Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 6, 1876, Page 3

#E CHICAGO ——— TRIBUNE: SUNDAY," FEBRUARY - 6, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES, = THE FINE'ARTS. - 5. L. Palmer’s Picture of Sunshine. green’s Fairvland, Earle’s Ducks, Borgellas® Head, and Rich~ ard’s Bust Whst the Rest of the World Say of Chicago Art. comments on Shirlaw, Phillips, Etg.--- The Art Journals. ' Notes from the Studios. NEW PAINTINGS. PALVER'S ORIENTAL CITY WALL. (O'Brien’s rallery has soveral noticoable pict- cres. Opeof themost striking is a view of an Oriental city well 3nd the country immediately sdjscent outside. It is the work of Mr. W. L. Paimer, who is reported to be an Eastorn artist, andyouog. Ou the left the wall runs awsy srom tho spectator, winding irregularly up a hill, and broken every hundred or iwo feet by square sope towars, pierced with windows and sur- monntea by pavilion-shaped roofs, forming a pict: nresque subject. Outside the grass is groen, soda path, traversed by ono or txo figures, comes zeptly dosn the bill, and there are a few moderste-sized trees, not uolike apple-trecs in geoeral appesrance. The stuiking point of the pictare is the tremendous light and shade. Tho shy isblue, andtbo sun shines brightly from tho left. Tho grass is lighted up to the most intense green, swept ojer @ broad ares with the utmost boldness, and the ehadows g black and heavy across it. The lighted sides of the wall and towers are bright and vivid, the shaded parts deep and black, in abraptcontrast. The picture chailenges gtten- fion, and is fitly inclosed in a curious frame of buarre pattern. Without asserting absolutely the correciness of the judgment, the picture sppears euccessful in what it attempts. The subject ia carious and interesting, and the treai- - ment corresponds to the subject. The effect is cestainly like the aazzling effocts of strong sun- shine. The decision of treatment aud tho strong andcorrect, though unobtrusive, drawing of the prospective of wall and Lills (probabiy literal studies irom nature) indicate strong qual- ities in the artisv; and, while the picturo. conid not bb accepted 24 an admirable specimen of a £iyle, it meaDs, a5 3 single experiment. that the artist csn pamt. Tinally, itis a good picture, because it gives pleasivg and interesting emo- Zaons to intelligent people. L. T. k. GREEN, s yonng Chicago srtist oiten montioned in thess olumns a8 » Jandscape paloter, has appeared in anewpart,—asa painter of subjects of the Laney.” An upnamed pictare of moderato &1zo 8t O'Brien's represents a gcene in fairyland.—a sanons ornamantal barge floating oo transperent waters under imparfectig-seen arches overgrown with tapgled vives. In'the barge, involved in drapery, 15 8 fairy ladv, aod perched on the ele- ratad stern of the boat is s fignie of a youth, appaseatly ou the look-ont. A mysterions dusk prevails, iilnmicated by diffaxed nght trom un- 38r the distant arches, and alsd by & red lamp held aloft by & statue of a Knight in armor at ihe portal of a palnce in the foreground. The wabject is higlly fanciful and the 1dea very hap- 9ily carsied out, 8o that we find oumselves won- Jening, Lke children, what the swry is, and | 28 though we were tracaported quite t of the region of natural law, and might ox- sect anything to happen. To dispose of a point St two of criticiem, Lhe figure of the fady, thongh liminotive, is not weil epough defined, nor 18 1t ‘sury-like and pretty gs far as seon. 'The lilios @ the foreground wontd stand more distinct irawing, and (if they were real lilics) would be arger ia proportion to the leaves. The choice o colors 1n the purple-lake calor of some of the Iiaparies in tho boat, and the pink lizht of the amp before mentioned, are open to question. But the geueral management of colors, whero hegreen of foliage, the blue of canopy, the shite of drapery, and the mixed tints of water ‘ollow each other, are very successful, and in- lestive of 8 *‘good feeling for cofor.” The xater is transparout and good. As a whole, tak- g into_scccuut the expression of the eenti- peutand the mansgementof difiicuit drawing a0d coloriug, Mr. Greer. bas not produced a mora nomsing work this year. Two of EARLE'S FLYING DUCES o wre conepfenous. Thisartistappears to be easily ceief in subjecis of this sort, bui mught 1t not bedemanded in a pictura of ihis size that the. Jetail of plumace should bo carried somewhat forther? The drawing is careful and able, the general “quantities™ and **values™ of color well observed, but the pumnting of thie feathers rpid snd general. This depends, however, tomewhat on where the pictare is intended to be buog, A drawingin sepis or India-luk of a get~ ter who bas just etarted a duck in a sballow iake, is indicative of Earle’s best qualities. The dog is finely wet, every bair dripping. It is less ‘abored than the water-color of enipe nesr by, of which mention hes been made before. . ATORTRAIT MEAD BY BOBGELLA merits notice. It is that of & yoong man. Like +hé pictares of artista accustomed to_fresco- sinting generally, it is sharp in light and shade, ®ith somewhat 00 much of what 18 known as e “Rembrande effect,” and hes a_peculiar Tansparency of coloring. In the broad sbadow of the right side of the faco there seoms to be some deficiency of detailed drawing, but the Jortrait -has tho admirsble Freoch liveliness sharactetiatio of the artist, and makes s spir- :.;;lfl_pxclnm. The back-ground is noticeably X DAVID RICHARDS,THE SCULPIOR, 8 puttinethe Anishing touches on the marble bust of Mr. Pullman’s iittle daughter, a child of 6 or 7 years. AIr. Hi docs every stroke of his marble-cuttiog, as well as bis modeling, bim- eelf, and the present block is beautifully pura .sod wlite. e little girl is represented with the head s little raised and slightly turned to tho Tight, a mass or curling but pot very long hair coming slightly over the right shoulder. A single garment, caught in front by the second button, hangs gracefully about the childish bust. In the choica of the pose, the sweep of e bair, and the tasiful _arrangement of the silght drapery, the skill of the artigt plainly sppears. The carefnl model- g of the detail of the folds of cloth anfilocks of hair, together with the care- {ul chigeling of the features, attest the faithful- 3ess of the work, while the individual look, with Jersonal marks, such a8 the manifest portrait- 30 of tho eare, indicato & painsteking portrait. [here is no berter artist for such & subject in the fity than Mr. Richards. Fis buat of Gen. Hard- g, formerly of Alonmouth, IlL, execated last ‘ummer, golely from photographs and descrip- <lons, hea been very satiafactory to the relatives, ":}.th:t they declare it a8 good 28 if done from fng 2 C.ECHFERDT, TIE PORTHAIT PAINTEN, 23 execated several good pictures lately., A Portrait of Mrs. Morris has fine fresh color, A ctlmfl_nf A. McNeil, Esg., a girl of 8 or 10, i8 3 l;%nmg subject, with rotund features, but suf- cient weight, especially in the lower part of Lie face, to'indicato firmnesa of character. Mr. werdt has given her (or she gave berself) a ?{Jght blue waist, which, with s bluish tintin & backgronnd Behind the head, made it noces- lry to introdues a sort.of wreath of browntsh ©aves about the edge of the picture, to give it farmth of color. A portrait of Miss Easter, fery strong in color, is in progress. — ' CHICAGS ART- . OUTSIDE COMMRNTS. Tho fame of Chicago art and artists extends 2ccasionally far beyond the city, 28 appears from b’ folloning extracts from foreign and Eastern lournals. Says tho London Academy : o0 fne-art exbibitions have recently been opened M Chiczgo and Cincinnati, which are said to be the Jest ever organized in America, That st Chicago in culsr includes examples of almost every Ameri- Rn artist of merit, while that at Cincinnati camyy Searly all the best foreign paintings now in America, b'fh- Chicago exhibition 18 more especially confined modern, and indeed it may be eaid to American, * Rintings, though a few foreign artists exhibit, It i8 g bow very littlé ia known of American art A this country; the reason perhaps is that no directly Mtonalart existsin America. At the Chicago ex~ Mbition, Naw York slane is represented by sixty-four Irtista (of whom thirty-eight are members of the No- Jonal Acagemy), Boston by eighteeen, Baltimors by fve, knd tha whole of the Western Htsies by sevents- :;i‘:‘n.drihmmw belong to Chicago and the dis- In & recent review in the Boston ‘Advertiser of At Club Exhibition in thas city some pio- tures of Mr. Shirlaw, well-known here, aro thus commented upoa : Prominent among the pictures of the large room a two study Lieads pajated o Sunlch by Wafior Shiriaw, of Chicago, One of them, 95, 13 the head of s rongh old soldier_in a helmet, It i painted with distin- guiehed skill, and had quite the tono of an old picture, =n affectation ntroduced by Lenbach, and much cul- tivated at Munich, The head of o Capuchin monk, 113, bas more truth of toue, but is less skillful in touch, and is almost repulsiva in expression. 1t is the head of an acsdemy model, chosen for its picturesque- ness, but docs not elevate one’s jdeas of what & roonk may bocome. In the sams article one of Mr.J. F., Gookins' pictures, of small figures, is also mentioned, with praise of the color but criticism of some other points. The following, from a New York paper, will be read with pleasura by the many friends of Alr. Thillips in this city. “The picture of Mr. Norton, it may be mentioned, 18 not 60 new aais implied, Laving been exhibited here last June and also in the Exposition in September : John Phillips bas at kis studio, No. 60 Broad way, is recently completed portrait of Squire Norton, of Elmirs. Tho painting attracted much attention whils on axhibition at Snedicor's, on account of the mas- tecly manner in which it was painted. The head 18 ouo on which the artist could sbow his method to advan- tage. The painting is rather low in tone, and the color Dpure as possible, without o suggestion of crudeness. The gradations of color as they fall upon the shadows keep thelr local colors, and the shadows are 2g clear a the lights. Every toucti is placed with a precision which shows the skill'of theartist. In his atudio are por- truits of Col. Tappan, Honty M. Stanley, tho Herald explorer, painted for 'the Chicago Metropolitan Club Just befors that association was dissolved; one of Mr. Franklin, and another of a littie daughter of his son, the ageut of the Cunard Line, the latter s firmly modeled hiexd, with bright black eyes sparkling with mischief; a thres-qnarter fength of a lady in evening dress, aud oue just started 0t Gen. Jones, well known in political circles in this citv, ¥ The great Fronch journal, L'Art, also honora the Chicago Exposition with a review. Chicago is, therefore, not hidden under a bushal even in the matter of fino arts. —_— THE ART JOURNALS. HAMERTON'S PORTFOLIO. The most boautiful plate in Lamerlon's Port- Jfolio for January is an etching from Vely's ** Meditation,” a wood-cut of which was some time ago published in Applelon’s Art Journal. The subject is a handsomely-dressed young lady in a graceful pose, a book dropped listlessly in one hand and one fingor of the other touching the chieelr. As an etching it is admirable, and the more remarkable as heing the very firat effort of L. Lurat, who is, however, an accom- plished engraver. Etchings of a street sceue at St. Albans, and Raphuel's ** St. Catberine of Alexandria™ are the other principal plates. Among the articles, the * Technical Notes™ “from the practice of Sir Jobn Gilbert (s well- known liviog English artist), bath in water-calor aud oils, are of very grear interest to smateurs. A parageaph from Mr. Wornum's excellent sum- mary of Raphael’s life and works—accompanying the etchiog of St. Catherine in the Natiousl Gal- lery—may throw somo light on a question of pronunciation which has vexed tho literary and artistic part of this commanity ; As (0 the mode of writing Rapbacl's name, fashion of the last century bas found acceptance smong a few, who writo thonamo fu the modern Italian manner, Laf-fa-el-le, yet _pronounce it asif it wera s Freuch word,~in the Latm or English manner,—Riplael, Imaginea circle of criticsand connoisseurs {n En- gland, France, or Germany, talking of Raf-fa-el-le, or “Tiz-i-a-no! If tne Italian spelling is adopted, the Ital- isu pronunciation sbould be adopted likewise. The Trench and Germane writo Raphael, but Passavant has wnitlen Rafeel, which 10 neither_Italian nor German, Vassarl writes Rafiaello, but he himself neazly always wrote “Raphael” on his pictures. He hat written “Ruphsello” as the signaturaof a single letter that how cometo us, in April, 1503, given in Longhen “ Raffacito Saugro; " and Lhis wus, doubtlcas, Lus ordi- nary signsture, The * Bells Jardiniere,”in the Louvre, is sigued * Rapbpel Urb.” On fourteen sigaed pio- tures he has written ** Raphsel * twelve times; once by itzelf, ouce followed by ** Santiue,” onca by ** Da Ur- Diuo," and at all other times by * Urbiuas.” The writer of the above is R. N. Wornum, at gtuueut kaeper of the National Gallecr ot Greas ritain, of course a high sutharity. *-L'ABT.? ‘The third volume of Z'Art, the great French art poriodical, embraciog the numbers for four months and finishing the yoar 1875, has mome features of new intcres:, snd shows that the wonderfal enterprise of its managers does not flag. It more and more vindicates its clsim fo a cosmopolitan character by the wide rango of its illustrations, including subjecta of artistic merit in various conntries, and by its articles from writers of cifferent nationalities. - While this volume containa fewer etchings than the last, it mattes ample compensation by the variety and value of its origiaal desizns on wood and fac- similes of important works. Examples of fifty- cight artists aro presented in fac-simile, among them twenty of tho works of Michael Angelo sod ten of Lancon, Twenty-one different artists have_contributed original designs, and twenty~ two dong the engraving on wood. The illustra~ tions of the voluma can be counted by hundreds, and pmong thom are many_specimens_ of very admirable work. The original ariicles—criti- ciems, correspondenco, and descriptions of ar- tists and their productions—afford & great vari- ety of excellent readioz-matter. Among the writers, Eugene Vernon, P. G. Hamerton, Paul Leroi, Lounis Descamp, Rene Menard, and Chailes Yriarte are conspicuons. The Rev. H. N. DPowers writes about the pictures in the last Chicago Exhbibition. It is satisfactory to know that the citcolation of Z’dré is coustantly in- crensing, in spite of its greatcost. It busso much of what Hamerton characterizes as actu- alile that it seems bound to fill a wide place in the Sield of eathetics: —_—— ODDS AND ENDS. V. Whitérodge is at prosent engaged in paint- ing two autumn scenes in the Catskill region. A, F. Brooks is ecgeged slmost solely on crayon portraits, of which he has several in progress. ’ One hundred and ninety-seven out of the 707 paintiogs m the Suffolk Street Gallery, London, this eeason, are water-colors. A cable dispetch announces that French srt will be represented at the Centennial in Phila- delphia by no fewer than 670 pictures. - J. 8. Hartleyis modeling in clay a statutte porirait of Raymond in tha character of Col. Sellers. He ia also at work on & portrais bust of Marshall, tho engraver. The rooms of the Associated Artistain Brand's buildiog on Wabash avenue sre not vet fully m order, though somo piotures have bean received, and Mr. Boot is daily at bis post. Tlking' large pictura of **The Crown,” ex- bibited for some weeks in his gallery.—formerly Highwood's,—is immediately to be replaced by his well-known picture of ** Shasta.” A collection of Ernest Longfellow's pictures, npumbering vinety-four, is advertised to be sold at the gallery of Williams & Everett. in Boston, on Thursday and Friday, Feb. 10 and 11. Mr. Waters' lectures on “Tictilo Art” con- tinue at his rooms on Sixteenth street every Thursday afternoon, snd are now in course of repetition 1o the parlors of tho Palmer House every Aonday afternoon at 8 o’clock, Jervis McEnteo is putting the Iast touches to his pictare, * October Bnow," in which tho light snowfall has subaved the rich colors of the sutumn foliago; and one of his November gcenes, where tho leaves are wuhgfing in the cold November wind. w~ Mrs. J. F. Manington, formerly a pupil of 3r. Schwerdt. hiss returned from Morrison, where she hag been painting some portraits in the fam- ily of the editor of the jouraal in that city. The Pportraits were well execated, and gave eminen’ satisfaction to all concerned. At the sale of Mr. N. D. Morgan's collection of peintings and statuary in New York, Jan. 27, severnl works of Hiram Powers were sold : “\Washington,” $400; _* Proserpine,” £500; « Faith,” $750; * Paradise Lost ” (a _famous statno, of - which the onginal price was $16,000), £9,000. e The winter exhibition at the Royal Academy shows an unusgallylargo propartion of works by Euglish sriists. There are four Opics, three Morlands, nineteen Gaiogboroughs, five Ho- garthg, thirty by Beynolds, seven by Crome, three Cslicotis, and two Cosways. Tarner is represented by one work ouly, *' Lowther Cas- tle,” bolonging to the Earl of Lonsdale, and befere exhibited. The annual exhibition of the New York Water- color Society opened at the begionmg of last week with 605 piotures, Colman, Tiffany, Nicoll, Smillie, and_E. A. Abbey aro among the chief oxhibitors. McEatee sends a picture this year for the first time, s small -Iandacape, ** The Last of October.” Farrar, Homer, Bellows, Bricker, Swain, Giftord, and Perry, are also of course represented. The sales are said to have begun well, forty-five picturas being Eold the’ first night. < The third of Mr. French’s series of illustrated Jectmes upon artistic topics,—subjeat, * A Neglected Art; Bemg Some Words upon the ‘Artisuo 8ide of Laodscape Gardening “—will be delivered in tho lecture-room of Unity Choreh, North Dearborn etreet, to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock. The lecture will be delivered by H. W. 8. Cleveland, landscape gardener, while Mr. French will furnish the pictorial illustration: views of imfm“d and_ unimproved grounds, treca propes - ly and improperly planted, ornd- mental lakes, grading, ste. Somo practical w B:n:z:rlfilnlg ‘:.?lw boh made, with cun?xnuu!n um?n cipal Nort) i he P“kp orth Side pleasure-grouud, Lin- The classes in industrial drawing, at the %xlechamea‘ Institute, undor the superrision of r. 0. J. Pierce, Suparintendert of Drawing in tho public schools, are vory successful. It ia boped that a class in paintig mny be formod in the Athooieum, for EnzurJ:y aftorooons, under Mr. Borgella's charze, to onablo' porsons who canuot afford tho fall prices of the art achools to follow this art. Ar. Borgolla was vory popu- lar with his pupils when in chargo of the draw- ing classes of the Athenmum. An exhibiticn of the worka of the late Freder- ick Walker, the .artist who illusirated one of Thackeray’s later novels, and is said to bave as- sisted Thackeray in his 6wn designs, was oponed at M. Deschamp's gallory, New Bond street, Lon- don, Morday, the 10th of January. The efforts of the Committee of friends of Mr. Walker to form a collection of the artist’s productions that would fully illustrate the varions phases of his gonius have been very successful. Not asingle important work Ar. Walker painted that is now in existenco is absent from the collection, which includes **Tho Batbers,” *'Tlio Harbor of Rof- uge,” “The Wanderers,” * The Old Gate,” *“The Tost Path,” aud Tho Right of Way.” Original drawings in pencil, and proof copies of the wood engravings which Mr. Walker designed for various books and periodicals, are an inter- esting portion of the exhibition. TARADISE LOST. In the last work executed by Powers, now on wiew at the art gallery No. 817 Broadway, and which ig entitled ** Paradise Lost.” e bave the artist’s conception of Evo asshe stood before her Creator and Judge after the commission of the deed that brought sin into the world. The figuro i supposcd to b in the at bf advaucing, the left foot belng placed firmly &n the_ground, and ihe kuoe of the right leg Heing shghtly bent. Tho face is raised ; one hand points to her breast and the other to the serpent that coils round the stump at her feot. Tn n Jetter to_the owner of the statue, Mr. N. D, Morgan, of Brooklyn, dat- ed December, 1871, Alr. Powers eays: * Yon de- sira that I sball give you something of the his- tory of my work, whichis now on its way to you, in order that you may seoit, as it were, throngh the medium of an author's eves. Well, then, T had already produced s statue of *Eve Tempted,' which was, indced, my first_ideal figure—and tho same mow in pos- gession of Mr. A. T. Stewart, of New York ; but 1 was not satisfied with my first attempt, as, in- deed, tho temptation of Eve did not afford an opportunity for the expression of bewilderment, distross, aod remorse, which must have ap- peared on tho face and in the attitude of Eve when sbe rephed, *The sorpent beguiled me, and Idideat.” . . . I aimed atnobleness of form and womanly dignity of espression. She is forlorn, but does uot guite despair, for aha looks up mplorivgly. She accuses the serpent with one hand and herself most with the othor. The serpent. rotires -for Eve repents,—she now resists evil. . . Sheis not a goddess, but & woman, & primitive woman, the mother of mankind, She has never been in sociaty, nor has sho beon educated.” That the artist quite succeeded in accomplishing the_ diflicult task ha set himaelf will not, we thiok, be generally ad- mitted. The couutenance certainly expresses sorrow, but it is dificuls to see any combivation of the ‘‘bewildermont, distress sud remorse,” which Mr. Powera thought should, appear in the face of bLis Eve. The upper por- tion of the body 18 well molded, and tho lower part of the limbs delicately and_gracefully tarn- ed. combining lightness and strength. As this is the last work of Powors, his death following 80 closely on its completion that he had not even timo for making a replica, it may be supposed to ropresent the embodiment of his artistic power when at its highest point of coltnre. 1t certain- Iy gives evidence of more feeling and more onginality of idea tnan any of the artist's former worka; approaches, indeed, far nearer to being a great work of ary thau any of them. The owner of the statue may justly congratniate bimself on possessing_ not only the last {ruits of the sculp- tor's artistic culture, but the strongest and best work to which he ever put his hand. In the same collection ara the busts of ** Pros~ erpne™ and * Faith,” by Powers, s clasa of works more suited to bis geniua than life-sizo figures.—New York Times. 1 CHICAGO AND BOSTON. A Locn) Banker’s fdcas Prescntod to the American Social Sclence Associn- tion~What Eastern Papoers Think of our Savings Banks, Tne full accounts of the late mestiog of the American Social Science Association at Boston show the occasion to have beon one of uocom- mon interest. This sminently practical organi- zation is presided over by David A. Wells, and includes in its list of officials men like President ‘Woolsoy, of Yale ; Emory Washburn, F. B. San- born, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Dormsa B. Eaton, Edward Everett Hale, and others. . Its object ., is the thorongh wod direct ' stody, | discussion, snd promulgation of everything which will tend to encourage a knowledge of the truo principles of trade, finance, education, ete. 4 Among tho interesting papers read at the Iate session was ooe which was thp joiuc work of a specially appointed committes to consider the question of Building Associations and Homes for the People. The Committec invited communica- tions from recognized authorities mpon the sub- jectin all parts of the country. Mr. Sydoey AMyers, mapager of tho Merchants', Farmers', and Mechanics' Bavings Bank in this city, who has given special attention to tho matter, was among those who were drawn upon for in- formatior. His communication to the Commit- tee was embodied in the paper which was read, and Boston journale agree that it was peculiarly intereating and pertinent, MIr. Myers' ideas in the premises had previous- ly been submitted by bim to Edward Everewt Hall, daring the lattar's last visit to_ Chicago, drawing forth his _ earnest indorsement and _encomiume. The Chicago savin bsnks’ ides of lending money specially to their depositors desirivg to build homes wes tersely presented i Mr. Myers' com- munication. This practice of making o savings Dauk'a actual creditors aleo its prefarrod debtors, thereby strengthening the good feeling existing between the two, as well a8 giving a steady im- petus to that soundest of ali building principles, the erection of individnal Lomes, was found to really be a novelty in tho Last. Boston ana other Eastern newspspers comment upon the practics as ressonable, practical, and alto- pether praseworthy. It is pleasant to observe that journals elsowbere agree that Chicago sav- 1ops banks have adopted systems of losning their money which, coapled with the conceded financial atrength of the banks themselves, gives them a securo foundation, joined to & fair ahow- ing of continuous business. > 2 3 Sir. Myors hae recently received notification shat ho bes boen chosen & Director of the Social Science Asgociation, as well a3 a member of its Executive Commiittee. —_— UNANSWERED QUESTIONS. False, aweet e5cs, looking jnto mins, ‘Why do you seem 80 irue,— oflecting both starlight and sunshine “Down in your deptha of bluo? Why does that wealth of golden bair— tich, shiny mask of light— Hold ol my heart a prisoner thare, ‘Bunned by ita raya to-night? Why do the lips 50 near to mine ‘Hold all my soul in thrall 7 Why does that silvery Yoico of thine ‘Echo an angel's Why do X lovo you o to-night, S ‘Beautiful, saint-like face? *Why, when you aro out of my aight, Cith nothing All your place? Why do I yearn to have you near, ‘Falso ua 1 know you, sweet 7 wWhy, when you are closs to me hets, Tu life 80 rich, complete? Why a0 Wo part and meet again? Why must you seom 60 true? Why does love, when it brings but paia, - " Guide me ever to you? Esva, Unexpected Spread of the English Language. . Charleaton (S. C.) Courter. z The most wonderful cariosity in Colambis 1s a talking gsnder, belongiog to Mr. Thomas Hyall, tho big boiler-maker on Gervais street. Ho is nnlike & poll-parrot in one particular—his ‘owner has but to speak to him and he will reply in overy instances wheress & parrot geta stub- born st times, and cannot, under any covsidera- tion, be made to spesk. His gandership will Tecognize bis master's voice among & dozen, and will follow him around like a dog. If bis mag- ter. ptarts out of any storo or other place in ‘whichhe may have been sitting, quick a8 thought Mr. Gander i8 after him. While walking along. the street he will engsge in conversstion if so- Jicited to o 80 by his master, but wil talk to 20 one else. Considering that the gander is generally considered one nf the lesst intellect, ual of ail fowls,—8o much so that hig name has been a by-word and s reproach from ¢ the time that the memory of man ruoneth mot to tho *contrary,"—~this biped is coneidered & rara vis. 5 —_— ber their victims by the hundred. Stand on the doorsteps of the Fifth-Avenue Hotel any day between 8 and 5 p. . m. and you may seo elogantly-attired apd gracaful women who pses in the clubs and hotels as Hattte Blackfords. They find plenty of game in Netw York, io spits of the hard times. “CENTENNIAL" CONDUCTORS. A short tims since, the Pennsylvanis Railroad Company advertised that they would receive ap- plications for the position of conductor, to be employed to the numbeg of 150 during tha Cen- tennial geason. As the story goes, they had 10,000 responses in ten days. Itseems the terms proposed were quite liberal. The spplicants were to posgesa a fair knowledge of anthmetic and geography, and for ten weeks wero to study lesssons in the conductor’s &rt, under tutors ap- pointed by the Company in Philadelphis. Dur- ing this period they are to receive $12 per week, and when regularly employed $20 per week, The railroad company proposes to em- ploy three conductors on the Centonnial trains,— one experienced man to run the trains, one to gell tickets and see that eversbody has a ticket, and the third to collect tha tickets. Evidently thoy don't intend to be bitten by dishonest employes. Thesa terms aro offered only to such aa bring first-class recommerdations, and prove them- selves compotent at the stars to undorstana_the theory of tho business,—the practice the Com- paay will itself furnish. THE NEW ROUTE TO PHILADELPHTA. There will be lively times in the Philadelphia passenger tratfic after April 1, when it ig snoounced the new route to_ thia city via the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Delaware & Lound Brook, and North Pennsyl- vania Rosds will be opened with through cars, andall the conditions of a strictiy first-clash route. The distance is two mules less than by the old route, and the fare will be redaced bo- low the present rate. Thera is traflic enough for both, but one of the most interesting points in the prospective fight between the new and old routes is the fact that the Baltimore & Ohio Road will thus have an inlet and outlet for its New York business independent of Tom Scott, This will make the Baltimore & Ohlo much stronger in any future fight, and some of our shrewdest freight agents are of the opinion that "z;'m bring on another war in freight and fick- ots. PALMING OFF TRANSLATIONS ON PUBLISHERS. _'The devil finds plenty of proselstes in this city, 88 the varions ingenious forms of raising money by fraud will attest. One of the latest 18 the swindling of a prominent_publishing_house by the purchase of a translation from a French author of fifty years azo as an original story. The price paid was $500. The manuscript was presented with letter of introduction from a society lady, who it seems was first imposed upon by the swindler. It was read and reread by the publisher’s editor, aund tue fraud undetected. Tt was pronounced a Work of remarkabla merit, and accepted a3 stated. After srrangements had been made to print it, & changa of the title,was suggested. 1t was aubmittea to & well, known hsbitue of the Astor Library, and after he had read it partially through he thought he had road something in French very much like He said nothing, but consulted the book-shelves; and thero found the identical story with only the variations & iree tranalation would give it, The manuscript will be uged, bnt the criginal anthor has disappeared. It turns out that this i3 & stale trick, and has often been tried on pub~ lishers, thongh seldom with success. They are hardly proof against such fraud, as rare and foreign works long out of print are used for plots. These books are not accessible to ordi~ nary porsons, who would otherwise easily detect tne frand. THE REDUCTION OF PXPENSES. Never in the hiatory of this city hava thera been 60 many really worthy yonng and old men out of employment. The reduction in exponses by all kinds of establishments— mercantile, manufacturing, and otherwise—has thrown on the street thousands who are unable to obtain work, sod arein a starving coodition, axceptiug 80 far as they eke out a precarious existence by borrowing, or selling furniture, etc. . It is sad to witness some of tho scenes which occur daily. Not only have the pumber of emploses been re- duced, bat those who remain have been required to stand a heavy reduction in their wages. The great house of Phelps, Dodge & Co. dis- charged vearly one-third of . their help on the 1st of January, including their assistani cashier, who-had been with them many years. Their business has bewn reduced so largely thoy do not need their sorvices, and, besides, they telt the necessity of cutting Gown expenses. The employes submit to a reduction now on al- most any terms. If they do not, the experience of s manemployed in one of Claflin’s depart- mepts on & specialty, may be theirs.” His salary had been 1,600.. He was notified it wonld be $1,200 for this year. He decimed to accept, and thooght the firm conld not get along with- out him. The place was declared vacant at 11 a. m., and by 3p. m. overthirty pergons, some of them . already employed in the hoase, offered to take the situation at 81.000. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon the original emplove begged to be retained at $1,000, and was finally allowed to ao 80. LUDICROUS JUMBLING OF ADVERTISENENTS. . Thero is 5 place on the corper of Twenty-third street,and Droadway, where an_epterprising geniug has carried on the business for many years of displaying stereopticon views, in tne Torm of advertisements, every night to admiring multitudes. Some of them are very fine, and he keops up tho displsy on pleasant evenings s late as 10 o'clock. The ludicrous feature of this thiog i8 the mannper in which he changes from one to another. For example, be will dis- plays Seripture text ipald for by the Young Men's Christian Association), and next a quack— medicine card. He recontly gave these two in succession.. * Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thon shalt be saved.” i *Try the Vermifuge Lozenges.” 5 $ «The Contaur Liniment cures eversthing.” «Areyon insured? Try tho Company.” . *“The blood of Christ cieanses from all sin.” *+Cad-Liver Oil is the great remedy.” Theso wera changed 8o rapidly from one to another as to make ‘almost a contiuuous read- ing, and the effact may be imagined. THE NEW YORK TICKET-SCALPERS. Theso gentry thrive herg about as well as ever. They are now selling largely the tickets bought of the Baltimore & Oblo Company _daring tho summer, but their ohief game i gelling unussd tickets to the South and West, purchosed in New England. They have the custom of com- ‘mercial travelers vory largely, and it is mansged in this way : A party journeying from Doston or Providence to New York purchases = St. Lonis ticket via Erie or Pennsylvania Central, and after using the New Yotk conpon sells the -balance to the scalper, who is therefors enabled to undersell the regular agent. ‘There are sev- eral places here where one can purchase Chica- go tickera for $20,50, or $L.50 less toan the.fall fare. Excepting Chicago there is no place where ticket scalping i8 carried on go largely. E Beavry. NEW YORK GOSSIP. How the “Charity 13all 1s Man- aged. Belles and Beaux in Borrowed ¥ Plumage. . The Sad Experience of a Western Bon- iface in New York, A Curions Fact in the Beecher Case Cruelly in Brooklyn---Centen. nlal Conductors, Special Correspondence of The Chizaao Tyibune, New Yorg, Feb. 8.—Tho @a8sips of this city during the last ten days have turned their atten- tion to the Charity Ball, which came off last evening. It was s erushing affair in more 800808 than one,—doubtless it crushed the pock- etbooks of hundrods very flat, and took & grent deal qlh{o and spunk out of numerons pater familias and anxions mothers, whoss families wero thero ropresented. Thuse so-called char- ity ballsaro onder the patronage of the elite, and are hignly successful 1z & pecuniary way, but some of the methods employed to make them so are at least of questionable taste. For instance, in the lists of managers are ircluded one or two bundred names of young men and women who are at first 1nvited to become mansgers, If they accept, their names are inserted, and they are then requested to forward to the Treasurer $50 for ton tickets. If they can seil those tickets, all {8 well ; if they cannot, they must bear the brunt themselves. Again, itis Jesigned to make these balla exceedingly exclusive and aristoeratic, bat this attempt is & failure so far as excluding the common herd of humanity—the middie class- es—is conceroped, This year it was something wondrous to observe the number of clorks, sales- men, aud their wives and Bweethearts, who were prosent. So long 28 the **managers” are bur- dened with tickets st $5 apiece, it is not strange they should sell them to Tom, Dick, and Harry, without any questioning. There was sufficient aristocracy on hand, however, to give the affair an uppertendom lavor, and it is chiefly to seo our wealthy men and women nnd “gay " they were prasent that the middle-clnas people, who really cannot afford such extravagance, desire to attend such balls, Itisa specios of toadyism ‘which- exists in its prime in this city. . * BIRDS IN BORKOWXD PLUMAGE, . The extent to which men aud women appear in public placea in borrowed costumes in this city will never he accurately known. Thereis & party—man and wife—in University place, below Fourteonth stroot, who Lsve scquired a hand- some competency loaning dresses {o women and men, suitable for ady particular occasions. I called there to interview them a few days ago, but 80 eoon as they heard what I came after, they sealed their mouths, and said that publicity would ruip their businoss, and if I would do them a favor, please do not give their address, etc. Haviog made the promise, the man gave mo some mberesting -information. He said they had a regnFlr set of customers, same s any dry-goods establisment, aod furnished dresses to ladies for balls, par- ties, dinners, calls, ehopping e:zcursions, car- riage-rides, and home receptions, of all grades, from the 250 strest-costume to the €500 ball- dress, with ita real laca and expennive trimmings. They sapphed gentlemen with pasly smts, from pants to neckties. and bad over twenty orders for the Charity Ball then on the tapis. I was shown into_ s room where & hnlf-dozen girls were at work making over ladies’ drosses,—as it i8 » rule of the establishment that no dress shall ever be taken out of the place exactly 28 it came in. By changiog a bow here, & pleating there, s fiounca or band, a dress can be 8o completely altered that it Fiora McFlimeey should wear it one evening and Misa Millionaire tho next, neither wonld recognize it ss having beenworn by the other. Some of thecombinations are curious. One skirt will serve a half-dozen wwaists, and, by changing them often, nobody wonld suspect the dress Lo be almoat identically. tho same. The_changes are according to_the article worn. I was shown a dress valued at 200, which was loaned at 25 per night ; a car- rilfa dress at $15; a dinner dress st S10, aod a walking suit at $5. There are all sorts of varia- tions in prices, and occasionally a brand-new dress is made which the first wonrer will have fitted to her form and pay a high price for the privilege. Young men pay 810 for & full-dress evening suit. DE. SCUDDEL'S CHURCH AND THE BEECHER CASE, ‘Thers i8 & cunous circumstance in counection with the action of Dr. 8cudder’s Central Congre- gational Church rofusing tosend representatives to the Mutual Council, not geperally known. The COlerk of Plymouth Church is Thomas J. Tilney, & very active partisan_of Beecher's. This seme gentleman isalso the Buperintendent of the Sunday-school conoected with Dr. Scud- der's church, He atends Beocher's in the morning, and bosses the Scodder Bunday-school in tho afternoon. There are some people will join these two things together, and assert Til- ney was sent from Beecher's as an emiseary to manafactare capitel for lum in the Scudder chorch, bu it iy doubtless = mistake, a8 Tilney bas been with the Sunday- gchool mentioned for more than a yearand a balf. The real truth s that in all the Brooklyn churches the congregations are divided on the Beecher case; if their votes weore fairly taken, the majonity on either £de wenld bo small onthe question of Bgecher's gailt. Dr, Scudder'’s peo- ple are jn this predicament, and were honest enough fo eay it boldly. They concluded there was 0o pracuical good to come outof introducing the scandal into their ranks and dividiug their ‘memberskip, and nccardingly dropped it. A member of Dr. Budiogton’s Clinton Avenue Church advises me that the peaple are rejoicing that thoir pastor is out of this scxape, .for the Eamo reason. > HOW DARNTAL'S MOTEL WAS S0ID OUT. Prior to Jan. 1, Farpum’s Hotel, on the corner of Broadway and Twentieth strect, was sold ont under a foraclsurs of a chattel-mort- gage. By this transaction the venerable Theron Barnum, of 8t.. Louis, who has made sod lost two ot three fortunes in botel-keeping. lost Lis entirs property, and iz again 8 poor man. The way it came about is as follows: Barnum sent his gsons here to open the hotel, sud changa its name from St. George to Barpam's. At first they prospered, but after awhils the panicky tunes _struck the hotel men very severely. The busingss ran down. Alr, Bamuom sup- plied the capital fram St. Lomis, snd &till the hotel failed to pay.” After he had invested eversthing he badip the hotel, Alr. Barnum eent & man usmed Baker, with a full poser of attorney, to this city, to ciose out tho usiness and eavo something from the wreck. Baker on husarrival seemed to be seized with & sudden desire to run a hotel, and, instead of fallowing instructions, proceeded to raise more money by executing a ehattel-mortgage on the furnitara, concealing the fact, however, from his principal. With pait of the money he kept the hotel running until the morfgage was due, when the Bheriff took possession, Baker ran away with a strange woman, sad whea lss heard from was in San Francisco. It was & cruel swindle upon confiding old mta, sud he de- - “ FIDELIS.”* E.P. Wetlon in the Adeance. Somewhero/n the earlier Rome's Labyrinth of Catacombs, Alid the darkness and jbe damps Of those dreary under-camps Where the Christian martyrs lay ‘Hidden from tho treacherous day, ‘And the living Iaid their desd, ‘With the sweet hope comforted, That beyond the heavenls porial Light was thelrs, and life immortal~ Somewhera thero 18 found recorded Ono sweet epitaph, awarded With s love s rare sod tauder As a friend to triend can render, sorved better luck. Bimple record—oply this: HORRIBLE CASE OF CRUELTY IN BROOKLYN. “Fudelis.” Dtl!;i you ""l bear of anytbing ;nnrg fliekhlnn- ¢ gt S or cruel than that case in Brooklyn, Type at once of faith and dnty, aeraan : “Touching in ita simple beatty ; whare an old woman 70years of #ge Was turned |, out of doors by two 3f her own chilaren, and while trying to find her way to tho Klatbash Hospital disa of cold snd starvation on the streer ? Thia is the brisf statement of the case, but in ite details it i fsarfully sickeping, sod if it does mot hang black clouds in the hearts of those children they must be adamnnt. The par- ties have not the excuss of being poor or needy, Mother was it, wife or maiden, With this fragrant memory laden? Surely only woman'a soul Flames with such an aureale; Buch a tribate only just TTo & woman's lovidg trust. Volumes written in a word, Ob! what memories are stirred . When our thought a moment dwells With the yews and asphodels; slthough by Do meass rich; it soems to have And our heartr, with weeping, tender, been & caso whera each child soaght to throw Pontdest tribntes fain would sender, | off the care and respopsibility of taling care of Simple tribntes—such as this: the aged parent upon the other. 4 Fidets,® * STORY OP HATTIE BLACKFORD. i Thefast women of this aity are said fo be in 8 }!!::dfl;n, :fl:n‘:::z!‘l]r;l:: ;:;El“. state of excitement about the reported intention Bt wi ‘% o s M“a v of Hattie Blackford, of Paris, Belginm. St. Pe- teraburg, etc., etc.. to return to New York. She itis whose lisison with the Ruseian Duke pro- duced such a scandal, Perhaps she is to returz home to hunt up a tecent Parisisu lover, an American, who, after spending seversl yesrs (and nearly all his monsy) abroad, returned here Till you seem divinely gifte Not an epitaph for sou_ To this word 6o grand aind trae, Bt a ribute to the living, Which my heart, gincere in giring, . Writes upon the chamber-wall ‘Where your weary eyes may fall,— Tribota loviog, true and tender Jast fall andis now domilciled st a fashionable e o e, Fifth svenue hotel. Ske has writteo hun several * Bimplo triboteonly this letters asking for money, bat he has pleaded fm- “ Fudelin.” ZLaxe Fonzst, Decembr, 1875. pocuniosity, and declned to send it.- The * Insoribed to Miss Lilian . chances are that thi¢ man, who 18 repited by his friends to be looking omt for arich heiress, will find it ccoventent, in csse Hattie takes stesmer for New 7ork; to emigrata to Ban Francisco. _Until lately he has not hesitated to talk of ber in the most familiar strain, and tell of her fascinating powsr, as if he knew how it was himself. The last accounts indicated that she had thrown her wanion spell around 8 weslthy American in Paris, ani, if she'can bleed him safficiently, her promsed Ameriean vistt msy be postponed. ‘New Iork is full of Hatti Blui(urds, and, if thostories of thoir doings at Baratogs 1ast summer we half *true, they num- * We have s fellow-citizen in — (writes s cor~ respondent) who is an inveterate seoker after petty ofices, and who is & candidate at every spring eloction for some little office. He has a gmart boy of 8 or 10 yesss. Duringibe late Gubernstorial campaign, 2s Johnny was runving up the atreet, An acquaintance hailed him, and asked, * Johnoy, what office is your father running for this time ' Johony rephied, *Ob, Mr. H_f this ia 100 hig an election for my pap oruna s 2, EUROPEAN GOSSIP. The Latest Sepsation in Paris; A Raussian Play, the - - “Danichefl. The Champion of England: An Office thet Comes Down from the Middle Ages. Anecdotes of Fromcis Deak, the Dead Hungarian Statesinan---Schaeider in Opera Bouffe, . THE " DANICHEFF." The ** Danicheff” (eaya o Paris letter to the. Now York Evening Post) is the sensation of the moment. Alexandre Dumaa is perhaps not sor- ry that he sgreed, some months since, to sid & snd inpresence of Majesty and nohility threw down the gage to all who quastioned the King's mright to the throne, was at the coronstion of George the Fourth, in the.summer of 1321. It happened thai the Dymoke of that daywas a qaiet rural clergy- man: and, aa it wonld not be seemly for gen- tleman of his cloth to appear in martial costume and offer to do single combat on the slightest provocation, he deputed hia 50p,-a comely young man, to take Lis place. The old custom of-the King drinking tho champion's health, and vice verss, was gono through with, aod thon Gen- tlemao Gaeorge presented to the Epight the r: 15-chased golden goblet with which he had toast. o1 lim. Tho cuscom, thongh ancient and por- haps out of place, is still 80 imposing and pic: turesque that I suppose it Will be again usec when the Prince of Walcs comes to“the throne. A while ago one of the Dymokes :was created 1 Baronet; but na ho had no heir of his_body it dicd out with him. I may add that the famil; has always been a modest and quite_uowarlik one. it8 members rarely appearing in SocieLy “I'ne lato champion Was 80 very retiring that th. public only Lknew of hi3 existenco (to make : bull) when it heard that he was dead. Th championship passes with Scrivelsby 3lanorin to tho hands of his heir. I am not informa clever and distinguished Russian lierary man to put a pretty and interesting comedy into_shapo for the French stsge. The Rassian went to Dumas, saying, ** Here is the story; here is my northern way of puttingit. Will you help me to make it available?” At first the author of @ L’Etrangere” refused; then he consented to read, and, reading, was ravished with delight. So the piece was presonted on Baturday evening at the QOdeon, and all literary and artistic Paris went to see it. As it is likely to take and keep & place on the American stage, I will analyze it briefly for you, Viadimir, last of the Danichefls, & family represented as powerful in Russia about 1851 (some time before the Czar had made up his mind to relesse 50,000,000 of his subjects froma condition of absolute slavery), falls desperately inlove with & woman siave, the daughterof a serf, whom his mothar has brought up, andloves very much as ehe loves her dog or her parrot. This slave is named Anna, One day the Count- ess Viadimir announces to her son that she has planned a brillisnt marriaga for him with the Princess Labanoff, and is petrified with aston- ishment when she learns that he loves Anna, and i8 determined to marry none but her. Her sense of caste is so inexpressibly shocked that she can ecarcely offer abjections. But, as sheis & clever woman, she at once Lits apon an expedi- ent. She banishes her son from her country estato for a year, exacting from bim a promise that during that time he will hold no relations with Anna, but, on _the contrary, will psy courb to the Princeas. He promises, and depatts. No eooner is he gone than the shrewd motber calis Anoz and a coachman serf named Osip before her, summons & priest, and_commands the mia- ister of Heaven to marry the luckless pair. In this manoer, she reasons, she will have placed s batrier forever between her son and the slave Anpa. The marriage is at once consummated, and the Countess persuades herself thatshe has done a worthy action. Now, Osip is of noble feeling, although & serf by birth. Young Viad- imir has done him many a generous tam, and completely wou his- simple heart. He therefore announces to Anna that he con- siders her as the bride of -Viadimir, whom she loves, and that he will protect her as hor brother, bat not 28 her husband, until the luck- less lover returns, when he will conspire with her to give her to the Prince. This declaration made, Osip tranquilly awaita young Viadimir's return. He does not wait long. Vladimir hears of his mother’s treachery, of the enforced mar~ riage, and returns, determined to kiil both Osip and Anna. As he is about to flog Osip to death the poor gerf sy to him, *Don't strike! You will repent it all your life! ~ Aona is yours. have managed by strategy to protect her during vour absence; and I hava paid my debt of grati- tude to you.” Osip's devotion andabnegation are all the more touching becauss he really loves Anna, and because it had been the dream of s 1ifo to wed her until he discoverea that his younz master loved her. Viadimir accepts his sacrifice, which is finally consummated by the entry into a. convent of the heroic Osip. ‘This, according to the Russian nesge, constitutes s diverce, snd Anns becomes the Gountess Viadimir Danicheff. This is the body of the story. Around it are grouped some of the moet charming character- fatio sietches ever placed on the modern French stage. Tho comedy i8 83 pure as a snow-flake from beginning to end. Hers aud thers the delicate yet firm painting by the magter-band of Dumsas. way be plaioly traced. The play is dressod with wonderful lnxariauce; nothing can be more enchantiog than the viewa of the rich Russion parlors i tbe princely chatean, with | their profusion of exotic plants, snd their lav- ish richneas of furnishing. Russian maaners are very freely touched mpon; the fypes of fashionable women are portrayed with such fidelity that the fair leaders of the Muscovite colony in Paris rustled their fans unessily on Saturday evemng st the Odecon. There is a fins intellectual fiavor pervading the whole play which places it far above the cheap sentimen- tality of Fenillet's comedies, or even abave the morbid_anstomical methods of Dumas him- self. The atmosphere is refreshing; the best senses are all appesfed to; thero are beside many - little tricks calculated to render the ~pieco popular bere. them had an i ond act Talde, g basss in Russia, recites an adventare in a hunting expedition in which he was eaved from the unfriendiy grasp of a white bear by the Count Vladimir. The episode is related 1o the most picturesque fashion. When Taide has finisbed, Visdimir answers coolly : ¥ You would have done tho same thing had you been in my place. A wild beast rushes upon a French- ‘man; & Russian saves him. ~As long as thereare Russians, Frenchmen, and wild beasts, it wiil always be the same!” The aundiencs fancied that 1t saw a political altusion, and the ap- plause was deafening. The costumes of the actresses are something beyond description. Such an array of violet silks, of satios, of vel- veus, of laces, and of diamonds hes rarely been shown oo the stage here. Theé mysterious un- known Russian suthor was aunounced at the Odeon as M. Newsky ; but that iqnot his real pame. The French critics insist that the better part of the comedy is from Dumas’ peo; but thera is no doubt that the stary and its orig- inal srrangement are duo to Russian genius. THE CHAMPION OF ENGLAND. When it was sonounced recently (says the ‘London correspondent of the Boston Post) that Mr. Henry Dymoke, the Champion of Exgland, was dead, I venture to say that few of the mod- ern generation of Engliehmen had ever heard of hirh or remembered his ofice. I ¢an imagime that, in the lower grade of sporting circles, tho friends of the manly art ot self-defense looked wonderingly at each other, and queried in what ring and with what famous *bruiger” this un- known personage had won tho belt; and I can fancy that many & country squire supposed that the obituary announcement merely recorded the death of 8 hitherto unnheard-of prize-fighter. But bad you interviewed the Court newsman, or My Lord Grand Chamberlain, you would have heard that Mr. Dymoke was far from being a hero of the fist, but was a most quet and dig- ‘mfied gentleman; and pot only that—he beid, in tise office of Uhampion of Eogland, s dignity of which pobles of high degree might well be envious, This championsbip, indosd, descended to him from the remots and pictar- enque days of chivalry. No less than eightean ‘Dymokes had - been champions of England be- Tore him ; and, before & Uymoke was known as such, the Marmiona were champions for several ‘generations. The fact is that Alr. Dymoks held his championship, not directly by resson of his descent, but from the circumstance that he was the proprietor of the lordly old estate of Beriv- eleby, in Lincolnshire. This estate waa once ‘mpon's time the possession of the Barons of Jarmion, the same famuly a8 that to whichk Wal- ter Scott’s bero, Marmion, belonged. Scrivelsby was awarded to thom cn the express condition that whaever held it s20uld be ready at all timea to assert the right of the English Sovereign to his throne, with his body and his Ife, and to challenge the foes of the Sovereign, at his coro- nation, to single and mortal combat. Thus did the Marmions for soveral generations. Then a .| Dymoke married the heiress of that an- cieot house, who brought with her as dowry the estate of Scrivelsby, snd its oftics of champion. Thus it came sbout that tho Dymokes have been, for several cen- turies, the bolders of the dignity, as inheriting, not the name, but the estate. Atthis day it seema a very incopgruous aad out-of-placa oifica indeed. Nobody disputes the royal succession, aod if anybody did he would not he likely to have it ont with laoce and sword on coronation day in Westminster Hall. Indeed, the cere- mony of the champion's challenge is regarded a5 8o little necessary that it bad been dispensed with at the last two coronstions. William the Fourth's coronation was a shabby affair, the ex- penges of the pageant being cut down in 8 fit of economy ; and aithough the show on the ocea-- &ion of Victoria's coronation was quite splendid, for some reason it was thought fit not to call the _Dymoka of that day to do his curious task. The }In‘v. oceasion whew nlr;md cap-wois In steal it elmet, cuirass, shieid, and gauntle?, s Dymoke rode on a whits bomse inte ‘Westminstes Hall, whether ho left a son. FRANCIS DEAK. Many interestiog anecdotes (says the Ney York Tribune) are told.of the desd Hungaria: statesman, illustrating the Spartan-like sim plicity of his life. Titles and decorations wer offered bim in abundance, but he refused ther all. Lucrative posts were pressed upon him i vain.. He woula hold no office but that of repre sentative of the people. A landed estate brough him in & small income. It issaid that hisex penses were only 31,000 a year. He iveam a lit. tle apartment up two flights of stairs. Man were the atiempts made by his friends, in colln sion with his Iandlord, to persuade him to chang: his quarters to the floor below, but al were unsuccestful. The municipality gave his pame to tbe street in which he lodged. That would no doubt have in- duced him to move bad -be not koowr that wherever; he went the pamo would foltow him. When summonod to meet the Emperor in tha palace at Buds, to conferapon the new form of government, he went in & one-Lorse oub. wearing his every-day clothes. Probably be did Dot possess such an article as a dresa coat. Tie courtiers were scandalized that heshould iovade the eacred presence of majesty in such apparel, but he represented the organized wll of the Hungarian nation, and tho Emperor would have received bhim gladly 1f ho Lad worn no coat at all. He used to rida to tha House of Representatives in an omnibus that passed his door. A carriage was presonted him, but he ro- fused to accept it. Then some of his aristo- cratic admirera who were uowilling that their great leader shouid in his feeble health be crowded in & public conveyance bought one of the omnibuses of the lng, and a: the hour when he left his lodgiogs the vehicle regularly approached bis door a8 if it had just come along and bad nob yet_picked up any pas- sengers. As soon as he got in 1t drove diractly to the Parlisment House. After a whila Desk discovered the cheat, and never entered tha pra- tendod omnibus afterward. He accepted but ong legacy, and that was the three penoiless children of his dead friend, the poet Petofy, tho author of the Szozat.—the Magyar Marsodlniso, —vhose patriotic verses had made him much beloved by the people. As soon as it was known that Deak had undertaken the care of the or- phaus, & sobscription was set oo {oot, and s fund amounting to over $200,000 was raised for them in 8 fow days. They thns became rich, bos their benefactor died as he bad lived,—poor, as a8 far as materal possessions constitute wealth, but in a true sense the richest man in all Hunga- ry. Hia wealth was the love of a whole natioo. won by bis unselfish devotion to the causs of freedom. Every pattiot Hungarian mouros his loss as that of & father and a benefactor. SCHNEIDER IN OPERA BOUFFE. A Pasis Jetter in the Philadelphin Telegraph snya : Schneider is singing now at the Folies Dramatique, in Herve's new operstts of “La Bello Poule.” Unfortunately, the Queen of Opera Bouffe, notwithstanding this new role, ia decidedly no chicken. Bhe has sged very fast in the past two years, more in physique than in ‘voice, however, and she now looks, even on the stage, every hour of her 45 years. Heriwe peasant dresses—one worn in the first and the other in the sacond act—are not at all smted to her matare . physiognomy anfl stont physigue. She looks very well, however, in tho Polish dress which she dons in the third act, and which ix gorgeous to behold: a tunicof richest pearl- gray sillk velvot, bordered with fur sod looped over n train-of gold-yellow satin decorated with white passamenteric; aod @ Polish jacket of ruby-colored velvol, alar bordered with white fur,and cut square at the neck, in order to display La Diva's celebrated necklace of diamonds. lIn faot she wears two necklaces,—ong & riciere, aud the other a chain with pendsnt lockets. On one shoulder, in guise of & clasp, she wears 8 splendid brooch of turquoises and diamonds. As to the rest of her diamonds, 88 there is not space enough for their display, even on the ampla peraon of Aile. Schneider, she has adopted a very ingenions and novel device for showing them off. Her bead- gear consists of & high-crowned, broad-brimmet gray felt bat, tarned straight up in front, an this front is set close and thick with dismonds, —real stones, every ono of ihem, and not a gcrap of paste in the lot. As, to the operctts itself, it is very poor. The pict is maialy thal of “La Fille du Regiment,” Bille. eidar herself being the “ long-lost chee-i-ild,"” known in her obscurity a8 Belle Poule, otber- wito called Poulete. _Anybody familiar with the scting of “La Grande Duch- essa” can imagino how sho kicas, aod pranks, and tears aroand generally ; how uproarious is her fun and how irresistible is her jollity. Itisshe that is tho piece, and she has Titerally proved its salvation ; for, musically and dramatically, it is about as wesk a production as can well be imagined—yet, thaoks to the jolly Diys, it is an immense success. It is fortunate for the manager that herinflucnce for good 13 50 potent, for it is said that ber whims and caprices are without number, and that. takiog ber slto- gether, sho is the most diflicult actress in Paria for o manager to got along with. 1% i8 nhis- pered tnat over a hnndred pieces of velvet were snbmitted to her inspection before she-conld de~ cide upon the exact shade for the jacket of her Polish costume. She wanted Cardinal velvet,— o sbade of red that does not exist i that mste- rial. * Eateem yourself fortunate, sir,” said Herve to the mach-worried manager, ** that she does not want Pope’s velvet as well.” THE MARGHIONESS OF CLANRICARDE. 1t seems 50 long since George Cuumiug died (esys the New York Times) that it is almost startling to Sge announced the death of Lis only danghter, tBMarchioness of Clanricarde. Lady Clauricardo inherited a great deal of ber father's force of character and sbility, and no incon- siderable smount of bis haughtiness. She mar- ricd when guite young, and, if ehe had mach ot tho good things of lite in moat ways, she had on the other hand to put up with a very indifferent husband. Almost at the outset of hor married life the mortifications to which she was to be ex- posed began. On one occusion thev had botn particularly asked to dine with au old friend of JBor father, who wished to do honor to their marriage, but Lord Cldnricarde protested that very ‘‘urgent private - affalrs™ de- barred' him entirely from that plessure. It so happened that Lady Clanricarde went. in this compuoleory absence of her lord, to spend the evening with a l1ady friond on Albemarle street. Sho found her friend at the window. *Come,” ghe said to Lady Clanricarde, ** Mlle. ——" mentioning & lady more remarkable for beauty than virtue, who was just'then the among the jeunesse doree, **i3 giving a dinner. We shall 8ee who tho guests sre. It will be great fun.” Bat poor Lady Claoricarde did cot find it so desperately amusing when her lord stepped out of a cab. " A consummata woman of the world, she occupied an important position in that section of London life which combines politica and literataro with rank sod fasbion. Probably thers was ecarcely a lady in London who knew 8o well the history of those who bLave played » prominent part in_the political and_ diplomatic life of Europe. Ehe lived 8 great deal in the society of tho most accomplished men, snd hsd the reputation of being exceedingly agreeable. Most of her daughters made brillisos marriages, and one, Lady Margaret Beanmont, wife of the ‘millionaire coal-owner, inherita a great deal of the Caoping ability, and s a_ recoguized leader | in intellectnal society, Her cldest sou died ua- married. Heor sacond, the present Murquis, wha “is ot likely to shed Iustre on his order, is also a bachelor. If he ramaws so the Marquisats will become extinct, Lady Claoricarde’s mother wax daughter of th celebrated Gen. Scott, who mada an‘enormous fortupe by gambling. His other Qaugbters martied the Duke of Portiand and Farlof dloray; the first had several eons, Lord George Bentiack amoog athers, but all are dead childless, except the present Duke, a bachelor of 70. Lord Moray's aons alto died childless, Bome moral people will ssy thal the gambler's luck brought no luck. i [ )