Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1878, Page 10

10 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 4 iS’T —SIXTEEN PAGES THE STAGE. .THE DRAMA. RESURGAM. There has been a great desl of conjectural talk among theatrical people concerning the financial affairs of J. H. MeVicker. - As somuch of that gossip has found its way into print, it may not be amiss”to again state clearly and {airly the facts of the bankruptey of tnis well- known managzer. Mr. Mc! eris a man who for thirty vears has heid a high position inthe esteem of his fellow-citizens: be las always met bis own-made liabilities, and his credit bas never been doubted. Some years ago he per- formed a friendly act which was looked upon as a mere * form,” but the friend proved to be dishonest, and the law says that Mr. McVicker ind the otber Londsmen of D. A. Gage ure indebted to the City of Chicago for over §500,000. Of the soven, four disappeared, leaving three to meet the judgment obtained by the city against ihe bondsmen of itsdefaulting Treasurer. Mr. Me- Vicker's estate is ample to'secare all debts con- tracted by himself, but the balance would o bt a short way in making up the debt contract- #d by Gage. In duty to mmself and heirs, therefore, he takes the only step left bim. The Baukruptcy laws bave proved to be the means of carrying many rascals into a haven of safety, hut a0 honest man oiten avaiis himself of them. Mr. McVicker struggled through the panic of accumulated a fortune, and lost it in the five of 1571; started awain, and was overtaken by the panic of 1873 and the subsequent contin- nous depressions. ITe¢ has carricd on an exten- sive and fluctuating business, and yet his eched- ule shows be is perfect]y solvent apart from the Gage matter. In twenty vears be bas expended on the pround where his theatre now stands nearly a balf-million of moncy. MHe is the only manager in the West who has aimed 1o preserve the dignity of bis profession and 10 keep the standing of his theatre up to the best in the country. From his perseverance in this he bas been called by some who know little of him a stubborn man; ‘he is only 50 when he ¥nows be is right, and, being 50, he wiil not waver even if it costs him mouey. e las been stubborn in nut allowiz his theatre to be used on Sunday nights,—a stubbornness which hus cost Lim many thousands of dollars. Had he fowcred the standard of the perivrmances dur- ing the last few years he would doubtless bave made morc money. Ite has been stubborn, if the word must be used, in carrving out a poii which be knew o be for the best interesis of ihe drama and for a metropolitan city like eago. No sconer ¢id be anvounce his bank- runtey than friends stepped torward to aid bim In the future, and it will be pleasant news to our readers to find that the business at MeVick er's wili suffer no interruption, but will open Aug. 19 with the latest su « Diplomucy,” Which will be produced by a powerful cast, the areater portion of whom come from Wallack's Tueatre, New Yorx. THE MAJERONIS. The newest thing in theatricals is the custom of husband and wife playing leading parts in the same piece without trying to mislead the public as to tneir marital relations by the use f difterent names on the programme. There ic a question whether it will not scem 3 hittle tameto see two people whom we Kuow to be amicably married and settled down enga love-making, quarrels, jealousies, and the other incidents of the stage. - At Hooley's this week our theatre-zoers witl be treated to this kind of fawily business, and will have learn woether they like it or not. Siznor and Riemora Majeroui appear tozether Wednesday cvening in the socicty drama * Jealousy.” The iady is a piece and protece of Ristori, and was in fact educated by the dicnue with aspecial view 1o & dramatie career. She was, married in 1866 to Siznor Majeroni. who was a member of Ristori’scompany during the latter's visit to America. lier first appearance in the Euglish Janguage was made at the Theatre Royal in Mcibourne, and she has since takel the roles of Diane in * Husband acd W Noomi AeVer in + The Livine Statue,” Camiie Mary Stuart, and_Vare Antoinettz. Monday and Tuesday eveniogs Siguora Majeroni dues not appear, the piece beis The Old Corporal,” in witeh the male Majeroni monopolizes the attention of the audirnce. HAVERLY’S THEATRE. Haveriy has at lust suecceded in making his once«imnzy theatre unrecoznizadle. The ou: g pave been thoroughily baotized, until ok 83 guod as new, aud the windows are with heavy pl I 4 is even more noticeable. T Tront of the circles are finished in white and silt, and the dome, walls, and ceilings under the ticrs are astily frescoed, the predominant tints being blue and gold. The folding-seats are newly upbolstered, and vew Br carpcts adorn the aisles. ments has not been less than £35.500. opens to-morrow évening with the Colville Folly Company in the **Babes in the Woud.™ 1.0CAL NOTES. The 9th of September has Leen fixed upon as the daie for the appearance of Joe Jeflerson at McVicker” Billy Arlington goes on the lecture-path next season under the auspices of the American Lit- erury Bureau. Advices from California confirm the reports of Tony Pustor’s great success. He has played one of the best engarements on record. Miss May Wheeler, a pretty and talented ama- teur, has been enmaged. by Mavager James H. Rennic for the Emma Leland traveling comb- nation. The total co Charles H. Drew, formerly with the Oates with the Company, has been cugaged to pla; Colvitle burlesquers, who open at Ha morrow eveuing. The Watlack «Combination_play the District Fair of Heunepin County at Minneapolis, Jokn Dillon as star; also the State Fuir of Iowa, at Cedur Rapids. E. M. Gotthold writes from New York that 7ot one-balf of the setors there will be able to obtain situations this scason, and that compe- tent agents ere ab & prewmium. Miss Aflie Weaver, who has been engaged as Jeading lady in MeVicker's stock company for the coming eeason, is a daugbter of Hany Weaver, and hus bud experience of two seasons in leading varts. The Pastor Dramatic Club will prescnt the new drama * Fate” at Grow's Opera-liall; Xos. 517 and 519 West Madison street, Manday even- ing, Au. 12, for the beuefit of the Homeopathic Frev Dispensary. Miss Georgina Smithson, the English bur- lesr_luz actress and star sttraction of the V toria Loftus Company of British Blonde in Chicaro last weck on 3 visit to her Lusbaud, who is with Barnua. The Emumna Leland Combination, under the manarement of J. B. Turner and J. 1. Kennie, will do the Fairs at Clinton, Lincoln, Blooming” ton, Jacksouville, Havana, Quiucy, Carrolton, Mount Vernon, Jerseyville, aund Morrison, allin this State. Mavager Jobu Murray paid s fiving visit to the aty last week ju eearch of peonle for his cumpany, at present in the Northwest. He re- l\fi“;fid uuf"_mfmp”'}f Yife and Miss Fanuy lace, likewise Prof. Maroni, wk cs 10 lead bis orchestra. T Jenuie Hirlit as been sccured for the follow- ing fairs: State Fairs of W and Hlinois, at Freeport: Lasalle County st Otwawa: Jackson County Fair, at Jackson, Alich. 3 Elkbart County Fair, at Goslicu, Iud.; aud Knox County Fair, at Vinceaunces. The “Diplomacy ? Company embraces six of the rezular company at Wallack’s Thcatre, New Montagne, Warde, Carroll, Shan- Maud Granger. and Miss Jeflreys- come to Clicazo Soon from a ful season at San Franclsco. cuished varty lelt the city_yesterday ot on a fishing excarsion to Fox Lake. the tuwmber were R, M. Hooldy, James iutzin, Gearge MeMiflan, Arthud6. Cam- Cuurics Thickstun, Johu Webster, bacles Barrou, and J. MeDongld. Arthbr Cam- e Was appuinted nd laid ‘in_the fotiowing 4: Five eallons whisky, bt dozen piots ot lager-beer, five ety xwv&xl{ rig mckirs, six dozen cigars. Loy exuect 1o live on the lish they catch. F Luke is said to abound in sucl;crs.) sk, s “RIAWATHA AND MINNEHARA? Of the first presentation of the new Ameri- cau—what vou may call it—Hiawatha and Minnehala™ at the Boston Museum on Mon- day evening last. the Advertiser savs: “+Hia- watha and Minnebaba’—libretto by Mr. Nathan- iel Childs, orizinal music by Mr. Edwara Rice—was performed for the first time in America st the Museum last mightt The wdience was large; the enthusiasm was im- mense; evervboay was calledand recalled; the wthors were compelied—not entirely acainst sheirwill, perhaps—to make speeches; bouquets and florsl trophies Wwerc many and _obtrusives scarcely any sign that denotes a popular success was wanting to the first represeutation of the ¢pew operatic burlesque extravaranza in two scts’ The piece 8s a whole is quite fure 1o please, we think;, and it has maoy just claims upon the general favor.” Of the T, actors the ddvertiser says: **Mr, Edouin led ith his WVif:iam LFenn Brown,—a Peace Commis- sioner of the conventional stage iype. modeted after Aminidab Sleck,—playiui with all bis Wonted freshness and fertility of resource, making even o hackueyed a scene asa tight with clubs exceedingly comical, and bringing out 1t light every nice shade of meaning 1 his text. Miss Alice Atherton was scarcely betmnd Mr. Edouin, waking tue parl of Mrs. Lo—wife of the arrow-maker—admirably humorous, uud displaying one of the most suggestive make-ups of the's! Miss Joyce had not the best op- portunities in Minnehaha, but used ull that were oflered 1o ber, and was by turns gracefuls and sparklng and always charining, ller nue Toice was, a5 usuai, vers eflective. Miss_Alice Harrisou, as Hiawatha, made o great advance upon her effort 1 *Evanzehne)’ scting with overflowing vivacity and with steady intelh- rence, aud_ showing a zood desl of humorous discrimination. Miss Llarrison’s smging 3150 was adequate Lo the peeds of the part.” SAKAL BERSHARDT'S SRELETON St Lowts Republican At last-accounts Mary \nderson was in Pari: doing the Exposition, visitmg the theatres ar art galleries, and caltivatng “the_acquainiance of artists and artistic people. She s so busy 2nd 1uterested in the French Capntal ana the epitome of the world at present tocalized there and tier- tbat her contemplated tnin to ftal many has been abandoned for the pr ing her short vacation she finds cuongh to see and-do in Paris. Among her new acquaintan in Paris are Sarah Bernnardt, the great Fren emotional actress, and Kate Field. She took the first opportunity to see Bernhardt m = naui.* at the Theatre Francuee, Sk ihat Bernhardt's method is very hike thal lary Morri€, but that the Freach woman has nog s mach magnetic power as the Amerian. But Bernbardt undoubtedly. at the nead of bis dramatie school. The fame ol the marvelons American girl had reached Pars hetore ber, and ollers act there duning the Exposition were declined. By mvitation she visited Bernbardt at her home, and did some Dprivate acting for her, which made the French woman enthusiastic and ansious that the Amer- 1can girl should appear innediately 1 Part But, of cous such a project was enurc ide from ‘Anderson’s programme of travel, and sight-seeing, and recreation, and the sugoestion was respectfully rejected. At Berabardt’s house Miss Andurson was iniro- duced into Sara Dernhardt's famous chamber, draped as bluck as night. Opposite the aciress’ bed is 2 Jarge wirror, snd dwweetly in front ot the mirror stands the skeieton of a man who died for love. . 'The skeleton was found in Italy There ir forever stares and grins ghastly at Bernhsrdt as she lies in bed. Aud she foves so she says. 1scalls to m remnder of mortality at the banquet table, ataony the gray revelers at Lite's feast, to keep the hilarity withinduc bounds. And Bernharde’s skeleton seems to perform this quict office ol guard in her chamber. The idea 15 very Frenchy aud quietly grim. & ° GAIL DAMILTON'S NEW PLAT. Gail Mawilton, it is intimated by a sprightly New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who signs herself * Belle Mettle,” bas underiaken a new form of Civil-8 reformation througl the agendy of i having written a piay for the Staudard Theatre, s leveled against cerrain legal mou- strosities.” Anofher paper adds that the par- ticular abuse.alluded tois the law which bro- hibits a wife from testitving iu favor of her h; band, tuough compelliner her to give evidence nst bim. ‘1he play alluded to is.** An Open Verdict,” announced by the manager of the Standard Theatre as ““au original merican play,” the purpuse of which rpose the unjust operations of some of the existing laws of the counmiry. Unhappily, this is the ve name and purpose of a_novel by Mi E. Braddon, lately published by the Harpers, and the inference is thay the gentle Gail hus been cribbing the ideas of somcbudy else. It hus been pretty apparent, as the Commercial in- dicates, that Gail has been wafting upon the couatry the idess of_Senator Blaine rather than her own, in ber Civil-Service tirades in the Tribune, but he also to be suspected of crib- bing from Miss Bradden’s romances of English life todllustrate on the stage the errors of American humanity aud incunsistencies of Ame Jaw: the way and wholly in- ca cidentally, it will mot be surprising that Gail ken to the dramatic form of who have observed her peeuliarly sdramatic style of compusition even in ber ordinary letters to the press. She and Aupa Dickinson have tne drauatic elemen well defined. Anpa has, bowever, failed to ¢ notions in acting; it remains 16 be s I Nzmilton czn write emotions for others to express.—New o u. tie soti of awealthy ship owuer, and retired from the stage. The total reccipts of the Califormia Theatre from April 1, 1574, to_May 4. 1875 (four years and one month). were $1,#54,004.51 Mr. Joseph Jeffe cted the half of $91.500, the receipts during his cngagement at the California Theatre, San Francisco, “The Adirondacks " is the titlc of the new play with which Louise Pomeroy begins ber tour next September at De Bar’s, St. Louis. In the list of passenzers who left this country on Tuesday app e uame of Wiltiam Shake- speare, Mr. Boucicault, however, remuins.—Vew York Trivune. Lawrence Barrett, the trazedian, has taken a larre and select party of his brother profes- sionals on a fishing excursion from s Cohasset summer home. A pew four-zct drama entitled “Noran's Vow” was produced at a morning performance at the Brighton Theatre recently, Mrs. Bouci- ult sustaining the principal part. The piece was well received by 2 1500d house. Messrs. George Edgar and Chandos Fulton have leased the Broadway Theatre for i term of years, and, after renovation, will reopen in § tember at regular prices, and present in rapid suce 1 series of attractive sturs and plays. Tt is £aid that the picce selected for the open- ing of the season at Walluex's Toeatre is a dramatization ot Richard: novel of *“Clar- igsa Harlow,” by Mr. Boucicault, who will not apbear in thns production, but will come for- Sard luter in an Irish play on which he is now eugaged, Two years ago some of her Cleveland (0.) frienus Miss Eflie Ellsler the untortunate =ift of eight shiares of Opera-Lous ck. T company has failed, cartying do fether’s mouey, and Miss Etlie is notitied that, unless she meets her share of the iosses, her wardrobe, jewelry, ete,, will be Jevied upon. Swd Miss Anoa E. Dickinson toa friend a short time since: ** [ hud an illness a year ago, but § seon recovered; people will st insist, bowever, that 1 ought to be un invalid yet. As 1w thie comedy, that’s been tinistied some time, and so bas the tragedys now U'm deep in the melodrama. 'l tell you all about them before long. §am coming upto the city again soon. Tun very busy.” “ Mv dearc boy,™ said Mr. Sothern, very sadly o New York reporter the otle ehings liave been 50 contoundedly dull abrosd that 1 can’t find material cnough even to tell a wood he. But 1 will say one thine in reward to the really unsympathetic and untaic way the Atnerici artists who nccompavied me were treated. OF course you know they hissed Georige Hollund, bt worse, much worse than all that, there was Witliers, the leader of the orchestra, the man who played vivlin s0los every nighi at the Park. He had 4 shy at the *Mocking Bird with Yar Lons? the fizst night, aud they tairly drowned bim. 1 thought astcam valve nud bursted. Any man who would hiss the *Mockiug Bird with Variations.” as u violin solo, must indeed be lost Lo all the finer instincts of life.”? ‘I'he mwost conservative theatre in Londou is the Haymarket. Mr. Buc is somewhere about, 50 ¥ of the company are not fur froum that age, story is_told of an actor applying for 2 situ tion. “What line of busmess are you in 71 the question of the stage wa: *“Juvenil “How old are youo? « four.” % Ver goud. 1s that hair your own 27 (The applicant Takes off bis hair.) *Good,” gavs the s mapager. * And your teeth® (The applicant takes out his tee zood. What do you consider the ereatest theatre iu the world 7 *Why, the Qaymarket, of course!” Do you consider Mr. Buckstone 4 great comedian?” The applicant burst. into an uncontrollable fit of laughter—testimony of his admiration fur Mr. Buckstone. *Yon are engaged,” says the stage manwrer; “prepare vourself to play Jtomeo Mouday vight.”—London Dramatic News. “BABES IN THE WOOD.” A RENOVATED THEATRE, In the midst of the rehearsal of “Babes in the Wood,"” a TRIBUNE reporter happened into the Adelphi Theatre yesterday afternoon. Ev- erything was bustle and animation. Carpen- ters, mas-fitters, carpet-layers, and decorators were busy putting on the finishing touches to Haverly's clezant theatre. He bas expended £5,500 in refitting it, sud bas expended it judi- ciously and with good taste. The exterior: bas ‘been thoroughly cicansed, and the Lemont mar- ble presents an imviting appearauce. French plate-glass windows adorn the fronts, and they setit off well. The vestibules are tastefuily -decorated, both on wall-bordérs and ceilings The fresco-work is plain and neat. The tloor is covered wiin lnoleum, which gives a pretty of age, and se! effect. The stairs are covered with hemp mat- ting. Entering the main suditonum, vue is at onee struck with the_change. The walls are of a light mauve tmt. The folding ehairs have all been renovated and cleaned, and the plush looks like mew. The flvor 13 cov- ered with & fine body Brusséls carpet in the aisles and around the vestibulo bick of the parquet. The decorations of the ceiling are claborate and beautiful. ~The maig and prevaling tintis red, and the decorations mainly consist of flowers, wneat, ete., inter- spersed here and there with griffins. of the galleries aud the private boxes ase done in white and gold. p Apropos of the opening of Haverly's Thentre to-morrow evemng with Sam Colville's Folly Company, # TRIBUNE reporter yesier- day 100k a 100K in on TNE HUKLESQUERS WiILE AT REREARSAL. Sam Colville reorgamzed Wis company for the present season in Chicago, and_heuce it has 2 local mterest. His people came here some four s ago, aud nave peen working like A rehearsing every day s “ The said Charley Drew, *is the bard \When -we play pefore an audience it is Fins tact Miss Rosean and Sam Col- vitle reiterated. The actors play and sing as safthiully as I they were before an aud! though costumes are lacking. ~1ow o you get up your burlesques?” asked the reporter of Sam Cotville. “That’s n long etory,” said he. . *1 engaged Mr. Gill as my autnor_and comedian. He ar- Tanged * Babes i the Wood? and *Cinderella,’ which we produce bere for the first time during this engagenent. We claim no origmality fur- ther thay n the arrangement and construction. In this we are uniike Boucicauit, Augusun mpbell, and other dramatic write the wood things of oLbers ani mve them due credit, Whiic th inality winch they never possessed. hie arrangement s then the big work?? “Y¥es. After we get such seencs us we want we prepare tbe characte That 1s afl well enough. We then find our musical dircetor, who i$ Mr. Henry Sator, this season. . lie, Mr. Gill, aud myseil cousult, and then he goes on and ‘arranges the music. This takes wecks and weeks. e selects, transposes, and composes wmus! mung to wet, of course, only such as @il swit the people enzaved. Alr. Gill arranges the Various Barts, g inmind the G people 1 the company and their Jadaptabiliv The sov; ¢ often written anew, and then r written 1, 80 that they are made pat to the subject. Thenext step fs the ar- rapgement of the muste for the of This is bir work, and requires time. 15 kuown of the efleet until they et towether, and oftentimes the whole iking has to be changed. Then come the general rehearsals . Parts are aitered, curtailed, or Jenul s scems best and appropriate. Surroundings, time, aud place all bave 1o be considered.” s }low long does it take to perfect & company eh as yours fua burlesque 7 Lt reguires about five wecks’ full time, which is indepenavnt of the wardrobing.’ ©That 1s 2 stnall part,” said the reporter, *1s it not 4" Small part!” said Sam Colville, excitedly. “Why, we have to have modistes and desiga- e ey ull cost woney, sir; all cost _money. In the case of *Cindercija’ tnere will be over ty ditferent costumes.” ~UAll drfTerent?” asked the reporter. *Are e &ir, each is of a different design. Then the scenery and propertics Lave to be prepared n put the piees on the stade, or be- fore we can give it to the public. The sucees of a production of this sort depends as much upon rehearsals for its perfection as it does for the perfection of its various art pictures.” “WHAT DUES A ‘CINDERELLA’ WARDROBE cosr? “Not less than $2,000.”7 “ Thut’s your sreatest expense?” “That is wdependent of the time, Jabor, ete., expended m getting the peovle together, the arraneement of the play, scenery, propertic el together, to produce ¢ Cinderella? cos at least $5,000. Of tuis class of pieces vill find that tnis cOmpany posscsses specific appomtuents for cach, all char: and asprovrinte. vested in an orgauizal computed at from & £50,000.7 What saluries do you pay? Are they fabu- lous Some managers promise fabulous enms, and s0 Teport themsel the matter of the amount of ealarie: something that can’t be 1t is a matter of contide: tween the artist and manager. [ ean s 10 you, however, that the average running ex- peases of this company. organized for perform- ances alone, totally independent of all local ex pensts, by which I mean theatre, atveriising, wrehiestra, ete., for which the local manager is responsible, is approaching $300 a night.” Just theu ML ne Koseau camie up, and the reporter said: * Let me know sowcthing of 4he cost of the principal costumes! Miss Rouseau exbibited sowe clerant ones from her wardrobe. ** All the c entirely new, and excel anything this conntry,” said Mr. Colyille. - Miss Roscau then exhibited her costumes for ** Bubes in the Woud.” They were rich aud charmi Tue first is of blue and pink satin, wita maroon velvet trimming, cut - the Frenc style, short and coguettish. It s embellished and elaborately trunmed. There are hat and satin boots to match. The lat is cone <hape, with the upper portion of pink feather trimming, while the brim is of blue satin, and the coronet of mardon vel The sccoud is known as the “bird dress.” It is wade of cream-colorvl cashmere and satin, trimmed_with French fluwers avd boots to mateh. The head-dress i3 verv characteristic, aud represents a dove in its nest, ein- bellished with vearis. The first * Cin- dereila® dress i of white cashmere, and canary-colared satin, blue satin, and wold trim- ming, en. The e whole being of Jassic de ond is-a | colured sific ar tin, chaborately Lrimmed with French flow e cost of these dresses is trom $150 to §3 each. Said Colville: “ The costumes of Miss Will- iwms, Merville, Everly, Lee, Deacon, Mortimer, 1 ¢ Babes in the Wood cn of the kind in 1 creame-colored MUSIC. _ THE LIEBLING RECITAL, Mr. Emil Licbling gavea recital last Friday eveniug in Eyanston, according Lo previous an- nouncement, before a very appreciative audi- ence. His plaging was immeuse throughout the entire programme. I one were o par- ticularize, it would be in favor of the great organ fantusic and fuzue in E minor of Bach, which was a piece of playing as remarkable for breadth as for vigor and refinement. Then, too, the Ralf Eiza . and varia- tions were played delightfully, and “hoth through the subject-matter and the mauner of its playving made a profound effect. On 1o oc- casion has Liebling plaved in public with better effect, and in every cffort he showed himseif what he ussuredly is, a virtuozo and artist ol 20 high order that scarcely three pianists in this country are properly 1o be compared to second recitul in Evanston will take place Friday evening, Aug. Y, when the pro- gramme will indude a Mendelssobn prelude c. Beethoven's “Souata Pathetique,” un from tensels, Schumann’s * kred his own concert walz,and Liszt’s _ LOCAL MISCELLANY. Mrs. Kempton is teaching a vocal class in Jauesvi ., for a few weeks. The next Apotlo Club semi-monthly rehearsal will oceur on \Wednesday evening, thie 5th inst. The second Perrv Smith concert will be given at Lincoln Park this afternoon by Mr, Hand's orchestra, with un attractive programme. Mr. Sdward Schultze sings the solo to Mr. Winchell's new bymn anthem,“ Nearer.my God, 10 Thee,” this morving in the Union Park Con” grerational Church. This is spoken of 2s being very attractive. i “ Prof. Meyerhofl, of New York, will shortly make St. Louis his permanent home,” says the ‘eiublican, 10 we are not mistaken, t from Cuicago. If so, then in reahty has Chicago got even with St. Louis. Mr. C. H. Brittan, formeriv of this city, and r ot the Cuthbert Conservatory at St. Louis, is at_present in Muncie, Ind., teach- ing voice and pano in the Southwestern Normal Mu: School, thé gession of which o Concert Party, as reorganized for the coming svason, will include Mrs. Louis Falk, sovranu; Mrs. . K, Jonnson, alto; Mr. ward Schultze, tenor; Mr. Frank basso; M A. Buisseret, violinist; “Louis Ralk, pianist and director.” The combi- nation is a verv stroug vne, and ought to doa liandsome scason’s busines: Otto Singer, the accomplished Sub-Director of the late Cincinnati Festival, had a narrow escape receutly. The position of teacher of singing in the putlic schiools, now held by the veteran Mr. Aiken, was teudered him, and he was on the voint of accenting it, when the advice of tricnds and his sober second thoughts dissuaded him. Mr. Singer's sphere s not the teachi sical A B C's to children. One of our contemnporarics savs: *“ At a meet~ ing of ihe Chicazo Orenesira, held last Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Adolph Rosenbecker was elected “The fronts* Director, to take charge of all concert: Rosenbecker is an_accomplished musician aod director, who has had ample_ecxperience with orchestral work in the past. _It has been stated on good nathority that Mr. Florence Zicgfeld, of the Chicago Musical College, will manage the sympliony concerts of the Orehestrs this win- ter.! THE TRIBUNE has alrendy noticed the fact that Gilmore's Band has becn disbanded i Par- is. and that the Treasurer, M. Grare, abscond- ed with the funds, Thercisa sort of poetical retribution in this. It will be remenibered that Gilmore engaged the French Band of the Garde Republicaine to come to this country aud play at the Boston Peace Jubilee; that it came to Chicago and stranded here, owing to -tne em- bezzlement of its funds by Stainer. Now a ;-‘ rp:;ch ‘Lreasurer has run off with Gilmore’s unds. Next Thursday_evening Miss Lydia Harrls, o youns pianist at Evanston, takes 3 benetit there, on which occasion she will herself play Chopins Impromptu in C sharp and Rondo in E_fat, Schumaun’s Allegro from the “Carnival Pranks,” op. 26, Tausiz’s paraphrase of Weber's * Invitation to the Dance,” and Liszt's Concerto in E flat entire (the latter with sccond piano accompaniment ol Mr. Mathews). She will be assisted by Miss Grace Hiltz, who will sing Handel’s *Hope in the Lord,” Schubert’s Gretchen,” and otner sclections. Mr. Hess was so long a Chicazo manager that whatever he dovs is of local interest. It 13 pleasaut to know that his prospects for next ason are very encouraging. _ His troupe will include Miss Emma Abbott, Miss Annis Mou- tague, Mrs. Sczuin, Messrs. Castle, Turner, Mcad, Ryse, Seguin, and Mr. J. W. Jenniugs, the well-known consedian. Signor Operti will be the director. The repertoire will embrace * Faust,” ** Miznon,” * Lucia,”, ** Bohemian Girl,” + Rose of Castile,” + Fra Diavolo,” the new opera of Leeoeq, * The Little Duke,” aud the vopular ** Chimes of Normaudy.” The session of the National Normal Musical Institute at Richmond, Ind., came to a close on Friday evening last. The class represented uwelve States of the Cnion. Dr. George F. Rout has, as usual, presided. Mr. Robert Gold- beck has headed the piano department, and Mr. Frederic W, Root that of voice and harmouy. Awong the soloists atthe public performances of thescool were Mrs, Jennie May Jewett, soprano; Mr. W. C. Cotlin. tenor; and Mr. Otto Schmidt. violin. Mr. William L. Tomlins, durm the fast two weeks, has conducted the evenine cliorus rehearsal Messrs. Goldbeck and Schmidt’s admirable c¢lassical recilals, as well as the we oncerss of the chorus und soluists, have a cned a great musical joterest 1w the City of Richmond. FLOTOW'S NEW OFERA. ‘The London Zimes of the 15th ult. says: 1t is_donbtful whether **Alma L'Incantatrice,” swith 1t the pains aud expense lavished on jts pro- duction, with an 4lma like Mile, Alvini, who lns every réquirite to impart illusion to the character, added 10 2 muse en scene and stage action reilecting hixh credit on Signor Tagliaficy, is destined 1o Decome a permanent attraction at the Roya: Italian oradd any new strength to Mr. Gy ¢ and varied repertory. 'The growth of “1;Esclave de Camoens, o onc-act_opera (1543) into **Indea,” & three-act opers (1853), and from that fato the four-act opera to which we now refer (1878), has by no means brought such good resylts as the frowth of **Lady ilenrictte,” a buller, ‘for which Flotow d some of the music (1344 into * (1858), which laiter, whatever may be the thought of its deserte. has won European fame. The of this plot and the " part the author of the ** Lusiad " has to ennct will scarcely elude observation. The music of L. Flo- towis in congenial keeping. Ithas pretty and graceful vasmages, scattered about here und there Some charactenstic touches after the Spanish man. ner, and s good deal of what is known as senti- ment, but none of the spontaneous, note of the bright and fluent melody, and. but httie of the genuine expression that willalways keep > Martha * Zthe first und second acts more pazticularly —in fa- vor. What makes *Alma * acceptable is especiully the enzaging impersonation of the Javadere by Mile. Albani, who in her acting and gencral de- meanor 18 grage itsetf, and in her vocalization 18 all that M. Flotow could huve dreamed. THE THOMAS ORCHIESTRA. The Thomas Orchestra is about to bring_out several pew American compositions. The New York World says of them: Among these was a waltz named **Imperial," by Morosini, the weil-known New York siuging- master. 1t has no merit demanding enticism, and can ouly be described as a trivially adapted to the capacity of the ordinary Philistine. Anothier new work was a suite by Nahum Stet- son. another gentleman weli known in New York wmngical circies. It 13 named and is1n_six parts, named T rise,” **Start of the Hunters,” **C lic et Noon,” **The lietura,™ and ser,” Originally written for the' pigno. +-Sketches ! been arranged very etfectively for orencstra by Mr. Dieszich. ~ They 2 tark- ale for theiz cimplicity, clearness, and tender- ness. Conceived i a purely musical spirit, each number expresses a distinct ideaZwitiout appar- ent effart, and being therefore entirely unsen tional they are best=suited to the taste of those who can appreciate zocd music, but at the sume time are ndisposed to muke the mental effort necessary to its anatyzation, A third novelty on_last night’s prozramme was Carl Feininger's **Theme aud Varitions * (Op. 2) for cornet und orchestra. M. Feininger, who is known in Lhis city 48 a violin virtuosu and’ teacher of muxic pure and simple, is Also kuown—perhiaps better in Europe, where most of his works been published—as a composer. e has written any works for orchiestra aud o larze namber of songs of greal merit, “FIGARG” ITEMS. The London Figaro for July has some very fresh news, from which we take the lollowing items Mlle. Albani is a Roman Catholic and Mr. Eruest Gye—ber husband-elect—is a Protestant. - On the day of M. Rouzeaad's departure fur Bos- ton, Madame Nilsson etarted for the Pyrenees. The Jady has made no eugagements of any sori to sing for next season. Madame Adenina Patti has been engaged for a brief scason at Kroll's Gardens, Berlin, in October, But previously to that she will’ take three months’ noliday at the house she haa hired in North Wales. r. Mapleson has been fortunate to secure for Tier Majesty's Theatre next season little Mile. Van Zandt, a daughter of the prima donna,and who i reporied by Madame Patti, and by every one who baa heard her, likely to becume one of thie greatest of operatic artists, The usual antumn ecason of Ttalian opera will commence at Her Majesty's Theatre on Monday, Oct. 21, simultaneously with the opeuivg of the New York season. The London conductor will be Signor lat. One of the chicf productions of thie autuin ecason will probably be ** Lohenxrin, ™ with Jadame Pappenheim as £7sa, a role in which the prima donna has attained Ligh celebrity in the United States. 5 Mr. Mapleson has, out of ail the applicants for the vost, sclected Signor Arditi 2s conduetor of the Ttalian opern scason at the New York Academy of Music. ‘Phe chorus of ber Majesty’s Theit nnder the direction of Mr. Smythion, will also zo to New York, thus giving American amaten choir of voices such ux they huve never befor inovers. The ditectors of the Academy of Music are now engaged w reitling the troupe and reper- toire, in conjunction with Mr. Mapleson. 'Fhe leading novelty of Mr. Car} Rosa's next pro- vincial seasou. which commeuces iu September, will be an English v cihur Matthi- son, of Muzart's * The leading ord and Mr. Ludwigwill, of couree, still ain in the tron but Mine, Blanche Cole will leave, and w ceeded by Mue. Vauzini (Van Zandu), recollected some years ago at the Royal lalis Opera, and who is the mother of the young prima donua who is expected to Laice the world by storm nest season at her Majesty's Theatre. MUSICAL NOTES. _The Oates Troupe commenees its San Fran- cisco engagement on Sept. 9. Wagner has completed the music of “Parsi- fal.” Jagar, of the Stadt Theatre, Hamburg, is selected for the part of the hero, which he has been studying et Bayreath. The Athenaum suys that Adelina Patti in “Semiramide,” from a ‘*vocal point, has achieved oue’ of her greatest vocal triumphs.” Mistrionically, it says, her_porformanee will not compare to cither Pasts, Grisi, or Tietjeus. A Boston paper states that Miss Emma Thursby bas received a_flattering offer from Mme. Christine Nilsson's manager, Mr. II. C. Jarrewt. Tuis engazement will take her to the Contineat. and her rewurn to Ameriea will be indefinitely postponed. A fourth prima donna is added to the strong company of ‘the Theatre de¢ la Renalssauce, ris, in the verson of a young Americam, Katheriue Munroe, who lately has been singing in English adaptations of French opera boutfc at the Allawmbra, London. Mme. Julie Rosewald, wife of Prof. Rosewald, the Baltimore violinist, having comoleted two successful _engazements os light soprano in uremberg and Berlin, has been enzaged to sing in opera next seasan. at Cologne, where shie will appear about Seht. 1. Terr Rubinsteln’s opera “Nero,” the pro- duction_of which was promised at the [talian Opera-House in Paris, and at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, will now be brouzht out at Vienna, at the Imperial Overa-Ho in fifi{é’i?“‘ M. Jules Barbier wrote the French ctto. Mme. Clara Schumann is very difficalt to lease as reards the rendering of her late hus- and’s compositions. On one_ occasion, when Herr Rubinstein bad just finished )flnfiln! one of his (Schuwann’s) jmmortal works, she is said to Luve asked him: “What is that you bave Jjust been vlaying, Mr. Rubinstein ¢ The third part of Mr. Grove's Dictionary o Music and Musicians_(Macmillan) embm«:e;ytlé portion betweea * Boieldieu” and ** Concert- Pitch.” Whileitcontains no one article equal in 1mportance to that on Beetnoven,” which ap- peared in the second part, or to some found in the first, a very large amount of interesting and valuableé articles will_be found in it. A,munc these may be named those oo’ “Bow” and + Bowing,” bv Herr Paul David; on * Brahms,” WBruch™ and **Cherubini,” by Herr Mac- zewskl; “Cadence’ and * Cadénza,”’ by Mr. Tluberc Parry; *Canon,” by Sir Frederick arillon,” by Mr. H. H. Stathamj “Chant.”’ by the Rev. Thomas Heimore, «Chopin® and “Clementi,” by Mr. Daaa- reuther; *Clanet,"” by Dr. Stone; an Clavi- chord,” by Mr. A. J. Hipkins. It may fairly be Satd that the part as awhole is quite worthy of those that have preceded it. The musical festival st Erfurt, whick com- menzed on June 22, ended on the 25in; on tne ogth, in the theatre at Weimar, Berioz's T Dumuation de Faust? was performed, the members of the Society of Erfurt being invited totake part. Organ, orchestral, and chamber. music concerts were given during the festis: Amoug the works were a Te Deum, by Herr Kiel, a violoncello concerto, by Herr Raff, played by Herr Grutzmacher; Herr Vagmer's *Kaiser- marsch ;& symphony, 10 G major, by _Herr Draescke; a setting of Psaln Xiti., by Dr. Liszt; the * Phaeton,”” by M. Sumt-Saen: romanza for violin, by Herr Max Bruch; * Funerale und Notturno Characterstocke” for orchestra, by Dr. Von Bulow; **De Profundis,”” for solo, chorus, and_orchestra, by Herr Raff; a string quartet, in B {lat, by Herr Brahms; a pianoforte trio, n G mivor, by Herr Bronsart, and also by the same composer, a pianoforte _concerto, in ¥ sharp minor; episodes from Dr. Liszt’s * Faust.™ including the ¢ Mephistopheles” Waltz, etc. The third Silesian festival of three days began outhe 23d ult. at_Gorlitz, the King of Saxony being present. Herr Ludwix Deppe was the conductor. A sacred picce, praving for the re- covery of the Emperor of Germany, was in- cluded in the programme. PORTO RICO TOBACCO. Sent to Cuba and Then to This Country ns Ilavana Tobucco for Manufucturing Ci- gars, but Never Used In Huvans Cigar Fuctorie: T the Editor of The Tribune- Cnicaco, Aug. 3.—Lately the New York Herald published an article which was copied by all paers in the United States, relating téythe use of Porto Rico tobacco on the Istand of Cuba, and the fraud which the Cubans perpetrate on- 1he people of the United Stazes in senaing to us Torto Rico, instead of Havana, cigars. Ic states tobaceo is sent from Porto Rico to Cuba, manu- factured into cigars, and the imported Havana stamp on cach box assures the cousumer that it isa geuuine llavaua, when it is nothing but Porto Rico. Even all the tobacco journals in the United States (which ought to be better in- formed) copied this article as a fact. Any one who is in the least fawiliar with the Ilavana business must find this article ridiculous. [ adwit that there i3 3 great deal of tobaceo ship- ped from Lorto Lico to Cuba, but that it {s gen- erally used as aigar leal in Havana is not a fact. ‘The members of the Cortes from Porto Rico have succeeded in obtaining the permission of shipping their tobacco to Cuba. Cuba had then 70 representative in the Cortes, and accordingly there was no opposition to the desire of the Porto Rico people, and they are the only ones who cun slip tobacco to Cuba. From no other part of the world can tobacco be shipped to Cuba, and even if the wenuine Havana leaf has onee been exported from Cubu it can never be returned there. Every Cuban eugaged in the tobaceo and cizar business is opposed to_ this Jaw which_permits Porto Kico to send their to- bacco to Havana to be manuiactured, but there is not one manufacturer in IHavana whno uses this tobaceo it is wenerally repacked in exactly the same packages as the zenuine Havana leaf, and exported partly to the United States, but wmostly to Germany, where it is_partly sold as na tobaceo, aud even as Porto Rico re- packed in Havana style it finds buyers; but hever yet has o Cuban manutacturer of the least reputation used an ounce of Porto Rico tobacco in his factory. The consumers of imported Havana cigars are not the persons who zet cheated; it is the consumer of American-made cigars who is im- posed upou. Auy smoker of imported Havana ciears who buys any brand of cizars which comes from a zood, established factory may be sure that he gets nothing except the genuine article, and even the cheaper grades of Havana cigars are made of Cuban tobacco only. There is not oue importer in the United States who would import cizars made of Porto Rico tobaceo, even if he could st them for nothing, for at no time woula they be worth the duty payable thereon; but to import the Porto Kico tobacco us raw material pays well in many in- stances; even if the purchaser is aware that it is Porto Rico tovaceo, the importer will aiways find a market for such trash in this country. Instead of prog: ng in the art of making good cigars, the American ‘manufacturers have gone buckwards; they do not make as good cigars to-day as they did _ten years azo; on the coutrary, the American cigars are getting worse with every year, which is not owing alone to a probably bad crop of tobaceo, but to the anxiety of wetting up cigars cheaper ihan their neich- and selling them cheaper thaw. Their v aim in the past five years has been to make wmore cigars than their competitors, and since that time there 18, with oneor two exceptio: wota factory in America which malkes res fine cigars. Itis also a fact that for the past s the genuive Havana cigars are not a3 they were formerly, but this is neither owing to the neglect of Cuban manufacturers nor the adulteration of their cigars, for a yood Cuban factory will never use anything else but the very besé Havana tobneco in the Cuban market, and any smoker purchasing imported cizars of a known brand may feel assured that be smckes nothing but the geuuine article. Ot late vears the [Tavana crop has not been os oo as thie world is expeeting, and this is the only reason why the cigars of to-day are not so fin us they were jn 1873 and 137, If the sood Imighty for a beiter crop of and notblame the trouble upon Porto Kico tobaceo, which is never used i ufncturing cizars in Huvana, but ol called * Havaua ™ cigars made in Germany and the United States. LEO KaLyax. L —— IEAVEN’S BUILDERS. 0 say not'that the good are few, That truth and nhteounsness are fled, Thut seif is first in all we know "That patriot love is bace und dead: For purer hearts were never Known Than those revered and loved to-day, And inder deeds were never shown Than those which fall wpon our way., Tleaven's builders work in gilence still; Guscen, unknown. they dow the seed, And sull Heaven's mizhiy sarners i1l And yet the groaning world hath need. Workun! work on! rejoice in toil! We lshor ot #or £ in The harvest slumbereth awhiie— At lust appears the welcone grain! Then let our tives touch every good, And banish evil ways and thonght; With faithful service mark the roud. With truth and I Jove, inwronght; To hetter Assunze the ‘And tnild on Earth from Heaven's own plan, JuLy, 1878, C. B. CavTsu. e — Dore “Flut™ Money. The Newton (Ia.) Journa' has woue into the % fiat-money 7 business, and s circulating amonie its readers o happy aud telling burles of the kind of _currency A by * Eric Pomeroy, Dan Voorhees vy etal, . We are in receipt of onc of the bills Journa!y of the deuomination ol “The ommber is 8,051,75:5,400, 347, and it belons to serics L. Ou the face is the followin: A MORTGAGE ON ALL THE IROPERTY IN THE SWINDLERVILLE AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C., July Ssi BSOLUTE _tworthleea) MON for the sum of THIRTY DOLLAKS, redecmuble nowhere. in nothing, amil by-nobody. accord- ance with the Flat of the Grand Conclave of the National American Approved rch 1 A. Wiy W neral Distribator. Trick BoonEs Treasurer. Fternal damnation to any man who refus " take this bill at var for all debt: Wesv Full tender for debts, public and pri Death 0 Any man whe refuses to nve us more credit. The back of the note reads thus: ok, VIVE LA COMMUNE! *Civilization demands paper currency repre- genting no artificial vaine."—F£ngle. 'This is just the thine—represents no value whatever. Behold! the Milleoninm s at hand! Ho, all ye that are boru tirea! come and get your il ‘of greenbaks! Money for all, —no questions asked, N %ORE CONTEACTION OF THE CULKEN: No MOUE INTEUEST TO ANYEODY. Dows 1TAL. DIVIDE ALL PROFEBTY EQUALLY. ‘I'his is ** hunest money, " aml will make cvery- body honest, as no ontc Will connierfeit it, robor kill for it—they can zet it for leas trouble. ““Ilic peopie want_chean money and plenty of 1" This is cheap as dirz, and plenty 8s the lice Hard s to **Gold is a coward. Engle. This money i3 not afraid of anyhody—never hides itself, and needs no safe to keep it The poor man's muney. The more he has of it the poorer he i¢, and the poorest people have the most of it PLATONISM Dr. Jones, the Philosopher of Jack=- sonville, !llinois. He Is Acknowledged to Be the Most Accomplished Platonist of America. His Recent Visit to Concord, Mass., and His ** Conversations®® There. Correspondence Scringfleld (Mass.) Republican. CoNcorb, Mass., July 26.—[1 is permitted to certain forms of human thoughi not only to enjoy a perpetual cxistence somewhere upon earth, dissotved ana disseminated iu that atmos- phere whicn we call civilization, but also to take rout in certain places here and there, from these atmospherie seeds, and therc to form a vegeta- tlonand growth of their own. Thus, from the original olive-groves ot the Cephissus, where Plato taught philosophy after the death of his master, Socrates, Platonism revived in Egypt, under the palm-trees where Piotinus and Porphyry dreamed and talked; tn Italy, amoung the scholars of Florence, in the days of Michael Angelo and Ficino; m English Cambridee, when Henry More and Ralph Cudsorth blended 1o with divinity; in Germany, under Schleter- macher; in France with Cousin; snd in New Englands with Emerson aod the Transcendentalists. So completely was the Platonic idealism reproduced in New-England Transcendentalism, and so_thoroughly did the latter become identified with Concord, that this country-village has been regarded for more than forty years as the HOME OF A NEW PLATONISM, of which Aleott and Emerson were the leaders. It is truc that Prof. Harris, of late years, has discoverel in Mr. Alcott more of Aristotle than of Plate. Yet it must be remembered that Aris- totie was himself Plato’s disciple. Thirty years ago, in bis lectures on Plato, Mr. Emerson went. so far as to declare: ““Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated among men of thought. Plato is philosophy, and phi- losophy Plato,—at once the glory amd the shame of maukind,—since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add any idea to lis categoric: 1f this be g0, how worthy of study aud iuterpre- tation he must be! So thought a doctor of medicine in Illinois twenty years a%o or more: and, so thinking, Dr. Jouesand a few of his friends established at’ Jacksouville, in that State, 2 **Plato Club,” which for nearly eizhteen years has been meet- ing weekly on Saturday evenings, and devoting an’hour or two to the reading of Plato, and the illustration of his wdcal philosophy by _other authors of the first rank,—Homer, Daate, Shakspeare, and Gocthe, more particulariy. Thus more than 700 of these club meetings have {aken place, in course of whicl the whole writ- ings of Plato have been read aod considered,— mauy of thewm with great minuteness and with copious discuséion. Dr. Jones has been the Jeader aud principal talker, but each member has been expected to take pare actively, and all have contributed something to the- elucivation of the authors read. A few notes of these weelkly couversations in Jacksonville have been privted during the past four or five years in the Louis Joirnal of Speculatwe "Ihilosophy. From one of these frazments the following pas- sages will serve to show both the UNMIXED PLATONISM OF DR. JONES, and some of the peeuliarities of his dialec The Universe consists of two worlds,—the Mentar azd the Material, the Intelligible and the Sensible; the one Eternal, the other Temporal; 1he one existing always according to the Sume, the other always according to the Ditlerent; the one 1 the Nubstance. the other the Image of it. The Intelligible world is the essential world that per- petually maintains the Apparent. From the stand- point of the Intelligible, we realize, on one hand, the outlook. to the Sensible, the Material: on the other, the insight toward the Ineilable. the Su- the One. Every subsisting nafure 1s seif- subsisting in this, that it makes a return to the fountain from which it proccedeth. Tiis retarn in the Universe is what we call Natare. Uni-cerse is the turn or circnit of The One. Every vroceed- g Spiritual Form, in its retara to its fountain, becomes eensibly visiole. That whict has 1ta hyparxis (substance) in a mutable source’ I3 itseif a perishaole, mutable form: that whicn_has its hyparxis in the Immutable and Eternal 1> itself an Eternal Form. ‘This is sullicientiy abstract, and lacks that wealth of iliustration in which the poetic phi- losophy of Plato delighted; but the substance of his doctrine is there. From this beginning Dr. Jones proceeds to bring ali the phenomena of the visible world, all the realities of the mind. all the fustitutions of maukind, into ex- istence and under notice; developing all things, ot by evolution from protoplasm, througi poiyps, fishes, and moukeys, up to wman,—but by the manifestation upon earth of the invisi- ble, hieavenly power and wisdom from whom we are descenaed. and who still inspires and con- tinues our existence. In this, perbaps, he is MORE FLATONIC THAN PLATO HIMSELF, who, in tie Jater dialogucs,—the * Purmenides,” the % Philebus,” the ~‘Sophist,” and the +Laws,"—falls away considerably from the en- thusiastic idealism of earlier bocks. Dr. Jones tncets this backsliding of his master by a flat denial that Plato wrote the **Laws™ atall,—a theory 1n which many scholars coneur, though the best authorities ascribe it to Plato. Dr. Jones is & physician of large practice and much repute in Jacksooville, where he has lived for 50 many years as to be now one of its elder citizens. For a time, some twenty years ago, he was at the head of the State Asylum for the In- sune in that aity, but declined « permanent ap- pointiment and returned to general practice. By birth he is a Virginian, but removed in early life to Missourl, whence he wens as a young man to liinois. His colleriate education wasat the West, where he bas always lived, with in- frequent visits to the East, where he has. becn known by reputatiun now for some vears. This sumiuer, at the invitation of Mr. Alcott, he bas epent & fortnizht in Concord, his first visit_ter- winating to-day. He had derived_his first in- spiration in idealism from the Coucord poet, Emerson, nearly forty years ago, but nad never before found his way to the **fountains” of sw-England Platoutsm. He was very cordial- iy welcomod biere, aud soon became known for what de is,—the MOST ACCOMPLISHED PLATONIST OF AMERICA. Ite has carried much farther than Mr. Emer- son tuat juinute and patient study of Flato which is necessary to cowprebeud him: ana, though he lacks the rapid, sure insizht of our Coucord scholar, he makes up for it by a method as positive and scarching as that of the old philosephers. He appiies tiis method to all the ereat authors, and makes Hower and Shak- speare Platonize out of the metodivus upper air in which the high poets as well as the high rods dwell. It 1s possible to criticise Dr. Jone: wethod as being a little too formal or didacts for the tresh hife of puetry and divine philoso- phy; but none who follow it can fail w see how thoughtful, carnest, and comprehensive it 1s. He i weight and dignity to wnatever subject he takes up, Dy showing thicit. ethical sud spis Litual refations, which, in the superlicial atteo- tion these subjects generally receive, have too often escaped notive. His inode of communi- cation, ke Mr. Alcott's, is by conversation or monologue rather than by wrting; and the two frienas luwve carried on in Concord, tur the last 1wo weeks, with the aid of a circle of their ac- (uamtance, partly Yastern and partly Western, o series of remarkable conversation§, which clozed Iast night. 4 The topics taken up—or some of them—were Faith and Reverence Clubs, Plato’s Gocthe, Evolution, Shakspeare, Faust, Primeval Man, and the Oracles ol Maukind. In the last- named were included, besiaes the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, the buoks of Howmner, Plato, Dante, Shakspeare, Goethe, and other great men, ‘WHOM DR. JONES STTLES “ANGELS,"” and who bave o message to all men concerning truzh and the conduct of lite. This wasa favor- Jte topie with him, and be gave interpretations of these oracles which were profoundly inter- esting to his hearers,—among Whom on several oecnsions were Mr. Emerson and Miss Elizabetn Peabody, while Mr. Alcott was always present. Miss Péabody hasd watched by the cradle of New- Enzland Transcendentalisin, in Dr. Chaonine’s Boston study, more than balf a centary aco, and had since witnessed the rising and setting of wany of its stars; and she took & peculiar rleasure in observing this new mysticism Which has established ftsclf anong the oot and now turns back toward the East from whence its Hght first came. For Di Jones' oracles slways bad 8 mythic interpreta- tion; there was a spiritual sense quite outshin- ine the literal, obvious meaning; and this in Shakspeare ro loss than in Goethe and Plato. “Thus, be considers that the * Tempest” is not placed by sxcident first among the collected plays of the £ elish dramatist,—it is the intro- duction, arzument, or programme of the whole. e unifying 1dca and key to the play fs Life, in the worid of lime and sense. ‘*Tempest™ docs not yiean a xtorm, but is from fempud, signifying Life, and the two ways of life uuder the Divine Trovidence,—the way of the provideatial and the inted experiences. Shakspeare is not writing {ory OF story, nor exhibiting mere gambols of th Imagination. He is postraying that which is eter nal in the hnman sonl. 11¢ is divinely illuminateds Be bas s dialect of his owns he is drawing out sod ~ presentins that which is in our own sous, portrays the mysteries within ue, Je Ficrocoem: he. makes prctutes. fhae it S0ulls 3 and understand onrselves, R we may gy This “eage snd serious g n course, capable of exciting a‘é:il;fl“, d possible to push evmbolism tao m—" lzn 1 i well to seek an interior sense in eversthis (0% &n imazinative poet may say, but the ot coming more and more to recoznize in Q”h‘ speare this lurking piilosophy which Dr. E:‘k' Suds there. s to Evolution and the sert™ Zorms of Darwinim, b © Coxser N SETS THEM AXIDE AT ONCE,— physician thouzh he is.—and bnhucygn'xeclu 1 £in of man is from above. uot frea it that we derive our knowlodze nop ot experience. but from Jutuition and regeore™ “Tnose who have had 1he most atperiee B0 monly know the ieast.” The savage 1s yon generate man, not the radimentary save o U wan wisdom and virtue. Scicoce bos s M the natural world. bt It can teach as moroc the supernatural, for the kuowldee of w4 w6 have otler zuides. The areatuess of pch consisted in bis breadth as tis name s 20 was * the broad man,” and had a comprop i both of the natural and of the »m’m}c o These hints may serve to show what Dr. 30”"'. furn of mind and metiod o philozoshy e bas Jo not attempt to reaort e ingle ' 1 do not auremy 20rL even - single o nooa, and does not believe in exenin for philosoplucat study. ie has d; West, and therc is u second Platy llency, {)ll., j)( which Mr. 3. H. cader. Dr. Jones docs not pat himeelf ac @ teacher, Ut is a Jearner: ang aor it hearers to adopt for themsclves the )ubighh patient, long-continued study which he x found useful. His example will be foll Bere aud tiere, b0 doubt, and bis naine will b come more wilely known p serves. ¥ 1A 0, s meti) les n s [ Emers iy o SARATOGA SPRINGS. The Hotels and Their Equipments—~Chica. goans Swinmering at This Great Resort, From Our Own Corressondent, SaraTOG, N.Y., Aug. 1.—At the Grang Union the story is repeated to all correspone. ents that the business will be quite as zood asit waslast summer. Appearances do not fndjeste it. Last scason the bouze made 320,000, accorg. ing to trustworthy information. To heip dlong. the zalos norw, the salaries wereeut down 20 per cent this year,%a considerabie saving. Wilkinson was not retained in the mansgement, which was a further saving in money it losspy talent. With these reduced expenses, the resgy may agree with the predictions. The United Stites appears to be doing quite as prosperously, if it can In either case be calleg that. The States gathers fu oll who e hither for conferences, whether railroad, politi al, or religious. It would be difficult to imagin, a more attractive house to stop at. William §, Vanderbilt thinks there is no hotel equal toiz He and his family occupy ong of the handsome cottazes in the park, have their meals setyed there, and thus escape much of the publicitythy is inevitably their portfon when theyappesr oct. side of theirown domain. Mr. Vanderbils ag rapidly. His form is bent already, and he walis like an old man. His is 2 wondertul family, ds tined no doubt to retain its vast power over th railroads of this country for many years. Th sons show a remarkubie aptitude for mamen ment, and are deeply versed in -the larze foer. ests that will pass into their hacts when Wil jum H. Vanderbilt dies. Cornelios nineh re sembles his grandiathier, and growsto look mors like him every vear, so. that the Cornelins an- derbilt of thirty or forty years bence promiey to be a successor in appearance a3 wellsin mavagement to that singular and powerfal Cornclius Vanderuilt whose will is still a mathr of contest by reason of theson of like namewio does not rescmble him. Congress Hall isthe only one of the older hotcls that has changed hands. The honss wag sold for $200,000 at_ Snertil’s sale, 1o Mr. Clex ents, ot the Liudell, at St. Louis. Mr. Cien- ents’ son, well-kuown as manager of the Lin- dell, is in possession, with Mr. Wilkinson as co-manager, and_ evers effort is bang madets regain fogthe Coneress its former prestige. It 1s now lifely to become the favorite house for Western people, aud many from St. Lonis, Chi- cago, Cincinnati, and elseshere in the West are among its guests. The prices bave been reduced aday, another facz which teils in thess Times. OI the new venture at the Windsor, ang other features of interest, 1 shall speak subscquently. Amone the Chicago people registéred here aro the following: Grand Umon—C. F. Hill .and wife, Perry H. Smith and wife,~ James J. Hplsworth,. J.. Doane and wife, Miss McCormick, F. D. Gray and wife, Mrs. William Edwards, child, and mad, Mrs, Anderson, Miss Anuersop, €. B. Kinz, Jits. . M. Osrood, Sliss Cacrie Osmod, Miss E. Us- 200, F. Peabody, George 8. Carmichael and wile, M. Jones, Mra. Georse H. Phelpsand bor, K. W, tosmer, G. L. Lean H. W.Pmuw W K Ackerman, Miss L. Ackerman. C. F. Grifins, James H, Walker and wife, Thomas J. Charcaill, wife, and cluid, Mrs. E. L. Draper, L. M. Him- burger, Martin Lennett, wife, and family, 3. A. C. Taglor, Mrs. Barrett, W. B. Chatdeld, Wirt Dexter and wife. United States—Samael Johnston, George M. Lyon, Francis H. Eales, N. W. 3landy and wife,. Mrs. James B. Kaynor, Miss Mollie Raynor, Nas- ter R. §. Raynor, A Pence, W. H. Dsmom, 1. L. Sanderson, W. IX. Leonard, Mr. and M Luat, II. J. Tunnectif and wife, Miss Tapaeclid znd maid, D. B. Slhlpml:n, wife, and maid, Mrs. ¢ & Romney, 1. . Loomis. Congress “2{ . .1‘011!Dfllmli “}lre‘“"v.xpjg::l; Jand and wife, Miss Mary Howland, W. and wife, ];}. N. n‘l;fl!, M. A. Weinberg, Williaa W Frweil and wife. \Wildsor—J. Howard Williams, S. C. Dewlitsod it Miay Flgrence Dewitt, Honey - Easign 1d C. L. Perkins, Charendondire. T. B. Wells, Mrs. 1L 6. Het: fron, Martin Wells, Charles M. Leopold, P. B {anborn, Charles G, Cropsey, Mrs, C.W. Bomael, Julus A Koha. S NORTH ALABANA. The German Colony in Garden Clty. To the Editor of The Tribune. GARDEN CIT¥, Ala., July 3l.—Ganlen City not a city, but it aspires to become ope 30mE day in the future. Let your many readlers imagine a rude clearing in_tue wild woods & either side of the railroad, and s_um)undm by ravines, hills, and monntains, with some dozen plain houses, unpainted, and they can ¢ Garden City os it now stands. The people &% all from Chicago, and are very quict, mrdfi A and industrious. Most of them are seatier here and there on railroad or Gorernment land, and have left the nmew town 10 care of ftselt. I visited several > their farms, and, consideriog the dfl months of - labor on them, they bave Joos very well. They have cleared several l::; vut up common frame buildivgs, aud B planted corn, potatoes (irish aud sweet); beets, warrots, omious, aud cabbages. berel ext scason they intend to plant amm;l ks roung grape-vines so that cacn funily will B0 an sbundaunce of that fiue fruit (nsr_e-n‘ i There is o Jarge hotel bere, but it is not ¢ quite inisheds its proprietor formerly ness on East Madison stree! " “Fhe people are puur, but bard workers, sed secm well pleased with their new bomes. oy potitics are not interfered with, and meyc to vote il‘| this couuty as they haveln at past elections. f:sz Yourth of Jalythey bad a:.ml: ;':nr?" out here, aund invited all tpe old scturs‘ a radius of - twenty miles to pav thelr;:'m The Stars aod_Stripes waved gracefully breeze, and old and youns, uative 3 B marched in processiou after it. All were B0 aud the'day ended most agreeally 10 cerned. “The wann weather here for the pfli{:; weeks has played sad havoe wizh the u\;r:s-w The farmers feel down-hearted ab theff By pects for the future. Al the creews and 50 have given out, and the Mulberty mv'e‘ ity this town, is tower than it has been for 2 G Asmany of the readers of r“‘. would like to kunow somethiog .-.mn‘mm here, I will simply state that land her¢ B e enough, but it takes cgnsxdcrah(: mo! start a little farm with, ‘The cost BY T ¢ very sinall_in_comparison 1o other ©REL, after a man gets here. In order t0 l:s'“m cess a man must have _enough t0 kumw L one year while clearing nis Jand. . A COT. 7 Dlow, harrow. and_mapy other 1hinZs Ao agricultural line must be bouht- Hepia unwise to imagioe that a_few doliars man up bere or elsewhere. e W better for a man to wait & fe® yesrs [ Jars M/ Joneer and save up a few hundred do ) with what as 1, than to start ith what he has already got , than 0 . viln just enougrh to iNSUTC 3 oMY Mll h:l:“e mku‘l’wim farmers io _\onhf‘u eyt who informed me that after the mbnd my‘ man can couie out all rizhty and not be f sl "The German Colouy ot Gurden Ci ing through nobly, when we take mm’:ofl“'r e cration that the majority of them are Fl“ 34 ple. 'Lhey have given up inany mv.l;: which they enjoyed ju Chicazo, but in ture they hope” to be rewarded for 0il and perseverance. Y o Peocve arcat praise for sl thof B accomplishied since they came uto the FE ness,and we wish them ail the SURT o p prospesity of & happy future. O i He talks, by preference, in the fore. 3