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my opinion. by zny of the great singers ,fi,",'fic’:ssufl% the ol in this conntry in the eperation. " R MUSICAL NOTES, : n Rubinstein nas published the piano- A“t;)m osition dedicated to Mwme. Annctte e 2 <l t has orchestra accompaniment, and 5‘;&2& 4 Caprice Russe,” op. i b et s at present at work on a new opera, Massenel 1 8 Bven tablcaux, which 15 to ba acts and § B erodiade.” He is s0on to start, for Jfilan, where he will direct in person the last - 'l of the “ Roi de’Laliore,” and will ,us:lr\:: first three acts of the ** Herodiade ' to the director of La Seala, for whom this new ok is destined- Fire operas new to Vienna have h‘r;‘en selected rformasce NeXt year at the Imperial L Bilouse: * Die Gotterdammernng, tho ouly part DOt Yeu represen ted of the Nivelungen Jetralogy; “ Acunchien von Therau,” alre: coessfully produced in Hamburg, music by Hofmang, bovk by Fels; *“Don Carlcs,”? by Yendi; * Le Roidé Lahore,” by Massenet; aund « paul et Virginie, by Masset. he Paris correspondent of the NMew York Een'ng Lost, writing of the performance of fery's Romeo and Juliet,” says: “Musically, {ndeed, the thing was a failure. Mile. Heilorpn was never a great singer, and Capoul’s voice, #hich had just gnsscd its meridian of power pheobe visited the United States in 1872, is pow almost entirely gone. With the eyes shut st was impossible to Telieve that it was Capoml who was sluging.” You Buelow writes to the Leipsic Signale: Four years 880, on_the occasion of » perform- apce of Glinga's opers of **4 Life for the Czar," jp Malan. Jexpressed my convichion in-the Augs- Yorger Allgneine Zettung of the sgonies of the Jialan zna birth of the Russian. or, if vou will, Shac moeic, which 1 thought destined 10 §il the place fn_musical bistoryto be left by the Semofthe former, and called attention to the Baoes which might e felt from Techaikowsky's de- yeiopment, They have been completely fulglied, 1addpow have the pleasure 1o refer to another fenisi novice who elands related to Techaikowsky fout as the latter does 10 Gunka. the father of Jivsan mosic, This novice is M. Rimsky. Kor- faxof, 1n St. Peterebure, whose brogramme sym- . hooy, m four movements, *-Autar,” a glorious Jone printing, announces another fone poet. You 6k wlat I mean by tae expressiont . . . A 1one poet 1s. first of ail, a romauticist, who, bow- ever, when he develons into a genius, can aleo be- come 2 classicist, as for instauce, Chopin. _Among fouger tone poets I count as'‘examples Edward Greig and Hans von Bromsart. . . . Another ihing: Master Anton is. in the habit of ‘saying, as You know. ‘‘Music is an arisfocratic art.” A ione poet is, of course, an zristocrat par ezcel- leace. Ceterum censeo, “thnt the best original muelc, and, as the music of to-day is German, the fest Germen music—aside from those who are first zuc _foremost, Brabms and Kaff—is favricated in st. Petersourg ana Paris (Saint-Saens, Lalo, Al genet, Delibes). ™ STEAMER STATISTICS. The Work Done by Supervising-Inspector Cook for 1835—List of Losses on Steam Vestels on the Great Lakes. Detrost Post, Jan. 10, The following interestingz information is taken from the forthcoming report of Supervising- Inspector Joseph Cook, of this city, which report will be filed in the office of the Supervisiog Inspectar-General at Washington. Supervising-Tnspector Cook: has charge of the Eighth Distriet, which includes all tne lakes north of Lake Erie with their tributaries. This seport, shows that the year 1878 has been re- markable as one in which the least number of accidents to property and life bas ever occurred since arecard has veen kept. This is undoubt- edly due to the skill aud vigilance of Mr, Cook and bis assistants. During the year 1S78, 557 steamships have been mspected, classed as follows: Passenger Steamers, §7; ferry, 22; towing, 253; freizht, 82; canal, 29; aud vacht, 74, having an agore- gate tonnage of %0,197 §5-100-tous. ‘There have been licensed during the year1.627 officers, eraded a5 follows, viz.: Masters, 4503 mussi; pilots, 3743 and engineers, T99. In the Detroit_local sub-district, 97 steamers were inspected, having a_tonnage of 29,763 50- 160 tot Otficers licensed: Masters, 97; mates, none; vilots, 63; enmmeers, 135,—making 4 toral of 245 ofticers of all grades. ‘The number of boilers inspected was 609, of which 27 were found detective, and repairs ordered and made Lefore certificates were grant- ed. One boiler has been condewned before being put ivto a steamer, 12 gave way under hydro- static pressure, and 1 was.condemned from further use; 9 investigations were keld, aod 5 cares_were Teported by the Local Boards for violation of law3 165 special excursion permits lave been granted. ‘ ‘There bave been nine sccidents by fire, and one life lost thereby, property beiog damared to the extent of $75,800. There bave been four aceidents by collision, causing no loss of life, 2nd damasing property to the amount of $100 only. There has been no loss of either life or property by explosion or e of steam, There were 1,934,830 sengers carried on steamers in the Eighth District. Of these but one life was lost, tnat of apasseoger who fell overboard on Lake Michigan and was drowned. Nine steamers, With an agerezate tonnage of 2,419 95100 tons, have gone out of the * service: forty-ove steamers, with av agaregate tonnaze of 5,041 42-100, have been added to the service. Yerhaps of most interest, ard certaivly the ‘best record of the care and fidelitv of officers s crews, is the listof casualtics—the shortest onrecord. The list is as follows: : April 20—The tug Leviathan stranded ou Gull ;is!laml shoals. Damace, $1,500. No loss of . April 2i—The tug A. A. Vanschaick, while de- seending the Chicazo River, fonled the line of the steamer Sheboyzan, demolishing the pilot- house of the former and killing her linesman. May 9—Fire on the propcller Monizomery at g’%z‘&ewards. “T'otal loss; boat, $50,000; cargo, Slay 1i~The steamer J. C. Liken collided ‘with and sunk the ferrv J. G. Hubbard in the Saginew River. July 3—The steamer Fayctte, at Michigan City. was damaged by fire $5,000. Aug. 2—The tug J. B. Martin was slightly damazed by fire at Pory Huron. Sept. 2—The steamer Join A. Dix was dam- eged 10 the extent of £6,500 by fire at Milwau- kee. One man burned in the hiold. Sept. 13—The steamer Pearl broke from her moorings at Fairport, 0., and was damaged. some §300. One life lost. Qct. 10—The tue Crusader_was burned in the Straits of Mackinac. Loss, $5,000. Ozt. 14—The tug Fred and Will was burned in Lake Superior.~ Loss, $3,000. : Oct. 15—The linesman of the tug * F. Ed- ‘wards was arowned. Oct. 25—The tug Ida M. Stephens was partial- Iy burned at Ludiugton. Loss $1,500. Oct. 26—The tug Union was jammed between the steamer Coruuna ana a_sailing vessel in the Chicawo River.” The linesman of the tag was t:na\'shed Lo death. Nov. 22—The tug Hector wasdamaged by fire at Detrait. L:s“s, §4,800, e Dec. S—~Tue ferrv_Sarnia was slightly dam- aged by fire at Port Puron. Sailinz vessels are not included fn this list, as hev are out of the department of tiie Super- Vising Inspector. ———— LINES, Andnalf we decmed she necded now To ety fuaon LTSRS, caven @ Shining o WioWaked sb-Angel hever < aittter. Hueh lond-voiced eorrow, bitter moans, For a life so fair and sweety The tender thought. the hopefal prayer, For our dear onc are meet. often near the shadowy waves, She did not fear their flow, . But walked an Angel, 2nd when called Was glad and Joved to go. Celm holy eyes, dear busy hands, ind beatt with love 80 deep. - Poor weariea body, pain-racked frame— *He giveth 1us beloved sleep!” How many miss the cheering word, The sympathy 6o rare; s0me—0 some I—will miss through life Thy tender love and care. ¢ Weep, tny children, for our home 1zs now 1ts vacant piace; ‘¢ miss the smi.c of welcome bright Tlist beamed upon tyy face. Thy friendship, 'Lwas £o pure and trae, ° From worldliness so free— B 4! life seems lonely, and #0 strange, Deax Sister, without thee. O srecter thsn the sweetest tones, hun incense-perfumed breath, And clearer than you brilliant sun, 'Thy Jovely )ife, and death. by nume, “tis sunk within our hesrts, 311 weetest thoughts to be; *Twill guide us ou throuh devious paths, o rest une day with thee. Though spirits bright have claimed their oW, “Ib¥ s1lent mission may ot cease, And listen now—one whisper more— Dear, dearly-loved, O rest in peace! M. Dux: ] THE SUMMONS. ! Came there a maiden at morning-ray, , Lithe, and ruddy, and fair to see: “ Muiden. I come."—She answered, ‘‘Nay, 1 scek for another, und not for thee.™ Came there a spectre at closeof day, « Lean, and gnastly, and grim to see: **The man thou seekest huth moved away. "= **Get ready, friend—Lam come for thee.*! CEIcacO, Jun. 6, 1879, J. ALBENT WILSOX. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JANUARY ~ 12 1873—SIXTEEN PAGES 11 : BOSTON., The Excitement- over Mme. Ger- ster«=Ask My Wife. ‘What Boston Can Do When Is Thoroughly Rouseds~s= Daiaty Doings. She What . Longfellow Likes—The Hebrew Fair and the Postmen—Ringing Out 0:d Bells, From Our Own Correspondent. BostoN, Jan. 8.—The opera-zoioz world are at the height of happiness, what with the charmiog, naugnty *‘Carmen™ on its second night of success, and its awakeniog to the fact that in Mme. Gerster, the Huogaman, they have found a second Jeany Lind, & Nilsson,and a Parepa all in ope. Everybody is ‘wild about her. ‘““Such ‘singing! I haven’t heard such siuging stuce I made a fool of myself by erving over that wonderful Leutner at the last Peace Jabilee that Pat Gilmore gave us!” ex- claimed a gentleman a night or two ago, in com- menting upon the Hungarian,” “Have vou wade a like fvol of yourseif over Mme. Ger- ster ¢ was the immediate question put to him alter this, “ ASK MY WIFE,” was the response, withan odd twinkle of the eye. Butas ‘“‘my wife” was discrect nobody was any the wiser. .On:Mongay night, when Mme. Gerster sang in X Puritani,”’ the enthusiasm rose- to its height. Not ouly was the sinzing: most satis fdctory, but her acting delighted and thrilled every ooe by its union of delicacy and strength. For the time every ote else in the company is overshadowed by the *‘divine Gerster,” though Campanini won great praise 8s Arcfuro, snd Galassi as Ricardo was magnificent simply, and indced all the support were something wonder- ful in their perfection. 1thas been a sort of fashion lately to say that Boston is slow and cold, and waits for an suthority to move her to enthusiasm, 1t has been hinted, too, by ber rival city that she is by no mesns ‘‘up® in musical enlture. However this may all be, it is very certain that the Hub knows when it is pleasea, and if pleased enough is NOT AT ALL SHY OF SHOWING IT. And it was a pleasure to see, to hear the manifestations of enthusfasm from the audi- ence. Aeain the old Jubilee days of abandon were brought up. Men didn't exactly jump upon the seats and wildly wave their hand- kerchiefs and shout, * Gerster! Gerster!” as they shouted Leutner! Leutner!” on that ‘memorable oceasion, but they did shout ** Bravo! bravo!” and they sprang to their fect,—some of them,—auq they geacrally “carricd on” in a delightfully unconventional, un-Bostonian- ish; unreserve that was not only good for their sonls but their bodies. Great is “*Carmen with the greatness of modern mirth, and fadness, and picturesque wickedness, and great is the singer of Carmen in her reckless role with the greatness of gay abandou, of insoucianterecklessness. But Gerster in “1 Puritani,” as E'vira, Is something better than all this, for Gerster is as preat as the finer and greater requirements of Bellini’s beautiful opera. By the way, I wonder if it is generally known smongst opera-goers that the libretto of this opera of “Carmen”—which is by Bizet, the French composer, who died in 1675, three months after its, successinl presentation in Paris—is founded upon the oovel of Prosper Merimee called “Carmen "7 Tbose who bave scen the opera in Paris say that it is broad EVEN ¥OR FRENCH AUDIENCES. In the translation, as I have said before, thera is only tbe faint suspicion of nanzhtiness. This week ends the great opera-séason for us, and leaves . behind & certain quickening of taste and vain regret thav such music is only for a sea- son. The only hitch has beea the disappointinent of the first ni¥ht in “Carmen,” but, that litule hitch smootbed out, and all' soprano miffs or misunderstaudings oyercome, eversthing has rup cvenly and delightfully. Now, as Tam upon the subject of entertain- ments, I must say a.word about Mrs. Dainty and her increasing popularity in and about Bos- ton. She has given her representations—I use the term representation advisedly. for her forte is representation, not simply readiog—in Boston before the Young Men’s Christian Association, and in most of the adjoining towns. In Provi- dence, R. I, she is a great favorite, this Jast en- tertainment belog the seveuth since her debut. One enthusiastic admirer said to me, *I'd rather bear Mrs. Uainty than go to the opera.”” The poct Longfellow gives her very warm ap- preciation, and Trowbridec is to write a charac- ter poem for hersole use, while other poets and literary lights of New Englund welcome her with equsl cordiality. WITHE LONGFELLOW * SOCIABLE JIMNY” 18 THE FAVORITE in her varied repertoire. One great and ablding charm with Mrs. Dainty is ber own personal enjoyment of every small- est detail of her representation. In * Sociable Jimmy,” the * 0id Deacon.” or any other of her ‘“characters,” she is never watching for ef- fects upon her audience. She is too busy, too absorbed in the character and her own enjoy mest of its gevelopment. She is one of those who enjoy telling a story for the story’s sake These are the story-teliers whose charm never fails, in whom our interest never flags. It must somewhat have astonished the little lady to have met as she did here, in what is supoosed to be the very home of lberality, to say mnothing of inteilizence, with the sizoal stupidity and narrowness which made objection aiter one of her entertainments to that most innocent of all the negro stories of race pe- culigrity, * Christmas at the Quarters.” Of course it is unnecessary to say that this objection came from the ciique, or_the kind of persons, Who furnish the commuuity with Wins- Jows, end Spencers, and OTHER BRETHREN OF THAT DEFAULTING AND 2 ABSCONDING STTLE. Perhaps it will also astonish nobody to hear that the objectors on this oceasion were recipients of a free gift from Mrs. Dainty’s penerosity in ler crening representation! To_them, poor souls! Zpoor, indeed, to be so sout to the realest révercnee and faith that is extant at ths day—* Christmas at the Quarters ! was irrevercnt. They conld see nothine of that confiding simplicity which is really the little child’s, nothing of that uncon- scious poetry which makes Naturc and Nature’s God visible and present. But what is the use of expatiating unon a set of Pharisees yho,what- ever their social condition, lack the” first ele- ment of sense and_culture—native perception and intellizeuce? So let us dismiss them and shut the door upon them, leaving them'to their choice, chosen companions. The Hebrew Fair continues, and continucs successfully. The manasement shows itself very shrewd in providing special attractions in the way of entertainments every evening and introducing difierent features,—for instance, such as tnat of Monday evening, where the iet- ter-carriers, of Boston were present by vitation in & body, wben the dent of the Fair anuounced to aov one of their number rec the hizhest percentage of votes would be giv a set of black walnut furniture, sewing-inachine, aud gold watch and chain; the award to be made ou the 16th of the munth, when Postmas- ter Tobey, of the Boston office, would be present to perform the vresentation. Perbaps to none of the public servants wouid the conununity at large give so bearty a God-speed to any project FOR THEIR PLEASURE AND PROFIT as to the' postmen, so that President Marcus’ Kmvc redounds to the credit of his head and his eart. Ouc creat change has come upon Boston itself, —a change which the Western stranger within our gates would not fail 10 vote, for it is of and concerning certain primitive laws and habits which ye Westerner has uot failed to note upon many oceasions with jest and merry-making.. And this change is the cessation of the old noon and 9 c'clock bell-ringing. Year after year since Boston had abell to ring bas this ola’custom been kept up in the teeth of ridicuic aud reform. Year after year, from the days when 9 o'clock at nieht was bedsime for all g0od citizens, and when the soli- tary watchman followed its peal by * All is weil!? irom his pious Puritan throat, and when the noonday clang meant the dining hour for rich and poor alike. Of course it was a foolish and utterly useless old custom, but with resi- Lhat it goes about the last remnaut of the customs which seemed to touch upon the old times, and to remind us, in the absence of the old lana- warks that have been ruthiessly destroyed,— Jike tie old Mancock Ifouse.—thet we have had a tast. By ana by, with our Columbus avenues, and the rest of THE BACK BAY SPLENDORS, which smell of imoperfect sewerage in the midst of all the eplendor, we sball imagine that we bave sprung from the lamp of Aladdin, the citv of a night. ~ But Boston has clung to ber old customs with more _tenacity than any other city after all, except, verhaps, Newport, which stil Leeps up its custom of ervinz to the populace from the cupola of the Court-House the com- mencement of the new Governor's reign. And oaly the other day she abandoned that oldest of customs of sending about a town cryer to ery a lost chila, or missing wateh, or Wwhatever it might be. And this amidst the rattle of gay 1ashion, the nineteenth century gloss and glit- ter, the telegraphs and steam-coginery of our modern life. But with the easy. mving up of customs we still cling to the O1d Sontl, site of the bad names the unbelievers in the sentiment <all us, and shall soun open its doors to a Carni- val of Authors as one of the forthcoming enter- tainments to save the sacred shingles. N. P, NET-ENGLAND FAMILIES. More Talk About Their Decrease In Numbers ~What They Were Two Centurics Ago Some Notable Examples. J Zondon 3fediral Times and Gazette. Questions of sanitary science are receiving so larze a share of attention at the present time that g passing responsc may be made to some peculiarities of American soclal life which may not be familiar to every English or American physician. Dr. Nathan Allen, of Lowell, Mass., 2 member of the American Medical Association, who bas displared much careful observation in *his dircetion, and in the discussion which medi- cine blends, with social scicnee, has published 2 number of papers embodying some important sentiments. From his own staristics and those of other observers, it seems to be well established that in tois country there has been of late years & remarkable diminution in the size of femilics among the native inbabitants, From a careful examination of the history of many towns in Massachnseits, it has been found that the average number of children to each family has been gradually diminishing throush several successive_generations; commencing in some places with sighg or pine to each family, and now numbering only three or four. It was stated some time since in 3 prominent medical Journal in New York that medical meu of that city found an average of not more than three children in a family. . Among the higher classes very few familics had more thar five children, very many had but one child, and altogether too many had none at all. e has also shown conclusively that the physical improvement of the Awerican people hias been retarded by undue development of thc intellectual faculties, Excess of development of any part of the system has been shown to be hostile to fer- tility. As was remarked recently io the col- umas of the New York Medical Journa!, this would seem to be clearly shown by the growing disinclination among young married women to assume the auties of maternity, and such disi | clination, it widespread, of course tends to uo- dermine the foundation of the married and ma- ternalyrelation. Dr. Allen has also shown that the pbirth-rate of a people depended very much upon a particular tvpe of organization, and hence there must be a certain physical standard which determines the laws of population. Sta- tistics are adduced which prove that the decline in the birth-rate of New Englanders—which corresponds very nearly to that of France—is so decided that the birth-rate of that stock of peo- le is now only about one-half that of the Irish, English, German, and French-Canadidu. How it used to be in New England in respect of children is pleasaotly told by Prof. Muses Coit Tyler, in his receutly publisiied History of American Literature, as folfows: *But who and of what sort were these people who in_the sev- enteenth century took possession of England, and who, through their descendants, hold pos- session of it stilll At the first glance we see that they were a prolinc race, marrying early, and, if_opportunity presented, marrying often; never declining to rejoive in having their houses cdified and beautified with many children. . . In the year 1640 there were in New England twelve independent groups of colonists, fifty towns, o population” of about 21,000 rouls. During the. 135 years following that date more ‘persons, it is supposed, went dack from the New to the Old England than came from the Old England to the New. Yet so thriity and teeming have been these New-Englanders tnat from that primal commuaity of 21,000 persons bave descended the three and a half millions who compose the present population of New England: whilc of the entire population now sprezd over the Ubited States, probably every third person can read in the history of the first scttlement of New Euvgland the history of his own projenitors. It hardly nceds to be men- tioned after this that the conditiovs of life there were not at all those for which Malthus subse- quently invented his theory of inhospitality to jufauts. Population was sparse; work was plentiful; food was pleutiful; and the arrival 1o the houschold of a new child was not the arrival of a new appetite among a brood of children already balf-fed,—it was rather the arrival of a npew helper whose hefp was scarcer thsn food; it was, in fact, a fresh installment from Heaven of what thev called, on Biblical suthority, the very ¢heritage of the Lord,! The tvpical "household of New England was one of patriarchal popu- lousness. Of all the sayinzs of the Hebrew psalmist—except, perhaps, the damnatory ones —it is likely that they rejoiced most in those which expressed the Davidic appreciation of multitudioous children: ‘As arrows are in the hand of & mighty man, so sre children of the youth. Happy ‘is the mantbat hath his quiver full of them. They shall not be asbamed, but they shall speak with the encmics in the gate.’ ‘The New Englanders had for many years quite a number of enemies in the zate whom they wished to be able to speak with in the unabasbed manner inuimated by the deyout warrior of Israel.” In a note 1 this passage the suthor refers to somg interestine instances of Jarge fawilies: “ Pleasant examples of the early New England family meet oneat almost every turn in theéfleld of New England biography. The sturdy patriot, Roger Clapp, of Dorehester, was pappy in the nossession of fourteen children, among whom were £xperience, Waitstill, Preserved, Hope- still, Waut, Thanks, Desire, Unite, and Supply. Cotton Mather was not 50 abuudant in chiidren as he was in books, since of the formerhe bad only tifteen. Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children; and in his autobiography e recalls the coecrful picture of tirteen of thew seated ell at once at his father's Te, *who all arrived at the years of maturity and were married.” Willisam Phips, who attained the honor of Knizhtnood, and became a Roval Goy- ernor of Massachusctts, was the son of a poor wansmith of Pemaquid, and belonged to a flock of tweunty-si< children, all of them of the same father and mother, ana tweniy-one of them soDs.’ ——— A DREAM. I thoneht T stood npon a steep "Thut overlouked the darkened ses, Aud felt arourd me softly sweep Toe wide wings of Eternity. T looked above, and one bright star Leaucd down from out the Hcavens to me; Teaw an Avgel swifc unbar Tne gates, and speed out o'er the sea. 1 loved the Anzel in my sleeps 1 watched Ler o'er the furthest strand Where vreas the dark and rolling deep; Tsaw her lift aloft her band, And beckon once—then softly sweep, ©On broad, white pinions, unto e, As thralled I st00d upon the steep. That oveslooked the darkencd sea. 1 sai Love, distance canuot break The bara that bind 'twixt thee and me, E’en thourh between us lies the lake Of Darkness snd Eternity," She emiled and said: **Nor csn time roll A deeper gulf "twIxt thee and me Thao Lové can fll from fountains full And boundiess as yon rolling sea. +¢Then come with me, Love; swift o'erfly This land of Darkness underneath, To live and Jove for aye and aye Where come 1o scenes of Sicen and Death. " ++Xay, Love,” [saia; **lies deep the breach That hoids from me that home, and where 1 never deign ahope Lo reach: Tne land that thou bast pictured fair. +¢But what is all.this world to me, Or life, or Heaven, if thou’st ot nigh? Then, for 2 love esirangea frow taec, ‘Comé quick, sweet Deuth—0 1et me diel* She smiled and safd: **Thov shalt not die!” And, hand in hand, we feap'd the brink. 1 henrd her sob and sadly cry, Aa'slowly we begau to sink. She loosened soon et grasp. and threw Her arms about me 88 we fell: 5 ‘And thas, with breaking heart. T drew Afy Angel down from Heaven to afzll. 0 Love, shonldst thou reach forth thy hand To lift me from this darkened ephere Up to thy level, sunny plune . Of Happiness, I almost fear, Unknowinely, so might 1 atrand The lives of both on the shoals of pain. MuroX Lo S, PRESIDENT HAYES. He Talks with a Newspaper-Man On Various Topics. “The Best Thing to Do with the Soath Is to Let It &lone.” The Coming fssue Between Greenbacks and §a. - tional-Gank Notes. From a * Gaih" STl § pesirtdent Maves, tn Safd I: “Mr. President, do vou meditate making another journey ioto the South during: vour Administration, or durinZ avy portioa of the pending winter and spring?” %[ have not thouzht of 1t,” said the Presi- dent. Why should I? You know that 1 did make a rather extensive journey soon after my inauguration. I weot from Cinciunati and Louisville to Georgis, and made another yisit to Richmond.™ “From some things that [ have recently heard, Mr. President, it occurred to me that if you were to go to Georgia and other Southiern States it might be the means of awakening a feeling that, I am told, is symptomatic of in- subordination in the Demoeratic ranks.” « ] rather entertajn the view,” said the Presi- dent, “that the best thing to do with the South isto LET 1T ALONE. I don’t think the course of an improved feel- e is to be assisted by too much outside inter- ference, They have had cnonzh foreign prod- dinez. I am entirely aware that discord prevails in the ranks of the Democratic party there, as it very naturally might do. While I will not venture to predict how long it will toke for a respectable division to ocenr in the South, I mn very sure it must come about, They may not divide during my Administration, but the South has thinking, independent people, like any other section. 1 hear, as you do, that they are not wholly satis- fled with tbeir condition, vor contented with their spart zud sezrcgateld relation with the rest of their fellow-citicens." 1 then_showsd the President a letter from a distinguished person in the State of Somth Carolina to-a gentleman of prominence in an adjoiniog State, using the followjug language abonp tue lust State election: & .\'utlnug‘%n elections can ever hereafter unite more cheating, raseslity, uand folly than our mapagivg men bave accomolished in our late election. They bave diseraced us before the whole country, and loaded the party with the burden of their infamy; aod the folly of it all is, that there was not the least occasion forit. The State Executive and Lezislature were sure without it. 1 have seen no statements of the frauds which are cxaggerated. ‘They were SIMPLY FRIGHTFUL. ‘The News and Courier at last yesterday (Dec. 24) noticed for the first time the Northern press on tne frauds. What I would like better than anythiog would be for Butlerto attack me or give me a fair chanceat Lim. {don’t think he ould find the same success be had with Daw- son. When Dawson published the truth about the Homburg massacre, Butler telegraphed to _the Journal —of Com- merce that the News' report was a _tissue of lies, wherenpon the valiaot Dawson subsided, and at once licked Butler’s hand, and there bas been love ana peace among them ever since.’” ‘The writer of this letter, as the President kney, was elected by the Democratic party to the United Srates Senate from South Carolina, and was - not admitied. There was substituted for him a Republican Senator (Sawyer). 1 found - the President perfectly ‘well informed about the matter of this let- ter, and also concerning its recipient. ** That gentlemen,” he said, “is Judee James Camp- bell, of Charleston. e acted with the Demo- crats until tbey passed 2 1aw, or had a law in- terpreted, so as to_make the black voters go thirty and forty mites to an election-poll, when Judge Campbell denounced that act as not in keeping with the terms of the sarrender. He was then regarded 2s an epemy, and has ever since been an independent man. Ilook totime as the great medicine for the South. I am of the absolute belicf that the American people, in every section, are to BECOME THOROUGHLY NOMOGENEOUS, equally protected everywhere in all their rights, and with equat habits and enlightenment.” & M. President, how do you account for the remarlkable development of individual charac- ter in the State of Onio during the last twenty year?? i “You refer to public 1ife, I suppose,” safd the President. **I think that arose in part from our position. We stood across that perpetual cur- rent of emigration to the West from the States of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. We were constantly refreshed with new blood, and the cmizrants were men of bold spirit, ardent to improve their futures. Another great eduvation for Ohio was the practice of public speaking irom the stump in all election contests. It was introduced into Obio by the Virginia elcment, which settled in_the southern part of the State. Al our candidates for Goyernor, Congressmen, and even local positions had to be ready to explain themselves, advance their views, and disenss with an oppounent. The consequence was that every man in a public position bad to et over his backwarduess and shyness, and present him- self boldly, and learn to reason off hand. I do not know of as good asystem of education as that. From Ohio this system_has extended eust- ward into New’ York and Peousylvania. We liave, however, the fullest benefit of such public discussion. The consequence is, SUCH DEBATERS AS JAMES A. GARFIELD.” Do you regard Garfield as one of the best products of the popular speaking system? " 7 think it would be very hard in any part of this country,” said the President, ‘‘to mateh Garfield 23 a versatile, thoughtful, ready public speaker. Not that his theory is altogcther o matter of temperament. It w by habit and frequent oppor- funity until that geotleman can stand his foet and reason with precision, and entertain a large body of men snd women anywhere.” © Mr. President, which of the public speakers of Onio influenced you and men of your age more than any others??” “Tliomas Ewing and Thomas Corwin, They were the mreatest speakers that I heard in my yoath. Corwin was a model for humor and playfulness, to bring people up to a teeling of good-patured receptiveuess. Mr. Ewing was a rather more ponderous and grave inan, and probably the Eutlcr reasoner of the two, He used a set of stately phrases at the opening and couclusion of his discourse. I remember that one of them was: ‘Ladies and rentlemen, T see before me to-night a sca of handsome faces and an ocean of intelfigence.” “Do you apprenend that Obio will continue to hold her piace as the most prominent polit- ical State in the West?” *41 CAN'T SAY THAT,” 5 snid the President. ““There is another Ohio be- yond us, settled by our youns men, who cons| iute a large elewent in 1llinois and other States. It tnay be that we shall lose that sceptre that we bave in a measurc kept for some years.: It may 7o West. 1do uot observe, however, any faliing-off in: public spirit and the manhood aud siature of the people of Ghio,” “\Whic city or setticment in the State has had the most_iufluence on the eneral body of the oeopie of Ohio?” ) “Cinciunati altogether. There is a noion of races in Civeinnati which Las produced the most exccllent social and intetlectual results.” I suppose you consider Gen. Grant an Obio produet 5 # Decidedly so,” said President Haves. *Ile isa native of our State, bornin unc of our southern counties, and sent to West Poiot by an Ohio Congressman.” . “When did you first meet ex-President Grant, Mr. Hayes?® “*Soon after the close of the War. I met him on various occasious at home and elsewhere. Our relutions have NEVER BEEN OTHER THAN AGREEABLE.” “How do you rezard that portion of your life spent in the Rebellion 8s a soldier?” I have said on more than one occasiun,” an- swered the President, * that it was the best and Dbappiest portion of my life.” “ Do you wean that it gave you more personal education than any other period?” . & No, not that,” said the President. “I re- fer to the satisfaction that I felt then, and ever since have felt, that L was a portion of those majestic armies. Everything associated with my life in the army is 8 happy aua satisiactorsy recollection.” “* What is tbe next issue in national politics, Mr. President??” “ That depends altogether on our Democratic fricnds,” said Mr., Hayes. **You kuow that they are in the opposition, and must raise new issues to employ themselves. Iv seems to me that Judee Thurman laid down thefr pexu issue when he said: ‘The National Banks must be attacked. and_ instead of their currenty the | ecnback will come in vogue everywhere.” 0 you see auything clse!” askedithe President. 1 told the President that I thought the South still presented the ficld for something excit- ine. T should rather thiok,"” said the President, “that the Nortbern Democratic leaders would PRESS THAT 'SUGGESTION OF TIIURMAN. They think that tbe National bauks might be assalled with popularitys’ o “What is the objection, Mr. President, to putting out the greenbacks and taking up the Nutionat bank notes?” e It would not stop there,” said the President. ‘ As soon as vou destroy the existing svstem of banks there will be an agitation for the States to again excrt their full powers and print a State curreucy. Shrewd, sharp, over-anxious wcu. such us exist in every State, and particularly in new States and poot States, will get thie bankiug privileges. We shall see again that condition of things which prevailea sbouy 1836, when all kinds of local currency were afloat, printed gener- ally on the commonest kind of paver and poorly exécuted, so that a counterfeit would pass al- most as well as & good note, and both were at a discouut a few miles from the place of issue. We shall have, under such a systein, another tax in the shape of an excbanze between such o State curreney and good money at the seaboard. That is the only question, it seems to me, imme- diately peading, and our people may expect to have to meet it. I cau distinctly recollect tue time when the great buli of the currency in the Western States was in the hands of 2 mere hand(ul of men, who manared tbe whole of it. * *Do vou feel satisfied with the success of re- sumotion " ‘1t seems to me,” said the President, **that our whole people must, without regard to party, have mven a general assent and assistance to that measure since it has gone into operation. It looks to me like a verv perfect suceess.” THE GAME OF CHESS All commanications for this departient should be addreated to Tig Trinuxe. and lndorsed ** Chess,” No notlee Wil be taken of anonymous comimunicatfons. CHESS DIRECTORY. Cr10AGO Curss CLu—No. 50 Dearborn street. CHICAGO Cr:ss Hainsen & Welch's, 1) Dearborn street, opposite Tsrauxe Bufldlag. Chesi-players inexs dafly a> the Tremont House (Ex- change) and Sherman House (Basemeat). e TO CORRESPONDENTS. T. E. J. R.—Any elementary work on the will Inform youss to all the points Inquired aboat. 1. A, G.—In the position given White wins. Trans- fer the positlou to the Luok's Al S e eithout the move, - 11e eud Dlackcan draw. Problem No. Tlenshel, W, T. x;‘euévcll] "fimj min, E, Barb A. Bergmon, and Miteliell, Mazomanle, Wis.: 'C. G.. clty. Mueller.~Problems which contain pleces or pawns not necessary to the carrying out of lzt nulhnr‘g con- ception are of low e.” Insome the idea may be fine and subtle, but the ralm-nt {nwhich 1t s clothed {3 siovenly. The composer's art hay reached a high state of perfeetion in these days, and the problem published fo our fssuc of the 28th ult. (No. 160) we conslder an admirable example in pofnt. ‘The pawn ot Q 8 has fts. part to sustaln In the action. and "does ‘well when called_upon. It fs evident at a glance that all that {8 nece iry 18 10 gain (or rather lose) a move. 4n this endeny Nie solver will naturally advauce the pawn 8t Q6 fo Q7. which results in a pretty block of the R Black 1..Qto Q4. It fx nrobable that the composer added this pawn as u finishiny touch 0 10 hls neat lituje stratazem, and shows the band of a- aster, PROBLEM NO. 161. BY ME. W. A, SHINEYAN, GRAND RAPTDS, MICE, Black. n 72 77 "B N B wh el White. % ‘White to play and mate in two moves. N 77 SOLUTION TO PROBLEM N0. 159. White. Black, Q(DKS ttoKB7 L1oQBach moves Qto K 125 mate 1.KttoQRtS g:o}r{{f«c}z 2..K moves 0 K 8 ma 1..Etto Kt8or Kt to B2 then R takes Kr, SOLUTION TO END-GAMR. White, Black. to 1..Avy move SPtoQ Stalemat Solved by E. P. Howell, ci CHESS IN ENGLAND. ‘ The following game, with i3 amusing noter. we clip from the December number of IFestmenster Pipers. White-Mir. k. 1. Paflip. Blsck—Mr.G.W. Farrow, ) ProK () 1..Pto K4 @) P to K 1t 4 (b) P takes B K Rug t to K B3 (c) 5o \White mates tn five more moves. NOTES BY AL TUE FOETS. () Andcbarged before the eses of ladtes and of Kings. O asing of Arthur. " Tcanyso: () He rushed Into thic fleid, and foremoss aghtiag feil. : *:3liide Hrotd. "~ yron. (¢) Dashed froma the ranks Sir liarry Lonn: Lord of the Isle: () Asthe wolves that healons so ot tho atately bt~ . igre of Corinth."~Byron. (¢) Full on the King ke fash of fawae, Shurred 10 ful speed the war-lorse came. “Lord of_tlie sles."—~5cott, (1) Higa In his stirraps stood the King. ¢ i'}m.l guve his h:}."u&::’fl.‘ “lcd's‘r"": wih My ciansman’s blood demands revenge. e “L4ds of the Lake."~Scott. () And slowly seeks s castie walls. lon."—Scott, (1,1, with two more to helpme. will hiold " the foe ‘in pla i ncaulay, [’} 1a e splder co the @® Dia teh a weasel 2 i Bala. il you ever catel n weasel asleep? d ¥ v b L hook a whale? Did you ever #ith a #prat WIBIEY Saiiad urryl fro. ()’ And then and there Was, ng to iide 1Taro; (m) He thit fights snd runs away, ~0ld P (n) If the serpent lie o far ahe: We shall have warm work of “*5aca of King i you walk fato my parloy (0) Comeback, cowme back, Horatius, fathers sil. . "3 (p) The bold §ir Bedlvere, the a3t of w “hls . (@) The Assyriep cq et tfon of Sounachicrip. “—byroa. 11), and look: thou on, falke King. (@) Bestll 2R o0 Ra0Uq Carpio. »—3ts. Hemans. (9) Forward the light brigade? {atotho valley of death. ‘Tenngson. ene tra fn celestibus antmis. () Tantwne tra o [u._“m il k sat [n a coraer, () Little Jack Horner sat s cormery, Rhm“'l- () Pt st the Scots araund thelr King i} & e 5 Unpetany e e mion, "—Scott. () Come one. come all, this rock: shall fly frm busc agsoon as I. Sl +fady of the Lake."—Scott. %o spare. " fege of cfll’l[llll‘:li“w—nyl'fln. ails € ram:arts ylel BY. ) ThosterB ey "h Ikl{l’u& of lhl‘ul){-c.";&?mpbcll. (@) Hope for a season batle the world farewell, d nricked when Koscls fell. And freedom el oS of Hops.'—Campbell. 1 (x) Swift tosmite and o CHESS IN* NEW TORK. specimen of the **Mesdow Hay Opentng,” e R, i Xow LOrK becween ALk 0. 3 Bostas. aad Capt. Mackenzie, The ngtes are [uitz. { Walte—Mr. Ware. Black-Capt, Mackensle. Pro :';ré?.“) Kflnk«:fl b3 1> takes KB P B w ks 13 takes Ik Kt (g) G tates B oh ) B BEEBBES E5an (a) We learn that Mr. Ware y 3 a3 made a speclal stud of this odd opening. and bas acquired S sKill 1 andling it. AU thit we can aay aboat 1 Is, that {13 fr- zegularliy Is more wanifess thui f1s value. nd fc 18 nok ely (o supersade the deduts of the middle pawns. ‘which free the action of the queens and hishops. When it1s remembernd that thore are actaally 400 different. waysof startimz the game on both scs, on tae Hcst maove aply. without proceeding furthier (for the opencr has twenty diffcrent ‘moves at his disposa, 10 each of which the opponent has twenty diforeat replies). It Trould pecasion no wurbride that orlctoailiy s tometiries cery st move, an ey and strange openings <b) The canture was not as good as I* to Q Kt 3. clbse game ke this e comla” well afopt 1o esbong & slow plan of winnlog the far-advanced ¥, by then ad: Sanctog the F o Q K 3, followed by 1 to & R4 and & 10 K1 3: or else he mizht have cleared the K sldo for castilog and after making room by sdvancing the Q & T one or two squares, he could briag the K Rt to O B 2 viaKeq. 1n elclier case we donot sce that White Biad, any oitack to outwelgh thi Weakaess of hisQ (c) Black's R P was bound to fall. and in consequence Waite's posltion s the stroager of the two, on sccount of the pen Rt file. (d) The P 15 uselessly thrown awsy for s fanciful at- tack, which the opponent cleverly parries. {icought s0 have moved the G Kt o Kt 3, threatening to'advance i 3 e P to B 5. (e) Well piayed. White's attack makes the more last- 102 fmuressfon. (1) Q 1o Q was probably a better resource. If White then tuok the B with the Kt the Q could retake. and the answer B takes Kt was harmless, for the white B couldretake withaca. () Excelient style. Itwill be seen that White must reciver the exchange and keep the twn pawns ahead. () It was much stronger o take the other K with the B, followed by Kt to K Kt 5, which won another F or the exchunge. () In hurrying, the exchange of qucens White prob- avlv overiooked that Biack could safely occupy the fmportant @ fle with the ki, feariess of Kt takes P, whicl would have cost 8 plece on account of the reply KtoK Bsa. Asitstood, Pto K Kt was more direct- yarscktag, whlle servifg the same object of freeing the King. ) A st move. Kt to Kt S at once was more to the urnose. P Black has utllized the small meansat his power to make an excelleat. defense, but now his resources arcat 2o end. Had be retreaied the B 1o 1 sq, with the object of stopplng the adverse K P a: K Ktz 'wlib the same B, thie game might have proceeded thus: 44— R 10 Bsq BroKez A wRY 46, Keto R5ch 319 K3 47. Ktiakes B K ta¥es Kt 48] BroKt8, followsd by Pto Q B 5 and White . would casiiy wia. ) A very neat finlsh. 1f Black take the B, White's R would marea to Q without hindrance. ——. BRITAIN. Statistics of 8 Great Empire. Whitaker’s Atmanack (London) for 1878 gives to the world the most complete exhibition of a nation’s life and maaners ever presented by a single publication of its size. A briet table of population, revenue, etc., presents, says the editor, ** aresalt unparalleled in this world’s history. The British Empire is greater than those of Greece or Rome, and it may be safely asserted that its rule is more be- neficent.” The totals of this table reach these ‘enormous proportions: Area in square miles, 80S2177: npopulation, 257,400,000; revenue, £160,105,000; public debt, £966,250,000; im- ports nnd exports, £046,500,000. ‘The “grea” js mostly colonial. Great Britain apd Irelapd have only 121,115 square miles (Texas has237,321), while British India bas 1,533,254, Anstralia 3173310, and the North Aumerican provinces 8,620,500. The population of Great Britain and lreland is only 33,500,000, while that of the Indian provinces is 241,000,000. The home property leads. however, in other %orts; the debt is £730,000,000, the revenue £60,000,000, and imports and exports are £646,- 000,000 India has a pretty debt of her owun, £140.000,000, and a reveuue of £52,000,000, with imports aud exports, £103,000,000. Australia’s public debt is_£60,000,600, with a revenue of £16,000,000, and the North American Posses- sions' debt’ is £27,000,000, with a revenue of £5,000,000. “The English debt has fluctuated considerably in’ the last half century, but it is less now than at any other time. In 1817 it was £840,850,491. In 1850 it was over £810,000,000; since then it has_steadily declined to the present ficure. Lord Beaconsfield has now made a systematic m.em;{n to reduceic by annualy payiog offa part of it; in 1678 £1,174,975 was canceled. The Almanac lignres our actual indebtedness at £399,056,627 snd says: ‘ Duriog the Jast fisca! year ending June 30, 1875, the debt was reduced by 4,571,278, making since March 1, 1569, a total decrease of . £109,193,75. A nation which can pay off its debs at this rate has reason to believe in its ability_to pav off the whole in course of time. In 1360 the entire debt was less that £12,000,000, equal to mot quite eight_shillings per head of the population. In 1865 the ¢ivil war bad increased the debt to the enormous total of £352,256,314, equal to nearly £16 per capita. Last year the debt. was cqual to about £8 6s per capita.” ‘The totals of expense for avil service and various institutions, Scientific and other, are cnormous, and nmoug these mot the least liberal are the annuities to the Royal family. To her Majesty is allowea £335,000, as follows: Privy purse, £60,000: salaries of houschold, £131,260; cxpenses of housebold, £172,5005 TRoyal bounty, £13.200; ubappropriated, £3,040. ‘The Priuce of Wales has £40,000, and the Princess £10,000, the Duke of Edinburg £35- 000, and 50 _on down through the family to the Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who gets only 48,000, The Queen enjoys the assistance of thirty-four aides-de<amp with the rank of Colonel. In the little army the pay of general officers amounts to X130, There are about 100 Geo- eralz, about 114 Lientenant-Generals, and over 250 MaMajor-Generals. This does not include the Indian army. Religion florishes in the Empire, but the va- riety of sects equals that in the United States. i a notable fac’ that the Established Churen is in a mivority, havine 12,500,000 out of tbe total population. Uut of all the English-speak- ing population_in the world, 80,250,000, there are 17,750,000 Episcopalians. The Metnodists, of all descriptions, come mext, 14050,0005 Roman Catholics next, 13,500,000; then uns, 10.000,000; Buptists, $,000,000; Conaresationalists, 7.000,000; Unitarians, 1,000,2 000; minor relizious sects, 1,500.0003 and **of no seligion in particular,” 7,500,000—a very carious item. ‘Tne list of distiney religious sects in Great Britain numbers over 150, and some of the names are odd enougl,—Believers in the Divioe Visitation of Joanne Southcote, Prophetess of Ereter (2 Hartford lawyer woald need to be wide-awake to et it all m on an information); Believers meeting in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ; Baptized Believers; Christians who ob- ject to be otherwisc designated; Christfans owning no name but the Lord Jesus; Christian Elfastess; Christian Teetotalers; Eclecties; Countess of Auntington Connection (these bave 37 cbabels); General Baptist; Gree Grace Gospel Christians: Giassites; Glory Band; Halielu- jah Band, falifax Psychological Society, New onncetion General Batists, Old Baptists, Open_ Baptists, Particnlar Baptists, Pecaliar People, Plymouth Brethren, Progrossionists, Ranters, Kational Christians, Recreative Relie- fonists, Revivalists, Revival Band, Secularists, Strict Baptists, Unsectarian. “T'he Archbishop of Cauterbury 2ud Primate of all England has a salary of ,000; the Bisnopsof York and London cach £10,000; the Bishop of Durham £8,000; the Dean of West- ninster £2,000. It js said that Deau Stanley bus recently declined the Bishopric of Durham. ‘The number of paupers (exclusive of vazrants) in receipt of relief in_the parishes of England and Wales Jao. 1, 1878, as 742.703,—3.27 in a hundred; of these the adult abic-bodied pau- pers were (indoor) 21,407; _outdoor. 76,692; _all other paupers (indoor), 145,49); outdoor, 647,- 7. There has beeu n great reduction since , when the total of paupers relfeved was 1,081,926 {o theimportant * Chronolorjeal Landmarks ™ of the world, the latest news given from Amer-~ icais, “Bettle of Bull Ruu, 2Jst of July, 1861.” RETROSPECTION. What hath a licht more tender or more sad Than falleth on the quiet After-aavs, 1n lfe’s Inte Autuwn-tide, when, hand in hand Witn Memory, we walk the olden ways? The faces aud the forms we used fo know We sce aguin in the Enchanted Land. The dear accustomed voices hear again, And feel once more the close-cafolding hand. Across the Sea of Time we #ail in ship2 Of dreams or idie hours 1o fain jts shore— This Island of the Vanished, far awa; e inay return, but tney—ah, pevermore! Fair are thy forests and thy fields that reach ‘Away into the darkening sky—tno far, O Land of lonz-departed Love and Youth, Too fair end far thy dawns and twilights arel What hath o light more tender or more sad Than falleth on the quiet After-days, When, hand in hand with Memory, we steal Adown dim pathe and balf-forgotien ways— ‘With here 2 sigh and tear of heart-reeret, And there a smile more sad than sigh or tear, So roftly treadiug where the Cypress wave So lowly speaking lest the Sleepers hear? Who hath a thought more sorrow?ol and sweet Than thouzhts of dayk that have lonzsince goneby, ¥hen, 1n foc olden, scarce-remembercd Ways, We wander, hand in band with Lh:mi:éi; MW Carcaco. ————— ‘A Smart French Farmer. During the Franco-German war a well-to-do farmer in a Norman village was informed ot the aoproach of a corps of Ublans. He was equal o the emerency. Calling bis wife and daugh- ters, all weut to work with a will. Tora quiits, tattored petticoats, dilapidated gowns were thrown over the packs of‘the cattle, while their feet and heads were bound with straw. The sheep and goats were treated in the same fash- jon; bottles of medicine were scattered .about; Iarge trough was fitled with water, and in the midst was placed s great syrinze. Up came the Uhlans; but at the sight of the strangelv-attired animals and monster squirt they hesitated. ‘At 1ast one of the troopers inquired what ‘was the matter. *“The rinderpest,” said the farmer. He had to answer no more questions, His vis- itors turned their borses’ heads and galloped off to make requisitions clsewhere. . THE GAME OF DRAUGHTS, Communications intended for Tax Dravonry Eurtor should be addressed to O. D, Or¥is, ¥.-0. Box 215, Chicago, 111 For Publisher's price-list of standard works on the game, address the Draugnt Editor. CHECKER-PLAYERS' DIRECTORT. Athenzum, No. 50 Dearborn street. PROBLEM NO. 100. By W. M. Porcect, J. D., Reelsville, Tnd Black, Y A et «;«;éwfi;{/é ¢ n o o e i B | 7 T 72 mE - White, ‘White to move and win. POSITION NO. 100. ‘End-game between Georze L. Beach, of Toledo, 0., und 0. D. Orvi i Black men on 2, 3, 12, 19, King 23, White men on 8, 11, 50, 38, Rz 1. S White to move and draw. TO CORRESPONDENTS. James Thompson—Sent last week. W. T. Bishov—Subscription renewed. H. F. S.—Received with many thanks. probably not in the first match. Charlea Bateman—Position accented. George L. Beach—Your kind contributions will appear soon. Jerry Ready—Please accept our thanks for ths end-game. P. J. Hickey—Your contribations are of the right sort. Otis Jones—The position requires extended zn- alyels, I looks like a draw. If you have an opinion on it and can farpish play we will examine it. In wnat game does it occur? o Thompson—Problem on tle. Moses Farnsworth—Price-Hst mailed. @) CHECKER CHATTER. Fargo, Minn., boasts of a Checker Club of tom ‘membera, Mr. Marlins, the ex-champion, played two days at Wishaw recently, withont Josinz a game, and only four drawn pames were played. He then visited Burnbank ana High Dlanyre, at which place he_coutested twenty-ope gumes, of which he wonsixteen, and five were drawn. Mr. W. E. Truax. draught editor of the Fargo ZTimes, and champlon of linuesota, received s Christman gilt of a checker board made of over 500 different nieces of wood. ‘That kiud of board may do for the players of Minnesota. but ic wouldn't be considered much of a checker board down East inund around the Hub. The Boston Globe says tuat they bave a_hoard ut the New En- glind Checker. Tooms containing over 35,000 bieces! Sfr. Wilder, tne draugit editor, connted them, Alr. H. B. Ifall, Jr., the Momence, Iil., checker- player, cas at the Athenwum one duy Jast week, and made some good scores against some of onr lacal players. The Busby-Davis maich at Boston terminated in favor of the former by the foliowing score: Busoy, 18; Davis, 14; draw, 18; tota), 50 zames. The New England Checker-Flayer for Janusry is justat hand, enlargea to twenty-four pages and. greatly unproved in every respect. From zn in- fiittesimally small beginping 1t has zrown to be the |nhr_'cel ?:‘omuu puolication devoted to drunghts 1n. the world. CONTRIBUTORS’ CRITICISMS. Qur contributor, Mr. P.J. Hickey, Duouqae, Ia., writesas follows: t Uwenty-second inove of gome No. 306 tac position stands as foliows: Black menonl, 2 5, 6,7, 8 9, 11, 19. White menon 14, 15, 18,722,'25, Hg, . 32, Black's move. A neat draw occurs, perhaps a win, by playing as follows: 7-10 | 18-19 -7 , l — I o1t | w15 | asss At gixty-seventh move of same game, 29— instead of 22—25. draws. In gume No. 303, at eleventh move of var. (3), L played 20—2. The draugnt cditor remarks: **Drummond plays 20~4 at this point, and whil wins, taus provinz—6to be o loser after all. Drummond i 2ood, 80 is 2~6_pood—for & draw, At the time of wrniing zame 308 1 tested the 20— move pretty thoroughly, and found 20~2, tne move mage, was much the' siconger oue. Avery, in “Yurf, shows Lwo draws in the 10—t move. ~The position stands thus: Black menonl, 3. 5, 7, 8. 13, 16, 18, kingon31l. Waite men on 10, 14, 20, 21, 24, 29, 30, 32, hite to move, and black , 24, 20, 30, 32, draws 28 foliows: 4-8(1) ae-23 1—16 18- Drawn. [} 2419 3005 119-10 4—R 6-0 In-15 [i18-= 9-18 | Drawn. (3) Corrects Drammond und proves 20— not as strong at 20—2. See Anderson's Third Laird and Lady Gatme, var. 30 ot 7th move. P J H. SOLULIONS. SOLUTION T0 TROBLEX No. 89, By E. H. Brysnt. fleeir g et Y el | 2oy | 1-15 | 200 1-15 15 1 o2 ] W. wins. 12018 | (#) Our coatributor icaves it licre for o white win. Te-add the continuation {or the beneGt of the lesruer. ~DEAUGHT EpITOi, SOLUTION TO PROBLEX No. 09. Betwecn Messre. Noble and Orvi: 13-9 (2~ 13— |27 -6 6-13 1o-28 | R W. wins, GAME NO. 303—TRREGULAR. Played between Messrs. Pelletier and Macomber at LaSalle, 1L 710 b = 214 £y 017 214 6= o e 19-10 -3 Pelletier won. GAME:NO. 310—AYRSHIRE LASSIE. Plaved by correspondence between Mr. D. W. Pomeroy, Clueago, and Ar. C. E. Harris, Coancil Bluds, Tomeroy's move. 1418 2117 S 33 Fomeroy 2415 | won. GAME NO. 311-BRISTOL. Plaved between Messew. S. T. Allen, of Braoklyn, N Y..and 3r. A. Crofta, champion of Fiat~ bush, L. I Crof1s’ move. 8- GAME NO. 312—SINGLE CORNER. Fourth game of the Davia-DeCon Erooklyn, N. Y. DeCon's move. GAME N 3—-WHILTER. e Played at Janesville, Wis., vetween Measrs. Morse and Pryor. Morse's ove. T—11 1 1823 o—z |3 25 2311 2 | Do o), Thismore fs new departure, and che ame from polat to the (ulsh develops some very precty play. \ehnie our contributor, Mr. Jtorse, thinks Will farmis something for the critics to Hlfl(nl‘z oy 18 Sessne e i 1 1 i