Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 27, 1877, Page 5

CRIMINAL NEWS. Tragic Ending of a Domestic Im= "broglio in Brookiyn.? The Parties in High Scocial Standing, and Boln!ea to the Beechers, Attempted Marder of the Yon;ng Wifo by Her Despegate Musband. FourPersons Burned to Death in an Incendiary Fire. Wipiog Out of a Rand of Road-Agenl 'iy United Slates Troops, A ITIGH-LIFE TRAGEDY, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicagn Tribune, Naw Yoni, Dee, 26—In a fine brown-stone mansion loeated in Monroo place, one ot the most fashionable neighborhoeds In Brooklyn, Charles E. Jéhnson, of this city, shot and serlously wounded his wife to-day whils the latter beld thelr Infant child In her arms. Johnsun {s 20 years of sge, and marred » little over & year ago. The marriage took place in tho house where to-day the husbaud at- tempted murder. The cercmony wan performed by the Rev. Henry Ward Beeeher, who 1s con- pected with tho-family, The event attracted much sttention among the people of fasblon in both cltles , by rcason of the high soclal standing snd weaith of the con- tracting partles. The young couple went to keoping house, but their happlness bardly out- | ved the honeymoon. Jolnson, altbough not aman of dissipated hablts, had no uncon- trollablo temper, According to the acconnt of her irlends, e constantly fl-treated her. %:: pore bier sufferinga a long time, but a fow we since complated t? ber, father, Mr. R. 8. Depedict. Mr.' Benedlet spoke to Jolmson's fatlier, proprictor of tha Tweoty-third street stage Jine, about the mat~ ter, but he wes unable apparently to control his sop. The ill-treatment continuingn Mrs. Johnson, Jr., about a week ago, during the ab- sence of lier husband, took ber child andits nuree to her father's, 5 To-lay about 3 o’clock, while Mr. Bonedict's famlly wera at diuner, the door-bell was rupg. The servant girl sald Mr. Johnson wanted to sco Mrs, Johnson. fler mother ex- pressed a determination to ba present, at tho interview. Mother and daughter enterod tho parlor; the latter carrying her infant child in her orms, Johuson looked pale, Ifg uf formed his mother-n-law La wished to see hia wite nlope. Mrs. Bonedict sald shio thought it would be better for her to remalu, Mrs, Jopo- sont then interfered nnd requested her mother to leave.’ As soon ng Mra. Benedict loft, John- #on demanded his child. s wifu saldeshie could xot give up the eblid. They wero atand- inz wt tho folding door, the husband next to the back room. He turned quickiy, and, putting his hand in his pocket, sald: “1'1 eloot youw." Mra, Jolmson screamed, aud, clasping bicr baby, rau through the hall toward the buscrent stalra. She had goue but a step or tvo when her husband camo out of the back parlor, and, standing over his wite, fired at her, The ball entcred In front of the right shoulder and passed out ot tho lower part of the breast-bone, The baby narrowly escaped, and Mrs. Johnsonr was caught by her afstor ot the foot of tha stalrs, policenian swag called, and Jolnsoipvas arrested before he cuuld leavy the house. [lo refuscs to make any statement. the wound {s not thought fatal. Mrs, John- son's algter Is the wifo ot Col, Henry Beecher, ons of Henry Ward's sol Mrs. Johnson charged her h dwith assault with intent to kill, gnd bo was locked up, INCENDIARISM, C3xTRAL CiTY, Col.Dec. 20.~Thia morning between 1 and 3 o'elock a fire was discovered fn au unoccupled bulldiug between Central City and Blackhawk. It was extinguished without damage, and, while tho firemen wers returning, another fire was discovered in the residence of Thomas Terrfll. Tho firat ones to arrive heard tho screams of tho inmates, but the firo had such beadway that nothmg could be doneto vo them. - Four persons perished fu tho os,~Mrs. Territl, Johnule Terrill, Willlam . Terrlll, and Robert Jofrey. Thero fs o strong uspfefon of {nceudiarisin, as there waa a strong swell of conl-oll about both bulldings, Yotk fires seemed to have started fram the outside, ;nfi&:l man was seen runoing away from the trst ui ing. Mmfvm.:. Tenn., Dec, 20.—Tie Amerlcan's epecinl from Tuscumbin, Alo., enys: * The dwelling of ex*Congressman J, 11" Bioss was burned lost night, supposed to by the work of an incendiary. The fnsuranco la §3,000 fn the Hgme Company of New York ‘Ilicro came near belng o frichtful panic at_the Christmos celebration fn the Presbyterian Church near by, *. which was only. provented with ditliculty by a 1sw cool lieads,” A TEMPORARY ABERRATION. 8r, Lours, Dec. 20.~Between 1 and 3 o'clock his morning Charles Ryberg, a wiper {n the aliop of the Indianapols & 8t. Louls Rallroad 8t East Bt. Louls, attempted to murder his wifo while Iying in bod nsleep. Ho struck her four heavy blows on the ea? with a potato masber, tendering her insensible. Thinking his wifc dead, boshot himself fust back of the right templo with a small derringer, but this not pro- ducing the desirod resuh, bo cut two deep gashes across his laft wrist,severing the tendons 8nd arteries, trom which the blood flowea coptously. Buon after Mrs. Ryherg rocovered her gousus and found her husband Jyfng insvnal- blo on tho floor. By u great cffort she aroused tho nelghbors, loctur was sent for and the wouuds of both- attcnded to. Noither is sup- Pmud to be fatalty hurt, but Iiyberg 1a In n crit- cal condition from the great Joss of blood, M, Ryberg attributes bor busbsnd's act to temporary insouity, caused bysicknesaJast suin- mer, He has had, sbe eayw, two or threo gl ilar attacks, but i neitber of thun did ho cume mit any violence. FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED, ' © Bpeciul Dispaich 1o The Chicagn Tridune, GRAND Rarips, Mich., Dec. 20.—omo days 8go, as telegraplied Tuz TRIDUNE, one Arm- strong, a saloon-heeper at Coopersvilly, Ottawa County, died suddenly, and was believed to have committed suiclde. e was burled tho Dext forenoon, though he dled Jote fn the oven- Ing. It now appears that he was a very Im- portant, if not the rrlm:lpnl. Wituess of a mur- #er that occurred there & fow d Juspicion has arlsen that nis deaih df cur from his gwn act. s body {8 to be disin. terred, and oMl Investizntion (s to follow, 'The affalr causes gowe excitement among those best informed of the ctreurn DESPERADOES DONE TOR. Baw Frawasco, Cal., Dee. 20,—The follow-~ fug dispafih hias becn forwarded to Washington by Gen. McDoweli* 7o the Adjutant-Genergl, Warhington : Gen. Kautx has just received the following dispaten ftom Camp Bowle, Arizons, datod tho Zdthi ** Lisuts, flucker snd 'L‘onez.ol 1bo Blxth Cavalry, have rotarnad, They atruck the party thot killod the mail-rider Dec, 14, Btein's Peak rango, and kitlod one. ~1vo'duys later thoy siruck thet Inihould Moxico, and surprised & rauckeria of thirty-four Wickupe, deatroyed the cawp, eaptured sixteen horvew, A d’ radd] and & 1ot of stufl egades had taken from a train. which the ren Fifteen dead budies wora found on_the grouud, witn evidences tuat mory bad been killod. Tue Wail muller was recaptargl. not oc- b4 s WISCONSIN ITEMS. Bpecial Dispaich (o The Chicago Tribune. Qavmxa, Dec. 90.—~During an encounter be- tween two yonug men named Bassott and Falk, at the Village of Washburs, iis., ou Bunday night, tho former kivked the latter in the Stomach, killing him lustantly. Suveral higliway robberies Lavo been commit- fad of late fu the viciolty of Jamestown, Wis. Tho last exploit of the kiud occurred on Chriat- mas Five, when o farmer was stopped ou tba rubbes al e drawn from a bavk fu the llllg city, Bpecial Disvateh 10 The Chicugo Tridune.® Tupuaxaroris, Ind., Dec. 2,—A. C. Newland Vas elocted Treasurer of Lawrenco County in 474, by Domocrats and Grangers, and dled darch 1, 1877. After bis death J. E. Dean, Andivor, elected on the sams ticket, and A. J cinainder. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 27, 187 Haatettler, administrator of Newland's estate, offered to aettle with Col, F. A. C, Bears, New- land'a succossor, scknotledging a_deficlt of $5,250, They palit 5,000, naking tima for the Seara refused 10 gettle, and com- led the .Comunissloners to order an fnves. fgation of Newland’s Looks, It was mude M. A. Belwick, one of the experts eelected to fnvestigate the records of this county, nmllpn defleit of between $14.000 and” 816,000 discovered. Suit wns at once instituted to recover the amount atill duc from Newland, 2 It Is Uellaved his bondsmen will conlees Judgment for that amount. New- {?;‘d vus t‘h’m first chlm‘r:crlnuc"l‘rcuumr l‘l:w? 7y an ¢ peopic think they have enough of that olk alr u?:. v —— ‘A LONG S8ENTENCE." Apectal Dapaten tn Ihe 1Micads Tribune, Gosnex, Ind,, Dec. 20.~8tophens Jenks, who muordered George Mallow, in Ontarlo, Ind., June 10, 1870, who was tried at LaGrange, and sentenced for Iife, who recelved a new trial by anappeal to the SBuoreme Court, who was re- turned from tho Penitentlary to the jail at La- Grange, from which he oscaped and remalned at large for fivo years, who was recaptured last August, aud returned to Jail in LaGrange, from which county he procureld s change of venne to this county, was to-day found guiity and agaln sentonced to Imprisontnent for life. KILLED Ii1$ COUSIN, . Toreno, 0., Dec. 20A-At Dundee, Mich,, Jyesterday, Jghn Wesloy Harwood quarreled with George Vandeventer, and, going home, procured a dagger for the avowed purpose of killing him. On returning he was unable to find Vandeventer, and started for home with his cousin, Ueorge Harwood, On the way they ?]unrrdcd about a revolver, and John Wesle arwood stabbed his cousin, (ieorge Harwood, with the dagger, killing him instantly, The murderer bed, and bas not yet been arrested. DEADWOOD, v Duaowoop, D. T., Dec. %.—A man named Edward Trimpy went Into the *“Pearl Ba- loon™ thls morning, and thero becamo ene gagéd fn o dispute about,some missing money with Kitty Sparrow, better known amang tho sporting fraternity as *Tricks.” The quarrcl finally resulted In tho shootiug of Trimpy by “Tricks," the hall steiking-Triinpy on the right cheek nearthe nose, and passini through to }h? }mck of the head. His wound is considered [ata) IDENTIFIED, Cincinnatt, Dee, 20.—Henry Curtls, who was arrested ona chargo of burglarizing Dr, Me- Catthy's house and stealing papers appertain- ingzto a bastanly suit now In the courtsat Middictown, Onfo, has been fdentifled by Dr. McCarthy nnd wifo as the man who prosented tho rovolver ot thefr lieads in thelr room; also by a servant girl who saw him prowling about tho nelghborhood tho day before, SIIOT WIS EMPLOYER, Nasnvite, Tenn. Dee. 26,—Geurze Do- Fanoy, an old citlzen of Tuscumbla, Ala., was Kllled night beforo lust by n teamster namod King, who shot him through the heart with o rifle.” King fled. KILLED IN A ROW,. Mzrnuex, Mass., Dec, 20,—In o arunken row, last evening, Michael Doran, ajted 23 ycars, was killed, 1t 1a alleged, by Mrr. Blade, eti— . STABBING AFFRAY. Lato last evening, at a saloon co given by Joseph Prochoska at No, 707 Jefferson strect, o dispute arose betwoen Joseph Jahore amd Willlam Lindeman. Botweon themsolves it waa agreed to go outside and fight It out in a square fist cncounter. Lindeman, finding that he was getting the worst of it, ran away, hoplug to liva to fizht another day. Jahore scemed determined to ond his extatence, for ho pursucd and stabbed hls opponeut be- low the shoulder blade with. a pock- et-knife, , The _ wounded man was varried to No. 181 Eighteenth atrect, where 1 wos attended by Dr. Brown. The wound, though dutgerous, 1s nat thought Lo be a mortal one. Johore started at ouce fur home, and was urrcted just @8 ho srrived thero by Officer Quinlan, — TEACHERS FOR HONDURAS, Special Disvatch {0 The Chicaza Tribune. Now Yonk, Dec, 20.~The- Zvibune says that elx teachers, three ladies and three gentlemen, will leavo Now York Dec. 81 to become {nstruc- tors n two National Colleges for men aud womien, to bo cstablished by the Government of Hopduras at Teguclqualpa. They have been ene kaged by Don Itoderico Toledo, ex-Postinnater~ Genoral of Guatemala, who was comuissioned by the authoritics of londuras to come to the United Statcs on postal and educational busl- nces, Theso teachiers sa the fivst of a number whowlll be engaged In_this country for tho schools of Tlonduras, English wif be the lunzuago used at the colleges at Te’wdq\ln]nn, :lm l‘hu‘ Ameriean system' of education will be opted. ————— ® .o, Surcial Diruate 10 The (Alcagn Tribune, Jortet, I, Dec, 20.~Auotlier mass-niecting was buld hero to-nleht, sud s resolution favor- ing the repeal of the Resumptlon act was vasaed. Bpceches wero mads by Henator Mar- shall, J, T. Slnouds, G M. Radellife, and othier vrominent gentioinen of this place, Another meeting is called for fn two weeks, A Whits Ribbon sdclety has heen formed here, and over flity of tho sirongost driukers have folned within two duys. OBITUARY. Dexven, Dee, 20.—D, W; - Ross, of Spring- Qield, 11, o well-known rallroad man, died hero this morning. ——— An Erie=Canul Bohiome, Ouo “*Mr, Crane,” hallinz from loston, has created h excitoment fu. Central Now York by lwpress) n’: pon prominent citlzens tho tnullll lity of n schomo for ovperating the Erle cansl §n connection with a rallroad, whosu moturs aro to furnlsh prdpelliug power for havigation of increased specd and Icasencd cost, The _Kochester Ezpress sayu: #Tha plun s to bulli'a thirty-inch wide ralle road on each alde of tho cotire’ Erls Canal and all fia laterals, for towing canal-boats ang the carryluz of frelght and ers at wonder- fully low rates. The engl boof newand specisl de nury strengeth, lightnes: frou aud steel, of extraordi- and capacity, buoilt of with avoldance of " all super- fluous weight or useless appendagesof overy character, road would be alugle track, with amilo turnout every five miles, aud s 1ald a8 to tow' Tive loaded boats at threo miles Y" liour nud empty boats at aix wmiles per hour, Passengor tralns ‘would be put on torun at forty miles an hour, with druwing-room and sloepiog cars. Fares {n ordinary cars aro to bo ono cent per milu; in thu otber, two cents per mile, Frefght trams will be pro- vided, and the freight tratiicts to be at least half tho rate churged by the Central or Kriu Road, aud local polnts are uot to be diserlininat- cd wralost. Traibs are to be bhauled by, hydraulic power o the locks at Lockport, and other obstacles wers gestured away witha wavya ol the band of the euthusiastic Mr. Crane as mere trifies uotto be vonsidered. Cunal hoats are to botowed at25 cents per mile. Tolls ato to bagbolisbied, and the Btate fs to be pald from the carnivge of this miltenntal warine rallvoad tho sum which would be collected for tolls,—say u miilion and & balf dollars a year,— the dmg tokeep the canal lu repair, of course, and dufinu with ull such_things o4 breaks aud accideutal impediments. By this scheme bc#n are to maky two trips instecnd of one, nud ghe cxpeuses will not exceed the present canal tofls, which, os we Lave stated, arc to be dispenscd with, "the company getting jts cowpensatio after paylug tolls to the Btutoas 8 sort o subsldy for-their conccaslon for 999 years, m‘lfi r:,l'-e towuge aud freight und passcuger A Now “laly Famlly.s New York Rrening Poss. Miss Catherlie L Wolte, of fiiseitr, receivod esterday from Berlin, the culebrated * Holy awlly,” by Knaus, whict was printed s tew wontbs a0 to the order of the Empress of Russis, but was declined by Ler betauss of thy advent ol the war. The [uum 13 about forty {aches long by twenty-gight fuches wide. It s nxw.'dhmg ruvercnt ‘sud bafpy in couceptiva, end wasterlyln execution. Bome of itsfeaturcs remind ons of Murillo, but the Viratu Motior's face s wuch swegter thau are wmauy shoilisr delineations by $4d old Bpauish waster. Tuu price yald 14 reported to be 30,000, The scquisition of the work by an art patron of this clity s one of tho uotable” eveuts of the season. ——t—— Young wife—'‘3y desr, don't by eteraatly Soding foult with the fushion. It you don't like tho atyle of wy halr don’t dresé Yours fu that,way, that's all. If I were to follow g"‘" exsmple 1 should have to wear my hair bald- headgl. Husbavd collupses.—Puck EDUCATIONAL. Bession of the Iilinois Teachers' Asso- ciation at Springfield, Il Yesterday’s Proceed Superintendonts’ ings of the Section. Bpeoch of the Governor Bafore the Btate Convention Last Night. Mecting of Wisconsin High-School Prin- cipals at Madison, Wis. ILLINOIS, COUNTY SUPRRINTENDENTS. Spectat Dispaieh 1o The Chicago Tribune, BrrixorgLD, 1ll, Dec. 20,—The County Buperinteudents’ section of the {ilinots Biate Teachers' Aasociation conve: ned at the Btate- House at 10 o'clock this morning, Btate-Buper- intendent Etter delivered s briof an felicitous greeting to the vislting Superintendents, who were present in large number. ment of committces, the rogul tered upon. After aunonnce- far order was en- Willism 11, Bmith, of McLean Connty, dis- cussed TIE 8UBJN CT OF READING, urging the primary lmportance of teaching reading properly fn schools, Reading shiould be classifled as silent reading and vocal, the aim of the former being to enable the pupil to grasp thesnldit of the suthor as tipon the printed page, and of the latter to enu mclato the words and correctly give anidea of the sentiment con- veyed In the reading. In teac! hing reading, the mechanieal part was of primary importance. ‘*QUR COUNTRY 8100LS: How we may benefit them, discussed by Mary A, West, " stas the tople of Knox County. 8ho argued that to moke county schools suc- cesaful ft {s necossary to sustain close communi- catlon between the schools and the County Su- perintendent, The conditfon of the public schools was the beat test of the efilclency of the County Superintendent. The country school should be kept open at least of gt monthsin the year; common-scnso school-teachera should be employed, and it was necessary to urge gpon Directors of couutry school s to employ good rather than cheap teachers. 8hegave somo sta- tIatics réviewing tho work In Knox County, and showing fts succossful character, and this was largely attnined b{ ;fmmz proj the cuuutry schools per pruminence to 1 tho county Institutes, VISITATION, Mr. Heory Hi, 3 ns, of Morgan Coum.r, lowed in a timefy discussion of the necessity fol- for froquent visitation by County Superintendents, AT THB AFTERXOON BEASION Buperintendent Ray, of Ogle County, presented au argument {n answer to the ¢ question, ** Why Is Not the Work of County Supenatendents Better Appreclated?” It was argued by hime self and ‘gevernl others that a Suberintendent must bo judzed by his qualifications and his work, An cxecllent aper was resented by Mr, White, of the Peorla Narmal School, on * Coun- try Schouls.”” The followlng Executive Com- mittes was appotnted for thy cnsuing year: W, II. Bmitn, o rla. McLean3 Miss A. E. Frozer, of Mercer County: nud J. E. Pillsbury, of A discussion on polnts of Sthool law (T followed, during which Buperintendent Etter, in auswer to questions, gave {ons, among tho most 1y a number of opiu- ortant being that o teaener canuot ussign A ncfi‘ednuuuvnr to another party; a teacher cannot collect pag besond the timo bis certificate covers; a ort-term certifi cate, fur less than the time fixed Ly Inw, cannot legally be fesued ; puplls cannos be compelled to hursto studies riot cnumera ied in the 8 :?ool sw; toacher's jurlsdiction does not extend be- yould the school premises; cannot bo garnisheed. The adjourned. Tha Btate Teachera® Asso Representutives’ Hall at 7:80 p. m., and, tho assembly was called to order, Gov. dellvered the Yollowing add: LAvIRA AND (RNTLEMEX OF s’ ASkoutATION: As a citizon 48 an oflicer of our a tencher’s wages Conventfon then STATR TEACUERS' ABSOCIATION, tlon convetied at after Cullom of welcome: E STATE TEATCH. f Springdeld, o, 1 welcomo you 10 oue, State, city and to this Legislative ball, You aro gothored lwr’- from all mm‘}zl Lo State, snd yml‘:'rn fa- vored by th slshed persons €onncil togothy the youth. ¥ om g 0 teach u 8, an tuued In 2 good work, s noble which thero 18 0 presence and avalatance of distin. abroad, your object being to tho best” meant of truimng a8 auch nro en- profession then NI MORE WORTHY NO! or mora closcly idontided with welfare of soclety. Itepresenting the fnterests and the common schools, yon are oilicers and mm.f. of tle btata, churged with fmportans duties and responsib (It nunc. e prosperity, €| ties. progrea, tho glory of tue Siste rour work, devotlon to guty, and your success, z “reanousibla. for” iho. cxponditara af a You are 're large shore of the tases gathere: tho beopleg For thayour 1470 OVER 8500, wero exponded In Iilloois for more Lk fession for teuching. tenchers in the State, and" threo Luartors of a willfon, ¥ aware of these facts, but it a ro tha powar, the pend greatly on W year by yoar from. echool purposes— 1 hulf that amount was pald to your pro- Aro_over 2, our puplls nuniber n_nre perbaps ail Aource of pleasurs ntid pride to o to epeak of them, and to publicly recogulze you and your work ns worthy TR EAUNDST ATTENTION AND HIGHHST PRAISH of the people, 0, in any commanity, is cherged withh o more werions respousibllity, or to ‘whom are the peaply more indebled than to the teachers of our childeen, the now generation the experionco man ur woman can enlis 1ug fearful responsibility, unduratuod, THE WEAL OR WOB OF aro in the hundy of the parcnts Thu boys and girls of to-day upon yuu, my {rieuds, whou'h tenchor without fed I the work is properly instructors of the 'ho tank of tho instructar, some on says, ts in transmitiing and Interpreting to the of the rece,' N IR YOUNG and tho teachers. 1o Ilinoly aopend hate come hora to counsel together, whether they will dovelop into intotligent and useful membors of society whoxe ives will bo a blessing to the country, PLATO BAYS that a good education conslets in giving to thebody aud the soul all the porfection of which they are wsuiceptiblo, Although that declaration was utiered centurion ago, not Fuow, il any, are oducated to thetr capacity {n body and soul; tess in oducation, Progress of education Los gll‘ 1l worl you_renched fts highest dovolopiosnt, the fuil extent of : but tlicro e prog- s tha great law of the universe, ond [ Srmly bafova that the world is wiser ond botter tu-diy thau ever botora, TiM WIBLOM OF TUB VENERAULE PAST vlaced 1o tho e ls the Is your privilege tion, I ta wtors your niluds with tho and present, sad 10 1mpart 3 10 tho yooth who are #4on to take your plices snd mine in the conduct of affaira, ‘Tho education of the were incldent of the clorical profession, turics It was not belluved that tho masscs, 1t was once ng and carricd from apo au uneration to the present, modium of comuunien nd_apeclal dut wisdons of tho pust 0 YOany was onco 8 Fur cen- 1o edu: 1t was wi - srith- thought wotlc ought o be taught only for smusement. 1B RULE ONCE WAS TH that only threv tuings should be taught—10 nide, to draw tho be well to give bow, and to speak the truth, It might A LITTLE MOLE ATTENTION TO THEIN BRANCH- B3 NOW than we do. 1n other words, wo muet not confne our efforts 1o ware Intelleciunl cnlius slglitof the proper traln and Joso plysical aid moral natures'and thelr Permit me lgr & moment £o refer to the fil‘ofll’ll made in our own Stato within oor secol ection. Thirty years 8go wo had 1o froe-school systum, sud ‘bt few sominaries o colleges, to be hired by tho neighours, each ll{numf snd vay for & given number of schulars, wember the Orst schuol shat 1 log school-tiouse in the grove, L, ":d doaks, no blackbosrds, Four or five studics a Our teachers usod (nlnleml wall re- ko old ons attond Honchoa A VERY SOLEMN BCHOOLMASTER, with & well-seasoncd Lickory switch alwuys ready. rerding, writing, gramm W ebater arithmctie, sud Smith's Spelling. i were Boiley’ Wore Our text-bouky. Such & curiosity (0 you toschers now, o studies. fully sdvanted rom thal condition, ioted. well-furnishod school-hoa, ks, und, bettor than all, tratned teachers. Then we pald fur the teaching; now our children as overything at the expeuss of tho stay ONLY A POKTION OF Til when all whil Le compelied 10 will or no, and £t thewsclves fo But, ladles and sentieuon, 1 wers permittad to utiend schuol 8% o)), have an equal chauce, and the time will s0on conio ud anthmo- welliug-book, ramuiar, [ tbink, schoul would vo & Wa have wonder- Hundavnie, ) kood toxt: d 1 ntellicent privilegs of llttla ro taught fn slmost Then 5 CUILDKEN Now al} o, whcihce tnoy £ 0ds 10 suctety, latended to apeak % you only for & tument, 1 1rust you will have & pleasant and protltadle sussion, and”that you will Tecuive u welcoma froos all ouf people, a8 1 know you will from yvery member of vur State Goveru~ invat. RESPONSN. The Governor's mldress was freqy uently Inter- rupted by applsuse, after which Prof, Lesile L&wh"o( iydv Purk, President of the Associa- tion, for his curdial welcome, aud, § lng him o the wectings o Alter wusle Lo Firet Presb; sictly responded, thauking the Exceutive F futurg, welcom- tho Assaciation. Musical Associstion of the b Church, President Lewis de- ltvered the {nnu:l address, reterriug to this as e twenty-for of teschers, and trust! scadon also would redoun i that thepresent to thevadvanr taze of the gri cause of education, The duties of teschera In da\'llomn{ and edu- cating & publlc sentiment fn favor of standard of education was "TM a% length. Every teacher In the State had such a dnty to perform among the people, and ahould do it. The number of distinguisbed educators of this and other States in attendance Iav:ryhrgfi. and fs being incrcased by later trains. The scaslon Includes Thursday and Friday, DR. M'COAIT, of Princeton College, deliversan address to- g;lrro}v'v evening at the Plrst Presbyterian urch. ‘WISBCONBIN. RIGI-ACHO0T, PRINCIPALS. Fpecial Dispated 1o The Chieags Tribuns. Mavisoy, Wis,, Dec. 26.~The Principals of the tligh-Bchools of this State held a meoting here to-day. Prof. Gould, of Neceedah, was runde Chalrman, and Prof. Clough, of Portage, Becretary. Papers were read by Prof. fhaw, of Madison, who opposed the admission of High- Beliool graduates on the certificato of a teachor totho University. This led to considerable dis- cnesion by Messrs. Cummings, Reynolds, 8haw, aud others, Regolutions of sympathy on the death of Prof, 0. R, 8mith were passed, The Beato Teacliers’ Assoclation met to-night. paper was read by Prof. Whitford, the newly- clected Buperintendent of Pablic fnstruction, on ' Country Kchools," in_which the trus val- ue of the common schiools shown as forming a foundation for the greatness of our popula- tlon. A gencra) discussion was had on the couras of atudy for mjxed schools. i INDIANA. BTATE ASSOCIATION. Soectal Dispatch to The Chieiga Trivune, IspiANAPOLss, Dec. 26.~The twenty-third annual mecting of the State Teachers’ Associa- tion bevan to-night with a falr attendance. J. ‘. Martin, of Franklin, the I‘rculdent’ deliv- tred an address on “Moral Culture® The programme Indicates that the sesslon will be one of much Interest, AMUSEMENTS. ROBE EYTINGE. It 13 not an uncommon thing for the actor or playwright to appeal from the cold-blooded erities to tho enthuslastic andlence. * You condemn my play,” says tho nuthor with a trl- umphal smilo of eatisfaction, **but you sce tho public patronize it; there's the: true test.”” ** You sall my Hamlet was atrocious,” sapstho actor, “but just listen to the spplause, will youl? Thero's the test of merits” When the ap- plause is all on the side of the performer and the performance, thisis well (for the persons In- terested In she production of the same). DBut how is it when tho critics aro friendly, and the sudlence unmistakably intent on *guying' the performance! It might be ntercst- ing to learn the views of the company now supportine Slss Rose Eytinge on this important and delicate point. Thoy would probably cling to tho eritfss und aak thelr pro- tection from tho howlitg mob in the upper tiers of the Adelphi, which persists in misinter- preting the holiest things in Bhakapeare. There 18 no use )y mincing tho fact thst tho present pwformance of *Antony and Cleopatra’! fa belng accepted by the Adeiphl audionce ns a brond farce. The candid critic may protest against such profanation, but of what avall are gentlo newspaper protosts agalnst s cruwd of fovincibles, attracted thither by a big poster on the walls vepresonting a woman clad In a neck- lace? Blhokspeare's dramn of “Antony and Llcopatra s so unfamilfar to the people who danw't read - Shakepearc—lmcludlog & very large class of people who @0 «to thes- tres—that {t' may be sald to be un- known. 'This waa strikingly manifested ln many ways, as, for cxample, in the decided proferenca for Betty Rigl, who danced, to Rose Eytinge, who actedi fur tho plctorial clubellishments, such as they were, to tho dramatic effects; for the voluptuons tableaux represeuting Claopatra in Antony's arms, to the tragic pathos of tha overloved and overloving Queen. There was, n short, o visible Ioer in tho holiday sudience, which pluinly sald that Miss Rose Eytingo bad been playing to the wrong sudlence, Thev were looking for a splendid varicty show, and dido't kuow what to muke of the grand specches, It was Shakapearo dancing a ciog-danco 10 please acrowd of rustics, Bo much for the applanse of uudlences, To come to tho actual merits of the perform. co. Thore is somo excuse for tho lovity of tho audiency in this casc. Tho name of Rose Eytinge was macuctle onough to draw a crowd, and the formidatlc snnouncement that all the stars of tho liroadway Theatre, of New York, were to supbort her, was accepted ns 8 guaran- tee of excellonce, As it turued out, tho *atars® did not make thelr avpearance, only s gathered assemblage of v .ordinary actors, such oa might have heengfly picked up on tha stroets of Clicago. A few sots or *drops ' from tho New York theatre were conveyed hither, *re. zardices of expense,’ and tne focal scenle artist fltled up tho romnalnder, includivg In one scune an extraordinary conglomeration of Corinthian pillars and Moorish arches, adorned with Chrle- tian angels. Some very beautiful scenlc displavs, as the Egyptian futerfor and tho picture in the 1aat nct, were quito in accordunce with the pub- lc expectation; and these, with Rose Ey&m:u‘l living _ portralture of Cleopatra, were aif that would be sald to meot the expuctation of an fn. telligent f\lhllh & 1t will do very well for a holiday show, may be a very convenient oxcuso for the specu- lative managers of the exhibition, but we sub- mit that it is an injustice to au artist of the stump of Miss Eytinge, and to that clase of theatre-golng people who thurou*hly lgnmdnu: her talont, Lo place her (n position” whers sho Ls almost sure to be misunderstood. A great financial harvest will hardly recompenss her for tho luss she must fnovitably sus. 18l in being associated with s number of inferfor people. Miss Eytinge's Claopatra s as llncnficrlurmnnm 8 could be oxpected fo & role which s pnmlbll tbo most exacting of say in all tho drawnss of Bhakepeare, and porhaps thery has never livod an actress who could rcr» sonate o character which is au epitomo of alitho passlons celobrated ju Colling' famous odo, Sho inight stand for a fine rupresentation of the Euy‘:uun Queon. An urtlet would say that shs cxhibits thut peculiar successionof curves which lias been conslderud tho highest form of beauty by anclents and moderus, and which formed thy tuundution of Hogarth's *line of beauty,’— the muscular cusve from shoulder to elboy, its continuatiun through the foreartm, thercpetition on the back of the hand, snd the three-fold coucluslon on each floger, In short, Miss Eytinge, looks erurzulnch tho “Quuen with .mu‘t'f'yJ cheeks and bold black cyes,"'—and you there fa an futimation all through hier perform- auce that alie was not born so, There (s not the uative rewal grandeur o Ler, only tho show of if King Caphietua’s bcienr mwald had been denly clevated. Miss Eytlogu struggles, and aluicst gasps, so to ancak, to reach her dra- maticeffects, Bue has dier limitatlons, and fn Clevpatra shu hgs dipped fntoa sea of passion which Is evidently boyoud her power to inter- vrot adequately. “Her dramatic capablif- tics aro pliched in & mner key, in dtose Michel sho commauds Ler sub. oct; thers she compels the lympnth{ [14 hor audienca; slic is absolute master ol the theme, But hers the character is cvidently abova her reach. She would be'the tigress, and she drops fnto tho plam Jdomesticcat. She mouths, sod rants, and writBes, but never satis- fles the auditor with that commanding influcnou which pertaius to gentus, which isable to handle tho weighticst thewes ns cusily-as it they were soap-bubbics, Ong could fmsgine & Junauschek becoming & Clapatra (1 sho willed it'so. Roso Eytlnge's vower lics not lu thess hlgh latitudes of art. It {s grest aud beautifulwhere it prop- erly belongs, but it cvidently does uot belong toiho sphero fu which dwell the dem!-goddesses of Shakspears’s creation. Wedo not forget the oceaslonal wictury of passlonate lovingueas exhbibited by Mlss Eyuuge, which, a3 mere tablesux, wure birily Teatistic, but we submit ihat these are not Intellectual, but shinply scu- satiopal effucts, which reqéire no stroke of art, but onls the equinment of voluptuous form. VPeruaps Miss Eytinge’s study of Clepatra has auffered somethivg worso than o “sea change,” by reason of the wretched support eccorded her by the company which bas been zathersd togethicr 10 aasisl Ler fu the West. Tho ballet, with Betty Rlel at 1ts head, s very creditable, thoush not Ly any ueans 0 flue’ a8, the ane nouucements wodld bave led us to auiicipate. Yeople, huwever, nre casily satistied with cxhibitions of “this kind. daucer belug good, all nor offcuscs are caslly cohdoned. The severcst condemuafion ok the sudicnce has bacn ted upon the bivads of the Juckless individu- als who have been palmed off upon us as wem- bers of the Broudway Theatre. * In notiing the vpeuing perlormunce we refralned frum cowm- meuting u?‘m thew, In thehoputhat they would fmorove, But there seems 10 reasonable bope that lnu{ will ever do anythlug better thay they dtd at e begivoing, My, Boutface, who s iz uctor of acknowledged merit, plays Anfony as if Lo wers an uuwilling m:x to wmefiumy com- pact, wud eager to wet of ft. He does not furuish us with & sclitary giltopss of the fat that he waa fascinated by this Queen of Hearts, but rather pictures to us a man of buainess who is wearfed with the sitentions of a paramour, and Wants o get sway from her as soon as he can, There {s no hint ot The dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strife, And the wild kiss. when, fresh from war's Warms, My Hercales, my Rorian Antony, 3ty mnled Bacchns, Toapt Into thy arms, Contented there to die, Mr. Boniface plays Antony very much as he would play Jngomar, and from his actions ono might almost tako Clegratre for a strong- minded Parthenla, The Enobarbus 1s deficlent in most of the requisites that go to make thia one of the most cfective roles {n the play, The famous recitation of the bargo scene fa lamely done, and perhavs this is just as well, for the unvelling of the pleture after it would other- wise prove o terrible drop from the sublime to the ridiculous, A few of, the minor parts are creditably done, such ns Lhat of £Erot) and the dancing arrangements and epoc- tacular cffecta aro deserving of conslderable Dpraise here and there, — Misa Eytinge, however, i rather to be pited for placing herself fn the fdro t of such o ““ery of players? for the holi- ays. THE CITICAGO CONCERT PARTY. The Chifengo Concert, Party (Mra. Felk, Mrs. Watrous, Mesere. Bchultze, Bowen, Lewis, and Loufs Falk) will zive a concert this evening at tho Unfon Park Congregational Church, with a very attractive miscellancous programme. In additlon to the solos, tha quartette will sing several part and folk songs. TIHE OTHER THEATRES, Mr. Leonard Grover will le in the city to-day to prepare his ‘‘Boarding House” at the Adelpht, Mr. Morrissey Is coming hera soon with “a tongress of dramatic talent," which will boin scsslon over three weeks. The Callender Minstrels are dolng a fine tmsiness at the New Chlicago Thestre. The hinuse has been well filled every evening, and the audienca sent away with happy hearts, “Beauty and the Beast® and *&lmpson & Co." constitute the attraction at McVicker's Theatro this week. The proceeds of this and to-morrow evening's cntertalnment go toward a worthy charitable institution. Joseph Murphy {8 drawlng crowds of people durlng the hmd{y week to see him In 'PKcn'y Gow.” Therg 18 n certain fascination in Mr. Murphy which it would be hard to account for or defiue, but it served to fill McVicker's Thea- tro last season for two yvecks, and it fs dolng service for Heoloy now, Madamo Von Stammuwitz, the eminent Ger- man tragedienne, who has heen playing in Ei glish since the beginning of thisscason, and bas achieved quite a success inthe principal theatres in this country, will play an cugagement of ono week In this clty, begloning Jan. 14, at Hooley's catre. She will be supported by the comipan from tho Olyinple Theatre at 81, Louta, 3 lluf: ama Von Stammwitz s well and favornbly kuown In this city, having Leen the lending lady of 3r. Wurster's German compauy at the New Chicago nearly the whole of Inst scason, durlug which'she wasa groat favorite with tne Ger- mans In this city, It fa claimed that ste has asterod the English language nnumn)lf well, and her acting is favorably compared with that of Maodame Janauschek, Whom she rescrubles fn many respects, RAILROADS. THE WESTERN POOL COMMIS- SIONER. The raflroads In this city were offieinlly noti- fled yesterday of tho apnolntmentof Mr. N. Gullford, . lato General Frefght Agont of the Baltimore & Olfo Rallroad,“as Western Pool Commissioner, with headquarters at Chicago. The following resolutions, adopted ot the late managers' meeting at New York, clearly sct forth the dutfes aud powers of the new Com- missloner: gy =t Resolved, That the Western Exccaiive Commit- teo employ aCommissioner who shall b coneid- erod it oftfetal reprosentative, and through whom it act, and who shall also act an the disinter- ested and impsrtinl agent of the railroad compa- nlcs partios tothesgreement under which the Weat. om Ezccative Cowmittos and the Trunk Line Committea hold thelr Authority. ‘That it shall be the duty of the Comiissioner to sce that the rates and divisions established from tire to time by Lis Executive Committos aro_fur. nistied 10 the proper ofticials of tho Trunk Lines, and to the Genernl Frelzht Agenta of all other rouds Intorested in the same, and to bring any Im- roper adfustment of rates that may be brought to Ell notice 1o the attention of the Commil That ho shall promptly investigate cuarges of violation of rates, nod, whon found correct, to ro- port the facts to the Trank Line Commiesioner, ‘That in order 1o sccotuplish the object of the agreement under which tho Commltteo were cro- ated, to wit: **The acinal maintenance of estabe Mshed Xant-bound rates,** and to enable the Lom- = 2 missluncr to successfully perform the dutios as- igned to bim by tho Committco, that be be fully uthorized and empowered to vxamina all way. bills, books, vouchers, correapondence, ate., of the varfous rallroad companios (and their fast frolght ines), partles to tho agreement, for the #ole purposo of demonstrating thal oatablishied rates have been andaro bolog malntained, or of lo- cating and proving violations of zates, At tho Commissloner Lo thejoint agent to carry res adopted by tho Executive Com- Bt otherwiso pocially provided for), placed in otlicial {nterconrso with Goneral Freight Agents of each road with whom all_business of a current character is to bo transacted. ‘That sll roads partied to thisagreement ondeavor to e-n? on thelr corrospondence fn regard to sube Jects {n which they have n common Intercst through the offica of the Cominissioncr, whose " duty it shall be ta bring sbout & broper undorstand. jngand agreement upon any subject of misandar. atsny or dissgreament. “All business with roads t croement, fo which the roads 1o this sgrooment hovo an interest, 14 to be Priisacted aa fas an practicale. theoash ihe Core missloner, 8> thet any agrecment with outside may be carred out throagn him, by all the ties to this agreement. be the duty of the Commissloner to keep his office B racord of all the proceedings of tho conventions held, and also of alt currespondencs carried on (hroogh bls ofice. In case suy buginess come to his nolico which cannot be watlsfuctorily urranged bé correspond. enca or personal luterviews of the Commissloner with the partivs, ho shall call a/mecting of the Executiva Committoe at such point aa inay in Lis judgmeut ba most convenient lo tho muon“uh“" ns far ps practicable, the Commis- sloner shall endeavor and nso rsons! ufforts 10 transact such buslnosa by corre roudenu orper. sonal communication, notifyiog all Intorceted par- tles of the result, ‘That the Comunlvsioner bae authorized to employ snch aselstants and clerks as he may doem neces- (-:-u. :n‘b]ect to tho approval of the Executivs ommiiteo, ;l;hn the office of the Commiasioner bo located in ‘Tnat the Commisvfoner bo authorized to assess the expenses of bLis office equitubly amung the sevs eral partics to this agrecment, 84 nesr sa may be euible, ona basia of i'ganenmlnui from thy Knat. und through freluht businvss, such aseosemenis 10 be qubject ta tto ganl approval of the Commit- tee, to which shall be refo; any objection to soch asscasments, wilh the reasone therefor. That thu Exccutlye Commitice Lorehy adopts the recommendation of ho trunk linvs contatued tn thelr rasolution of Dec. 10: **'Tat, 1 case rutes &re cot by roads west of tho {ntorinedisty connuc- tious of the trunk lines, sald connectivns, sad ail intormediato connectivo batweon them ‘snd the ruade 10 which rates bhave Leen cut, shall charze d cuforco thew untll full rates ntajoed. THE SOUTIHWESTERN POOL. ‘The Genersl Mavagers snd General Freight Agents of tha roads In this city belonglug to the Southwostern Rallroad Hate Associstion bave gonu to 8L Loals to attend the regutar mqntlity weeting of the Missourl River pool whilch will be held {n that ¢ity toglay, Several roads belongine to the Assoctation will be Lauled over the coals for violating the tarlft rates, but, beyond the reinlnr admonition not todo songzald, it is not likely that more devls- ive steps will bo taken agafust them. Wero it not for the fact that, on sccount of tho slushy Weather, busloess kv very dull aui uureguncras tive at brescot, thero might bu « great row, but as ju 3 all the rouds are more or leis anxious to kovp yp thy rates, as a dissolution of the pool Bt |Kll time would result fn disastrous compe- titlon which but few of them are sbie to stand. —— ‘ L FAST MAILS, dvecial Dissatch 1o Tha Chisago Tridune. Dzruioir, Mich., Dee, 20.—Threo fast rallway postoflices will begin Now.Year's Uay to run each way between Chicago and New York via the Jludson River, New York Central, aud Lake Shore & Michigan Boutleru Hallru Those westward -will leave New York at 8 i the morn- {uiz and 6 aud 8:801n the eveniug, CHESAPEAXE & 01110, Riesonn, Va., Dec. 26.—Recelver Wickbam, Bpecial Commisstoner appoiuted by the Clrcuit Court of Richmond, will sell on the 24 of April tho Chesapeake & Ohlo Railroad with all its rights, frauchises, and privilezes, e ——— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. Nsw Youk, Dee. 28.—Arrived—Steamships Lesstng, from u,ml;m; l:i‘n!duhvln. from Rote b T D R TSl d-Steusnab Braunscliwelg, trom Baltinorg, . ' 1ask pormixsion of my guests to drink to tholr VICTOR HUGO. Calebration of the Revival of His Tragedy of ' Hernani."” A Brilliant Assemblage of Literattenraese Speech of the Great Poet, Correspandence Neo Tork Tribune, Loxpox, Dec. 11,—There {8 a graceful fash- fon smong the French of celebrating a great dramatic triamph by s dinner,to which are bidden the author, the arilats who have inter- preted his work, o few friends perchance, and sometimes even the critics who have pronounced Julement upon it. ‘fhe manager of the theatra Is tho hiost, But the suthor may also sssume this part; and this fa what Victor Hugo has done this week fn his own brilliant and hearty way, In recogmition of his debt to thoss who haye ‘helped to make the revival of * Hernani® at the Theatre Fraucals an event in the history of the French stago only less, Important than ita first producifon forty-scven Sears ago. You have Intely been reading a French account of & dinner given Paris to Gen. can *tell by the Amerlcan colony In Grant. Most of what 1 you about this pofnt; a contrast which I will lcave the reader to draw for himself. tho Grand Jlote). To nasemble 150 Parfstans of varfous optnions, says Toeodore do Banville, and keep them to- gether for four hours under the Influence of & single [den, love for a great art and sdmiration of agreat gonlus—to do that Is to achieve a ehef d'zuvre, This Victor Hugo did on 8undsy, —pray donot he shocked beeause it wasonn Sunday, but bear in mind that Paris (s.niot Bos. ton, nor France the United Btates. Sunday s the acceptod day throughout that country for solemnltica of all sorts; from a race for the Grand Prix de Parls to a gencral eleetion to as- certain the will of the country in order that the President of the Republic” may the better know how toovercome {t, Forglive the touch of politics; 1t shall bo the only onc, for politics were rigidly exciuded from the dinner, to which the people of all politics and of no poiitics were aaked with equal freedom. Victor Hugo do- seribes bimself s DREPLY APPECTED RY TIE RECEPTION which tho press, without distinction of party, has given to **Hernani " on it third reproduc- tion, He never cared for exceptions Yo his gen- eralizations, and perhaps never lieard of the at- tacks which a fuw Bonapartist and reactionarv papers directed against iim, Nor were they afl revresented at this dinner, though some journal of cach party and fraction of a party had ftsdel- ecate present. Emil de Glrardin, Henrl de Fenc, Poul de Saint Victor, Hebrand, Psul Mourice, Lockroy, are names which may er mav not bo generally recognized fn America. There were literary personsges lika Emile Augfer, gouve, Daudet, Arseno Yioussaye, Loconte de Lisle; publishers liko Colmani Levy and IHetzel; actors from the Theatre Fraucals, who -have a share In the performance of “ flernant 'y Worims, who has mado himself famqus by his *Don Carlos,'" and Mpunot Sully, who has ndded another to hias list of fallures in the titie- rule; and Perrin, tho accomplished manager; laet of all, and firat of all, and the only woman among the guests, Sarah Dernhardt, whoso LDona Sol may be sall to stavd midway, as a dramatic impersonation, between her Urs, Clarkson, In * L'Etrangere,’ aud her Pledre, Which Tast s the finlshed pleco of traglc® actlog of tho clasal school scen on tho _French stage efuce Rachel quitted 6. Mile. Bernharde sat on Victor Hugo's right; littls George Hugo, Ufs grandson, O years old, the young lLero of SL0Art d'etre Grand Petro,” faced the white- haired poot at the bottom of the table. Noth- most ing could be Emuer than that; nowhere, per-* haps, but in France, and nowherc in France but At a poet's banquet, would a child have been ju that position. It s impossible to say what would befall the man who, in England, sbould menu-l such junoystions as these upon the st formalities of an Euglish publie dinner, This, to b sure, was niot_pubiic; It was Victor fiugo recetving his friends in the Urand Hotel, bo-, causy they wero too numerous for his own louse, At dessert, VICTOR NUGO BPOKB A8 FOTLOWS: I mako no n?uwgy for guoting in full. Itis every word gold: heattts. 1am hero as tha dobtor of you all, and I bogin by sn cxpresslon of thanks, For thelr proseuce, thelr Liglp, thetr sympathetic support, I thank the great Bicnts, the moble apirits, the gonerons Wwriters, tho loliy reputations, which surround me. 1thank, Inthe person of its honorable director, that magnificent nattonal theatro with wihfch hif o century of my life i connected, at one and the other end; 1 thauk my doar and vallunt coad)utors, those excelient artists whotn thy public nightly crowna with its plaadits. 1 will pronuusce no name, for 1shonld have to name them all, Neverthel {torning to Mile. Sarab Bernhardt] permit me, madimo, to make an exception whith your sex authorizes—more than that, commands, Yaou have shown yourself not only the rival, but the equal, of the three creat nctromnen, Mile, Mars, Mue. Dorval, Mme. Favart, who were your prede- cessors in the role of Dona Sol. Ro farther. 1 have tho rizht to say—I who, ntation of 1830—you bave Mils, . This is your are queen of your own right; twice queen by your beauty and quecn by your Then bending over and kissing the hand of Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt— 1 TIEANK YOU, MADAMB{'" and thunders of ;rphuau tolled through the hatl at this graceful homare from the illustri- ous old man to the beautiful and brilllant young actress. Then resumings: Gentlemen, what s this gathering? 1tis s alm- plo festival purely friendly and purely literary; aud fostivals of ‘that sort are alwaye welconi even in—and above all jo-—storiy and diticalt times, Nut a single word shall be ssld hers which can ba thought ta contain an allusion to any other pacsion than tbat passlon n'r the ideal and for the absciute ‘which Insplres ue all. We are in a region of tranguillity. We meet on ore tho calo) summit where pure #pirlis dwell, are stormie around us, but not amung us, It i% good that the,world of [iterature ehoutd cast its luminous and cloudless ray upon the political world, 1t s good that our peacefu} domain should ffer to the reglons of perpluxity this grand examn. Eu f cancord and s’ beautifal apeciacie. of routerhood. ere [ meant to stop, bat your applause encour. agos Mo to go on, lgfl I will ywn ‘word or two more, | Geotlemen, &t my age, 1t {4 rare for & man not to bave—not IL’!.‘!IId hy'hnv ng—a fixed {des. A fixed Idea 18 liko a Hzed star; the darkor tha night, the more Lrightly the star shines. B Itint e with tha ides, My idea appears to me with all the mor: because the perfod mmuqh which wu ar ia toe woze gloomy, I will tell you what v, — 11 my 1o fong. {rom ine beginnio of n All my Iife long, from ¢ nning of my yout! 10 thls u’ld °ngmh which 1y carver mrl ’nwn closo, 1 hav one end in viow only, pacidca- tlun; the pacification of spirits,’ pacification of wouls, paciication of bearts. My ' dream’ would have been no mare war, no more iste; the nations of the world devotod wholly 1o labor, lo industry, tu well being, 10 progress, 10 prosperity by mesnsd of tranquiility, This uream [ shall continue to dream, whatever the trisis of the past of tho future, and ta my last breath 1 1 strive, without yieldlng for one mo- @mout la dospalr, to maka It & reality, Corucillo, tho old Coruollle, the great Cornell feeling himscif nuar to de: roatlied oat this su- preme, hroud fonzing for faide, this great and last cry, tu this vef Auuioment d'explror, jo lache &' sbloalr, Well, gontlemen, If one had a right to speak sftor Corncille, and 17 1'wero ailowed 1 oxpress tuy last wish, I for my part would say: Aumomens Al'ullnln;. Jo tache &' apalscr. “ ‘That, gentiemen, {4 tho sigunifcance, that is the I.un.'."lgll s thy obfectol this gathering, this fuast uf brotherly love, in which there tw uo hlddea Enuh:z. 1o falinderstandiag; nolbluk but what reaty oble. 1] 0f us who sro bers, posts, philosophers, writ- erv, artista—wa ail bave two countrivs, une, France, be otoer, Ast. ! t i3 & cannley; It is & clty whose cittzens are thuse sous of light, Homer, &ichylus, Sapho- cm,lfmltluphluu.l‘lmoulun-flflrnmé Lucrelias, V' uraceo, Javenal ute, Ipears, Yatotate, Motiers, Cornetlo, Vettalro=" Aud all thoe guests broke In with the cry, #Victor Hugu." & And there 18 another city, too, less vast, but equally great, which wo ul{nnr Natlugal m:'wm and_which contsins thess wen Rov leas great: Unarlomague, Rolund, Duguesclin, Ba 3 Tenne, Code. Villars, Vaaban, Moche, Sercest, Kleber, Mirabesu. Well, dear comrades, doar auests, wo belong to these two cltidh, Let usbo vroua of it, sud let mo say to dm‘ in drfuking your health that 1 drick to thu bealth of ourtwo cCountries—~to the health of 1s grando Frauce, snd o the bealth du groud Artl I bave trunslated this speech because it §s rare In theso davs that oug hears or reads auy speech o Victor Hugo, except ou politles, aud because this keepiug quite outside of politics shows him in @ truer light than do those discouraes which deal with tu affuirs of thoday. 1t thetrugh wust be told, - VICTUR HUGO 18 O POLITICIAYN, in the com@ou scuse of the word. His speeches arg oftun extreme aud what 13 culled Lopractds . sud scil = plendor poanng that dus 3 Hugo dinner comes {rom French sources also, and offers a contraat to tho other, complete In nearly every They were both given st cable: eloquent always, no doubt: eincers to e last word, laminous with ideas that may bear froit in the future; flled with fafth fn buman natare; but helonging to the regon of poetry; the poctry of polities, it {nn 1ike, which scems to consist in preaching the imposstble beeauso it ml(v be, or ought “o be, porsibla at somo future tme, Bomuch Isav with every deference dua tothe great genfus and great human heart of the greatest of living French weiters, and I must ask my readers, it they find the forégoing translation rough and uncouth, fo remember that Victor Hugobelongs in the cate - gory of untransiatable . authors,—tha proof beInF that ho ts tha most and the worst trans. ln_‘gt lmgng all l‘ilshcounlnm:nfi = 0 understand how much Hago's pratse Barah Bernhardt means, go back tg whn‘: he. n‘l,; in 1830 of Mile. Mars, for whom ho deelared the role of Sol tobe what Charles V1. had been for Talma,—her triumph and masterplece, add- (msx "1t is impossible, without having' secn Mile. Mars, to form any fdea of the effect which tho great actress prodnces Io this character. Throughont the first four acts sbe Is the young Catalanc—simp's, serlous, nssionnte, concentrated. But o the fitth, Mile. Mars gives an Immense development to the part. 8he finds scope in it, lasting though it does but a fow minutes, for the whole ranga of Lier talent; from the eracefal to the sublime, ;:l“h'rfl"’“ the sublime to the most exquisite 08, Nothing leas than that was the talent of Mlle. Mars, 98 fugo witnessed it and bare witucss toit In1580: and’ that 1t 1s whichs he now eaye Mile. Bernhardt has not only. cqualed but_sur- passcds Mlle. Mnrs was the firat actress of her day. Victor Hugo's eulogy, with the applause of his guests and of flwlfll to support it, l8 moro than enough to establish Mlle. Bernhards a8 tha FIRST ACTRESS OF OUN TIME. Tt could belong to nobody but M. Emile Per- rin, the head of the Theatre Francals, to reply; nor will M. Perrin bo thought rash {n pmd'imng that, a littla more than Aty yesrs hence, as the great anniversarfes come round, **Hernani " will be playedas the*'Cid " and * Les Horsces ' are nlayed, belong, all three, eald be, to the same family; akin ail'of them in thefr man- Iy pride of tnought and their Incomparable nlendor of dictlon. And the guests drank—I wlnfinwo uh‘:all m‘t% to ’?('l fil the toast—to VLO-. r Hugo, the author of ** Hernanl,” and to ¢ Immortal youth of genius. G. 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