Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 7, 1877, Page 11

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. 11 = AMUSEMENTS. Edwin Booth’s New Departure in the Role of “ Richard the Third.” Tidings of Local Theatrical Events for the Pres- ent Week. dwon Boucicanlt’s Row with the Eastern Critics Over His New Comedy of “ Marriage.” Testimonial to Mrs. Rive-King---Eddy Or- gan Recital. The Hershey Popular Concerts--The Hess Troupe--Kellogg and Cary--Theodore Thomas. SHAKSPEARE’S RICIHARD. EDWIN BOOTH'S NEW DEPARTURE. Unquestiouably the most nurable dramatic event of the past week was the production by Mr. Edwin Booth of the Shakepearean version of ©Ricbard IIL> It may be safe to say that cuch a depurture from the venerable **tradi- tions* will not be indorsed vers generally by {he dramatic profession. We should be sur- Jrised, indeed, if it dia not meet with a “This- Will-never-do from the majority of the older gctors: and this has already proved to Le the ‘ase to some. estent. MeVicker himself had grave appreheusions for the success of the ex- periment, and, although he has found good rea- sonsivee the performance 1o modify his opin- jons, he still casts a longing, lingering look be- Jind at the good old * acting edition ™ of Colle: Civber. Soit will be no doubt with most of his ors and managers untit Mr. Booth has inuovation (1) so universally accepta- Yle as to wipe poor old Colley aud nis work completely out of remembrance of this gencra- ton. “T'hie usual reason assigned for the preference of Cinber’s claptrap version to the original is (hat the former is the better * acting play of the two, by which, we presume, is eant not that his % Rickard 7 is a finer dramatic creation, but that the representation is better caleuluted to - bring down the house.” 1f the experience of two cvenings may be accepted as a fair jindication of the reception to be accorded to Booth's version for the future, this worn-out We may theory is completely demolished. never respouse to the familiar * Off with his head: so much for Buckingham,” or * Skadows avaunt Jtichard’s himself agains® and that “w youtn who fired the Evhesisn dome? w e consigned to everlasting oblivion. Yet the actor will find ample compensation for the Joss of this kind of applause—' L is di rected, not at the acting, but at the Lomba: utteranees—in the appreciation of the more in- tellizent observers. 1t was noticeable that Mr. Booth won more applause for his acting on Tuesday and Wednesday than he ever eid in Nis former representztions of the character. And this despite the utter absence of rant and claptrap, which have hitlierto distigured the por- trait iu tie hands of the best theatrical artist: Indeed, his self-repression throughout was truly admirubie. In place of the old, noisy Jiickard, who in truth was nothing but a vulgar butcher, —*a fine old hioned tyrantall of the olden ¢ presented with 3 skillful de- a of the profound dissembier that hiz naked villainy With old odd ends. etolen forth of Holy Writ, And seems a samt when most he plays ihe devil. There are none of the subtletraits of character in Jiichard which Shekspeare painted in some of nis puilosuphic rogues, as, for example, in & i iv 2 bold, ambitious scuemer, mind from the first to wade 1brouglslaughicrto the throne. e Las nopity, 10 remorse: be does not start like Vacheth at bt of blovd; he revels init, and laushs idea of euch thi a5 compunctious . and 1 his march ouward w ambition he only pauscs to and laugh at the poor dupes be deceives into convert with his desins. Buch a ¢ ter, one v, requires by liest histrionic capaaty for its It is a picture that is tu be n rougl, bold vutlines, and this is what Mr. Boow has done. His acting is vivid aud strong, full of those sudden . flasnes of flery ve- hemence which have been a characteristic of the best of the Booths. Among the b of i s may be noted that in which he suddenly the: musk with Hasti and commands Catesy to chop off his L It was as if a fiend had sprune out of 4 monk’s cowl. The Wooinz of Qucen Anue, and the other no Tess iu- teresting wooing of Queen Eiizabeth for the hand of her diusliter, were cach masterpicees. There was an admirable it of acting, 100, in the scene wiere he yields 1o the citizens, and aceepts the crown. 1n the Cibber version, Richard is made 10 utter a wild apostropiie to the crown— Oh. how its awful glory wrups my sonl, whichis one of Coiley's flights. This, of course, is eliminated. Mr. Booth waves an adieu to the departing citizens, aund turns round with a look of keen exultation, when e suddenly perceives the Lishop, Toe prompt suppressionol bis real fur and the quick resutption of the mask of wetity Some, let us to our holy rear again™ —was 4 consummate picee of stage cifect, In the tent scenc Booth adheres strictly to delivers very cffectively a At soliloquy; and o the death senc he drops a grest deal of meudless staze feneing. His death of Jickard can e compared to nothing that has been secn on Liwe etagre since Salvin's death of Uikeilo. e s the futal thrws there is one brief rony, vne spasmodic effort to rush versary; then i leap iuto the airg aownward, and there hie bioudy do¥ is dead.” painfully realistic, but e summit of chuckle over bis su &l was an cnd of him. He dics like a dog. It thoronzhly claracieristic. On the whole, Mr. Booth is to be conzratu- Jated on his ftickard. If it dovs not supersede the Colly Cibber version it will be mainly o 1o tite cireumstance that it Tequires the assis snce of 4 larrer number of good Actors. But We huve uo besitation in predicting that, once the public become familiarized with the present version of Mr. Booth, they will he content to let Colley Cibber remain on the snelf. LOCAL EVENTS. TRE THEATRES THIS WEEE. Dion Boucicault will be here iu the flesh this week, and will appear as Conn in The Shaugh- ran ™ for one week only. » ‘The Lingards at Hooley’s Theatre will remain aweek longer, and will present a varied pro- gramme. Following is the repertoire for the week: Monday, * LaTentation (Led Astray): Tuesday, *The Hunchback ny “Lady of Lyons®; Thursday, Magdalen”; ¥ The Vesial 3 Suturday, the same. The Adelphi will be occupied this week by the “Baba™ company in that “spectacular . how picce of brauty.” Great scenic effects. grand transtormation, 2nd Bonfanti and Kem- melsberg at the head of. the bailet. At Wooa's Musenut, where Tony Denier presides, Mr. E. T. Goodrich, tne character artist, will be the star of the week in a sensu- tional and emotional drama of his own, en- tided *Grizzly Adams.” Atthe New Chicago the Minstrels will con- tinue, itk some fresh attrictions thrown in, amone others the popular favurites, Billy Rice sette Welch, Au attractive progtamme red for Monday, NOTES. Tony Deaier is getting ready his war- for pantomine. “Surdanapalus” is underlined at Hooley’s for next weck. Raymond appears in “Risks” on Monday evening next at McVicker's. - Prof. McFarland, the well-known clocationist will next Wednesday be given a testimonial ben int ! ¢fit by bis fricnds in the chapel of the Washine- tonian Home. Some good dramatic ung mu- sfcal talent is enlisted in the enterprise. Katie Putnam has secured a copy of *That Lass o’ Lowries.” which is now one of the reion- ing London sensations. and will bring it out at the Adelpnion the 15th. Mrs. D. P. Bowers was on a visit to Chicago fora few davs lust weck, looking after her real- te interests, and she seemed highly en- ouraged to tind everything Jooking so pr ous.8he intends to buiid 2 home next yea tlie Drex-1 boulevard and stay there. Her new play, *The Third Estate,’ Las received favor- able comment from the St. Louis press. The Mound excavators sent on to this city last week o curfous specien which was recognized by some old settlersas bearing the form and im- be of Harry Linden. 11 looked as fresh and well-preserved as Hurrylooked in the duys when Chicago wus a mud-puddie—~the samo tragic bearing, the same spectacles, the same dark ringlet hanging over the philosoobic forehead. The curiosity was viewed with great interest by the members of the profession. It will be ex- Inbited this week at the Coliseum. The eflorts of Mr. Wurster to give German theatrical performances in this city on weck days do not find the reward they deserve, the performances so_far having been very poorly patronized. Last Thursday evening, at North Siae Turner-Hall, there was offered a spiendid comedy entitled * The Darwinians,” and Offen- Lach’s sparkling operatta, Die Verlobuns Unier der Laterne,” with Miss Cottrelly in both plays, and yet_there were but $65 worth of seats taken. Under such circumstances, it must b evident that German theatrical performances on week days will not pay, and munagers will be careful in the future not to make similar at- tempts. To-night the comedy of Therese Krones will De given at the New Chicazo. In this play Miss Cottrelly has achieved her greatest trinmphs wherever she bas appeared. DIONYSIUS REDIVIVUS. A CASE OF MANAGERIAL BULLDOZ 1t and Sottiern are the most skillful advertisers in the theatrical profession. The ouly ditference detween the two is, that while Sothern very often lets his tendency towards practical jocularity run away with him into an unsolicited notoriety, Boucicault is unintermit- tingly laying his plans and watcling his oppor- tunities. [lis audacious letter to Disracli iube- haif of the Fenians was a clever ruse to make his name popular among the lrish people and put money in his purse. His letter to the Xorth American Revicw on * The Decline of the Drama” was in like manner caleulated to awaken n widespread controversy, and that he did not miscalculate was evidenced by the fact that hardly a newspaper of sy prominence failed to utter some reply to his animadver- elons. This was precisely the effect intenaed to be produced, and he meant it to be produced just at the proper time,—namely, a little while in adyance of the production of his new come- dv. And now note the result. “Marriage,” Mr. “Boucicault’s new comedy, which wis Drought out at Wallack’s last Monday, and sim- ultaneousty ar-Philadelphiy, bas met with the almost unanimous condemuation of the New itics, They condenin it heartily; and this y what the author wanted them to do. 1lad he not inditea that famous epistie on th decline of the drama, in which he assalled newspaper critics so vehemently, they might have passed the play over with taint l)rm’se, but that would bhave afforded sim uo opportunity of arow. And it wasa row that e desired, 2aud a Lighlv inter- esting row he has managed to raisein the East over his new play. The Philadelphia critics praised it, the New York critice snecred it down, and the suthor i ave command over unlimited dailies—turns round and ceals hard blows at the i critics. He has b pinninge out iuterviews by the yard, all contri ing to the renown of his new drama. 1 1y taunts the critics into siminations, aud so keeps hisname the world. ork paper which rinds bis tozethier lovelyis the Graphie, p says the plot is unusually good for the i of 4 comedy. ** The wit and humor 5 izl order. The audi- Wt constantly surprised and deligited yof the situations and The story of scenes which deseribe the marrlage, the weddinr-morning, 1he wedd inw., the day after the wedding, and the 1icsi wynoon.”” On.the othier Land, the Sun says it is bad, and 0 v: %In(ne first place, “Marriage’ is not intefesting. It is devoid of That which Mr. Boucicsult has ende: tute for one is an undeierminate illustruted and brightened by inci- dents that do not grow out of it, and only add o its bulk. The interest of the spectatoris i howy nd clever irrelevan- 2 ad is so slight that the cp- :}:vturiu on 1o conceal is told In a se dss before the The Vo ay as “a_non- deseript work, glittering with tinsel, brilliant esslul only by reasou hias nerther o natural w, nor a rea- st The Tribion of comey it dis clement will aly on the popular heart element of this v hold up- is deficient of ennobling that is either interestinge ouc from which anythi i ugh., Thereis but little attempt at acterization.™ The Hera'd @ 1t hes no_strong 2nd clear dra- matic purpose, and that interest becomes in the lubyrinth of minor plot: sustained development ot snectators can become al Liekl in 1o fate, %e; no climax ohit out, but in- rently disconnect- d situations, artificially fastened tozether, and forced into tie semblince o: a nutural plot by the wili and skill of the writer. The Zimss: It brings together many impor- tant persouages and embraces half a dozen plots, with comparatively listle action. But Boucicault. who must Kpow better than all the crities put together, savs: * As a literary work, 1 think it is superior to either uf theti London A ance? and “ Old Heads and oung Hearts™), being a truer comedy in that 5ol It is what istermed an epigrammatic comedy more in the vein of the older school Congréve, where the dialogue is composed of an uninterrupted ciwin ol epigrams. This style of play requires a wakeful audience tocateh the points as rapidly as they are made. I have wrtten this work to test as far as fean the question whether there is really a taste fora i s of writing now than has cxisted during the teu years. Inmy judz- sent, it 15 the best work of this calibre” that I huve written.” Iy Lo the Herald’s supplementary notice Alr. Boucicanlt writ “You the Weuk spot 01 0y We tained dramatic in! I hold ing of interest (which is the susp mind while entertaining a sequence of incidents tending to an apprehended ea. element of drama. but not of comedy. Such an fnterest we find in **The Two Orphans,” or %1 ed Astray,” or the *Lady of Lyous,” but we do not find it in ** As You Like It," nor in the « Midsummer Night's Dream,” nor in “Love for Luve.” are pure comedies. When we introduce sustzined dramatic interest into comedy we infi ntiment into the action and thereby obtain what is calleda mixed play,— such is * Money 7 by Bulwer, which is nota pure comedy, but rather a serious subject treated with comic meaus. The subject of pre comedy skrould be the development of character, and the treatment should be wholly epizrat juatic. ‘The plot which in drama is superlative in cowmedy is subordinate. But in these melodramatic, sensational society drama days eucha work may not be appreciated. T offer New York a picee of point luce of the stvle ad- Mmired a century ago; you ask why it has not the texture of broadcioth. I answer, Because it 15 lace (comedy) and not brondcloth (drama). Tt may be that such lace Is no longer an article of daily wear, and some people, wio never saw Such Tnce except on the altar or on canonical vestments, might regard the fabric asan old Yet, nevertheless, it is lace, and to those stand it it is costly, 1 am now trving the experiment on the New York publie Yo accertuin 1f they understand its value. If they do not recoguize the fineness of this kind of manutacture I shall be happy tofurnish them with good, stout broadcloth; but 1 think they do. My lace may not be very choice: but you will pardon me saying it is lace, and as such could not Lave in it the bie thread of interest Fou seem to wiss in the texture.” *“The World editorially asks: to prove that the unanimous approval besi by the Philadetphians on Mr. Buuccault's play was not the result of a conspiracy ¢'—tbe witted Dion having laid that same charge to the New York pru: Who shall say? It looks like a conspiracy all round. STAGE GOSSIP. EW YORK NOTES. . Sothern's voice in the * Crushed ’ sounds like J anarmy of fog-whistles, but its tone issaldto | add greatly to the effect of the grandiloguent Fitz. . The question of the manazement of the Fifth Avenue Theatre has been finally decided. The new lessee is Mr. Stephen Fiske, who was for years assoclated with Mr. Augustin Daly in its dircetion. Aimee went to Justice Parker's Court the other day to recover certain money from an agent who, it was claimed, had swindled her out of it. When she arrived in courtall the lawyers’ clerks in the neighborhood bhandeu ber written passes to the theatre and requested her to sign them. She grazefully complied, imagining thein to be legal documents. They did not undeccive her, and th is hardly a doubt that tuc legal profession will be well represented at the next presentation of * La Marjolaine.”— World. The Edwin Adams benefit has been arranzed to take place atthe New York Academy of Music on the 12th inst. “The dramatie profe sion has entered heart and soul into the effort. Alrcady over fifty leading members of the theatrical profession have promised to coutrib- ute to the entertainment. ‘The programme will include the third act of “Othello,” with Mr. Sothern, Mr. Floreuce, Miss Lotta, rs. Drew, and Mr. Louis Aldrich. Miss Clara Morris will vrobab; y in the fourth act of *Camille,” Desides which the programme will include sev- eral amusing incidents. The chotce seats and Doxes will b sold at_auction on Monday, with Messrs. Sothern and Florence as auctioneers. A few weeks ago the public were told that Miss Clara Morris was at death’s door, and that her dissolution was onty a matter of days. So it seemed to her friends. Her engagements were canceled, und it was thought that her genius had illumined the staze jor the last time. She was taken to bier home, and ail that experts and friends could do to repair her shat- tered constitution was done. Her will was strouger than disease, and she aunounced her Jetermination to pluy again this fall. Her friends dissuaded, but she would not be per- suaded. She began to mend. ‘The shore dnve in au easy carrfage was followed by a long drive in her ptiacton, ond that by a ride on horscback. Her color returned, her strength revived, and every day she extended ber ride, until ten and fifteen miles were but a mild and pleasant touic. ‘Then she sent for Mr. Palmer, and arranged for a series of verformances. She ch MUiss M- fon for the first, a role which enlists every fibre of her mental ana physical stature,—a role that Jeaves her at the end of the play as limp as a A New York correspondent furnishes a list of actors’ salaries, from which we extract the fol- Jowing items: Miss Clara Morris, when at the Union Square last season, had $600 a week, fur- nishing her own dresses. Fanny Davenport Is said to have received §750 & week last year at the Fifth Aveuue, and 31,000 u week when star- Fiug. ltose Eytinze got $350 a week at the Union Squarc; Ada Dyas had $250; Kate Clax- ton had 31 When George Clarke w: W York he had $125 and §150 a we John Gil- bert got § Willin Davidge, $100; James Lo 150+ Harry Beckett, 8150; C. R. Thorue, $250; John Brougha 2003 . lontague, §225; Charles Fisher, §130; C. Stevenson, $7; . W. Carroll, 873, Salaries are paid for Leading men like seasous of eight months. Thorue, and Broughumn, and Davidge have an- nual benefits in addition to their salari Jolm Brougham nettea 81,100 by one benelit at the Fifith Avenue; Thorne mude $1,000 by a benctit Square. Sothern now hires his but instead of 50 pur cent he gl 70 ver centof the gross receipts. The lark Theatre holds about 31,200 a night. Say he plays 1o $7,000 a weel, 70_per ceut of $T.000 is $4,000. Fortunately his present play,a new onc here, does not need any _ high-priced people, so his expenses are xbout 300 a weelk, which would Jeave Mr. Sothern the pleasant weekly income of $4,000. THE UNCRUSHED TEAGEDIAN. 4 They fool him to the top of his bent.” The Count Joannes spoke in supportof s wounded honor at Tammany Hall last Wednesday night. « \What galls me,” said the Count, “is that he own company, makes me out a delirium tremens.” “ Ihave my life,” said he, * been intoxi- Whereupon there was a perfeet +Oh, vou may laugh,” he eried, and they aceepied the permissivn and continued to do so. **You may laugh, but [ tell you there is no nobler task ou carth than to e industrious and sober. Do you think Iwould ji ortralt in a looking-glass? [Crics ] Noj but to be madea loath- some, drunkei sot, a delirium_tremens—. “Married$® [The Count broke off here abruptly and u d the *Crushed Trage- dian.’] ~ “Want to bet? [And then continued.] Good God! Is that the Count Joannes to alady#” Andthen he went on to tell how he Eaw the play in_company with o lady of bi quaintan nd Gov. Hoffman and M Theodorus Tiltoniug,™ and how he was pla tauk the lady, since otherwise e * wo Jjumped on the stace aud torn the actor off him.” But the Count, *‘thank God, was protectéd,” and after Mr. Sothern hiad worn off the delirium tremeus he was really like the Count and did his character no injury, and the Count was not displeased at the imitation. ‘After that the Count gave what he called proof that hie was an uncritshed tragredian, reciting lections from - Othello,” ~ * Hamlet,” “and “ Macbeth.” e rendered thelinefrom * Hawm- “Thon shalt not e calumny and uned stander,” and closing with achetn,” re was noise to lift the roof wiien he rendered, ] fear no Northern and no Sothern foe.” The Count closed with that. GENERAL AMERI NOTES. Boueicault is to write a tew play for John Me- Cullough. John Brougham has purchased Stanley Me- Keuna's new comedy of ** Our Oddities.” Janauschek will produce in Boston a new Russian drama, and the dead-heads will prob- ably go in on a Shipka Pass. Joaquin Miller is said to bave disposed of the © Danites ” for $50,000. That ought “to keep nim in-red necisties for some time. «Baba ™ delighted the Cincinuatiads last week. One impressive eritic declared that Belle Hfowitt!s legs would muake Venus weep with envy. N. C. Goodwin, the Boston comedian, recent~ Iy married Miss Eliza Weathersby in San Fran- eisco.—(incinnati Commercial. What, againé— Buston Losl. ™ 1f poor Ben DeBar had received one-tenth the praise while living that is being piled on Ins corpse now, he would have becn the greatest star in the world. Lydia Thompson, in a recent interview with a representative of the Graphic, complained some- what of American audicnces for their dullness in not appreciating puns. Miss Thompson evi- dently doesw't understand_ our Way: her peep around the curtain Letween evening, and she will see 500 cager wen T out to “smile."—Frchange. The following advertizement lately appeared in the columns of a theatrical coutemporary: “May Fiske. baving cauceled ler engagement with Mr. Beuton, is now at liberty 1o accept offers forstarring tours or Ieading business.” Toere would be nothing very extraordinary in this were it not for the trifling arcumstance that Benton happens to be the husband of May never cared—. storm of mirth. While performing at Detroit the other even- ing, Uarry Hunter, the Lone Fisherman of «Fyangeline,” injured himsclr quite severely. In the prizon scene he exceuted s fiying leapa 1a Liarlequin through an open windoiw, but there was nobody to cateh him, and he struck the floor with such viclence thet his back was severcly Lurt, and it will be some time before he can exé- cute any more grotesque dancing. Mr. Barrett played ** Hamlet ” in Cincinnati last Monday might under rather uniavorable circumstant Huamlet trod the boards of the Grand Opera-Ilouse while an fmmense political mass-meeting shouted themselves hoarse in the hail above. Toadd tv the pleasaniness of the oceasion a brass band discoursed sweet music which out-leroded the orchestra; and when Hamlet vesought Guildenstern to *play this pipe,” the band took the request p and played on all the pipes they had. on this occasion Jlamlet's last wo: ere s with more than usual meaning: “ Ihe rest silence.” The Australisn papers are making a ereat fuss about Joe Emmet's jumpine off Glenelg jetty into the sea with his Ulster on, whence he was rescued by some nshermen. The dense stupidity and ignorance of Australfans is noth- jne new, but they mizht have understood in this instance that Joe was rebearsing a mew situa- tion in a drama of his own writiug, said to be of thrilling interest, and entitled “ The Watery Waif of tiie Wicked Waves,” in which the hero gwims across the English Channel clad in an Ulster oyercuat and carrying his father's will of eighty-four pages between lis teeth. “Actors in Amcrica make their greatest suceessin parts which they have practically rehearsed in tius way. aud it is not3ing unusual for them to_sct firc to a house and escape, by sheets tied to- pefher, from the sixth story just asthe roof falls in. When wilt they ever wake up in the antip- odes?—San Francisco paper, FOREIGN NOTES. is Mr. Gilbert’s ney play, shertly to be pro- duced at the Haymarket, avill have the title ¢ Engaged.” Miss Neilson, who does not return to America £0 500D as Was at one "time expceted. will fulfill an engagement at the Haymarket next Christ- mas. Mr. John S. Clarke appearcd at the Hay- market, London, o1 the 15th September before the larzest house of the season. He played two of his most popular and amusing characters, Paul I'ry and Major De Loots, and his reap- Dearance was enthusiastically welcomed. At the 100th representation of the Cloches de Corneville " at the Paris Folies Dramatiques the theatre was thrown open to the public srratuitously. At noon a queuce began to form fL the doors, and at 7 in the evenine it reached far away along the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir. The theatre could hold no more when 2,000 people had squeezed thelr wav in. Mr. Heory Compton, the comedian, died on Sept. 15, at the ageof 7. AMr. Compton (whose real name was Mackenzie) made his first ap- pearance in London in 1837, at the Lyceum, in the musical farce of ‘*The Waterman.” He joined Mr. W. II. Hammond at Drury-Lane in the succeeding vesr. and was afterwards en- gamed by Mr. Macready for the same bLouse. fis lasi engazement i London was at the Lyceum, where he gl'.\_\'cd the Gravedigger in e lonz ran of the play Iamler” duringu 10 5eas0NS AZ0. Mr. Howson, whe sang in burlesque with the Oates troupe. has pleased the London people. Iie is playing under the managzement of Mr. Hendersou. The Observer says: “Mr. J. How- son makes, as the Cumimnodore, a decidedly hap- py first appearance: bis sense of humor seems, Wiere he has « chauce of displaying it, to be sound, and be makes the hit of the evening by his song.of The Warbling Cobbler,” in which he parodies with real skill the florid embellish- ments added to simple tunes by pretentious and ill-advised singers.” “They order those things differently and more censibly in France, he Theatre Taitbout, of Paris, had made all jts arrangements for open- ing early in September, when down swooped upon it the police authoritics and the city archi: tect, the former ordéring a complete change of the Tighting arrangenicnts, the gas-burners pe- ing acemed Cangerous, and the building of & solid brick wall to arrest any fire thut might break out belind the scenes, and the latter a subterrancan pussage from the stage for the actors. ‘The repairs will be costly, and the opening have to be put ba to Oct. 15. MUSIC. - THE RIVE-KING TESTINONIAL. The following is Mme. Rive-King’s reply to the letter which was printed in last Sunday’s TRIBUNE, extending to her, in recognition of Ter artistic ability and her residence in the city, a testimonial concert: CuiFtox Hovse. Oct. 5, 1877.—Gen: P. 1L Sheridan, Franklin MacVeagh, Gen. .. W. For- suthe, and others—GENTLENEN: The offer embud- jed in your very kind note of the 30th September T uccept with thanks decver than I can find words {o express, 1 cannot rezard 1t i the light of u personal compliment merely. I choose rather to Hecm it an evidence of your love for the urt for which I live, and of your desire to give to that art, through me, semething of tribute. ~ I could not but be deeply gratiied at being made the medinm of such g tribute, even were I inse: le to the gen- “rous estintion in which you are pleased to hold Iy professional ability, —which T assure you I au not. The concert ouglit to be upon an art plane as high as circumstances will permit us 1o reach. If you will be so good as to place the management of it in the hands of any of your number, 1 shall be more than happy to do ail I can in furtherance of guch plans s they may devise. ‘The time aud place I would leave for them to name, premising that by an unfortunate accident Lam deterred from playiny, and will be for several days to com JuLia Tave-Kive, Neither time nor place bave yet been definite- Iy fixed. The gentlemen having the charze are negotiating with leading art ill the vocal parts of the programme, and thus far with every promise of success. Nothing wilt be left undone to make this concert u memora- ble feature of the scason, as well as a g tribute to this estimable artist. Tt will be a pleasant announcement to her many friends that she has received this week a letter from Li her old teacher, offering lier Lis congratulations upon her successtul career. THE EDDY ORGAN RECITAL. The second of Mr. Eday’s organ recitals for the season was given yesterdav noon at Hershey Hall, with quite a large andience fn attendane The justrumental numbers included an admira- bly worked up fugue and fantasie In A mimnor, by Richter; Dudley Buck’s brilliant variations on * Annie Laurie ;5 the delightful romance from Schumanu’s D minor symphony; the an- dautino from Schubert’s ** Rosamunde 75 the noble cborus, ** Gise Thanks to God,” from Spolir's “ Fall of Babylon;” Bach’s Pastorale in F, and Mozart's Fantasic and Fuzue in C. The voesl numbers were of extraordinary terest. Mrs, Clara D. 8 has introduced many important concert arias during her carce in this city, but none larrer or more dignitied in style than the arig, *Didone Abbandonata,™ by Franz Wullner, originally writteu with or- chestral accompauiment, which she sang for her first number. The aria opens with some v intense recitutive passages, followed by larghetto of e beauty, and closing, with g i Mra. Stacy interpreted eption i and, notwith rement. o, and fine expre with clear, fresh tone, correct ion to theend. Her uisitely-tender little “The Maiden to tie Snow Drop,” which in striking contrast with the Ureadth and_ passionate character of the first The Wullner aria was sung for the first time in this country. 7 TUE HERSUEY POPULAR CONCERTS. The first of the Hershey Popular Concerts, which last season were given under the name of ¢ Musical Evenings,” will take place to-morrow evening at Hershey Iall. The programme pre- pared for this accasion is a delightful one, and includes some music never performed here be- fore, and two numbers which are new in this country—a duet, * Take this Tolsen,” from Mr. Gleasou’s manuseript opera, “Otho Visconti,” to besung by Miss Hiltz and Mr. Barnes: and Reinecke’s “Spring Flowers,” which will be sung by Mrs. Hiltz, with violin obligato by Mr. The other numbers are Lux's “O ma” and Meyerbeer’s “Schiller March " for organ, by Mr. Eddy; Schwarcnke’s “Impromptu,” op.” 17, No. 1, and Ficld’s “Their Nucturne” in A, bath for piano and violin, by Mr. Eddy avd Mr. Lewis; Bevirnani’s song, “F " by M 3 Memdelssohn’s iations Serieus Bertha B ond Sullivan’s song, = The Saflor’s Gra s Mr. Barnes. The remarkable execllence of this programme ought to call out a large house. LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mr. Liebling gives his first piano recital on the 25th inst. Mr. Wilkie, our ex-tenor, will come West this seagon with the Boston Temple Quartette. The Freja Singing Society give a concert at Ansparius Chureh, Sedgwick street near Chi- cago avenue, on Tucsday evening, Oct. 9. St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church has a st song of Webk new choir: Miss Eva Davis, soprano; Miss Ella Bond, contraito; Mr. Byron Shipley, ten G. A Mr. Cone, busso; and Miss Mary Wishard, Fanny A. Root opens a new musfc room at 76 Monroc street on Monday, Oct. 8, wnere she will hereafter receive her pupils, Room 31, and reached by an elevator. The Apollo Club rooms in the smne building have made the lo- cality fawmiliar to all musicians. Mr. Kimbark will fill the vacancy in the Treasurership of the Apollo Club for the re- maluder of the season. The oilice of the Scere- tary, William Cox, will be at the Club rooms, 76 Monroe street, hours 4 o Gp. m., when pames sent in for membership will be entered upon the iist. . The following notice, which appears in the New York papers of Oct. 4, explams itself, ex- cept in the matter of date, omission of place, and the fall name ot the offiviating clergyman: “wStrakosch—Neilson—On Wednesday, Aug. 1, by the Rey. Mr. Johnson, Max Strakosch to Katherine, daughter or William H. Neilson.” A complimentary concert to Mr. and Mrs, C. A. Uavens will be given on Tueaday evening next at the First Baptist Church, by thie Chureh Choir (a chorus of _twenty-four voices! sisted Ly Miss M. A, Wishard, pianist; Miss Lizzie Foresman, contralto: Mr. F. s and Miss E. A. Gavin, elocutionist. Havens will conduct the concert. The united German _singing societi musterine 250 picked voices, concert witn full orchestra at McCormick Hall next Wednesday eveninz. Outside of the choral selections there will be a_Hummel concerto by Oscar Schimoll, director of the Germania Maa- nerchor, accompanied by tite orchesira, and a trio for sn:um, violin, ayd ’cello, by Schmoll, Lewis, and Eichheim. Messrs. Lewis and Newell of the Chicago Music Company are about_establishing in this city a cirenlating musical library. n the plan of thelibraries in European cities. The ad- vantaaes to be derived from such a' library are readily scen, when for & small fee the subscriber can have access to a repertoire of music em- bracinz the standard compositions of the mas- Mr. F. A, Bowen, basso; Mr. [ ters and the more modern musical literature, which can be taken out as from an ordinary book library and governed by very much the same princioles. The scheme will commend itself to musicians and specially to students. Circulars, giving the details of it, can be had at the store, No. 152 State street. The Chicago Concert Party is the name of the latest addition to the numbcr of fine quartettes already 1 existence. This party is composed of the very besttaleut, as will be seen by the ap- pended names. _It is composed of : Mrs. Louis ‘aik, soprano; Mrs. W, 8. Watrous, contralto; Mr. Edward Schultze, tenor; Mr. Frank A. Bowen, basso: Mr. William Lewis, violin; Mr. Louls Falk, piano and orzan. ‘The managers of the Apollo Club are about to organize a class of mixed voices for instruction in vocal music under the direction of Mr. F. L. Robertshaw. This will afford an excellent op- portunity for all who desire tolearn toread music at sight. The class will meet at the Apollo Music Rooms, No. 76 Monroe street, on Tuesday evenings, commencing Oct. 23, and continuing throughout the season. The programme for the Turner Hall concert this afternoon includes Menzel's *¢ Festival March 775 overture to “Stradella”; finale to tLohenurin; Menzel's potpourri, ** Bacchus' Wreath”’; Bach’s Waltz, *“ Always Jolly”'; al- legretto from Beethoven’s Eighth Symphon overture to Schubert’s ¢ Rosamunde’; fantas on Mercadante’s ** Il Giursmento?; Lumbye’s 4 Souvenir de Paris"; and Strauss’ ¢ Et Dorado Quaarilie.” We have received from Messrs. Ditson & Co., throuzl the courtesy of Lyon & Healy, of this city, the foilow hich “15'of an unusually interes r Thee, Still Near Thee,” by F. K. Doerinckel; “The Vision,” by M. . Eayrs; threc sacred songs by Mr. A vens, of this city, * Beautiful Zion,” “Bright Goldeu City,” and “Only Wait;” ©The Bold Rider ™ and “The Farmer " new songs by Taubert; two casy y Coruw. Gurlitt; “The Lovers™ und *Sir Roland,” by Molloy} “Sieg- mund’s Love Soug,” an arraugement by Gustav Lange for piano; *Sultarcllo,” for piaio, b A. Stanleys, Musetie,” taken from an original melody b?' lary Stuart and arranged by Charies Morley; © Kiss and « Word,” by Abt; *Lore- 1y” “(“Rbeinlander Polka”); by Hermaun Flicje; “Good Night,” by Campana; and Cos- sack Dance (Alla Gavotts) by G. D. Wilson. A letter just received from Paris, dated Sept. 18, gives information that Miss Marie vou Elsner has been engaged by M. Escudier, man- ager of the Italiens Theatreyin that city. The contract is for three years, Miss Vou ' Elsner will malie her debut at this theatre the first week in Novemnber, in “ Lucia di 10 be fotlowed by *Martha.” | be sup- porsed by Sknor Corsi, tevor, and Signor_Pan- dolfini, basso. The name of ‘Miss Von Elsner has been changed, ot the desire of her man- ager, to that ol Mile. Marle Litta, her own being too German to suit the French taste. Miss Von Elsner is a native of llinois. She was born at Bloumington, where her family now reside. She = is but just past 21 years of agc, aperfect bionde, and possessing « character of such en crey, de- termination, and zesl as promnises to overcome every opposition. From childbood she has bat- tled with adversity. During the last three years she has been in Europe, mostly at Paris, under the most competent instructiors of the lyric art. Her success is anticipated beyond a doubt. THE HE3S TROUPE. The Hess English Opera Company leave New York this week for Cincinnati, where they will open their season on Oct. 15. The initial opera will be A Summer Night’s Dream,” music by Ambroise Thomas, which will be presented with the followingcast: Queen Elizabeth, Miss Emelie Melville; Lady Olivia, Mrs. Zelda Seguin: Shaksgeare, Mr. William Castle; Lord Latimer, Mr. C. H. Turner; Inukeser, Mr. Benitz. This operawill be followed by Planquette’s sparkling work, * The Chimes of Normandy.” Muillart's popular work, ¢ Villars' Dragons,” is the third on the bills, and will be given with Mrs. Miss Searle, Messrs. Castle and Peakes in the principal roles. The English librettos of thuse three operas bave been written by Mr. M. Cooney, bu manager of the company After the Cincinnati cugagement the company will appear in Loulsville and Pittsvarg., The Westérn tour completed, the company wiil come East, and a long engagemenit in of the lead- ing theatres in New York is alre arranged. v KELLOGG AND CARY. Misses Kellogg and Cary have met their fill in ppreciation in San Francisco, aud have cen subjected to a great deal of that most vidious sort of criticism—the comparative. «When we listen to Kelloge,? says the Call, “ yye respect the artist; when Cary sings we ad- mire the woman, Kellogg challenges the line and plummet of the professor and the schools— Cary sets the thoughts free, and while she sines we tlink of the music of a brook hidden amid the summer Icafage, and of birds trilling in the trees above it.” This may be so, but when the Call also discriminates to the effect that Cary’s is ““a young voice,” and has the e that comes with youth,—we tremble for that audacious critie. Does he mean to say {hat Clara Louise 15 not young¢ But then she wiay enjoy the fact that the restaurants have « Kellogg cutlets on _their bills of fare, al- v has clristened any quantity of neckties and plug hats. Ou the2ith the troupe ) the 25th, ¢ The Bohemian 7th, * Sonnambula,” with Di as Aming; on the 25th, * Faust 73 on rtha 75 on the 30th, * Sonnam- the 1st inst, ** Lucta.” THE THOMAS ORCHESTRA. The New York Evening I'ust says, apropos of Mr. Thomas’ new arrangements with the Phil- harmonic Society of that cit, ‘Ihe fact that Mr. Theodore Thomos will conduct the orchiestra of the New York “hilharmonic So- cioty dnring the coming scasou has greater siguif- cance than 1s generally believed. Under the terms of his contract_he has the power to exclude from this body of instrumentalista those performers whose abilities are not equid to his requirements, and to replace taem by members of his own stadl. By the ex i ill e of this power. and the artistic | which has ceservedly won for him 2 world-wide Teputstion as 3 musical director. there is no doubt that he will make the rebesrsals o the Philoar- monic Suciety as attractive as the coneerts, and for the organization fresh laurels, or ut least.en- able them to keep unfaded those already won. Hle will doubtless accomplish as much as he aid for the Brooklyn Fhilburmonic, which during his administration has beenin the ful! tide of pros- perity. Mr. Thomas will not travel, but remain in Now York until May 1. 1875, when he will de- Dart to fulfill his enznzements in the West. His vecasional trips [T Washington will not wnterfere with nis concerts in U Hood, which include the ordinary reties of sym- phouy concerts, public rebearsal, and matinees n Steinway lall.’ iy xpecia ment be will re- Tease some of the instrumen r chostra, and replace them with the most promi- nent members of the Philharmonic of New York, Fome of whom, from their disiaclination to travel, e hus hitherto been unable to secure. Of Mr. Taomas' very remarkable season in Cincinnati the Guzette ol that city says: The total attendance at Tue twenty-three per- formances was 51,903, an average of 2,257 at cach concert. Tie greatest nt huve Leen Lweniy-sis pereo 0 whicl: wa# on the occasion of ** Beetboven's Fitth Symphony,” on Tnursday night of the second ek, ‘The Jarsest evening audience of that un- fortunate chilly third week was also on the Symphony might, and the firat really great aiudicnce of the sedxon was on i first Syipliony night, when ** Beethozen's Sixth " was played. e slimmest undicuce wus on the raw Wedneaday afternoon of the Jast wi ing only 1. 1 b the two ri of admission— cents, the receipts would G4, and the puy of the Urchestra is understood to have been near $13.000. ‘This Aves a handsome margin for other expenses and & far profit. not to mention the $3,100 30 taken in for fare on the inchned plane, and the proiton the enormous gestraction of beer and pretzets. MUSICAL NOTES. Wilhelm] has been offcred the Professorship of the Violin at the Brussels Conservatoire, va- cant by the r ation of Wieniawski. Stella Bonheur, who ouce failed in Chicago, bas been engaged by order of M. Jaccovacei for tie Apollo Theatre, Rome, for the winter sea- son. An Eng] version of Mozart’s ** Shauspiel Dirvetor was recently performed at the Lon- don Crystal Palace under the title of *“ The Im- presario.” Dr. Leopold Damrosch is organizing an or- chestrz in New York with which he is to_give 2 symphony matinee cvery Saturday during the coming scason. The celebrated Bottesini has been engaged by Ar. Ulman for a concert tour this fall, together ‘ith Mnie. Artot Padilla and Ler husband, the well-known baritone. Mme. Gerster-Gardini does not, after all, sing av Berlin. She goes first to Milan, then to St. Petersour and Moscow, then to Vienna, then (perhaps) to the Italian Opera of Paris, and then to Her Majesty’s Theatre. Owing to the non-engagement of L. Capoul, tho new opora, -rrancoise de Rimini," by M- Ambroise Thomas (composer of « Mignon ' and i }Manlet "), has been postponed sine die at the National Opera-House in Paris. Mr. Edouard Colonne, the conductor of the Concerts du Chatelet, kas been apoointed by the Musical Commission of next year's Exhibition at Paris to conduct the grand concerts 10 be friven in connection with that event n'the Salle- du Trocadero. = THE PARIS COMMUNE. A Bloody Page in Its Stained History —-NMgr. Darboy’s Martyrdom. By Whom and How the Hostages, Priests, Judges, and Bankers Were Cruelly Butch- ered---Ete. New York World. ‘What with our recent experience of ‘mob law in America and the attempt of certain agitators to establish in the United States the Commune, the history of the Commune in Paris in 1371 \\:xll be found tc possess for Americans addi- tional interest to that which it must always pro- voke. There was no more brutal and cowardly episode of that * red-foot fury of the Seine™ than the massacre of the nostages and the butchery of the Dominican priests, the full story of which is now told for the first time by Mavime du Camp. Archbishop Darboy and President Bonjean of the Court of Cassation— Chief Justice we should say—with the other hostages, arrived at Mazas April 6. On the 10th was arrested Jean Buptiste Jecker, the banker, whormn the Mexican expedition bad brought into notoriety. He had gone to the Prefecture to obtain a passport under a false name, but after getting it was recognized by a casual passer, who had him arrested as @ hostage worth kecping. Baron Hausmann's father bad gone on a similar errand, but was stopped on the stairs by a mer- ciful official, who whispered to him to fly. L’Abbe Crozes, Almoner of Le Grand Roquette, took his imprisoument obilosophically; it gave him a cbance to read up his theology, in which he was getting rusty. Mouton, tue tovernor of the prison, treated his prisoners well, aud would have proyided for their escape in disguise, but the Archbishop refused, lest - THE RAGE OF TIE COMMUNISTS should be fanned against the clergy and M. Bouvjean because & magistrate should not run away. Meanwhile the Protestant pastors had protested vigorously ag: the Archbishop's arrest, and oflicious nezotiations for the release ot the hostages had been begun, the insurgents olfering to barter_several eccle against Blanqui. L'Abbe Eagarde was sent to Versailles on purole, and Mr. Washburne, our Min interested himself. Tle had permission to the Archbishop, to whom he brought newspa- pers and wine, and_finally he sent to Versailles 2 note written by the vencrable prisoner, urging that. Blanqui should be set free. Thisthe Pupal Nuncio communicated to M. Thiers, who de- clined to recognize the Commune by treating 1 it, and expressed a belief that thelives of the bhostages would be spared, an crroneous opinion, as both Cardinal Chigi and Mr. Wash- burne declared at the time. Raoul Rizault, deeming Mouton’s rule too mild, sent 1o Mazas as G nor the locksmith Garreau, whose brutality was extreme. * Youare d—d curious,” was his reply to prisoners who sought to know why they had been arrested. * 1€ you prefer it, we ean shoot you,” to those who complained of their treatment. “Ii chey ain't satisfied, all ethey have to dois to " he said, when toid that the Archbishop was suffering_and M. Bon- jean an invalid. May 17 the Cominuve or- ganized A JURY OFP ACCUSATION to decide **whether or not the desimmated indi- viduals were hostages.” The jury only sat onee, and then it acquitted one prisoner, but he was taken back to La Roquette. nevertheless, and massacred in due course. Edmond Rousse, batonnier of the Pans Bar, was prodigal of elforts to sceure the liberty, or at_lcast tne bet-* ter treatment, of the hostages. On the 20th of May he saw them. The Archbishop was calm aud resiened, Father Duguerry gay and cordial as ever, Father Caubert confident that Frauce wouldcome out of the strugele strouger and more Catholic than ever. M. Roussewas to have [:nid themn avother visit onthe 23d. Ou the 534 a keeper whispered to M. Rubut, one of the Tostages, that the French troops were in Paris. Iy is your deliverance,” said the kecper. © My death,” replied the prisoner. At 6 p. m.the hostages were hurried from their cells and ar- ranged in the corridor, whither to zo none of them or keepers knew. The Abbe Crozes and M. Core were at_the last moment pushed back into their cells by a keeper and saved. Their removal wasin obedieuce to an ordér of the Committee of Public ¥, dated 4 Prairial 79, signed by G. Ranvier, and Ferd. Gan Do, requiring tiat * tbe Archbishop, tne difle eut cures, Bonj; Senator, and all those of any importan La Roquette. Ruoul Riguult, Garreau,and Gaston Dacosta made out their list from THE PRISON REGISTERS. Onit are fifty-four names, headed by those of the Archibishop and M. Bonjean. Therewere in all thirty-eight vri On the warrant Dacosta wrote the following brief order: * Kecp this riffrail to Le shot.” Two vans were presscd into the service and forty of the hostages carted uway under guard; the remainins fourteen went next day. It may be said that on the 25th the food supplied at Mazas guve out; shells were failing ou the prison, and the streets with- out wereswept by butlets whe ring between the requlars, varricade, and the Keepe: hen Garreau ordered them to fire the prison, refused, disarmed and Jocked him up, aud set free all the prisoners Who cared to escape. Others, more prudent, ithin its walls. At evening a company engineers occupied the prison. “Where is_the Arcibishop!™ usked the Captain. _“*Taken » Bring out Gar- reau.” He was brousht out and handed over to the soldiers. There were no formalities then, and the men needed no d ed instructions. They took him out upon the footpath and shot him, Meanwhile the hostages, surrounded b howline mob, had been conveyed to_La Grande Roquette, where ruled a packer, Francois by name, A BRUTAL DRGNKARD and a rabid priest-hater. ¢ Fifteen hundred Years they have been devouring us,—they must all be killed,” was his_cry; “their hide isn't even fit to make boots ” May 22 he was eiven a garrison, six companies ol Federals, re nowned for their turbulence and commanded a blood-thirsty little fellow, Veriy, a laborel whose coustant companion was a biz hors pistol, which he used in giving his orders, “ For- Wward! march, or Pl shoot.” Francois (who, by the way, when the guiliotine was cercmoniously burned in front -of the prison, went and em- braced two assassins in the prison under sen- zence of death, and danced with one of them to ‘express his joy ut the prisoner’s cscape) showed hum over the prison, and especially pointed to nim the door leading from the condemned cells devoted to the hostagzes to the broad, watled-in pathway running round the whole prison; then Tan over the catatogue of the victims. * There are, said - he, *+ 9 gendarmes, 42 old serzents- Ge-ville, 95 soldiers of the line, 15 artilleryinen, a chassour, a zouave, 8 Turco,—all capitulards.” To these were added at 10 p. m. the hostages from Maz Their names were Dot entered on the ree Francois merely called over the Jist (scruti! ¢ the Archbishop aflection- ately, and narrowly exgunining Fathers Caubert and Olivaint, “to see how Jesuits are made™), put it away in adrawer, wrote on 4 piece of Daper, ¢ Beceived, forty curesaud magistrates,” and allixed THE PRISON STAMP. instead of his siznature. . Then the hostages, ing formed in line and counted over sev- eral times, were marched to a detached part of the prison and locked up without food, water, seat, Or mecessary uten At dayliht M. Bonjean, secing the Deputy, Gov. Ramain, pass- ing, usked for a chair; another for a elass of water. - For the time_you are going to be here it isn’t worth bothering about it,” said Ramain. Nevertheless, the prisoners were soou 1et out into the common ward, where their joy on being reunited is deseribed as almost child- ish. The priests thronged around Mer. Darboy to Kiss his hand and rcceive bis benediction. He was supported by the arm of M. Bonjean, Who was so weak_from illness that ke could not walk alone. * What do you deduce from our transfer?” he asked of Rabut, one of the Commissaires de Polic “ Nothiug good, |, monseigneur,” he answered. The Jesuits, calm and smiling, zathered around M. de Perny to hear his aaventures in China, where e had long been engaged in mission work. Father Allard i e worethe red cross eve—pacitic emblem not Cecognized in the war of the Commune. —The fant Father Duguerry was io high spirits, and fil;lmrd the autborities for providinx beds too short for him. Two college friends who hud not Tet for twenty years recounized each othier and sprang into each OLNer’s arms; ouewas a Jesuir, tfic other had been a lawyer, a free-thinker; al- most & copvert to socialism. Thev met 2s bostages of the Commuuc, and the priest was fated to perish. 3 A SINGLE MEAL was served to all—a scanty ration of stewed beans—and at 6 they were locked up. ‘That nizht they heard faint echoes ot the fizhting, and a keeper whispered: *The last stand witl be made at Belleville—courage and patience.” Next morning, May 24, he told them that “the Wwhole crew ™ (the Departments of War, Public Safety, and Finauce) haa been transferred to the mairie bf the Eleventh Arrondissement, the Hotel de Ville baving been evacuated over pight. The Commune was in its last throes, and fury, suspicion, aud despair reioned eversy- .where..” The Count dc Beaufort, who Bad been attached to Cluseret’s ‘staff, tried to rgach the “rapid! mairie, and was seized and set to work on a barricade. He protested his rank, and that he was diseharging a special mission; he was ac- cused of being a traitor, tricd otl-hand Ly the mob, desraded from his rank, and ordered to work. Then the mob restered him to his Cap- tainey, and sent him on his way with cheering; then some one cried out that Le had sold them to the Versaillese, and tbe mod dragged him away and shot him. It was at this mairie, doubtless, that Gabriel Ramier, Ferre, aud other desperate leaders resoived on the mas- sacre of the hostages; poss luserct con- senting toit. A court-martial was sct 10 work in the midst of the hurrible din and confusion, its three members being an_old man unkuown to those present, a drunken Federat officer; and Gustave Ernest Genton, a joiner. IT WAS FIRST PROTOSED to execute sixty-six hostages, but as an_amend- meant it was resolved to kill six, and ordeis to that eflect were issued, though unly two, the Archbishop and M. Boojean, were speciied by name. Vermorel and Jules Valles, to their credit be it said, strenuounsly oppused the mits- sacre. An 4 o'clock the “hostawes had been locked up in their cells, the Archbishop chang- ing No. 1 with the Aote de Maray, whose dun- geon, No. 23, was more spacious; on the grating of the window he scratched a cross and the words, ltobur ment’s, viri salus. Between +and 5a squad of Federals snd some white-caopeil Flourens Avengers entered the prison. “It s fixed for to-duy, i5it?" asked Francois. Genton nodded, and gave him a note that he 1 over to the clerk. “This order is irregular.” said the clerk. *Are youa Versaillese, too® angrily said the officer, but the clerk (who, like ail the rezular prison officials, was striving by every delay to save bloodsiied) pointed out that the ‘order calied for six prisoners, but only named_two, aud that it could not bé cornplied with without making _ CONPUSION IN THE BOOKS. Francois, being drunken to the stage of diznity. supported this opinion, whereuson Genton, growling “There’s more red tape than there was under old Badinguet; P've Killed men be- fore this with infinitely less ceremony!” wrote out on the back of the order the names of Dar- boy, Bonjean, Jecker, Allard, Ciere, aud Ducou- dray: then substituted for Jecker that of Abbe Duguerry, und asked if that would do. ** Per- fectly, approved,” said Francois. ** Damn your scruplest™ cried_Genton, and ranoff to Deadquarters, leaving in the oflice Edmomwl Megy, who abused Francois violently for not having a “truly revolutionary mind.” oot “rising to the level of circumstances.” Tue revolutiun of Sept. 4+ took Mewy Irom the gal- Tevs, where e wus serving u lifteen-year term for murder; but_he wus umnprisoued under the Republic for striking his Captuin. Under the Commune he rose tu bea * Generzl,” com- manded the Fort of Issy, and took a leading part in firing the city. With him was the other leading actor in the massacre, Benjamin Sicard, a consumptive shocmaser, Captain oun Ferre's stafl. Henrion, onc of the turnkeys, during the delay approachied . THESQUAD OF AVENGERS, and said to one: *‘Look out for what you arc doing~—this is murder; you may have to answer “I know it,”” unswered the soldier; “there is no fun in it, but there are our orders: what are we to do?” At this moment Genton returned wita his list, corrected and aporoved. 4 Allright,” said Francois, and calling Henrion bade him open the cells of the fourth section. I will zo and get my Keys,” stammered Hen- rion, who had them inhis band, and rushing out be fung them away and fled like a madman, bought his out at_the barriere of Vin- cennes, and panting aml sobbing threw him- sell iuto the Bavarian camp at lantin, crying, “They will Kill them! They witl Kill them!” After” some little delay the Fulderals were marched into the prison, twenty being posted at the grating and the other twenty in the hospital zarden. Beauce, another turnkey, who did not kuow what was afoot, was going to uu- lock the cells when he mect them. Atonce divining their errand, he sankon the siairs, sick with horror. ** Hurry up!” cried Rumain. »Iean’tdo it; my God, fcan’t,” stammered Beauce. * idiot! What do you know of revolt- tions ! cned Ramain, sngrily, snatching th Kkeys from him. tages were at gratingzof their doors, listening—how ease,ty ©Darboy!" ericd_Ramain, balting uefore Cell No. 1, ignorant of the transfer. *Here!” 1y replied a voice from 23. * Bonjean!™ *Ilere! Let me getmy overcoat!” i out by the arm, saying: will do as you are.” THE SIX MARTYRS were soon ranged in line, and Ramain led them . As they passedtwo keeners,who had turned away unablé to bear the sizht, 3. Bonjean ex- claimed Joudly, “Oh, my beloved wiic—my dear children!” a message these last objects of his thought received. In the hespital ganlen there was a disput > between Mewy aud Verig. “This will do nicely,” suid the former; the lat- ter wished to go further, and there they wrangled as to where the cxecution should be held in presence of their victims. —These availed themselves of the delay to kneel in ver mind it; you praver. Somu of the Federals laughed and jeered them. *‘Leave those men alone,” . said a Serzcand we don’t know wl: may happen to us to-morrow ! Meanwhile assassins had nereed that the garden Was two Dublic a place, and the march Was taken up for the walled passawe running round the prison. Mgr. Darboy litting bis hand pronounced the absolution of bis comrades, then gase his arm to M. Boujean. The Abbe Allard walked slong ¥, with his haads clasped above his hewd, “humming something,” says a witness. He was reciting the prayers for the dying. There was another delay at the gate, and while the kev was being sourht the Archbishop sald to one of the Federals, **1 have always loved the people—uhways loved liberty.” * Your liberty is not our liberty,” answered the man; “don't bother us!” ‘Lh¢ gate w 3 prisoners led to the spot Franco had selected on the 22, a sort of sunken diteh, open above, but walied in on threg sides. The prisoners werc pl agaiest the wall in their rank,—the Archbishop, tl M. Bonjean, then the Abbe Duzuerry, then Fathers Ducondray and Clere, the Jesuits; fast of all th ‘Allard, almoner of the ambuianc was p- m. . THE SOLDIERS were drawn up at thirty vards distanc ton ordered them tofire. ‘Two volle some scattering shots announced to those out that the lorty Feueral assusins hail earned the fifty francs a bead paid them for the murder. When they marched vut_into the strect the crowd cheered them. - Well done, citizens! You have done a good work!” Vi Wis eX- citedly brandishing his famous horsepistol and shouting, “I finished _the famous Archbishop with this—L burst_his mouta for him!" He lied, for the Archbishop had not needed the coup de grace, though M. Bonjean, struck by nincteen bullets, still was writhing in agony when a pistolshot fired in bis left car made an endof it. _To murder was of course added plunder. The survivime hostazes were terrili d that night to sce several keepers opening cellg, moving about and speaking in a low tone. Veri¢, Ramain, and two of their friends were R)uxn ering the cells of the murdered men. hey found 2 fe uciess Vestments and the Archolshop’s pastoral ring. At 2 in the morn- ing Veriz, Ramain, sud syme others were sent 1o bury the corpses, which still lay as they bad fallen, in =) A POOL OF BLOOD. They were rifled, and the clothing torn oft where the buttons were slow fn_yieldingz. One put the pastoral, cross around lis neck, to his friend’s delight. Another took the siiver buckles off the Arehbishop’s shaes. 1n remov- ing them be bruised his finzer: then, rising angrily, he Kicked the body violently, crying: 41t was no use killing the scoundrel] he hurts me still?”? The corpses were taken aw:\i)' ina hand-cart and dumped In a pit at Pere laChaise, and a mild May raio. falling at daybreak, soaked the blood of the hostaces into the earth and washed the spattered walls, Jecker's pame, it will be remembered, was ou the first tist, but Genton substituted for it that of the Abbe Du- guerry. Early the next mnminzGL'n!on,Vcrl?', ind two friends took bim from his cell. He asked what they wanted. * We want to shoot you, that's all,” answered Genton. Jecker turned pale, and asked, * Why1” *¢ Because you were the accomplice of Sfarny™ (in the Mexican expedition). Jecker instantly saw that his fate was sealed, and, putting on his hat, said: **Lam ready.” THEY TOOK HIM AWAY to the Rue de laChine, a lonz half-hour’s walk distant, talkine with him ail the while. Why this was done_cannot be said positively, but as they thought he was immensely rich, and Fran- coi$ had already sounded him to sce Whether he was willing to pay handsomely for his liberts, it may be inferred_that their object was ug[d him toransom. But hesaid to the “You are mistaken If you think I madé moncy in Mexico—it was stolen from me; I was cheated.” ‘At last they halted in a vacant lot; it was rain- inzand the streets were slippery or dee) with mud. Making him remove bis overcoat. b was placed itk his face against the wall. “Don't make me sufler,” he said; and they shot him. He writhed _convulsively atter falling, and with the famous horse-pistol Verig zave bim bis coup de prrace. veriz then put o his unperforated coat, and Fraucols scarcned the pockets of tac Vet warm body; then it was dragged some thir- ty fect away to a hole dug for the foundation of o buildingund feft there. The face was covered with a financial sheet found in the ovescoat, the bat jammed_firmly down on the head witha blow from the fist; then Francois wrote una scrap of paper, .er—Mexican banker,”” and tucked it into & bution-hole, and the murderers went off to the restaurant of one Lacroix near st nand and _partook -of bread, cheere, 1 box of sardines, and half a gallon of wine. = Their morning jaunt had made them hinere. .