Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 27, 1874, Page 7

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1874 7 | caisg 3t the New England Chareh, Delaware {f% . yimes T.Hyde will preach morning and P Gatland Chiurch. == smiecomL. = ¢ 11, G, Persy will preach morning and even- e Ber T O duren, cormier of North Cargeuter P 800 ougman will proach st St oe ere B Salimaon airet, near Tayiur, moras ine. tocking will preach at the Church ‘hroop btreet, morning and evening. The Fall Opeuing.” ireet, chavlain, will officiateat St. 45 Third avenue, morning aud st 10:0, celebration of Loly ‘with germon, at 7:3 L=Ee 6.0, T cron Clispe MoTLIDR BT op2e11:30 ; evensong, ger. . . Abbott, of Evanston, will presch S James' Cliurch, <2783 (¢ 97 Syl will preach at the Church ‘S Gommunion, Dearborn, between Twenty- O iciietl sirects, morning and eveuing. D. E. Barr will preach st Calvary esiue, this morning, No evenizg . Dr. Warren will presch at St Mar ¢ Grove azenug, morning znd eveni ¢, Locke will preach morning azd Cpurch Tho Past -~ evening. Morning subject 2% o Convention.” e, Cnon Knowlos vill proach at the = “or and Paul morning and eveziny ““The Recent Dioceean Convention Befation 10 th Cathedral.” NTZABIAN . B. Torbush, of Clesclund, will conduct “"f‘f' T D ping et thu Clinrek: of the Messiah, I iebipen_avenue snd Twenty-third sireet. 2 G paxdee will preach at the Third 2t et et Menroc znd Letlin etreels, thiy Babj The Value of Seripture.” 3. Freeman Clarke in the evede ce Freeman_ Clarke, of Doston, will ity Churel, North Deurborn giTeet, this Frenes. st 3t il e, C. W, Wendte wili preach morning and "he Fourth Church. Morning subject 7+ in Londan—spurgoon, L. D. Couvay, . Charles Bradlaugh” CURISTIAN. . Muliius.will preach in the Central S ing aud evening. Mlorning subject : and Where Is Heaven 2 i v, Issc - Brrext wilt presch mosming end i tha cburch comor of Iudiszs avenue and fug suvject: * The Fall of 2 METHODIST. s Tir, A Youker will preach st the usual houss ‘Weatern Avenuc areil R er, AL 3L Parkhurst =il occupy the pu! ‘Avenue Church this worain; fonati, will preach in the eveniz, van will proach morning aud cvining at cdrner of -Clarx and Wushington Ipit Dr. S i G =Dr. Tuon i Pt Churcl, 7. L. €., Drices will preath at Centena- araing and evening. i 3 . Jackson wil prezch this murniag sud Vesloy C'.up}\, correr of Thiriy-third i h park aventie. wing suuoancements for today hove 3lethudist preachers : Van Tning, ths Ttev. C. Nachtriel e lov, P. ¥. oy B Sizmour. 'REPORMED FRISCOPAL, cp Czeney will preach at Chirist snd Twenty-fon SUSCELLANTOUS. e, Clar’s will preach at Advent Hail, 213 3 vt s moruing, ond in the eveuing at Green siredt Tabcrpacke, —m.ghcgma:rn Lreeum 0f Chicogo meets at 12:50 2 Good Templars' Hall, corner of Washiuglon sod Dosplaings stseetss 2 - "TnRer. E. Pelfour wilt preach gt tho Luglish 3 Lethersn Chinreh of the Holy Trinity, corner of Dear- } Lo and Erie streets, tlis morning. 3 T 1. & Hibbard, D. D., will preach at the Sew Courch Hall thia mon Wasizgton sthct and Ogden avenuy, this ples of CLrist imeet this afterncon at 22 iph street. * a1 Assoviztion of Spiritual 1,0f Liimols, wects in O 3 tersocn, Lestureat 430 by Prof. n. A Tho First Society ef Spi boid serviecs in 4 Groxs Opera Ball nioru A eveaing, cre will be 3 meeting for worsii Friepds' 3th rirvet, near Indisua s¥e- 4 certung-houre, Tweniy- Zg, morning and creiag, REVIEW OF AMUSEMENTS. . TEE DRAMA. 1 the drama.coutinues o thrive duriag the nmeinder of the Geason as iz Lias the past weels, thers will be motuing but profits for managers to recard whea the time comes far belanang sc- ceate, The general average zttepdanco bas teen unusually goed, every house opea baving teon gesierously petronized. It is a peculiasity peviozely zoted thata successful engagement sione.heatre aids in supporting the oihers also. Alog.rua dsaws from their back perlors hua- éneds of pecple who naves go to a theatre ex- 5t 62 compulsicn, 50 to speak ; and while they e sapporting & piccs others seek soma other Faz of tmnzement, 1t is bard to account for § pylar sbims, Amusement-seeking seoms 10 § Lidenic, Lo the measles, bat 00 often ze- sectles that infantile malady by ot attacking a ent twice i his lfctimé. These arc tho s ders of the drams, and managers must i whal they can, for tho opera is coming, the ek, boanty, aad fashion feel bound t2uppors 2 thie expense of everything else. A'VICKER'S THEATRE. Lo vary-fatteriug success which Mr. Jeffer- tiree weeke of ¢ Rip Van Winkle " bave sl threatens to deprive us altogetber of ks :Zfl “Lt-‘-& oi sceirg him in any other role. 2Mr. UcVicker's prediction thot the third week's re- : would excecd those of the sccond has 1 ‘:_: frifiled, and perbaps. the fourth,—for Mr. {mmmisgoingto gve us a fourth’ woek of By buh 3'ruu'in mprecedented in Chicago, oW that the precedent has been establisied, s Lope tist Chieago people will continue to Cerviog plays Janger than they bave yet (3t Ve guesiion whetber auy.actor on iho ki sige bas carried s picea through {ie wesks 1o ench houses a9 . Jelferson liss b Fur, while Booth and Charlotte Cushman T far the samo length of time o excellent ther relied upou 2 varety of pieces 0 putlic iuteres gy Mr, Jefervon will givo & m {tmace, the only one during bis eugaze- m‘;gfl.‘ll‘g “Rip Van Winkle." Saturday {22 aillcad bis engagemont in tho eity with faEesduited comely Sueridan’s * Rivals.” s itimitable part of Lob dcres. This 2 fllowed Ly the familiar farce ™ A Reg- 5" with Alr. Jefferson in the role of Hugh Bras. Veils HCOLEY'S THEATRE. .~ Boolar's capital comyany bave been play- o Ciug o week in another Freach drame, ) by Nr. Williams, “The Tangled ,;:; Yrllen by Seribe. We took occasion 38 e week to call attention to the marvel- : L:ffl}m}s of the piece, the brightnoss of the 3 m:::m dialogue, and goteral efiiciency of 4 iy = Of coursoit is not intended 83 & i =n pnc::xme :1 eociety. Itiss droll massof g plications of s farcieal character. i .’gj"c}gmer with & comical mock-gravity J& e French dramatists dehght to_display. 2 aneters are all marked sad_distinet, aud by 11' ranges from the subilety of the 2 hoal to 1na breadt of tho old English. i ?C\)‘mvllmtmne iuto which the autbor Sara bia cheracters, aud their beirbreadth es- ot o the consequences, that the full meas- & 1o, 08 iDgenuity is realized. Afuch depends Sy 2C0g In ench a piece. It can be Khe g melodramaric intensity, and it gng very dry statl. The efervescence | B eclamation. There was 8 elight dis- g 90 the part of ono or two of tho actors Kty Fepresentation to look very seriously Y fi:m"“ though it were not French, tlip- "do:m"‘“’:“ There 35 a flavor of Aimes S g i it which illy corresponds with 2 Sy hizu:mn._ During the latter part of % tapyess however, it eparkled brillisotly, the 3} MN Ving with the utmost spirit, and the i f:?ll ] The artists Gangg 1l Postension of the incidents and ity saation of the piece, and worked to- 4 It was o test piece a3 oring it immensely. o Sthont g error. 2y goe TMechaical excellence of the com- @i jes VB I0Te than wetisfactory from the T Eeteniation o the last. bttt week two comedien will bo pre- Se 1 »mfi.v are nat new, but if old are good. g0t or less familiar to Chicago audi- ity ing boen standard pieces here. Tho Mg g merling ccmedy * Blow for Blow.” ¥ gy - Villimsclaime will be betier cust i 10t has bee before in this city. The 1 the cast oF charncters: ..H 8, Murdoch z.and at the Temple, | Thie drama will be plased Monday, Tuesday, and, Welneadny eventoge, and e Wednosdsy matines. Tho Test of tho woek **Meu of the Day” will be given, with the following cast: Tho latter piéce, it ¥ill be remembered, was played during Mr. Adams’ engagement at Me- v's, and drosr forth the approbation .of the pross and pablic. Saturdey mght Romeo and Jutiet” will be given. During the week certain changes bave been made 1 the company. owing to the withdranal of tireo of its members, Mr. Fravk Tose, Mr. Morton, aud Miss Bsiley. Mr..Rose's place has boen taksen. a8 will bo seon from thocest of tho picces above given, by Mr. George Gaston. who will no doubt prove acceptable to tho patrons of the theatre. Mies Josio Bailey's place is zob permancntly filled. It is unforcunato that these yonniz people should Liave resimed, for by doiag 50 they rob the company of their contribution to 1t stréngth, which 8 not insignificent. TOE ACADEXT OF MTSIC. During the week the Lingards Lave been play- ing at the Academy in a round of the domestic drama sg thoy have it in France. But one night was. given to an English production, and the drama. that enjoyed this distinction earned it by its kinsbip to them in morals and to the morbid Gallicisin offits motise. *Tho New Mugdalon " was the exception, and though it is stronger and higher than its associates in tho rapertory of tho company, it is not ono for which wo hunger. ‘Bat apart from this class of plays presented by them, for which the pablic . is to blame, .the visit of the Lingards was unusually interesting. -Trom light farces and tho sketches by 3r. Lingurd thoy bave been working their way into tho puslic _esteem through a higher class of dramatic represeata- tion. Traveling with a compsny of their own, aad & long bst of new picces, they have been ablo in one week to give us tho latest dramatic novelties very fairly played; and lacking maialy in the subordinato parts. Mr. Lingerd has not mado_bimezelf as prominent as lus talent for comedy should have.induced him to become ; but Aiss Dunning and Dickie Livgard .have been presenied in four or five dilerent roles, and with manifeet success. 'Those who have supposed, mot from experiesce, Lut from precedanf, that tho first-nemod’ lady, be- oz & beoutifwl women, and tho per- fection of greco and .statuesquo “loveliness, is of necessity woak from an artistic standpoint, nave, during the past woek, been compelled to reverse their ‘judgment and rank the lady whero ber talents really place ber. . Itis.a question whether the roles of Mercy Merrick or Ray- monde Montaiglin have ever been plared with such 5 combination_of dramatic force ‘apd fag- cinating beauty. The advances which this lady has made in the past two or three years is as- tomshing, and the public is begiuning to dis- coverit. Dickie Lingard has been playiag in parts rather too ponderous for £o petite a figuro and vivacions a manner, but sbe has acquitted bemeelf. with. cradis. llcr personation .of of Madanic .Quichard i **Mon- gieur Was 8 very pro- nounced saccess, and could, with cara and a littlo toning dovm, be made as distivetive and noteworthy as any in the French geries. Doth Jadics drose superbly. ‘Thero are o two artists in any one_caompany, Dot excepting Mr. Daly's, whose atiire is as_samptuous and tasteful as {hat of Alice Dunning and Dickie Lingard, The company is nob what 1t ought to be. With such % nucleas Mr, Lingard might with caro organizo acd drsll a company saperior to any now travel- ing in the conntry, nud would add to bis reputa- tion, us. well as’ his bank . account. 'ho i o aro oo additional lady for two wmore competent gan- ding ond. juvenils char- . Lingard's business enterpnso ing _the much-talked-of **Spbinx"” Tor production inChieago bafora it had' boen gison 1o New York was very creditable. He had the catisfaction of learing, too, that while the Wesi- erp press condemned his **Sphinx” as insipid and _usinteresting, tho w York.critics ex- Pressed themselves in the ssme manner upon thie version played.at the Union Square Theatre. Wo.mero spared the .last sceno, which Clara Morris went to _Europe_to study, aod were so Iar bester treated tban New Yorkers. Ahodithy orzavism tarns in Gisgusi from the sgonics of dissolution. To malke such a spectaclo tho piver ©of interest on tho stage is atrocions. The present woelks Olive Logau opens st the Academs of Music, bringing with hier two piccos Svitten by bor husband snd erzelf jointly. The first is entitied. ** ThoWoman.Who Talls.” This Witk Lo played Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesda; cvenmgs. | Miss Logan las been travelivg with SMr, Gardiner's company in the Provinces, ro- hearsing the pisce for.prosentation bare, A fea- ture of the performance will be the first ap- pearance of Mr. Gardiner's new leading man, Mr. Piercy, wiio bas Leen playing in Sau Francisco. The piece.is cast well, aud will probably atirsct no Ltile attention. THE MINSTRELS. Reily & Leon's minstrels havo been doing an excellent business during the week, and again challenge astention With 3 new bill and a bost of noveltics, The euccessful comic opera **Jlong. Choufleuri ¥ will be retained this week, a8 also will Bowley' cornet solo, The first part con- cludes with a finalo entitled +* Mississippi Remi- piscenses,” The fasorito song-and-dauco artists, Walters and Moiton, make their first appearance at tbo Grand Opera-Houge to-morrow night, and S¥ill be heartily welcomed baci, Manning hasa new skeich, ++ Moyiug In,” sud Schooleralt, Coes, 2ud Tyrrell another, - The Perplexing Iredica licasy P tlemen fur MYERS' OPERA-HOTSE Has been restored to life. The still-born Muse- am hes been buried, and the Opera-House resus- citated. Mr. Placey has sizzled and gone out. There was o limit to his capacity, and bia extin- guishment wos & mero matier of days and dollars. ‘The pretty theatre is now to be converted into a Variety-house, under the business management of Walter Soutbizate, formerly witn the Arling- ton, Cotton & Kemble company. It will open Monday with @ strong list of attractions, chiof of which 18 tho new Hermann, the cunjurer aud Jagiler, who has created a seusation in the Bast, and who has never before appeared on the vari- ety stage. Johnson, the champion swimmer, i8 another strong attraction, s ero the Leslie Family and the Scarcey Sisters. Probably ihe main “inducement will ba the cap-can by tho Colonna Troupe, from London. It wiil require the nicest sort of care to Leep tie placa freo from impurity. Unless it is 80 kept it will be worse than 8 failure. The variety compauy.is Jnown as tho Waliace & Henderson Combina-~ tiop, and will remain tvo weeks. A NOVEL ENTERTAINMENT. ¢ L. Thieblin and Felix Regamey are going to give a geries of lectures at McCormick's Hall Fider the general title of ““Europe in Words, Pictares, and Melodies.” They will begin.with Spainand Erance, on Oct, 9,10,and 12. Bugland, Cermavy, and Lussia are' to be tho subject of another- serics. The entertainment is to be of quite a novel kind. The lectures of M. Thieblin e to be illustrated by his companion's cartoon, 254 both gentlemen will produce national s00gs which they collected in the various European countries during their travels. Theg have se- cared for the piano part tho services of the able Mr. J. A. Serbaum, well known to the musical public of Chicago. Mr. Thicblin was for years on thoe foreign stafl of the rall Mall Gazxlje (London), ana represented that journal in France durisg tho lagt war. Ho has published cevoral works, and enjoyed quite o celebnty for some fupny ekotches on the English, ‘which he printed in the leading periodicals of London. Lfore recentls, Lie went to Spain on bebalf of the New York Herald. He speat saveral months on the etaff of Don Carlos, end was in constant per- gonal intercourse with Figuoras and Castellar at Madrid during the revolations of February and April, 187 2 "\i. Felix Regamey is the brother of tho well- Juown French piuter_ Guillaum Legzmes, aud ~as when guite a youth appointed Professor of Drawiug at the Paris_Acsdemy of Architecture. The war csused him to suspend for a time his Artiatio pursuits and to culist 23 8 voluuteer. Af- ter the conclusion of pesco the llusirated Lon- don News engaged him to make the drawing of {ho sioge of Paris, through which Lo wont in bis Tow cupacity of 8 eoldier. Since that time ho e tinned working for that journal, and made, Cint. Troquently sketches in Harper's Weckly and in the Daily Graphic. 1e came over to the ¥ Kved States upon an eagegement wizh Mlossrs, Jarrett & Palmer, when they bronght out tho Black Crook, about a yest sgo, st Nibla's. Ho obtained an immense success by Lis quick drasw- Ing of coricatures on tho stage, 8 success which Wwas unabsted at Boston, Was ston, Pailadel- phis, and Baibimore. 3. Regamer, though only 2 fow days bere, has alresdy drawn number of nost amusing and most_exsgrerated images of some of our lsading men. - v i ultimate object of the iwo fricodsis o publish a work on “America, for which 3L, Thieb- lin ia to supply the textand 3. Regamay the il- lustrations, Meanwhile, they aregoing to tell us what they know about their own peoplo and Eu- Tope in genoral. As 3 specimen of his skill in drawing, 3 Re- gamey refers the public to the lithographic Dostéra on the Btreot, which aro_remarkable for their artistic ment. Bt his name is too well finmm in, this country to need exhaustive men- ion. DRAMATIC NOTTS, Clars Morris is 8aid to make a disgusting ob- ject of bherself in the last scene of **Tho Sphiuz.” Jamea Horno is manager at Maguire's Theatro, San Francisco. The taeairo n¢edod somebogy to handle it. i Iivdia Thompson's troupo, sugmanted by Mr. Alfrod Bishop, opencd tho season ot tha Charing Cross Thoatre, London. +Tho Birth of tho Pearl,” a tablegy in the new act of “ Orphee,” st the Paris Gaite, is saud to ‘be marvelously beantiful. “The Now dagdalen™ hias been tfanslated in- to Freoch under the nums of “La Moo, Vivante™ (Living Death). i Edwin Booth is still occuping his country Iiouse at Cos Cob, near Greonwich. onco owned by, Charles Barras, -author of the ** Black Crook.” A revival of “The Flying Scud” sill be raado later iu the scason st Bootl’s Thoatre, ALr. (Georzo Belmore, the London actor, appesring a8 Nat Gosling. Several of the leading business men of Phila- delphia have agreed to erect o theatre in that village,—* a theatre that will eclipse all others in tho United States!” Pelikap was m love with 3llle. Amauda, who amused ‘tiro public from = little stage in the Prater at'Vienna ; but Amanda would not love Pelilian, 60 ho weut to the pley to blow out his brains in the frontrow. 1t is announced, siter all, that Miss Dvas goes to Wallack’s for tho regular season. Mr. Daly ia not displaying his characteristic sagacity now- adays, for he teems to be having trouble with bis best lady artists. v new theafres in Toronto are to be opened within o fortoight. Mr. Morrison’s Graud Opera~ House, on Adelzide street, will sccommodato 1,500 peetators; the Ttoyal Opera-Tlouse, on King street, will seat 1,450 persous. TRachol's mantle is Faid to bave fallen oa Mlle. Agos, » French tragedicnne hos perfsrmiug in Tondon. Fortuately sho had =a_cxcellent Wwardrobe or ‘ghe conld not fiave supplicd 2 tithe of tho inberitors of her mautles. . In a Elorentino theatre, short time eiace, the orcliestra, nat being puid, lefc at the end of tho second uct of the opers, and the intelligent pub- lic present mashed’evorything in the Louse, in return for their disappointment. 3iss Jeffroy-Losis bas been. olected leading 1ady st Wallaék's for the fall and winter season. "ho_rumons abaut o certsin London. actress of distinetion having been epgaged for the position are dosignated a3 fabricatious. The rovival of ** Venica Preserved " at Booth's Theatre, last week, was not » success. The new Iglish’ actress, iss Isonie . Lrongh, was g0 mmuch displeased with ailverse cnticizms on ber scting as Belvidera that she will returu ¢ Eo- gland at ouce. I want you all to understand ;that thero is to be no levity on the stago to-might,” said the manager of & city theatre to the supernumera- ries-as the curtain was rong up. - “ What's o lev- ity, Bl 2 nsised one superuumerary of aother. “Ql," said the other, *I don't know. Supposo iv's & cross "ween 8 farca and a comedy. +\¥hat ia your lme 2" asked {the mansger, of a comely littlo .miss wha appiied at the stago door 1 auswer Lo'an edvertisement for * talent.” +0h, o, Tean do most Ansthing,” said e, “pla¥ feres, comedly. or afterpicces, dance, siug, or cry, wash diches scrab, aud do Clawde 1o Dauline's Lady of Lyons!" * Ab, indeed,” said the manazer, waving ber off, ** 1'm afraid you're £qo clever for our company The members af the theatrical professi bave spent the season at Long Brand serting the place now one by one, hurried a little, perhaps, by the prevalence of the Equinoctial.” Vdwin -Adams, Chanfrau, dir. Walack, Floyd, Niss Mitchell,.and Boucicauls, &il have goue, and their respective cottages (Boucicault hasu't any) are being put in a conditiou to brave the demonstrative elements of the winter-mouths. At ‘n Nevoda heatra, récently, tho gas went out during tho early partof the performanco, and for a brict period there was considerable ex- Citement and profanity. Tho voico of tho stage- managenwas heard from the direction of tho Stage. ¢ followa: *Sit down, will yer, whilo L geud for soma membera of Congress to come round and orate. _Then, T gues3, wo'll have gos enough to 50 0a with tho ehowy” Aliss Kate Field anticipates making her debut ds an netress about Thanksgivivg time. Her friends bespeak for her ruccers at the etart; but friends ara_proverbually partial, and wo are Guito o Miss Field will much prefer being criticiged ¢andidly and impartially. There secms t0-bo someshing of controversy (amobg tho pa- ors) rezarding the picce sclected by tho lady for Ecr debut, but we shall look for official annousice- ments era long. Tho Jersey City Theatre Saturday night, just ‘before the opening of tho performance of ** Iip ~Van Winkle,” Deputy Sheril Crouin mado Lis appearance and placed Meltee Rankin, the prio- cipal actor, under errest assnabsconding debtor. The complant upon which the papers were jssued was made by & man named Elliott, of St. Touis. Lail was promptly furnished and tho prisoner released in timo to allow the perform- ance to go on. This is another evidenca of Jef- Serdon's supcriority over all competicors. Ilo Dovor disappoin:s an acdence for euch reasons. Chiicago people will remember Samuel Genese, who was the sgent of Charles Wyndham in 1bis city, | Mr. Genese is on the Pacific elope, Iingling in tho confusion ab Maguiro's Theatro, Wwhic Lo has personally assisted in_perfecting. Mr. Sam Geneso recenily Lad trouble with & friond, und with great trepidation nccepted o chatiehge to- fight_ with pistols. The feconds Qrevw tho balls, and tho princivals blazed at ono another with blank caréridges for half an bour, With Al the oarncstness of & stage-ducl. And niow r. Genese is beginning to think bis courago was wasted. TLowell, 3Mass,, has been agitated by an adver- tisement of the play of ¢ Pussion’s Perils,” to be presented at ouo of tho theatras, likenessses of Beecher, Tilton, and Mra. Tilton being on the posters. A prominont Methodist alorgymsn cir- Culited o petition to the Aldermen to havo tho Jiceo suppressed, and the document received tiio Yignaturcs of many ministers. A special meet- iug of the Aldermen was called, and the play was gubmitted to & committee, who reported some- what sarcastically that tho alarm of the petition- ers was pot well gronnded, and tho drams was ‘accordingly presented toa full house, tho Magor “ldermen, and City Marsbal occupying consDi uous reserved seais. #T.es Mormons s Paris," s four-act whim- sicality, of the aame -order as *’ Gavant. AMiaard et Cie,” and other_well-known prodictions. has been given at the Paris Varietics. Its sutbors are MM, Delacour aud Louis Leroy. A Sacarin, 5 young Tarisian, converted dnring a residence at Ssit Luke City to thie Alormon Taith, takes suddenly to flight, leaving bobind Dim his wives and Lis couvictions. Ljeturning {0 Paris, hio cspouses, on the very day of his ar- rival, & young lady, without, £5 may be sup- oscd, informing her of Lis previons ties. When 1n his wife's attendant he discovers oue of those who Liad been scaled to him, aud when, subso- quently, he discovers -that the whole of Lis rmor 'wives bave followed im to France, Lis position becomes sufticiontly uncomfortable. The air of * John Brown’s Body,” so intimately a280- tiatod withmemorics of the American struggio. i3 introduded in the picce. and is already a fa- vorito in the strects of Paris. hen Boucicault-found that his little theft from * Marino Faliero,” incorporuted by him in Otway's * Venice Preserved,” and dubbed origi- nal, bnd been discosercd, he Liusteued to print a card, which is this: *The aunouace- ment that I _have revised Otway's irag- edy, ‘Venico Preserved,' for Booth's The- atre, hes excited the usual demoustrations among the moisy young scribes that infest tho urlieus of the press. Jiv revision has been imited to reducing the tirades with which the play chounds _to a moderate lenath; restoring some of the origiual omitted in the scting ver- eion, ond, wherever necessary, excieions have leey made, conneeting the several parts by the introducticn of a few lines. I have ventared to introduce in the last scene 3 paesage from ¢ 3arino Faliero.! _Tho scenc of the execation i Dyron's trageds being similar iu attitnde snd Incident, the Isnguage scemed to be adapted to the oceasion 2nd to the charscter of Pierre.” Tn Japan they say the shoatros ara vory much patronized ; tho play commences at 6'in tho iorping and terminates at 8 or in tho ovening; ofton the same picce occupies two and threo @sys in the representation. Gentlemen sro not particalar about the question of full dress, bul Thio Iadics are#, the lacter, to cover their swarthy looks, have the face snd shoulders whitewasbed with almoed milk: a black lead-pencil marks the eve-brows, and the lips are coated thiniy with @old, which, after o while, takos a rod bue ; the Bead-drees 18 o veritablo picca of engineering ¢ it 13 s ecaffolding that has to be commenced the oyening proviously; but the beanty reclinca dressod till the thcaire opene, and onoo tuero, The robe ap- eho_ forgets all fatigue. in ribbon-sashes, veats to. bo swathed forming an immonse knot at the Lack Tho scencchanging on tho etsgo i8 simply on the plan of the turn-table for locomo- tivea. Ata given signal the tablo whirla for the space of & half-circle, taking away actors in the midst of their dialogue, snd bringivg others on the sceno in tho act of continuing tho conyersa- tion, or representing something mew. Every actor has his shadow,"—an individyal dressed in black, who mever quits_him, handm%‘ overy- thing he may stand in neod of. = And when the shisdes of. aypnin (all, he holds & candlo_on the end of & stick undor the actor's nose, to allow the spectators to judge of the sctor's gestures and expression of the passions. AADE TWAIN, THE PLAYWRIGHT.. ark Twain's * Gilded Age™ ay s uovel has been deseribéd as hopeleasly stupid, but it pos- sessos cortain clements which make it Lighly nccoptablo as @ drams. The Atage namo i3 + Col. Sellers,” ©nd, inasmuch g8 that parely American croation i the conspicuous dfigure in the piece, it is comectly named afjgr. him. The drsmia itself is said to bo lacking in & great many essontial points, maiuly in the art of con- struction. . Its incidents are plentiful, buc its Ploz, s eoybody who bas read tho movelwill undérstand, 18~ tame. Bt thege sro defects Whicls can be partially remedicd by redressiug. and tho drama is 50 degerving in the exuberauco of its humor and thenativity of its characters that it sbionld be polished ns soon as possible. Tho roleof Col. Sellers, at the presentation of the picco at tho Park Theatre, was {eken by Mr. Ray- wmond. He is said to have contributed a very unique and valuable ereation to the American stag, to have restrained the cmmmml of the choracter within possible limits, andkept tho audience in a continual state. of hoizterous merriment. 3fark Twain was. called beforg tho crictain, sad mado & bpecch which, ‘as it had lit- tlo or Dothing to do with tha subject, was o strict conformity with eatablisked cedont. It was 0 follows : 1 1 thank you for the compliment of (bis call, and T will ftake advantago of s tusay fhat I havs written fiis piece in such a way that the jury can boiugino verdics of gullty or not guilty, just as they happen to feel sbout it. I have dove tUis for this rcason. If a ploy carriea fta best Teason by teaching what ought to Lo doue in such a c3se, but is not dano in real life, then the rigliteous verdick of guilty should appear ; but if the best leaton Jnay be -conveyed by Lolding up the 1okrror apd showing what s done every day in wuch & case but ought no¢ to be done, then the eatirical ver- dict of not guilty hould appear. 1 dont kuow whick i best, stgict truth snd satire, or 3 nice morzl lesson void of both, Bolleave iy jury free to decide. 1 am killing only aue man in this tragedy now, and ziat in bad, for nothing belps out 3 play like Dloodshed. Butin a few days I proposo to introduce the suali= pox into the last.act 3 cnd, if that den’t work, I shall Close with 5 generul maseacre, T threw all my strength into the charastur of Col Sellers, boping to nake ita very stroug teagedy patt, and pathietic, 1 think this gentleman trizs bard to play it right, and make it majestic and -pathotic, bnt his jace i against him, And his clotlies! T don't think auybody can mako a tragedy effect in that kind of elothes, But T suppose o tinks they arv dmpressive, He is from oneof fue Tndian reservafions. Ob! I csu see that be trics hard to 1mako it solemn and bezole, but roally sometimes be almost makes me laugh, I wmeant thit turnip dinner to bo pallietic, for how more forcibly - could Jou Yepresont. poveriy, and misers, mnd suffenng, than by such a dinner, and of course if sustling.would briug tears to peopla’s that would : but.ihi man eas thoss turnije s if they were tLie biead of Jife, and Boof course thr paflios i3 knacked clear out of -the thing. But I- think he will learn, 1o has an absorbigg ambition to bocome a vory great tragedian, T hopo you will overlook the faults in thie lay, becates 1 have ueves WEitten & play Defore, and if 1am treated right maybe I wont offend 1 wanted to have some fine mitustions and evecticular eifects in this piece, byt I was fnterfered with, I wanted o bavou voleano in 3 etate of rup- tion, with fire, and sinoke, and cartbquakes, and s great tossing river of blood-red lava fowing down the moun- tain-wide, and have tho Lero of this picce como oo~ ing dqwh that red-hot iver 3n & cast-iron cauoe; but the managor wouldn's Liear of it 3 e said there wasn’t any voleatio 1n Jwsouri—2a if am respousible for Mitsouri's poverty, And then ho ssid that by tbe Luws of -Nature the bero wouli burn up 3 hib cast-iron canoe wouldn't protect him.” Very weil," 1 raid, 4 put him in o patent fre-proof Rafe and let him slide 31 the more thriliing—and paint on it, ¢ This safe s from Herring's establishment,’ sam.e an you wou'd on > ptano, and You cau pay the whole expetsc of the val- &liio justou the sdvertisement.” Lut the managor objeeted, thongh b faid Leays of pretey thinge— “niong otbors that I was an ase—atd so I hod 10 Lot the voleato go. ’ IIUSIC. hie principal event of the prasent weok, of course, will be tho short Thowas Orchestral sea- son, émbracing toar concerts, onday, Ties- day, and Wednesdsy evenings, and Wedunesday afternoon, at McCormici's Hall The sale of reserved seats bas been unexpectedly large, 50 that we may look for s greal success in point of sttondance. The musical clemeut of euccess may be safely left to Mr. Thomss. Tho pro- grammes of the season have already been print- ed, and it will be only necessary now to repro- duco that for the dpening night, which will be as follows : &5 . PADT I, Overture—* The Ruler of the Spisits”... . Weber ‘Aria—" Part, ma tu ben-mio,"—* Clerienza di < Mozrt Tito" eck (Hapi ove), “Mllegro, Andante qisi Largbstto, Part I, —Trennung (Separsts Marsen-Tezipo, Part I —Wisdorvereiuloguag i “Fode (Reunion in Introduction und Ballzde (nzch G. Buerger's Lenorc). N Allegro. PART 1L, Ballet Wusic—* Prophote . . ... Moserbeer e Waliz. o, Bodoiwa, "6 Quadriils of Ui sSkaters. . Galop. Cavatina— DI Tant Paipiti.”— Tancredi "... Rossini s Euiind Cranch. Romance—For Violiu—0p, 4 Drayed by sl the Introduction,, Chorus, Third et *Loliengrin”. March, In connection with the sbove, tho following Jetter, which has been addressed to Mir. Thomas, will prove of iuteres Cmieaso, Sept. 45, 157 Thealore Thomar, £sq.: AR SIB: . Aftor baving at times in thelsst five years listened with almost jofiuite del 1 to the mwusic Jou bisve brought us, pnd feeling thas your visits to Jar city may become lss frequent heréafter as your ‘Qutics increase, we would desiro to express to you our {lanks for happincss. pure sud everlasting; and, Fuowing of no metlod of giving the public ax oppor- funity of expressing this gratiudo oilier thap by a Complimentars bevedt concert, we would, on belialf of thio community, ask you to accept of such a tribuzo of esteem frow your friends here; sud, fearing this spproacaiug vieit may be your last for a_time, wo Would ask respectfully §f you capuat add this compli- mentary eveniug to the scrics of concorls yousra about 16 pive in this City. W, F. Coolbaugly, . Sneridan, U S. A, & Uenry Greenebaum, Potter Yalmer, Horace White, N. K. Fairtank, Tobert Goldieck, 2t iker, Edwin Lo Brown, Geo, P. Uptun, John B. Drake, Jobn L. Peck, Bvo, M, Tatlin, Geo. A. Forayth, . 8. Bouton, Carl Wolfzoin, J. D, Webster, J. \icG. Adams, W. £. Doggett, F. W, Iainiar, W, Bross. L. D. Boone, A. H, Dobn, John G, Sbortsll, Dr. Lsbaw. An sngwer was received to the abova from Mr. Thomas by telezraph vesterday. Tho tostimo- il will take place Saturday evening, andthe salo of tickets will probably commetco uesday morning. The full details cannot be obtained, howaever, until Mr. Thomas' arrival. THE ENGLISIE OPERA SEASON. As bas boen previously sanounced, tho Kellogg nglish Opers Troupe will commence its two wecks' season at McVickers Theetro on Mon- day, Oct. 5. - With the organization and reper- toiro of the troupe our readcrs aro aiready fa- miliar, * It bas_been greetly strengthened since last winter, and we bave very good reason to ex- Deet, thorefore, that Miss Retlogg will oven the opera senson in a_ highly successtul manuer. 1t in rather a noteworthy fict that the opera season of 157475 in this country will be inzuguraied + Now York and Chicago, Strakosch commenc- ing the Lialian season on the 25t inst., and 3ir. Hdss the English scason a woeek later. ‘That our readers may be enabled to mako {heir choice of operss for the present week we Tefer them o tio repertoire and casts which are print~ ed in our advertising columns. The sclections cf operas are eminently popular. eabracing “Lucia " for the opening night, with Miss Lel. logg in the title rolo and Castle us Edjardo; “3iaritans " for Tuesday night with Mme. Van Zaudt, Miss Beaumont, Campbell, and Peakes in the leading roles; “*Marths” for Wednes- day might, _with ' 3iss Kellogg, ~Jfrs. “egnin, Catleton, and Msas: *The Marriaze of Figaro™ for Thursday night, with Miss Kellogz, Mme. Van Zandt, 3(rs. Seguia, Carlton, and Deakes; » Faust” for Prides night, with Mme. Veu Zandt, Miss Beaumont, Castle and Comp- boll; and *Tce Dohemiam Girl” for Saturday night. wilb 3lme. Van Zandt, 3aas, Campbell, and Mr. Seguin. Tha fall eusts will e found jn the advertising columps, The sale of geats will commence on Wedncaday uexs at Baner's pisuo~ rooms, under the Palmer House. TESTIMONIAL CONCEL A testimonial concert will be given atibe Chtrel of the Messial, corner of Michigan &v- euue and Twenty-third stree, Thursday evening. Ocs. 1, to Mrs. Emilie L. Lord, the contrglto of the chureh choir. Mru. Y. C. Jones, £opsano; ra. W. 5. Watrous, alto: Mr. Edward Schultze, tenar : Mr. S, G. Pratt, fiiwm a quartatts of geatlemen from the Apollo Club, sod ottier ing- ers will msaist in the concert. 1tis offerades & testimonial to Mra, Lord by her uumerous frionds io the church and ontsido of it, and promisea to Do a vory flattering testimonial. Flia tickets aro selling very rspidly, aad, 88 tho programm i 83 excellont one, it appeals’ n a musical point of viow, to the outside public also. The programme is as follpws : FABTL 1. Organ e=lections. 2. Quartette Gentlerien from Lie Apol 8. Tenar solo—Aria from ¢ Aida ™, ir. Edicard Schulize. 4 Duo—4 Swret Tearg,” from M Saifo ™.,...... Paciad Jra. Jones and Mre, Watious, 5. Plauo duo—Overtura to “William Tell »..Gotlschalk Ar. s, Pratt wnd Jiiis Hattis Leosard. o, AT IL 6. Quartette for male vuices.........0 sendieuien from the A goilo Qui la Voce”. G NG, . Nocturn mBjor, g :!l'({ S. C. I 9. Song—* The Rasebush ”'. Mrs. W, W 10, Trio—* Memory ™..... dra. Juies, Mrs. Wals CHOTRCH CONCERT. " The parlor concert, foc tho benciit of the Chureh of tho Epiphapy, will bo given Tuesday evening, Sopt. 29, at tho residence of Dr. G. A. Kuapp, 712 Monrbs gtreet, with ths following programme : 1. Caseade...... 2. Duet—* Trust Mer Mre. Currington 4, Ninth Concortg—Violin solo. r. Rudolpls e 4. * My Love, My Own ™ 4 Jira, C. 5. Quartotte—* Forest Song ¥ Mesars. Cogin, Clark, FANT I L. Funtaste Allomande ” o 2, 4 Watching "uees.ee c L B 3. Concerto—Opif G Ay, Toud 4. Waltz-Song. 5. Quartetta—* JMiller's So i Sesars. Cofin, Clark, Kimbark, u Tickets for sale at the door. TUANER WALL. . The Turner Jall programime for this evening is 03 followa : Advanes Marey”.. 3. Finale from 4. Overture to Mignon .. 5, Fantaniv* The Augels’ Whispers toilianza from “ Tuo Magic Ring "..... ol for trusbone, performod by if. Braun.) Fattasie—* Visions in 8 Dream .Lumbya Yotpourri—*! Offcbacl 9. Waltz— High 5, 10. Quadrille—**Yon On and afzor Saaday, Oct. 4, the conceris will commaznce At 3 p. W, . Gosatr. Perkins, the couductor, has returncd to ' 250 from Lis summer yacstion.. lle has just finisbed up the firsi Musical Convention ever Liold at Fairmount, Keb. Alr. Jultus Huoneman, who is well known in local musical eircles, both 23 3 einger aud 33 3 violiuist, ias been appointed Professor of ihe Viohn iu tho Chicago Musical College. Wo make the following extract from s private letter written by Mr. F. G. Gleason, the organist of tho Asylum IIill Congregational Church, at Hartford, Coan., inssmncia 03 t10 WIiter pase & Landsome compliment to Mr. H. C. Edgy, the organist of the Fint Conzregational Chureh in this cizy. I complunent is all the moro gy ful 24 it is paid by oue orgapist to avother. Harrroup, Conn., Sept. 13, The argan-concert a tho Asylum Hill Congrezation- al Church lant Tuesday zing, by tho well- Chicagn organiat, Mr. H. C. Lddy, a4 3 most deliglt- ful 2luir, und was Leartily enjoyed Uy thuso present, ‘Althougl the rclections were ail of the very lighest order, und what we are accustomed 1o ter classical, there wis an abundant variety of sty who were less musieally educsted found exougl to enjos. The bewitching “ Kullak Pastorale,” following im- after the * Bacl Fugue,” was a autiful ihe former Lleing o solemn snd ma- nd the latter diicate sud fairglive. ho ' #3larche Celelre” of ILachuer was sliv 1 work that could not failof pleasing every one. It is i the modern atyle, and exceedingly rick in harmony audmelody. Tlo Merkel Sonaia” is ous, of tho most important organ sworks that lius appearcd since ach, aand ks suthor Lokds, perhups, tho highest rank 4 8 tomposer for the organ of any now lisiuz, Tho “ Canonische Variationen ” of Haupt, were a splen-did example of contrapuntal skill, aud a beiler scquaint- ncowith the German eboral upon which they are Worked wouid bave coutributed much t the enjoy- Tent of them. As 3 coutrast, the next numiber (the PSibuert Aulantno” from * Rosamunde”) was full of that pecular. romanticism which cheracterizes ings, Fullof groccand phintive melody, enfosed by all lusezs of coud misie. jations wery the gem of tha evemng, g written with a perfoct knowledge of organ offects, s full uso of uli thoe means +f harmoyic and melo- Qe expreesien. Thore fs probabiy ouly one compost- a0 cgistence (and that the Cminor Concert-Satz ¢ 8ame suthor) that is as diflicult of execut: Fddy's rendering of his portion of the yeraiie ofe othing W be desired. His ozecutivn really :clally the rapility and elegance of bis padai-p A A NCEMENTS. The following details of tho musical season In Tastern cities will be of wterest here. as passibly fulrcalmdov\iu; the character of our owa some- what: The full cast of the initial performance of Ital- ian opera by the Strakosch company in Now York 'on Monday evening, the 25th st., is now fur- nished. e, Mario Heilbron is to make her dobut as Violet/a in Verdi’s *Traviata.”! S will nave the assistance of the following emincot artists: Signor Benfratelh as dlfredo, Sigvor Del Paente 1s Germont, Signor Lotti a3 Gaston, iss Cooney us Flora, Mme. Scurocder as An- wina, Signor Scolara 23 Dr. Grenvil, Mr. G. ¥ 1iall 'as the Daron, Siguor Capra ss the Marquis. _ Mr. Theodore 'Thomas will give his firet sym- Flious concert of the season in Boston Qct. 55, The programme will incinde Berlioz's aym- hony (opus 16), ** Harold 1 Ltaly " Rafl's con- Certo for piano snd orchestra (opus 185), and Tieethoven's * Eroica” symphony. Brahm's Sz of Destiny” (opus 54) is alieady in re- Le: “At the first concert of the Philharmonic So- ciety, a¢ thie Now York Academy of Music o new heroic descriptive overturs by Dictrich, “The Voyage of the Normans,” and Decthoven's pas- toral symplony will be performed. During the season tho Society will bring out & Spobr ssm- phony never pesformed lero beforo, Listz's Symphouic poem **On tho Mountain,” and a con- certo (pisna orcliestrs) recently finished by Mr. Robert Goldbeck, of this ¢} 3r. Mills will take the pieno part. The Oratorio Society of New York entered upon its szcond season on Mondzr, the 21at inst., under the most favorable auspices. Their pro- wrammo for the ensuiug scason comprises, Among other master works, the great oratorio. *essiab,” by 1fandel. to be given on the 25! of December next, while lato in_the eeasou the celebrated * Passion Music,” by Sebastian Bach, will be rendered. ‘Anpoancement is made by MM. Grau & Chiz zola that, afcer Miss Neilson's cogagemout at the Lyecum Theatro, New York, a serics of En- plish opera_bouffo represcutations will be cor- Fenced. Those nre to be supplied by the Sol- dene Epghsh Opera Bouife Compavy, whose success throughout England during’tho past four yoars lin3 been great and steads. hss Lmly Soldeno and ber strong forca of artistes interprat the whole upera bouffe repertoire, very fuithfnl aud effective versious of the IFreach works beiuz chosen for recital. The nes will Le beard for the first time Nov. 2, 1 eviere de Brabant." ‘The Harvard Musical Assac ton will give three Beethoven symphonics which have not bad a recent hearing, tho tccond, fourth, and seventh: =~ two symphonics ‘of Haydi, too *Oxford,” and {he noble one in D, No. 2: one rymphouy by Mozart not lately gives Lumana's sym- phonigs in D and C ; and possibly similar works by Gade avd Ball. Lubimstein's **Ocean S, phony,” Spobir's * Iridisches und Gottlicues. Franz Lachnoer's Suito in D miacr ate under con- mderation. and will probably be performed. A noveity will be pregcuted in tho performanco of cantatas and choruses by the St. Cecilia Club, = choral orgenization copsisting of 100 mixed Vowces. Among the promineut works wenticued for production in tlis connection i3 Schumaan’s delightful ** Paradise aad the Perd.’ THOMAS' CENTRAL PARK SEASON. Theodore Thomas closed Lis Central Park sea- £on last weok. During tho season the orohestra Played thio following compoyitions, which LEL, Deon provionsls new toit: * Hungarian Suite,” Hofimanu; - Sleditation,” Gounod; overture to “Le Medecin Mulgro lui," Gouncd; overturo to *\Mireille,” Gounod; overture to Abu Ifassan,” Weber; Gavotte, Noustedt; —an- danto, Schavert; capriccio, op. 4, IL Graed- ener; _twelve minuels, Deethove: overtuare, ©The Legend of Dou Manio,"” Dadley Buck: ceherzo, - A Vision,” H. Stiehl; oseriare, *An Advenzare of Handel," Reinecke; **In lemo- tam introduction and fugue, op. 128, Ben- Tam, Gese: dramatic fantasie, thlier: _overture, Alphouso amd Estrella” Schubert; ioue pictures for orcheetrs, to_ Schiller's poem, *Song of the Bell Stocr: eatr Dotes, * Merchant of Yeuice,” 3 5 + Reveric,” _op. Metzdost - symphonic uneider; He- Scones Pittor- overiu John the | » Macfarren : vorspiel Rogwith und Dosnroeschea,” Linder ; - Melusine,” five sym- phonic picces, op. 10, J. Zollner; overture “ Triomphale,” Bubinstein ; maditation, ** Sa'ats poem, * Julinacht, Lrew melogr, I Franz; suite, Notte,” G, Orlsndo; scbarzo, F. Draesee; sympbopy. op. 140, adapied for orchestra by Jouchim Schubert; mireh. * Heroic," Saut Saens ; Grand Insngural March, Meserbeer; * Festival ch, Ferdinand David. In tuc mstierof pymphonies; sir. Thémas' men Live exacutod Bactligven's econd, fourth, fifth, aud sixth; Schumann’s fourth; Havdn's symphony in D: Mendelsfohn's first and Scotch svmphonss Schubert's symphooy i (2, and opua 140 ; Gede’s first symphony; Raff’s *Im Walde,” and * Leporo;” aud Goanod’s second eymphony. .. ... NEW, MTUSIC. 5 3fesgzs. 8. Dainard's Sons, of Cleveland, have ;nnru:med the following newmusic of the popd- ar sort : ¢ Mary, the Fairest,” soug by M. L. W.; %A Lady's No,” soug by U. C. Durnap; ght Jolly Tars aro We,” song by the ssme; a2 series of nine tepor ganga by Durnap 28 fol- lois: *A, Farowell,” “Tho Soldiers Wife,” “3ly OWn," “Lova’s Laud" *The Winds, “ 3y Turdie,” “Ouly You,” - Now You Know, and *The Waifazers;” Lovo in Youth,” in 7o Gems of Enelish Song,” by Farnie; ¢ Furewell to the Forest,” s march by C. Kuppe: and ©Sweap Little Lirdic, Come ieat Me,” song by C. IL. Irving. Of Mr. A. W. Thayer's loag-hoped-for **Life of Beethoven,” which hie_ Las been writing since 1330, the Springtield (Mass.) Republican states that he has reached the years 1809-'10, in tho third volume of .the work, which is to be com- pleted in four. Two volumes bavo already beea published in Germaa by Weber, of Borlin, and Alr. Thayer will not enter upon tlio Englisk edi- tion til) e resclies the fourth in German,. “An interestiog work is promised by the Put- rams, m & transtation from the Frenchnow be-~ ing made, of Chomeb's * Music: Its Influence on ealth dud Diseaso.” Tho artistic life of Camiila Urso furnishes the _musical work by Charles Harnard, * " pablished in 1oz Jumana, 2ud 6 bo reizsued by Lonng. M. Edousrd Fetis has banded over to MM. Furmin Didot the JIS. of tho hfth solume of Y, Hiitoire Génerale do 1a Musique,” completed from the documents left by his father. #0 long tho Principal of tho Brussols Conservazoire, and one of the most erudite of muysical historiuns, Tho fourth volnme of this valusblo wori is now at pross at Pams. i CSICAL NOTES, X The first performance of ** Les Huguenots™ at the Grend Opers, Paris, cost 168,772 francs. -Miss Rose Heraoe, at-latest advicos, was Iying dingerously iil u Dablin with typhoid Tover, Merr Cait Formes has been emnging at Wies- biden. A Loodon pepér says tbat Mme. Rudersdort? is' to mancza mn oparstic compeny in s country. Patti wanta to_eing Marifana in Wallace's opera, and it is e2id that an Iislian ltbretto will Lo prepared for her. * AL Faoliden David, tho well-known Frezch comjosar, is.at presens WOrking on @ uew opera cutified *L'Indisune,” which is destived for tie Yreris Grand Opérd. - It is reported that Mme. Cliristine XNilsson, after a tour in America and s furewell season ?fr‘u” Majesty’s Opera, wll retivo into private . ‘when tho great Doyrotith Tieatre is intends to bliow other Opers-umanagern « idelio” and ** Don Giovauzi oughi to be produced. The debuts of Lwo new tenora are Jooked for- wardtads the Grand Opera. 3. Verguet in “TRobers Jo Dialle,” and tae Polo, M. Ludisias, in the * Huguenols.” as Jaoul. me. Patti ill pass tho winter in Russia, baving an_eogagement in Mogcow ftom Oct. 7 10 Nov. 20, sud in St. Petersburg for the To- mdinder of tho season. Tho Diroctor of tha Drusscls Thestro do la ounaio announces that ho has engeged for a limited number of representations Madawe Nals- son, after she bas suog in German in Vienua, elizme Mario Sass, and 3llle. Rosine Lloch. Tho Rerue et Gazelte Musicale de Paris con- gratalates French mukicians on the fact that M. Gounod has decided definitivelvto lesve Lngland, snd again to take up lus residence in Fravce. Verdi is highly indignant at learning that his Tequiem Mass Lios been exccuted at Ferrara ina circus, with quito 1nsudicien: woloists and chorus ; at Dologua lis work Lias been still more shame- faily treated, a8 it has been given thera with o simplo piano-forte sccompaviment. Tho com- fudur Las written to lus publisher to ask if ths sw docs not give Lim any protection against euch nouses, and, if so, to demand tio most rigarous application of it. Siguor Maceaferri, who eome years yivoe wa3 quite well known a5 s tevor. died in New York City on the 19th inst. 1le first came to this coun- try.about sixteen years ago, aud up to 1871 was actively engnged in operatic pursuits, Ile - peared last with a concert company in the Sout. ¢ro States. At the time of his dzath he was 52 years old. “Jrs. Jones came all the way from Rome, N. Y., to aitend the Lyceum, becanse bor son bhad ing there, that be had becp to Lear her, and wus Vély much pleased as well 23 edified. s Joues has found a_situation in a rotail grocory- storo in Rome for Ler son, and he accompanicd his mother home a day or t«¥0 820, Saveral admirers of Princo Dismarck offered & prize of 1,000 thalers for a * Bismurck Hymo,"” and one Rudolf Gotschall gained the prize. The poem is to Le eet to muaic before tho 14th of November. Ferdinand Hiller, Joseph Joackim, Teinccke, Raff, Franz Abt, and Fraoz Lachaer constitute the * jury.” Amongst nes operas to be heard iu Italy aro Mattia Corvino,” by Signor ineuti, of Lon- don, who set Shakspeare’s **erchant of Ven- fco for Lologna; * Lia e Seivaggia,” by Signor Sebira. tho composer of the cantata, “The Lord of Bagleigh,” for tho last Burmingbam Festival ; and 11 Soiitario,” by Signor Musona. “I'ho most distinguishing feature of the opera as rendered in Derugis is the extraordinary or- chestral music. ‘The orchestra in compoeed of more than severty professors. The fourth fate is tho first ot one of the largs theatres. Iu short, tho dircctor has picked out the best per- formers from every theaire in Italy, and has taugut them Liméelf for & long tine. Toe effect is wonderful. A Drussels correspondent writes: Tho man- agor of the Tueatre do la Miouaie (tho groot Opera) Licro s trying 8 NOW icans to Drevent the disturbances occasioned by frequens entries into the house during tho performance, which are caused bero chietly by visits of the specta- tors during the eutr'actes to the numerous cafes aud teverns in tho neighbornood. Tne outsida of the theatro has now been provided with elec- tric bells all round. by shict tho absentees ill always bo informed in future thee minutes be- forethe rising of the cuitain that the timo hes arrived to return. A London critic, in speaking of a recent popu- Jar concert which was honoted by the presence of the Duke and Duchicss of Ldinburg, saya: 3L, Wieniaweki was overcome by his feelings. 1 am sure {his Was #o, or, if Dot, his actions must Vo mildly held extraordinary. To played mag- nificently, and tho spplause was general ; and, 1nstead of bowing sod takiog his departure, be camo forward and commenced '8 goucral band- Shaking. 1 bave, I think, before pointed out that Mozart mever kissed tho primo donne who Lind Supg in his operas, nor isit recorded that Jeudelssoln ever bugged Sir Michael Costa \when conductor of the Phitharmonic Society. I, thereforo, can beo mo valid reason why 3L Wieniaweki should haye shaken hands, finst with H. ierve, then with the doorkeeper, and finally with bis fiddle. Unless some explavation i3 givon, Lmoust persist w thinking tho affair ex- traordivary.” 5 The statistics published by tho maaagement of tho Imperial Opers, in_Vieuns, spoak well for the musical activity in that grea: centre of gaets. Fromthoe lstof April, 1573, until the Tdch of Jaae, 1971, inclusive, 3 period of 4i0 duya, no Jess ‘then 419 performances wero givex, thug cotabliehmeng being oaly closel tweuiy-one cvenings in all. Tha noveltica wero + Iamlet, Ly Ambroise Thowas, “ Genoveva,” by Schu- naun, and **Auda,” Verdi's last production. B~ Siion diafe, two operss, viz: Weber'd ** Oberou, cud Meyerbeer's ** L'Etoiie da Nord,” wero re- mounted aud thoroughly recast. Composor appears to have, been I2id under con- tribution the mose for the edification of the Vieoneso opere-goers, as his sorks were perform- ed no less thau 47 ties. Wagner follows with 51 performances; Verdi, 313 Donizetli, 23; Goanad, 27; Webor, 25; Thomas, 20; Mozart 17: Haluvy, 10: Bellini, 8 ; Anber, 8; Nicolal, Tesew, 7; Beetboven, Schumaan, 5 ; Glock, 3 Lorteing, 3; Marschner, 2; aud Floow, 1. 3 S The 5% Gothzrd Tunncl The entire length of the tuonel of tho St Gotbard will be, 1 round numbers, 914 ile The distance Dow tunneled is G417 fogt. Tuo progress duriog the monti of June was 436 fcet. The quantity of material removed in_the tunnel zad asproaches is estimatod ai 243003 cubic Sarde. " Tho sock has been found genesally dry, Tilha fow fissures contaming water. About 2000 men are emploved. The meshod of tan- nelng and the machicery emplozed are aimilar Lo those which were adopted iu the construckion of tho Mouat Cenis tannel. The progress stated, of 436 foet during the mooth of Jaue, from the S50 onds of ti tunael, would bo_ very unusual for tha eatiro chambar of tha tnanel, aod it is wijtéen thot Princess de Trebizonde was Lelur- | The latter | understood to apply ooly to the narrow *drift” ‘which is ardin;\‘;gy carried in advance of the main work: RUKOR. Homs stretch—" 4 e e The .uimtch across tho mater % ;‘\‘I:u that bavo cosl to shed prepare to shed —A hotel ont West aays, gencrously, of a com- petivg establishment, th b without petisg , thet’ it stands withont —There 1s hops for the yomag Man who ch 3 Bopo for aws carawsy. No mattor to WLt positi i o “1“ souck o mat at position he nspires, —An Omabz paper 4dvises the peopls = :r').‘ :né'.‘s“mbeih EY (’m!s ‘wbout meplh%nlinum;‘( onstable, as there zre over I ons ;im_nm_ce. : er forty cacdidates . —T'he butcher wili be offeaded, wa s it we call baso ball s-bat-war, bnt we'll ris g u coufectioner advertises **paroxysmal s08.” —TJosh Dillings says, *Tew énjoy 3 goi reputashup, giv publicly axd steal px!'i\;au:ly.l“ - ~—To make a dog add, multiply, or subtract, tio up ope of his paws, aad he will pat down three and carry one. ¥ —An Pastern dcbating society js rying o sof-" tle which is the hardest to Leop, o di umbrella. S el —The latest Irish fashion is s homo-rule bat. Tt has no crown.. % —What the barber said when his wile fell down—’ft;\;}m—!’azon —The Brussels Conferenca (between h 8 sod wife)—* Shall we Lase s Se’w carpet e sy —*Lord, what a cow " was the approving re- mark of a teetotal Judge in Yermon: after swallowing & potest punch which bad been olfersito bimas & glass of milk. —An.Ohio mas has beon convertad to tom- perance minety-cight times, an 'Ll go up - oz bandred o e et lop —The only thing that it bothers a perfowealow s ' fourlogged R PO pper can it d lega tcklo b thrast. PR Dy ot the —A contemporary writes of an individual w| was m(g«: upol::r to hnxvp his l}mom blacked, iflg ‘~trusted ho wps.too niuch of .a lewman black them himszelf ;' s they. went 5::". : = —A chap who spent $1.500 to giaduate from ]I}Lrv:.r‘i;u I’oatmsiter }i:) lqr:l at ¥4 per rear. o would * s¥ap " his knowledga of Yoots for 3] Tl of beane i o canld, Groek soute —Last yeur ho wa3, worsh 200,000, T began to drink whisky and seltzer, T 1:2'5 a auper. Whero those rayagos of acltzer are go- lug; to coase, tha most prescient of Us cannot tell. —Whon & well-knowa.thie( meets o policeman and hands hic $5,.it is tha daty of the oflicer to o and sit down it zn alley.and seo nothiug for the ezt lllxo}lr—u.t;ithh‘xjg but tho $5. —Well, Pet, Jim didn't quits kill you wi it b, it slos bt = Led” *Whyso?” *Sothat I coald haye s Liat b, ho villin.” A3 iagn —Whon the Arkansas consus-taker mext goe aroucd he will ind Peter Daston missing | s carti. ‘rhe olil man found a paciage and throw it on the fire to oo i it was powder or sand. It wasn't sand. —Queer people, those Kaneans. Ther got rid of a.mav who horsows o, horsg 1n an hour's time, aiid yet it takes them over year to make up thesr minds how to dispose of a man who buya up & Legielature, —Tho Captain of an amatour base-ball club, whea trving to mako an ezcase for his having been defeated in o match, said: “It's no wonder you beat us, for tho man who played left field Tor us couidu’s even read.” —The winter stylo of hat 3 mado with snch a stiff home drunk and is struci on tho head witha poker be meroly thinks ho grazed the hall-lamp as he was passing. —* Arpomientom 94 Hominem !"~Ilorse- Desler: Luow you don't like his.'ead, snd I llow he ain't got a purty 'esd : Lut lor'—now look at Gladstone, the clevorest mafi1a all En- gland I—and look st 'is ‘ead !"—Punch, —Said a Detroit lady to a smalil boy whom slie found crying in the street the ather doy: * Will yo: atop c‘;,\‘;)ng 'fbl ni;l ;zmil you a’ penmy ? * No," said he ut if you'll make it 2 can Vil lop it it kills me st —Wives of candidstes for. Shenff complain that their husbunds keop them awako nighta ing in their sleep and saying, ‘" Wlat'll you tale > Stop up, boys. Come, Dan, Jim, 3Mac, Fitz, Buf, Pat, tho whole of ye. Gimme some whisky 1" 2 —+ Just keoping it lighted for another boy,” is the latest juvemilo invention when s mother suddenly comes upon her lLittle by with a cigar in his mouth. —Tha Clearfeld fair éousisiad of B calf, 2 goosc, and o pumvkin, It raiued so bard the first nignt that the goose swam off, the calt broko lose aud ate tho pamplin, ‘aad a thief provling zround stole the celf, sud that ended the fair. —* What ! you take your moizer-in-law out ghooting 2 suys & French sporismian in one of Chany's picturcs to_another eportsmay. * Yes,” in the reply, *with a $3-gun that Lhave pre- sented bLer; there iy no knowing what ‘may bappon.” e —The late Senator Sumper yas ¢ discriminat- ing man, and precise in bis manner of gtatement. At the sale of his personal offac:s in Boston, $93 \+as paid for an old Roman Jamp, bearing the in- ion, *The good shiephierd giveth hus life for to which Mr. Sumuer Liad added.* 6/ —A country paper gives the following sdvi 10 a correspondent: ** We rball Lave tu decling your article on -The Decline of Arietoeracy.' We have left out several of our own articles thjs week, and yours is worse than anyof them.. Tako our sdvice, and write a few very short pleces; write only on one side of thosheet: write plainly, and then take your pieces snd burn them up in he kitchen stove.” — A street-begear in-Now York savs the panic has ruined him. His collections, ha ssy8, havy dropped to 23 = day; but bo dou't care o much sbout that, but rants have fallen 33 per cent, and e had two houses and threo stores empty, even a¢ this reduction. . —The tallz abont_big-footed women Las be- come a bore, s2ys s Washington paper; but if may be mentioned, 86 a mere mattor of fact, that 3 Georgetown girl scorns to ask 8 gtyact-car conductor to stop the thing when she wanta to get ont. Sho morely strolls back to tho plat- form, and_coecks progress instantly by grace- folly slinging her foot uround in front of the Dind wheel —At a trial in Aubarn, N. Y., the counsel for the Government, after sevEreiy CrosA-cXIMInINg & witness, suddenly put on 4 lodk of severity, and exclaimed : ** Mr. Witness, Las not aa effort been msde to induce you to tell s different story 2 A different &tory from what T have told, sir “Phat's what 1 meant.” * Yes, sir, several people have tried to lgm me to do go, but they conlda't.” * Now, sir, L wantyou to tell me upon_oath.xho those persons wer vl the witness, I guess you've tried 'bout a8 Lard as any of 'em.” ¥ —A Georgin negro was riding a mule slongand came o & bridge, when the mule stopped. **I'll bet you a guartes,” said J * I'll make you go over tiis bridge ;" with that he strick the malo over the head, which made him nod suddesly. + You took de bet, den,” eaid the -negro, contnved to get the stubborn mule over bridgo. *I won tho quarter anshow,' baid Jack. *Bathow will you get the moncy7® 3aked a man who had becu closa by unpercei7ed. “To-morrow,” eaid Jack, *‘Me2sa give mo a dollar to get corn for the mule, and I take a quarter out.” Mr. Abrehams wes a large dealerin clothing. r. Simons a8 & small dealer, whosa pluce of ‘business was nextdoor to Mr. Abraham's. It WeS _Very tryin;il to Mr.” Simous when hi3 wealthy neighbor hung bis awning posts acd cros-pieces full of coats and paats, shading tho widowalk and complotely niding his modest store from view ; 8o he began to utter threata. *f will {rash dot Abrahams,” xaid he; sud he eaid it very often. Oneday Abrabams met him on the street. ** Meoater S1mous, deet you say. dot you vonld trssh me?” * Slecstor Abrabams, I— T miay Laff sard such a ting; bat of [ deet I baff hange my minds.” rhe Salc of the Lick Estate. From the San' Fronsise isulietii. Jtis oficially anpouucod that, on tue 17th day of November, all of the vast vstato which Jumey L.ick baa donsted to the community will bo of- fered for sals at public anction, npon terms ‘thieh will give people of even moderate miusna a chanco to bid. The property makes a_largo catalogue. commencing wito tho Lick House wha running tarough s number of 50-ysrd 1 lets in vorioas parts of the city. proparty in ing conntfes and the Island of Santa Cata- Wa understand that it is the iziention 0 5 this salo extentivaly both at home sad sbroad. Dy converting that portion of tho 1m- 1mense gifc intended to be wold into cash a8 roon 24 possibie, the chancos tat Mr. Lick will wit- Bea% the rezlization of nesrly all is schemes for the benefit of the communiry will be greatly in- creased. In thag case be will enjoy » eatiafsc. tion which has failen o the lot of only s fow o tiia great bepcfactors of he hnmag raca Who have preceded him. They, ‘magde their donations eitlicr when tho T were ranniug oat oron ihe death-bed. Mc Lick is bale and hearty yet, and may be present at the iusagnration of the great public ester- Brisos whichi lio bss plagned, and to which be Las given-all his weslth. i R R R i ¥ i 555 e i