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19 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES. . AMUSEMENTS. Peculiar People Connected with the Profession. Theatrical Generosities and Eccentrici- ties. Hr. HeVicker Wisely Coneludes o Retain “Lillian * Auother eek. 4The Danites” at the Adelphi and the Williamsons at Hooley’s, Close of the Opera Season--- The Kellogg-Cary Concert. The Gregorian War--=Defense of Plain Chant by lts Friends. Emma Abbott and Her Troupe--- ° Verdi’s Manzoni Requiem. PECULIAR PEOPLE. YHEATRICAL GENEROSITIES AND ECCENTRICI TIES. ‘The other evening two friends were exchang- ing some friendly thoughts in reference to things in general, and, the conversation chaneing upon some particular case of distress. one of the interlocutors took occasion to remark, in 2 satirieal way, that, if the distressed had been a member of the theatrical ‘profession, he or she wonld have not only had a load of coal dumped 2t the door, but would have been presented with a gold watch and chain as a token of »stcem. 4 Yes,” £aid one, “and the public will readily contribute dollars i such a case, when not an individual out of the mass would give 10 cents toward buying one square meal for a neighbor.” “Well, let us give honor where it is due,” sald the other; “you must concede thut there is not a more charitably-disposed class of peo- ple in the world than the theatrical class.” “Excent the gambling class. Gamblers help one avother liberally. They carn their money with casc, and it goes easily. Tuey have lost the proper sense of the value of money. They make a big strike, and they are absolutely inca- pable of retawing what they wmake, or of put- ting it out to houest advantage. Their liberal- it is mere recklessness, not generosity.” “But you dun’t mean to class theatrical peo- ple with gamblers?” <In a measure. Themore fortunate portion of them (who are not. always the most deserv- inyg) jump into luck at one leap; tiey obtan extravagaut sums for their services; while eir pooularity lasts they muke good fellows of themselves by throwing it away lavishly, and then, when the Lusy world mwets with a tresh favorite, and passes by on theother side of the old,—well, did you ever secamore wretched whiner than the neglected favorite!™ % Atanyrate they make their good fortune do some good 85 long as i la: * S0 does the courteza, su does the fortunate oftice-hoider. Al you can say sbout it is, that their mouey goes. Ivisa chuap and easy way of munuiacturing personal populari The sight of a Billy Manning dying a pauper,—you call that sads so do 1, but ¥ add that 1t is di gracetul, 100 Of couise there is another side to all this, Doa't you rewember how generously the pro- fession cune out on that occasiont” *Tobe sure Ido: but I can’t help remem- bermg that Billy Manuing might bave been a benefactor to his profession if he had been en- dowed with somethin Ligher thau a mere ran- @dom faculty of making people titter. But let us see—what is all this professional generosity when you sift away the chafl{ A certain con- vocation of politic artists are magnetized intoan emotional condition over the sickness of a brother professional. 3aid professional has squandered the much he carned in the effort to make a short lifc and o happy—snd meanwhile Lis . family are I reduced topoverty. A benefit is improvised, and all ‘brother-artists are pressed into the ser- vice. Pressed?—if you were to Ieave ont some one hie would never forgive you for depriving him of his share of glory. The brother-artist simply gives say balf an hour of not very hard labor and mot very orecious time, and in most cases receives his quid pro quo in the shape of ‘public approbation. There is, perhaps, no kind of charity where there is so palpable a whisper- ing betweenthe right baud and the left asthis.” hotels, hire theatres, leave their families here and there to take care of themselves, get **dead Troke,” and then manage to wend their way back to Chicago, is to many one of the mys- teries of modern life. Itis” not so much of a mystery, however, when you consider the sim- £llv:ily, the confiding nature, of your large- earted but pennifess actor. The capital stock (not paid up) of our the- atrical manaver is sometimes a ke of beer and a box of cigars. Helets it be known that he is about to organize a company for the tour of the provinecs, aud immediately heis surrounded by 3 crowd of professionals, *hamfatters,” ete., to whom he unfolds his scheme. As longz as the beer and cigars hold out he s **solid with them all. In turn toey strut off and talk bie things about their prospects, and decling ever £0 many imaginative offers. The manazer then circulates the report_of nis_intentions in quarters where it will readily reach the _provin- cial ear, and the first thing you know there is a wanderlng band of playérs on the cars (at theatrical” pric OQceasionally they st luck, in which case the manager puts on airs that become insufferable to his com- pany. Often, too often, they strike desolation, mpenetrable public _apathy, and lm[lmc!lcabllc hotel-keepers, in which event the manager grabs all the receipts he can and glides easily baci on a Pullman palace-car, leav- ing the others to plunge home through the mud. A few curses, not deep Toud, and that ends it, especially if the backsliding man- ager s saved enough to buy the beer for the wmourners. Perhaps it is just as well that onc set of ex- pericnces snould be balanced against the other, As above remarked, there are NUmMErous man- azers here. Theother diy an advertisement ap- peared in a city paper calling upon all kinds of dramatic talent to eail at No. 1864 Clark strect (in the basement), where snzangements were to be had for the asking. The applicants were pleutiful, and of all kinds and (e from the leading mau down to the educated goat. A large canvas sign (illuminated after dark) inti- mated that there wasa freelunch to be had down This was reassuring. Creeping down ith care the visitor founnd himselfina long, narrow, and vers dark saloon, the space be tween the floor and ceiling being just six feet aud seven iuches. There wasa bar near the door, furnished with a few whisky-bottles, glasses, @ box of ciwars, and a pal Slender youns man, who miht have becn take for o spiritual medium, This was the propric- tor. Iic admitted that he was the anthor of the ment, and appeared quite hoveful over = d here, te.’ %1 have only just opex , *tand T see a fineclianee for a b ety and dramatic entertainment right here.” (Uow familiar tiese phrases sounded.) ** I have seen the police ou the mutter,” le went o Saud they won't give any trouble. slong's 1 dow’t run any women iti. 1 wou't have to paya license, use 1 don't have a curtain. That’s w cuse business comes inj be- side’s there a sa “You will have yvour stage, there "—pointing to the b ment, dimty lizhted by two back windows, *Lhar,”” il the proprictor, **is where I mean to fix up the staze when 1 get maiters arranged, My stage is out in the back yard just now, but I mean to have it taken in.”” * \What styl of theatrical busine tend to cultivate by Mr. Couch?’ S Well, I've been in the show business all my tife. I've bren traveling round with a company ~—of course yow've heard of it—the * Acrobatic Alliance.” “hat’s 2 good title—* Acrobatie good. re you to dave acrobatic pes Dere? Any trapeze busine: “AVell, ot quite yet. The fact is,” said Mr. Concly, 1 didu’t exactly mean to start inall at once, but put that a seiment in to et the buys to come around and do something—si of course, over art of the basc- dance, or recite—so 1 could see what they were worth.” that's a good idea, and perhaps you t some of our leadin mcu—ioe for instance—to colme duwn aud give Ul course, of course, I There's a lunch on that table, i come.™ “Wouldn't it be a good idea to have ma- rioneties when you have sixed up your n O, ves. thé marioneites—to by sure; Mo going to have all the new attractions.” *The marionettes are very attractive, but they are touchy people—sel You van't 100l much with their fectings. When the shost waiks, you know—" . Au, there'tl be no trouble about that. I pay ¥ people promptly.” = What do you think of the Dardanelies? queried tbe visitor. Ul take them in if they’re rood,” said he. & Whereabouts are they play * Somewhere near Consts think; but they may be Lad tor a Tair figur. In this way ran the tak for awhile, aud the nspector of tile new tenle of the drama crept out of tie hole fnto t 1t is probable vnoagh that Mr. Conch intends anew theatre 1 that rufarly unls 1y place, it authoritics to aid him, why Ay have any quantity of Tt is also probavle that he tion—when it has drauk that, re wel- i) ninople just now, I nd simokud v, And agter ¢- will see them trudiging *“Lootles home and weatherl back,” excluining that there’s no mouey in the land. 110N GOSSIP. THE PRODUCTION OF “ LILLIAN "' AT MWVICRER'S has been the only notable dramatic event of the week, and there will or vught to be a general feeling of satisfaction that the management should find it expedient to keev it on the boards another week. The picce hes proved a very palpable hit, and it 15 gr fying to have to record 3 success that is due so largely to the individual meri; of the actors, induding, of course, the sceni artists, Iogers and Maliusha. The cast is emi- nently worthy of recognitiva as une of the most symmetrical and complete we ean remember for sowne time at this ur any other theatre. It serves to bring into prominence several mesm- =4 little too cynical and a little too sweep- Ing. Was not the Edwin Adams benefit a noble testimony to the generosity of the profession and of the publict” 4 “Very. itwasa kind of cmotional mania with soine, and_nn casy way of self-zlorification with others. Edwin Adams’death-bed was the event of the season. It had been starred all over the countrs. Not a mewspaper in the land ‘bat. was ‘laying for it Scribesof all kinds were watching over it, with sharpened pencil, for an opportunity 1o gush. Do you imagine Sothern didn’t know _that the papers would be a1l of it, and that he would be ‘worked up’ with it ++ +His friend keeps on the business still, Resigned unto the Heavenly will. * «You remember what the divine William gays about certain folks that would pay aguinea tosce a dead Indian, but would not wive & doit. to rclieve o lame begear. Well, that's not quite appiicable to the profession in all its be- nevolent doings, but, depend upon it, it will hit nine out of teu of our theatrical benefits. «However,” continued our preacher, *‘bene- fits arc beneficial. They make prople Delieve in the possibility of genuine charity. Tuey are the calium lights thrown on the prisate life of o too much abused ciass of people. There fs renuine liberality and larze char- bers of the cotupany who, for lack of opportu- nity, have hitherto been resting in comparative nhsn:ufil’i‘g"\\ll]flc the leading I men find fresh itrt c Velo; ment. MeVi althoush 2 mere sketch, is a felicitous and carefulls-isished pere formarice. . Wheelek, Toc,and b som. each and all act. ther parts Witk comnten: able spirit and intellizence, while Eotand Reed may be said 1o have created a new comedy acter in his admirable readerine of ton Thipps. Among be place of honor ~must be an in Miss_ Alice Hastings, who the of - Floreuce Vicent Brown, the lively blished Lerself finnly in_the § pare St ’ s of the public. Miss Latra Don, Who takes tie part of Luttian, behaved sraveful I aud correctly, but, umfortunately, © the emotional * is not her forte. - At the Adelphi the veteran Zoe and Dashing Charley have shared the labors and divided the lonors of the week. The houses have buen <hout, and the audicnees apparently ple: th the inexplicable dumb-show aid noise which constituted the greater part of the. entertainment. LOCAL MISCCLLANY. There will e a Thankseiving. matinee’ at MeVicker's on Thursday, when * Lillian? will itableness among them, but the best of it is shown in otherways thau these theatrical parades of zenerosity. Certainly, honor to whom is due. Dut in estimating the much-vauted gen- crosity of professional people it may be well to kcep in mind that in getting up a rousing bene- fit for some conspicuous object of public sy~ pathy there is—thure is a_certain infusion of— well, we will call it alloy.” Without commenting unnecessarily upon the probable onesidedness of the above unnamed preacher’s remarks, it may be just in place here Lo suy that if theatrical people deceive the pub- 1ic in recard to their liberalitics, they dre them- sclves the most easily deceived people in the world. Thelr charities are lomlly trumpeted over the land, almost to the exclusion of any note of charitics of an cqually effective if Jess noisy kind. We speak of the rank and file of the ‘profession. They must citber bask com- fortably in mecnoonudc Tays of popularity, or 0 they know not w! 4{2 fi{:&pfi\sfinfid in_l.eie i bl :-’.‘:53: i with restiess viol The pendent worid. uss s engit easily-pleased, £ood-he , “cardels mortale, e litful vagabonds,~Bohemians In the true sense of the word,—une would bo sorry 10 drill them into correct business-likg habits and deprive the world of the sizht of their picturesque ups aod downs. Their 5 tic stuccesses become the envy of the procaie plodder who is breaking stoves on the highway, while their miscries are_paraded and bemonned by the sentimentalists of every grade. ' “Somebow Chicazo has become for some time s kind of house of refure fora large class of sheatrical people, who gravitate towards it, In ihe first place to watch which way the wind slows, and who rapidly become domesticazed, 10 that you can’t drive them away for more than A montl st 8 time. A ‘This accounts for the vigorous growth here of 1 certain enterprising class of speculators call ‘ng themselves theatrical managers. The atreets are fuli of them, and the air creaks with their “schemes.” Thev are nearly. as thick as playwrights. How they manage to get up com- panles without capital, and without talent, . drive them into the uterior, board at good be presented. Ed Zimmerman, who is. the forerunner of J. E. Emmet (* Fritz”), arrived here yesterday. “Fritz” is starring it through the West, and will be in Chicazo before long, Tmogen and her educated goat passed through theity the other day. The wout is doing well. Mr. Jacob Murray escorted the party to the train. There is said to be a leak somesw! however, in the Imugen dramatic orzan Leonard Grover, the author of “Our Box Hottsen of the Adeiohi Theatse, aik of 2oy popular plirases. such as “0ld Fel,” & Pro- nounced Success,” “No_ Bifll,” “Dear Boy,™ +Mind You,” “Just One More,” © Will See ¥ in Half an Hoar "—is starring it i the West. His last **prououuced™ is to ve ut_Bloomington on Friday, and at Peoria ou Satprday nest. In the new play of “ Sidonie, the Married Flirt,” soon to be produced at McVicker's, there is a Crushed Tragedian. Th the novel will reiember the characten Keed is {0 be the ** Crushed,” and it is can be seen any morning on the bre; about 6 o'clock Spouting at fresh-water Neptune in the facc of Boreas, und looking at the rising sun as one who should say, * Lwill dim your Tustre, o1d Sol, when L appear in this charact X. B.—Reed is about to cultivate sore throat in case of failure,—a {a Sothern, The entertainment _siven Dainty, at Hershey all, on Thursday evening, was beartily appreciated’ by the select of the commnits who enjoy This i, havmices kind ol evening recrestion. Mrs. Dain- ty 45 an admirable reader of a certain class of literature which has of late fooded the press, and which appears to have been “ worked up” for the especial benefit of by Mrs. Laura public reciters. *On Linden,” etc., was once a - representative speaking piece, but we have got over that maoia, and now the . Biudso business 15 the rure. A rood antidote mignt be found in aretury 10 Wordswortl's respectable excursion, “with a caulker,” as the Ettrick Shepherd said, at the end Of every hundred Iines, to make the walk cheerful. If anybody is ienorant of what Is meant by “a caulker,” let Liim apply to the editor of The Home. A paragraph was printed in iast Sunday’s TrmUNE concerniug “Mr. Ciprico, the actor, in which it was asserted that be was formerly a barber in San Francisco. We are assured on excellent authority that this was a misstate- ment, and, as the assertion appears to Lave of- fended some of the gentleman’s iutimate fricuds, a full and free retruction is lercby ‘Thero 18 no particular nor special dis- of course, attaching to the tonsorial pro- Men more distiuguished than Ciprico {essiol bave risen from much Jower positions in the world.” But faces are facts, and if uny olfeunse was given unintentionally, it is hereby seraned off, shampooed, scented, and Mr. Ciprico usher- cd forthinto the world clean shaved. 1f we Lad any bay rum at hand, we would cheerfully dip Lis head into it. CASTING SHADOWS BEPORE. On the 2d of December Seribe’s areat comedy, “One Glass of Water,” will be given at Hooley’s Theatre with the following cast in the lea roles: Duchess of Marlborough, Helena Von Racorvitza; Adigail, Theodora Mundt-Muehl- bach; Queen Anng, Frida Vellguth; Lord Lolingbroke, Franz Kierschner. Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, whose lecturcs on English literature kave been one of the liter- ary treats of the past few weeks, gives an extra entertaiument this week at the West-Ead Opera- House. 1t will consisi of choico literary stlec- tions and musw. The prozramme is as follows: [Crowded out for want of space.] ing of Lringing out “ Tho heen ringing in the public car ever since Irving’s name’ beeame a name of note, but e has taken a sccond thonght, and- will keep pegging away at ¢ Lillian 7 until his patrons begin to uppreciate her. * Lillian™ is to be un the boards for eue week longer. ‘Fhe Protestant Orphan Asylum, one of the oldest and most worthy charities' in the city, will appeal to the public this week by two ara- matic performances which have been tendered the institution by the Drawing-Room Comedy Company. Both occur at the West-End Oper: on West Mudison street. On Frida evening BoucicaulU’s drama of ¢ Led Astr will be given, with the following cast: [Crowd- ed out for want of space.) - On Saturday evening t's charming romance of “Pywnation sud Twill be acted, with a distribution as [Crowded out, etc.] The shadow of the Williamsons has appeared. mson and Magwic Moore are to en at Hooley’s on Monday in *Struck OiL” another pronounced suceess. Pictures of wson areon exhivition i all the shop- windows—Williwnson in his habit as he lives, and \ n in his nabit_as he makes up. Jle, too, has struck oi! in an Easterly direction, 1d now he comes to bore the West for more of it. - Let him come, and bring all his poor rela- tions along with him. Weean afford to suvport them all. ~The plot of *Struck Oit” isa very interesting one, xs we gather from the New York papers. It 1sas follows: (Crowded out for want of space]. Moser’s new play, “ The Hypochondriac,” was reveated last Thursday nisht by Mr. Wurster's German Dramatic Company at the North Side Turner Hail before a crowded house, proving that even week-day performances can be made successTul financially if the right kind of pla are produced with & good caste This cvening a special opportunity will be afforded Miss Cottrelly to display her variced and brill- nt talents to the best advantage. There will be performed for the first time in. this city a singing farce Ly Emil Pohl which is said to ‘be oneof the best of its kind, and the music and i < also ciaimed to be of 4 superior clir- acter. Cottrelly is saiil to be particularl, brithiant in this play, which is entitled * Ein ver fehlter Beruf”? (A missed voeation). As Mr. Wurster's Company has been espect Tected for the perfo es of such pla s all the claracters are in able hands, a more L ondinary entertainment may be expeeted. shadow of Joaquin Miller, the suthor of ites,” has been thrown broadeast over le of Chicago will ance of the un- lteled event, which, with the stance of paste, ik, and ors, has been widely, care- and partienlarly prognosticated and i veral nonths past in the aire-goin citizens of the s will be pre- at the Adelphi, anchard, aud a se- nd at the proper a5 met with re- t, but wio can tell {Tect Chicago people? It is whis fr. Miller Will o: conspicuous ilery ‘every nignt, aud will floud the house lauwet. The plot of *The : [Crowded out for waug pa wide, Wide West. on Monday ce Rankin, and Kitey 1 Jected company, all £o b on mowent. = The Danites™ le suceess in the vered th in tne newsb p over b R'S PEAST. s wade in Greece and Asia Minor 2 few months ago by Dr. Schlic. mann ve bLeen widely beralded, and have called forth universal plaudits over his enthusl- ud perseverance, bui vspecially over bis success. As we read of his uncarthing and re- storing to the light of day the soiden crowns, and goiden masis, and goiden shiclds, and ulden buttons, and golden fig-leaves, of the “tolden ™ ot the * Golden Fleece,” we feet that we are being transported somchow into the times of the King with the *wolden. touch.” or the fairy realm of the * Arabian Knights,” But when we are ussured that the orizinal owners of all this golden tos- sery are still owners by right of ovcupancy, and have Kiudly covsented to forego for a time the and retirement in which they have been indulging for some 3,000 years, and come forth into the stirand bustle of our modern world to sit for their phot we lift our hands in wondering- awe, scarcely §0 much at the mmodating spirit mauifested by the ancient ladies and gentlemen in consenting to appear, as at the temerity of Dr. Schlicmann in daring to invite th Buz all our surprise and ve i many's i fall intoinsiguiticance hefore the more recent and_vastly mors startling re- sults attendine the archeological researches of sowme of our own Chicago suvints. A s A few weeks 4 yarty, consisting of # number of I and gentlemen, was fitted out from Chica mase . series of explora- tions amony the ns of ancient Babylon. The suceess of their cilo: thus far has Leen mar- velous, fully p to what the world has learned that i ht 1o expect when Chicago un- The lutest advices there over Dr. Schlie- jon, a number of the gor- ous costumes worn by the anci onian s, Queens, and conr zolden : a humtbier of golden drinkine ves- sels, a richly carved table, several gorzeous divans, muca splendid and unique jewelry, cte. Knowing ineredulity of the ro public, ous exploring varty hesitated to aunounve their discoveries until they could substantiale thuir statcments by exhibiting their trophics. This they are now prepaving to do. The relics are alveady shipped en Touté for Chritago, and are lourly expected to arrive, The Sihand 6th of Decembier bave been sct apart for ¢ rand public exhibition of them, U place of exhibition to he the New Chicago The- avre. The exhibition will be continca to the it is found that antiguitics appear izht than by daylight. The most wondertul’ thing of all r yet to be told; but Iadies of weuk uerves are warned amainst When the tombs were opened in v found ihe tressures. above enumerated, it so startled the ancient occupai t awoke aud walked forth, and will ac and appear on” exiibition with them. Con- spicuous amous these ancient worthics may be mentioned the renowned monarch of anc Babylon, King Belshazzar, anl tae sear renowned Babylonian Prime Minister, 1; Any of our Wise Americun aspirants for ollice who haye been veering anxiously into_ the fu- ture and trying 1o decipher the hindwriting on the wall in_reference to their own political prospects will do well to see and consult the vencrable Daniel at the time and place above mentioned. A dollar will admit them to an audience, and many a politicd aspirant has paid manytimes that amount with less prospect of wetling value received. This archeological exhibition is to be given for the benefit of the Worman’s Hospital in thi city—a most worthy charizy. It is therefore hoped that in addition to the antiquaries who wiil be attracted by the cul of the coats, and the statesmen who are interested to lind out abont their country™ (and their own) fuiure, there wili be a large attendancefof philanthrop- ists who like to lend a Land—but cspecially a dollar~to i worthy cause. The exbibition will be aunnounced through the papers under the name of ** Belshazzar's Feast.™ OUTSIDE GOSSIP. NEW YORK NOTES. - Mrs. G. L. Fox. wife of ® Humpty Dumpty,” ‘will soon appear at Tony Pastor's as a vocalist. Lester Waltack has bousht a superb En stallion” on which to enact Eliot Gray at the Grand Opera House. Mr. Boncicault is said to be preparing a ver~ slon of ¢ Seraphive” for the Fifth Avenue Theatre, with the design of haviuz Robson, Crane, and James Leyis appear in comedy parts. The Troubadonrs have achieved a brilliant success in Mclbourne, and at latest dates were playing to crowded houses. 1t is intimated that Sidonie ” will be the at- traction at the Filth Avenue after . the engage- ment of Miss Mary Anderson. Lydia Thompson goes to England in February to briug over some nude dramatie stars—ob, beg ‘pardon, some new dramatie, We mean. Mr. Mackaye’s new pluy is on emotional American vomedy drama, in which the hero, ai&er sore tribulation, falls in love with his own wife. s The friends of Mr. John Brougham will be glnd to learn that he is slowly fmproving, al- though he is still a close fnvalid at his home in Irving place. ‘The editor of the New York Dramatic News is goine crazy, or perhaps it is that bis victims are not *‘comine down.” “Lust week he damns Shakspeare, slaps Mary Anderson in the face, shricks at the fraud dJeflerson, and wipes the gutters with — Sothern. art. I it were Blackmaillng \is ~ an r done _when” it is done, then 'twere well dt were doue neatly. ~ Mr. Byruc is losiug his head. His - valor outstrips discretion. Ie s giving himself “‘dead away,” to use a vulearism. The explanation probably will be found in the fol- lowing significant announcemeut culled from thie columns of this sheet: ast Friday, Alr. Sothern ordered Mr. Henry E. Abbey, the yptian mauager of the Park Thentre, to with- Lis advertisement from the Dramatic AT LARGE. . Tne Countess Modjeska is to study with John McCullough. “Qur Boys” was played for the 900th con- secutive time at the Vaudeville Theatre, Lon- don, on Nov. 2. Fred Marsden has contracted for a new play with Joe Murhby. It is to be of the description known as Irish. Lawrence Barrett bas been threatening to dis- charge the actors supporting him in his “noble Roman " {mpersonations, because they declined to shave off their mustaches. ) Miss Kate Field has been elected o member of the Dramatic Authors’ Society of England. Her clever icomedietta “Extremes Meet,” has been publishied by Mr. Freueh, probable that- both Mr. and Mrs. Chan- frau will o to Englund the coming summer. Clifton Tayleure has bad a good offer for them bath, from a London manager. Mr. Boucicault’s drama of ¢ Formosa® has produced at the Adelphi, London, with Mr. Emery, Miss Leighton, aud r. Billington in e principal parts. The Athencum says that the pieve does not improve upon acquaintance. Of that sccomplished and kindly man and delightful actor, William Warren, it is said that although nearly 75 years old, he does not look more than 50 nd it is suid farther that all the old grimaces which belong to the yueer, side-splitting characters e has made his own for s0 many years, seem to ha united in pro- ducing a most remarkable countenance that is like a protesu mask.~New York Lribune. Buffalo Bill s enjoying litigation in Nevada. While playing at the Opera-louse, Virginia City, Mr. Locke, the manager, docked his 200, on_the ground that Cody was in- 1 d on the opening might in National Guard Hall, and that sucit drankeness so dis- ¢ publie that it injured his engasement to the extent of $200. The was decided rinst Locke, in Justice Moses'. Court, and dence as to Cody’s condition was excluded. Rose Eytinge employed a fashionable San Fraucisco dressmaker to create her costumes for **Antony und Cleopatra.? The artiste in silks, satins, and laces, being a little at sew, calied tu tispeet Bicow's great painting at a well-known railery, thinkiug it might afford suguestions. | Aftér a brief inspection she came Lurrying from the plave, remarking, as she i out, that the matter mirht more prop- erly be referred toa jeweler. The costume of Clevpatra, it will be remembered, consists me of a neckiace, armlets, and anklets, makine it more costly though scarcely less primitive than the draperies of Eden. Otber mudels were atterward chiosen. The aramatic works of Victor luzo are once more to sc¢ the light in France. * Hernani” fs announced for mid-November at the Comedie- Fravealse, and_“Le Roi $'Amuse” will be played during Exhibition year. ‘The production of * Hernani” requires the appearance on the staze of nearly every member of the most re- markable company in Europe, and is hailed as a great event. Shakspeare in French is promised for_the winter months; the translation of M. Aleide Cavius, wiio hus devoted twelve years 1o the study of the principal tracedics of the *divine Williams,” will be used. These ruth- purt of the rezulas repertoire in P Chanfrau has been intervies dconcerning that Milwaukee story by a Detroit nian, and he ws: * Phere is 1ot the faintest 'eleam of triath in the whole story. Why, they have actually published the amazing statement that i fizht in the dining-room ut the Newball Touse with a wun who insulted my wite. 1 tell you the whole thingis a fubrication. The affair has given me no end of anmoyance. But that’s nothng. - 8o far as I am individually concerned, it is of little consequence; but Ciifl Tuyleure Writes me—ny soll Writes ine—that my wie is nearly crazed by the pubtication of the HIe wocs on to tell that the only fact inthe mat- that an impudent fellow was staring at who, in conscauence, desired to ehange her place at the table. *Ilearned afterwards that he was au insurance agent, but [ do not now_reeall his name. Well, “of course I com- plied with my wife’s request. ter changing s 1 «d"in a low voice to Mr. Tayleure: *Ciilf, 1 beticve I onwht to smash that impudent puppy’s fuce, and i _he were in the street I would do it sure. Cliff langhed, and told me not to mind it; that professional ladies were constantly subjeeted to like annoyance, and that it could do no good to make a row .about it.” And that was all. WINTER AND BOUCICAULT. The following is Mr. Winter’s reply to Bouci- cault, published recently-iu the New York Com- mercial Advertiser: Drar ——: 1 donot think it would be worth while for me to condescend Lo enter upon argnment or coutroversy with Mr. Loucicanit. Ly frequent covert atiacks upon me. and by open ridencss, he has forfeited liis rizht to cunsideration at my hands. e did not have, in the first_place, any just causc of complaint amuinst me. The article that I wrote, in the Zriline of Oct. 2. on his com- ey of -+ respectrul i tone, cousid- erate in fevling, honest in wotive, temperate in 1 in statement, 3% any one can sce who will read it; and it Guxht not to huve v him pum or cawsed bim anger. | have looked with amazement upon Lis will «nd_indixcrim- inate fulminations against *‘the critics,” and fave noticed tliem excepr remotei in a few words of chafl 1 a play article on **The Jibbenainosay ® (Zribuae, Oct. 16)—words which it was quite proper that | use, in view of the aspersions that i, had—-at least by impheation—cast upou w opinion tiaL I am **not 3 competent crit “of the drama ™ iz une that Mr. Boucicault. of conrse, has a perfect rizht to entertain and to express, He nsed to think quite_dierently, and rot very Jonx 20, neithier,—as 1 could very readily show by his own letlers, if that were swortl while; but it 1s not; und 1donot in the least desire to alter Mr. Bodcicauit's views. il remark that he knows me well, and thit Lam **not an_educated man, ™ is an impertinence which clearly shows his desire to bo personaily offensive, und to irritate me into taking parc in the hubbud which he has raised “for the better advertisement of = comedy and himself. 1 know Mr. Boncicault much better than he knows me, and 1 Know him to be & man who—like his own rather be nottced roushly all. As to my educatio the High School at Cambridg clusses: 1 stadied the Cluss under the noticed at ated from of ull my d the Law wo of ihe best schulars in eland—Lyman _Mason and received from Harvard Col~ or of Arte; T have lived 7 t of the public, a5 an a joormalist, for ‘twenty-three and labored, in the ¢ anthor and. years: 1 am a member of the Suffolk Lar, in Joston; nnd 1 have passed the best put of 'my life in libaries and in the suciety of scholars, Mr. Boucicanlt's re- senttni rudeicss cannot mjure me. For twelve years I hive b ¢ critic of the w York “rdune, snd therem have done tie work and ho ¢ responsibility of onc of the most delica icult, and_exacting positions in American jothalism, | If, in the course of that time I e not shown saysell competent Lo write dramatic criticism, and thercin satisfied the readers of the: Zrikuc (who constitute, in my opinion. the most thonghtfag cl: of the American people), [ s not likely to justify myscil. or to win_ their np- proval, by any words I mizht set_down in a con- toversy with Dion Boucicault over tae meaning of Comedy. It is not wise to be over-zealous in self- defense. Fuitbfolly yours, WILLLAX WINTER. MUSIC. THE OPERA SEASON WILL COME TO A CLOSE this evening with Becthoven’s Fidelio,” after which the troupe will leave, bag and bageage, for New Orleans, where it will open its season next Wednesday evening with * Trovatore,” Tagliapietra and Adelaide Phillipps appearing in the cast as the Count and Gypsy. In last Sunday’s TrIzUNE We summed upthe merits and deficiencies of the troupe, so that we do not need to refer to it again. Jn saying good-by, We may add that we hove had better troupes and worse troupes here, and that so long as it confined itsclf to operasof the purely German school the success was very decided and the entertainment very pleasant. The next promi- nent feature of the season will be the two con- certs to be given, Nov. 27 and 29, at the Taber- nacle by the KELLOGG-CARY COMBINATION. Thesale of seats has been so large that it indicates an immense crowd will welcome these two favorite vocalists. The programme for the first concert will be as follows: overture....o.oeuen The Taydn Orchestra Waltz, A 5 ... Chopin Scherzo and Capricelo. endelssonn Mr. A.. ease. Duet, **EXCCISIOE ™., w0t an seivse oo ol Aty. Tom Kari and George 4. Conty. Scena and aria from ** Don Carlos ™. . ins dAnnie Loutse Cary. +¢ Chanson de Noel ... ... M. G Verdi. Polonaise from ** Mignon M. ev s cue e, Miss Clara Louise Keltogy. Song, **The Village Blacksmith . Jr. George A. Conly. Trio, ** Memory ...Leslio Miss' Clara_Louise Kelloag, iliss Annie Louise Cary, and Mr. Zom Kari. Symphony.. .. Haydn Orchestra Thapsodic Hongroise wennaLiszt My, Aljred Ji. Pease. ++She Wandered Down the Mountam Side™...Clay Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. **Romanza "—From the **Lily of Kil- Jarney Benedict Lot Me Dream Again” Sullivan Misz Annie Louise Cary. Quintette—From -*Un Ballo in Maschera ™. Verdi Aliss Clara Louise Kellogy, Miss Annie Louise Cary, Mr. Tom Karl, Jr. Verdi, Mr. Conly. Grand March....... ... Tlaydn Orchestra The Kellogg-Cary operatic season will com- mence in this city carly in February. In ddi- tion to these two artists, Mme. Maric-Roze will appear, also an Australian tenor, Rosnati, who, it is expeeted, will ¢reate a furore. The statis- tics of the recent California season will be of interest. Five concerts were given, yielding 609, and twenty-nine operas, the oross re- pts-of the latter being $¢0,821.50, an average 3,440 for each represe & Aida " ntation. drew the largest single amount, 33,900, and “Sonnambula® the smallest, JGL30, Cary's beuefit drew $3,256.25 and Kellogg's $3,261.25, showing a difference of §5 between them. The average cost was 81,500 Strakosch is $10,000 happier than when be weut there, and both Cary and Kelloge nettea about $6,000 cach. ‘THE VERDI REQUIEM. The first concert by the Leethoven Society for this season will take place at McCormick’s Hall next Thursday evening, when Verdi’s Kequicm Mass” will be given with full orchestra and with the following soloists: Mrs. Emma Thurs~ ton, soprano; Mrs. Jennie Kemptou, contraltos Mr. Cnarles A. Kuorr, tenor; and Mr. Charles E. Martin, bass. The schedule of the per- formance will be as follows: 1. Requiem and Kyrie—Quartette and Chorus, 2. Dies ire—Chorus. Tubs mirum—Chorus. Mors stupebit—3lr. Martin. Liber seriptus—~Chorus. Quid sum miser—rs. Thurston, ton, and r. Martin. Rextremendie—Quartette anil Chorus, Recordare—Mrs. Thurston snd Mrs.” Kemp- Alrs. Eemp- ~Mr. Knorr. Mr. Martin. Lacrymosa—Quartette und Chorus. 3. Domine Jesu—Offertory—Quartette, 4. Sunctus—Pugue for Double Chorus, 5. Agmus Dei—Mrs. Thurston, Mre. Kempton, wnd Chorus. J 6. Lux ernu—Mre. Thurston, Messrs. Knorr ana Martin, 7. Libera mee—Mrs, Thurston and Chorus. We are requested by the management tostate that the Mass will be repeated for the gencral public Dee. 4. THE ABBOTT CONCERTS. ‘The policy inaugurated by Mr. Carpenter, of grouping together in one comprehensive combi- nation a number of the leading musical artists of the country, promises to introduce, from time to time, the fresh musical attractions to our loeal concert stace. In making up the com- pany - for the Abbott concerts, announced for Monday and Tuesday, Dee. 10 and 11, he has se- cured for their debut in the West the original Swedish Quartctte, which is the latest novelty in the East, which, in the Thomas concerts in New York and Boston, has produced a marked sevsation by their remarkabic unity and sym- pathy in quartette singing. The auarterte is one of the best known organizations of the kmd in Europe, where the members have been singing together for several years, until their voices have acquired a onefless in expression and vocalization which i said to be aimost phenomenal. - Their debur bere will be looked forward to with considerable interest, in view of the reqggit appearance of their admirable imita- tors, ail contribute to make the concerts in which they appear gnite memorable among the musical events of the crowded season.” Mr. Carpenter has also enzaged Mr. C.N. Allen, the well-known solo violinist, late withthe Mendels- now ar- . vedish Quar- tette, Arbuckl anti, Stanley, Allen, Robyn, and Howard, accompanist and musical di rector, forming quite an ageresation of musical celebrities. MME. RIVE-KING’S CONCERTS. Mme. Rive-King has returned from her con- cert trip, and is now preparing for her winter campaign. Her last appearance was in Cleve- land, on the 10th, at a testimonial concert to Miss Clara Strong, who is on the eve of depart- ure for Europe to pursue her musical studies. Mme. King's recitals in this city, five in number, will be given during the sceond week in Jan- wary, upon which _occasion she will be assisted Dby Srs. Clara D. Stacy, of this city; Miss Abbic linery, of Boston: and Mr. W. P. Tyrrell, basso, of Ciucino We shall give the details of this series of recitals hereafter, but we may now announce thav_they will be iven by sub- seription at Hershey Hall. The prices will be 83 for the five recitals; single tickets 31 Mme. 1 Tas ulso signed a contract with Theodore Thoinas for tharty concerts, commeneing next March, aud is also booked for a week's engage- ment at Overlin. THE GREGORIAN WAR. The communieation from *A Parishioner” concerning the music in the Church of the Hoty Name, which was printed In last Sunaay's TRIBUNE, has evidently aroused the Gregoriun advocates, as will be seen by the subjoined com- munications: To the Editor of The Tribune. Nov. ¥as very much interested Music which appeared x under the signature of a guoddeal attructed by the piquancy of style of the article, but still more by the featl, of the attack’ which the writer makes an Gregorian and 1iake for_arauted, of course, that intentions are goud, wo that the question ix, merely, whether or not lie is a8 well informed on the subject as he sup- vosea himseli to be, ‘The subject of Church Music is€o interestingand 50 important. especially to-day, when_the whole Christian world is considering if, that it is bard to write anything less than a volume. or a long urticle, uhout If I had the sixtecn pages of Tur Scxnay TRBCNE at my disposal, T conld venture on a briei history” of church music, quoting from the admirable warks of De Ia Faze, Doriigue, danssen, Haberl, Witt, tc., and from that best of Catirolic papers, the London Zublet, ani the excellent German musical papers of Eu- rope and America. As it is, 1 can only make a fow FemArks on the origin of (sresorian, awordon the so-called Cuc only a sentence or two from those lix literature of church music. Do la_Fag¢, the cele- brated French writer, and one of the bes i ties on plain cham (Grezorian). tion of it in his atiee on Plain Chant," p. 1: i ut 33 » kind of music, the use of which rved and appropriatéd for ;and_ adds, ‘*For some music in use.” Iaberl, one of the principal German Reformers, says, in his ““ajister Choralis,”™ p. 5: **Tne Iotian Clurch in particular cver con: plain chiant ax her 0rn x0kg 'y and, on e best culo- ginnt for plam, i Crrcy in the ct, or from a distorted wiliful misunderstanding.™ fent-General of the ** (i knowledued as a great composer ¥s: **Plain chantis the em- and zrandg by all musicia bodiment of the high of tha n it or har- ing it with chords. It is an impe ,L“‘fi{é able masteroiece of natnral musical dociamas tion.” Mettenleiter, another grext German author and compaose ays (Mag. Chor., p. 1312 **The melodics of the Preface and the Yater Noster are t magniticent that ever were or ever will be "Ity well known that Mozart used to eay that he would giveall his reputation to have Icen the composer of one of those prefaces. The Council of Trent orders bricfly, but decidedly, that FLGrezonan music is to be tauzht and cultivated in seminaries and similar institutions.” De la Faue {to returin_to him) eays: ‘‘Enjoying the no- bie - privilegze of celebratirg * the glor; of the Most High, the only . emotion which it Is the mission of plain chant to produce is that which creates, excites. and in- creases in our hearts the sentiments of respect, gratitude, veneration, love, and humllit, whicn the greatness, the goodness, {lie omnipotence of God n#pire, and this destindtion is 3o beautifnl, that m #vite of the narrow limiss winch surroundat, plain chant, in its sublime simplicity, reaches st times an_elevation to which flzured masic, sur- rounded by its immense resourccs, cannot always 50 cusily attain." Perhups this is enough to allow your readers to judge whether Gregorian music is holy or ‘‘un- holy,” heavenly or *‘unheavenly,” Catholic or *‘uncatholic.”~ It seems to me that without all these quotations, the grand fanctions of last Werdnesday at_the cathedral with that magnificent antiphon,~ ** Exaudi,” chanted by thosc Roman priests, Dr. T. J. Butler and the Rev. P. Butler, and the Litany of tho Saints, in which over 100 pricsts joined, in perfect harmony with ad- mirable " spirit, were a living proof of the grandeur and beauty of Gregorlan music, and its ippropriatences for the Catholic worsbip. From ** Purishioner's™ solemn promise to remember your kindness in fnserting his article (it waskind), **while they ave praying, undistorbed by this un> holy, unheayenly substitute for the grand old Catholic music,” one would natarally infer that this *‘grand old Catholic music*® datéd back sev- eral centaries, and that Gregorian was a new, par- venu style of music_recently introduced by some ungodly reformer. Let us see if this is so. De la Fage says ({railedu plainchan() that we may consider five epochs in glnin Chant: 1. From the me of our Savior to about the fonth century. 2, From then to the seventh century, wWhen Pope Gregory L., called the Great, introduced the pres- ent perfect system in the church music. 3. From the “seventh “to the cleventh centary, or the time of Guy Arezzo, who did S0 much for the notation of music. 4 From then 10 the fifteenth ~ century, or the time when jiqured music first came into existence. 5. From'the fiftcenth tothe present century, when the cultivation of charch music reccived a great shock from the French evolution, and the subse- quent anarchy throughout Earope. This fifth epoch he calls the ** Decline of Plain Chant™'; but were he writing now hecould, happily, in view of the great and glorious movement going on over the whole world, 2dd a sixth epoch,—the **Renai sunce of Plain Chant.” This shows us the antiqu ty of Grevorian music, It is this vencrable old music, founded directly npon the sacred, probably inspired, music of the Jews, suny by our Lord Him- self and His disciples, at His last supper; by the enrly Chiristizns in_the Catacombs, and the holy martyrson the rack, which o saintly Pope spent his life in adupting to the wants of the Church lit- urzy; which holy monks and nuns have ever sung, and still sing exclusively in their peaceful cloisters: which Church Councils have ordained to ne the music of the Church, merely (oleraling fignred music, and which a_glorions body of r formers, headed by Pope Pios IX., Cardinal Man- ning, and many an Archbishop, Bishop. and priest, supported by the armies of the Cecilia-Verein, and other sucictics in Europe and America, aro now engaged in reviewing. 11 is this music which ** Parishioner ™ (supported possibly by his family) considers 50 uncatholic, and for which e wishes to substitute **Mozart's Twelfth™ (which Mozart never wrote) for Mercadunte’s, Weber's, and Lam- billot's Mussce, none of them a century old. Courage is always respectable, even in o bad canse, and 1 fing mysell #o fascinated by the bravery (perheps i littie headstron) of ** Parish- ioner, " that I could almest take sides with him, merely for the guke of fair play. At least T would Buggest to Lim that he forsake his prescut eround, which is surely untensble, ana try some of the arguments which intellizent adversaries of Gregorian have advanced. Why noteay: ‘It is true” the Holy Catholic Church brefers und rec- ommends +*this_ Cucilian, Gregorian, anti- Catholic stufl, - this unholy, unbesvenly substitute for the grand old Catholic nusic, but ehe docs not forbid the latter; she actually tolerates it. if' gocd of its kind. 'Phen why force us to listen 1o this uholy,™ ete.? 1 wili only add, in regard to *‘ Parishioner's™ assertion, thut ** the vocal purt of the concert was denounced on all sides. 38 weil as by many of the musiciuns who particivated in_the concert,” that 1 have heard many commendations, both from clergy and laity, but no ‘*denunciations,” and €hat if the tiwo great inscrumental musicians who took part1u the ‘concert besides myself, one (and he was, as ** P." says, * muny, ") remarked to me, on first hearing the selection sung by the Cathedral cholr, and afierwards to a similar number of mugicians (a2 mutoal friend), **Why, this is beautiful masic. Such music mighi make one a Catholic.” We must make aliowance for this rather Faistaflan enumeration of the ** musi- cians who participaied.” This buttle on the leld of charch music. 1s fully as exciting as that of Bos- worth field, and it was bat natural to megnify the number of such men in buckram, or rather broad- cloath snits. Iregret to eay that I have not said o word on “*Frince of Musicians," nor on Cee- u music, partly founded on divine music (itself founded on Gregorian), and partly forming a beautiful school of his own. But i am ready to speak of it wheuever challenged. HEuey Avcex, A. M. Director of the Cathedral Choir. To the Editor of The Tridune. Cnicano, Nov. i last Sunday's TRIVENE & 1 are a strong argument for a restriction of the freedom of speech. As at prezent the columns of our papers are open both to the amateur and to the artist, and even to tiose swho are neither, we must expect Lo sce sach cxhibitions of ignorance which celdom lack the nceessaty impudence. It would be unbecoming for me a5 4 MOsician to enter mto a controversy with ** A Purishioner, "but it is not out of place to snow te ludicrous position taken by this exasperuted person. We arc toldin one oreath that **this Cecilian, Gregorian, anti-Catholic stuif i simply no music, and 3 disrace to the name, Now it is an admitted fact that the music of the Catholic Church had in course of time sunk 80 low that it conld no_longer be called sacred music, 1 spent half a year traveling sbout Italy, and twok pams 16 get correct information abont sacred music. Exceptine the Gregorian music T arrived st the conclusion that the music sung and played in Ttalian churches, from Brescia 10 Girzenti, 13 fully equal in dignity and depth to the music heard at the Gaite of ¥aris. This Jamenta- vle downfall of Catholic music—which was by no means conéined fo Italy, though it was, and still is, greatest there—induced some Germans to.found thic Cecrlia Society, whose object {s the reforma- tion of Catholic music. This Society has exerted beneficial iniluence, both by reproducing grand old Catholic music™ of Palestrina, and by introducing modern sacred music, composed by Witt, Greith, etc. The ideas which this' Parishioner has about the **zrand old Cath- olic music” seem to be very vamue. He (or she) b\ probably means that shallow, stupid, eoul-sicken- ing staif written by Mercadante and Lambilloto, or; perhaps, that so-called Twelfth Mass of Mo- zart, and siilar compositions. It is a sad spec- taclé to see musicians like Witt, Greith, Luszt, Wallner, Itheinberger, Brosig, Ricnter. and oth- ers composing **this unholy, unheavenly substi- tute for the zrand old Catholic music, ” and a awe- fuspinug one to see this critical Midas converting, by 2 mere touch of his pen, their golden compos tions 1nto brase. C. E. R. MuELLER, To the Editor of The Tribune. Nov. 23.—The letter published in last TrInUNE on the music atthe Church of the vs such an ignorauce of the cus- holic Church, as well ag such re- markeole oad taste in mnsical matters, that I feel it my duty, as 8 member of the conytezation, to express publicly the opinion of a larze portion of hat congrezation. 1 have traveled in-many Catho- lic countries 1n Earope, and ot only have 1 heard in Franee, Delgium, and some parts of Italy, Gregorian music and chorus singing, but I have even been told that it is the only style of music which is really iu_conformity with the regulations of the Churen. ‘The Gregorian music, the oldest music in the world, is the only kind’ allowed ‘in France and Beggium. 1 leave the question of musical taste to more competent judges, but on the question of history and Catnolicity, no'one but a very izrorant person would ever deny that the music sung at the Church of the Holy Nawe is the ouly music thet can be called Catholic, according to the history and traditions of the Church. NOTHER PARISUIONER. LOCAL MISCELLANY. The gentleman who was recently married in London to Miss Blanche Tucker is Siznor Mar- ochette, son of the Director of Telegraphs in Italy. * Miss Sallie M. Baxter, the soprano at St. Mark’s Church, St. Louis, has resigned her position and is coming to Chicago for the winter. . Mr. John P. Ledyard has been elected Secre- tary of the Beethoven Soclety, vice Mr. F. G. Frank, who retires from the position, owing to ill-health. Mrs. Imogene Brown sang in “Judas Macca- beus,” in New York, a few cvenings since. The Lust, of that city, curtly says: Mrs. Imogene Browa's singing was in most instances correct and in all iustances languid.” It will please the numerous friends of Miss Glenn in this city to know that she madea success of enthusiasm in her debut at Malta, as Llierotto in *Linda,” on the 25th uft. Her next venture will be Arucena in “ Trovatore.” A coucert will be given to-morrow eveniug at MeCormick’s Hall for the benelit of the Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy. The Havdn Orchestra, Miss Jennie Dutton, and Mr. Frank A. Bowen will take purtin a repetition of the programme eiven bythbe Haydu Orchestra at its recent coucert. The Slayton Concert Company, of this city, maule a very handsome success in Milwaukee last Sunday. ‘The Wisconsin of that ays: “ Mr. Schujtze, the texor, who has made such a prominent Inark, was Lenty years agoa * devil in the Keening Wisconsin oflice. 1is suceess is & matter of course.” The Mendelssohn Club of Hyde Park now numbers about 100 members, and is receiving additions cvery week. The Baptist Church being too small to accommodate this flonrishing young orgunization any longer, the Presbyterian lecture-room hus beén sceured, and the re- hearsal of to-morrow evening will be beld in the new quarters. The first Jecture and recital of piano litera- ture were given by Mr. Ledochowski, at the Central Division of the Chicazo Conscrvatory of Music on the 17th. The subject of the lecture was ‘‘Johann Scbestian Bach,” and the tol- lowine compusitions were played: Prelude and Fugue in C mivor: Faotasié in C minor; se- lectious trom the “ Suites Anglaises,” and’ the Fautasia Cromatica and Fugue. The Turner Hall concerts will be revived to- day oy an orchestra under the competent di- rection of Mr. George Loesch. The programme. for this afternoon will include the Annie Lauric March.” by G.Loesch; Weber’s *Jubi- lee Overture’’; Keler-Bela's “Rhine Waltz™; overture to “ William Tell ?; the andante an finale of Beethoven’s qunm;,te in F, by Messrs. Loesch, Meyer, Fehl, and Eichheim tfinale 4, Donizetii’s ¢ Maria Stuart » Berlioz’s trauserty. g;n o;“{ghcr’sf ;:I;{l'\{i'ut(!af to g‘:e Dange nscription of Voigt’s *Long Awo™; cqret tiva from Verdi’s * ¥t & Dulci Jubilo Galop.” ‘The Chicago Conservatory of Musi opened a new division on the comerl%lh al"h?r?& first street and South Park avenue. In this nyn. dertaking, Mr. Ledochowski, Director of gy Conservatory, is assisted by Mr, C, & Horel® who is to be Suverintendent of the Sou:h:fi’n Division. While the Central Division_remaing as heretofore at 209 State street, the Southery Division will supply a want long felt on th South Side for a scliool of music; and the coe: certs and lectures to be given this season in the coltlccrbbulldat %bat div 'onu\lrfll be z source of mterest and pleasure to the residen portion of the city. Sttt The next Popular Concert at Hersh will take place to-morrow evening. Thy }:f.‘,l. gramme includes Haydn's * Clock-movementar Guilnant’s “Grand” Cheur™ in E flat, ang Thille's variations in A flat, for geay, by Mr. Eddy; Schuman’s “bes’ shondsh oy “Waram,” “Ghopin’s % Etude ™ fn A flat, Seee latti’s “Etude’ in G major, Mendolss “Sone Withont Words™ in A flat. and Reinecke “Cadenza™ in G major, for piano, by Mg Bertha Buerse; Millard’s © Waiting® ang Kuecken’s *“Heaven hath Shed a Tear,” by Mme. Marie: Salvotti; and Max Brueh's “Ry. mance in A minor and the “Andante™ frog AMendelssohn’s concerto in E minor, for violin, by Mr. Lewis. The managers of the Chicazo Musical Collesy have issued u circular which gives tie following information as to the concert sason of that ex. cellent institution: The frst ofree musicsle of the season given the Chicago Musical College Oct. 22, und repeateq the 25th, Was a success. But the attendance was *o large that many were oblized to 0 away, being disappointed in gaining adwmittance. To bridge over this difficulty in the fature, we have decided to give some of oiir concerts In u Kall Where greater facilities may be aforded the audience. Dudy the winter sesson we will ive three concerts, ong with fuli orchestra at Shzl.‘orrxlck Hall, and two at Methodist Church Block. i addition to tnese Y{uflgfl or ball concerta, there will be o - Colluye euuion ™ every other Monday evening e 1ory, 408 Watash avanues ) o CiN0E B the par. JMUSICAL NOTES. Miss Anna Meblig was aunounced to olay at the firstof the Monday Popular Concerts ig London this scason. ons. Vivier) the violinist who accompanied Mme. Essipoff to this country, is now giving concerts in Scotland. Mr. Henry Mapleson, the cldest son of Col. Mapleson, the well kuown fmpresario, has mare ried Mme. Marie Roze. The pianoforte warerooms of Erard, in Rue Menilmontant, were lately destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at 1,500,000 francs. The Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt has for- bidden and abolished infr’acte music in dramas and comedies at the tHof-Theatre in Darmstade, Inthe filth concertof the Leiosic Gewand- haus, Nov. 8,'Johann 8. Svendsen conducted 3 performance of a new symphony, by himself, in B tlat major. ria G A daughter of the German composer, Lachner, creating a sensation in operaat Frankfort-on- the Main. She isnot20 yearsold vet. Her Sena in the “Flyinr Dutchinan ”is spoken of in terms of highest praise. “ Nero,” Rubinstein’s new obera, calls for three first tenors and many leading singers. There are also said to be linwual dificultics in the way of its production. If has been written in French, translated into Russian, published in German, and will be performed in Italian, It issaid to be now definitely settled that M, Gounod’s new opera “ Polyeucte ™ is to be pro- duced at the Paris Opera during next yeir's Exhibition. The principal parts are to be sus- imiuet{lby Mdlle. Krauss and M. Sellier and assalle. ‘The admirers of the late Thercsa Titiens fn ‘England are discussing plans for doing honor to her memory. A movument over her grave in Kensul Green Cemetery was first discussed, bat, we believe, abandoned, beciuse of 2 request of Mile. Titiens to the effect that a simple stone alone should mark her restinz-place. 3 move- ment to found a musical stivend in her hovor has therefore been substituted. A portrait bust of the great singer will be placedin the yestibale of her Majesty’s Theatre. A GERMAN'S VIEW OF COL. INGERSOLL: To the Editor of “The Tribune. ~ Catcso, Nov. 17.—It is a heart-sickeniog sight to meet in the public press so many sneers - against the questioning, iuvestigzating, and a5 serting, free, independeut mind. The cause of these 50 many lute sneers is Col. [ngersoll, who certainly, if not faultl isa defender of mee thought and human rights. Col. Ingersolt is judged from a theological standpoint; where is the man or wuman who can deny this? If this be the case, then let us investigate, whether the above profession basa right to judge. Theology asserts that moral laws are a dicta- tion of God. I mean the theologieal God,—2 fictitious being,—uot God the ideal in man, but the idol of mav. Now, let us investizate, without fear of the sncers and anathemas arbitration may hurl against us, whether the above is true; if so, then surely truth goes before fiction. We fiud no moral laws, nor any moral or im- moral practices, iu Nature, eXeept among men; we find it to be a law to build up, govern, and preserve society; the object and aim are the rights, liberty, and happiness of men. We may bear in mind that there are no bu- man rights or wrongs in Nature; that what is right OF WronZ among men grows out of ag um derstanding Letween themselves, [be rights of men are only views and products of the hu- man wingd, aud are created and - called forth in man by circumsiances which surround bim, and conditions in which he lives and exists. That this is true, we can find out if we g0 back to the causes of the will in men. Thinkiuvg, reasoning, but honest men will nof deny that there can e no will in man without desire, and no desire without circumstanees. Jen,—1 mean thinking, reasoniny, honest men,—if they all would unite, could create circumstances and conditions in which the sens2 for the true, the zood, and the beautiful, which slumbers in every man and woman, Wol fully awake, and point out the will aod thess- tions of men. The above shows clearly to all well-meaning, thinking, reasoning men the real fountain vut of which the law flows which makes the biped man a buman. The law, [rom ficticious causes, is an impo- sition on the human mind by powers of arbi- tration, who bold their bacchanal feasts snd orgics upon the graves, dungeons, sud ruins of wen's minds. A. STEMPEL, 134 adison strect- ““ WANTED T0 DIE.” . O why wasit, Arnes, you **wanted to dic;” That form so0 endeared, 10 forever lay by 'To close those deur eyes on us here evermore, Eartl's sunshine and sortow to forever gise 0'er; To cease thoze sweet strains from the soal's depths &0 clear, Nor blend them in concert with waiting ones here, Did that drooping heart yearn in gilence to Jie, When you aid to me sadly yon **wanted to die™? Had g cload overshadowed thy eun's moming: am? Did a turbulent water disturb the bright stream, Thy Jife’s happy mora, like the butterily £y That with lignt golden wings ilits the beight howss away? Did you deem then this world wasall fairy bowers, When you ¥ang with the birds and danced o'er 3 fiowers? Wasthat barque which g0 lightly skimmed o'er t2a smooth tide Unfiteed the rough sea of life to abide? Aud, when pure Angels touched with torchef ivine The kindling rays of that beauteous mind, o O dia they breathe softly some **message love,™ To gaide that soal's life to a transport above? Did ¥e whosestrong Land the Universe holds, Whose my=tic creation in wisdom unfolds, Behind the cark cloud did Ie paint to thy vie? Eiright pictures of Heaven in gorgeons hue? That sweet life has fled, like the dew from the flower: That pure spirit’s home is Elysian bowers; .- From Eacth's blighted hopes, from Sorrow’s deep 2h, - 1s it stranie, dearest Agnes, yoa *-wanted to die 't 0 say not ** 1o die "—it 50 crushes the soul; "Tis the wmounting on Wighs s the spirlt mads whole; The adicu to Earth’s flceting pleasares and pain "Tis the being with Christ—that intnite gain. CuaniorTs C. WILDEE. Cmicaco. Nov. 15, 1877. e Togs with the Iiyarophobis. Hemnstend (Tex.) Messenger. Some two weeks since a 1oad doz bit s m;:;é many hoes in the Logeins neighborhood, h since then these hogs have gone mad to t 5' pumber of a dozen. One suw brought lord\“ litter of pigs, :vcmc of which was mad birth, and allof which died soon alter. Nabueeo 5. and the “Ig £