho full meaning of the play. We did them injustice. They understood and relished it all—thoroughly.” It was a dull plece, with nothing but its patent pollution to recommend it; but that charm kept these girls in thelr places for three hours, and sent them home wiser and worse women. X The theatre is not to blamefor this.- The man- agers give the public just what the public want. “If the standard drama will not draw people, ox- cept when presented by two or threo such actors 88 Mr. Booth or Mr. Jefferson, tho managers cannot bo expected to impoverish themselves by giving it to empty seats. They would prefer to give the standard drama, a3 it costs less to mount it. Theso society plays require expensive scene- ryand properties, and, in many cases, require certain special efects which are very costly. ~In addition to this, these plays are not written with reference toparts,and the result is, that thediffer- entlines of business are almost inextricably mixed up, not only causing great confusion, but great dissatisfaction among the members of the stock company. The standard drama, a8 ordinarily placed upon the stage, i8 more economical in every way, and involves much less trouble than the Society Plsy, But the public won't attend the standard drams, and will sttend the Soclety Play. They won's applaud the standard drama, and they will applaud the Society Play, and there is no alternative left the manager but to give orate pattern, in which a mould of her hand and | tho . Society Play or lose money at s another of her bosomewere features. It was | frightfnl rate. It is the domand for the Society for the cost ‘of these articles that snit was | Play which creates the present generous supply brought, She claimed that the articles wero or- [ of that article in the market. The only consola- dered by, and for the use of, & young curassier, | tion in the premises is the fact that, like the who, for the nonce, was playing tho part spoctacle, the Bociety Play may at last become of “protector.” But the young cuirassier | nauseating, There is & certain point beyond which it cannot go, and the play we have cited geems to have reached that " This haviog ‘been attained, subiequent performances are but Tepetitions, become monotonons, and tire by thelr very monotony. When that time comes, the standard drama may revive; but at present .it must be acknowledged the prospects are not yery hopofal. ‘WHO OWNB BETBY ? “ There is nothing in all natare more ludicrous, and at the same time more pitisble, than the hen with one chicken. The amount of affection ghe lavishes upon her pin-feathered unit, the dis- tressing solicitude for ita welfare, the ostenta- tious manner in which she’ afects to look down upon other hens who go scratching over the -barnyard for a foll dozen, and the ‘boastful man- ner in which she exhibits her solitary cffepring, usually mako beth herand her chicken a nui- sance in every well-regulated hen-coop, and bring down upon both of thom tho severestre- monstrances from the noisy lord of the harem. In nine cases out of ten it eventuates that the solitary chicken develops into a tough, ungainly fowl, of some mongrel breed, which is neither good for the gridiron nor to provide material for omelattes, aiid which usually comes to some ig- nominious manner of death while scratching up seeds in foreign gardens. If there Is anything that resembles the hen with one chickes, it is the poet with ona poem— the rhymester with bat one leaf onhis laurel spray. He admircs that poem, caresses it, and fondles it, 85 if it were the only poem in this world of rhymes. He cuts all manner of capers on his one-winged Pegasus, and makes ‘more fuss over his one muse than other poets do with their whole nine. An instance of this ludicrous and pitiable state of things is afforded by one Mr. Willim Carleton, of ‘Michigan, who claims tho patersity of an almost ondless string of rhymes called “Betsy and I Aro Out”—an effugion for which the school of Mr. Bret Harto and Mr. John Hay is directly responsible. For some little time Mr. Carleton had reveled in the prospects of fame. Hogot into the newspapers, aod fortunately had his pamo spelled right, His ‘monumentum_perennius ere already began to loom up before his mind's-eye, His lsurel- switch began to bud like Aaron’s rod. His collar grew wider and hia necktle more meglige. The ‘barber cut his hair less frequently. Bentimen- tal young women began to dote upon him and request his autograpb. His lsundry bill was in- creased in tho ftem of wet fowels,’ snd Fame had just begun to distend her cheeks in order to blow his name through her trumpet, whens ruthless woman from Massachusetts, Emerson by name, stopsin and demands her offspring, which she is ready to identify by a strawberry mark on its loft arm,.and which,she claims, tho furtive Catloton stole awsy with malice aforethonght, and is now passing off as one of his own chil- dren. The mother-in-law, aforetime, has come in | for much of this world’s abuse. This time, how- ever, it is the brother-in-law, for it was to Carle- ton’s brother-in-law that, in an anlucky hour, ehe entrusted * Betsy,” and the next that she Jmew she found ¢ Betsy” playing in the public street with an anonymous unwashed and un- kempt brood of Mr. Carleton’s offspring, with whom she had nothing in common. Like Hood's woman in Holborn, she wildly rushed into the street and claimed her offspring, where- upon in steps Mr. Carleton, picks it up, and runs off with it, exclaiming to the_distracted mother in the most ungentiemanly prose: *“You are 2 lisr! Yousresbasoimpostor!” . Thus the matter standsat present. Mean- while the distracted public is threatened with a deluge of letters, affidavits and counter-affi- davite, depositions, voluminous correspondence Jonger than a quarterly roview article, and pos- sibly mandamuses and injunctions without end, not to mention the profusion of esthetic per- sonalities which usually grow out of these poeti- cal squabbles. Byall that is prosaic and respect- able, we appesl to the high contending parties to quit their nonsense sbomt this ill- conditioned child. - It is & wretched gamin at best, whether its npame is Emerson or Carleton, It was brought into the worldscarce half madeup, and hasn't improved any since birth. We wam them in time that, if they do not stop their imseemly squabble, the publio will revoke both their poetical licenses. I wo must have s din sbout our ears, lot it con- cern some worthy object. If the Emerson and the Carleton are bound to emash theircheap Iyres over each other’s heads, letthem retire to some secluded spot, where their jangle won't_ snnoy other people and disturb the public peace. In any event, wo beg. of them to.believe that this solitary chicken isn't worth fighting over. It is & poor starveling thing at best, and the ‘public wouldn’t give a'8nap of its finger to know who brooght it into the world. Besides, there, are less noisy ways of disposing of the ques- tion. For instance, let this Carleton and Em- erson agree to play seven-up for if, best threos in five to have it, and the loser. to . give the winner s quit-claim deed. Or,.they might pitch pennies for it. Or, they might find some rural Solomen who would aggres to divide the child in twain and each take half. Or, they might send for Judge Durell, who will shortly be out of a job in New Orleans. Hohas been engaged in smaller and meaner business than” this; and would ‘take to it kindly. Whatever :they do, let them do it quietly. Tho public cares nothing for the matter; and; asboth « Betsy and I-Are Out,” would prefer that they ‘remiin out and end the game. Ttia a poor chicken, anyway you look at it. 3 s The extravagaot style of living, which is st present a characteristio of fashionable life in this country and in England, in one case at least has come to alogical conclusion. In the English town of Ross, a young solicitor by the name of Skyrme succeeded to the extensive business of a brother solicitor. The entire. community trusted him implicitly, and confided to him large sums of money for investment. He had the let~ ting of houses and lands, and - many heavy balances were in his hands uncalled |- for. He was supposed by tho peopls to be vegy rich, and his frank, open-hearted manners made him tho favorito of every ome. Ho was happily married and livedin elegant style. He was described as ¢ open-hearted, open-l;mdnd, generous to » fault, accessible and pleasant, frank, open, and simple.” This impression he kept up for many years, and it was not dissipat- eduntil after his death. On tho 26th of April 1ast, he was found dead inhis bed, and it was supposed he had died of apoplexy. After his death, itiwas shown that ll these years he had been one of themoat accomplished, skillful, and heartless awindlers of the age. Almost everycne who has trusted him is ruined. Those for whom he lent money on mortgages received forged mortgages. Those for whom he bought man- sions and landed estatos received forged deeds. His U overdrawn 810,000, Not only were his brother solicitors ‘and the ~ 1anded gentry swindled, but almost every trades- man in the town has scverely suffored by hia rascalities. Itisnow known that his death was caused : by | poison, .sud not by . apoplexy, . and the lamentation over his death has changed to & bitter execration of his mom- ory. Hehad resolved tolive in & certain styls of elegance, and he did so, but at last his vil- - Iainies reacheda point where theycould becarried no further, and detection became certain. - To. edcage the ehame and punishment of his crime, be resorted to snicide. - This is the logical con- clusion of this extravagant styls of life. Others, with leas courage, fly £rom their disgrace ot sub- mit to it. The case of Skyrme may be an ex- coptional one, but it is only so becauso he car- ried it out to the bitter end. A recent letter from Mr. Bayard Taylor to the New York Tribune, written in Vienns, indicates hopeless confusion and a disgraceful incapacity. He does mot intimate that the charges against, Gen. Van Buren are trae, or that he ought fo have been removed, but he does say that the new Commissioners have fsiled to reduca. the chaotic condition of things to anything. | like order. Ho spesks of the situstion as painfolly humilisting to an American, which is passed over in a sort of pitying silence by the other nationalities present. The *Honorsry Commissioners,” appointed in large numbers by all the different States, are generally making - themselves conspicuous by their absurd conduct, though they have received no recognition what~ ever from the Austrian officials. He charao~ terizes the wholerepresentation, as it is present- ‘ed before the world, s & “black emutch,” which it undoubtedly {s, and he sascribes it properly to the appointment of & Iot of nobodies, who were never heard of before, a8 the Executive Commissioners. ‘If this is where the. fault lies, however, it is not Gen.Van Buren who is to blame, but the Administration, which should have been actusted in this matterbya higher consideration than party service or polit- ical interesta. An anti-tobacco association has been formed in Paris, which haa just petitioned the Govern- ‘ment to interdict the sale of tobacco to youtha under 16, and the railway companies to forbid smoking in their carriages and stations. The smokers, howevar, have risen in remonstrance, and claim that anybody msy smoke French- grown tobacco, especially the kinds called Ze Petit Bordeauz and Le Tonneins, without any in- jury whatever. They deny that nicotine is the dangerous- element in tobacco, and ssy that & raw smoker conld not asmoke a London cigar ‘three minutes without violent nauses, and ‘Havans tobacoo contains but 1 per cent of - nico- tine, while he can smoke the French cigars with impunity, which contain 8 per cent; and that an ‘habitual smoker can smoke twelve or fifteen pipes of Caporal without inconvenience, but could not smoke two chibougues of Turkish tobacco, which contains but one-half per cent of nicotine. The statistics, however, arenotso effective against the anti-smokers as the fact thatthe Govern- ‘ment is paying its Gorman indemmnity very large~ 1y out of the tobacco revenue. Ifit can emoke the Germans out, there is little hopeforths anti-smokers. ———ee & The practice of offering premiums, which has long since run tho gamut of American enter= prise from literary msgazines down to priza candy stores, has broken out with extreme vio- lence in England. The most startling applica~ tion’ of the system has been made, by & Londonx * omnibus company, doing business on-s co~ operative plan, which offers “a set af prizes every three months to the persous who can pro- duce the largest number of tickets in proof that they have performed the journey.” Thereisa - Inrge number of prizes, ranging from £5 down to 4 shillings. The device, we suppos, is to bo ranked 83 an encoursgement of industry, and is likely tocreate anew occupation. Henceforth, the trades of London will include the professional omnibus-pessenger. It will require a small ' capital to start the business, and s familiarity- with the average number of trips made by the. non-profossional or amateur passenger. Thera: will also be some competition for a while in re-. gard to the first prizes, but the craft will soor: divide itself up into varions, degrees-of skill and industry, commanding £5, or £3, or 10-shillings, acconding to the varied endurance and persist ence of those who devote themselves to the ‘business, The calling is one that can be com- Zortably joined with other pursnits,—that of the . ‘pickpocket for instance,—and it will give a man” . -» standing before the Police Courts which willi release him from the chargs of vagrancy. The condition of the poorer English clargy it ‘beginning to attract considorsblo attention in that country. A vastnumberof the livings of’ “the English Church do not exceed in value £150- per annum, while many do not exceed £100- The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, * Eympathizing with the clorgy, now propose £a. Taise & céntral fond large enough to maks certain that no incumbent of any living belon; ing to the Churchof England shall have leaa- than £200 per annum. The London Echo, allad-- ing to this proposition, very aptly ssys: “Why: does not the Church begin the reform within. ° herselt? Whynot dock the stipends of absontoo . * Canons and overpaid Rectors? There are priosts. who are richly salaried, and whose services arex: mystery and darkness to mankind. Manys mané ; _who holds a nice place in the Church, and whor -draws & handsome income, never knew what it was to perform & hard day's work.” The inequality which it is sought to remedy grows . -out’ of roligions nepotism. The choice placesi ara all picked out by Archbishops and Bishops' for their relstives, while the poor clergy, Who have no wealthy or powerful friends,” are leftto shift for themselves. In this light, tho actiow of the Princess Louise and her hn!bmflillhfl\!’l‘ to be a noble and generous action, ea-pec}nlly in! contrast with the parsimonious and miggardly . conduct of the Church itself. n e s W Bayard Tajylor, as the representative of the . New York Tribune, was fortunate enough to bs the single representative of American journal- ism present st adinner given by the Vienns presat ' to the foreign correspondents at the Exposition. © Ho sends over the bill of fare as s model of its! kind. I'was as follows : * . (Madeira of 1839, R oto o o whns of 1859) Bhine salmon and trout., (S, Julien of 1865) okt baat ‘20 vegelables, (aaberges G né *GRicken fricasseo and mushrooms, (ChsutesnTa ‘Rose, 1865.) Iaehten, sauce ravigote, (Chztean d'Tquem, 1865): Eoman punch. ‘Geoso roasted on thespit, (Veuve Clicquot) |, Bsddle of venison, Giteans PAmericaine, (Imperial Toksy of 167 5) Chaoese, ices, fruits, strawberries, liqueurs, eta.. eic. . ‘While this rather exceeds the diet pre¥ cribed. by Mr. Dio Lewis for every-day use, it i8/ m nots .ble contrast with the meaningless red gmdancy . which it is customary to present in American bills of fare on mimilar occasions. ¥ fhese won~ derful documents are nsually comy osed in the’ interest of ornamental printing, ’ and represen? nothing but a batch of incongrus us dishes with unpronounceable names that not ,ody is H to call for. Itis evident that ¢'.e coursas of the Vienna dinner were prepared’ with reference td . present use, aud were enjyy%d 85 they werd seved, TR VDS U p—