Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 10, 1874, Page 7

i * In the whilo, the bee and the beaver, and oven ‘THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MAY ‘10, 1874. THE AGE OF INVENTIONS. made s solid smooth roadway for carriages, bet- ter for country travel than thers had boen made {from the day of Mac's great ancestor and name- saxe. And the consequence is, that Eogland has improved her country-ronds in that way progress in the Nineteenth ["turonghout the Kingdom, while sho has mads Century. Railrcads-—- Macadamizing Wooden Pavemests---The Steam Engine. printing---Gas-=-The Spinning-Jenny--- The Cotton-Gin-~-The Telegraph. Phomgraphy---Agriculturnl Xm- plements, Ete., Etc. s s period. which wo call the Nincteenth Centus, i merked, with other important features of the progress of the human race, 2a the era of machanical inveatious and great discoveries in Beieuco. Vo sro meiuly correct in the supposi- sion sost the aggregate knowledge of mankind 155 gort of aceretion to the genoral atock which Lss been sccumalating from egeto age, from {he arlicst periods of tho human race. We think of man 28 & progressive being, and thathe hns thie faculty of taking up whathis rogenitors acquued. and adding thereto what bo may have Faiuod by wrestigation and experience. In B o reepocts, this is 20 10 many others, not. It would be etter for the race—and in times of oaterity it will be mainly so—if that which is actaslly gained in knowledge, or in improve- ments, or in life-experience, will be gaiced for the faturo of the race, and the children to come oy not all the time be learning over tho ssme Jessous which (heir fathers and grandfathers jearned before them. Nodoubt itis true that msn i8 AN DIPIOVING ANTMAL. Hecan,on &n average, build houses better in 1674 than Lo conld have built them in any other year sines Adam made his rustic bower in the garden. Yet, in many of the far-past centuries, the constructive minds planned forms and styles of architecture thet aro only imitated at the present. But etill the splendid style of the Greeks or Pharicians, for grendear and mas- sivencss of impression, even in house-building, is far eurpassed in Chicago in adaptation to every-day wants, and in convenience of honse- Leeping,—euch #s the kitchen-arrangements, cooking, warming, lighting, and ventilating. the epider, which, in tho start far surpassed man in perfection in animal achievements, have not improved in any of thewr mechanical processes. Adam migit well have taken lessons in bridge- building from the spider, when ha came to want | bridges. And the «cells from which Evo sipped the honey were constructed as per- factly upon the striet mathematical principles ! and cconomical arrangement for epsco, and ss clegant'y fashioned, B3 any bees' comb in 1Nl nois; and no improvement has been made, or can be, m test particular device for storing | hozer. Tho bes was made perfact in his war, | and he is no foilure; he filla tho bill to the ut- | most of 8 complete bee; but man bad no such inetinctive ekill, for he was made to grow, not to | stand or Iast, and, therefore, & constructive, in- ventivo, and improviug snimal, And €0 Le fol- fills in this 2ge, more thau any previous one, the | descript:on in the Biblo, that * Ho has sought | | to be marked | inventioas and | behind. This Ramage, on which Franklin pulled, out many inveations.” This century, I said, seemed partieatarly £o its mechanical importaut discoveries. It 8 interostiog and ! prositavle to glance at soms of these. No one person would probubly be avle to enumerato from mere memory - anything hike a complets : list. Letths 10an who is past middle-age look | back eud see what 3 I ATANVELOTS THINGS bave come into use, and what revolutionary ‘Langes bave been produced in socicty, sice nis e of recollection. In the matter of discov- Jnes, ity years ago, in the heavens, we were sontent with about haif-a-score of planets that Toved in our solar system, and whish hed loog | 3cen known, 2nd named, acd placed in proper | Irder. to §il thei- respective places in the ce- lestial orbite; and mo more stars were wanted or lcoked for. About thirty years ago, a French mathematicien dircovered A cause for s naw planet; and another scientist, with the fele- scope, stired aroaud in the regions of space, zud he found oue,—which waa elmost like Co- lumbas discovering o new would. Since then, planets havo been discovered DY SCORES. TWhen any searcher into .tho upper depths focls & moed for mmother plamet to score upin the selar Eystem. he goes out to hunt with bis telescope, £ad wo soon hear him pop away i one, o8 & hunter at a squirrel in the top of a tres. The result of * these discov- eries, #nd their effects upon explorations | in heavenly regions, and revelations of sealed | mystertes, of which they secm to be but stap- ing-stones, remain yet to be manifested. Bat, along with these discoverics, in which s0 many | Littio world-companions arc brought within eight, | within thesa few years we bave another great | wlievement, in the line of chemstry, by which tho constituent elements of theso plauets, or | {be suns which give out light, may be ascer- tained, nhenever we can sieze and imprison the revs of light which come from them; for our wonderful discoveries have enabled us to trans- ferthese r2ys mio messengers of kuowledge. Ther bring us facls from the unkuown worlds, is migistering spints from unseen spheres briog us joys. e Bat we will get down to the plane of this #nh, where our inveations are mostly in req silion. Lot us ses now what we have Which we 4id not have when our fatiers were boya. Ctuals are known as cld institutions. Per- haps o man can assert thot he can make out their history. But they are all aa good 88 new 1o us aince this country began. 2 . THE EAILROAD isa modern invention, though it has been used | expaiimentally, a8 tramways, of wooden Ways, &the coal-trade, for many menerations ; and for «long time it was the day-dream of many vision- &y inventors, 26 the perpetual motion now is. | 83me wsy or other, these men thought there was | %8y o get over the earth on rails more eco- | vomically end repidiv than on the soft, uneven, | &d variable surfaco of the ground. Of course, | iathe dreamy epoch, there was an abundant ef- l\‘:rreactnca of nonsense, and more of ridicale 13d contempt at men who made themselves fools | Mhnhmu: Bat the fifty years since the first Pmcical introduction of Tailroeds have scen them work wouders aud revolutions in tho com- | Derce and intercourse of the world, greater than revolutions of empires. iprovemests in BOADS AND STREGTS OF CITIES b to follow naturally from the railrond. iy or seventy-five yaars £go, we liad nothing | iierin modern timea than ‘the militery roads o the First ad oaly grest Napoleon;'or the | 4 Boman roads, the beat of which, the Appian ‘:‘5‘ moderna did not care to imitate. Our facsisof aes wero paved, if at all, with small M_,Eft or “cobble stone,” of the sizeof a ‘“;l: bead, which were made ve:"y durable, and o 0d fast, by being et on end like egzs znd en or forced down wedge-wice. But the | m:mn horscs, ard tear upon carrisges, wera was festful, aud the noise terrible; aud the ! o gfi‘-\ms oer tho stony street,” a8 o peseribed tixo ontllow of the Britiah srm e ussels to the Battle of Waterloo, is mucl " Doctical in the expression than io Teality, The country roads were mostly el or saud, and not ususlly very ..(mmdzd."or turned up in the centre, called Doy Pflmz- In the hurry of the moment, few o heve ever been 51::&;:&!1 to-be told that 9 roude, frum the earth-piko to tho irom- 2. Yo, more than anvthing else wo have, the | 0! modern civilization ; that, perhaps, +gez e the pioneers of *modorn_commerce sod m;;‘f“’" Whero there are not good rozds, s o OPEILY 1S W0t of much value, town lots el 'fun the merket, and speculsting rings " 226 25 Loles in the ground. S u'{’fi find within the century s man by the Bem hich pm, LIACADAM, Ldarg 408 he was the son of Adsm, and, 28 14, 08 earih, that ho was the son Of earth, iy urelore, by name and nature, the man tast o bave bien born to mako' roads on the mm‘hi,,‘f abont improving the common coTRtry g et Bristol and Bath, in Englsnd. A8 {ore rarircads were crowned successful, st belter chance to malte the best of 1 iy ToB¥1des. And be pounded np tuo stones Finpog 43800, and “set the paupers snd k8™ doiog 1t and epreading them o the g g The tread of horses, to some extent, Sigeg oo UBE Of the wheels of car N or the broken stone five _times | sion of the biack iron-roads 1n endless extent; and she has tho Lest roads of any country, and they are a great part and source of ber national wealth. In the cities, we have, instead of round-hesds or mud, the various styles of . PAVINO,— somein flags,or squere blocks, or oblong, known by several names, a8 *‘ Russ,” or * Dutch,” or ** Belgian " paving ; concrote or_asphalt and stone blocks laid in" pitch, a8 in Paris, and of wood-plack, s in former times in Cnicago, or, Iater, the wooden paving of blocks end-wise, ag provided in a muliitudo of patents, snd extended by ns many combinations that end in fraud and swindles. ~ But the wood-paving is the best, and must conquer &ll others where wood can be ob- tained. pon these lies another stege of im- provement,—the city railway and,horse-cara ; great improvements, great necessities, and groat nuisances, and uimn‘y because they have been introduced and tolerated without thought, with- out apphication of mechanical ingenuity to the gflmusfls intended and to the wunts demanded. ess mochanical genius is seen in the street-railway system than in _ anything else we call modern improvoment. It is only the steam-railway, with eteam appliances, trans- ferred from country to the city, without the steam accompaniment. THOE STEAM-ENGINE preceded the railroad and_the improvement of streets, and made tho railroad a posaibility. It has made possible a thousand other steps in the world’'s modern march. Wa should crown tho steam-cngine the li.lng of Machines, the Power o Powers. Nothing has ever occurred in the march of time that has produced such regults. Itis the pioneer of progress. Itis found the ally of every civilized government, the aid to commerce, the instrument of warfare, the com- papion of civilization and religion. The em- pires of the world aro nanght without ths steam-engine, It had its beginning befors this ceptury ; 1t was but a child when this age of in- ventions began ; and it has kept its place and led on in every improvement. Lel it be recognized a8 head over all. Wit it, as our modern improvemonts, We have the lozomotive on tho railrond, the stoamboat on the water the propellor of the ship that crosses every sea of the globe; and yet, loss than forty years ago, we wore told by one of the most lcarned scientific men of the day that it would bo utterly impossible to take a ship across the Atlantic by steam-power, But the steamers do go, and the man yet lives. What marveloue invontions have we now that we had in tho boginuing of this century? Hard- Iy one. Lok back and see what a PLOW-JOOGING OLD AGE our fathers lived in. How thoy had to get along without anything wo haye,—and did everything thy hand.” They lived within themselves and were happy, I bolieve. They had great mey in thosa daye, giants in the land, and worked out eat moral Echiovements, They were great fn thoughts, in hard work; but not much in dash or flash, or in rumor or sensation. They were content without divorces. They did mot travel much. They did no: have many machines. They bad not many sbort cuts to great resuits. They were & raco, our fathers were, that, if they were to find thamselves suddenly on the earth sgain, would find themselves much out of place and far from bome, and would get back again as soon a8 possible. THE AT OF TRINTISG— that which wo styla the ert preservative of all art—we had, jt is true, centurics before tho Cen- tury of Inventions began. DBut improvements in that line nearl/ all belong to our time. Bs- fore, it was simply printing, setting up the type into words and sentences, as all printers from first to lnat bave learned to do,—F¥ranklin could do that as well, perbaps as rapidly, as the print- ers in Txe TRIDUNE ofice,—and then getting tho impreasion with ink upon paper in the simplest the memory of printers now lividg. The Ramage press is the type of tho honest old style of print- ing, from the thres tvpos at Mayence to Ben Frapklm. It was the hall-form platen aod the screw that did the business and lof: the marks | | form. This was printing for 350 years, till within | and on the side of which he dabbed his ink-balls, in London, when he tanght the young John Bulls Low to.work and not drink beer, cab now be seen in the British Museum at Kensington. They koep there better care of the relics of our glory than we do oareelves. There are some printers in Chicago probsbly who have pulled » Ramage. From Ramage to Hoe and Bullock is » long stride, but o rapd journey. Ii has been made in less than fifty years. Probably firty years sgo thers were mo power-presses it use. The ‘‘Rust” and * Welles” hand- printing prosses, whereby tho lover was substituted for the screw, and foll platens for a whole form were great inveutions in their day. But what could we do with the family of TRIBUNES, With 80,000 to 50,000 circulation daily, with these hand-presses; or with the 6,700 daily and weekly papers in this country? And tho steps of progress in printing are seen in the numberless improvements in the composing- room,—even the type-setting machine iu some offices; the electrotyps of the lstter zs well as the plate; the casting of the daily newspoper pago as a plate to print from; priating in col- ers, chromos; many styles of engraving aod picture-making. Thewhole world would be 8 mar- vel of marvels and an astonishment to old Ben Frapklin bimself. For all tlus has come since he has been Iaid on the shelf to be re-bound, or to be revised and reprinied 1u & new and enlarged edition. This art has been the FOSTER-FATHER AND KUDSING MOTHNER of every important invention that has marked tho growth of the age. It has suggested what the times bas nooded, diecerned the means of { achioving 1t, and then has recorded for all future time what has actuslly been discovered and achieved. No impression once made under the @8 of the printing press needs to be dono over again; from the point made, overy step is on- ward for improvement. There will be no lost arts to be bunted for in coming times, since tho press bas coma forward as the preservative of all arts. It was a great misfortune, if not s mis- take, with the anclents, that they did not got something better with which to record their achievements than thoso scraggly and very du- bious old charncters ocslled **hisroglyphics,” or the cuneiform letters cut on stucco, or on something more durable then tablots of stone. Give mo the frail sheet of pzper, with the forms of the type imprinted on its face. for tho preservation of knowlodge, or for giory, rather than the figures and words cut upon Dblocks of granite or marble! Onward with the spread bannors of the pross, goe what improvements have followed the advent of the century, with those others that have been mentioned. There is aAs, which has become the modern light of tbe phys- jcal world. Our grandfathers groped their wa; at night by the light of the tallow-candlo. By such dimnesa thoy studied Edwards and Dwight in theology and for edification, and read Shak- Speare aud Fielding for pleasure, and the Cou- rants and News-Letlers, two-pago folio shoets of 1he size of merchants' ledgers, weakly, for their news of current events. And, when they walked in the streots by night they carried lantorns in their hands, and desired, like good men, to let their light shive. g The 6pinning-jeany and the loom have wrought their wopdere. No mora is heard the hum of the wheel in the kitchen, and the bang of the loom in the shop, by, which the busy housewifo clothed her ehildren from the wool of her own sheep. THE COTTON-OIX camo in time fiom tho Yankes ingenmity of Whitney, and cotton became a loadiug’ srticle of commerce. It mads Manchester and Liverpool, and they made the firat trafiic-railway. Great Pritain became the first commercidl Power, 83 she bad been the firat political Power. Slavery grew on cottou in the United States, and became T ower to govern tho Government. Oppres- o man in the Sonth drew life- blood from the philonthropy of England. Dt daring and demanding too much, it lost all Slavery came to an oud ; but the commerce of cotton continues ; and. like railroads dictating national policy, 50 commerce underlies the impulse of matioms, . and colors all their sctivities. The pation that hss grown upon the cotton-trade to ba the fizst in B enufactares, first in making it an article of trafic with all otber nationy, does no: now con- gider what it cen best do to magnify the glory of the nation, bat what it can do to extend atstrade and ewrich its merchanis. Such is the out- growth of that very sunple machine ealled the cotton-gin. Tnerf 18 nothing so useful, and at the sameo timo s overturning in all its rosults, sileatly | working its !mn!EIfrmipgTw}fl in the Age of Di coverics, as the Eloctric Telograpi. e e st i, and its results, it is {8 meagure marvelous and unexplainsble. It bias no parallel in all past history. 1t is the onohant- ment of the age. It has belted tha earth with 8 magic gizdle. Like the nerves of sensation, it passes over the globe’s sugface u_:d»underhus the Peeats. And by it thought is put in instantaneous coonettion witg thought in distant parts of the carth, The half of svery issuo of Tue Tms- uxgismade up of the intelligence gathered from all regions by the mesns of this semi- gensuons organization. Toward ihe 1atter end of the last centary, Franklin arst got the clue to Seqicl, = crushed {hem, snd packed s ) P &2 down into gnd over the clay and eartd, and this power in his telograph-cord with the clouds; md,’i’efon the middie c’?’ the noxt century, dis- covory and invention made it the medium of thought; nnd the rea], proctical inventor of it, within a’ very fow years, died, robbed, by the tolorated meanness of mankind, of a large meas- uro of the credit of the discovery. _And like unto this, in its myaterions connec- tion with the decp things of Nature, and its sur- prising effocta upos the gocial reiations of man- kind, 13 the invention of the photograph. This is Nature turned parfect picture-maker. and it is & blessing at this timo largely enjozed, without the fullest appreciation of the rewards coriferred. Those who have had their littile children and dear fiiends departto the other world, leaving no likeness behind, may reelize the loss it might be if thia =rt wero blotted out, and the current of progress turned beck in dark- ness for & generation in the past. We might extend, but not fill up, the catalogue of inventions zud discoveries of the century, of things not known or conceived of in thought by our fathers, by enumerating the invention of the sewing-machine and knitting-looms; the intro- duction of Indiz-rubbor in the arts and manu- factures; the diecovery of ether and cholroform 88 the means of annibilating pain; tho humen working machine for cutting and eetting card- teeth; tho combination of machinery for the making of waiches and clocks; tho steam fire engino; the machinery of destruction and war- fare,—tho rovolver, the breech-loeder, the rifled cannon, the momtor, tho Gatling guo, mitro- glycerine, and gun-cotton; artesizn weils; tho chemical match.—xn invention that is not profit- able to overlook by day or night; snd, to com- plate oven such & list, wo should need the writing machiue, and the stenographer’s art of gathening the thoughts in words. ¢ But perbaps there is nothing that marks the breadth and importance ot tho Inventive Ags 8o much as the APPLICATION OF MACHINERY TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. In 1800 our fathers head little better to break their ground than Sethro Wood's wooden piow, sbeeted with iron plates; and the hoe and the fork, and shovel and ox to match,—all clumsy and rude jnstruments ; snd tho sicklo as & reap- ing-machine, and tho Ecythe, sometitaos straigh a3 a mower. The cradie for graln was Laile » great invention. In plece of thess wo bave gLown to umplements of busbandry of elegant manufacture : the steam-ploy, {he planter, the culti-tor, the rotary barrow, the revolving- raks . bie mower and the reaper, the self-raker, and tho barvester and thresher. 5o also the po- tato-digger, the corn-husker and sheller. Tho list is interminable. What is the world coming to? Is there any limit to the power aud ephete of invention? WaizLiNG WHEEL, REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS, THE DRAMA affords little room for commeat during the past week. It has dragged itse along useventfully, the only noticeble feature being its cosaution at ono house for the season. About this time of year business begins to flag at tho thoatres, and it is not a matter of surprise that it has done 8o this soason. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, which reopened 8o brilllantly this season, has closed. The company is broken up, snd is wandering in detachments all over the country, The house will remain practically deserted until Mr: Hooley's excellent compsay of next scason is bronght together, when it will reopen with aston- ishing oclat. So far, Mr. Hooley has not an- notinced his new company entire. The only two old members who will remaiu are Alrs, Mae- der and Mr. Saulsbury, JMr. Crane, of the Oatca party, will be tho comedian who takes Bishop's place. But we anticipate. Mr. George Miller has gone East 10 make arrangements for letting the theatre until June 6, whon Ar. Daly will be hera. A NEW COMBINATION has been formed, embracing the strength of Hooley's company, and filled up from other the- atres. It will bo known as the Wallack Combins- tion, and will travel until August. The com-— pany will cousist of the following persons; C. B. Bishop, George Giddens, Nate Saulsbury, Harry Stone, H. N. Wilson, T. O. Collins, Heury Willard, J. L. Leonard, Miss May Wallack, Miss Sydoey Cowell, Miss Emma Stone, Miss Eliza Long, aod Miss ellogg. Mr. Bishop will, ot the end of this traveling scason, join the Com- psny ot Ford's new theatrs, at Balti- more, where ho is an immease favorite We are sorry to lose 1lr. Bishop. He is & comedian of unusual ability, an actor of loug experience, devoted to Lis art, and far abovethe petinees Of the sverage comedian. Hio is thoroughly conscientious in his art, aud is among the small number of comediaus who do ot condescend to trickery for applause. Mr. Bishop playa to the intelligent fow m an audi- ence. o avoids speaking more than is set down for him, snd is notoneof thoso ** that will themselves lsugh, to set on some quanticy of barren spectators to laugh too, though, in the mean tinic, omo neceseary question of the play be then to be considered.” ‘there are somo com- edy characters for which Mr. Bishop's figuro dis- qualifies him, but then sgain thero are many for which he is cspecially adapted. As Btage-maua- gor, ho has not been’ abla to dovoto Lis whole s to ectog, but has appesred in the best icces_of the soason—*' Divorce,” *Lilian's sst Love,” “Clouds,” ** Hearts,” *'Man and Wife,” and the standard comedies, ** The Heir- at-Law,” “The Victims,” etc. . We obscrvo that the last-named comedy i ona of the kpecialties of tae combination. It could not bave chosen a better one, for Yir. Bishop's Joshua Bullerby is one of the brightest end moat enjoyable rep- resentations on the stage. Mr. iddeus and Mirs Cowell are also excollent in their respec- tive parts, The Combiuaion will doubiless meet Wwith success. It opens at Aurors to-mor- TOW. THE ACADEMY OF 3(UsIC, Mr. Chanfrau's second week at the Academy was oply fair from a business standpoiot, though well enough otherwise considered. This weelc Alr. Bufialo i1l and Alr. Yexea Jack will play n & new piece, outitled **Tne Sconts of the Pians,” with thess two gontiemen in sheir original characters, and 3Llie. Morlacchi as Pate Love. The compuny is & fair oue. s TIE ADELPHI. The tremendous success of the present bill at tha Adelphi has encouraged ir. Grover to retain it for this week. Business has been better here thanat =ny timo since the opening of the house. Leona Dare's performance alone is worlh tho admission, It is withous parallel in point of daring, skill, and strength. The romainder of tho atiractions are equally meritorious in their w8y, ANOTHER MUSEUM. The museum mania spresds like the variety visitation. A rash gentleman bas contracted for @ leaso of Kingsoury Hall, whish he proposes to metamorphose into a musenm. He is fo bear tho expenses of alterice the hall, 8t & cost of about £16,000, and this being dcne to the satisfaction of the owners, and there be- ing 810,000 worth of stuff in the museum. he 18 to bave the hall at an annual rental of §25,000 for a term of years. The Randolph street front is to be leased ns soon as the present leaso ox- pires. The cartain ia to be of heavs crimson satin-ailk, to surpass anythiug of tne kind in tho country. The lecture-room is to be remodeled togeat 1,700 people, and to surpnss in besuty anything of tbe kind in the couniry. Below the lecture-room, a ball 80 feot squaré will bo used for an aquarium, to be fitted up nssoon a8 possi- ble. The three other floors will bo divided into smaller apartments for the exhibition of all kinds of mecbanical curiosities, In the upper story thero will bo a large hall 50x80 feat, which wll'be given up to_living s0d other cunosities. The museum is to be opened oa the Fourth of July. Wood's American Museum, 8t New York, is interested in this entorprise. MARIONETTES. “The marionettes, of shich—or whom, for they ars g0 life-like 88 to be spoken of a3 animate beiugs—Charles Dickens wiote 80 enthusisati- cally, ars souounced to sppear at Kingsbury Hiall’ Tuesday eveung. ‘The Esstern papors spoak in terms of tho highost praise of their performance, which is 6o droll as to keep the au- ‘dience in & perpetnal ripple of merriment. The fizures are wondsrfully life-like, and are better actors than many living professionals. They will ugpear in the pantomime, *Little Red Ridinghood,” snd will, 38 soon as thoy aro Lnown, draw crowded houses. MYERS' OPERA-HOTSE. The minstrels are still prospering, and have a good bill for tho coming week. Ona of the specialties is & performance of the rich bur- lesque. *‘The Comedy of Errors” with Eemble, Courtwright, Arlington, Sartidge, aud Linden in the cast. Arlington shows bis lofty spprecia- tion of * Woman Suffrage;” Cotton and Lirdue sing and_dance like clicketa; Courtwright's “ Ouly Fiiend ” still monrns over the past, and tne wholo company jons in “Les Drigands Noir” with fervor and spizit. M'VICKER'S TGEATRE. Maggio Mitchell Las beea playing Jane Eyre dunng the week to fair hooses. To-morrow “Fanchon” will bo plsyed. 3JOHN IWCULLOTGH. 3Ir. MeCullough'recep:ion in New York has been an immense success. The opening mnight reserves an opinion of McCullough until he has Elayed in other parta than Spartacus, but praives is personstion of the Thracian Gladiator. The Tribune suys: The crowd that saw him thronged all parts of the house; rescived him with kindnesa; watched him with an eager interest that soan despenod into fervent sympathy ; yielded, little by little, to the epell of s rareand #weet exrnestuess; and, by such vocifer- ous piaudits 28 are seldom heard, called him five times before the curtain, 'and crowned bim with oll the houors of popular admiraticn, There was no clacque, Thero was no ficti- tious applause. Thers sus no floricultural demonstra~ ‘There was 1o trickery of ement to mar the plainness of & simple intellectual appesl to knowl: edgr, taste, and emotion. That the actor bad a tri- ‘umph witn the people will therefors be inferred, and must {n justice be sccorded, That he deserved this— and much more than thi 0 are deeply convinced, Itis long einco what moy be called a new actor bas impressed us us profoundly a8 we were impressed last night by Mr, McCullongh, alike ;in thought 2nd_emo- tion, . . . . . Hecirried ‘Spartacus through at fully the Beight of the Brutus of Sbaksprare. The test that an intellectual man mcets and bears who does this—with such & past, and under the shadow of such o reminisconce of past renown—is immeesurs- Dly severs, There must bo great art powers znd great iutegrity of mind and heart in the personsge who can accomplish brilliact success under such an ordeal Tho Herald £ay8 : 3ir. McCullough, like Forrest, has the comely grace of perfect manbood—of atlletic stature and 1nald, with iho thews aud sinews of the gladiator. Mors then this, he has o fineness of touch, & glad expres- sivencen of feature, o bright, genuino, winning quali- ty which Forrest never gucceeded in expressing. In the recognition of his wifo end child in the strecls, the discovery of his brother just as they were nbout 1o gr=pple in tho death encounter, there was a pathos in the Spartacus of Mr. McCullough, an intenco beat- ty of feeling, which Forrest never surpassed. The World is cqually enthusiastic. The care- ful critic of the Times says: Having placed on record theso facts, it is necensary toadd that, wnila Mr. McCullough's personstion of Spartacua is full of vitality and marked now and then by uncommon force, it {8 not one upon which we should be content to rest our judgment as to the per- former's merita. Mr. McCullough's tour, therefore, has been a series of successes. Only one paper sneered at bim. That paper was tho Chicago Times. The malico of & recent editorial in that paper bLe- comes more manifest with every favorable criti~ cism of the actor. DRAMATIC NOTES. It is said that Toole will make his debut in this country as ** Paul Pry.” Salvini was presonted with & erown of gold and laurel leaves st the close of his recent en- gagement in Havapa. Mme. Ristori has takon the Teatro Principal, in Mexico, for next .September, and expects to act in Bavana next Februury. Qur countrymau, Mr. J. 8. Clarke, the come- dinn, is now very successful fu London in the charactar of Phineas Pelliphogge, & poverty- stricken lawyer. ‘Willism Warron appears at the Boston Musenm this week a8 Caplain Cultle, in Mr. Halliday's plsdysnf Heart's Delight”—beased ou ** Dombey and Son.” ‘The Grand Opers-House, New York, is closed. Oliver Doud Lyron played Donald McKecy in it, which the management thought the proper limit to its decline. _ Japauschelkand Mies Neilson both participated in a performance at the Lyceum Theatre, Rew York, last Wednesdey, for the benefit of Ar. J. B. Polk, of Wallack's. Appleton’s Journal says: * Never before in thie Listory of ous country bas the theatre-going class included so lnrge a portion of the people, or have theatres mnnipmb s0 repidly.” Messrs. Jarrett and Pelmer took formal pos- gession of Booth’s Theatrs, New York, last Weduesday, but Ar, J. B. Booth has kocared from them a sublease, to exist during the en- gagement of Mr. McCuilough. Miss Adelaide Neileon made a plensant hitle apeech at the closeof ber engagement at Booth's Theatre on Saturday night, abd apnounced ber inteution to return to this country in the fall to play in & now Shakspearean part. “La Lettre Rougs™ of ML Merc Fournier and Lermina, given at the Ambigu Comique, iss version of Hawthorne's ‘‘Scarler Letter. Many alteratins have been made in the plot. Hester, the heroine, i8 played with much passion by Mlle. Periga. The principal topio io Peris dramatic circles contipucs to be Mlle. Croizette’s extraordiuary decth contortions in the ‘‘Sphinx.” It is scid she had a rabbit poiconed to wajch its expiring agonies. Hard on the raobit. Croizette 18 the talk of the town. A Detroit paper gravely comments upon * Led Astray,” 83 being Doucicsult’s adaptation of Lecoy's ** La_Tentatic),” heving got the com- poser of ““La Fiile de Madano Angot ™ quite out of his metier. Of the acting 1t says: ‘‘Itre- flectod the vory ideal thought of Ledoq.” Oliva Logan intends to return to the stage. She has been studyiug anew in Pais, sod Las been offered an opportumty to sppesr on the French stage in French plays. She will, how- ever, return to America to effect her reappear- ance. The precise amount realized by the Police De- partment of Phitadelphia by the salo of tickets to the performauces at the Arch Street Theatre, for the benetit of tho Centennial Fund, is notset definitely known. Over £20,000, however, have been received. Miss Braddon’s nevw drama of * Genavieve; or tho Missing Witness,” which bas been produced at the Alexaudra Theatre, Liverpool, contaius an attempted murder, 2 drcadful avalanche, and a swcide, and is £aid to owe its effect mostly to the machinist of the theatre. The late Aimee Desclen is now eaid to have owed lcr illuess to the disastrous effects of the discovery that a young woman who lived with her as a companion had been systematically rob- bing her. She was strongly attached to thus por- son, and the revelation of her Serfidy and in- gratitudo was mote thun she could bear. Charivari aptly illustrates the coneequences of tue success of **Sphinx” in Paris by a design, ropresenting the drawicg-room of an actress. The ardent artistewas just about to hang hersolf, when ber maid comes in and cries with astonish- ment, **Mademoiselle, what is the matter:” “ Lot mo alone, I am studying a new part!” Donald McEzy aud a number of his scalp-tak- ing braves aro giving theatrical entertainments in Wasbington Terntory. War-dauces and scalp- dances by 1eal live Indinns are the great attiac- tion. They alto give dramatic eflect to their serformance by ropresenting the tragedy of Dr. ‘hitman's murder, and finish it off with a dance around Lis supposed scalp. Clara Morris is eufuged to bamarried, but will ot leavo the stage In consequence. ' The other day sbe said to a lady correspondent: * **I shall never leave the stage as loog as 1 have the power to absorb and river_ the attention of my audi- ence, and earry it with me a3 ono person. Ido not think God gives taleuts in one special direc- tion unless be intends them to be used; and I mean to use mino as long as I possess them.” ‘The New York Evening Mait sugrests, in view of Mllo. Croizette's dying nfi:}mes in Octave Feuillet's ** The Sphinx,” that the representation of fatal diseases be added to the present stcek of aisgusting exlibitions : “Why not 2dd to the consumptive Camille, the victms of drapsy, of pleurisy, or of the small-pox? The last- onned would be particularly picturesque snd re- volting."” Baroum is back from Europe, and the report- ers ore after him regarding lus balloon project. The ghowman says he has no aspirations nor ex- pectations to make an nerial excursion acrosd the ‘Aulantic, and Le will not advance money (o sesist others in dofog 8o witil he isreasonably eatisfied that the trip could be sttempted witbout suy extraordinary risk to aeronants. Vhen Barmum ceases to ba sanguine tho barometer of hope Binks. The * Black Crook” is drawing large houses in Vermont, 8s & result of the advertisiug given Dy the clergymen and newspapers. The St. Al- bavs Messenger €ays of the exhibision in that town: **Only s few ladies weut, and most of them wished they hbadn't. Merchents went, to seo if they conldu't find 2 market for dry goods. Judges aud lawyers went, to sce whother they ought tc exeoite the law or not. Pbreicians went, to study anatomy. And other folks went, Dbecause they wanted to.” Mr. Chaney will begin work on his new Globs Theatre at Boston in a few days, and expects to have it done &t tho opening of the next winter peason. It will cost §200,000, and Mr. Cheney proposes to make it as good a place of amuse- ment #s there is in tbe_country. A novel pian for raising money to pay the expense of build- ing is to sell tickets for one seat for eightcen cars (the time for which pert of the laud is Toisady for $1,000 each. Thts makea the cost of a seat mbout $1.40 a week, and the tickeis are tranaferatle. 1t is understood that if *‘Led Astray” ever ‘shows auy signg of waning ip tiraction at the Union Squaro Theatre, Now York, ‘*Camilte” will bo put in rehesreal for the appearance of Miss Morcis, The engagement of . Mra. Chan- fraa at this housa beginy 1 Juve, when **Dora " 25d * Plack-Eyed Sutan ™ will probably bo given. —Thero is & horrible story told by one French correxpondent abont a melodrama which bo beard two dramatic authors projecting. - This play was not to be remarkable for its churscters, Booth's Thestre was cronded from pit to dome. The prees of the métropolis praises hir without stint. But one poper, the New York Z¥mes, or ita plot, or its dialogne; but still it was to ba » remsarkable play. Its chigf incident was o be that of an smputation, which should bo reslstically represented. A surgeon should operste wupon = ekilifally cou- structed wax arm provided with gutta- percha tubes containing a red fluid. The only difficolty was not 1n simulsting the sanguinary details of taking off ¢ limb, but in catching an actor whose writhing sud scroaming should be fully up to the level of tortured nature. With him engaged. supposing & man of gevius would condescend to so lideous s make-beliove, there was overy chance of success for the new Paris- ian sensation. Ar. Barnum himself has been added to his great Roman Hippodrome, and the programme 13 completo. Some wind of his.arnval in the Bcotia yesterday was gob bv most overybody, aud tho big sudienco last night slertly watched for him. When st the open- ing'of the Congress of Nations the gallery saluted *‘England” with s roar thoes at a dis- tance from the entrance whispered * Buroum,” but Barnum was_not in England. The same senzation greeted others of the chariots, but Barnum was in none of them. At last, afterthe Ppageantry, there came a still, small, open car- riago, lived with white eatin, and, amid a roar to which the other roars were eilenca, Mr. Barnum appeared and got in and stood up, and was driven siowly round from right to lefs. Tho orchestra chaire saluted him with hand-claspings and handkerchicfs, the balcony with vigorois cries of **Hi Yi!” and the family circle, 5.000 strong, took bia name in vain like thunder. 3ir. Barnum made no speech, not being & Bosperges to be heard 21l over the arena, but bowed aud smiled his thanks in the great Babylon he has builded. e TIUSIC. The musical features of tho past week Lave rot been very numerous in quantity or specially marked in quality. Tho Aimee Opers Bouffe Troupe have patched out their rocent season with three performances of ** The Grand Duch- e8s,” *La Belle Helene,” znd * Orpheus,” at Hooley’s—thres operas which might have in- swed a very decided success if they had been given at the proper timo in tho regular sesgon inatead of the stufl which was presented. The troupe leaves for San Francisco to-day, and its departure ends this style of musical nongense until pext fall, when itis presumable we shall have more of it,as Aimee is under contract to Maurice Grau for another seagon. Locsl masic- al events, a8 ia very often the case, were con- centrated upon a siugle oveuing, Thursday even- ing being the victim. The first of thege waa & concert given under the suspices of Mr. Louis Falk, at the Union Park Congregational Church, for the bonefit of the organ fund, upon which occaston he had the assistance of Miss £lln A. White, Miss Aups Lews, Mre. O. L. Fox, Messra, Schultze, Dicm, Liebling, Gill, aud = male quartotte, and Mr. A. P. Eutbank, the elo- cutionist. The concert was very well attended, and was quite successful in_a musical point of view, tho principal numbers being the Mendols- sohn sonata No. 4, by Mr. Falk; a Pmtti fan- tasia’ for 'cello, by Mr. Diem; Ras “La Fileuse,” the Chopin Ballad in A flat, and Weber's * Concertstuck,” by Mr. Liebling 3 and two of Schumsann’s songs, ** Hoavenly Drezma ™ and ** Bridal Song,” by 3liss Whie. The sce- ond concert was the mecond complimentary soires to Mrs. Eugenie de Roode Rica a: Lo Pacific Hotel, in which she was assisted by Mirs . H. Glenn, Mr. Robert Goldbeck. Mr. Heman Allon, aud Mr. Fraok J. Baird, the principal foature of the ovening being the Hummel sovata i A flat, plaved by AMrs. Rice and Mr, Goldbeck. Mre. Rico alro played Cho- pw's G mmor ballad sud Thalberg's fantasie on themes from ** Moses in Egypt.” The third and last event on this eventful eveniag was a privale musical recital given by r. Silas G. Pratt at bis residence to about twenty-five in- vited gueets, The programme was made up mpiniy of bisown compositions, iucluding the Yolopaisa in A flat major, for pisno; * Thy Smile,” a tallad; " Retrospection,” & 80Dg; Droam Visions, an_obligato soprano solo, inter- woven with Schumaon's *Traumerei” (piaco and, violin); “Tho Rainy Day,” vocal quar- tette, with string sccomraniment; ** Roverie,” instrumental quattetto (striugs); snd *Phao- tom Clouds,” a fautasie for pisoo. Ths two numbers ‘“Thy Smile” and *The Rniny Day” bad to be omitted owing to the ab- Bouce of Ar. Bischoff. Xfrs. Stacey sung tho Troumere: solo, and Miss Ells A. White the + Retrospection,” and Mesers. Lowis, Hubbard, Alien, and Haud the string music, and Mr. Pratt alio plared eome numbers from Chopin and Mendelssohn to fll out tho pro- gramme. - The most meritorious number %as the * Retroepection,” which is 8 very effective and expressivo song, and of & much higher order of musical merit than a ballad. 'Lhere is real excellenco and originality io it, aod wo hope Mr. Pratt will give himeeif earnestly to mare of this kind of wori. A few more such compositionsas this (which we under- stand Is about 2 be published by Ditron & Co.) will givo him move than 2 local reputationasa BODg-WriLer. THE OLD FOL¥S. Mrs. Richings-Bernard's troupe of Old Folks commence & weei's season of their peculiar aud characteristic concerts to-morrow esening at McCormick's Music Hall. ‘Lhe troupe was here 50 recently and its concerts were so well at- tended that it 18 hardly necesasry to inform our readers of 1ts solid excellence and of the unusual sttractions of the music it furvishes, growing out of the fact thaf thoy give o class of music which has pot been touched for many years, and that the troupe is mado up of singers of unusual excelleuce, who have sang togeiher for a lonz time, The programme for the opening might will be as follows : PLET L 1. Madrigals.... “The Red, Red ltose ™ & Fhe Tritou gery ...Tho Old Folks Prudence Partridgo “Rnsels”............ +«0l, Lord, How Manifo 2. Piano Solo. i Fereine Bo argery Pinchwifs 3, Twa past tune. e Fghu-Littie- it 4, #0%r the Sparkling Bnow™. Tho 0ld Foiks 6. * Barbara Allen”. W i V) 6. “Good Night, Bel % 5 rine Poundkesa w JAraminta Vaiulove Yo Quaker Courtship { amphrey Merrsthought The Old Foiks “ Auld Lang Syne *... TURNEL IAUL. The following is the programme st Turner Hall this afteruoon: AT L 1. Fest 3March... sose 2. Overiure to “ The Fuiry Lake ". 3, Fantaeia— A Wreath of Meiodles ™. PART 1L 4. Overture to *Indizo “. = .....Biranss 5. Allegretto cad schorzando, from Eighth Symphony. . .. Ecothoven 8, *Sicep Well, Sweet Angel,"—tzanscrip- tion for trom¥ou Mr. Braun. 7. First finalo of * MMasraniello "....... PART I 8. Bouvenir de Mererboer—Fantasls., 9, Volkseaenger waltz. 10. Quadrille... JORN'8 CHURCH. The Ladies’ Aid Society of St. John's Prot- estant Epiecopal Chiurch have arranged for the second in their veties of concerts for the benefit of their Bociety, to be held in, the basement of the charch, ou Ashland avenue, south of Aladi- son pireet, Thureday evemrg, 1ith inst. The managor of this concert, Mr. C. . Leflor, bas pocured the following srray of talent: Measrs. Jogeph Diem, Louis Falk, Julius Hunnexan, Martin Solltz, Mrs. O. L. Fox, Miss Clara Parker, the ceicbrated reader, Mr. Kuignt, and the Blaney Quartette Club, consiating of Mossrs. Coftin, Goodridze, Kimbark, and Letler. A NEW TRIO. Mr. Robert Goldbeck, whose instramental intette gaso such unqualified satisfaction at e recent concert of the Apcllo Clab, iv now at work upon a_trio for piano, violin, and violon- cello. The first part, an Allegro Risoluto, 18 fin- faned, and the second. the Adagio, is commenced. He eXpects to hiave it fnished early in Jaue. In the composition of his_trio 3Ir. Goldbeck has developed s new idea. Instesd of keepiog esch part exclusively scparate, Lo rotaivs the princi- pal motives of the tirat part and Adagio through- out the entire work, Bo as to give it more perfect unity. It is Mr. Goldbeck’s intention to write soveral other kindred works, and produce them in » Berics of coceerts Lereafter—an spmocico- ment which will be very gratifying to the musical public. NILSSON AND LUCCA'S FIRST DTO. The New York Zribure of the 4th eays: At 3lr. Fryer's benefit last night the vne ‘great fea- furo of the evening was tho ‘*Quis esthomo duet by Nilszon and Luces. Tho rosicst antici- pations of the audience were more thsn realized Dy it. That each prima donua would pus furth Dber best effort and ker ntmost cere was to be expected ; but the Cuet wos not mors remerk- ablo for exquisitely-finished execation thaa for the perfect blending of tone and charming ef- fects of contrast. Each voice seomed to supply romothing that the other lacked, sud each to bricg ou: the other's beauties in bolder relief. o 1h1s harmonfons orion Nijsron's Yoice con- tributed purity_and epirituality, and Lucea's gave warmth and nich color. Bo'close was. the apparent sympathy between the .rwo that one conld rlmost fancy that they bad nung together sil thew Lives, Lad Deca all their lives baight~ opig the effect of each other's charms, and supplement:ng each other's powers.” MUSICAL PUBLICATIONS. Mesers, Oliver Ditson & Co. have just issued a new worl in voice-culturs, entitled ** Guido to the Art of Singing,” by Mr. George L. Osgood, which is destined to work a revolution in teach~ ing the voice eud become a &tandard authority. He has based lus work npon the old school and its teachings, aided by bis own _expericnco aad the teachings of the most relisblo authorities down to the present time. The Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, nn excollent suthonty in mu- sical matteis, says of it: ‘The work is in three parts, the firet elng devoted to Tocating the voice, the mecond to the acquisition of floxibiilty, xnd the thizd to lo:al ombellishments. Thia leat caninot but prove of great benefit to students of slugiug. It elaborately treats of the theory of pro- nunciation, phrasing, "respiration considered techni- cally and sathetically, and cantabile recitation and do- clamation, Mr. Osgood’s development of the griretto is origiuel, and the aubject i here for the first Ume logically arranged. Perhaps the most_import tion of Purt III, is * The Theory of P: The sutbor happens to bo the first to imporant subject jnto any written . tio with the practical developments of goscopy. The book f th that kas appeared since Garcia pubiic ed work ; and it can scarcely fail to schleve equal fa- vor, for it izcorporates » vast quantity of indispenss- ble ixformation to be found in no other volume, and brings the art up to the atage of development it kus reaclied af the present time, The work slows (hroagh. out the expendituro of the utmost thought, care, and Iabor, and we, shall feel gratifed if our remarks, though mecessatily brief and mperfect, draw attec- tion o 3 volume which is 80 yaluablean addition to the literzture of practical musical azt. Mr. David_Daptie, of Glasgow, is to edits work which will be of great interest to musicians, —a descrivtive cataloguo of 17,000 secular part songs. The first part of the volume will contain an siphabetical index to the titles of the glacs, madr:gais, and other compositions, stating the class to which they belong, the number of voices, and the composer's name. In the second part under each composer's name will be found a list of his part music, specifying whother it iy orig- inal or an arraogement. ~ 1t is to be published by eubscription. . JMezsrs. Schaefer and Koradi, of Philadelphia, have just isened the fourth book of Engelie's admirable collection of four-part songs for mals current number contains seven songs by Hors- ley, ALt, Kalliwods, Schalz-Weids, and Graner. AUSICAL NOTES, Mile. Aimee is engaged to Grau for next sea- 8on. Mile. Morenei, the contralto, is singing in Pariy. * Aligs Antoinette Storling eang on the 8th inst. before the Queeen, at Osborne. Lucocrga “LaTille do Madame Angot" has at last been withdrawn after the extraordivary run of 411 nights, ‘Von Bulow baa accepted offers of the London Philbarmonic Socicty to remain as solo piasist and director of the orchestra. 1. Gustave Gottschalk, brotherof the pianist, ig to make his debut 1n England this summer. M. Gottscbalk hes a fine baritoue voico. Edvard Grieg, the young Norwegizo composer, 18 at present at work upon n opera, the lioretto of which is from tha pen of Bjornstjerne Bjorn- s0n. _A now opera bouffe, entitled * Normandy Pip- pivs,” hes been wiitten by Mr. H. J. Beron for apeedy production at tho new Criterion Theatre, Londou. A gorgeous Washington critic says of Miss Kellogg: **[n the mine of music her presence lights the miners’ lamps, aud in the harmony of hor voico the veins of silver are rovealod! Her Majesty’s Theatre, which rumor has let to so meny managers of late, tud which Mr. Mapleson was really on the point of taking & few months ago, is about to be sold by auction. Signor Sanguinotti, for many years the_direc- tor of the Carlo Felice, in Genos, has died in that city, in his 74th yoar. He first brought Signor Verdi into notice. A new opera s announced in Italy, founded oa the eveuts of the Tichborne caso, and i en- titled **La Causa Ticciborni." The Lord Chief Justice figrres a8 1i Lord Capo di Giustizia i Cachibarno. Gen, William Hall, the well-known music pub- lisher. dicd on the 7th inst., at his resideace in Thirty-fourth etrect, near Ninth avenue, New York, st the advauced age of 72. Ho was born in New Yorl State in 1802. Signor Maini. Signor Stolz, Waldmann, and Signor Capponi will bo the vocalsts in the Re- quiem composed by Verdi for Maozoni, All the members of the orchestra of the Bcala will take part in the pérformanco. The Musikalisches WWochenblaft announces that the building of the Wagner Theatre at Bayrenth is advanciog vory rapidly. Reports about this theatre are almost as varied as the opinions on Wagner's music. Milo. Di Maraks appearod at the Stadt Theatrs, Now York, on May 7, a8 Isebeda in Ropert Is Dinvle,” Mllo. Pauline Canisea un- Genaking the role of Alice, and Herr Pdueger that of Robert. The success of the ¢ AMeasiah” and Bach's #Passion Jusic” has encouraged AL Cbarles Lamoureus to promise th Parisians the ¢ Inracl in Egrpt” by Handel, and the Christmas orstorio by Baci, next scasoun. By their concerts in London and the prov- inces, tiie Jubilee Singers bave netted £10,000, which will be devoted to the chiritzble objects indicated in the preliminary echeme. Mozart's *“Don Juan ™ has been performed for the first time in the * Eternal City." as the Po- pal censorship has always forbidden the repro- sentation of the opera. The success, chiefly owmg to tho indiereat performers, wza but small. A Washington Jeokins bursts out in this e traordinary manner in regard to Mis. Scguin “ All bail to the Queen of Contraitos! ta! sceptra and wear your ruby-siudded di Parepa hersolf will join from the skies in tha chorus of your coronstion ! Wagner's “Tristen and Teolde” is to be agnin brought out_at Weimar. The roles of Tristan and Isolde will be saug by Herr and Frau Vogel, from Munich, and the part of Brangane will bs in the handa of Fraulein Brandt. To tl:e memory of the celebrated composer, Heinrich Marechuer, the citizens of his birth- place, Z:ttau (in S.xxous'), inzend to erect & monu- ment. It will be placed in one of the most bean- tiful Avd romantic ecenes in Gormsny, facing & ragged mountain, on which are the ruins of co nfi cloister, staudiog dim and majestic among the hills and trees which surroand it. The coming infant prodigy. in the piano line, is Rose Mansfield Eversolo, 4 years and 7 months_old, of Dayton, 0., whoso Listory is norrated in Benham's Musical Review, of Tn- dianapolis, for May. Sho began playmg when eho was 7 monthu old, never had any teaching, and her pareats do not intend to force hor bili- ties. A New York eritic seys of Lucca’s Zerling, in tho scene where slie disrobes for tue night: *It savored moro of ths candeur ironically altuded to in opers bouffe than of genuine virginal oo~ cenco;” but, if there was ‘s touch of Schoei- derian genre about it, no one thouzhit of object- ing.” Should say not. What the New Yorker would object to would make a ghost biuch. Hitherto the traveler to Bergamo who has sought the tomb of Dovizetti has been led to the monument in the Charch of Saint Maris Mag- - gicre, aud then 1nformed that the true resting lace of tho composor's Lonea was umknowa. s cuzres goine light on B mat a mrsters. ‘Lhoreversd : of **Lucia di Lammer- I boen discovered Lidden amway in ono of the cells of & private mortuary Lonas telonging to a noble family. 3r. James Redpath, who, by the way, is al- ways on tho outlook for somothing novel thut shall plesse tho public with whom hokas-todeat, bas orgavized 2 small opors company enpecially for iyceums, which shall contain &1l the require- ‘ments for giving a standerd opera, in which the ontire story wili be told by mueic; notan operetta in which about one-eighth in music and sever- eighths disiogue, nor operatic selections, which would reduce it at once to & mete concert, but a compléte cpera. . A London paper bas the following notice of a composer tiot yet known in our public hulls: T.ast Sazurdar’s concert brought forwazl s vers intercating noveliy—e concerto for picno-forte with orchestral accompaniment, by Edward Greig, & young Norwegian composer, whose works hava recently gained much commerdation in Germapy. His namohas lately pcen made extensively and favorably kuown by the iesne of his sonata for piano and siolin, Op. B. snd hig * Humoresken,” for piano golo, Op. G, 13 the ex- cellent series of cheap pubiications by tho firm of Petors, of Leipzig. The concerto i3 perbaps tlio best, and 18 certainly the most importaut, of Greig's productions ; in most of which there is a strong individuality, and s distincs northera tone, which posgess much charta when contrast- ed with the imizative conventionalism that char- acterizes po much of tho music of tke day. Of the work mow particularly referred to, we shall doabiless havo & future upporiunity of speaking oro in detail, 28 the marked impression whica made on Satarday (when it was admurably per- formed by Ar. Danureathor) should losd to its Topetition at soms of our metropofitan concerta. voices, with English and German words. The” CLEAR GRIT. How Some Chicago Women Have Exemplified That Quality. Clear grit is usually ascribed only to men, and thoy alonn are supposed to possess thab quality, 80 essential to success in life, Has any taing been achisved that called for ths oxercisa of carnest, uatiring ecergy, of srduous iabor, and of severe self-denial, itis geaerally in the department of mau's labor, aud the man is brought tothe front, feted and carcssed, and held up to others 2a & shining examplo; whils 8 woman posscssed of thess sdmira~ ble qualities is scldom noticed, but is passed by in sileoce. This may be the case, however, Lecauso such mstaucss are no’ 80 rare and UNCOMMON AMODZ WCLIEH 88 SWMOLS, men,—womeu furnisbing §o maay examples of this kind that they have ceased 1 be a rants. Tho record of almost every womsas, did we but know it,. is one of infiaite patiente and. sclt- demal; and when to tueso virtues are adled in- dustry, energy, snd persovoranco, sie is, al- thoagh & woman, the heppy possessor of that admirablo quality which the Rev: Rubert Collyor terms “clear grit,” instsuces of which are not lacking 1n our own city. In the month of Soptember, 1871, the first number of & periodical calizd tho Dalance wa3 1wsucd by FOUR LADY-EDITORS. _ Oftwo of thess ladics, Mrs, Livermora 8aid, .in the Woman's Journal = Misses Tomlin & Lawley are the proprictors of the DOW parer,—wo rouen With whom we wera sssociated for years in Chicego ; Miss Tomiin beicg tis accum- plished forowowan of i composing.roum, and Misé Haswloy the porfect clerk and bookkecper of tha olice, of tho paper of which we wero nssociate editor, We recognize 1u this yaper the realization of thewr long- cherished ambition, Propriviors, editors, and a: taches, all a0 women of the right wort,—woten whosa struggie wth life bas been heroic,—witcso aim is of the grandest and loftiest.—wnosa privais historles might bo given to the wurid, and not bring a blush ta the cheek of the most sensitive. i Mr. Lewis, editor of the Western Rural (in whose office Miss Tomlin bad worked 83 ns3ist- ant_foreman), sympathizing with thess ladies in their offorts, gave up vne of his rooms for their use, and lent them txpe sutlizient to set ap their paper—a kindness 1or which they havo always felt gratefnl. : In therr first issuo they were honest enough to say whut fow women have the coarage to do: “1We Lopo to furnika the people w:th such 8 pa- per as will command their patronago, and thus enable us to makea living Ly & pieasaut, cone genial occupation.” They wero WORKING FOR & LiVING, and they were not asiiamed to ovn it. Wa wish there were moro women of that stamp, who would not feol cailed upon to blush and stam- mer whoa they avowed thoy wera laboring for a livelihood. The editors, in stating tho aims and objects of tho paper, used this oxpression: “ We would not touch the family-relation wich the lighcest disturbing finger.” That eent:nce found its way into the ** Patent Inside-Track List,” aud papers came to tha editors of tha Balance from varincs paris of tiie coantry, with ** the hghtust dissurving finger * poigted at them. ‘The firer number wadline of which they wera justly proud, and for which they iecsived mary complimentary notices ; and wita renewed bopa ead onergy they went to-work on the second namber. The list forms and the paper were ia tho press-room, all ready to go to press, whea the Great Fire wlich destroyed our bezatiful city swept away tha result of tueir labors, and DESTROYED THELR LITTLE ALL. The foture tow looked dark, and wemen of less calibre woukl huvo beea utierly dis:ourzzed and given up in despair ; bnt these ladies pos sessed clear grit, and determined to put forth all their offorts in resurrécsing their papor from 1ts ashes. Tho Relief Bociety built them s refief-shanty, in part of which_they Lived, and in the -otuer part they bad their omfico. From the Stewart faud they received 8100 with which to commeuca once more tha publication of the Baiance. Nowspaper-men_know how little $100 will da toward purchasing type and all tho rest of the parapherualiz for s periodical; but they bad friends (the dosorving are never without friends), Wao signed a nota for tho pavment of the necossary type, to the amount of F80). "Che tirst number after the Fira was issuxd in March, 1872, in which one of tho propriesors mourns & greater loss than snything the Fira could inflict,—tha loss of an appreciative father: It waa only necossary for 18 0 touch a thought with our pen tomako it galden in bis eyea ; bat wa did not realize how almost exclusively wa wrots with his approbation in view. If wo evor oz preased an 1dea at all satisfactory to oursolf, tha first thought wag, ‘That will pleass father.’" How proaiinontly the womaa stauds oot 1n that sentenco ; but, deeply a8 she eroved over Lex great logs, sne did not relax her efforis in the® accomplishment of ber purpose, and the propiiotors juiutly continued the coirse thoy had marked out for themsetves. By the closest economy, the most severe seli-lenial, thoy have carried on their paper u the pres- ent timo. Tho moto, eigued by friends wha reaclied out to them a helping hand in the day of sdversity, is paid. The Balance is evenly bal anced, and is 1n A PROSPEROUS CONDITION. While o:hdr papars, waici o more Doies and more shoy, hava lived bu: a short time and died a nataral death, this one, carried on by theso women, hes sarvived the Firo, survived the Epizootic, aud the Pauic, aad sull shows eigus of & vigorous lifa. Could men showa bottes record,—a moro indomitable, persevering earne eutness,—a greater amouat of clear grit? Oue ot the yualities which those women pos- sess is the will to do. They are not afraid of hard work. ‘The one who s6ts tho type and pre- arcs the forms for press is at her labors early in the morning, and_spares not tixe midnight-L when 8o crowded with Lor work that 1 bacow necessary to be busy with hand or brain v others aro enjoying Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep. Desides performing the raechsnical woik of the paer, sie writes a portioa of tho editorialy, #nd oceastonzily & gond story; whilo evory day the househuld dJepartment claims some of hei time and acteotion. Har associato is equally busy in other depart- ments necessa:v to the success of the Lalance; and thay can frathfully say: *To whataver ex: celleaco wo and our paper have attained, E ATE FAIELY EARSED IT by hard and continuous labor.” "The character of the periodical s such as not to offend tho most fastidions testes. It is not too radicel mpon auy point, bub is eveniy Balanced, and weighs wellits utterances befora going to pre: = It i progresaive,—showing thet these women are alive to tho intereats agitating mankind end womankind, 2ad are not stubborniy prejadiced in favor of 'euy one course, when It is really showa that anothoer would ba betier. '35 an evidenzo of the cditor's practical good senso, wo quete from & leading “article in the February number: Ia St. Louts, the revivalist Hammond bas hold most inpa i teveral houacs of ill-fam:, snd many of the io- mates eceined deeply sifected ; bt wo bave not learned whethes any | al measures were taken to open tie doorsof 3 Teapectable, virtuous lifo to them. It i useleis to convert such womeu, and then suut doors of cvery respecteble howe and emplogm agaiust them, 1f nothiz cau ke done with toem, Letter executo them after their conversiun, and sead them to Heaven. A considerable portion of the March number is devoted to the temperauca questicn. Wby the ladies do not patronizo the paper more,—an or- gau which is published DY WOMEN IOB WOMEN, ac@in which they can rive their viows free ox- prassion,—is bacd o understand. ‘The only roa- son sscms to be, that one of the pruprietors hes Aone naarly all the canvaesing heraelf, and has not, for tho want_of means, advel it e lereely eu its merits deserved. hoy may Lave sctad isely in this,—wiser thian at firat appears, % they ‘bave reduced thoir expenecs o the Jowest possible sum, aud kave, by this meaus, been able to pass through the last winter ssfely, With renowed hope now that the geuial spring i@ #0 near. 10 which all kinds of business ook for s general revivil. 1t is an old motto, that * The Lord belpa thoze who help themselves,"—ths mearing of which, 2s I understand it, is, that no inan csu eCo. nother etrugglug along with & siru determivce tion to belp Limeelf, without feeling impe'l=d to do what he can to highten his burden; »=4 to the Lonor of buman nature be it eaid ttat men will belp thoss who aro endeavoring to Ltlp tacu- solvos. Many greac and good mon whoss namcs have become housoiold words, and wbom wo love for their mablo natares, would have gone dowu 1n the struggie, leaving us no lozacy of buman worth, had it not been for ihs helping band extended to them; and SHALL WE DO LESS POR WOEN who, with their weaier powere, are bravely work- ing, not caly tor themselves, Lut for the penetit of all of womankind? Editors and propriesors of periodicals can slone form s irue estimaio of tba sirugglo throngh which theco women baso passed, aud the heroism they hiave displsyed in carrving 6a tiaeir paper with such limited means, still meet- ing tho obligation incurred ia the resurrcction of ho Balance after the Firs; and wo fondly im- agine they will not l?' ‘;la- to accord to theas l1adies all the mens *usy deserve. Mes. AL D. Wnrxoon