Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 14, 1874, Page 4

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1874, DALY. A Talk with the Manager of the Fifth Avenue Theatre. What He Thinks of the Perform- ances of His Company. His Labors as a Preparer of Plays. H is Opinion of Luck and French Picces. A repoiter yesterday called on Mr. Augustin Daly, who, with his wife sud brother-in-law, oceupy rooms at the Tremont Homse,—where most of Mr. Daly's dramatic company are algo Jodged. Itis difficult, at first, to believe that this Well-known manager is identical with the young- Jooking, slender, and unassuming geotleman with whom, upon presenting his card, the re- porter waa brought face to face. Every child, omo timo or another, has a han- kering after the hidden secrets of its favorite toy. It desires to ponetrate the sawdust of its favorite doll, or it cuts open its favorite drum to find out whero the noiso comes from. In the same spirit the reporter called upon Mr. Daly. He had seen the brilliant performances of the TFifth Avenue Company during tho past week at Hooley's Theatre, and he wanted to know how such perfection in dramatic reprosentation was Dbtained. He thought that the crowds of de- Jighted play-goers who Lad attended the admir- able performances of *Man and Wife,” of * Di- vorce,” and of London Assur ance,” which have made tho evenings gay at Hooley's since the advent of the Fifth Avenue Compsny, last Mon- Ray, might also foel interested in hearing some- thing of the theories aud practices of Afr. Daly, znd of the labors and the successes of his famous zompany of comediaus. Of course he bagan his intond ed attack upon Ihe secrets of modern comedy and contempors- neous success by an insidious inquiry into THE EFFECT CHICAGO HAD MADE zpon Mr. Dsly and his company, “Well,” was his reply, “if the Chicagoites become half as enthusiastic about wus, as Iand my company are already about Chicago and all ket wo have seen and heard here, Mr. Hooley will have to enlarge his theatre. I nover heard such tbunder and—" Evidently the recent thunder storms had pro- fnced their proper impressions upon the party. Mr. Daly’s enthueiazm wes almost as loud 28 the ihunder lost Monday night, and this token of ap- preciation from s manager who had made so much noise in his own way wasnot to bo sneered it THEORY OF DRAMATIC REPRESENTATION. “Talking of thunder etorms, Mr. Daly,” re- E;m"hd the reporter, ‘*what is your theoryof amatic representation 2" The question scemed to be a poser for the suthor of ** Divorce,” and his response was far {from satisfactory. “ From my earlfest remembrance,” ho said, sfter a panso, **fignres have alwase puzzled mo. Anthmetic had no charms, and algebra was a i Ask me something in simple The query was modified, and augmented with the following proposition: * Whst, in your opinion, is TIE IIGHEST YORM OF DRAMATIC RETRESENTA- TION 2" Mr. D.—If you mesn by the * higheet,” which f5 the most perfect form of dramatic representa- tion, I ebould eay that which is to be found most common upon the French stage, or in those;thea~ tres modeled upon the French plan,—s plan which requires no such thing as a lead part in any play, and no such excresence 83 & star chiractor,—a plaa that requires overything to be in harmony upon the scone, and judges it no moro strange to ask a leading artist to undertake 8 small character in & drama than it does to order a groat soeno-painter to turn his brush once in & whilo upon the preduction of a bovel, — a plan that exacts the like for tbe like—rogs for the beggars role and eatins for the lord ; and in the land of its perfec- tion is never accused of forgetting art beccuse it reproduces the finery and farbelows of society upon the sceno in representing modern life. Tteporter—I suppose you mean by this & sly dlg at those critice who have called your theatra the Bchoo! for Milliners, and your plays the mil- linery drama. Ar. D.—Not at all. I knew what I bad to ex- Koct when I inaugurated my first Season at the ttie Fifth Avenue Theatre, in which I intended to give that magrificence of scenery and coetly corroctness of dressing and stege garniture, to tha modern or contemporaneons drama, avd also to old comedy, which, until Iceme into the field, hed only been lavished upon bailet, epectacle, and an occasional melodrams. Of course, the old way of producing these plays was much clieaper than mine, and the old managers did not like the innovation. The same set of cheap furnituro had hitberto done servico sea- son after season, and a cheap Brussels or_three- iy carpet was an extravegance upon which fow d ever ventured. TEE FIBST ‘‘REAL CARPET " which was placed upon the American stage was introduced at the old Park Theatre in New York, thirty years ago, when *‘ London Assurance was first acted in this country, and old Simpson ineisted upon s epecial line oo the bills, and ex- aeted particular notice of it from alf the writers of his day. Why, the Haymarket Theatre, the Iiouse of legitimate comedy in London, never hiad a greon baize until Charles Kean'’s rovivals there, about the same time. . The old-fashioned way of producing plays was quite as cheap, I fancy, us the new-fashioned way, in most theatres, of engaging com- penies, by which & eolitary actor or woctress is engeged: for o special line of business, and thorefore the leading lady expects to play every Leroine that offers in each play, whether the role be that of a girl of 17 or 2 mother of 40, whether it be Lady Macbeth or Frou-Frou, and the leading man is cast for Ar- mand or Master Walter. Mg plan has been dif- ferent. 1 bave alweys bad soveral leading men, end at least threo ladies, to whom I could cast a leading part. Thus the physical ideality of cech charscter has been reslized upon my stage, while it dramatic exactions have been perfectly complied with. R.—Do yon trust altogether to THE EXCELLENCE OF YOUB to sustain public interest ? Mr. D.—By no means. Although ths reputa- tion of the Fifth Avenue artists, aud of the the- atra itself, has boen ganed by one circumstance, they make each performance equal to Lhw bost they ever give. Tho spirit of emulation inspires each individual to do huis or her best,—still, without a constant enccession of attractive plays, n0 single artist and no combination of artists, nor even & combination of stars, conld retain ublic attention and interest to a profitabls ex- COMPANY k4 even first night represeptations of new plays by gl my compeuy, RENEARSING. 2 R.—They bavdly roguiro auy relientssls, L sup- ose PN D.—Oh, on tho contrary, I rebearse them in every play more than any other manager in the country does. We bave all frequently gath- ered at rebearsal as early a8 9 o'clock, and con- tinued until 5; and many of our perfect first nights hava only been marked after eightoen or twenty such rebearsals. I am first sure they are rignt, and tnen I let them go ahend. The suc- cess of their efforts is due to bard work, to long- susteined effort. R.—You don't believe m Incky hits ? Mr. D.—There is no such thing as luck. It can all Lo turned to some provious line of bhard labor. When I opened the Fifth Avenue in 1869 and eucceeded instantly, it was called luck. Yet I Dbad beon for ten yeara pieparing for such an event, and meturing my poliey. The “luck” has tasted sinco—because I Lave been working at it from 7 a. m. till 12 p, m. every day (Sundays cxcepted). Seventeon hours a day of work will tell in the long ran. Bat then work ig easy tn a man who loves what ho is employed at. The sincerest pratification I have is to produce a good play in fine style and have it pertormed well by the best articts attainuble. EXIENSES. R.—Your expenses must be enormous, to keep such a company togother, and parscularly in bringing them 0n a starring tour so far from theic home. s Mr. D.—Yes. The weekly salary list is enor- ‘mous,—larger, I imagine, than that of any other theatre in Americs or Europe. But wo 2re uot starring, oxactly. This is only & litile friendly visit. Thousands of your eitizens have boen to sce U8 in New York, and now we &ro returning the call. AS A WRITER. R.—You write plays as well as manage your theatro, Mr. Daly. Which do you look upon aa the hardest work ? Mr. D.—Well, I do not consider cither & very ensy task. R.—How many plays have you prepared for the stage, Mr, Dalv? Mr. D.—On the 9th of December, 1862, T pro- duced my first adaptation, ** Leah the Forsakon.” Since thoen the list is not so very numerous, although it comprises quite o number of plays which have becomeat once popularand remaindd 80: ‘Grifith Gaunt,” ** Under the Gas-Light,"” ‘Frou-Frou,” *' Fernande,” “Mzan and Wife,” ¢ Horizon,” *Round the Clock,” ** Divorce,” ‘*Alixe,” and *‘Madeline Morel.” But bosides thees and many more which I have not named, I never allow & now play (unless writton es- pecially formy theatra) to be produced it it bave o wesk gpot init. I workat thatmyself to make it a8 strong ns tho rest. Honca evory- thing is called & succcss. The French plays I bave most trouble with. Not one of them can be presented without s vast amount of recon- struction, oxpunging, and sading. I make in faet wholo acts " and scones new, for such pioces as * Frou-Frou" and **Fernaude.” R.—What a prodigious amount of labor you got through with. Mr. D,—Soventeen hours a day do it. In fact, I do not know what & man could not do if he epent cven his loisure hours in occupations that interest him. » R.—Uuder what conditions wonld s comedy company like yours, but slightly inferior, for instance, prosper out of New Yorlk ? Mr. D.—I do not think there can be any doubt of its Buccoss, if the manager proposing to orcanize such's company first makes sure of the work he is going to give them to do. Sol- diers caunot fight withont ammunition or arms, and the best company ever organized will fail to sttract if they are not presented in plays that the public desire to see. . THE STORY OF A GENIUS. Row He Met Iis Reward in Death. Lapsic (3fay 10) Correspondence of ths New York Graphic. A wealthy gentleman of Berlin some ten ‘months ago offered a namber of valusble prizes for the best essays that should be written on soveral subjects of importance tothe learned world; a prize of 200 thalers for the best meta- physical esssy, and an equal sum each for essays on medieval history, astronomy, celestial mechanics, sociology, geology, postry, and—apperently to show his world-wideli- ness—500 thalers oach for the best romantic tale and tho best poem, the prizes to be awar ded by committee selected from the various universi- ties and various designated lillerateurs of emi- nence who were supposed to be and, as the sequel showed, really were disinterested in the matter, ond willing to do only what justice might ro- quire. The eseays and poems wero to be of no particular length, aud were to be judged simply ¥ their real merits, but the authors must all be Gormans. The wealth and repuiation of tho wan who offered tho prizes were such a suflicient guarantee of certaintyof payment and of conse- quent roputation as (o set balf, if not all, of the younger men cf Germany at work to echieve the guerdon of success. On lest Thuredsy, at-the Gewandt-Haus at Leipsic, the prizes woro award- ed, & lerge company of ladies and gentlemen be- ing present. Tho ceremonies wero begun by most exquisits music by the old orchestra— among wlom are numbered men who kuew and loved ‘Mondelssohn—at the conclusion of which the venerable Dr. Schmide, so long known for “his Lindlness and learn- ing ot Heidelberg, announced tho names of thoso who'had Deen go fortauate s to carry off the vory valusble prizes offered. The names of the authors of tho various works had been sent in ecaled envelopes, on which were inscribed the fictitions names rigned to their productions. The author of the metaphysical esray had chosen ns bis theme Kant's ** Antino— mein der reinen Veruunft” (Antinomies of Pure Reason), and taken os his name {orthe occasion *‘Haos Wildenstein.” After phssing ao culo- gium on the essay. Dr. Schmidt broke the scal and found in the envelopo the name of Max Markmana, who thereupon was called upon the stage to receive the reward of Lis work. A pale, poorly clad, aud most wrotched-lookin; youug man stepped forward and was receive with hearty applause. His hair was thin and ay, although be was plinly yet young, and s whole appearance was such s to at once awaken the sympathies of tho sudience. Hav- ing received his roward, Lo stepped quietly aside, and Dr. Schmidt continued his announcements, Markmana sitting near him, palo and still, in u large arm-chair. The astronomical esaay was on the “Lvolution of Nebulwe, with particular referenco to the largo mebula in Orion,” and here, too, tho successtul author was found to be Max Markmann. ~ When this snnouncement wes made greet enthueiasm was manifested, and, af- ter receiving his prize, poor Markmsnn took his sout, apparently moro weary atd dejected than at first. The next essay was a review of Ranke, and here, too, tLis young mnn was uccessfal, and so on through the whole list of prizes. Max Markmann stepped forward amid thimders of ap- El.mxe. and received bis rowmd. No oue who nows the enthutiesm of tho Germaps will £ail t6 know that all the students wore ready to carry the younz man off on their shoulders to have s good * Kneip.” The poem was an exceed- ingly fine one,—somewbat in tho vein of that exquisite poet of Naturo, Otto Roquette, yet breathing tho air of ¢ loftier and migbtier oul which bad dwelt aliko with Shakspeare, and Goothe, and Homer. It was & wouderfal com- position. Herr Auerbach, the suthor of “Villago Tales,” *‘Ox the Heights,” and other works, and who was tho head of the Comr mitteo on the Tales, bed ead of tho ouo named “The Villago Rector,” that it was one of ent for suy longthened period. *The play, the play's the tbinggp‘ns Hamlet said. Amlp lamlet Waa the best critic of Lis timo, HOW LONG ? R.—How long will & good piece run—playod by your people z o Mr. D.—Let me give vou a few oxtracts from pust eeasone, and judge for vourself. “Divorce waa played by the Yifth Aveune Company 283 times, **Saratoga™ was played 110 times, ** Man and Wifo" neariy 100 times, * Frou-Frou" over 100 times, “Charity” 50 nights, “Alphonse™ the samo: while * T'weifth Night ran 18 nighta, “Merry Wives of Windsor™ 21, “Love's Labor Lost™ 11, “School for Scandal™ 9 times, and so ou. It ‘cost mo alwaya more money 10 produce ihe Bhaksearean aud legitimate plays, and yet you sco popular faney soon tired of them. Chicago ‘may reverso thess experionces. At all events, T must confess the audienco that wtnessod " London Assurance™ this wook was the Jargest, and fineat, and most discriminating of the weok, altbough those which sttended the performances of “Man and Wife " were Inost appreciative. £ 1 TENDER ExOoTIONS. —You must loock upon your company as if they wero your ovn fimily. the onpaniation . has been 50 long together. Alr. D.—Thoy regard thomsclves s quite an Instisution. R.—How did you firet perfect your company ? Mr. D.—Wheu I opened the Fifth Avenue ‘Theatre in New York, five rears ago, nearly ev- ery arist now in the company commenced with me, and they have been, o to speak in training together ever sinco. .—~The performancs of such a company must bo fur beiter than ordinary combinations ? Mr. D.—Just 08 & boat's erew trained for a 20, or & picked nine at base-ball performa mar- wels compared with mere smateur displays. I e amuzed wmysalf at the perfedt smoothness of the fineet Lo had ever rend. And tho succes:fal compotitor for all the przes was Herr Max Markmann. The prize for the talo was tho lust one announced, and as Markmanu steppod for- ward to receive it amid thunders of applause, his face suddenly becamo ashy in its whiteness, and he feil faintiog on the staze. A deathlikoe silenca sncceeded, during which ho was removed to an ante-room, and but partially restored to con- sciousuess. He lingera but for four houmrsd, 22d when he died the physicinns who had at. tended him announcod that his death was caused by privation,—in other words, by starvation. All that the highest medical skill conld do had been of no avail. It was found that for years be had occupied & littlo chamber in sn obscure Gasee, whera he had worked, gaining & most precarious living in tenching languages and nearly evers- thing which enrbody~ required to kuow. Tu his room were found incomplete models of remarkable mechanical contrivances, o broken cbair and mounds of manuscript, amiong which wero lettors from some of the st Qi tinguichod men io Europe, He had, spparently, lived on almost notliing for months, 884 pock. dejected, woary, yet glowing with the fire of gentus, bnd worked for the prizes offered amouaanting ia all to 2,400 thalers—and then, hun- gry and weary, had dragged himself to the Gewandt-Iaus to win them and die. If the his- tory of labor, genius, and its rowards, has o sad. dor tale to tell than this, I know not of it. e i —The Boston Travclier thinks that there must ‘e something wrong either with the rocens great wedding or the illustrated pepers. If Mr. Sar- toris mariied the younm lady whose picture is published in_Farpér's Weekly ho has jilted the poor girl in Frank Leslic’s, and if he has wedded iho latter hia condnet towards the owuer of the pretty face in tho Graphicisin the highest de- groo reprohensibie. Wil the artiets axplain ? DAM THE DITCH. This Is the Concentrated Wisdom of « the City Government. 2 The Oracular Utterances of Commis- sioner Wahl It Is Unanimously Agreed that Water Will Seek Its Own Level. And so Will Beer. If the rivers upon whose banks great cities have grown would confine themselves to playing their natural rolo vf commercial highways, With- out indulging in those freaks to which oven tho best behaved streams aro prone, thoy would be unmitigated and unqualified blossings. Unfor- tunetely, however, they, like everything else in this world, animate and inanimate, break loose from restraint occasionally, and mar in a few days’ eccentricity the good name thoy have gathered in yenrs of unimpeachable behavior. THE FAVORITE MISDEMEANOR of such rivers is theoverflowing of their banks 2nd secking for variety in tho cellars of dry £oods warchousos. or the lower floors of Enugly- carpeted residences. In eccentricity of this sort the Missiseippi, St. Lawrence, and one or two other American rivers much to the annoyance of those who live near them, excel, and the amount of damage which an overflow of these mighty bodies of water causes is hard to calculate. Ic is o matter of congratulation, however, that our gentle stresm nover indulges in an overflow- ing freak. Chicago River is essentially, in this respect, & considerate stroam. True, she has driven us almost wild with her innumerable bridges and concomitant fiends of the bridge- tender persuasion, but, although her banks are only a few feat bolow the city's level, no matter bow good #n oxcuse a lengtliy drought has pro- vided ber with, the has never takon advantage of the occasion to rise up against us and invado tho privacy of our warehonee collara. Still the Chicago Riiver, like all otber rivers, has her fault, her original sin, and if sny one does not Lkoow what this peculiar shortcoming is, he can find out. wunloss ho is the wvic- tim of chronic catarrh which has destroyed his olfactory nerves, by simply repairing to the vicinity of the river bauk and inhaling a long, stoady breath of air—through his nose. TUE FAULT OF OUR RIVER it that occasionally tho scent which rises from the bosom of her waters is of a kind which men avoid 1pstinctively. It maybe a source of satis- faction to thoso who think the present odor of tho river almost unendurable, to know that it is nothing to what it used to be some four years ago when, according to tho best authority, pas- songors who wera stopped by an open bridge used to walk over thoe river on the stench. But. o Mrs. Malaprop says in * Tho tivels,” “ comparisons are odorons,” and aven those who suilered from the stench of 1870 aro complaining bitterly of the rival odor of 1974, Their complaints, of course, reached the ears of tbe Common Couneil, aud that body, of course, formed a special committee to look into the mat- ter. This Committee, under the Presidency of the young Demosthenes, have, with a pertinaci- ty quito praiseworthy, studied ‘the subject in &ll its various phases. They have bocome familiar with all the different smolls of all the diffor- ent localities of the river from Bridge- vort to Gooso Island, have con- ferred with the civil engineers and analytical chemists until they are convinced that they have discovered the great cause of the disaster, and this they unhesitatingly state is this ‘“00DEN prrCIH,” an artificial chaonel which was originally intend- ed to droin the water and convert into aravie soil tho bed of what used to be known as ¢ Mud Lake,” in times of yoro a reedy swamp on the southwestern extremity of the city suburbs, which provided excellent duck shooting. Qf course this satisfactory conclusion could not have been arrived et without one or more visits 20 the locality, one of which ran a narrow escapo of becoming historical through the suddsn desth of the most clongatod amatour Granger in the businees, whose knowledge of lxu'ming #tufortunately lay too much in the ** Duchess ' cow line to permit him to becoms a relinble con- noisscur in mule flesh. THESE LITTLE PIC-KICS into the country, enlivened by Bridgeport Ha- vauas and runaway accidents, proved #o onter- taining that last week the Special Com- mittee on Stenches decided to make just ono more trip to the ditch bofore they made their roport to the Common Council. The doy fixed for this pic-nic was Saturdsy, and troe to the hour threo cosy carriages drove mp to the Ciy-Hall snd wero @oom oc- cupied by the Special Committeo and one or two other gontleren of experienco in the matter of malodorous exhalations. Tho arty which started at 2 o'clock consiated of the Iayor and Mr. Prindiville, in a buggy in which & 4:40 pacer was harnessed, Commissionor Wahl, Capal Commissioner Brainard, Ald. Hil- dreth, Stout, O'Brien and McClowry, of the Bpecial Committeo, Cullortonand Heatl, Mosars. C. C. Close, J. A. Dsniols, and Tue TrImUNE roporter. Tho fact that Commissioner of Public Works, Wahl was of tha party roused the hopes of the Special Committee to a high pitcn, a8 it was known that, however Iittlo that gentleman may have known of Public Works in general, bis peculiar business fod posted him in the watter of odors to an extraor- dluary degree. In fact, Mr. Wabl was, from the start of the party, THE CENTRE OF INTEREST to those who occupied the ecarringe with him. As they neared tho Adame street bridge, and the indescribable odor stole into their nostrils, they watched lus every motion with eat-liko eagor- neks, but while they buried their hoads in their perfume-drenched handkerchicfs, his faca re- mained stolidly nuchenged, nbt o quiver of a nostril Letokening that there was anything wrong with the atmosphere. When tho bridgo was reached, and the full force of the exhalations * forced their way even up bis insensible nose, tho Commissionar of Public Works laughed at their discomfiture, and plagfully remarked, ‘*Just you come down to my glue factory, fellows, and then you won't think this nothing.” THE DRIVE to tho Ogden ditch waa devoid of exciting epi- sode, 5ave o stoppago at the las: available lager beer ealoon, whero a strange mistake was mado by the boer-slinger, who sot up three glasses too many, that number of the party proving Peoplo'a party’ men, and consequently crusaders who proferrod o fifteen-cent cigar to s five-cent beer. Notwitbstanding the apathy which Commissioner Wahl displayed in passing the river, Lis proscece gavo the Special Committes absolute faith in tha zaod rosult of thoir journey. Ho wae s man, they ngreed, who not only deodorized malsrions matter, but also turned 1t into materials of do- mestic and agricnltural utility. Some of them wont B0 far a# 1o hope that the geniua of the new Commissioner might detect in the stinkivg water the presenca of ingredients which, with the nid of the proper machinery, might be convorted into valuablo chemical products’; and every word be uttersd was seized upon with avidity, and commented upon st length, - After a dusty drive over a rough clay rosd the paviy arrived st their dostination, o rade and rather fragile wooden bridge, on each side of which lay A LONG LOW-LYING DITCIH, the westorn one about three feet higher than the eastern, connecting with It by & miniature rapid whose activity contrasted ‘strangely with the sluggishness of its sourco and the strecm it emptied into. The ditch to tho eastward was the west branch of the South Branch of the Chicago River, that to the westward was “Ogden Ditch," tho cause of our river's obnoxious un- pleasantncss, tho bus-Lear of the Bpecial Committce, the ‘source of the wealth of Messra. Wentworth and Ogden, whose thousands of acres it drained at thoe exponse of tho city's health. The spectacle 'was not one calenlated to arouso the enthusiasm of & Iandscape artist, and, consoquently, the dis- cuesing of the natural beautics of tho spot did not consume nf great length of time. Ald, Callerton, who had brought s fishing-line and some *“worma for bait " 1u bis side coat-pocket, leaped lightly from the bridge, and triod his Inck, bat he found that fishing for bullheads 1n Ozden Ditch was as profitless an occupation as Tuuning for Preaident of the Common Council. Aftern brief survey of tho spot had boen made, tho eyes of the Aldermen and_Com- miesioners wearied of glanciog aloog the ditches aud of aweeping tho prairie from where fringe of lofty trees announced the meanderings of tho not far dlatant Aux Plaines River, cascward to tho long emoke-stack of the Bridewell, notthward to whero tho tall gpire of the Union Park Congre- gationnl Church suggested Chicago, and south- ward to whera the long line of npheavad earth spoke tho presence &f ke canal trhich &4 nob sweeten the waters of our river. Then thoy began business. Commissioner Wahl had scru- tinized tho scene with a cuiticzl eye, and - THE EXCITEMEST of the Special Committee waa intense when that gentleman drew President Prindiville to one side and conforred long and earncstly with Limon what was evidently subjoct of vitsl importance. The Presidont of the Board of Public Works, it was evident, concurred in what the new Commis- sioner wag saying, and whon the private confor- énco was over, ho was' immediataly besonght to mako public what new iden in civil engineering his practical mind bad evolved. Aftera ]anfi pauso Mr, Wahl made an scnouncement whicl for striking boldness and startling originali- :fl has hardly been equaled since the y8 of Drunel or Ericsson. He esid impressively to the eagor knot which crowded round him : ** Gentlemen, water will always riso to its own lavel. I will leave it to Mr. Prin ville, and he is posted even better than I am.” The astonishment of the Bpecial Cammittes at this announcement was_intense. They ro- ferred to Mr. Prindiville, 2nd, when he indorsed the statement, their satisfaction was complete, and they all felt that the People’s party had dono the city a service at last. It was then noticed that the cloguent face of the Mayor was besming with ill-suppressed intelligence, and instantly the Father of the City Fath- ors_became tho contre of Special-Committes curiogity. Ald. Hildreth actod 28 spokesman for the Committee. He approached the Mavor with, ** Well, Mr. Colvin, what do you think of the Ogden diteh 7" The Mayor's answor waa brief and character- i He ullowed an emphatic mience to precede Lis utterance, which wns simply, *“ DAX THE 0GDEN DITCH.” The oxact purport of this responso was misun- derstood by several of the Aldermen, who shrunk from tho “Mayor's presence, ono of them shaking bis_hond mournfally and muttering to his comoanion ** going back to his old habits, T see.” Tho Mavor noticed the cause of their dis- comfiture, and soon pat them at easo by remark- ing: ** Gentlemen, you misunderstandme; when T used the word ‘ dam,’ I did 8o in the ongineer- ing, not inthe ordinary sense of the term.” Good fecling was at once restored, and the Mavor's suggestion was unanimously voted tobo a good one. Mr. Prindiviilo stated that if the ditch was to be dammed, the best place to do it was close to the Aux Plaines River, as the bulk of tho water which filled the ditch came from that stream, that supplied from the drains which intersectod the reclaimed Mud Lake boitom be- ing incoosiderablo in comparigon. A gentleman who lived closo by, and was converzant with the locality, stated that the ditch did not actually con- nect closely with the Aux Plaines River, but that it drainod low-lying country which was alwaye covered with water from that stream. He stated that tho ditch bad been effectually dammed onder the bridge, and that the water in the West Branch of the Souch Branch of Chicago River wwas then noticed to flow in a westerly direction, ospecially if an cesterly wind was blowing. COMMISSIONER BRAINARD explained that the rocent rains had since their last vigit doubled the volume of water pussiog under tho bridge, makmg it not loss thaz 15,200 cubic feet per minute. This water which was emptied into the South Branch in close proxim- ity to the omnal-mouth, filled it, and thus hin- dered it from accomplishing the object for whicl: it was coustruczed. It was ngreed that the only difficulty in the way of damming the ditch at the Aux Plaines River inlet was the logal one which has alreadv been explained in Tme Trisuse. Whatis to be the nature of ‘thonext steps in the matter will bo de- cided upon at a meeting to Le held this weels, at which the Mayor, tho Spacial Committee, tho Canal Engineers, the City Engineers, the State Enganeer, the Canal Superintendent, the Bosrd of Public Works, and the Law Department will attend and give their views on tho subject. THE DRIVE HOME was a ploasant one, The Mavor and Mr. Prindi- ville led the way with the 4:40 pacer, and, as all the other carriages were drawn by only. 5:40 plugs, they soon got a long start of tho rest. This looked unkind, butin fact it was the scmoe of cousideration. When the rest arrived opposite Silvor Grove, on Ogden avenue, tho bulky form of the Mayor ap- pesrod in the gallery of the iun, nnd his choery voico invited the party to enter.’ Ho had ureed his pacer to unwonted speed, so that he might bo tho first to **set thom up." His kinduess was appreciated and enjoyed by all, and every one who went to the Ogden Ditch yesterday aftornoon left Silver Grove with a cigar in his mouth aud a refreshing glass of lsger a little lower down. e PRIZARY ELECTIONS. Tho primary meetings to eloct delogatos to the Coanty Republican Convention thnt mests to- morrow woro held yesterday aftoruoon. In sev- eral wards tho faithful forgot all about eloc- tion, and no delegates were elected. Judging from thie number of votes polled yesterday, the Republican tickot will got about 700 votes in Chicago nexe election. “The report last evening of an election riot on the North Sido was found. upon inquiry, to bo entirely incorrect. There were but soven votes cast for intlation in this section of the city. Tho followiog are tho returns by wards, as ac- curately as could bo $ained at s lato hour last evening : First Ward—J. B. Bradwell, Harry Pulling, Stephon Brown, W. F. Wentworth, and John Summerfield. Becond Ward—Thomas Carson, Lincoln Du- bola, J. K. Jorda, Frederick Seig, and Georgo oy Third Ward—David Coey, B. C. Jones, Henry Bodford, A. D. llyde, Chas. L. Wilsou, R. N. Haucock, J, W. E. Thomas, I'. C. Vierling, C. G. Wicker, and W. AL Furomau. Fourth Ward—A. J. Gallowsy, C. M. Cul- pertson, F. A. Emmons, T. H. Patterson, D. V. Fitzvatrick, Louis Wabl, A. C.” Calkins, aud C. H. Hahn, Fifth Ward—G. T. Wijliams, D. 8. Covert, W. MecQregor, J. L. Woodward, H. H. Belding, H. B. Brayton, 8. A. Trish, Albere Banks, aud J. P. Duubam. Sixth Ward—Jobn Bonfield, Martin Dest, Thomas Maermot, Patrick Wall, F. S. Bidwell, aud Daniel Tracey. Seventh Ward—No retnrns. Lighth Ward—E. A. Colby, J. 8. Taylor, R. P. Derickson, P. Moser, Horaco Dextor, J. H. McLindoA, and J.. D. Jobnson. Ninth Ward—No roturns. Tenth Ward—Thomas Parker, A. Snyder, A. Seulsvury, J. J. Brown, J. Fife, H. F. Glliver, J. 8. Reynolds, and T. F. Wall, Eleveuth Ward—Williem Wayman, P. 1. Stanton, S. T. Guuderston, Charles, Haruns, Jichael Crow, and A. P. Johngon. Twelfth Ward—No roturns. Thirteooth Ward—J. L. Campbelt, Reuben Cleveland, H. Moore, V7. M. Loughlin, M. Eich, J.H. Davis, E. L. Miler, and . C. Roblsaat. Fourteenth Ward—H. C. W. Cowdry, P. Brud- ley, J. B. Twoby, C. E. Moore, and T J. Shey. Tifteonth Ward—No returns. Sixteenth Ward—No returns. Beventeenth Ward—XNo returns. Eighteenth VWard—Courad Folz, T. Stout, G. Kramer, C. Holland, Joscpn Schuster, and B. Miller. Nineteenth Ward—Ernst Hummel, Peter Al- mindingle, W. 3. Clarke, Houry Muchtke, C. W. Fuller, and H. Watterman. Twentioth Ward—G. A. Bussoy, Col. Keith, H. King, J. W. Hoflmen, George Oerial, Honry Luniparter, and Thomas Raymond. ol S VA A Revolution in Xlorse-Car Railroads. Frowm the San Francisco Real Estate Review. 1t 19 assorted by compotant ungincens that tho motivo power used on the Clay streot bLill rail- road will, beyond.n doubt, be used on all the street-railronds of this and every other city of the United States within a few years. The Clay stroot hill road carrics 3,000 passengors daily. Its cars aro hauled up & grade which, in & dastanco of 2,800 feet, makes xn aacent of 203 feet, or 1in 13. The fotal length of tho portion of the road on which tho endless stocl-cable ropo is used is nearly 8,500 feot. Only 1,700 pounds (say threo-querters of s ton) of coal are nsed daily in faruishing the requisite motivo nower. It tho roud were extended to Van Ness avonue, 1t is asserted gwo know not how truly) that one ton of conl per day would furnish all tho stesm requieite to draw the cams both ways. Under theso circumstances, it is as ab- surd aod wastoful to_continue to use Lorseson street-car lines, a3 it would bo to use thom in raising ore out of the depths of the mines of tho Comstock lode. Thero is not ono-usrter tha wear acd toaron the cars when propsiled by this systow, and the ruils are uot s projecting nuisanco to other vebicles, 88 in the caso of or- dinary borse-car rails. ‘The waste in powor by tho use of horses is as great as the increased ox- pende. A much greater degreo of speed than tho snail-liko rate of the Clay etreet kil railroad can be attamned with perfect safety sod with lit~ tle or no increase of expenso. On tho steepest ascending grado the car. can be atopped in & dis- tauce of 21¢ feet, and on the steepest desceud- iog gradein 5 feet. The timo lost in stopping horne-cars is 10 percent. The time is not far distant when this mode of propelling street-cars will be in use overswhere. . —An Innocent Hint.—Auntie—' What is Nellie's nose for?" Nellie (doubtfally)—*‘ To smell with.” Auntie—‘ And what iy Nellie's mouth for?” Nellia (cautiously)—** To eat with,” Auntie—" And what are Nellie's ears for?“ Nollle (canfidsntly)—‘‘ Earringa,” MOB LAW. Difficulties of Anti-Slavery Preaching in Illinois. Mr, Experiences of the Rev. Barnes. Forming an Antl-Slavery Society. The following paper, written by Ars. O. D. Barnes, to beread at the recent Abolition re- union, gives an account of the persecutions suf- fored by her busband while endesvoring to preach Anti-Slavery doctrine in Tazowoll County at an early day: 3 Illinois was adopted as the homo of myself and husband at an early day. We bad passed through many scenes of hardship, privation, and discouragement in our picneor life, but had labored for our Master patiently and hopefully, had seen churches increase and Christans multi- ply, and friends wero multiplying around us, with whom we enjoyed pleasant, social inter- courso, but, in espousing the cause of the black man, theso Christians and friends, many of them, branded us 88 the foo of these churches, and sccused mus of unnecessarily promoting divisions and contentions. This was barder to be bormo thsn I can tell ; we had Inbored with and for these friends, had stood by their sick-bed, their little ones had grown up with our own, their prosperity and 8UCCEER Was a8 our own, their griefs and sorrows were as ours, and conld we part company? But we felt that we hird enlisted for God ; under His bsnner wo must walk, whether it Jed through Bylvan groves with ease and plenty and the plaudits of friends, or whether it led us, alone, in poverty, through darkness, storms, and tem- pests. Thut slavery was a wrong, s great out- rage_upon the colored man, seemed written, in unmistakablo characters, in the innermost soul of every one, and would not down, moro than would Banquo's ghost, but it was up, at ol times, thrusting its hideous form where least desirod. Gospel sormons wore greatly called for. Election (for the whita man) would be a subject fit for profound attention, and, original sin—‘In Adam’s fall, wesinned all "—would receive eapocial commendation. ON A CHRISTMAS WEER my husband gave out that, on a certain evening, he would &‘mmh on God's love to man, an the whole Town of Washington was astir. Thers was Abolitioniem,—perhaps they judged rightly, —the nigger would come in, cortainly; it mightbe all pigger; they could not endara that, and would not ; the sermon should not be presched. Accordingly, my husband was waited on by dole. gations of various kinds, warning him against preaching on that subject, and depicting in fear- ful colors the terrible consequences that might cusue. Many camo as personel friends, and never for a moment did I doubt their friendship, warning and outreating us to forbear and ot en- danger our lives by advocating that vexed ques. tion, Christ’a love to man, universal. But should be refuse to doliver the message God had given him? He could not do it; ho could not give up his_rights as n citizen: ho could mot turn traitor to his God, to his country, his con- sciencs, and the cause he had espoused. Our friends might forsako us in the timo of our need and seo us alonein the hands of an infuriated mob. Had not our Savior beon forsaken, and did He not go alone to Gethsemane, and on the cro8s cry out in bitterness of epirit, * My God, why hast Thou forsaken me ?" Could we not follow in His footsteps ? should the servant be above his master ? We had o family of little children, and left them in tho care of o fricnd, and of our Father in Hoaven, particalarly the latter, not knowing the things that might befall ns. ON ARRIVING AT THE PLACE OF APPOINTMENT, twenty or thirty brave onos bad ventured out at Christmas time to hear of God's love to man. Boon na™‘er the excrcises commenced s most un- anztbly sound was Leard approaching,—all kinds of hideous screams and sbrieks, ringing of bells, pocnding upon tin-pans, firing of gaoy, with i Barnes, Abolition nigrer,” floating out in ca- dooco long and lond. Soon a thoroughly-organ- ized mob surrounded the building in which the litle handful bad congregated, and there screamad, pounded upon tho house, and carsed, until, " apparently, wearied mature de manded moro stmulant. At a little dis- tanco this was liboraily furnished, and another onget made, thia ttmo showing thoy had about reaclied the sticking point. Windows were raised, doors forced opon, wood, timber, bur.i g projectiles thrown 1n, guns_fired, within a fow feet of whero * Barnes, Abolition niggor,” stood. All but six or eight of the congrogation had loft Deforo the second attack. Now to leave, had we Leen disposed, wouid have been but to éast our- selves at onco into tbo hands of those who scemed no longer human, but like ferocious, blooGthirsty animals kept at bay only to make tho deadly plunge moro certain. X BARNES KEPT 118 POSITION in the deak, pardon the expression, reminding me of one of old who- stood with God, amidst thunderings and lightniogs. Not venturing vet to lny hands on this dis- turber of tho peace, another visit was made to tho whisky-barrels. In the meantime, those of us who remaived, fecling all had been done that could be, the scrmon being nearly finished, started for our homes, the moo, intent on their prey falling 1, in regular order behind us. In addition to thoir former sssauits, now came STONES AND BRICKDATS, with forco and profurion. Soon ouo of tho com- pany was Lit on the shoulder by some missile, and Mr. Barnes on the ankle. and I received & heavy blow on the side of my head, My neckand clotbing were fast becoming saturated with blood, and, a8 we were near the house of a physican, we sought protection there. He stepped to tho door, and told tho rabble who wero surrounding his Louse, that they might desist, that they bad nerly killed Mru. Burnes. The noiso censed, and the public defenders slunk to their homes. During tho troublous time, every day, morning and pight, our prayer to God was unceasingly, “Lord, mako the wrath of man to praise Thoo, the remainder of wrath wilt Thon restrain.” ‘What was embodicd in that praver scomed our only hope, our rock of defense, our refuge at all times, "and elthough the wound on my boud was & vory movere one, and from whick I suffered for monthe, often, acute pain, and always 8o much sore- ness that I could oot lsy that side of mv head on tha pillow without suffering, and Mr. Barnes was unable to walk for quite s while, yot THE USIVERSAL FEELING IN TOWN was, I belicve, that of shame; they felt that a great oucroge had been porpotrated upon those who bad ever lzbored for their good, who had over been o kind and sympatnizing friend, and somo wero heard to sty wuch a thing shoald nevar occuragain. Yet the caussof right against wrong progressed slowly. One good ministor who had Dstened to s sermon incalcating love to all, and after this duaty had become eomewhat popular, too, in making the concluding prayer, scemed in his xooduoss to want to ask God’s blessing on_tho sermon ; after coming to the point several times and then going off ever so far,"he secmed at last to get renewed strength and came up heroical quite loud (with o deacending scale), Ok, L blees ! Lord bloss! bleas the heathen. It was thought best (o make ANOTHEB ATTEMPT in Washington for liberty, freo speech, and 8 free pulpit, and to form an Anti-Slavery Society, aud as I look over the names or in the background, and wishing not, un- necessarily to incite the anger of the multitude, it was thought best for Mr. Bames to stay a bome. Father Dickey took his Bible, and with others started for the church. Had there been the same number of Indians, with tomshawks in hand, the eager watch could have been no greater. ** There they come,” *Thera they are,” **There they go,” was sounded from the outposts, while, with quiet mien, our friends made their way THROUGH DEAWN-UP SOLDIERY, to the church-gteps, and attempted fo entar. ““You cannot go in,” shouted the sentinel, with drawn sword, *Yes," sava Father Dickey, ** have an appointment here to preach, snd it is impomm;% whould fill it,” and attempted to step forward, but was again told, with movements of violence, that he should not enter that house. The good man, holding up big Bible, roplied, *This ig the only weapon I bring; if this wi not take mo into the house of God, I have no other,” and with a little bandsof others who dared raiso their heads and stand with unflinching nerve, in vindication of the brotherhood of man, - met in tho street, and resolved to hold & meeting at Pleasant Grove, 8 miles distant, while Elder Chase called the maltitude into the Methodist Church for prayer ‘| and for praise, that the honorof Washington had been preserved. What an easy thing to be popular. Why can’t you, Abolitionists, be popu- lar? Tho little band, with Ir. Barnes, after etting their teams and wagons in readiness fAham{onfiazs, in these days, kuew little of car- riages), passed on through town. The crowd. being renewed in spirit and couragoe, emerging from the prayer-mecting, again prapared for nction, and with sll diligence and dexterity pur- sued the fleeing party, not exactlv the bondmen we read of of old, neither was it Pharaoh in hot Em-suit, but the wheels in either case dragged eavily and the hosts wero foiled, the Red Sea was passod, an Aati-Slavery Society formod. Many, hoaring of the deliverance of the fugi- tives, came forward to.vindicate tho rights of citizens, feeling that Liberty and Slavery were completely antagonistic one ; or tha other must go down, and_sturdy hearts from all over the county said, Let us havo liberty for the white mon and for the black man. ‘And there, on God's prairie, they sang, ‘‘The Lord is my streogtb, and He has« become my salvation; He ismy God, and my father's God, and wo will exalt him.” The wrath of man h=d been made & praiso to onr God, and the remninder restrained. S e e =N WALES. The Prince Dunned by His Creditors. ZLondon Correspondence of the New York Graphic. The Prince of Wales owes debts to the ameunt of $300,000. Bome of theso debta have been running for a long time, and the creditors are somewhat impatient for their money, How did it bappen that the Prince got 8o deeply into debt? Who can tetl? From his birth up to his majority the revennes of the Duchy of Cornwalt wero saved up for him. Last year his incomo from this source was £62,349. "It was nol so muoch beforo his ehrewd father stopped many leaks in its administration, but the sum must havo been large. Then there is his annual allowsnce from Parliament and the annual allowanca to his wife, and while he pays no rent for bis town residence, Marlborough House, he probably gets s small income from his tenants st Lis country estats, Sandringham, Besides all this, his late lamented father is known to have left a very large amount of money, although itis probable that his mother keeps close guard over this. No one can tell anytbiog abouc it, for if the Prince Consort loft a will his widow has never sent it io te recorded. of the pgreat and the good who bave fallen on the field of battle, * nono, in my own mind, stand higher in that world to which we are Lastening thun do these who went down to thair grave in the heart of that moral confliet which was but the precursor of the vic- tories emco achioved. - Father Dickey, a ooble man, a Kentuckian by birth, Owen Lovejoy, and several others from abroad, wern to assist in forming an Anti-Slavery Hocioty. What brick-bats and tin-pans did not accomplish, was undertaken now on a different plan ; this was to be a respectsble mob. Elder Chase, of the Methodist Church, was to bo there, and an organized militia, fully equipped with regimentals aud guns ; bosides, as a kind of re- .serve force, tho country, far and near, had been searched for mea valiant in fight and whisky- drinking, . THE MORNING CAME, and with the day came six or eight moral ho- roes, sheltored under the humble roof of the un- derground railroad depot, as our hcuse was often called. In the morning and forenoon friends came in by ones, by twos, and commit- teoy, to urge us and to beseech ua to give up | the meeting, eaying blood certainly 'would bo shed’ if it was attompt ed, eepecially if Mr. Barmes should go. They knew him; he would be a mark of especial aim. They appealed to him in baialf of his wifo and children to me, that I would not give my biisband over to violenca ;- to the brethren %res— ent, that if they must go, they go without him. As we had no will of our own Fo gratify wishing to stdnd whete God would have usy in'the frons But, on the whole, ono wonid be inclined to eay that & gentleman with an income of at least £450,000 & year ought_to keep out of debt, even if be bad a large family of small children and entertained much compan; The Prince of Wales not kept out of debt. Heowes, as I liave eaid, £300,000, and the Government are about to ask Parliament to pay his_debts. The g‘mposihon will cause arow, and, if the Republicans had any real in- fluence, chafv could make some capital out of the affair. Tho ples in favor of the proposi- tion will be that the debts have been incurred in the performance of State duties which have been smposed upon him by the Queen. The truth is, I believe, that the I’rince, who is a vory shrewd fellow in his money-matters, has always borrowed the funds which have been ex- pended on thesa occasions, refusing to use his own money for such purposes, and saying that in the end either Parlisment or his mother must pay the debta thus contracted. Il a raison. The simple justice of the caso would seem to demand thas the Queen should pay the money. Sho re- ceives from the State & ve? smple revenue for tho discharge of certain duties; it would seem only right that if she deputos her son to perform these duties for her sho should pay the exponse attending them: llnn& disputes are ssid to have taken place between the Queen and the Prince on this sabject; but Her Majesty. does not like to spend her money any moro than the Prince does, and as tho creditors are growing clumorous Parlinment is to be asked to vote the money. It is an 1ll-advised pieco of business ; but I suppose the request will not be rofused. —_— Appearances Azainst £1im. The history of Eoglish law contains few more startliog judicial tragedies than that o whioh the statuto against murdor owed such bumano amendment as to make the finding and positive identification of “tho body of the slain person essential to the conviction of tho murderer ; aad 28 tho same romarkable caso bLad a peculiar moral eud_eocisl significance for the young lovers of all times who, in their passionato de- votion to oach other, aro altogether too apt to disregard the fortunes of everybcdy else in the world, it may bo rocalled sppropriately for modern reading.” - Upon the doath of Mr. George Perkins, a wid- ower of considorablo property in Loadon, it was found that_his will appointed a brother of his, living near Epping Foraet, the sole guardian of bis only daughter, and directed that said guard- jan should inherit the whole fortune devised, in case his young ward should dio either unmarried or without children. Implicic contidence in his brother, who waa a middle-aged bachelor of lim- ited means, bad, of coursn, inspired the dying man to make such a will; but a number of family relatives prononuced the document an extraordinary piece of servile fatmity, and darkly hinted that harm woanid eosue from it. This feeling csused an slienation betyoen tho occupants of the Epping Forost residence and the aforesnid prophets, and made the latter the bitterest prosecutors of the dead man’s brotuor in the strange and tragic suc- ceeding events, which have been deacribed as followis: Unole and nioce were both seen one day walk- ing togethor in the forest, but the young lady suddenly disappeared, and the uncle declared that he had sought her as soon s be missed hLer, and knew not whither she had goneor wha had becomo of her. This account was conmd- ered improbable, and . appesrances being clearly susyicious, be was arrosted and taken before 8 magisurata. Other circumstances, hourly com- ing to light, rondered bis position serious. A young gentleman in the neighborhood had been poxing his addresses to Miss Perkins. It was stated, and generally believed, that Le haa gone, a fow days Loforo she was missed, on & journey to the North, and that she bad do- clared that sho would marry him on_hie return. The uncle had repeatedly expressed his dikapprobation of ti:e match, sad Miss Perkins had loadly reproached him with his unkinduess and abuse of his authority over her 88 hus ward. A woman named Margarot Oaks was produced, who swore that at about 11 o'clock on the day on which Mies Perkins was migsed she was psasing throngh the forest sud heard the voice of a voung lady eaancstly expostulating witha gentlomnn. Ou drawing nearer the spot wheaco the sound camo, Margaret Oaks testified that she heard thy _lady exclaim: **Don't Lill mo, ancle, don't kill me!” Tho woman was greatly torrified, snd ran away from the spot. Asehe was domg 8o, she heard the report of firearms, On this combination of circumstantial and posi- tive evidencs, coupled with the suspicion of in- terest, the uncle waa tried, convicted of murder, and elmost immediately afterwards—according to the cstoms of thoso dars—was haoged. About ten days after tho oxecution of the rentence upon the uncle, the niece reappeared, and, stranger still, showed by the history she related, that all tho tectimony given on the trial was strictly truo. Miss Perkins said that, huving resolved to elope with ber lover, they Dad given out that ho had gone on a_journey to the North,'whereas bo bad merely waited near the skirts of the forest until the time appointed for tho clopement, which wag the very day on which she had disappeared. Herlover had horses ready saddled for them both, and two servants in attendancs on horseback. Whilo walking with bLer uncle, ha roproached her with hor res- olution to marry a man of whom he disapproved, and after some remonstrances she passionately oxclaimed: 3 T Lave set my heart upon him. If I don't marry him it will be death to ms ; and don’t kill me, uncle, don’t kill mo!” Jnet as she pronounced those words she heard howaver, of going to the No; Windaor, and sbot a weck afigr e a tour of plessure to France, Thora der o2t 01 some months 50 happilythat, in those d;’ DewEDApers were scarce, when thers “.7:0'1!:: regulas postal CammAnIZation and 1o ojegnys? oy nover heard of their uncle their retarn to England. o' 8 fata gy g e « BOTHWELL, » Swinburne’s New p, London (May 20) Coflupvun?na o ths New Yoop ) I have received an early > burne's new posm, * Bothwell, ¥ he il Stz catch the mail I'baYo 10 time 1y et b oll.‘l?o:aca critical gi%‘m, -ng can only givs n‘:b skeleton nowuon of the worl i 1) from it aod carian exiy ary, Queen of Beots, i ine Swnbuine'a ides, an embodimen 2o W, evil—s flerce lover, a bitter, hater, polit, L5 manipalation of thove about hey, oy gin by passion. Pace, Mr. Swinburne, thery 2o doubt of her 1ove for Bothwell of or ol cern in Darnloy's desth. The poem ..:! acta. It comménces with Damlay ppid® Rizzio's desth, and concludes with 5{';,,?. ting to England, after bor escape from Loty f Castle. The dramatic force of the e tense, and in his love Ecenes Mr, Gt impagsioned and, ‘one msy ssy, 15 repyiers ever. There are fine passagss on erery g the diofion is savero and eimple, and pecy L Here are some extracts. Iy has bey m‘“‘ Jodburg, and the Bisliop of Ross bu gy u confess her. Sho says: E) 1 would have absolution ers T But of what sins I have not streagth to gy, Nor bardly to remember. 1dothing ' Ilave done God some service, holding fust Falth, and His Church’s fear ; and hayy lovad well His ame, and buzden sat on m to serye, To burflbputmfihouyeu“hhlkmm And witnezs of Il cross : et kuow myelr To be but a8 a servant without gracs Bave of Hia Lord love’s gifs ; I hava Perchance, 10 be His servant 1In face of all men’s hate and 1o S and compel, Brought back to serve him, and bound down Whoso hand shoul take sud hals i by o Y And bend ita hesd to worehip as T 1, first among His faithful ; %o I sai And foolishly ; for I was high of beart And now, benald, I am in God's sight ayd many Nothing ; but though I have not so ‘much gracy To bind again this peaple fast to. 1 havo hold mine own faith fast, and ¥ith my lia Havo borne him witness if my heart wrs ‘Bisuo¥ or Ross—Therefore ahall Hs forgst 1o} oy your hour, Not for his hild reject you ; and shall maks ‘The weight and color of your sins on earth More white and light thaa wool may be or. smow, QUEEN—Yea, 80 my trust 1s of Him ; though us zoy Bearce having in mo breath or spirit of spesch, 1 make not long.confeasion, and my wordy, ‘Through faintnesa of my fesh, 1ack form ; yo, oy you, Think it but sicknees and my body's tsult That comea between me and my wall, who faln Would have your eye look on my naked soul And read what writing there should be washed out With ming own hearvs tears and with Guds tag Tho aces me for His penitent ; for surely My sins of wrath and of light-mindedness, And waste of wanton will and wandsring eyes, Call on me with durb tongues for penitencs, Which, T besozch you, let not God refect For lack of words that I lack strength tosay; For here, as I ropent and put from me In perfect hope of pardon all ill thoughts, 8o I remit all faults sgainst me done, Forgive all evil toward me of all men, Deed or dovice to hurt me; yes, I would not * There were one heart unreconciled with mise When mine is cold ; T will not take death's hasd Fith any soil of hato or wrath or wrons About me, but, being friends with this past waid, Puss from it in the general peace of love, One of her outburst agninst Darnley: By heaven, I had rather desth had leave thnkg What comes Lo £0r 7 to vex ma quick or desd With his lewd eyes and sodden delong g, ‘That I may die sgain with loathing of By God, as God shall look upon my soul, L will not see him. Bid him away, and fsep Far off as Edinburg may hold him heace 4 ‘Awong his fellows of the herded awine That not for neod but love he wallows with To expend his patrimony of bresth sad blood In the dear service of dishonaring days. Darnley’s dream: 1 dreamed this bed hers was s It adrift Whereln one sat with me who plsyed and smg, Yet of his cittern I could bear nonota Nor in what speech he sang inaudibly, But watched his working fiagors aud quik ips As with » passionate and losthing fear, ‘And conld not speak nor smite him; and methonghd That this was David; and he know my heart, * How fain I would have smitten him, and lsnghed As *twere to mock my Lelpless hands and hate. So drove we toward & rock whereon one sat 8inging, that all the highest air of heaven Was kindled into light thorewith, and shons As with a doubla dswn stars ast and weat Lightened with love to hesr her, and the sky. Brake in rod bioom as leaf buds break in apring, But these bore firca for blossors ; then awhils Ay heart, too, Kindled snd sprang up nd sang And made sweet music in me, to keep timo With that swift ainging ; then 3a fira dropa dowa Dropped, and was quenched, and in Joy's stesd I 1 Fear ach in m like hunger,and I1¢ w . Theso were not stars nor overhead was hesven, Bat a blind vault more thick and groes than eart “Che nether firmament that oota in hell. 3 thoso hot lighta were of iost souls, and this Tie sea of tears and fire below the world ‘That still must wazh and cleanse not of one carse The far foul strands with all its wanderiug brinej And as we drove I felt the shallop's mdes, Bapped by the burning water, plank from plank Severing ; snd fain I would huve cried on God, But that the rank air took mae by the throst; And ever ahe that sat on the sea rock Sang. and about her all the ecfs wers whits Witls bones of men whosa souls wers tarned fo fn; And if she were or wera not what I thought, re: Swarmed in the dense surf of the dolorous ses With hands that plucked and tongues thrust outst®h And fastened on me flame-Lke, that my flesh Was molten a8 with earthly firo, and dropped From naked bone and sinew ; but mine eyes “The hot wurf sesred not, nor put out my sanse; For I beheld and heard out of tho surga Voices that shrieked and beads that rose, and knew Whose all they were, and whence their wrath at ms; For all these criod upon me that mina ears » gun fired, at which sho started, aod she afrer- wards Baw & man come from among the treea with & yood-pigoon in his hand, which he had shor. On spproaching the spot sppoiated for & meeting with her lover, ahe formed a pratense to induce her uncle to go on before hor. She then fled to the arms of her lover, who bad beon waiting for bher, and thoy both mounted thelr horses and immediatsly drove off, Instead Rang, and my brain was like a beaton brass, Vibrating; aud the froth of that foul tide Was 48 their apittle shot in my full face That burnt it ; and with breast and flanks distent 1 strained myself to curse them back, and lacked Breath ; the sore surge throitled my toungeless spaet. Though its weight buoyed my dipping chin, that sk No lowor than where my lips wero burnt with brine And my throat clonched faat of the strangling ses. Till T swam short with sick strokes 15 one might ‘Whese bands were maimed; then mine ill spirit & slezp Shifted, and showed me a8 5 garden walled, Wheroin I stood naked, a shipwrecked man, Stunned yet, and staggered from the ses, and solled With all the weed and scurf of tha gross wave Whose breach had cast me broken on the shore: And one eame like a god in woman's flesh And took mine esea with hers, snd gave me fruft As red 2 fire, but full of worms within 5 That crawled and gendered ; and she gave me wiak But in the cup & to3d was; and she said “Eat,” and I ate, and Drink," snd I did And sickened; then came one with spur on bee Tod from his Rorue o'erriden, smeared :m: dust, And took my hand to lead me as to res Being bruised yet from the ses-bresch; and his bish Was of molten"izon wherein mins Was 28 8 brand of fire ; and at hia feet Tha earth split, and I saw within tho gulf, As in clear water, mine own writhen face Eaten of worms and liviog; then I woke, John Enox inveighs against the Quaent Nay, then in God's name, If that falso word fell unfalfilled of mine, Heed ye not now nor hear me when I sy That for this woman's sake shall God cut off The hand that apares her as the band thats! And make their memory who take part with ber As theirs who stood for Baal against the Lord With Abab's daughter. “Bothwell " will raise Mr. Swinburoe' tion, but will make him detested by tho espoused Queen Mary's canse. e ™ Mesaemed we drew not near enough to know; For ere we came to split upon that re 1 The pundering plasks Spened, and throsgh e bresch % 1 The Names of ¢ John and William.” , Ever since the conquest, r. Bardsiey inforns us that the race for popularity among Chnatisd nzmes in England. has been lgulust betwoed “John” and * William.” In the age aftertbe arnval of the Normans, William was the com- monest Christian name. In Domesday, for it} stance, thero are 68 ** Williams,” 43 * Rovertd, 20d $8 “ Walters,” but no **Johss.” In 177 at a banquet given at the Court of Henry 1L, 1 was commandod that none but those of the nln:' of * William ™ ehould dine at it, and mmu{k{ 120 * Williams,” all Knighta, sat down to 1 table. In Edward L‘'s time this disproporti had become less marked, for in s list Dlflwifl- shire names containipg 633, there are 53, Wl iama ™ to83 * Johns.” loscenturyafter *J ) nad outstrippedts competitor. In 1347 ontof e Common Conncilmen for London, $5 wers “Johns," the next highestname beiog :Zdt!m J M et e with 17, while* Thomas,” in comt}nw O oriety. I i -Becket, springs canonization of a- et, Bpring St Beargs, 1; with 15. In 1358 the Guild of Norwich, in s total of 276 names, possesaes 123 “Johnu," or 47 ** Wiltiams” and 41 ** Thomssee From this period, owing to the two .umu"m_. boro that name, &nd despite the averaion el {0 the worthless monarch who hsd also bore ‘l: #Jean Gotdam,” by which the French called all through the middle ages, ** William” resaint 2a Mr. Bardsiey says, "'a sturdy second piace: 1t fared worst at the banda of the IMMM; £ Tejocted it s & Pagan name with 3 recovered its ascendaocy with Wi i Orange and the Protestant Revolution, ‘Nlm pow, stands, as it did eight centurios s iy head of all the names in our h&t‘i register, while John Las sgain sunk Lnto the necoad plase orror;