Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 22, 1875, Page 3

THE EXPOSITION. present Prospects for the Display of 1875. | Remarkable Increase in the Quantity of Exhibitors, X yumber of Persons Desiring Space in Prominent Depariments. The Display of Fine Arts-—American Painters Who Will Exliibit. Bection of Natural History--- Agricultural Products. tmproved Facilities for Working Machinery. Onthe1st of March, two years age, about a foren gentlemen met io & privale paricr at the Sherman House to discuss anew the ancient proj- ot for an industrial exhibition to be held in fhis cits. Springfield. Peoria. Milwaukee, Cio- rinnati, 04 other of the suburbs, had made suc- seases of such enterprises for years. DBut then, in thess towns it Was s great desideratum to totch & crowd to town. People did not siop o the suburbs when oa tho way to Chicago it they could help it, =and to check tho tide of travel to Cbicago fors couple of days was & literally Lig thiag, to ac- complish which apy of the suburbs named wonld spare no efforts; and, by spating no ef- forts, they sucoeeded iu getting up fairish shows, which did fetch crowds to their several towns. An exposition that would fetch crowds to Chi- tago was not what was wanted. however, for the wowd is alwass hele, and people {rom sll parts of tbe world bave been crowdivg to Chi- oago for years. Bometbing more waa wanted ; of course the crowds would come on the slightest provocation, The desideratum was to armange for an exhibition that should, inthe Just, comprebeusive scnee, be su EXPOSITION OF INDUSTRIES, ARTY, AND MANU- FACTULES of the wast territory of which Chicago is the ‘metropolis,—an exhibition that sbould not sim- ply il our etreets with gaping crowds, like unto those seen in the suburbs oo circus-day, and onty sdvertico this best-advertised city jn the- world; but such an exposi- ton a8 ehould be an index to the progress of tbe West and Northwest in the arts and industries, which should stimulate their growth and contribute to fheir advaacement, I ondertaken at all, the enterprise would have to be conducted on a very different scale from that of the ordinary State Fair, or Mechanics Insti- tute and the like, and the discussion amopg tke dozen gentlemen assembled at the Sherman Homse developed mno litde ‘doubt a8 to the euceess of the projected Exposi- tion, s0d more divergence of opinion a8 to its scope aud details. ‘The undertaking was ren- dered the morbd difficalt by the fact that, with the prompiness characteristic of Chicago, 1t was at the outset settled that the Exposition should be planned, not for posterity, but to be opened in the fall. THE RESULT OF THAT MEETIXG was the aaoption of a resolation *¢ That & great Iater-State Industrial Kxposition shall be held in the City of Cbicago during the coming fall, commencing on or about Sept. 15 and contuing four or more weeks.” A week later & meeting was held at the Cham- ber of Commerce building, at which provision was made for permanent orgenizalion; ten dags Iater the etock-subscription books were ovened. The resolution suthorizing the erec- tion of the Exposition Buildings on thoir present site passed the Common Couancil on ihe 25th of May following (1873), the capital stock of the Association was increased to $250,000, snd on the 25th of September, the building having ‘been completed in ninety six days, the Inter- Btate Industrial Exposition was opened. 1In the rapidity with which the project had been carried into executiou. in the arcbitectural exceldence of the building, in drawing vast crowdas, the first annual exposition was & . suc- cess. In other respects it was little shortofa failure. There were only 701 exhibitors al toid, snd the major part of the articlos exhibited s ere from stores in this city. Art-Hall bad not been built, aud the Exposition as a whole was alio- gether too much in the nature of a display of shop-goods, the like ‘of which conld be seen every dsv on Tooking into the show-windows_along State or Madison sreet. But the exhibition of that vear was 3 success in domonstrating that the Inter-State Exposition was no longer =n experiment, but & fixed fact, its permanency depeusding solely upon the excellenco of the extibition made. LaST YEAR the Art-Hall and Conservatory were enlarged, the - Agricultural Hall was added to the buildings, the pumber of exhibitors incressed to nearly 810, end the display wss more varied. while the range of articles on exhibition was materially enlarged ; and the Exposition a8 & s hole, thongh somowhat mcagre in several departments, was highly creditable, and & vast improvement on that of the opening year. 7 Now the Directors are buey with arrangements or THE THIRD ANSUAL Inter-State Indusirial Exposition, which it is their design sball fur surpass that of last year and that of any similar Exrosition this year suywhere in the United States. Workmen are busy refitung the interior of tbe Exposition ldicgs ; the ladies' sitting-rooms, 1etiring- Tooms, stc., have been enlarged ; an additional fres elovator to carry visitors to the gallerics bas beea built ; the caods-stand will nof be per- mitted to onstruct the main entrance as it did last year; the eugies to furnish steam power for the mechanical deparument are being overbauled and put in thorouph working order; the exhibitors are busv gotting the spaces allotted them in or- der ; the Who'e building is really & hive of in- dustry, and all is being forwarded with the ut~ most dispatch in proparation for what 18 des- tined to be the great industiial exposition of the year. WEAT AT BE ASTICIPATED is indicated by the fact that, while in 1873 there wera bos about 700 exhibitors, and in 1574 but zbout 800, ealreasdy over 2,000 exhibitars have been sssigned epace for the Exposition of this year, and every available foot of apace, both on the maia floors and in the l\flexuu&g;s already been allotted, while tnere are now spplications for epace lelt over. and others are received by every mail. As yet there has been no tame in wiuch to CATALOGUE AND CLASSTFY the exhibitors according to their eeveral do- Parlments, but the magnitnde of the comiog z:hxgflon is foreshadowed by the figures show- g the EXTRIES IN SEVEBAL GENEBAL DEPARTHMENTS. Furaiture and Teatile fabrics............... . 80 Edentific (Including the col's:tion of the Chicago demy of Sciences)... eous (including manifsctiires Dot ciasai- B ADOTE)ureeensrenscennananenesarasaranses In other words, the pumber of exhibitors will two and a half times the number last year,— Mhich npatorally implies a greater variety and g_l:;-du range of articles to be placed on exhibi- Foremost among the new features of the Ex- Position this fall will be % THE ART DEPABTMENT. . Por the first time the leading painters of New York, Bogton, Pliladelphia, and the other prin- tipal cities, a5 well as of Chicago, will them- Selves take in the Exposition as ex- Eiditors, placing on exhibition their own Yorks. " Already nearly 900 oi-paintings have Been rocaived, sud tormorrow Ay, Wilkam H, ard, the well-knowa artist. of New York, will &rrive to superintend their haoging. Instead of Scollection from deslers, we shall have works Girect from the studios of tho priacipal artists of and the works of each astiat will be gronped, 0 that visitors instead of wandering ealy about, can read:iv select for their in- Spection {he works of any sriist they choose. YER DISPLAY OF THE WORK CF AMERICAN ARTISTS wili be the best ever madson this coutinent, 0o Jom than 1250f the leadicg paraters of the &_n_ Biates having eutered into grecment to am . H, Diarstsdt, Chureh. 8. f Gifford, Huntiogton, Thomss LeClear. Followin, far recerved : A, rrensTADY. Mountain Lako, Caitfarnia, ‘WILLIAM BEARD, 1. Little Bina Boy. 2. Tt Temperance Question, 3. H. GREVOORT, 1. Maine View. 2, New Farmington, Conn. 3. 6. BROWN, 1. Scene Looking Down the Rhine, 2. Scens Looking Up the Rhine, WILLIAM BUADFORD, Sunset Among Loeisergs. o, £. BELLOWE, An Autumn Day. 2 ANDREW ¥, TBUNER (Munich 1. Early Morning on Mt, Pilatus, ke Switzerland, 2. Lake Thur and the Niesen. 3, Swiza Boad Sceae, above Montrisnx, nosr Lake e 4. Spring-time near Muaich, 5 Vians Germany. o D, W. C. BOUTZLLE, Sherman Fall, Trenton Falle, N. J. 3, B. DRISTOL, Adirondacks from Laxe Paradox, 1, R BURDICK, Landscape, , . FRED J. BROSSMAN. Fruit plece. 6. B. BOUGHTON, Winter Landscape. ¥. DE V. BONFIZLD, Winter in Now Jersey. WALTER M. BRACKETT, (Trout) 8, 1. The Rise, 3 The Laal Struggia, 3 4 Landed. 5. Brook Trout, 4. T. BOCHTER. On Iron Bound Island, Mount Desert, Me, A 7. BRLLOWS, 1. Sanday in Davonshire, 2 A Water By-Way, &, Bpring-time in Devon. (Water-color) R, 7. BLAUVELT. ° On the Bouguet River. 31. 5, BLOODGOOD. A Glimpse of Waraming Lake, Connactiont, JULIX R, BEERS, 1. Beene on the Croton near Hudson, 2, & Ladyof the Wood. . MARION R. BZERS, 1. % A Few Polo Stars Turrying Late,” 2. Wiid Violets, ELLEX L. BEESON, “Why Don't Tou Speak for Youraslf, John$"e- “ Miles Standish.” 3. ATPLETON BEOWK, ZLandscape at Newburyport. THED, BAUKE, 1. Triumph of Love. 2. Bleeping Cupid, HERMAN BARTECH, 1. Tead of Christ, 2. Head of Dante. CASL @. BRRMER, 1. Morning. 2, Evening, cote, The Cross and the Worid (group, 8 patutings, valusd a §15,000.) 1. Twilight, 2. September, & October. 3. W. CASILEAR. 3, T. CROPEEY, 1. Eenslngton Gardens. 2 Temple of Ceres. 3. On the Wawayunda, 4. Greenwood Lake. A LOUISA B, COLYEE. 1, 0id Pines on tha Hudson. 2. Wiateria, 3 Spring Blossoms (water color). & Glougaater Cast (water color). . M58 ALIGE CURTIS, 0wl and Books, The Vintsge, = ¥, B DX HASE. 1. Hove To for a Pilot. . Beach at West Hampton, 3. Ciifis at Sandgate, Engiish Channel, 4. Sunset at Dicppe. 5. Moontight on Long Tsland So 6. Bunriss on the Coast of Maine WILLLL DE Sk 1. Marine View. 2. Off Cape Naddick. S, OF the Bay of Funday. 7. B. DE GOR, MAYER CONSTANT, 1, The Paxinre, 2. Fractious, 8. A Gray Day at the Seaxids, 4. Sgable Iuterior. 5. Grandpa's Chai 6. Head of a Pug Dog. 3J0HN DEDOUR. Group of Portraits, ., ¥.F.DECRAVO, Ophelia, A. B. DURAND, Landscape, Whits Mountains. PERCIVAL DE LUCE. A Rew Jersey Dutch Interior in 1770, ATES. 5 T. DARRAE, 1. Interior of Woods. 2. Coast of Manchester, LEON Y. EBCORINA 1. The Morning Call. 2. Landscape aud H, A, ELXIYB, 1. Mount Shasta, 2, The Crown. THEODOBE FEXRX. . Sunrise in Egypt G. L. FEANKESSTELN," . 1. The “ Bite."—Scene on the Lutls Miami, 2. Horseshoe Fall, Niagara. 3 - 3. Heather Bloom™~Mountains of Wales, & The Early Bird. . & 7. oAY. “ Whers Igaorance 1s Blies.” W. ALLEN 0ATa 01 Harbar, Cohasset, Aass, 5. B, airrond, 1, Ban Glorgio, Venica. 2, 3 on. 3. The Matterhorn st Sqnrisa, 4. October Afternoon, 6. The Arch of Nero. LUIGI GREGORL 1. Life-Size Portrait Fio Nono, 2. Portrait Father Sorin, clana, 8. Cior WILLIAM BABT, 1. % Cattle atanding in the Limpid stream, 2. Sunlight fecking with its goldan gleam.® S. Autmon View, 4 At the Hague, Lake George, 5. Viewon 6. Auhlmt‘ Scene, T ‘alley. JAMES M. BANT, ‘View on Long [sland Sound, JULIUS HUBNER, The New Slippers. JAMES EAMILTON, 1. Fall of Ajax. 2. The Ocean. 3. Evening in the Salt Marshes, Cumbarland County, L. Morning in the Salt Marshes, 5. Moonlight on the Delsware, €. Pateburg Smoke, . JORXN I, RAMMER, . 1. Duf . 2. Listening to the Echo, 5. A Turn in the Road. 4. View from Hakonsack Valley, W. W. HCe0K. ZLandscape, ) 2 GTORGE ZDWARD HALL, 1 Scene in Glea Mary, Catskill, 2, Morcing at Loch Katrine, 8. Evening at Yosemite, & The Three Brothers (Yosemite), 5. “fifnu- sanset, alone, meet ms when the moom- ce. €. Tiirch Bark, Fungus, snd Vimes—s Study. & Gt the rocks the sad sos soba,® ALRERT INALET, 1. Greyeourt Mezdow. 3. Antumn, Greon Vsiley, N. 3, S. Tho Old Homestesd. 4. Winter Evening, GEORGE INNEN&, 1. Scepe in Perugiz, Tialy. 2. Evenfng st Medziold, Mass, 3. Landscape at Leeds, N. ¥, L 0l Oak at Medeld, 1 EASTIHAY JOHNSON, * Qosette. 2. The Old StageCoach (valusd at §3,000.) 8. After te Feast, 4. Home Politica. g . BOLTON J0¥ER, Scens on Hunter's Creek, Md DAVID JOEXOX, 1. View at North Conway, N. H. 2. Brook Study, YRED 74335 ‘Preparing for the Bath. MBS. HARRIRT R. XELLOGG, 1, Speckled Trout, 2. Distant Visw of Barsboo Hills, Wis, + J. F. RENSRTT, Eagls Cliff, Masx. View of North Conway, N. B. 0 Spaniah Sruggies Groseing iha Pyzsnses. (Dusseldort). iy 1. Landscy ? 3. Chusatian of 1874-5 In Pittsburg. MBS, CHABLES D, LAKKY, T'1. Boene in the Adirondacks. | 3 Scene on‘Lake Suparior. GLOBGE Gy 1. On & Summer Ses, 2. Little Sunshine. 8, Flowers of Early Juna, anich ¥, T. LECANGER, ). 1. oon Lake, near Sl e 'WILFORD LINELY. . » Balanoe Rock, Mount Desert, e ERNEST LONGFRLLOW. Visw near Manchesjer, Mass, =0 zo0r, | Summer Momning. 2 P JERVIS M'ENTER. g 1k 1. Autumn. i 2, Danger Sigaal, R October Sagw. & An Autumn Tayl 5. A Song of Summer, 6, Autumn Mornipg. " 7, Solitaire. p & Lutaaviomn, 5, First I Have, 10, Wolves Chssing & Deer. 11, Winter Twiligut. = s EDWARD MORAKs 1. New York Bay, - (e & A THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY TAUGUST 722, 1875 <SIXTEEN+PAGES. ;@ R. W. Hubbara, and ‘ is a catalogus of the paintings thus {4 & Aisty Day ] =ooslr e o 2. The Missing Suip. 3, Devil's Crag, on Lost River, H QZOZGR W MATFARD, * Fast Hampton Beach. MAROARET 3, M’DORALD, 1. Head of Shepherd Dog. 2. Night-Biooming Coreus. 3. Mouse Fessting. 4. Apples. | BTLLIAM MAGRATHL ‘Tha Collean of the Hull, 2 PETEB MORAX, ¢ 1. The Sunny Slope. 3. The Commous Near Puiadelphia. 3. Morning, (By Moran & Philip Weber Jolntly.) WILLIAM MORGAX, 1. Morning Mists, 2. The Dreamer, WILLIAM B, MILLEE, Ulater County Brvk Scene (water color), - WILLIAM T, MATTREWS, Group of Flowers.. ot 7. 0. mcoLr. 1. Toilight Tsle of Shoals (water color), 4. Fog, Higblands, Cape Cod (water caloz), , 3, A Cuim Moraing (vster color). | 4 At Capo Ann (water calor). W. B. MORION. Off Holyhead, 5t. George's Chnael, CLINTON 0GILYIR.' 1 Morning on Lake Killarnay. 2. Tue Country Rome. 8, Boeno Near Bolandseck, on the Rhins, JOZN A FARKER. Twilight In the Adironaacks. ARTHUR QUARTLEY, 1 Msking the Landing, st Whuta Inland, Isls of Low Tide. 4, Morning on the Budson, .+ orning on the Coast. B F. D. B. RICHARDS, 1 Sunrise in the Alleghenias, ¢ Qrosaing the Brook, & Lako Bauo, 4 Pike's Poak, &, Laks Altauo, & andia-ink drawings. 3 T, ADDISON RICEARDS, 1. Gutenfels, on the Rhice, 2. Roses, THOMAS SOBINION. 1. Bull'a Head. 2. Landscape and Cattls. 3, Bheep and Lambe. ¥. DR B, BICHARDA, Lake Pisno, Ttaly. ° FREDENICK BAXDLE, 1, Roman Girl. 2. A Polite Refusal. 4, Fruitand Flower pisce, WILLLX T, RICHARDS, 1. Water color No. 1. . 2. Wsler color No. 2, 3, The Wissahickon, near Philadelphis (valued $4,000). GEORGE H. STORY. A New-England Professor of Psalmody. M58 BAILY SARTAIN, | 1, Vespers. . 2. Preparing for the Fete. 1. G, EELLSTEDT. A group of portraits in oil. ANSIE C. SHAW, Landacape Scene at Willow Islsnd. R. M. SEURTLIFE. 1. Lower au Sable Lake, Adirondacks. 2. Summer in the Nort } Woods (water color). 3 PRANK HILL S3UTH. 1. Morning in Veuice. 2 5t I.'m‘gmu River from the Plains of Abraham, 8, Penelope. Mind and Matter. B 3 Long-Tsland Coast, oor. Water color, .. WALTER SATZBLER, Marguerite. TANLAYE GAUSDERS, Crayon drawings and studies. < 3. K. STEVENR Crayon portrait, MISS MARY BMITH, 1. The Unfriendly Neighbora. 3. Tho Friendly Neighbors. XANTIUS SMTTH. . View an Appledon Ialand, Iaie of Shoals, OLIVE TURVEY, Bunch of Grapes. C. 7, TAYLOB, L Last Rose of Suitmer, Y T, MITR, 4. 8UTOAM, 4, Maiden Meditation. A, W, THOPEON. #1¥e Won't Go Home Till Morning,™ EDWARD VAN nEN1H, LA 's Burial (valued at $,000 . . 2, Auntie’s Pet, ERUSEMAN VAN ELTRX. 1. Dock-Pond in Holiand, 2, Afternoon in the Berkahire Hills, 3. Landscaps in Holland. & Group of water-colors, YRANK WALLEE, 1. The Grest Pyramids, Egypt. 2. The Tombs of the Calipus, Catro. o ukseucamgoubnu 4 Court Scene, 5. Date Palms, 6, Evening in Egypt. 7. Tablet, 2 W, WATERMAX, Black Birch Grove in October. L. ‘View on Lake Champlain. PHILIP L. Huter Eveniog. 3. Morning (jolntly with Peter Moran). 8. The Four Seasons. 4 A Summer Afternoon (jointly with Pater Moran), GEORGE WHIGHT. 1, A Surprise. ; 2. Pauland Fiorencs Domby, - R4 What Are the Witd Waves Saying?™ WILES. L. M, Ban Luis Rey, California . A3 5. wAn 1. 8till Life~Fruit and Wine. 2, Monday Lunch, 5. Muacat Grapes. 4 Prigca Albert Grapes. AGNEZS 0, WAY, Dent de Midi (Swiss Alpa), 18A4C L. WILLUNE, Moonlight on the Susquehsnnab. © W. WAETBAIDGE, 1. Christmsa Eve in Lualy, . 2 Wateringthe Horse. = - > A B, FILLIS Tater-color Portraits. 5 RUFUS WRIGHT, 1. Morning, st the Window, 2. Feeding the Swallowe. ‘W. B, WILOOX. 1. Summer, 4, Autumn. . A, M. WILLAXD, Last Daya of Herculaneum, S T . WEANT. Landscaps, looking southwest fram 34M¥8 WALKEE, 1. Baidin a. . 2. Lookout Mountain, 5. Battle of Chicamauga, 4. Battle of Mission Ridge. 5. Ft MeAllister, 6. Mexican Rancheros Catching Oattle, 7, El Hactendado of Sup Major Domo, 8 La Garita do Belen. ¥, N, WABD. On the Lagards. ™ Faithless.® . . LAUEA WOODWARD. 1. Maples on the Banks of the Farmington River, 2. Feruns and Woodbine (water color), £ TUE SCIESTIVIC DEPARTAENT which will be added to the Exposition this yesr will occupy the eotire gallery of the south pro- jection, and a gallery trontage of 30 feet addi- tional. It will comprise the collection of the Chicago Academy of Sciences; Prof. Ward's fossil and mineralogical collecuon, from Roch- ester, N. Y. ; Prof. Worthen's coliection of fos-- il spscimens ; Dr..Boyd's famous collection of specimens in comparative anstomy, and several other extensive cabinets. THE AMERICAN .POMOLOGICAL BOCIETY (which Liolds ita bienpial session 10 thia ity dur- ing the Exposition), bas been aliotted a space of 7,400 ¥qgare feet on the main floor in the sonth end of the bwlding for their display of frwits slone. which will probably surpass any mumilar exiubition ever made in this country. : THE PEOTOQRAPHERS' ASSOCIATION, which 188t yesr beld 1ts exbibition in the Exposi- tion rooms after the close of the Exposition proper, has also been alloited space, and the best. display of photographio ark ever mads in tho West is promised. ---—- - Though_there is no agricultural department designated as such, the agricuitaral products of the country will be wail represented 1n the new department of collected exhibitions, space in which has been taken by Uvion County, IIL, the Texas Bureau of Immigration, the Iowa, Land-Grant Company, the National Colooy of Minnesota aod Iowa, the Missouri, Kansas & kka Railroad, and others. other new department will be that of . NATUBAL HISTORY, . a leading featnre in which wili be the aquarium opntsning Bpecimens of every varisty of edible fish found in our waters, Besides there will be fish-ways or Jadders in practical operation show- ing how the ealmon and other fish are epabled to climb over dsmsin streams, 80 &8 to resch their spawning grouads. 4 The extension of the steam-power shafting round the eotire north half of the building wilt afford exhibitors of machinery enlarged oppor- tunity for displsy of manufacturing and other machines in operation on regular work. ‘The increased number of exhibitors, the in- epsasing interost in the Exposition meuifest D, manufscturers. artists, artisans, sod the eperal public, what the Diractors bave gained the experience of the pas: two years, and all conneeted :with it, continne o give assurance that the Exposition which. in 1573, waa a big thing, and, io 1874, was conmderably bigger, for 1875 will be % ; mey. P, ¥ WHARTON, TER BIGORST AXD BEST RFPRPSENTATIVE XXHIBI- T10X of the industries, arts, manufactures, ‘and fine arts ever opened in this country. The arrauge- menta are complete for opening punctoally ae- cording to apgonucemeut on the 8th of Septem- ber, with & full represengation in every depart- inent, and the Exposition will positively “clogs oa the 9th of October, Arravgemenis ara being D tave Hckery Ao the Exposiion, waa ua {-fare ticke ng the Exposition [t} immepse attecdanns ia antioi . o ¢ | Qverture~“Tue Queen of Oue Day ™. - AMUSEMENTS, The Kellogg Troupe (o Appear at ‘ Looley’s. Creswold's Organ Recital-—Staab's Reception—The Germania. Musical Notes from the Old and New World. Theatrical Prospects in New York This Season. Hoolsy’s Company--Dramati¢ Gossip. MUSIC. AT HOME: THE COMING OPERA. w Tho monotony of musical matters athome is Jikely to be interrupted by a brief season of opera to be given at Hooloy's Theatre, lasting through next week, 3fr. Hess having made ar- rangements to that effect. The trompe will be 1be Kellogg troupe, with 3re. Richings-Bernard at ita head. So far as woather is concerned, we can easily enough imagine it is the height of the | opera-season ; and, 5o tar a8 tho.troupa is con- cerned, there 18 little fear that we shall not have some very enjoyable prescntations of opera. The tronpe is now in California, and a8 it will be Liere 80 soon, the folloming notice from the San Francisco Call of the 15ta will be of inter- est: 4 Ernani™ 1s one of {he succesres of the season. It gave the utmost satisfaction, B0 far as the sidgng ia concerned, to o crowded and fashiopable house. ‘The ure, sweet, fresh voices of the msjority of the dfstri- ntion wero pever heard to better ‘sdvautage, and in the delight experienced by the enjoyment of these, the poverty of {Le stage surrounditgs was entirely for- Zotten. Whet a magnificent and enduring euccess. this perfact oper combination would be if all the ac- cessories complemented the singers,. we are left to estimate from the solid reaults that have so far attend- ed it efforts, 1t proves, at sny r3%e, how liberally our people will patronize talent—especially in the direction of music—when it 18 offered them. Tho distribution of “Ernani ® was a happy one. Vie never heard Mr. Castle in efter voics in his sssurption of the title Tole. It is perbaps the most arduous work that has yet been assigned bim ; bat ho rose fully 0 the meces- aities of the _occasion. Mr. _ Carltow's Curlo Quinto waa » nobls rendering. He was everyinch sn Emperor in his personal appearance, and his clear, ‘igorous toues snd perfect execution carried the nu- dience captive, We bave, however, heard' the “ Carlo 0 * chorus rendercd in better atyle. In this Mr, Carleton was hardly full enough in the solo,—sacrific- ing strength o sweetness,—and tha chiorus singers, as 1f uncertain of their power, hurried the tompo soma- what, and did a little “ roaring,” which they mistook for force, Mr. G. A, Conley, 88 Ruy Gomez, Duke di Stlca, made o hit. He was & revelalion,—a noble bass voice, and well handied,~and we_sltogether forgsve, while listentng to it, his outro costume and_somewhat awkward gait. Mrs, C. R, Barnard, 88 Elvira, was very acceptable, 8he has proven herself, #0 fer, a'very Teliable prims donna, whom years Lave improved, and aisaipated entiroly tho little prejudice that was felt on ber arrival. This evening,* The Marriage of Figiro,” with Mme, Julis Rosewald a3 Susanna, Mre. Zelda Seguin s Cherudino, r, Peakos 35 figaro, and Mr, Carleton as Phe Count. THE CRESWOLD ORGAN-BEOITAL, Tha fifth of Mr. Creswold’s ssries of organ- recitals will be given this afterncon at Uuity Cuurch, with the following oxcallent programme, which will briug out & new contralty, Miss Min- nio E. Curtiss, of St. Louis, who i8 very well spoken of : . 1 {u. Theme and wf!s!ion? e Tty J +-r s ressonssssesHosss Mr. A, J. 9, “The Music of the Waves " ninnie E. 3. Aris—*Pro Peccatis” tr. W. ¥. Hoimes (Of Quaker City Quartette), 4, Btherzo from The Reformation Sym- ¥ Paaes eseriaseonnie Sir. A. J. Crescold. 5. “Good Night, Farewell " *3liss Curl 6. Ballad— Heart Bowed Down 3ir. - %, Hoi 7. Overture to “ Maganiello™” A, ..Creswold BTAAN'S REOEPTION, The reception to Mr. Louis Staab, which was to have been given at Beed’s Temple of MMusic Wednesday evening last, takes place to-morros evening. 'The rooma have been fitted up very elogantly, -and the entertainment will be one of the pleasantest of the season. The programmo will be 83 Jfollows: 1 eaprr, 1. Overture to * Williat Tell % .. va..vs.0r o BORSIRE Grchestra. 2, Thsme and Variations from “ The Grand Septuor "... Besthoven Orchestra. 2: Quartol—* The Woodland Koss ™ <. Fisher Quaker City Quartet. & Bomsnza sad’ Scherzo from the D minor syyuphony.. -R. Schumann uartet—* Tho Ha . eeeesense Hatton Quaker City Quartat. 5 PART 1L | 6 Ovarture to “Midsummer Might's Dream "eeeerienss ..Mendelssohn reheatrs, . Bolo—For oboe snd Freoch horn- . Orchests 10. Allegretto from the 8th symphan; 5 Orchestra, . 11. Qverture—** To Raumondi”..........A. Thomas o & Orchestra. ' THE GERMANIA MAENNERCHOR FPEST. The Germania Maennerchor’s third summer- night’s festival will be given on Wednosday evening at the Lincoln Pavilion. The chorus will be led by Mr. John Molter, and the instru- mental music will be furnished by the Exppsi- tion Band, C. Nitchke, leader. The following is thie programme: “@Greetiogs from the Distance”—! - Potpourri—*Grand Duchesse .., . ichaclin ‘Offenbach “.Wis Feld und Au "—Chorus. ‘Maenner. * Wine, Worman and Song *—Wal *Tho Frayer of the Earin * (by cog orus and Orchesir Orerture—t Rlanzi moes o * Morning Prayer "—Chorus, “ it Frayer = 7 Maennerchor. After the concert there will be a dance at the pavilion. i TORSER BALIa The programms of the regular Turner Hall concert this evening.will be as follows March—t* n, i: m"‘“'T?‘n F‘-hI:y Banks of Saale 0t fro § Fhades TR Fppheny in B 8. Overtureto ** Robespierra .. 6. Solo for Clarionet . Wiesenbaci 1. Potpourrd from “L'Africatne . heer 8. Fanissie from “ Robert s Diabl Balatka 9, Waltz—* Fairies' Circle 7, ... Gungl 10. Galop Castilian.... s. e MIACELLAREOTS. Mr. Tomlins, the leader of the Apollo Club, bas beep guddenly summoned East by » dis- patch informing him of the eerions illness of his wife. - Mr. W. ¥. Holmes, the exceiient first bass of the Quaker City Quartstte, hi.s” decided to re- main 10 the city, notwithstand: ng the collspse of the Quartette, and is open to engsgements. . The following paragraph_from the New York Herald of honday last furnishes s mention of 0 old-time Chicago' basso: ** A concert will be given on_Thuradsy night at the Mansion House at Long Braoch for the benefit of- the. Freo Training Schools of this city. Mr, George W. Morgan will act 28 accomparist, and the vocal soloists will be Mile. L'Estelia, Mesars, H. R. Lot 3e: Ye- S0 25 e petor s nbard. Alr. W.iF, form se- Iections npon the nluno." e * The Springfleld (Maas.) Republican makes the following mention of u); R:vpanc at Westfield, %1;3!., '}”&%‘3 hag :.ll!orcu mterest hera: r“d}f' Ca ¥, Of 1Cago, -. Glesson, of Hartford, an eco s ents together in Germany, wizh Miss Issdore Pratt, who was for a ume with them in Berlin, lately hsd s pleasant re- union at the home of Misa Pratt. In the oven- ing, st the Congregational ohtinreh, Ms. Eddy entertained quita an andience of music-loving peaple r,a.r an hour or-more by hisfinished organ- playing.’ —_——— ABROAD. . OPERATIC GOB:S®R. Lucy Hoopar, wrifing in 4opleions’ Journal, ‘Thera s sreva aommixints afinsi’ abent hamanape- :| ment of the Opers at present. It 1s said that 3L, Halan- zer is running it stmply to make money. The oxtreme economy with which the musical part of the organizs- ton is managed,—aane of the grest French singers, ¥ith the single exception of Faure, formiug part of the Lroupe; the very faw operas thatcomprise the ropertolra, and the menagerial indifference to novelty ar artistic encemble, make up quite a list of well-ground- el complaints. "1t is whispered, nioreover, that the imanager is in lea e with the speculators tuat infest the precincts of the Opera-House, srd that the alleged scarcity of sesleat tha regular prircs, which Heaven knows are high enough in all conscience, i owing to this compliclty. Be-this as it may, it s generally con- ceded that AL Halanzior is fac less concernod for the artistlc than for the pozuniary success of the Opera. Upon the sama topic, the American Register, published in Parie, says : It is to be hoped that ths coming sexson will witness tbe production of some important works, whethor new or old the lover of music will scarcely be supposed to care, andthe. engagoment of some really Gratclass siugers, suck a3 the tenor Noudin. Al present the troupe is madeup of foud-volced novices and worn. out artistea—une jeuncate gue ne smt pas et une el lexse qui na pejit pas, Wo would also recommend that some of the leading performers be put upon a severe course of Danting, Btout baritones are all very wail, and fat bassos have been de rigueur ever since the days of Lablache, but a tenor qui prend du ventre is insupportable, aad & prima_donna ought never to weigh more than 160 pounds. Some one comparsd Signor Brignoli—he of the silvery voice and wooden gestures—io a nigltingale in & pump, but & nightin. gale in a hogehead is atill worse. It s 20 be hoped, In fact, that tho French Opera will soan getover'ths ssvere attack of staircase and foyer from which it is at yresent suffering, and becoms what it probably was h;‘tl:ndafl to be—an Art iosttution of the highest order, OPERA TN THIS COUNTRY. “Brunawick,” the New York correspondent of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazelle, says: So we aré Dot going to have any Ttalian opera after sl Till up to the present time thers wsa the ghout of ope held out, but now even that has disappearsd, No ons can blame Mr, Btrakosch for not caring to go through the experiences of last year. He is 53 generous & monager as ever lived, but when i comes to giving the peoplo amusement at a cot of $20,000 or $30,000 to Limself, it s not surprising that be hesijates, Still, T had thought that as the season comes during the Cen- tennial celebration, he might think that the harvest would be worth reaping. Tue tona of the press of tkis city is that of complaint, The critics say that bad Mr. Strakosch given us a8 good an easemblo laat year aa be did the last Nilsson season, he would have 128t noth- ing. Idoubt this very much, for thers was really no money in tho country; at ioast if there was, the peo- ple Lud no idea of spending it oz opera. The trouble would be the sdme this yoar, unquestionably. How- ever, wo canuot growl at a seson that givea us & Tiotjens. Beforo that great prima donna leaves our shore, we may bave an opportunity of hearing her in opera, with a “pick-up ” company, just 80 that {6 may ses hier in some of her grest roles, WACHTEL'S ENGAGEMENT. Herr Theodor Wachtel has been writing to the Hamburger Zeitung respectivg certain reports propagated in the German papers about the en- gagemont he has just mgned with Herr Nouen- dorff for America. He says that, according to his agreement, he is to receive in largs theatres a third, and in smaller ones the balf, of the re- ceipts, aftor—and not before—payment of the expenses. Atthe prices usual for German opera, the largest theatre holds no more thaa from $4,000 to $5,000. A returnof $9,000 o nieht, Herr Wachtel says, was possible only in 1872, from April 1 to May 1, when nothing but Italian opera was given by two companies, the Italian and the Pareps-Rosa (English). To what wonld it lead, inquires the Jwriter, if & manager like Hesr Neunendorfl, who has to pay & company of 100 persons, including many artists of repute, and to disbcree a heavy sum in theshape of reot, were he to hand over the half of the gross tak- ings ta one particalar “star?” * May I beg ot you," he concludes, ** to refute this idle gossip, which mizht mske me aupesr, in the oyes of unthinking maltitudes, a. perfect glutton, who, in s?f'slv months, would almost swallow Califor~ nia?” © WAGNER OPERA. The London Concordia says : The 1t Augustis fized for tho opening of Wagner's great performances, Many 0f the artists concerned ave arrived at Beyrenth, Niemann and Batz are present; they play Watin and Siegmann. The part of Brunhilde is taken by Signora Materna, who is also at the post, studying snd practicing with the others, Scaris, from Vienny; Fran Sadiorgrun, from Coburg; Weekberlin and Vogel, from Munich; Gura, from Leipsic, and many otbers, have arrived. As wo bave already statad, a Large hotel, containing 4)0 rooms and, 600 beds, will be opened for the occasion; but all the accommodation Bayreuth can offer will mo doumbt lezve hundreds of visitors camping out in barns and sheds, stable-lofts, and peasants' Luts, The Royal comers, bowever, will be carefully looked after; they a%o to put up at Bayreuth Castle by order of King Louls, Tho orchesirs numbers 1i6_instru- mants, large enough for s thaeatre, ma- chinery I8 now rising. An trportant part of the reparations for the opening has been finished in the t few woeks, smong them the Recanciliation tableau and the sketches of the costumes for the Tetralogy. Prof, Dopler, from Barlin, {s staying at Bayreuth, and has brought with him the chief sketches for all the chiracters in the four musical dramas, the fgares and costumes being calored, Herr Waguer expressed his liveliest dslight st this masterly incorporation of his poetic imagiuation. The glitiring formaof the Rhins maidens with thair long fowing garments, the sedge and water Toses ana_the exsce products of the water- depths surround the Walkyrs in their winged helmota, the Wotan in armor and with weapons, holding the music-inscribed spesr, and wearing a blue mantle, allegorizing tho wide eolestist belt, over the swift arm- ing of Sizgfried, the young hero; Aloerich, the hateful awarf, tho men'all in their various characteristic cos- umes. THE WAGYEB BEHEABSALS AT BATREUTH. A correspondent of the Landon Standard writes {rom Bayreuth, Aug. 3: T have already, in my telegram, described the recep- tion given to the great musicician, as, accompanied by his wife and his father-{n-isw, the Abbe Liazt, he mada Liis appearance in tho house, where the performers and the small audiance were already assembled, The Ters happy idea had been conceived of grosting the composer With {he very passsge io which the god otan, in the second aceno of “ Bheingold,” hails the gloriez of the Valballa, just erected by the giants to be fbe sbode of himself and his divme ~compeers. Roughly transiatad, without any sttempt to presezvs eithier the measura or the allterative character of the original, the lines sung by Harr Betx, the represcata- tive of [fotan, are as foliows 4 The everlasting work 18 finfsh'd, On the mountain's crest Risea, o stately pile, In glesming majesty, The of the godsl - Buch as in dreama I saw it, Suzh as my will had fashion'd ity nd fair .. It stands to view, A Tordly, glorious pile /* Aftar this the orchestrs exscuted the finale, whete the gods, passing oyer tis raintow bridge, iks pos- sesaion of their Dew dwelling. It waa reafly an im- Tressive moment, and the emotion was catching when {Wagner, in faltering sccents, thanked his {riends and colleagues for the affectionate readiness With which they had responded to his appeal. ‘During the first day, when » merely exporimental eaay of undry fragmenta of * Rheingold * was made, Wagner, who zetain all the briskness and mercurial Jiveclty of youth, was never still for an instant—now Zown in the orchestra, now upon the atage, Now test- ing tho effpct of the musio in one carner of the build- ing, now in another, boatiag | pime with bands and fect, always in good bumor except when any {nterrup! o eused by lato visitors coming I at tho door, Trmia "% ailanco 1" ;‘."3", exsciing ss regurds the execution of bis music, befng patisfied with nothing less than absolute perfoc: Hon, and until this result be attained compelling the singers and instramental performers f0 repeat a given pasiago sn_indefinite number of times, ' Bat his ro- Huest. Come once more from that G abarp,” s gen- erally agconpanied by an spology or a joks that the effect of Xeeping everbody in good humor. 1 heard, however, ta-day, from the Lips of a lady who takes & prominent part in the performances, that even singera rdeal of & rebearsal with Wagner. gnummy ngxous 8t the begiuning and atterward takes much more easdly. s gor Xoeps open houso during thess days, snd 44 \Vabnerled” is every eveniug the resort of il the literary and_artistic colebritics. now congregated, In Basreath. At hom Wagner {a full of fun and frolic, playing with his pretty childron, and exchanging & FioA word and » shake of tbe hand with each of hls guests, There sre 0o formal fatroductions, and ev. & rybody doss just what ba likes, the great theme of Conversation belng of course the prt ions for foxt year's grand perforimances, with the inspection of tha costames, elegant_designs for which have just Prof. beem e O oed tho fnrdatrained cordiality of thess ovening gatberings, over which Mra. Wagner jos, makdg everybody feel st home, ::?&'w Dospitalities with the most winning grace. in 8 word, can ex OPERA BOUITE- The New York Times “ytnth L winter sesson'at the Lyc a opera boufle company, just qu.q:’a in Pan:,u;m OFe fta début in Offepbch's Tast work, e. ch will be bronght out with a new 5 o Lo 'x:‘nd with costumes and_properties just ) Julia Hoadez, prima donna (uer frs M. Lucie Fays Daegne Americe) fnericay; Miles, Dorel, r??u , Guran, Lemarle, Vo0, Bodon, Kleber, eic,, peut oles; M. Dequercy) tenor; Roger, {his first apptarsace in Amerd: ; Daccy, tenor comique aic cmg;). prewiec t appearance in Americs); comique (their fxat appe i Amich; Duplan Ghrelo and Rosenboon, Littolff is about to bring out & new operetts, in three acts, entitled **La Mandragore,” st the Theatre of the Galleries St Habert, Frang Von Holstein, says Concordia, bas flr_n- ighed ln Leipeio his new four-sob opera, **Die Hochlsndar,® with k% oo jibretto. The scare is published by Avdre in Offen and, hag' been dispatched to the various mmu. tep Among the operaa promised by the Engli troupe 1n London ate Balte’s ’uc;om?r‘m} (**Puit @ Amour ™) and * Satanella,”—the for- mer arizinally prodaced at the Paris Opera Com- ique, the Iatter at Covent Garden Theatre. ‘The Court Theatre of Munich will heaceforth give every year, between the 22d of August and 18th of Saptembor, s series of model perform- ances for the behoof of tne numerous stranzers who visit tho Bavarian Capital in the antum: The repertory for this year is rich and ecleoti “ \Yithelm Tell,” ¢ Tannhsuser.” *Don Jusn,” “ Freischutz,” * Josef der Waffenschmidt,” by Lortaing; Mehnl's * Uthal,” Gounod's-+ Med- ecin malsre lui,” and Cherubini's * Wassertra- ger,” withont countiog Schumaon’s ** Manfred,” the “Ruins of Athens,” and the ** Midsummer Night's Dream," works which will bs given at the Thestre of the Residency. Among the naw operas ready to be in Italy are * Iram,” by Domenicotti ocon- da,” by Poocbielli ; ** Marie e Fernanda,” by Ferrari, (Opera of Lrcea:) ** Cieopatra,” by Rossi, (Reggio of Turi “Don Giovanni d’Austris,” by Marcheiti; a mnew edition of “Fosca” and * Maria Tador.,” - by Gomss; ¢ Marian Delorme » and *‘Il Georgio Gandi,” by Perilla; * Diana,” by Saogwigi; * Diana" and * Salambo,” by Petrelia, and mew operas, uanamed,by Fomagalii, Schira, and Ciro Pinsuti, During the forthcoming ssason will be mounted at the Ailan Scala, Josas's ** Ls Lega ™; at the Roggio of Turin, Rossi’s ** Cleopatrs,” snd Mar- chett.'s ** Gustavus Wassa ”; st Venice, Libani's {* Cante Verde ™; at Trieste, Verdi's ** Don Car- los ™ and the ballet ** Brahma.” THEODORE THOMAS. The New York Herald of the 13th says: That the name of Mozart has lost nane of fts mag- ic powers with the music-loving people of New York, even during the saltry nights of August, was amply shown last night at Thomas' Garden. The audience was very large and correspondingly sporecistive of “he old tomposer, whose memory will be revared long after many of the would-be musicpl Teformara of tha present day are entirely forgotten, Mr, Thomas pro- pared an entire surprise even for thoso who Wora familiar with Mozart's works, In a fleld generally supposed to have been thoronghly gleaned he has fouud new attractions that wera rapturously received last evening. The * Concertone,” for two solo violins, oboe, and violoncello, with orchestral accompaniment —the 60l0 quartet beiog maguifcen tly rendered by Measrs, Jacobeohn, Arnold, Eller, and Hemaa—proved to bo an unexpoctad treat, "It is’ in four movements 20d represents Mozart in bis happiest vain, Then there was a delicious concerto for fluto and harp, plsyed by Mosars. Webner and Lockwaod, that was to a cartain degreo the picce de rematance of the evening. Nothiug could be ‘more artistically concelved and wrought out ingeniously than this concarto. The other works on the Droj me wero an introduction and fogue in_C minor, the Grand Symphonyin C Inpiter), “Rondo de Cl o overtures to :* Mugic Flute” and * Marrisge of Figsro,” and the Masonic funeral music, The performance was worthy of the high yemown of Thomas' orchestra. Rafl's :}Xeixgwwh'lmphnny will bo given on Thursday produced R Alr. Thoodore Thomas' next sories of sym- vhony concerts in Boaton will begin og tha 17th of November. THE LEVY-CONWAY WEDDING. New Pork Heraid, 16th. ‘The andienco who 8o enthusiastically applaud- ed Mr. Levy at Gilmora's Garden last evening aftsr his masterly performances on the cornst did not know whenco came the inspiration that fired his son! and wreathed his faco with smiles. He had just been married. g The ceremony was performed at 3 o'clock yesterday afiernoon by the Bev. Dr. Griffin in the Yresbyterian Church, at the corner of Uni- veraity place and Tonth street. The bride was Migs Marianoe J. Conway, botter known to usas Mies Minme Conway, the eldest daughter of the tate F. B. and Sarab 8. Cooway, who formerly managed the Park and Brooklyn o5, Brooklyn. . Owiug to recent afflictions fa the family of the bride, tho cercmony was of & strict)y private character, the oply persons present being the ofiiciating clergyman, who was actiog for the Rev. Robert R. DBoosh: Mr. J. Levy, tbe bride- groom; Mr. George Operti, the grcomeman; Migs Atinnie Conway and her maid. The happy par leave this morning to gvend a few days at Lhe residence of Mrs. D. P. Bowers, at Manchester, N. H., returning on Thursdsy next. There will be no change in the engage- ments made by Miss Minnie Conway, the first commencing af the Academy of Music in this cigy, with the Kiralfy troupe, in a few days. UTSICAL NOTES. 2 Balfe's “I1 Talismano” is to be given sk the Paris Opera duriog the next season, M. and Mme. Sanret anpounces a concer in San Frangisco. S0 does Mme. Arabella Goddard. Abust ot Deethoven, the work of M. Vidal, haa just been placod in the new Paris Opera- Honse. Miss Cary took & nieco and nephew along with her to Earope. . They are to put the finishing touches to their muaical education. ) Mme. Nilsson hss declined $100,000 for 100 nights, made her by Max Strakoach, on account of indisposition. Bhe is now in Paris. Christine Nilsson, although she haa had nu- merous profitable_engagements in Europe, ex- presses a sincare desiro to revist America. Adelina Pattl, baving refused many brilliant offers for this country, may be regarded as a non-comer on this eide n!‘ the Atlantic for many years to como. Miss Kollogg will producs Boteldiea's noglect- ad opera of *La Damo Blanche ” (The. Waite Lady; during the coming 8sason, for tne firat time in Epglish. Clara Fisher, now singins at Robinson Hall, Naw York, ia niece. to the Clara Fisher of fifsy years ago, and sacond cousin to Joseph Jeffer- Bon and Mra. Germon. A bust of Verdi has been placed in the salpon of the lmperial QOpera-House, Vienna. Ame. Nilsson is engaged to siog there in December at a salary of £230 per night. A yeuthful and talented performer on the vio- lin, Bertha Waft, sged 16, has made her aebut in Breslan. She has studied under the direction of Prof. Heissler in the Vienna Conservatory. Fiqaro reports that Mme. Judic has refused Manager Grau's offer of 40,000 for an American trip of nine months, and that she showad him she could earn 88 much in the same time in Parig. er Miss Adelaide Phillips has apparently aban- doned her intention of immediately leaving the stage, for ehe is now organizing aa Italian opers company in Doston, a promiuent membar of which will be Miss Matilda Phillips. The competitors for the violoncello, during the Paris Coneervatory examination, to the number of eight, execnted the sixth concerto of Bomberg. A young lady, Mile, Hillemacher, pupil of M. Franchomme, gained the first prize. .. The Thomas Orchestra start on a Western tour Bept. 27, returniog to New England Nov. 1. The ‘West demands a larger supply of ' Waguer” than even AMr. Thomascan furnish, as he cannot accept one-half the engagements offered him there. The'suthorities of Paris have forbidden the re- production of the ** Grand Duchess ™ on pccount of its eatire on the petty Princes of Germany, and its general dealings with German subjects. It is feared that Geu. Boum and Puck might be made the object of & popular demon- stration mare ardent than agreeable. A Western paper sends this pleasant bon voy- age after Misg Cary: **That sweeteat of * Mother Cary'a chickena® {s floating o'er the briny deap, snd the Czar of all the Rossias awaits herl Swoet gull with the voica of » balbul, garner in the roubies, and then come back to marry s countryman who taiks through his nose and is patriotic.” According to the Gazzetla dei Teatri, the Min- ister of Public Instruction in Italy has expressed his inteption to probibit_the Professors of the conservatoires of the Peninsula from giving private paid lessona to the pupils of their own Classes during the vacations, Holidays, it i8 argued, are given for rest and diversion, oot con- tinued meotal straio. The seighth musical festival of the Lower Bhine came off at Mannhsim, on the ith and 5th inst. The prinsipal worss io the programme were Mendelssobn's ‘*St. Paul” the second art of Schumant’s ** Faust,” andtbe Ninth mphony. The performers numbered 940, of w{om 140 wero in ihe band, aod 800 in the chorus. - Schneider is positively to return to the Paris stago next season. She bas been impelled to this step by the coat of her superb botel on the Avenue de VImperatrice. The price of that has made quite s hole in ber investments, and she wishes to Topair the breach. . She 18 to_creste the leading character in & now piece by Messrs. Meithac and Halevy, at the Varieies—probabiy the long-proruised piece of **La gere & des Ecus.” s Jenny Lind, at a recent London partv, is thus described by a correspondent : ** She dresses ber hair in precizsely the same atyle as when in Amer- ics twenty-five years ago. It 1s but slightly tinged with frost, and is nearly as fall and tow- iog =8 of yore. Age has more particularly left its 1mprint in the shape of crows'-feet on her chin and neck, and a$ the corner of her evss and mouth, 8be hss ths ssma hlsnaad arnramsinn of firmness and swestness of temper, the game wia- ning smile, and the same simplicity of beharvior. 8he was dressed ina dark ash-colored silk, with a rich India shawl thrown loosely over her shoulders. On her head was a emall straw hat ing a abort white plume. Bho was accompa~ nied by her busbsad and two lovely daughters, aged abont 18 and 20, Iwkingvefimn:h 28 their gifted mother did as their ago. 3fr. Goldschmids 8hows the effoct of age and study, his head be- ing bald and shining.™ On Aug. 2it was fifty years since the German ‘Dational aothem, ** Was ist das Dentaches Vates- 1and,” was for the first time publicly performed. Herr Reicharat, the celebrated componer of this A e el s 1sic, was waited upon by congratu- Iatery depatations from Berlinp:ndh’uwmudr- man towns. An octogenanes in perfect health, . he has had the rare eatisfaction of seeing the wgu-lm:;n ‘:nnhfix‘ndnnu question of his song answered, after fifty years' waiti izref ragable language of facta. Kog, by ecae: —— THE DRAMA. CHICACO AND ELSEWHERE, : THE SEASON BEGINNING. . One by one the theatres are opening theis: doors with new companies and new attractions. At present three legitimate houses are doing, ‘businees, and their individual experiences are of " o aatisfactory character. The opening of the. Museum has bean postponed for s week, and will - not take place until Sept. 6, by which tims™ it iaunderstood that the place will ba openad sgaia for the third time. There has been a great deal of outward renovation, and a corresponding amount of fresh paint in tha interior. The walls: of the boilding now glow with portraits of somo of the celebritiea. Enterprising alligatars aze rapidly swallowing teoder children ; the fad, womsn gives by exsmp!s a forvible blow to corsets and tight lacing: elephants, tigers,, lizards, fishes, and reptiles generally cover the side walls in an expressivs stare of red paint snd rigidity. Mr. Marsh, Treasurer of the Musaum, returned to Chicago Friday morning from Phila-’ delphia, where he left Col. Wood still engaged in hunting up & company. Beveral good paopis ara named, but the list is foo incomplete for publication. Thers will be & at deal of gas- light in front of the building. Mr. Cbarles Yor- ton, o stage manager of mature axperiencs, will occupy that position at the Aluseg i ANXOUNCEMENTS, ; \ # Clanearty ™ will be continued at MoVicksr'a, Theatre during the present week, with Ar. Ed~ win Adamsin the title role. Jobn Dillon's last week at Hooley's will be celebrated with a variety of plays. Mondsy, and Tuesday, and Wedaesday afternoon he will play in **The Lancashire Lass;" Wednesday and Tharsday in * Paul Pry ; ” Friday in four pieces for his benefit : Saturdsy afterncon and evening, * The Lancashire Lass " and **Paul Pry " re- upecuvelx. = ‘The Adelphi announces s complete change of Bars bill, with Yankee Robinson’s drams, ** Tha of 76, mispamed comic, THEATRICALS IN FEW YORK. ‘The New York Evening Post, one of the best suthorities upon dramatio matters, speaks thua bopefally of the coming geazon in that city: All things considersd the programme for the coming’ dramatic season is satufactary, especially in the pmfi ise it affords of a revival of the legitimate drama, The ‘performance of “ Henry V.”at Booth's, Thestrs last season was a'step in the right dircction, although the management reifed for success upon the magnificance of their stage accessories Tather than upon the merits of the play itaelf. It is, however, ouly fair %o admit ihat the acting of the pricipal parta was conspicuous- lygood. The season st Booth's this season will be opened with “ Hamlet,”. with Barry Sullivan as the ivan wis, and probably is still, an excellent actor, aithough hio will scarcely be abla, o fear, to falall all the expectations which have bect raised by the system of indiscriminats advertising’ wiich the mouagers "have adopted. Ho 18 an sctor of much t tact and e eoce, and ‘his ormance will be awalte ed with interest, revival of “ Julins perf Later in tho season there will be 3 Cerar.” with E. L. Davsopart, Lawrence Barrait, and F. C. Danga in._the cast, which will ba one of the most important events of the year. The engsgament of Edwin Booth at the Fifih Ave- nue Theatre is aléo in the beat interests of tha drama, and everybody will Lope that tho accident which hag bafsllen ~him will not prevent bim from . Ha has been 00 long abuent from the stage of thls city. Even if Mr.Booth should be uoable to act in the autumn we Tay still hope for his sppearance in ths wrinter or spring, and_in the meantime must consolo ourselves for his absencas in the presence of the dis- tinguished Ttalian actor, Signor Rossi. who will ach 1 a series of his principal characters at the Lyceum Theatze. This gentlemanis second only o Salvini, and s 8aid to excel even his famous countryman in Hamiet snd_some other parts, tho_interpretation of ‘Which requirea grace and calture Tather than tragio on.. P promise of comedy and melodrama is 28 rich as the promise of tragody. At Wallsck's Theatra thare will be the eame sdmirablo stock company which car~ ried the seston of 13745 to 80 Fuccessful a closs. Weo Qo Dot hear of any new plece which is ta rival the pop- nlasity of the “ Shaughram,” but there is » whis that Mr. Wallsek wili lumeelf appear_in some of fayorite characters, and perbaps in “Clsncarty,” Tom Taylors new play. With two such actors a3 Lester Wallack and John Gilbert no theatrs can fail o be suo~ cessful; and their presence is an assurance that the ala policy of the hause will be nuchanged. 2 ‘Be of tha seggon is liXely to bo marred by » struggls between {he Union Square and Fifth, Avenue Theatres. At beth houses the latest success— ful French pisy is o be produced, and it will be curi- ous to obsarve the differences betwean tho swo rapre- sentations. With the legal question ws have nothing to do, snd concerning it we shall sxpreas 0 opi: but tno fact that both sides are equally convinced o their right to the play is a striking commentary upon the canfused condition of the law of ca) % The public will reap the bemefit of the straggle. a8 the rival m: will aach triva to excel the other fn the w:g;fmuuuu of every detail.. The eagagement of & French comedy company at tha Lyceum is als0 worthy of note, as i the appearance in this city of George Balmore, a0 lish character actor of o Add to ail theas sitractions two or three opers-bouffe Cccmpenies, and it will appear that the dramatic pro- gramma is unasuslly complete, GossTP. It is not goperally koown that Mr. Lewis James, leading man of the new Chicago Thea- tre, is & Chicagoan by birth and early associa- tion. Buch is the facs, however. His father is one of the oldest citizens of Chicago. - Mr. James' excelient profossionsl record in New York is therafors & matterof local interestin Chi- cago. « The Hooley Dramatic Company have bean traveliog in California and round about the country with great success. Ar. Crane ia finan~ cial as well a8 stage manager, and givea such & good sccouns of himself that the partners are satisfied to let him continue the businces without molestation. “However, & now sripartite allianco is announced. Mr. Tom Maguirs is to go to Calfornia sgain; Hoaley ig to remain in Chicago, and Bartley Campbelf i8,10 remaia in Brooklyn and mansge Hooley's Theatra in that city. This change ia to be made - aftor the minstrels have plaved in Chicago fors few weeks. The Brooklyn sud New York papers are engsged in gloomy vaticinations of the cloa- ing of the Brooklyn branch in four weeka. ‘The marriage of Miss Minnie Conway to Levy, the cornet-player, is tha topic of general dwcoe- sion jn professional circles in the Eaat. The conquest mads_ by the little born-blower, it is noticed, has added at least sn inch tohis stature, besides gaining him_s stunning namber of poands avoirdupois. He receives the covgratus Iations of his admirers at Gilmore's Garden htly. mfilr. ‘Belmore, the English comedian, follows Barry Sullivan, the Irish tragedian, at Booth's Theatre three weeks from to-morrow. Mr. Sul- livan opens in * Hsmles” to-morrow evening. Mr. Belmore is s delicate, fesble-looking mau, with & rather consumptiye voice. His voyage scross the Atlantic left him very diamal. He brings *The Flying Scud” over with him. Voeglio, the scenic artist of Booth's, a Chicsgg ‘man, is getting up soma superb scenery for him a¢ that beantiful thaha.m. o Montsgue waa to bave sccompanil Bou- cicauit and John McCullough to England, bgt 3 sudden attachment got the better of and he let them sau away without him. —————— HARVEST. The full-eared corm And bias cotn-Sowers, poppy-besds In scariet showers. B Amid the golden graln, e "Pall of the harvest-time sgatm, - % Reap, reap the AT : Tt s frvin . Bind, bind in shesves, ; In g2l Thdrigened grain. Stack close, ard csp When violetaky ‘Tells of the rain-storm Drawing nigh, 1In wall-shaped mows, g Cflh: hl?hd roomy barz, . a f Then rest from % The harvest o'ar, Nwtraon. Avan+t, 1876,