Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 8, 1877, Page 10

\ 10 THE CHICAGO ''RIBUNE: SUNDAY. JULY 8, i877—SIXTEEN PAGES. shows that when he was arraigned he ‘‘appeared am Informed ™ and **I bave been told.” Tcan day AMUSEMENTS. McVicker and Hooley Fore- cast Their Plans. A Dearth of Stars and Plenty of Combinations, Notes of Interest from the Lecture-Field. Green-Room Gossip from Europe and America. The Summer-Night Concerts -—The Programmes of Last Night. An Attractive Beethoven Pro- gramme---Wagner ‘and His Visit 1o This Coantr, Singers in Chicago and Else- where--=-Choice Musical Notes. THE DRAMA. MR, W'VICKEW'S PROGRAMME. Tn a letter to a friend in this city, portions of which have been furnished Tuoe Trinuse for publication, Mr. McVicker briefly outlines his programme for the coming season. Since the number of stars worthy of the position they «laim is too limited to fill out the season satis- factorily, he proposes to turn his energies large- 1y to the production of new picces. Mr. Bouci- cault hgs ulready promised him onc play for performance in this city simultancously with its tirstucting fu New York. *Bebe”—in its English form of * Baby” perhaps more attractive~has also been seenred. It is announced for repre- sentation at the Park Theatre, New Yark, ou the 16th fust., and it .has likewise been obtained for the Boston Muscum. The season at MeVicker's will open with a new play, never seen in Amerd- za, the name of which has not vet trauspired. In order to give these bieces adequate repres sentations, Mr. MeVi will make special en- zazements of actors and actresses whom he ards ss competent to do particufar parts just- . in this manner fusuring a greater varicf ‘he performauces, and filling more exactly “requircments of cach oecasion, In the dearth of ereat actors, who might be in themselves able to carry the burden of a_performance, Mr. Me Vicker Uclieves the atteution of the public, as 5f the managers, must be dirccted more and more in the future towards plays rather than towards individual setors. ¥ this coange can e accomplished, be believes the tone of dro- matic representations can be elevated, and Chi~ cago ‘may become as important a theatrical centre_ as _ it mow is a musical one. In cfforts of this description he confidently relies upon the generous syinpathy of 1Le public and the press. Tk TRIBUNE be- lieves that, in respect to the latter at least, he will not be disappointeq, if the programme a0 nounced by him i fuliilled. As for the people, they only Wail 1or a decent provocation to sup- port a good company which shall be engaged in the representation of fresh and worthy plays. THE FUTURE OF HOOLET'S THEATRE. Thirty five weeks of the scason at Hooley’s have been filled by engagements with stars, combinations, Eunglish, French, and German opera companies, including opera-boufle, ete. Twentyight of the weeks thus taken up are consecutive. The managers, are now at work renovating the louse, from the front door to the stage entrance and from floor to ceiling. The present expuctation is that the house will re-open_Mon- day, Julv 16—a week from to-morrow~—ith the Uiiion Square Company_in_“Les Danichef.” The company will indude all its most eflicient metbers, not excepting Mr. Charles R. Thorne, Jr. Mr. Booley saw Mr. Thorne in’ New York yesterday weell, Be was in excellent health, 2nd said he had not suffered from a day’s illness in six months, and that he would surely bein Chivago witn the Union Sguare Company. Miss Clara Morris has also promised to join the company after the second week if ber health will permit. THE WEEE—BEFORE AND AFTER. ‘There was nothing noteworthy at the theatres last wgek, unless the Fourth of July perform- ances may, by courtesy, be accoraed some spe- sial distinction. They were not g0 Jarzelv pa- tronized as in years past, owing to the irresisti- "ble attractions of the circus, the Thomas con- ‘zerts, and the base-ball mateh,—~three forms of Jentertainment which appealed to every variely of taste, while they puzzled persons of catbolic sympathies by offering so many charms at one wd the ssme moment. The theatres, mean- while, fared uot badly, mnor yet very well. AvHaverly’s Thealre a - new play entitled “ Nip and Tuek” was presented under the dircction of Messrs, Webber and Blaisdell. The uuspices under which it was first sevn were so deadedly of the holiday order that it seemed, under the circumstances, hardh rthy of detailed criticism, and its merits will e fully known to the people of Chicazo it shall be revived in the Tecormized seasou. At the No 1re, Misz Jennie Hight pres persouation of Fanchon, of an_amatear—Mr. C. : 20, and the Lake Forcst University,—as Landry Barbeaud. There is nothing new to be said of Miss Hight's Fanclhon, which was admired this city ten or twelve years i when “Masgie Mitchicll di: t is said that Mise M séave Miss Tlight for poac Tt we—the people of Chie than the little Fudette, forzive the original persopator of the chafa ter aud her many mitators, and tend over them our royal invulgence. Only we do uot eriticise them, OF 0 10 sce thewm, or advise anyhody else o do so. The performantes hus Tar mentioned were contined to the nation- al holiday. The Adelphi and the Museum were open not only on that day, but during the rest of the week gs well. At the fonner place +Unele Tom's Cabin” was played in a rollick- ing way by the Slavin Troupe, and at the latter the Ellsworth Zouaves, with fierce detonations sud Mr. Ben Cotton, represented a military byth drama’ called Audersonyilk This week - the Adelphi will be the ouly ove of .the _five establisned tiratres ty open its doors. It will be occupied iy Stetson’s company from the Howard Athe- nxum jn Boston. Adah Richmond, Yankee Locke, Pat Rooney, Schoolcraft and Coes, Nellie Tarkclle, Charles' Reynolds, and N. D! Jones are members of the organization. They will ap- pear fu 3 ¢ novelty drama’ called “T’;w Three ast Men,” introducing parlor-minstrels, Har- mony-tiall. a gambling-saloon, Liberty Hall, Harry Hill'’s place in New York, a mandi-gras Tall, an educated donkey, a performing ele- phant, ete. Such is the condition of high art in the dog-days in the boasted ““summer-resort of the Northwest. NOTES FROM TIE LECTGRE-FIELD. Georze William Curtis will not lectare the coming scason. Nast has not decided whether he will lecture next season or not. Mr. Beecher is building a fine new house at Peckskill out of the profits of his last lecture- Beason. James T. Field will bave twelve lectures on some of the most noted literary men of the sentury. —~ Victor Hugo and Mr. Spurgeon have under ronsideration tempting offers to lecture in Amcrica this season. Scnator Morton is at presentin Oregon, but will return in season to devote onc month to the Lycéum before the assembling of Congress. Helen Potter s at .presentresting in New York. She intends visiting Europe this sum- mer, and will spend most of her timein Paris. Senator Blaine will probably speak ina few of ihe leading courses in the country, altbough it is not absolutely scttled as yet Whetler he will or ot enter the lecture-field for more en- gagements. __The Hon. Schuyler Colfax is at his home at South Bend, but will pass tiie summer at the various Eastern watering-places. Colfax has ex- | ‘made from his oration on Abrabam Lincoln over $100,000. He will devote most of his time to the West the coming scason. Br. Holland, R.J. Burdette, Felix Rezamey, Robert Collyer, Collector Simmous, James Par- ton, Julis Ward Howe, Will Carleton, Dr. LL Hayes, Josh Billings, Laura Dainty, aud George Vandenbofl are {n the field. Mr. John B. Gough has just returncd from New Brunswick, N. 8. He spent two wecks in the Proviuces, during which he achicved one suceess after the other, ending in this hapny manner one of the most britliant lecture-sea- sous of his career. The Hon. William Parsons is st present in Ireland, and iutends paving a visit to the Troad this summer, for the purpose of procuring ma- terial for an illustrated Iccture on Dr. Schlie- maun’s discoveries, unless the Turko-Russian war should interfere with his intentions. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore has prepared two lectures for the new scason. One is devoted to a consideration of the carcer of that wonderful woman, Hurriet Martineau, and Mrs. Livermore. hins been assisted in the preparation of it by Mrs. Chapman, the editor of the recent auto-,| biography. In the second lecture, entitled +The Coming Man,” Mrs. Livermore pays her respects to the royal ses. NEW YORK NOTES. «Evangeline ” continues to asttract Jarge au- dicuces at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. Miss Clara Morris will turn artist if ber Dbealth compels Ler to relinquish the stage. “The Three Guardsmen® was played at Nib- 10%s Garden on the Fourth of July with the “phenomenal cast,” including E, F. Thorne, Mrs. Murdocls, cte. The erities say Thorne was feeble. of “Woodleigh.” the new plag by Mr. Philip : Stoner, produced Monday nighit at Wallag Theatre under the direetion o1 Mr. J, B. At- water and Miss Lettie Allen, the New York T'ribune says: * It is announced that since its production elsewhere, it has been entirely re- itten for its first representation in this” city. No oue who saw last evening’s performance w1 call the conjecturd® harsh that asks whit the play ~cowld bave been before it was rewritten. It is impossible to find relief from {ts uunatural action inits di- alogue, for of dialozue, as it is wilerstood on the stage, there is none. The players talked for tweniy minutes after the curtain arose with- out saying anything, and these intervals of lo- quacious dulluess grew longer as the play grew older. Of one thing. however, Mr: Stons hot be accused, No one can Jay plagial his charge. * Woodleigh ” is a play which we cannot conceive that “any one could ever have been tempted to steal.” GENERAL AMEBICAN NOTES. John'S. Clarke comes over in October, Riguold has sailed for Europe, to return in September. Bostou and Philadelphia were again destitute of theatrical attractions last week. Jauauschick will be in - Boston in July, and go thence to Scituate for the summer. The New York Mercury says Miss Eliza Weathersby witl shortly enter upon life's reati- ties as Mrs. Nat C. Goodwin, Jr. Little Vining Davenport (Mrs. Thorne) leaves New York July 2 for San Francisco, to join Me- Cullongh’s company as leading lady. Minnie Palmer will star_nest scason in & new play called * Fortune,” which has been written especially for icr, by two American authors. Miss Faunie Davenport sailed for Enzland July 4, to be absent uutil late in August, when she will begin an cizhiteen weeks' starring tour under Mr. Stephen Fiske. There is a dramatic critic in New York who must be going abont in trepidation. A stal- wart_and large-limbed actress calling herself Fannie Lonise Buckingham bas been doing Ma- zeppa at the Broadway Theatre, and this criitic made_uncomplimentary remarks about her. Miss Buckingham is wrathful, and says: ¢ Since Mr. —," mentjoning the critic in question, “wants to force upon me 3 notoriety { do not seck, Il malee him share it by horsewhipping on sight.” Miss B. claits Lo be an expert willl the whip. A uew. lflmsc of the approaching theatrical scason will be the number of traveling combina- tions taking the place of localcompanies. Each of the following performers will_have a sup- rting company: Boucicault, Lingard, Joe Murply, Edwin_Booth, Frank Mayo, Frank Chanfrau, Rose Evtingre, Sothern, John T. Ray- wond, Mrs. Oa Lydia Thompson., Aimee, Eaily Sbldene, Genevieve Rogers, Lawrence Barrett, Kate_Claxton, Katie Putnar, Janaus- chek, George Rignold, Mrs, G. C. Howard, Joba Broueham, and Jubn Dillon. ‘Washington Irvine Bishop, as assionee of Ma- tilda Hetouw's right in the play of “Cam Dhas entered suit in the United States Circuit Court against Clara Morris for alleged infringe- ment of the copyright of the play., He states that he is legally possessed of Matilda Heron's ritht in the play, and has eiven Clara Morris notice several but she continues to sct in the play. He considers himseif damazed in the £um ol ¥5,000 or $7,000. - M lorris takes thc- ground that the play never really belonged ex- clusively to Matilda Ieron, as 1t was only an adaptation of amovel that was public property. Mr. W. H. Crane, the comedian, is in town this week. preparing for his appearance fn Lis original role of Le Bianc in ‘ Evanweline at the Museum next week. The remainder of the cast will be as follows: Evangeline, Mizs Lillian Conway: Catherine, Mr. Harry Josephs; Eulalie, Miss Lizzie Webster; Gabriel, Miss Eliza Weath- ersby; Copt. Deitrich, Mr. N. C. Goodwin Jone Fisherman. Mr. James 8. Maflitt; King Boorhools Gha, Mr. Edward 8. Tarr; Hans Wagner, Mr. 8. M. Crane; Basi!, Mr. James Nolan; the Joliceman, Mr. Richard Golden; Jringbolt, Mr. Perey Vining; Delshake, Mr, B. Fawan; Queent, N s once on the new g * The Little Corsuir,” and it will be produced in the third week of the enzagement.—Boston Globe, - FOREIGN NOTE. “The Vicarege,” by M. Saville Rowe, s to be removed from the Prince of Wales’ bill During the hot weather the manazement has deeided to open the theatre an hour Iater than usual, and adopt the New York plan of confin- ing the eveuing’s entertainment to one picee- The * Pink Domino ”” dispute has been scitled by arbitration. The verdict is against Mr. Wyndham. The Euglish adapter has been awarded £2 a night for the time during which it has been plaved, and for any. future peslorm- ances. It has Leen announ that Mr. Edgar Bruce would take the picee to the Provinces aud run it through Awerica. The drama founded on the story of * That Yass o Lowrie’s™ 15 in the bands of Mr. hen Fiske. It follows pretty closely the of the original story, with some interpola- s of new scenes aud a revision of the origiuel charicters. The heroine s Liz Lowrie, and the leading man’s purt is that of Derrick, the en- mineer. Owd Sammy, Jud, tbe young parson, and JMiss Anice are the next characters of jm- portance. The drama is to-be plaved for the first time on any stage at _Liverpool this month orin the autumn, Miss Rose Leclerq has been specially engaged to play the title role. Two attempts to adapt Mr. Charles Reade's novel, **A Woman Hater,” to the stage are an-y| nounced. 1t may well be doubted, however, that any writer will succeed in making this story m»e})mhlc, . .. While Mr. Reade in mnost of his later works shows_himself to be the most aramatic of the *English novelists, his dramas themsclves, if we except * Masks and Faces "— which is, after all, not. wholly his—bave never been popularsuccesses. . . . The recent suc- cessful dramatization of * The Pilgrim’s Prog- ress by Mrs. George Macdonald, so racefully spoken of by the English correspondents, does not bring the unactableany closer to the public, for that effort was, after all, in the line of the picture drawmnas, which are’ attempts to add motion to tableans, and with which we are already tolerably familiar.—XNew York Sun. Alr. Boucicault’s “ After Dark ** has been re- vivedat a London theatre,—the Princess’,— with a strong cast and many “ realistic” inci- deuts, including the laying of 3 living man across the line of the Underground Railway and his rescuc just as the express train comes thun- dering along, and an elaborate reproduction of pm interior of a music-hail with a _company of ~artists,” including * the great Mackney,” who g0 through some characteristic performances. The next revival, It is said, is to be * Lady Aud- Iey's Secret,” at the Olympic, with Miss Pate- man, Mr. Henry Neville, Miss Camille Dubois, and Mr. Forbes Robertson in the cast. Two newdramas by Mr. Wills are alsospoken of— au adaptation of Itred de susset’s ** Ca- mille,” and * Nell ne,” in which the chat- acter of Charles I1. will, It is reported, be repre- scuted in a light somewhat at variance with the general verdict of historians. MUSIC. THE SUMMER-GARDEN CONCERTS. ‘Thie summer-garden concerts are the alpha and omega of our local musical record. All clse is stagnant. The teachers have ended their tasks for the season. The schools are closed. The pupils are enjoying their vacations. Thou- sands of pianos are closed nntil September, for which let us be grateful. Even the church con- cert has subsided, and the mateurs are giving “Fair Dove,” “ When the Tide Comes In,” and “Looking Back” a rest. The fiddlers have hanged their fiddles upon the willows ‘The quietis brokeu only by the summer-garden concerts at the Exposition Building, with their delightful surroundings, superb programmcs, keen musical enjoywient, pleasant social atmos- phere, Dbarmonic hilarity, and Gambrin- jan Gemuctlichkeit, - Mr. Thomas is literally overwhelming . concert - Zoers with the tuneful riches of his apparently juex- haustible repertofre, and every programme briugs some new and fresh surprisc. The at- tendance during the week has been larger, aad cufhusiasm - grows as the seasou advances. ‘That season is now half finished. Tempus Jugit. The people of this city who make pre- ‘tensions to musical culture cannot afford to lose these programmes, which furnish so much new music they may never hear again, and so much of the old m which is transformed inio new by the readings of this orchestra. The principal numbcrs that have been played dur- iug the week have already been noticed in de- tall, 50 that we have no oceasion now to refer fo them, escept to record those which were not included in the programmes of the first two weeks. They were as fol- Jows: Symphonic works—No. 1 in C minor, by Gade; *¢Tm Walde, "y Raff; scherzo of Afcmlulssolm’s “ Reformation i Symphouy " 5 andantes of the First and_Fifth of Beethoyens and the andante of Havdw’s Surprise Syin- phony. The ** Andante C}lnml!ilc" ot Beetho- ven, op. 97, ulso deseryes trious compuey: O - phonie _introduction to Bjornsen’s Stembe”; Horuemaun’s- overtare to - din” 3 “Stradella¥ ; Mehul's © Horatius Covles,” given for the flist tie in this coun- tres Lassew's “Fest Overture™: Rossin’s Siege of Coriuth™; and Erkel’s * Iunyadi Lazlo.? Marches—Soldeymann’s + Wedding March and Wamner’s *‘Kaiser” and fIul- digung.”? Dance musi ~—Lumbye's ¢ Chamn- pagne Galop”; Bargicl's ¢ 'rois Dances Alietandes ;- the ballet music {from “The - Prophet ” 3 Schubert’s “ Ger- man Danmces ™ i Strauss’ cato Polka, w Arutsts’ Quadriile,”’ and ¢ Telezram ” and Publicisten Waltzes; and Keler Bela'’s * Ou the Beautifal Rhine Waltz.* *Miscellancous—Iam- erick’s reverie, * Evenine ip the Woods™; Lum- bye’s « Visions in a Dream”'; Paine’s Centen- nial Hymn?; Buck's cantata * The Meditation of Colimbia ™ ; Handel’s + Hallelujah Chorus "5 Mendelssohn's duo 1 Would thit my Love” and Vieuxtemps’ ¢ tasie Caprice.” The present week will also e rich in music. The programme for Monday evening will be a popular one, introducing the following number: Overture to Chierubini’s ¢ Anacrcon '3 the el gant allegretto trom Mozart’s £ Hat sympbony ; seleetions from Weber's * Preciosa ”’; Liszt's Muarch ¢ Vom Fels Zuim Meer': the prefude to i+ Lohenerin'; Tsehaikowsky's ¢ Air_de Bal- let”; the Bueethoven Romumce in G, op. 403 Kafl’s_ ¢ Vor der Czarae™; Strauss’ © Tcle- gram Waltz?; Gonnod’s * Funeral March of 3 Marionette?; aud the overture to * Stradells.’” The programme of Tucsday night will be the crowning work of the seasou thus far, and will be devoted to Beethoven. Mr. Thomas has given special attention Lo this programume, not only with fhe view of sccuring such renresenta- tive works of the rrund old master as are favor- jtes with the people, but also in the sclection of works that will make anharmoniously-sustained prozramme. Mr, Thomas has given Becthoven nights here before, but never with a more con- sistent or attractive programme than the fol- lowing: 1. Overtare, Leonore. QOverture, l.eonore, No. & 3. Fantassa. for piuno. chorus,and orchestra. (Plano~Mr. Julius Fucus.) 4. Symphony, No. 7in A. 1. Joco sostenuto-vivace. 2. Allegretto. 3. Presto. 4. Allegroconbrio. Intermission. 5. Theme and variations. l Scherzo. Septett. Finale. ©. Overture to ‘*Fidelo." The aunouncement of the Seventh Sympbony alone has been sufficient at auy time during the past twenty years to call out an immense audience in this city, and when to this delight~ ful work are ad ded the other numbers mention- ed above, esvecially the superb septett, we may look for one of the largest audicnces ev assembled on a musical occasion in this cit) Evory concert-goer, evers musical student, every one who makes any pretentions to musie- 3l taste, should be present on that cvening. 1t is one of those rare events that should not be lost. To hear Beethoven at any time is a pleas- ure; to hear Beethoven read by this orchestra is 2 musical luxury. Tuesday ufght shoutd be a gala night. 'he programme for Wednesday evening is a popular one, and will be s follows Pictures from the North, (new).. March—Hymns. 2. Lied. 3. ..Hoffman Springtanz. Wal o oanen Selections—1st Act *‘Lohengrin® Intermizsion. .Robinstein Hamerick ++.._Soederman .. Vicuxtemps Overtnre—** Triomphale ™. Love Scene—** Evening in the Woods ™ Wedding March. Fantasie Caprice. Intern Overtnre—** Ilanyadi Las: Ave Maria... Waltz—** Koenizslieder ™ Coronation March. B, Thursday night will be the third symphouy night, tor which the following glorious pro- gramine s prepared : Overture, Anacre'm, Ballet music, ** Paris and Helene Sywphony. in G. No. 13 (Breitkopf and I Intermission. Overture, Coriolsn. ... .. .. 3 Grefehen. (Fram £ine Fanst Symphony) Bachanale, Tannhauser (manuscnpt). . Intermission, Qvertare, Abu Hassan. Slumber Song. Waftz Marel, Et Cor cine de Sa WAGNER AT IIOOLEY'S. Mr. Hooley writes us as follow: Tn the_Editor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, July 5.—The following 1 copy from the New York Sun of June 20; Aletier receiv- ed from Micknel ern: of the University of Munich, anintimate friend of Richard Wagner, ilie eminent composer, annouuces that Waguer is muking preparatious 1o come country for a grand _ musical throughout the United States, sibly ~ thronghont ~ the American* 3 North and South," § have engazen the Wagner- Meyerbeer Festival Opera Company. under the direction of J. #ignal success ., Brookl; and other cities In Fobruary And Masch Fryer has written Wagner to get him, " ), toconduct the operax. Mr. Charles Adume, of Tas Boston, who hae been principal tenor at the Grand | Opera liouse. Vienus, for the past nine years, and other Enropcan artists will be added to the troupe, making it much stronger than it was in New York, The troupe will comprise about eighty persony with an orchestra of thirly-two picces, and grand chorus. They will open at Hooley's Theatre carly in the fall. T answer to the above we are In a position to state that the Wagner season will in all prob- ability Le “Hamlet™ with Iamlet left out. The Wagner gossip which has been floating ahout originated in St. Louis, and is about a8 reliable as other storics that come from that mendacious villaze. We are enabled to state from “oflicial sources that Wagner lost heavi- Iy in his Baireuth Festival. With the hope of retrieving his loss he wewt to England and only Jost still more. Ile would like to come to America if he could find any one here who would guarantec him suflicient shekels, not only to make good these Auglo-German losses, but also suflicient compensation to pay him for coming over. That man has not yet been found. With all respect for Mr. Fryer's munagerial skill, and for Mr. Fryer's pocket-book, neither the ane nor the other are elastic enough to ac- commodate Wagner. he is waiting for Wagner to lead his orchestru, he had better at once sceure Neueudorf or Balatka. sate expense and also a very emphatic Wag- nerian damning of his artists. “With or without Wagner, however, Mr. Fryer and his troupe will be wclcome. Opera-goers will like to hear the ‘Wagner works given by those who have made a special study of them. LOCAL MISCELLANT. The Germania Maennerchor will sing at the. evening convert at the Liucolu Pavilion on Wednesday next. . The concert given under the ausplees of the Apollo Club for the benefit of the St. John suf- ferers realized about $1,000. Good enough. Mr. Thomas, at the close of his Chicago en-~ gagement, will give a series of seven concerts in St. Louis, commencing about the 1st of August. There will be & rehearsal of the singers who have been selected for the Choral Fantasie with the orchestra at the Exposition Buildi t 1315 tooron oo T AR H. 8, Perkins is off to-morrow evening to Jead his Normal Iustitute at Xenia, 0. The third week in August he is engaged to conduct a con- vention in Trumbull County, Ohio. We are indebted to Root & Sons for the fol- lowing new musie: ‘“Long Jobn’s Grand March,” embellisbed with a full-length of the mnn‘hu"{ by George Schieiffarth; **Short and Sharp Polka” and *Flecting Fancies Waltz,” by C. G. St. Clair: * Are You Ong of the Nine- & %( and Nine,” sacred song Aua c‘mms, by T. P. Vestendorf; * Yes, I'll Meet You at the Foun- tain,” sacred song, by C. C. Case; and “Two Sweet Eyes Brown,” song and chorus, by Bob- ert Challoner. A peculiarity of this' music s that it is mainly by home writers. A vocal and instrumental concert will be miven at the Ada Street M. E. Church on Friday evening next, under the direction of Mrs. Car- ric L. Babeock, the orpanist. The programme will be given by the Chicaro Quartette, Mrs. 11 8. Pither, Mr.C.C. Letiler, and the church choir. : Our composer, Mr. §. G. Pratt, is still _on his musical travels. On the oceasion of ex-Presi- dent Graut’s recent to the Crystal Palace, London, his ~“ Anniversary Overture, with Chorus,” was performed. ~ Subscquently his mareh, “ Homage to Chicazo,” was given at the Alexandra Palace. The Chicago Music Company, 156 State strect, send us the Tollowing late issues of William A. Tond & Co., New York: **Musctte” and “Pif- ferari,” two impromptus for piano, by Gounod; «In the Rain,” song, by C. Rizzo; “Sleep and Sleep,™ 2 lullaby, by P. G, llsley; La Mitou- ette” and * La Violette,” for biano, by Nahum Stetson; “Thou Art Like a Lovely Flower,” song, by A. J. Holden; paraphrase of ‘Hail Soltmbiar for plano, by 8. D. Mills; « Sumwer Sweet, Good-by,” caprice for piano, by J. H. Wilson; and_“Nancy Lee,” eong for baritone, by Stephen Adams. The mmeteenth of Mr. Eddy’s organ recitals was given yesterday, with a programmc the ich were Mendelsohn’s D Bach’s Sonata in G, No. 63 and Fink’s Sonatain G minor, Op. L _The lizhter numbers were the fandel ' Largo (Dur- ing's arrangement). Guilmaut’s ** Ofertoire sur deux Noels,” and the Andante move- ment ~of . Haydu's major sym- phony. Mrs. Thurston_was the vocalist, und sane” Torrente’s uris, ~*Show Me Thy Way, Lord,” and Gounod’s song, *O that We Two were Maying.” The last recital of the season. will be given nest Sasurday. THE GERMANIA MAENNERCHOR will give its first summer-night’s concert of the season at the Lincoln Park Pavilion Wednes- day: PROGTAMNE. 1. Mazch.oeses oo Orehest 2. Concert overture... re 3. **The Power of Music’ ........ ...Keonig For wiale coices, with tenor solo und orchestrd ‘accompuniment. 4. Instramental golo, with orchestrs sccom- ra. niurent. ... 5. *“'The Bird in the Sky mama) ... . Abt 6. ““The Maid of Kofa 7 helnthaler ied chorus of tie Gerni 7. March “(dedicated to Emperor Will- fam) . i <-urers.0. Schmoll n §. Song—**Rliein Wine " sve. Ly iveeiene F. Liszt Germania Maennerehor. 9. Marcn.. 5 s Orchestra. To conclude with a hop for those who wish to indulge. 4 TESTIMONIAL TO WAGNER. The Londou Athenawn says. Wel 1 Lord Lindsay, the President of the Wagner Society, and other members of the Com- mittee, wlong with Mr. Dannreuther, the con- ductor'of the “cencerta of 1873 and 1374, have re- solved 1o raise a fund to preaent the composer with an adequate testimonial. They have taken thi< step in order to carry out the principle on which the association was based, namely: to assist Herr Wagner to establish the Nutional Opera-House at guyreuth. It 18 no secret, and it is 1o be resrretted , even by those profeskors and amateurs who do Dot concur with him ir ns views of the lyric drama, that lerr Wagner has_been gnffering sever der the 10ad of the deficitat Bayreutn, ana recent concerts at the Roval Albert Hall b of ljttle service to him. present movement of Wis frien e been He I8 in_ignorsuce of the T ls and ndmirers, wha believe that the proposed testimonial is the only way of secaring for him the leisure and rest s0 necessary for the development of hix creaive powers, NILSSOXN AS * DESDEMONA." The London Zimesof June 9 say: The evens of fast week, and the finest perform- auce a3 vet of the scasom, at Mr. Mapleson's Theatre, was Rossini’s Duppily revived *‘Otello,™ in which Madame Cliristine Nillsson, Signor Tam- berlik, and M. Faure took the leadini parts. Few can have forgotten the impression created by Madame Nilsson, when she first appearcd ox Des- demona in this country ot Her Majesty’s Opera, Drary-Lane—seven yedrs ago; none ean have for- otten that _Ofello i the part which exmbited Signor Tamberlik, when lJust among us, at hie best; mor ean there be a question thar, since Ronconi, there Las been mno such 7aq5 _on the operatic stage as M. Faure, This, sdded 10 an imposivg Klmiro (Brabantio) like Simor_Foli, an excellent Roderigo like the new tevor, Siznor Carrion, here quite at home, u not less excellent Emilia In Mlle. Robiati, and Simor Brozcolinf, ns o fair reoresentative of the Doge, made the cast of Rosiri's opera serig—fair counterpart to his_comic macterpiece, **11 Har- biere di Siviglia,” composcd in the eame year (1816)—one of more than ordinary strength, “and the resalt was. 33 mizht Lave licen expected; a success. Mme. Nilsson's Desdemona is another roof of the marked progress she is making, step gy step, towards_ becoming & traglc lyric_come- dign of the firt class, and, in fact, resching the goal 1 which she has afforded more than one con- vincing proof that her ambition tends. MUSICAL NOTES. Mme. Palmieri bas arrived in Milan from New York. Curistine” Nilsson is anxious to return to America. Herr Wachtel is about tosing at her Majesty’s Theatre in London. Miss Miunie Hauck has been engazed at the Brussels Monnaie for eight nights. M. Capoul has signed an engagement for four months in Russia and two months at Vienna next winter and spring. Count Von Beust, the Austrian Ambassador at London, has published a waltz and dedicated it to Queen Caroline of Saxony. Mile. Heilbron, who is now singing in Paris, 1ios been engaged by M. Ferri for a scries of per- formances in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Mr. Max Maretzek is represented to be writ- inzan operaon American gubjects. the princi- pal role being intended for Miss Kelloga. Mr. Max Strakosch proposes £o bring it out in De- cember. Mlle, Emilla Chiiomi, who has recently made her dehut atHer Majesty’s Theatre, London, under the manazement of Mr. Mapleson, with suecess, will probabiy visit the United States during the autumn. The health of Dr. Von Bulow, whois now staying near Bingen on the Rhine, is so far re- stored that be has aceepted the engaccement so Jong contemplated, und is to be the conductor of the chorai and orchestral concerts at Glasgow. According to the Musikaliches Wochenblatt, the accredited organ of Waenerism, the production of the * Nibelungen Ring.” at Muuich, has been ¢ postpoued for some years” by the King of Ba- ia, *in order that the opers may be fully re- hewrsed.” Mrs. Oates and her company are enzaced for two weeks at _the Montreal Academy of Musie, beginning July 9, by Max Strakoseh. Mrs. Oates will shortly lcave for Paris. where sbe will pass te summer in studying four new operas, which have been recommended to ber by Mlle. Aimee. She wiil return to America In the fall and finish her contract with Manager Miles, of Cincinnati. Maurice Strakosch has ssiled for Europe to perfect arrangements for a European tonr, which will be undertaken during the year, by Miss Emma Thursby. It is not improbable that during his absence the maestro will also sceure the services of Mile. Adclina Patti. It is understood that certain New York capital- ists will assume the amount of forfeit in- curred by reason of the non-fulfilment of her eogagement in Park ————————— WORK AND WAIT. When worn by grief and care, Wity heart und gonl opprest, When through the threat'ning And darkness of the tomb No rays of sunlignt loom, No hope dawns in niy breast, gloom - Tow oft my spirit loazs To rige on angel-wings, And swifily, swiltly soar To that fair, heav'nly shore Where grief and pain no more Each coming hour brings. T'm fetter'd from snch flight, $ And thus 'tis doubtleay best; Perchance, my race balf-run, My work scarce weil begun, Long cre life's eetting sun, T'd iy away to rest, But ah! woald that be rest Did we no burden bear? If from the heat of day, e strife and battle-fray, Fearful one lled away, No victor's crown he'd wear. Throngh ignorance we learn ITis plessing to be wise; Through pain the prize of health; rongh poverty, of wealth; And g0, through 1ils of breath, The blies of Paradise. Then let us bide onr time, Content to work and wait, That 80, our whole course run, Qur laurels asfely won, ‘We may, !hmn(;vlh God's dear Son, At last reach Heaven's gate. Cmicaco. Mus. LovtsA TATE. IPCARTHY’S RAID. Counselor Florence Tackles the Chicago Criminal Court. And Proves (to His Own Satisfaction) that Its Practice Heeds Reforming. Waving Sctiled That Point, He Afll- davits tie County Jail Menu. Whereupon Two Incarcerated Wretches (Ooms to the Rescue of Sheriff . Kern's Soup, And Pronounce It Wholesoms and Very Fattening---Who Is Right ? TLORENCE M CARTITY AGAIN. T the Editor of The Tribune. e Cucaco, July 7.—As grave and terrible as are the verils to our liberty arisinz from our jail sys- tem and our jail -practices, we are in still greater peri) from our eriminal laws and the practice of our criminal tribunals,’ Tuking these abuses in their logical order, the first one that spould be noticed (and I #hall barely notice it) concerns criminal process. We need ad- ditional restrictions on the issue of warrants for arrest. The only remedy we have at present Tor fulse imprisonment is a civil suil. Conse- quently, a man who who wishes to arrest another late Saturday pight and keep hiwm in the jait over Suuday stmply gets some vazabond to swear out the warrant. It is a perfectly safe proceeding, and some of the best men in Chicago huve been imprieoned 1n this way, from mere malice. The only remedy is a eivil sult ands capiss, which hardly ever results in imprisonment, and there is practically no redress, The manner of serving criminal process in this State is by reading. Thsisa greatevil. A man who has never had any dealings with the courts is simply dazed by having & warrant read 10 him; and when he has been lodged in the jail, and his attor- ney has arrived, -he cannot for his life tell hun whether it was a bench warrant or a State warrant, what Judge or Justice issned it, for what crime, or even for whose arrest. The right way would be to read it to him and then deliver bitn & copy; and our Jaws should be chang- ed#o a4 tocompel thisto be done. Bui Imust Daes to u more important matter. Our laws provide that *‘every person charged with crime, who shall state upon oath that he is unable to procure counsel, shall have competent counsel assizned him by the Court, who shall con- duct his defense.” [Rev. Stat., Chap. 38, Sec. 422.] And the practice of onr Criminal Court s to assign_counsel to every needy person without ex- actingan vath, which is all proper enough. But in another respeet the practice of the Court in assign- ing counsel is wrong. The counsel is not assigned nutil the prisoner has been arraigned and has pleaded to the indictment. Bat ihere are many cases in which to **conduct his defensc™ means to kce to it that the prisoner shall never be arraigned atall, nor be required toplead atall. And in these cases, to assign him counsel after he has pleaded, 31 like sending a man a physicinn after he 1sdead. This will appear more clearly further on. To pass now to & graver abuse. which stands connected with thie. ourstatute-book contains the following law: “’Every person charged with trenson, murder, orother felunions crime, shall be furnished, pre- Sious 1o Mis arraienment, whh a copy of the indictment, and 3 list of ~ the witnesses and jurors. In ail other cases he shall, at hix request or the request of his coun sel, be fusnished with a copy of the indictment, andalist of the jurors and witnessea,” [Kev. Stat. Cap. 38, See. 421.3 Thus the Levislature, with its usnal eapiency, has provided that a man Indicted for petty larceny must be furnished with & copy of his indictument o3 soon as he may choose to call for-it; but that a man who is indicted for murder cannot demand a copy of his indictment uniil the Iast moment be- foré he ix arraizned to plead to it. True, the original indictment in boths cuses is open to in- Spection m the Clerk’s otiice, by any and cvery citizen. But what zood does this doa man who % lucked Trie _again, he upinacell six feet square in the jail? v - onght to have u r. Dut _suppose he i8 oo poor one, and_ the Conrt will tumone util he 13 arraigoed. The 2 under the practice of our Criminal Court, poor persous ure. by the strong arm of the Jaw, ket in Tenorunce of the charge azainst them until the very mogient when they are ushered into the court-room and required to plead 1o it. 2 Trut the case is far worse than this. In our Crim- inal Conrt o prisoner {s never Ziven & cops of his indictment until ajler he has pleaded. The Cleric holdz an dudictment up 1o his own eyes, and tells John Junes that he has been indicted for stealing a foree worth $100. and asks him whether he'is ilty: John Jones says he is guilty, or uot v, snd then the Clerk folds the indictment up and hands it to Jobn Jones. And this is dome before “obn Jones hias a Iawyer to advise him. Thus John Jones i, by the dienity and authority of the Court. coerced into pleading ‘to_his indicement, not only before e bas been furnished with a copy of it, but before he has heard it read, or knows anything swhatever of its validity as an indictment. The indictment_ always has writlen on its back the hst of the-witnesses, also, on whose ' testimony thie prizoner is to. be prosecuted. and a copy of which, likewise, he is entitled to reccive before pleading. The ** list of jurors™ mentioned in the Sdtnte bove quoted it heldto be a listof the pames of tie thirty men from whom she jury of twelve is to be selecled, by whom tte ‘Ynsmncr will be tried. 'This Jist i3 never furnished John Jones in our Criminal Court at all, and once when I de- manded and obtained it for a chent. the Court treat- od me to an annihi.ating stare. And if John Jones slips around to the Clerk's office the next morning and examines the record of his case, be finds it m the folfowing words: S Thas day he said people by Luther Laf- fin Mills. State’s Attorney ; and thesaid defendant, s well in i OWA proper person as by kis counsel. also comen: and he furing been Surnished with « copy of the indiciment in thix cause, aud liete of the ‘nimes of the witnessex and jurors, and he being now here duly arraiwaed, and forthwith de- maunded of aud concerning the crime sllezed agai him in said indictment how he will acquit himaelf thereof. for a plea fn that behalf eay# that he is not gnilty in maoner and form as charged therein, and Of thie he puts himsell upon the country, and the faid people do the Hke.” And_althongh the words in this record which T have italicized may be, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are, utterly false, record is \eritten up in every case in these words, and the Court hus refused me, intwo or three cases, to amend this record and make it conform to the facts, thoush I produced the requisite affidavits, and there was no_rebuling testimony whatever. The Clerk said that this was a * yped form”; and the Court emid, ** Well, I will not amend it.” Now, let me show the atter folly and wickedness of thia whole procedure. And[will consider. firsty the case in which the prisoner pleads gnilty. A Few prizoners do plead smilty: and in out Criminal Court they plead guilty toan indictment which they Tiave never seen nor heard read to them, and con- cerning which they bave mever received a word of professional advice. The Court will fastrnct a prisoner whooffers o plead guilty what the penalty f the crime is, but the Court will not instruct him Who found the indictment, whether it charges a crime, whether it coutains a wronz venue, “and Whetlicr itlias been signed by the State’s Attorney. Yet the poor unfortunate creatute is virtually foreed to pead to the unscen lustrament, and er- haps to plead fillllly to a crime of which he is " entirely innocent, even if e Do guilty of some other crime. And very ofte o priconer is_in this way misleq into pleading suilty to o crime when he is not guilty of that_or any other crime. man who takes another's borse, under the impression taat he hus ,u right to collect a debt in that way, is o tres asger, but not a thief, But in our Criminal Court e would be apt to plead guilty to larceny exactly in proportion to his honesty, Similar errors are made concerning embezzlement, which is incom- Jlete without some act of approprlation, and per- Jifs, Which raust be committed ina judicial pro- Cecding to be & crime, and 1n fuct concerning ail e’ . says some lawyer, it ia easy enongh for him 1o chiangé his plea afterwards, And 1o this I have two answers. First, [ have heard such an applica- tion refused another attorney in onr Criminal Court, and the refusal accompanied with words like these: ** The man ought to know whether he is guilty or not. Ife pleaded guilty, and I am not going to allow him tochange his plea just to let you try 1 case. ' Yet this man pleaded guilty without pro- fensional advice. and under what I regard as the coercion of the Court. Sccondly, supposing that an innocentman who has been thoe misled into pleading cuilty gets permission to change his plea, it still remainy true that he has once pleaded guilty to the crime, which may possibly hurt his case on the tria], or at least disgrace him in the communi- ty for therest of his life. Now, supposing that the prisoner thus ar- raigned pleads not guilty, the damage which he receives is nearly as great as in the other case. By pleading he whives hiv right to move to quash the indictment. The Indictment may be 8o im- erfect that it is utterly void, and the ple may ave no evidence on which to find lfi?fll’ one. But the prisoner, having once bleaded, is estop- pedtrom taking advantage of these defects, oxcept 5 motion inarrest of judgment, after convic- tion, and perhaps even them. And if he fnclades in his argument for an arrest of judgment the fact that he was arraigned withont having been first furnished with a copy of the indictment anad lists of the witnesses and jurors, he s told that the record shows that he was duly furnished with _these, and moreover that he waived them by vlead- ing without them. If then he replies that he pleaded before he hada lawyer, and did not Enow what he was doing. he fstold that the record by counsel.” If he then moves toamend the rec- ord, tbe clerk tells the Coart that the record 1s all righ, the Court echoes ** Al rixht, " and the pris- oner is virtasily told toeit down and be quiet, and £0 to Joliet without making any fuss about It, and nobody will know that he 8 faol. - If & mew trdal i granted him for faults in the indictment, be is still disgraced for life by having been convicted of crime in a court of justice. But he iy asked to re- gard that as sininly his misfortunc. If any one replics to this that our Criminal Conrt swill always nllow a prisoner to withdraw his plea, and cnter 3 motion _to quash, Ihave two things to say in reply to this: Fiest, It isvery doubt- ful whether the ~Court’ has the rizht to desuch a thing; at leart anless the people agree to it. Scwndlg. T myself have been refused per- mission to da this fora_client, and pnder the most aggravated circumstances. I was_in court super- Intending the arraignment of m¥client, and the Court knew it. When my back Wwas turned my client was taken uls privately into the Judge's bench and pleaded without my knowledge. 1 dis- covered [t instantly, snd inetantly asked for time to plead, and made known my dekire to move to quash. The withdrasyal of the plea, and the time to ecxamine the Indictment, and to move to quash were refused, and the prisoner's trial ordered to proceed within ftcen sccords of the entering of his plea. And it would have proceeded had I not produced an afidavit for s continuance. DBatall uf this {s a8 notliing compared with other defects in our crim- inal Jaws and criminal practice to which I shall dircct attention in future communications. Aw some people may think my lust communica- tion on the mismanagement of our County Jail & little extravagant, I append to this communication 2 few aflidavits from tne sufferers. I will onder- take to get us meny more a8 Tue Trnvse will publish. The lusi. Grand Jury heard 160 cases, sixty of which were discharged.” These sixty per- sons, therefore, the complaint coses excepted, have been in the jail for weeks or months, innocent thouzh they were. #uffering the tortures descrsbed in the subjoined aflidavits, Fronexce' McCARTHY. AFFIDAVIT OF JAMES M. M'CABE. State of Nlwols. County of Cook, ss: James L. McCabe, being duly sworn, eays that he lives at 330 Hubbard street, Chicazo; that he was arrested Dec. 30, 1876, and committed to the Jail Jan. 3, 1877, on acharze of sexth ‘own preintses, of which he was honorably acquitted in the Criminal Court on June 15, 1§77, after hay- ing been injail, for wantof bail, for nearly six months, Affiantsays he was never arrested before in his life, but has always been an induscrious and peaccable citizen, and that he is 27 yeara of aze. Aftiant says that for three weeks after his com- mitment he was allowed ‘to go at large in the jail because he used to buy fiye cigars a day for the tarnkey, but that after hiv money save out and he was unable to furnish cigars the snid turnkey made complaints ahout als beingat large, and that after that time until his acquittal he was never allowed tu zo out uf his cell except to see attorneys, and, on visiting days, 1o sce friends. ‘AMiant says that he was offered 2 bath only once, and thut afier he had been there nearly five months; and that he never asked for a bath, because he nover knew of one being granted except a3 a grest avor. B ‘Afilant says that the lanzuage and conduct of the tarnkeys towards him was™ insultinz and crncl to tne Tast degree: that they were sometimes under e infiuence of liauor and armed with pistols, and Eometimes pat him in fear of bis life: and that he Ias scen them put parties into the dungeon whom he knew. and told them at the time were Innocent of any offense. Afiiant siys that the pretented coffee given him in the jail was not coffee atall, and was _disguet- ing; that the soup was not fit for a dog to’eat, and rally thrown into the sink as #oon a3s re- ceived: thit the meat was a plece about the wize of a man's thumb daily—was enerally: full of blood and matter, and very offensive to the smell;'thay the potatocs were boiled with the wkins on and were gencraily rotten; und that the bread’ was generally good, but defcient in quantity, "and sometimes very bad. “Afliant vavs that the ceils were very lonsy,’ and that the walls of them were mottled with the blood of the bed-bugs which he killed there; that' the sheets of his bed were not changed in many weeks. and that for weeks together he had npone at all, nor any towels, Afliant says that the water in the water-closet in his cell aid not run more than four hours iu the twenty-four; that the rest of the time there Was air connection between the sewers nnd his ceil; that the stench from the sewer gy was saffocating ond unendurable; and that afiant stuffed bis bed- ding into the water-closet to asoid euffocation: and that, notwithstanding this precaution, be took the lung fever and was sick with it about ten day. ‘Alfliant says that when he was sick with lang fever his wife brought food for him to the jail, and was refused permiseion to pass 1t in to bim except on visiting days. Affiant siys that he was required, while in the jail, to scrub his cell, and thst on refusinz to do %0 e wus confined in a dungeon almost air-tight. in which there was total darkness, no sect nor coach. and the stone floor of which was covered with human excrement, and that he was kept there for twenty hous. G Attiant kays that he met Sheri? Kern at his cell- daor frequently, and complain»d to him of all these outrages, and that he .promised him rclief ‘and never gave it. Jaues M. McCARE. Sworn aud subscribed before me. 3 Notary Public in/and for the e3id _county, this 4th day of July, 1877, Fronesce McCarruy, N. P, AFFIDAVIT OF PETER MORGAN. State or Iitinois, Conniy of Cook. ss. :Peter Morzan, being duly sworn, #ars that_he lives at 154 Fulton street; that on the 15th of May Jast he was arrested on the charge of attempting to steal a parrot, ond committed tothe Cook County Jail. Afliant ¢ays that he is 27 years of age, and never was srrested or charsed with any crime before; that tie is cntirely innocent of any offense, and bas no fear of conviction. ; Afiant suys that he has never been let out of Cell 28 wince his commitment, except when called on by friends on visiting days, and by attorneys. Afi- ait says that the water in the water-closet in Cell +8 does pot run more than fonr hours out of the twenty-foar, and at some times the stench is over- powering. Afliant says that he has not hud a_bath since his commitment, but that he has never asked for one, because he knew of €0 manyrefusals that he taonght it useless, bat afant 3 suffering for one. _Afilant says that his ceil is perfectly alive with lice and bed-bugs. Afliant says that the pretended coffee given him 44 not coffee noc anything resembling coflee: that the soup given him i3 unfit to cat, and that he has thrown it foto the sioks that the meat is «; that the bread is pretty good, but ded- st cient in quantity. Afiant savs that about three weeks ago there was a disturbance in the neighborhood of his cell, and that the turnkey, in spite of his protestations, took him out of his cell and locked him in a dun- geon where there was mo_lizht, no bed, no chair, o ventilation, and ket him there for twenty-fonr hours: that at'the end of that time he calied for water to drink, that the water was given him, and then he was punished for callinz for it by being handeafed and having his hands tied up above b head, and heiug left ‘in_that positson in the said on one ocearion while in the said dungeon the w. ter-clos overflowed, and he remaned for two hours over s shoes in the filth that overflowed upon the stone oor from the water-c PETER MORGAN. Peter Morgan, the signer and sealer of the fore- goinz_instrument, personally known to me, ap- peared before me and made oath, this st day of July, 1877, that the same 18 truc. J. W, Marruewsox, N, P, AFFIDAVIT OF MATTHEW ELLIS. State oF Minow. Countu of Cook, ss: Matthew Eiliv, being duly sworn, says tht ou the 16tn day of My, 1877, he was arrested op a charge of re- ceiving S7 worth of stolen goods, and comnitted to the Cook County Jail, from which he was dis- charged withous trial onJane 29 following. Aflant #ays that he never was arrested before in his life; that he was entirely innoceut of the crime with which he was charged, anid tiat he is an industri- vus man of irreproachable charucter, Aftant eay= that the water-closet in the cell over the cell in which be was confined overfluwed, and that the 8lthy contents thereof dripoed constantly through the Ceiling into hue cell. and produced an intolerable stencli, Attiant #ays that he was never let out of his cell «xcept when friends called for him on visiting davs, or when he suw his attornes. Afliant gays that he was taken on a charse of beiny Aowy, but really withont any provocition whut- ever, and locked up for twenty-fonr hours mn the dungeon. in which there was no light, nor bed, nor chair, and very little air, anda wet stone floor, and fed on bread and water. Afilant sags that he was never offercd a bath in the jail. M. E. ELLis, Sworn and sabscribed hefore me, a Notary Public fn. and for the said county, on this 2d day of July, NcE McCAnTuY. N. P, s State of Nlinals, Countyof Cook, : mard, being duly sworn, eays that he was arrested on m{ 10, 1877, on a charge of petty larceny, and committed to the Cook County Jail. and wan ac- «quitted of the charge on June 23 following. Afliant $ays that he never was guilty of any crime, and never was even arrested before. Afant says that the coffce served the prisoners was disgusting. and could not bie nsed; thatthe meut was o piece some- what larger than 2 man’s thumb a day, and some- times contained bluod ciots, and was spoiled. Af- flant eays that he never was let ont of hiscell a mo- ment, upless called_out by friends. Afflant says that he never was offered a bath, and did not ask for one because, he understood that it coutd not be got. Afllant aays that the bedding of the jafl was very lousy. Joux STAXNALD, Sworn and subscribed before me,a Notary Public in and for the said county, on this 2d day of July, 1877 FLORENCE McCaAnTHY, P APFIDAVIT OF THOMAS COLE. Stale of Illinols, County of Cook. sa: Thomas Cole, being duly aworn, says that he was arrested und put into the Cook County Jail March 7, 1877, on acharge of petly larceny. Affisnt vays that he has never been offered a bath, and has never been lct out of his cell nunless called ont. Afiant xays that the water-closet in his cell I out of order, and filla his cell with a dreadful stench nearly all the time. Affiant says that hz has contracted an intermittent fever, and has fallen off twenty pounds. - Troxas CoLE. Subacribed and sworn before me, a Notary Pub- Jic in and for the said county, this 3d day of July, Frorexcx McCarTuy, N. P, PRISON REFORM. To the Editor of The Tribune. Caicaco, Jnly 7.—Several letters have lately ap- peared in Taz TrsUNE advocating prison reform, and perops, as Mr. McCarthy is only repeating complaints of prisoners, it would be well for some one to give a true account of Cook County Jail. My remarks are certainly entitled to more welzht than Xr. McCarthy's, becanse where he says *4¥ [ know from my own personal knowledge." | The first question I would raise fs with regirjto dict. Tho report of the Grand Jury, publishea few weeks ago, malntained that the food, exe cially the gonp, was equal to that of any restsn. rantin the city, and theyalso expressed an opinn that if Mr. Kern continued to feed his prisonersso sumptuousiy at his North Side cafe, he world'ha likely to find that institution & rival to his dowa- town restaurant; that in fact the food was slmly luxurious. Now Mr. McCarthy says that the soag 18 revolting, snd totslly unfit for food: ‘in quantity insofiicient, and quality utterly bad abd rotten. Now to get at the trath. a line mgat be druwn between thesc two extremes, and tie result will about Al the bill. The rport of the Grand Jary overrates it, und Mr. McCarthy's ge- count isthe reverse. ¥rom mearly three months' experience of exclusive jail food, my_opinion;is that, although not particularly appetizing, it1siat all cvents satisfsing to any erdinary man. 1 have lived on it cxclusively for three months, am 3, health 13 as well 9 when I first came hefe, and 1 can a2y the same of Afty othiers. Some men apugar 10 expect a3 zood food inide 8 prison as taey wobll get iu 2 £00d boardinyg-house outside. Thess mén uare unressopable. The wanitary cendition ‘of the juil 1, as a whole, exccllent,® El- taongh thefe may, of ' cours, be dn occasional ccll where ‘the water dves ot run, for get stopped in some way, bat by application o the attendants these matters are promptly attendzdto by the plamber emuloyed for the 3 With regard to the matter of batha, Mr. Y- Carthy is inerror. During the time [ have tien here I have had eoveral baths, and did not luve the ** grealest difficulty " in getting them. 1 4l- ways got oue whenever I assed for i, and wis never refuscd except once, and that way Sat and the women were then occupying the o room, and I had to wait until Monday: and { mdy 2130 add that the baths 1 reccived here were quige cqual to any I ever hadoutwmde, thut is, furall -ublutionary purposes. Iwill explain the menial sud degrading labor that {s spoken of. Onee a week, on_Satundays, tne jail receives a general scrubbing, which it cér- tainly necds. About 3 dozen prisoners aze let gut to assistin crubbing the gulleries, manipulat the hose, etc. : none of these menure forced o on the contrary, all of them are only too pleassd to he let out for this parpose, and the lucky min who gets let out to scrab is zenerally jubilant vver theact. Careis usually taken 80 as to let dut those who have been here longest. and are thete- fore most in need of the exercise. The degrading Iabor that is perforaied by the two men occuuyins a cell Is to oweep ount with a bruom the' water that sent into & chil by the_hosc: the expanse of the floor i3 © agout six feet by eight, and the time occupied abiit three minutes. Now this may be dezradinz labor, Uiat of filth must accumulate, scarcely thi there is one in the joil who would mot_rutiier syb- mit to the scrabbing than have an unclean ceil. Aost prisoners take pride in the cleanliness 5t thei cells, and are very glad when scrubbing diy comes round. i Withregard to incarceration in the dungrda, Aucking with the hose, and_ thumb tortares, sm iznorant, I was never in the dunzcon, and nope of these Acts ever came under wy ohservation. 1 sl<o see remarks about tne verminous con tion of the jail. Now if Mr. McCarthy wilt tell how these pests can be avoided in suchan instita- tion a3 our jail, he will be doing a great servige; but first let me set forth a few of tue ditficaltics will have to contend with. All classes of mitn come here, and I yenture to sy that & fourth ot them come literally impregnated with vermin. Many who were entirely free when arrested fryn association with others at the station-house haira wome on themsclves. Then tbe menarc bruught here, and of course are_sent to 3 cell, and have jio change of clothing. Every one knows at what rjte these vermin accumalate. Now i3 there any way to stop them ‘from getting a hold, or to eraticite thero after they have established themselves? Tae only way I a present see 1%, by alaw rezulatigs prisoners’ dress, and no such 1aw exists wher men are simply held for trial, as is the case with neatly all fn this jail. ki Apply censure where it is due, Mr. McCaithy, and although you may perhaps have Imaingd yourgelf slighted by an ofticial, do not condeutn 311 for the fault of one. For my part [ have atways found the employes most obliging, somatimes wijh perhaps a little too etrict reeard to their duty. 1 may add that [ merely write thesz lincs fromia &ense of justice: and from toe day of my enteridg Iere [ have always been treated in accordance wiih the rales. IL G. C., * Cell No. 107, Cook County Jail.| e i g NOT AN AFFIDAVIT. | Ta the Editor of The Tribune. 1 Cmcaco, July 4.—In a careful peruse over voire paper dated July 1 ind the right Honarsole Flar- ence McCarthy Has takea it upon himself to mang- factor what I call In every sence of the word a con- founded lie regarding the affairs of the Counly Joil. He mor other man has no right to state %0 public what he cant prove. His class of clients s he calls them ought to be the last men to zruaijle in a place of this kiud, for the magority of thém onthe out side of this jail are very glad at times1 make arepast on free lunch in some low dive soloon and when they zet soand snbstancial Yopd dont knotw how to make nee of it As rezards the water closets in the cells they areas cleanas cin be expected, the water mns from twlee to the times 2 day and if I am not mistaken half the night also. 1t is not nessary for the pnblic to be maie believe thata Co. Jailcan be Kept as Clean usis states prison or Mr. Feltons house of correcrions. For in the dirst place the men in a Co. Jail are nt rcommitted to hard labor and cant compel them fo work like men who are fally committait to a Staipe prison. Bnt aa far ns I can sce it js Kept Cleampe now than it a3 been in & numberof years. A3 Mr. McCarthy saying men are compel to serub heir colls. compels me to passa few rematkes ori i point, Iam hear for the last 4 months and T 1-:_1:- 5 neverseen any one asked to do any thing he dfd not want fo. “sny reasonable person would Piink 2 man ought to take a delight in ciean- ing his own cel out, for 1 s an cid sayiny and a trae oue (If you want ansthing well done do it yourself) I see in another partofis atement where men cant geta bath. (well) i1 think Mr. Curriec the Jailor would be only to xlad to give 8 man a bath twice 8 week 1f he were t aik it, Talsosee in partof Mr. F. C. statemen L #ome of the Officials are disobligeinz I ca who he_means ithont Tt _is Mr. Currier o Mr. Conell those are the men in my opinion We anght of tald some thing_good abont for If T bad ragir possion I would take the responcibility on myselt fo Kick him out. It is Easy to_Sec what hels.ia man who turns his coat s 5ad Enonzh. e turns his waist-coat it hirh time for the pubjic atlarge tocome toa Judgement of come Kind First a Priest then a Minister and Jast of all a Luf, z JAuES MCCLELLAY Please pnt this in your paper when you recei; it, and oblige yours Traly - 7 JanEs MeCrLrLLAND. P. S—Is¢ntone before by a vonng man butdl Seeins you never 2ot it. this iy the truth. gnd think it onght to be put in your paver. D J. McC., Cell 4L —— 3 ‘GOD IS GOOD.” : sunheams **God iz good. 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