Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1877, Page 10

-comedy. Neither " hins 4U THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY.: JULY DR wey "877—SIXTEEN PAGES. _ AMUSEMENTS. Success of “The Dani- cheffs” at Hooley’s. A Review of the Play and the Acting. ' Description of the Scenery and the Properties. ‘‘Seraphine” and the Pre- liminary Season at’ McVicker’s. Programme of the Summer-Garden . Concerts for the Present Week, Acknowledgment by the Mayor of St. John of the Apollo Club Donation. Emma Abbott.as St. Cec New Prima Donna-«-Mu- sical Notes. THE DRAMA. ‘ HE NEW PLAY AT HOOLEY’S. “The Danichefls” is a romantic play. Un- Jelfish and unrequited love is the pivot about which the story moves; the moral grandeur wof Osipis the strong victoria! effect. He isa mar who loves above his station, circumstances vive nim for a wife the woman. he desires: he sespects her mute protest against him, and re~ stores ber, as pure as she came, to the man she loves. He abdicates a busband’s rights and en- thrones a lover's. This is romance. It is mot life or manners; therefore it is not is it melodrama, in the ordinary sense of the term. It is senti- ment refined berond the experience of life. It is the far-tamed attar of roses, dis- tilling slowly from two tons of flowers sixteen ounces of perfume. Why is it thata story 60 ‘unreal, 50 unvatural, so impossible, has charms forevery listener? Is it because a shattered romance lingers in the memories of most men and women, even when middle-age has bowed the head and gray hairs cluster about the temples? No doubt Osip has his prototypes. All the tears are not shed forhim. The ghost “ What-might-haye-been ’—now and then stalks ‘apon the stage, and his “Never, never, never, ”” echoes through the house. Good Giant Des- pair, why do you torture your children? ‘Their Paul, Augustus, John, George, Anna, ‘Maria, Matilda, Jong ago ceased to exist except as crcaturesof the imagination. Paul is the happy father of nine children; Augustus has Jately adopied a new dyc to conceal the ravages of time with his chestnut curls; John is dead, George a dishonorable baukrupt, Anoa a shrew, Staria aqueruious invalid, and Matilda’s fair mame somewhat tainted with suspicion. Be- sides, they uever were what they were pictured. ‘The romance that now clusters about them would ‘lonz aso bave been. dispersed had they been “in possession instead of being in past expectation. They would have proved, un trial, uot half so comfortable spouses 23 those zssigned hy Providence. It is well they were never put to the test. As ob- jects of romantic 2ffcction they may still serve; their names inay be locked in “the sacred cham- ber of the. Leart, aud th u and when ote 3 , who con hold a fre in aie hand, by thinkiagoa the frosty Cameacus? Y the hungry edge of xppetite nat:on of 3 fe: The author of ‘The Danichefls” has done weli tomake Osip a slave. A freeman would not murry as Gsip did, or, having married, eur- render bis wife to unother. Tuere are no mas- ters or mistresses within the dominion of love. The slaves there rivet their own shackles and “Knock them off when they please. Osip had been in bondage, mind and body, twenty-five fete Wis spirit was subdued almost to the level of tameness; it was possible for him to give is wite to his master. If he bad grown up in a healthy ‘American atmosphere, with the bird of freedom sereaming in the empyrean, there weuld haye been blood- shed tirst. Hisdevotion is none the less touch- ing. Itis that of a dumb, affectionate animal. He kisses the hand that smites him. -He loves the man who deprives him of the woman dear- estto him of allin the world. This is not human. Women perhaps will say, “It is divine; men will say, “It is impossible.” ‘The period of “ The Danicheffs ” is 1851, a few years before the abolition of serfdom. The agitation had bezun. Statecraft had taught the Autocrat of the Russias how denrcrous Was the licy of confining the forces of civilization. istory had shown him what uavoca score of millioas of souls would work in securing their eufranchisement. The Autocrat of the Russias preferred to have the enfranchisement without the havoc. He reached down to the noblesse, and signified his approval of their designs for emancipation. The nobles were at first amazed, and could not recollect that they had enter- tained any designs on tbe subject; but, as the Czar pricked their memories, the subject came into stronger relief. They remembered that emancipation had long been a cherished scheme, —the one dream of their order which they mostearnestly desired to see realized. The Countess Danichef, we way be sure, was among the hottest advocates of emancipation when the time came; but, at the period of the play, she had uot thought of the subject. She held her seris as chattels.- Some she made pets because it pleased her; others she punisned brutally be- cause she hac the right. She married them at sure; separated them when she chose. This Countess is as nearas may be a reminis- the imperial Catherine. Miss Morant, who has the. part in her keeping, succeeds in copying some of the old portraits, so that the likeness is sufficiently noticeable. Nor is her acting un- suitable for the character. Miss Morant has not for years exhibited so much vigor and fine self- forgetfulness as she docs in this character, ‘Ungovernable temper, fierce and ‘unscrupulous resolution, unyielding pride, are for her the conditions of existence. She takes sin upon her shoulders. With a sweep of her haud she ab- solves a priest! She is not over-nice,or toodeli- cate, en Osip marrics she tells him tohasten the christening, and she impatiently remands the people—by whom she means her “sort”? of people—to the devil. Take her for all in all, she is a superb woman, worthy of a descent irom -the Medicis, as well as from the great Catherine WH. Herson Viadimir is a visionary. His soul expands like that of a missionary in Arica. He longs to do something for the human race in Russia, andneglects the firet opportunity be hss todo something unselfish for one of them. We do uot particalariy admire Viadimir because Ye saved Osip’s mother from shame, and bis father from the kuout. Intervention of this description required no sacrifice on his part, The time for him to show his better nature, if he has ‘one, is when Osip tells _ his story, and offers to give up anna. Here is the chauce for Peadimir to prove, at least. by the offer of withdrawal, that be has tne noble qualities with which he is endowed in words, but not in action. He offers only feeble thanks. Never dogs he swerve from his purpose to have Anna at all bazards, although, to avcomplish it, he murt step between man and wife. He even meditates making ber his mistress.- This may bo Russian nobility, but it is not that which more civilized communities are accustomed to respect. Moreover, the character does not receive < Bartectls adequate treatment from Mr. O'Neill. Nowhere is the deficiency greater than in the sceve with Osip, while the story of the marriage and Anna's eubsequent life is told, Viedimir might be supposed to have a large personal interest in the recital, and feelings of anger, concern, surprise; joy, avd gratitude might rapidly chase each other over his counte. whereas the Vladimir of O'Neill re comfortably in a chair, squat like a toad, while the most interesting episode in his life is being played. Inasmuch as all the life is his, and pat of the episode. he might progenbly: as- sist in the acting. Nor is Mr, O'Neilt altogether impressive in thescene with his mother, when the'cath of vengeance is made. On hearing the news of 4nna’s marriage, he rises at a bound to the height of his arzument and remains there. He arbi at fet sstonistinent and ster ‘wards only anger. There is room for somethin; more. Might “he not be grieved ana shocked? | | entertainment. The performance He might be resolute without being loud, and his rage tempered with the recollection of ‘filial duty and respect. A Russian nobleman ought not to tear is passion and fling the shreds out of the window. Mr. Thorne’s acting as Osip is the feature of the play, as far as that of one actor cau be. sel{-repression is wonderful. The simplicity of his manner, andthe unadorned eloquence of dis speech, carry conviction to every heart. He is aman, take im for allin all. He bas been aslave, and is now far too meek a thing for human nature’s daily food; but we respect the integrity of his motives. Mr. Joseph Cook— may he excuse the use of his name 1 so unhal- Jowed a connection !—tells us that ‘conscience is. the sense of right and wrong in motives.” We say that, if this definition be cor- rect, Mr. Tnorne’s Osiv has to big a conscience. Our sympathies incline us to wish that he had not so much, iu order thst he might assert himself as a husband, and dnve the adulterous intruder away from his house. But we honor the motives of the man. There has rarely been seen in this city finer acting than Mr. Thorne exhibits m the domestic scene at the opening of the third act, the encounter with Viadimir, the following explanation, and the voluntary resignation” in the last ' act. The emphasis, and particularly the pauses, show the finest discrimiuation and the results of in- telligeut study, while the xradual approach to actimax and the -quict method are tributes to the new school of acting as rich as any it ever received. There are many actors in the cast with Mr. Thorne who belong to the same school and are his peers. It may be said of Mr. Parselle—that fine old actor—as was said of Oliver Goldsmith, that he touches nothing that he docs not adorn? . He has the snail part of the Prince Walanojf, and plays- it with tne strictest’ fidelity, and as ercat effect as the circumstances will permit, Miss Katherine Rogers has a part admirably suited to her, that of the Princess Lydia, Which she treats intelligently and accu- rately. Miss Sarah Jewett makes Anna the sweet, gentle, loving, trusting, doubting soul thst the author must have intended. For a piece of acting destitute. of force, it is remarkably winning. Mr. Stod- dart is as usual grotesque and amusing in the part of Zakarogf, because so quiet and sardonic. Mr. Lewis Jones 25 De Talde was incflective the first night, but better afterwards, when he spoke the lines set down for him with purity and grace. It was a pleasure to see such excellent actresses as Jda Vernon and Mra. Wilkins cheer- fully assuming small parts and doing them justice. Roberta Norwood, who has something Slee a dozen Mtues ho speak, would be important out of the o Square Company, and as much may be said of Messrs. Leffingwell and Duly. Mrs. Post, as one of the Countess’ companions, makes a char- acter-part out of scanty material, and catches a I share of the laughter of the audience. ‘ime and space tail foran analysis of ‘The Danicheffs” in a technical way, or its formal jadgment by the canons of dramatic criticism. {t is unquestionably an inferior work in point of construction and motive, and the dialoguc is enlivened with few witty or profound observa- tions. The strongest situation is that in the third act, when Viadimir bursts in upon Anna and Osip; and this alone would not suffice to carry the act, to say nothing of the play. As Ta TRIBUNE said editorially last week, the play could not be made successful without the re- sources of the Union Square Theatre in respect of actors, scenery, aud properties. Of the actors wwe have already spoken. The other conditions and occasions of success are worthy of brief con- sideration. The first scene (which also stands for the last) represents a salon in the Chateau of the Countess Danichef ucar Schava. The. architecture is massive and rich, and the coloring that blend- ing of gold and brown peculiar to Russian taste ofa century ago. The furniture is an exact cop’ of Russian furniture shown at our Centenni: Exposition, Everrbody who visitedthe Russian Department of that Exposition will recognize the easy chair which stood on the left of the stage 95 an exact copy of one of the principal features of that department. All the rest of the furviture is copied from Russiau models. On the walls of the room hang portraits of past Danichajs. A side- board of ebory, with malachite pilasters, heay- ily laden with gold and silver service, stands at the left. At the right stands a parrot in his cage upon a carved pedestal.. From the ceiling bang massive gilt candelabra, and on either side of the stage stand two other candelabra of bronze nearly fliteen feet high. At the back the scene opens on a terrace trom which isa wonderful view of River Volga. with the bridges and the towers of ‘2 Cossack village in the dis- tance. . At the back of the stage and to the left isan arch, beyond which is seen the private chapel of the Countess, with its altar and sacred lamp. Scattered about the stage are furs of eolee bears and.other animals captured in the chase. 5 The second scene represents a salon in the house of the Princess Walanag’ in Moscow. It isasalou anda winter garden. The Staze is divided in such a way that the front is a room and the back a conservatory filled with rich exotic plants. The whole air and tone of the place arg in exact contrast to the seventy of the first scene, Here all is coquettish and” luxuri- ous. From the arches whi parate. the con- Union h Be) servators—which is filied with the rarest flowers —from the saion, bang curtains of pink satin gracefully looped in the centre by immense gilt rings, and so arranged as not to interfere with the full view ofthe conservatory from the front. The furniture is covered with satin of the same color. ,Atthe right is a fire-place of unique design, upon which are a French clock and French lamps, At the leit is a piano. The centre of the stage is occupied by a pink-satin ottoman, on the top of which is a vase filled with flowers and plants. A rich car- et covers the floor. Tne coloring of the walls isablending of pink and delicate shades of biue,—the scroll-work and designs being partly Russian and partly French in their character. Nothing which taste could suggest or moncy could buy is wanting in this apartinent of “the most luxurious woman in Moscow.” The third scene represents the interior of a Russian izba, or cottuge, the home of Osip. The walls are made of heavy scautling; the furniture is of pine; the chairs are not uphol- stered, save one, which is comfortabic and cush- ioned. On the left stands a. dresser, on the shelves of which are statucttes of saints, also differently colored eggs of the Russian Easter fashion, - also branches of palm. Towels - broidered or tringed with lace, Dlue and red, hang on the front of the dresser. At the right stands a large blue and white earthenware stove; at the left ancw piano, over which are sacred pictures and the sacred Iamp. On the table near the centre stands the Russian samovar or tea-urn, with its comple- ment of tea-glasses. Through the window at the back is seen a snow-covered landscape. Indelicacy has been urged against parts of the play by the Atlantic Hfonthly, and, on a sccond hearing, we are inclined to think the charge sustained. The Countess Danichef?s in- junction to Osip, * Don't let me wait long for a christening ;” the Princess Lydia's relations with the Governor, which Jead Zekaroff to hint that her influence will not be so powerful -alter marriage us before; the ob- | vious suggestion of an msulting proposal by De Talde to the Princess Lydia? the significant scene between Osip and Anna in the but; avd, finally, the main idea of the Play: which sup- poses restrictions to_be imposed on human na- ture that it never did, aud never could. with- stand,—leave room for something more than cavil on the score of impurity. These sugges- tions, except the main one, might be removed without injury to the play. The most objec- tionable of all arises from the too perspicuous acting of Mr. Thorue and Miss Jewett; and the public would be grateful to them both if they should reform it altogether. THE PRELIMINARY SEASON AT M’VICKERS. Aprelimimary season will commence at Me Vicker's Pheatre, Monday, Aug. 6, when Sar- dou's emotional society play in four acts, espec- ially adapted for this theatre, will be produced for the first time in America. The cast will be as follows Admiral HpaigeWbadoay - nais. zod-father... ir. Theodore Hamil Baron de Chamibray, a’ re- amition tired Colonel... M;, Olivier de Flantrore, s the Baron’e son-in-law....Mr. Joseph Wheelock M. Robert de Favroiles, pee saat + +-Mr, W. H. Power the Admiral’s neph Mr Abbe Coquard, spirit- +.Mr. Charles Stanley «-Mr. Charles Villars na} director. Paul Supplice Cardinet, the Mr. George 0. Shields ir. Walter Richardson ++-Mr. Harry Peareon Abbe's nephe Ambroise, contidential ser- It Dominique, servant. Prosper, in the servi the Baron. Baroness Seraphine, her on Mme. Albertine de Platt: Pose, Barone dausbter Mlle. Caroline de Geroy, alien Baio Fetes ‘a inaiden Indy, Lisette, a matd servant THE ADELPHI has been drawing fair houscs with Mafiitt-and Schoolcraft as the chief attractions. The open- ing piece. last week: introduced Yankee Locke in his dialect speeches. He was well supported by Miss Nellie Larkelic, who has be- come a favorite with the patrons of the Adelphi. Schooleraft and Coes were as good as usual in their negro sketches, the former being an artist of no small merit in bis line. “Miss ‘Ada Rich- mond in serio-comie efforts, and Pat Rooney in bis Irish songs, filled out the variety part of the losed with 2 Geraldine Maye Mrs, Clara Stoneall ‘Miss Cora Tanner nation. the pantomime of Robert Macaire,” written by Mr. Maflit, who filled successfully the part of Sgues ‘Strop. ‘The tableaux are good, although the piece itself is uot of a high order. Tne performances at the Adelphi for some time past, while they are far from being intellectual, are an improvement on those offered by previous managers. This week the Adelphi will open with Haverly’s Minstrels, All the old favorites have been retained and some additions made tothe troupe. Several new sketches will be brought out, including a parody on * The Dan- icheffs.” The managers direct attention to the | fact that George Thatcher, Messrs. Welch and Rice, Add Ryman, George Wilson, Billy Rive, and Billy Carter will take part in every per- formance. They believe this is a strong combi- LOCAL NOTES. “The Danicheffs ” will be acted until further notice. The attendance has been large and profitable. After Wednesday, standing-room was 1n demand, and the same order of things promises to continue through this week. Mr Harry A. Webber, a young comedian well Imown in Chicago, has purchased from Prof, I. R, Haid, of this citv, an original comedy in five acts, entitled “Darlings.” Persons who ‘have read the picce pronounce it admirable in idea and construction. Itwwill be produced in Chicago during the coming season by Mr. Webber and the Wallack combination. THE NEW PLAY IN NEW YORE. “Baby” is described in the advertise- ments a5 “a dramatic idol’ (ic.) in three acts. It was produccd at the Park Theatre Monday. . The World says: “From the first secne tothe last the audience, which was large and critical, was deprived of the power of criticism by continued bursts of uncontrollable Iaughter... . . One of the authors of ‘Baby,’ M. Hennequin, was the writer of the best ‘parts of ‘Le Proces Veaura- dieux,” trom which *Forbidden truit. ‘Life,’ ‘The Great Divorce Case,’ ‘Larks,” - Wanted— A Divorce,’ ‘ Forbidden Pleasures,’ ‘How to Get a Divoree,’ ete., were taken, and ‘Buby,’ as adapted by Mr. Thomas B. MacDonough for the English stage, may look for aslong a life as any of these adaptations have had.” The plot is as follows: : Ar. and irs. Howard St. Paulare the aged parents of a young man, their gole offspring, who has been bronght up under the loving care of his mother, neglected by bis father, and rexarded by the household generally as 4 child, and always affectionutelyaddressedas Baby. Mr. E. ¥. Thorne ag #aby looked and played his part to perfection. Baby soon shows that he is not such an innocent infant as his mother wished him to remain and his father was hoodwinked into believing bim to be, He soon gets up to his chin in mischief, and by and by up to bis eyes tn perplonities. “By ine, help of his young frien, Af ins, capitally played by Mr. Lee, of MeVicket's Theatre, Chicazo, in whom the deluded father has confidence, and a villainous fraud of a tator, Vr. Tracy Coach, whom the fond mother has engaged to protect the morals and im- prove the mind of berdarling, the young scape- grace succeeds in bringing about un overwhelming conglomeration of misunderstandings, involving suspicion of the virtue of ume. Aurelian, the sep- arated wife of Coach, Mrs, Magnus, and almost everybody else. In the second act the scene is laid in Babys study, and great fun is cansed before the end of the act by the couceal- ment of one visitor after another in the several rooms and closets uround it, Ar, Magnus, a mer- chant, who, under pretense of looking after hie Cochineal bisiness, 1s making love to Mme. Aure- tian, who supports herself by giving leseons in music, is a difiicult character to play. The du- plicity of che cochincal merchant is, of courze, exposed, and the scapegrace son, being hetrayed by Susan, a servant girl whom he has incontinentiy kissed, is about to receive the punishment he de- serves, when the farce ends with the usnal ex- lanations and the defeat of the incensed father y the introduction of Afary Grafton as bis alfi- anced wife. The great character part of the farce is that of the tutor, and Mr, Lemoyne was im- mense in it,—quiet, reserved, roguizh, humoroi and msde’ up to perfection. The voo-hasty reconciliation with his g-saffering wife, layed with great dignity by —_ Miss finan Diet, after, the discovery of his selfishness and cruelty to her, is the weakest partof the piece. irs. Frank Murdock has 2 minor part in the play. The. Post says: ‘‘Baby’ is not iu any sense a remarkable literary or dramatic work, but is admirably qualified to keep persons amused during a hot summer's evening.” The Tribune says: “There is not a moment during which the audience is allowed to lose sight of the salacious idea which is the burden of the piece. If it be the province of the dramatic art to wreathe the cane at with flowers of wit and fancy, then this little play is in accord with its traditions, That it is not, however, is by no means a proof that it will not succeed. We cannot haye, it seems, all the cardinal virtues in summer theatres.” The Times says: “From a critical standpoint it. is not a remarkable vlay.’? The Heraté says: ‘It created continual laughter, and was heartily applauded, and makes a capital summer play, being trusque in action, lively in Ianguage, and not too long.” ‘The Sun says: “The theme is ingeniously complicated, cud stuck fall of tittle surprises and the best of farce business, so. tbat it keeps the spectators in acontinual roar of laughter. The acting throughout is unaficctedly clever.” GENERAL NOTES. _ The Soldene troupe left San Francisco. for Australia hastily and unexpectedly, disappoint- ing the managers of the Union Square Theatre in New York, where the Company was expected to play a summer engagement. Lettie Allen and J. B. Atwater concluded their engagement at Walleck’s Theatre, New York, last night. ‘The Three Guardsmen” was given at Niblo’s Garden, with: Mr. Frank Mordaunt. and Annie Ward Tiffany in the principal parts. The run of “Evangeline * at Daly's ended. The company engaged for ‘“ Poor Jo,” which. is to be brought out at the Union Square Thea- tre, New York, to-morrow, includes Miss Mary Cary, Mrs. Thomas Barry, Miss Isadora Cainer- on, Miss Adclaide Thornton, Miss Rosa Wilson, aud Mesers. Frank Mordaunt, James Taylor, G. W. Wilson, and George De Vere. Mr. E. 1. Davenport writes as follows to the Boston Courier concerning the announcement that “neither Edwin Booth, E.L. Davenpurt, nor fen DeBar would star the coming season : “JT do not know the intentions of Messrs. Buoth and DeBar tor the coming season, but, as far as { am concerned, £ propose to play just as many star engagements a8 I can make, and am pow busily engaged upon an historical play, by the late. George H. Miles, of Baltimore, en- titled ‘Oliver Cromwell,’ and also an entire new three-act play, purchased for me by J. 8. Clarke in London, where it has been most suc- cessful, entitled ‘Mammon,’ both of which wili be giveu to the public early in the season. You will therefore please contradict the announce- ment in your last issue.” MUSIC, THE SUMMER-GARDEN CONCERTS continue to be the only feature of interest in the local musical world. Of their success in a finan- cial Girection there is now no doubt, and this is matter for congratulation, since it may induce Mr. Thomas to give us another summer. The average of attendance has rapidly. increased as the weather has improved, until every perform- ance draws large ond enthusiastic audiences. The original season was to have ended with this week, but 2 popular pressure hus been brought to bear upon the Exposition Committee, and they have consented to give the mandgers another week, which will. be crowded with at- tractions. The season, therefore, will last two weeks longer. The programmes for the present week are rich and varied. On Monday eveniny, the lead- ing feature of the programme will be the Chopin concerto in E minor, op. 11, in which Mme. Eugenie de Roode-Rice will take the piauo-part. As Mme. Rice has played this con- certo before with the orchestra in Cincinnati, and with success, there will be avery general Gesire on the part of concert-gocrs to hear her interpretation, The other numbers of the programme are given by request, and will include Saint-Saens’ “Le Rouct @’Omphile”; Schubert's “German Dances”; Soedermann’s “Wedding March”; Vieuxtemps’ “Fantasie Caprice”; Beethoven’s overture, “Consecration of the House”; Liszt’s “Gretchen "3 Lumbye’s “Visions in a Dream ”; Strauss’ waltz, “ Wine, Women, and Song 7; and the burlesque “Uar- nival of Venice.” Tuesday evening has been selected for.the symphony performance, instead of Thursday; as usual, owing to the inability of Mr. Bischof to arrive here early enough so as to give the Wagner music on the former evening. Schu- bert’s masnificent symphony in C will be given, also the overture to Weber’s Euryarthe®; the Adazio from Beethoven's “Prometheus”; a new saite ‘by Saint-Saens, which Mr. Thomas has fast received; the vorspiel to Max Bruch’s ‘Lorelei; Strauss’ Wiener Bontions Waltz”; and selections from the third act of “Lohen- grin. Wednesday night’s programme will be de- Yoted to taelight faniastic,—the “ball-room o night,"—for which the following en- Ucing programme has been underlined: Auber’s “Bal-masque Overture’; Lanner’s “Schoenbrunner Waltz”; the “Coronation March,” and a waltz by the old Johann Strauss; “Libelle Polka’? and “Wiener Bonbons Waltz,” by Jobann, and the “Gnomen” and “ Forever” polkas, by Joseph Strauss; the bal- let music to Beethoyen’s “Prometheus”; Lan- 4 . burial service, ner’s.Heimweh Loendler??; the saltarello from Mendelssolin’s Italian Symphony ; Strauss’ “ Artist Quadrille”; Gunel’s * Hydropattien Waltz"; Parlow’s ‘Anvil Polka,” and Lum- bye’s “« Champagne Galop.” = ‘Thursday evening will be given to the music of the future, with the finest Wagner pro~ gramme Mr. Thomas has ever produced here. it will be as follows: ‘The Flying Dutchman. Jntrddnction. I, Act. inning Chorus, SilorsChoruas ¢ H+ Act. Cavatina, Ib. Act. . 2 Ur, H. A. Bischof. Romance for Violin. (Transcribed by Wilbelmy.) dir. S. E. Jacobsohn. Dic Walicuere (rue night of the Niebelungen Trilo Siegmund’s Love Song. ‘I. Act. a. HA, Bischof. The Ride of the Valkyriss (Introduction to HIT. Act). INTERMISSION. Tristan and Isolde. Introduction (Love's Dream). Finale. (Third night of the Niebc~ o Goetterdaemmernng Inngen ‘Trilogy), Siegfricd's Death. Die Meistersinger. luction, Walther's Prize Song, . Ae Vorspiet. INTERMISSION. Lohengrin (Vorspiel). Tannhausér (Bacchanale), Katver March. Friday night’s programme has not yet been completed. Saturday night will be devoted to the.Italian composers. ‘MUSIC AND CHARITY. The following correspondence explains itself: Cmicaco, July 11.—S..Z. Ean.Ee. Mayor of St. John, N. B.—Deat Sin: Tne Apollo Musical Club ofthis city gave aconcert June 30 for the relief of sufferers by the late St. John fire, and as the reanlt we have the pleasure of inclosing here- with draft for £990.25, which we bey you to uccept with our kindest sympathy. “We caunot_and do not forget the great generosity of the citizens of St. Johnin our fearful calamity. We trost yon may speedily recover, and that the lose ‘through which we have all had to pass may help to continue 4 mance, much like that which Ketszch has given to the heartiest good feeling between your city aa ours, Very respectfally youre, APoLLo Musicat, Cunn, per James S. Hamilton, President. * REPLY. Mayor's Orricz, St. John, N. B.. July 19, 1877—To J. S. Hamitton, £sq., President Ap~ allo Club, Chicago, 10.—Dean Sm: Yonr kind favor of 11th inet. to hand with inclosure, draft for $990.25, The Apollo lub of Chicago have ‘our warmest thanks for the above late donation and for the expressions in. yours uccom- panying. We fecl this donation in a pecaliar man- ner, for in it are diaplayed both the feelings wnich actuated the members of the Apollo Club and the continned sympathy of the noble and generous citizens of Chicago, without whose support the Apollo Club could not have achieved such handsome results. St. Jobn wiil not forget Chi- cago. Youts very traly, S. Z, Earce, Mayor, LOCAL MISCELLANY. ‘Mrs. Dr. Martin, a pianist and organist of ex- cellent merit, will come here in September from Cleveland to reside. She will prove a valuable accession to our musical circles. Miss Lillie Smythe, who has been for seycral years past the leading teacher of vocal musicin Vassar College, is stopping with the Misses Dooling, at the Avenue House. Miss Smythe intends to locate permanently in Chicago. The Great Western Light Guard Bund, of this city, underthe direction of Mr. Clauder, are giving concerts in St. Louis at Schnaider’s Gar- den. Chicago had its revenge on Wednesday evening by compelling 3,000 people of that city to listen to Bruce’s tuba solo. We are indebted to F.S. Chandler & Co. for the toilowing new music: “ When the Angels Wateh Are Keeping,” song, by Abbie L. New- hall Spalding “ Under the Violets,” song and chorus, by Fred S. Pond; “ Happy Thoughts Waltz,” by D. 8. McCosh; and’ “ We Shall Sect, Him Again,” a sacred song, by W. Warren Bentley. ‘ Mrs. Florence Rice Knox has written a lone and severe letter: to the Adn- an (Mich.) Times about her recent de- but in London, in which she charges Gye, her manager, with the intention of sacri- ficing her so as to gefout of his contract, and alleges that she was the victimof English and Italfan intrigues. The Root & Sons Music Company send us the following new music: “ Life’s Wheat Is Full of Tares, My Boy,” song, by U1. P. Dauks; “Nevermore,” ‘a novturne, by Maurice H Strong; “The Stars Are Shining Bright, Love.” song, by Isabella Molloy; \ Wonderful Words of Life,” sacred song, by: P. P. Bliss; “ We'd Better Bide a Wee,” variations for piano, by W. MW. Graves; and ¢ Firelight Waltz,” by B. B. We are indebted to the Musical Review Pub- lishing Company for the July number of their magazine. conducted by .Mr.+ Armstrong. So far as editorial and selected matter are con- cerned, Mr, A. is working hard to make a good magazine, and desirves sympathy and support. It is rather ungrateful, however, that be should be hampered at one end of the line by the trash piled in at the otter, which presumably passes for “new music.” . Acurious errorin one of the Thomas pro- mimes on the Mozart night gave the Triple ‘oncerto as part of the Divertimento in.D. ‘The New York World takes the programme, errors andall, and says: “Mr. Theodore Thomas began his fitth week of concerts in Chicago Monday. Last night was devoted to the works of Mozart. One of the numbers, quite new in America, was the theme and variations from Divertimento No. lin D, concerto for three pianosand orchestra.”” The Apollo Club will arrange to furnish re~ served seats the coming season. The plan of repetition concerts will bediscontinucd, and the subscription fist will therefore be limited. For- mer associate members who wish to revew their subscriptions should make the fact known to Well, Sceretary, orsome active member e Club, at an early day, as the list will pe closed as soon as the required number are ob- tained. Mr. Tomlins is to be the. Musical Di- rector. ‘There was an informal gathering of the pupils of the Hershey School of Musical Art at the residence of Mrs. S. B. Hershey, No. 375 West Washington street, last evening. A choice sv~ lection of vocal and instrumental music, inter spersed with humorous and dramatic readings, formed the brinelpat features of the evening's entertainment. Miss Eva Mayers, a pupil of Mr. Eddy, presided at the piauo. Mrs. Hershey and Miss Grace A. Hiltz gave some very fine vocal selections.. Mrs. Hastings, Miss Branan, Miss Patterson, and Miss Rose, pupils of Prof. Lyman, added greatly to the pleasure of the evening with select readings. Letters which we have received from Boston state that the Mendelssohn Quintette Club has been reorganized for next season. Mr. Schultze, first violin, leaves in the fall to till-a_professor- ship in Syracuse University, and his place willbe supplied by a first-class player trom Joachim’'s violin school in Berlin. “Mr. Allen's plave will be supplied by Mr. Dannreuther, 2 violinist from Cincinnati, and brother of the’ noted Wagner partisan of London. -Miss Lewis, the excellent Yocalist, of last’ season, ‘has been re-engaged, The Pailharmonic Club, of Boston, will remain as last year so far as instrumentalists are con- cerned, Bernhard Listemann, leader. Mrs. Hattie Clark Yates has been secured as vocalist. EMMA ABBOTT. a Emma Abbott recently saug in St. Cecilia’s Roman Catholic Church in New York upon the gesasion of the opening of the Forty Hours’ Adoration. Immediately after the sermon Father Flattery, speaking from the altar, ten- dered thanks to all the artists who had given their serviees. He spoke of their art as lending dignity to religion, and described them, Mi: Abbort excepted, as stars in a galaxy.” Thi lady he selected for special ana prolonged culosy, commented upon the fitness of things eveloped in the fact that she stould sing at the shrine of the patron of music. and called her the Cecilia of Ameriea. This is rather hard on St. Cecilia, but the name of the clergyman is significant enouch to efplain it. A FUNERAL OPERA. The Duke of Saxe-Coburs-Gotha has written an opera, “Santa Chiara,” which was recently produced in London. The Pall 3fall Budget says of its **Santa Chiara” is f - ross tty Chiara” isn famoral preceded by a pro ot by an ‘epilogue. For that reason alone it wouid never be poouian. “Func, tals performed” may be an appropriate inscription forthe shop of an undertaker. But a manager who adopted such a motto would be a doomed man. Funerals should be ‘- performed" as litte as pose sible on the stage: and to devote an entire act 10.8 with the prima donna as corpse, 18 surely a mistake. °Itisan axiom in operatic art that the prima donna cannot be too much on the stage; but she must, be present ag a ginsinz per— eonage,—not asa ‘persona mua, still less oS a persona mortua. “**Masaniello” suffers not a ‘vile from ‘the ‘beroine’s being dumb. Santa Chiara is the only opern we know of in which throughout an entireact the heroine is quad. or is at least reported to be in that most. tinartistic state. From a dying prima donna anything may be tered to 2 musical accompaniment. But th limits even 'to operatic ‘abearditys and bya conven: tion universally accepted, and which’ certainly rests on arational basis, it is quite understood that when ehe is once dead the prima donna must sing no more. She may be brought’ to life acain, #3 happens to Carlotta, but as long as she remains in.the condition of a corpse, she must abstain from singing. 2 THE NEW PRIMA DONNA. Lucy Hooper writes her impression of the new prima donna, Mme. Gerster, as follows: Some months ago I had the pleasure of hearing at 8 privato honse a young prima donna. for whom Yat once and enthusiastically predicted a brilliant | - The Czar at the Front---Peter. the fature, so superb was her voice and so admirable washer method. Bille. Etelka Gerster was a young Hungarian lady about 20 years of age, not pretty, bat with a eweet, fair, ‘sympathetic counte- his Gretchen in his famous outline illustrations to. Goethe's **Faust." A pair of lovely,-large blne- stay eyes, clear, Instrous and fall of expression, jent lignt and mobility to her face, and framed with the peculiar sweetness of her smile her most po- tential charm. : ‘The voice of Mille. Gerster, or Madame Gerster, rather, for she was recently married to the opera manager, M. Gardeni, isa pure, powerful soprano of wonderfal resonance and compass, yet flexible asare the weak, thin threads of voice of French vocalists in general. It more resembles that of ‘Mite. Albant in its mingled volume and sweetness than that of any other of the great singer: to this vocal charm an intensely dramatic power of expression. displayed in countenance and in voice alike, and you will have some idea of the accumu- lated gifts of this new divinity that has eo recently taken her place in the Olympue of song. For the benefit of come one of the many Ameri- can singers who come abroad to study, I ianid re- mark that Mme. Gerster learned her att neither in Paris nor in Milan, her teacher being the celebrat- ed Marchesi. of Venice, who was also the instruct- or of Mme. Krauss. the prima donna of the Grand Opera. Itis probable that we shall hear Mme, Gerster at Les Italiens next winter. and she has already been engazed to sing in St. Petersburg. And itis not yeta year since I, on hearing thie shy, sweet, maidenly girl sing the ‘+ Jewel Song" from ** Faust." and the concluding aria of **La Somnambula,™ bailed her, not only in my own mind, but repeatedly in print as. well, star on the operatic horizon. m: di file. Nilsson -said to one of her friends that sh§ would not again sing in Paris unless she could appear in new part. Malic. Gerster has been engaged for the Ital- ian opera scason in Moscow and St. Petersburg, in the place of Mdlle. Adelina Patti, who does not return to Kussia. Herr Ehrbar, the well-known piano-maker at. EUROPEAN GOSS: ‘The Woman Who Claims to Be Antonelli’s Daughter. Great’s Wife. - Cossacks and Cossack Horses---The Marquis of Lorne. a « ““ANTONELLVS DAUGHTER.” Correspondence New York Wortd. Loypos, July 9.—Roman advices announce the institution of proceedings to contest the will of the late Cardinal Antonelli in behalf of a Add | woman alleging herself tobe hisdaughter. The scandal is by no means anewoue. Iam not ‘aware that it was bruited beyond a very limited circle, if at all, during the life of the Pope’s right-hand man, but shortly after his death it was heard of. The first announcement was ade in the Liberta, which journal declared that the succession to the Cardinat’s estate would ‘inevitably would profoundly excite public interest and curiosity. ive rise to legal proceedings which A lady, whom the iiterta discreetly ed “'Signora ——,” was said to have laid aim toa portion of the heritage, pretending that ‘she was bound to the late Cardinal by astherising | ties of a relationstip of a kind. sacred " and delicate above all others.” ATUSIOAE NOLES: the brothers of the deceased prelate, were his heirs, rejected absolutely, and refusing any compromise they prepared to defend the suit as the ouly way of vindicating his memory. What details were here lacking were shortly afterwards supplied by the Despatch of this city, not perhaps the best authority in the universe, especially on a subject of this kind. This claim who Shortly after the cntrance of the Italian troops into ‘Vienna, has, it is stated, invented a mechanism | Kome, according to the Despatch, it was noticed rendering it possible to prolong the sound of cach note of the piano at the will of the player. Iu the current number of a professional paper { in England there are more than a dozen adver- tisements for voval soloists ut churches, and the average salary is £12, or at the rate of about cighteenpence a service. Carl Rosa left England on June 12 to take a brief holiday in Italy. He will retarn during the third week in July, and in August will take again to the road, beginning at Dublin and Cork, and proceeding to Glasgow and other Scottish and some English towns before he opens again in London next year. “Mlle. Albani,” savs the Paris Figaro, “has created for herself a style of singing which has something of the art of 2 Benvenuto Cellini : about it; she sculptures each note, imparting to it the relievo, the ‘clearness, and the tinish im- parted by the great Florentine goldsmith to the pieces of gold and silver worked by him.” At the Handel festival recently held at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, the voices uumbered gn In Jo te ma: fa atter her arrival at Rome, the Countess §1 and died, but not before she had summoned to her bed-side one Siguor Chauvet, and disctosed to him the mystery which hung over the birthof the young girl. came to pitch upon this particular person as the confident of a secret so momentous we are not every sense of the word. f army, he was found guilty of malversation of the fands of the regiment that a certain Countess Marchonim took apart- ments in the Palace Bernini, on the Corso, her dress, retinue, carmages, and all her appoint- ments indicating her opulence. In publie she was always accompanie by 9 young and lovely Not long kencd ri, understood to be her daughter. Precisely how the Conntess formed. Anyhow he was “bad ege” in While serving in the to which be be- nged, an offense followed by a three-years’ ri of imprisonment. On his release he had established a small and scurrilous sheet, which ade it its business to discover and disclose— and probably to conceal for a consideration— iiiy secrets of a scandalous nature. Tohim the Conntess Marchonini was said to have dis- closed the fact, substantiated dit-on, by docu- about 3,000, and in the orchestra there were | mentary evidence, that she had been the eighty-ninc violins, ninety second violins, sixty- | Mistress of Cardinal Antonelli, and that six violas, sixty-one violoncellos, and fiity-nine | the girl living with her was the privst?s double basses, with wind instruments in propor- | daughter. Chauvet, after the woman's tion. ‘The Messiah” was given on the first day of the festival, when 18,300 visitors were present. On the second day, “Selection Day,” the visitors numbered 20,343. During tue season of the Imperial Opera- House in Berlia, which terminated on the 23d ult,, the works ‘performed and their number were as follows: Herr Wagner, 37; Mozart, 17; Meyerbeer, 15; Weber, 14; Signor Verdl, 12} Auber, 10; Goetz, 10; eethoren, $; Doni zetti, 8; Rossini, 7; Gluck, 6; Schumann, Nicolai, 5; Spontint, 3; Adolphe Adam, 3: Mehul, 3; "Buieldicu, 3; Grisar, 2; Halevv, 2; Cherubini, 2; Spobr, i; Herr Rubinstein, 3: Herr Taubert, 3; M. ‘Arnbroise Thomas, 6; Herr Kretschmer, 6; Herr Flotow, 5. The list of composers favored by the fastidious au- diences of Berlin is certainly most eciectic. <a ORIGIN AND NATURE OF THE BRIDGEPORT STENCHES, to esl pl tai BCI tal ‘To the Editor of The Tribune. - . €ntcaco, July 21.—The theory propounded in your cditorial columns, relative to the loca- tion and nature of the stenches which yisit Chi- cago nightly, is undoubtedly correct. propose in this communication to demonstrate the truth of that theory, which I believe 1 am enabled to do, having given the subject considerable study for several years. ~ First—As to the origin and location: . They originate in the rendering-houses, which are il far im Chauvet ised wife and her dower. expected, clung to the money; whereupon the lover hoe with the girl, returned as her hus- band, an ings against her guardian. The upshot of the squabble, us the reader will not be surprised to learn, was another appeal to Cardinal Antonelli, who paid the dower over again to secure the siiénce of the three persons ocquainted with the death, having been appointed by her guardian the young girl, according to Roman gossip, visited the Cardinal and succeeded in extorting from him a considerable sum of hush-money, Hed a portion for the girl and deposited in 6 hands as trustee. Further to com- cate matters, a lover presented himself, ob- ‘ined the girl’s consent, and claimed his prom- Chauvet, as might be threatened civil and criminal proceed- eret. Silence was secured till the time of his death, when the demand for a portion of the es- te was made under tke circumstances already related. ‘This morping’s dispatches from Rome an- nounce that the case has come up for hearing betore the Civil Court. The alleged daughter assumes the style of the Countess Lauretta™ Lambertini, of the best known and most capable lawyers of Rotme,—Signor Gallini and Sign orator and deputy. The woman sues for the estate valucd popularly at $8,000,000, as the and her case is in the hands of two or Tajani, the egitimate child cf the Cagdinal, and, in de- wit of legitimate offspring, heir. Accord- iz to the Vers’ telezram, she is the child of a foreien lady of rank, whose name is unknown, but who is said to be still living and married,— possible additional complication!—while the scattered over the region between and beyond { Cardinal, adds the correspondent, made the Stock-Yards and the river. They appear in aly Rome pelicre anat: she was the legitimate 3 th- | Gaugnter of a married lady who was not living the ay Roper ouly when | the south: | Cirnber bustand, ‘The polat mise on te west wind happens to blow directly in a line with a rendering-establishment and the city. In riding from Englewoo: to the city or southward any evening when the wind is souw’- westerly, one ivill pass” through several strata of stenches. These strata may be seyeral blocks apart, and their boundaries are as well-defined as any fenced inclosure. Why? Because the location of the stench is a _point—so tu speak— namely: the opening of the high chimney of a rendcring-house. The wind strikes tbe rising eflluvia and spreads it out like a gigantic fan. This I have demonstrated by crossing it at Michigan avenue, and when reaching its south- ern edge cross uver to Wentworth avenue, when the strata would be much narrower. The fan-iike expansion of the stench, starting from the rendering-house, spreads out like the tailof a comet. Now, if it originated in the river or ina slough, the effluvia wonld not dif- fuse itself in this shape, but would spread on the city like a vast mantle of nearly equal width. Secund—The nature of the stench. Iam sur- prised that some one has uot applied some sim- ple test which would demonstrate the vature of these smells. I applied two tests which re- sulted in proving, to my nose at least, their nature. I burnt. in a small fur- nace finely-cut fresh meat, and the odor from the chimney was not unpleasant, not at all like the Bridgeport smells. (2) A small por- dil th ly of it. in thi trial yesterday was whether the plaintiff might examine at once and before in the natural order of things their evidence would be called for, three of her witnesses—the Archpricst Ven- ti, the eldest of the late Cardinal’s servants, and. the midwife who assisted, she alleges, at her birth. great age of the witnesses and the risk of their dying at any moment. The V: be intensely excited over the affair, brought to This application is based on. the ‘atican is said to ¢ hearing of the Pope only a little while since, and Antonelli’s successor, Simeoni, having yain- tried to induce the brothers to compromise. If the Cardinal’s will be produced, there are likely to be some other very curious details concerning that opened, people who had looked upon the Pontifical Minister of Foreign Affairs as a man instrument. When it was great wealth were surprised to sce how siall was the agerezate of the bequests mentioned in Some of the items, legacies of taerely nomi- nal ainount to hospitals, the holy places of Jerusalem, ete., Were rather curious till it was explained by a clerical organ that under the old. law. not alone in the States of the Church, but many other Itatian Principalitics, the law governing wills made it imperative upon a testator to remember in his testament certain 0: spitals, charitable institutions, churches, or ie holy places, the funds thus derived going pe = i ick aud poor, especially tion of offal, decaying meat, etc., was placed in | 40 support the sic! poor, especial the furnace and burnt up. Tie odor from the | Strangers. In acne places - it sufficed chimney was identical with the “Bridzeport | that the will declared that the testator stench? with which we have been familiar. ‘The | had been asked to remember those one definite peculiarity of this odor is a “burnt-fetid ” smell, characteristic of no other stench but the one that arises from burniug offal. Iam familiar with whe stench from the river and its ditches, and it is very different. When the rendering-houses are obliged to run the gaseous products of burning and drying offal intu the-cround or throuch some deodor- izing fluid, then we aball Best no wore com- plaints. Haves, M. D. of in: al to ———a You, being worn of life, In quiet put it br, And lay down a: To his ni Upon your mount: hights My feet may never stand. . > Donbting, 1 know the Here; 1 grasp it—it is mine: But tell me. comrade, of thine. To thee is dim made plain? Life's mrsteries unscaled? tthow Alt Te thee Are hidden things revealed? the Hast thou thy perfect rest? 1s there continual peace? There hast thou reached the land Where mournfal muzmuring3 cease? sol Thine empty arms, do they institutions and had de tradit believing that the Pontifical Code had not been abrogated in Rome, should conform to the cus- tom. that the Cardinal’s will was merely a collection ed to do so, but most invariably a bequest of 5 frances or some such nominal amount was made. It was natural suppose that Antonelli, saturated with the itions of the Vatican and conscientiously Of jate, however, it bas been rumored algebraic symbols, su to speak, the true value which was represented by a list of figures of finitely larger amount confided to a trusty friend. “Thus, where 10 francs was the sum set down in the will, possibly 10,000 might be the amount really intended to ‘be given, the object of this of lea Emmanuel: or, possibly, the Cardiual may have had his fears as to whether the Government might not sequestrate some of the property. Whatever truth there may be in this story, it is pretty certain tocome out when the case gets fairly into the courts. ‘ ucealment being to avoid the payment duty to the Government of Victor THE CZAR AT ‘TNE FRONT. New York Tribune. ‘The announcement that the Czar is to cross ¢ Danube,and that the Empress is to join him at Tirnova, the ancient Capital of Bulgaria, brings to mind one of the most romantic inci- dents in the carcer of the Romanoff. During one of his campaiens against Charles XII. the Idiers of Peter the Great captured the town Told faet the Gone-Before? of Marienbure after a short defense sby Hast thon discovered Homey the garrison. Among the Prisoners-of-war ‘Now is the yearning o'er? Hast thou found golden frnits, Tastead of busk and sell! Enow'st now true happin if With thee are all things well? Thou, wko hust much endured, ‘Thou hast well vorne tay shield; ‘ow art thou victor-crowaed? Vow ure thy red wounds healed? bi Sh m ‘Would one could be quite suret But lite is new and sweet; Like thee. {cannot zo Anu face heath with qlad feet. Thy surety is not mine— 4am not comforted Dreaming what Heaven may be For me—when I lie dead. Yes, Iam drifting. But Have I not gauged Life's Whole? Yae, and no new thing waits Bevond, for thee, my Soul! . So, Lam grown strong to—die, ‘Never again to Tam content to slip Into a memary. Te wi And if I shall awake— And if I sluiaber on— And if] fird My Own— And if there come a Dawn— I know not. Go I forth Alone. Nor hope of shore, Nor fearing, neither dread: * To sajl strange seas——What more? Lei MW. tel was a Livonian peasant girl, 17 years old, graceful rather than pretty. She was weeping tterly, for the soldier, whom she had married only the day before, had perished in battle. This young girl became the Empress of Russia. he could neither read nor write, but her tem- per was so smooth that she could rontroi the ost ungovernable of rulers, even in those bursts of passion which made him almost a madman. She followeil him to his camp. and shared with him the dangers of war. When bis army was starving on the banks of the Pruth and disaster was étaring him in the face, she brought salvation to the camp by bribing the Turkisn commander with her jewels. Not long atterward the Emperor went to Berlin accom- panied by his peasant wife, and the ladies of the Pr so bedecked with silver tins: have bought them ina doll-shop. She wore few Court: said that her clotnes were ‘i that she must wels, but wss decorated with portraits of, saints and relics, which made a great clatter hen she walked, “A painted actress, pious but coarse,” was the verdict of the Princesses. But the Czar was not ashamed of her. She bad saved his camp. P- After Peter the Great came those warrior Queens, Anna and Catherine, who nearly drove the Tarks out of Europe. They did not them- selves lead their armies, but their commanders, Munnich, Romanzotf, Potemkin, and Suwarrow, It the pressure of an iron-handed mistress at St. Petersburg. The discipline which Munnich enforced in the army wag 23 unreasonable and. hard-hearted ‘asthe caprice of the Empress, When the hospitals were full, he issued an order forbidding any'soldier to'be sick under penalty Of being buried alive; and when his roops were unwilliug to storm a town, he turned his own batteries upon them and forced them to advance. ‘You will take Ismail, cog ” what it may,” were the orders which Suwarrow received, and 80,000 Turks perished in the siege and massacre before the dispatch was sent to Catharine, “Mother, {smail is at your feet.» The determination of the Semiramis of the North was 2s invincible as the courage of Suwarrow. The wives of Alexander and Nicholas were gentler souls, Alexander bargained at Tilsit for the con- quest of Constantinople, saying to’ Nanoleon, “TY must have the key tnat unlocks the door of my house.” Nicholas made two tremendous eflorts to wrest: the key fromTurkish hands, When bis armies invaded Bulgaria in 1835 he went to the front and strove to ‘arouse the en- thusiasm of his soldiers. Two fortresses were captured during the first year of the campaign, but the siege of Shumla was a disastrous fail- ure, and the troops withdrew to winter quarters, greatly disheartened. Although the Emperor lad purcnased the surrender of Varna, his presence hampered his Generals and did more harm than good. Setting sail. for Odessa, he narrowly escaped shipwreck on the Turkish coast, and during the second year of the cam paien he remained “at St. Petersbure. It was well .for the Russian arms that he staied away, for Diebitsch never would’ have reached Adrianople if he had had an Emperor in bis camp. Foiled by the plague in 1829, Nicholas was defeated ‘by the Allies in 1855, and died of a broken heart. ‘The Crimear war was foreed ‘upon the nation by the unyiclding will of Nicholas. The people had no heart in it; it was their master’s busi- ness; but the disgrace of defeat sank deep into their souls. They began to question the utility of the Imperial system. After all their sacritices a corner of their territory had been lopped off and their fleet had been driven from the Blacs Sea. Russian roubles and Russian lives had ‘one for nothing. The policy of repression had Faitea, and men asked ope anotter in muilled whispers, “Ts there nothing better?” At that feverish time, when discontent was festering ia the mass of the population, and army officers were proclaiming themselves Liberals, Alexan- der had the courage and ‘wisdom: to emancipate 000,000 serfs. He placed himself at the head of a national wovement, and in- troduced. popular reforms, which over. shadow the -glaring injustice of his Polish policy. Political freedom and religions tolerance are still unknown, but the New Rua- sia of Alexander is not the Old Russia of Nicho- las, and Catherine, and Peter the Great. In crossing the Danube, and hast :ning to the front at the critical moment of the war, the Czar wilt go to bis own place at the head of a uew national movement. When Alexender was heir to the throne, be went from court to court in quest of a wife, ‘fhe Grand. Duke Louis, of Hesse-Darmstadt, had several_dauzhters, bat only one of then pleased the Russian Prince. While her sisters were arrayed in jewels and silks, the youngest sat apartén a simple white dress. It was Marie Alexandroyna, the present Empress of Russia. She has aiways been in hearty accord with the Czar’s policy toward his people, and her place fs by his side at the Cabinet it not in camp. She muy not have the genius for a jewel. bargain weich the wife of Peter the Great displayed on the banks of the Pruth, bat sae can at least play the part of Cornelia, and pomt to her jew- els in the camp—tive sons fighting under the Greek cross. = COSSACKS. Glurgeto Corvespondence London Times, At the half-way station, where we stopped ta bait,—Kalugarem, ou the River Ardshi,—a party of Cossacks, with two batteries of horse artil- lery, were in biyouac, displaying at first sizht their peculiar habit of riding their horses naked in the water. Man and horse played together as boys might with dogs. They swam side by side, or horse in front, man -holding on by his tail; there was mounting and dismounting when the horse was swimming, and pushing each other’s heads under the water, the animal enjoy- ing the fun as much a3 the man. The reason for this curious habit soon became appurent. A fresh batch of horses, dusty and travel-stained, came down to the brink this time, ridden in some cases by Cossacks in uniform. Almost. invariavly the first impulse of the intelligent. little beasts was to lie down and roll in water about two feet or three fect deep. Waen suc- cessful, as they often were, their riders had. to down with them and take their. roll too, amid the careless, childlike laughter ot their comrades. It was all the same to the horses whether their masters were on their backs or not; down they went almost invariably and rolled to their hearts’ content. Sometimes they were driven into the water half-a-dozen at atime, and played all sorts of pranks together, rolling under cach other's bellics and tumbling about more like a sct of puppies than horses. Most of them, when they came out of the water, rolled in the dry, dusty stu that was lately mud by the side of the river, as dogs are fond of doing. These Cossack horses are not shod on their hind feet, but the practice of leaving the hoof to take care of itself does not scem tu be suitable to their work here at least. There were not many lame horses there to-day, but those which were lame suffered al- most invariably in their hind feet, though the roils are soft enough with dust. There were some hoofs worn almost exactly as those of an English horse would be if he had cast a shoc out hunting and been ridden ouleely home. Many stories are told of the cleverness of the Cossacks in obtaining what they need for them- selves or horses, and all tend to shqw that their morality is of a different type to that of Europ- ean civilization generally. Some of the storics may possibly have been invented, but they show. the general tone of feeling and what is expected. from these quaint, recitless, merry troops. Passing through the strects of Galatz. the thin, weary-looking horse of a Cossack suddenly fell and jay apparently lifeless oo the ground. Its master was moved cyen to tears, and Bewailed tue unhappy fate which had not only de- prived him of a favorite, but’ left’ him horseless just. at the most interesting moment of the war. A crowd gathered, round, and in it were men whose kind hearts would not suffer them to leave the poor man Without some practical expression of their pity. A subscription was made, and the man, taking the saddle from the lifeless animal, went on bis way with dricd tears, for ne had actually: wept. <As the crowd were bending over the little horse in pure sympathy. a whistle was heard at the other end of the street. ‘The horse sprang to his feet, and with a joyful neigh joined his mas- ter, whose clever trick was much adinired, even by those Who suffered by it. To decvive - the good peopleof Galatzin any transaction fp whieh money is involved is no easy task, and demands am amount of cleverness seldom to be found. Another proof of the same doubtful morality was told me by.an eye-witness. A Cossack haying cast his efes on u piece o, cheese which he desired to buy froma Jew, asked to exataine it. While it was in his hands be asked the price, which was, of course, exorbitant. He placed it under his arm aud bean to bargain. As he tal his comrades passed belind him and each cut off a piece. The Cossack said it was asmall chevse,the Jew that it was a big one. But asthe Cossack would show it from time to time looking sinalier and stnaller, the dew, afraid to attempt any violence, gavin to the Cossack’s price, which, unlike that of the Sibyltine books, grew ever Sinuller and simaller, as the article be had to uy diminished. TRE MANQUIS OF LORNE. Phitadetohia Press, The Marquis of Lorne,wio is Queen Victoria’s son-in-law, sitsin the House of Commons as representative of the Scottish country from which his father has obtained his ducal title, Hitherto father and son have geuerally held the “same political opinions—the difference being that the Duke of Argyle, taking a decided part in public life, was a member of the late Glad- stone Cabinet, aud, during the present session, has tnade one or two strouz and able spee-hes in the Upper House against the pro-Turkish policy of the Disraclf Goreraient. ais. Lorne, who has written some pretty poetry, has not sourht to distinguish himseli by making speeches in the Comamons. His represen- duty is discharged by silent yotes. In the great six days’ debate on the Eastern «uestion, arising out Mr. Gladstone's proffered resolu- tions, Lord Lorne’s vote was found in the Min- isterial majority. It is reported in the political circles of London that he is to be reswurded by being raised to the House of Lords; at present he is a Marquis only by courtesy, asa Duke's eldest son, his leval ‘address being the *[Hon- John Sutherland Douglas Campbell, commonly called the Marquis of Lorne.” It is usual, when a Peer’s son is called to the House of Lords, to give him one of his father’s baronies... But the Duke of Argsle, though fourteen Scotch peer- ages are concentrateu in his person, has only 3 solitary English barony (Baron Sundridge and Hamilton), on which rests his sole hereditary right to sit and vote in’ the House of Lords. This contretemps is said to have caused some trouble at Court, where it is -considerei highly proper that the Queen’s son-in-law should no Jonger be a Commoner with s courtess title. oo A servant presents herself ina new. and newly-organized menage: The mistre: You will find the work very easy; there arc only my husband and myself. “We have no children.” The servant—O do not pat yourself out for One, though 1 adore them.” 5 Tae Mar- - y 5