Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 1, 1880, Page 10

lu Sufferings of the Inhabitants of That Wretched Province. and Cold, and Sickness, and Hanger, me and Death. WNakedness, Indifference of the Government and of the Landlords. Spectat Correspondence of ‘The Chicago Tribune. BERL, Jan. 10.—It is impossible for the telegraphic reports which have reached you of the famine in Upper Silesia to have con- veyed the faintest idea of the actual state of things In that unnger-stricken province. No newspaper reports, in fact, are able fitly to describe the state of utter misery and despair in those districts of the province which I have beet visiting in behalf of several gentlemen of humanitarian proclivities who have contributed a fund, which..has been devoted to the jmumnediate relief of some of the most appall- ing cases of destitution and want that ever came under the observation and stirred the jiearts of philanthtopists. This action was deemed necessary, because the help which has been extended to the suffering province— passing through the channels of municipal charity-boards and official committees—has been so tardy and withal so insufficient that many people have actually perished from hunger before help could reach them. While festivities, patronized by the Prussian Court and nobility, were given here for the bene- fit of the sufferers from the flood at Murcia, the children of- their own’ soil were perinitted to suffer the gnawing pangs of. hunger, and coffins were preparing for those whom death with inGinit pity had released from the clutches of famine. The cries of despair, uttered again and again with terrible distinctness, reached the Capital from Upper Silesia, but no official notice was taken of them. EOYALTY AND ITS GCLD-BEDECKED FOL- LOWERS patronized the ice-carnival arranged on the Rousseau-Insel “under the most gracious pat- ronage” of crowned heads for the sufferers in Spain, and gave freely into the hands of strangers who had undoubtedly been cruelly struck by fate, but into whose dilapidated huts no icy winter was creeping with its in- auumé€rable miseries, and who were, more- ‘over, not children of their own land. At last the Dewspapers began to raise their voice in behalf of the unfortunate beings for whom “charity beginning at home” became a cruel mockery, end whose plaintive cry the ears of their soyercign rulerand his ministers seemed not to hear, and private charity was called upon to. furnish bread for. the starv- ing and garments for the naked ones. But even the Committees then formed were placed under the control aud supervision of a few titled nobodies, whose hearts have long since petrified in the chilling atmosphere of-Court-life, and the distribution of the sums collec! ‘was -in- trusted to the Govegnor of the Province, Oberprasident von dewitz, who, when the misery was alread¥'at its hight, did not even deem the condition of his district wor- thy of an official report. and who, wher he was compcHed by public opinion to move in the matter, récommended work as the most éfficient means of ending the famine! Work—for people who were unable from Jong suffering and weakness to leave . their miserable abodes, even to peg for bread to keep them from starving! So superficially had Derr von Seydewitz. gone into the ne- cessities of the province intrusted to his Governorship demanded by the emergency, that he asked for work to relieve the want in such districts where it actually did not exist atall, namely: in. the manufacturing dis- tricts, where there are large industrial estab- lishments, iron-foundries, and a population of artisans whose employers, owing _princi- pally to the increased demand for their goods irom America, were giving work to all who applied for it.-- It is oad AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF THE AGEI- CULTURAL DISTRICTS, the peasants and the small Janded proprie- tors, where famine and disease—there called the “hunger-typhus’’—haye made most dreadful havoc. Inundations in the sprin and a wet summer have completely ruin the harvest, and these people have no re- sourees whatever to fall back upon. Farm- ing in Upper Silesia is quite a different thing from farming in America; and_ when I told the miserable people to whom I was able to give some help of the thrift and comfort in American farm-houses, of the untold wealth in the Far West, where no one who is willing to win it from ‘the soil need want for bread,— aye, and wheat-bread, too, not the dry “Schwarzbrod” which the famished wretches were 50 eager to devour,—their eyes dilated in astonishment and. wonder, and they begged me to tell them how they could ever reach those shores where gold is indeed found in every furrow made by the plow of the sturdy Western fanmer. —~ Istarted upon my journey on the day be- fore Christmas, reached Ratisbon on Christ- mas-Eve, Rybnik on the 25th of December, Rudlin and Losiau on the 26th, Gleikowitzon the 27th, Smolina on the 28th, then yia Soh- rau and Pless, touching Lonkau on the 2d of danuary, Nikolai and Gleiwitz, [returned to Berlin on the day before yesterday. But be- fore enter into the details of this journey, in many respects the most remarkable one T ever undertook, I'must ask for space to saya few words in reference to the HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CUSTOMS of the people among whom I have-seen so much terrible misery. I doubt not that it will be interesting to many American readers to hear—and.it is in fact necessary for them to know it, so. us to enable them to under- stand the conditions which -have bronght about the actual state-of things—that, al- though it is. full 700 years since Silesia has ceased to form a part of the Polish Empire founded by .Boleslav L, and although. the greatest portion of the province has since be- come thoroughly Germanized, 700 long years have . not_ suiliced.. to . eradicate the stamp ‘of Polish nationality from Upper Silesia. . The physiognomy : of .the people, their social customs and their mode of dress, their habitations, and finally their uncleanliness and indolence, find their true counterpart among the lower classes of the Polish race, the language of which, though somewhat corrupted, they havealso retained. Rarely is a book, with the exception of the prayer-book, or a newspaper ever seen among thei, and more than half a million of people exist here, who are. utterly unconscious of the intellectual development of ‘a nation and of ‘the proress of civilization and culture. The Catholic clergy have held the people here in utter subjection, aye,’ in complete serfdom. It is true they have brought about among them an almost total abstinence from the indulgence in alcoholic liquors, which yas formerly practiced by them to an alarm- ing extent. At night, when the people were ‘wont to return from the market-towns, the public highways were literally strewn with men and women in a state of drunken stupor, and even the suckling child was fed with the “nectar of the poor.” In one single year Peter “Stephan Brzozowski| was able to convert this nation of drunkards through one mighty: _ effort that Swept the province like a tidal-wave. But— and here Isa strange problem for those who would enforce total abstinence in similar cases where unlimited indulgence has caused people to sink to the lowest level—with the general taking of the pledge, that was vigor- ously enforced at the time by means of church-penance, and even corporal punish- ment, the last. stimulant which nerved these Prarie to work was taken away, and general ndolence now prevails where’ formerly ruled supreme. The curse of mankind: that by 2 continued contact with scenes of de- pravity and horror, it becomes at last, if not reconciled, to that existence, but unconscious of their terrible aspect, has here fulfilled it- self; and the educated classes of the prov- ince, as well as the authorities ‘were consc- quently almost unheedful of the more than cruel sufferings of these miserable creatures when famine devastated their villages struck down its victims on the snow-clad fields. So completely had the feeling of the zuthorities been numbed that when help was at last offered from all directions they com- izined of the possible consequences of send- ing “such plentiful supplies,” and were in fear lest ‘THE PEOPLE MIGHT BE TOO MUCH INDULGED or ‘pampered. ‘Think of it! When those who had nothing, actually nothing ‘to. eat, were given one pound of meal per day it was deared that they might be too much pam- pered! : ~ As £ told you, Ireached thefamine-stnicken province on Christmas-Eve by rail, and con- jinued ny journey in a sleigh, hired for the fet uurpose at Ratisbon, one of the facto! Wns, Where the diferent troops of coal Aa went to the churches preceded. by bands of music., As I journeyed on the unspeakaply. dreary aspectof the country, the ini lescriba- able ‘misery which prevailed everywhere, struck, me ‘most forcibly. At a time when elsewhere in Germany, even in the smullest forest-hut of the poorest charcoal- burner in the Hartz: Mountains, lights are glimmering on the Christmas-tree, bitter want had here extinguished the last frail spark of joy in the breast of all human be- ings, to Whom the season of glad tidings an peace had brought famine and starvation, In the dilapidated -huts, their framework often tottering, and:their’ straw-roofs frequently Jeaky aud rotten. J found the poor wretches huddled together on the bare floor of hard clay. The most fortunate ones had a few potatoes left, which they had hoarded as a iniser hoards his gold; the majority lived on ‘water-beets, formerly used as fodder for. the swine. The children had long ceased to visit the schouls, because : THEY HAD NO CLOTHING A whatever fit to_cover their shivering bodies. ‘Men, women, children, and a couple of lean goats are crowded together. into one room, the cold being. intense, reaching 36 degrees below zero. It was impossible for the men to go out into the forests as wood-choppers; they. lacked the most necessary garments, wearing their thin summer-clothing still, for they have had no money since last spring to buy warmer habiliments. Informer years they were able to fatten a pig, the proceeds from its sale in-the fall supplying a capital for the purchase of a few groceries and some clothing. But this has becn impossible this year, because the fodder used to,fatten the pigs had to keep human beings from _starva- tion. Five or ten acres of sandy, sterile soil have to yield food-for the support of families consisting of eight or ten persons in the. rey Dest of times. The food now (such as if is) is cooked with common rock-salt, because & pound of it is cheaper by a few tarthings than the ordinary commodity,—but a few farthings are a fortune now. Wen the authorities de- manded of several fatnilics that their children should be sent to school according to the law, the parents brousat pefore the tvacher in my presence boys and girls who were half- naked, and in a condition so pitiful that even the law had to yield its claims before stern necessity. At Pilchawitz, a market town of about 1,100 inhabitan' visited the hospital, in charge of Brothers 9f Charity, filled with patients. who. were ‘suffering from the ““hunger-typhus.” it prevails here as typhus recurrens, which would naturally be danger- ous in the case of an ordinarily healthy human being; but what becomes of these: people who have been badly fed und clad for years? Lsaw there one boy, 12 years of aze, Who was just recovering. He actually’! looked like a skeleton, an osteological specimen,— bones over which a dark-gray skin is tightly drawn; too emaciated to speak, unuble even to smile. Upon another bed was a man, who implored_the physician. give him some bread. His request had to be denied, his stomach being unable to retain even the yery lightest kind of food, so that the man ‘was always ravenously hungry. A young boy,of % looked like a decrepit old man; hi muscles had shrunk, and he was unable to move,—a case of “marasmus juvenilis,” as the doctor explained, caused by - INSUFFICIENT NOURISHMENT AND COLD. “And is sickness confined to the hospi- | tals?” I asked the kind-hearted physician. “Tet me go with you im your sleigh and you will get the answer,” he replied. A ride of fifteen minutes brought us to the border of a fir-wood, where an insignificant little vil- lage spread its straggling huts. ‘We entered one of them. -On a bedstead of rough pine boards, filled with dry leaves, 2 woman was stretched out dying with Gropsy Foul air and a terrible miasmatic smell filled the poor apartment. The whole body of the misera- ble creature, by the side of whose bed -a + ear-old girl ‘was crouching, was bloated and 3 iscolored; from a cavity in her left thigh as large as a fist matter and water were con- tinually discharging. There-were not even rags enough for a bandage, so one had been made of paper. While the physician was trying to relieve the sufferings ot the dying woman I conversed. with her pale, emaciate husband. =“\Where do you sleep?” Lasked, employ- the Polish language. re, he answered, pointing to the naked floor at the side of the bed. “HAVE YOU ANY BREAD?” “On! oh!” sighed the poor fellow with o painful smile, as though Lhad accused him of the possession of hidden treasures. “And what do you subsist on?” I further inquired. : “Our neighbors have given us a few po- tatoes, but now they have nothing themselves and we—” Heshook nis head with a gesture of despair. . %Panie Doctur!” whispered the sick woman, the death-rattle in her throat grating throngh her voice, “a piece of bread ior my ch * Provisions are the best medicines here, and the grocer is the only apothecary who ean do any good!” said my companion mournfully. gave them the little 1 was authorized to bestow as the share of that help which was to relieve so many. How they thanked me, how they blessed those who had. sent them succor in their direful need! It moved me to tears, and when the dyin: woman saw them she made the little girl kneel down by her bed and pray aloud for the souls of all the givers, I left the hut with the conviction that had the officials of the province ever looked with their own eyes upon such a scene as this one, their hands and hearts would have opened more freely, and they might have spared the lives of many by timely action. We visited a@ great many families wards, and found all of them “vis a vis de rien,” as the French say, want staring them in the face, hunger and starvation at their doors. One’'of the more fortunate ones is the envied possessor of a miserable nag, which would not bring $3at a horse mart. If the owner hauls wood all day Jong: he earns 20 cen! and has to feed a wife, eleven children, an his 9 parents, not counting the feed which will Keep the bones of his animal together. Atall other places which I visited the expe- riences made at my first stations were repeat- ed over and over again. At several towns the Mayor and Selectmen had heard of my mission, and implored me to call attention to their especial claims to charity, They as- sured ie that the Government of the prov- ince had done nothing, and the large landed proprietors and great magnates of the indus- trial districts, like Prince Pless and Count Henkel von Donnersmarck, who count their money by millions, had actually contributed notone penny to relieve the: suffering. I could not help thinking’ how readily, if such acalamity had befallen any portion of the great country beyond the seas, all hearts and purses would have been opened, and how the t cities would have vied with each other m their bountiful charity, which is “the greatest of them all.” 8. E. SONNET. Awake, my lyre! why art thou thus depressed ? Why lingers sullen silence on each st ‘Which once was wont with harmony to ring, And with celestial music lulled to rest. The amorous heavirigs of this love-sick breast? O taste once more the Heliconian spring! And soar again in lofty flight to sing Such praises as Petrarcha’s Muse expressed. ‘Thy silent strings let smooth etree tune With subtiest strains of his meliifluous art, Or catch thy inspiration from the Moon, From which the spheric music still doth start, pon the world thy treasured boon, And pour W ‘Till listening generations praise thy art. ‘WILLIAM F, Giese, : ————— Cigars. To the world in generala cigar is merely a itly-rolied packet having brittle fragments of dry leaves within, and a smooth, leaf for its outer wrapper. When it is burnt, and the pleasantly-flavored smoke is inhaled, the habitual smoker claims for it a soothing luxury that quiets the irritable neryous organisin, rée- lieves weariness, and enticds repose. Science, scouting 80 superficial a description, examines first the smoke, second the leaf, third the ash. In the smoke is discovered water in a vaporous state, soot (free carbon), carbonic acid, and car- bonic oxide, ‘and a vaporou3 substunce con- deusable into oily nicotine. These are the gen- eral divisions, which chemists have still further split up, and in sodoing have found acetic, for- mic, buteric, valeric, and Eropioule acids, prus- sic acid, creosote, and carbolic acid, ammonia, sulphureted hydrogen, pyridine, viridine, pico- line, lutidine, collidine, parvoline, corodine, and Tubidene. These last area series of oily bases belonging to the homologs of aniline, ‘first discovered in coal-tar. ‘Applying chemical tests to the leaves, other chemists have found nicotia, tobacco, camphor, or nicotianine (about which not much is known), a bitter extractive matter, gum chlorophyl, malate of lime, sundry albuminoids, malic acid, woody fibre, and various salts. ‘The feathery white ash, which in its cohesion and whiteness is indicative of the good cigar; yields potash, soda, magnesia, lime, phosphoric’ acid, silica, ‘and chlorine. The in; ents extractable from a oor and cheap cigar would befearful and won- lerful to contemplate. Here is a list from a Parliamentary report on adulteration in to- baccoo: Sugar, alum, Mme, ‘flour or meal, rhu- ‘barb leaves, saltpetre, fuller’s earth, starch, mait commings, chromate of lead, peat moss, molasses. burdock leaves, common salt, endive Ieaves, Inmpbiack, red as a black dye composed of vegetable red a lorie, seraps r, cinnamon stick, cab! eave and straw brown paper, meee a The Brief. Visit of Grau’s French : Opera Troupe. Mise~ Thursby’s Retuin—The Bee- > thoven Society Reunion. Cincinnati Musital éstival Prizd Composition—La- tal and Foreign Miscellany. AT HOME. .— -: : THE GRAU FRENCH OPERA SEASON.’ To-morrow evening Maurice Grau’s French opera troupe will commence a season of one week; which promises to give us thecleanest, most delightful, and: most thoroughly musical performances of opera bouffe we have ever known here. ‘Ihe artists at the head of the troupe: are Mile. Paola-Marié, Mlle. Angele, Mile. . Leroux-Bouvard, and M.. Capoul, the Jatter‘of whom is so well known here as to need no introduction. ‘The remainder of the | company is composed of the best artists of the late Aimée organization.° The repertory for the week will be as follows: Monday night, “La Fille de Mme. Angot”; Tuesday night, “La Grand Duchess”; Wednesday matinée “The. Chimes of Normandy”; Wednesday night, “Mignon”; Thursday night, “La Perichole”; Friday night, “Barbe Bleue”; Saturday afternoon, “La Fille de Mme. Angot’’; Saturday night, ‘ Girofle-Girofla”; Sunday niglit, “La Belle Helene.” 2 As Paola-Ma rié is a stranger here the fol lowing sketch of her life from the New York correspondence of, the, Philadelphia Times ‘wil! be of interest: ue ce Paola-Marié is a native of Paris, but vas educated at Nancy. Her father was a music teacher and lyric Actor of some note, and her sisters, Galli and rina, are both in the same line of ‘the profession in which she has achieved fame. Galliis now singing on the Continent with much success. Irma came to this country some time ago, but she failed to make an inipression. It_is doubtless poetic retributive justice that Paola’ should wear the laurels which Irma could not win, for the younger sister, when her education for the stage began, was treated by Irma and Galli yery much as Cinderella was by her en- vious sisters. A ‘‘Prince” came to her, how- ever, even as one came to Cinderella, in the person of the manager.of the -Vaudeville, Paris, who engaged her for his theatre. Her début was made ata benefit given to the: vet- eran actor. St, Germain, and was a greatsuc- cess. Later, Herve, the well-known com- poser, was attracted by her. superb singing and acting, and secured her a three years’ en- gagement at the Galeries St. Hubert, Brus- sels. Here she added to her already estab- lished. fame, her conspicuous success being Fflorelia in “Les Brigands.” She was then secured by M. Cantin for the FoliesDra- matiques, Paris, where she secured triumph after triumph, disarming the critics and win- ning from them, as she did from the rest of Paris, cordial recognition of her great ability. It was here that she created the character of Clairette, in “La Fille de Mime. Angot.” Of her style, the same correspondent says: “Her figure is small and plump, her eyes soft, dark, and expressive, and her hair arich auburn brown. Her face is full of anima- tion and her smile like a ray of sunshine. In her acting she becomes the embodiment of fun or pathos as the scene may require. Of course, the fun predominates, but it is of that hearty, genuine kind: that offends not the inst fastidious taste, and herein consists the grea difference between. her and Aimée. imée’s acting is always suggestive,—her - methods are of the coarser Kind. “Paola- Marié interprets her roles without resorting to such ‘business.’ She indulges in no kicks and abandon. She brims over with fun, but itis refined fun. As to her voice, it issimply wonderful. Itis“hard to realize that the same throat could give to Dites lui, in the * Grand Duchesse,’ the indescribable sweet- ness and pathos with which she sings it, and to the ‘lottery song,’ in ‘ Barbe Bleue,’, the full, rich burst of ringing melody which elec- trified her audience here.” . .. THE BEETHOVEN SOCIETY REUNION. ‘The third reunion of the Becthoven Socie' will take place at the Methodist Churc Block: next. Frid: ‘will be’as follows: Sonata, “ Moonlight,” C sharp minor, OP. Zi. ...see0 easesceee sess sees -DOOthOVen. : Afr, Cart Wolfsohi 3 “ Adelaide”... Beethoven fF. Char oy Romanze and Rondo... ir. Wii “Kathleen Mavour- Irish Melodies; neen,”........ . pRohde “Kathleen Aroon Mrs. Broinerd, Dire. Hall, Str. Knorr, ‘and Mr. hapin. “IT Wept While I Was Two Songay Dreaming”. .. p Wolfsobn “The Water Li a Mr. Charles Eno Quartet, G@ minor..........-.. '--;-Brahms (For pinno and siting instruments)” Messrs. Wolfsohn, Lewis, Allen, and Ei MISS THURSBY TO RETURN. Mr. Carpenter has succeeded in inducin; Miss Thursby to return for a brief concert tour in the West before finally leaying for Europe, and her appearance here will beso timed that she will give one.of her concerts on Saturday afternoon in order’ that those who liye in the suburbs can have an oppor- tunity to hear her and the excellent company of artists associated with her. - No more en- joyable musical entertainments have been ‘iven in Chieago this wipter than the ‘hursby concerts, and her return will be hailed with delight by the entire public, a large share of which, owing tothe popularity of the previous concerts, had no opportunity to get seats to hear the charming singer. The engagement here will be limited to.two con- certs, which will occur Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, Feb, 20 and 2L. THE REMENYI.CONCERT COMPANY has been secured by Mr. Carpenter for three concerts during the middle ‘of March. This nervous and brilliant musical genius has stamped his peculiar individu: more deeply on the public mind than any violin virtuoso who has appeared in thiscountry for several seasons, and his large ‘popularity is the best excuse for his musical eccentricities that need be offered by hisadmirers. He has not appeared here since his brilliant series of engagements last year under Mr. Car- peaiers management in McCormick Hall, having been waiting for. the completion oi the new Music-Hall, in which the public will for the first time have an opportunity to hear him under favorable circumstances; and there is little doubt but that the auditorium will be taxed to accommodate those who will desire to hear this. musical enthusiast and undoubted genius... -- ‘i oh THE APOLLO CLUB are actively engaged in the preparation for their next concert, which. is to occur late next month, and will includé.as its chief at- traction the principal success of last season, if not of.the entire history of the mannerchor performances of the Clib,—the “ Frithjof.” At this concert the singing force of the Apol- Jos will’ be doubled uniting with it the sixty voices of the Arion Club,—Mr. Tomlins’ Milwaukee organization,—in which event one of the most cxelting, and enjoyable feat- ures of the concert will be the: competitive singing of the.two societies, which will con- tribute to make this one of the most entertain- ing concerts of the present Apollo series. . The next regular concert of the Beethoven Society will take place March 2, Through Mme. Cappiani, Mrs. L. M. Dunn ‘a vocal teacher of this cit iy and a pupil of Ime. ca) has been offered a large salary to aecepta church position in St.Louis. ‘The demands of her large-class will not allow her to leave heré at preseht.. : Miss Louise Farrand will make her début as a reader at the Central Music-Hall on Tuesday evening next, upon which occasion she ..will have the assistance of Mrs. Wat- rous, Miss Ingersoll, Mr. Lewis, lr. Liebling, Prof. Metcalfe, and Mr, McFarland, elocu- tionist. . oo During ‘the. coming ‘summer, or in earl; autumn, a school of singing, oratory, and acting will be opened under: the direction of Miss Annie M.R. Barnette, assisted by a corps of ‘efiicient teachers in.the different de- partments. Itis to be calied “ The St. Cecilia Academy of Singing and~Dramatic Art? The program for the Turner Hall concert this afternoon will be as follows: “Boccaccio March,” -by:Suppe: overture to ‘Zampa,” by Herold: Carnival Pictures Waltz,” by Strauss; “ Vision in a Dream,” by Lumbye; overture to ‘ Fidelio,” by Beethoven; ‘theme and variations, “ DerTod und das Madchen,” by Schubert; Rhapsodie No. 2, by Liszt; potpourri, “An Evening: in Naples,” by Beis- sig; “Turkish Patrol,” by Michaelis; anda galop by Faust... . C5 * thirteenth chamber concert of the iven at Pelton & Pomeroy’s piano place next Monday (to-morrow) {The series rooms afternoon. with the follow! Quartet, Drei Tanze, op. 24, Bi Ingersoll and Lewis, Messrs. Lewis: anc Eichhetm; sonata, in & minor, Hauptmand ‘Miss Ingersoll and Mr. Lewis; quartour, for strings, op. 192, No. 2, Raft, Messrs. Lewis, Mublenbere, Aleyer, aul Bichheim; wintet, 4p. 114, Rheinberger, Miss.Ingersoll, Alessrs. Lewis, Muhlenberg? ‘Meyer, ‘and Elehheim. ‘The second organ recital of Mr. Eddy’s second. series took piace -at Hershey Hall Festerday, noon, with a superb program, em- racing the following numbers: Bach’s “Prélude and Fugue,” in E minor; Saint- Sains’ “Rhapsodic, in E, No. 1; Best's Theme and Variations,””. in A,, op., 38, No. 4; De Lange’s sonata in D, No. 4; im- e “troduction, Fugue and Mag- ? from Liszt's symphony to’ the “ Divina Commedia ”; and the " Pastorale and Finale” to Widor’s sécond organ symphony. Miss Ettie Butler, the favorit soprano, sang Handel’s “Angels ever bright and fair,” ‘which was beautifully sung, and the * Nobil Donna,” from ‘The. Huguenots.” Mme. Nielson-Rounsville will give a pupils’ reception at the Palmer House:club-rooms on ‘Tuesday evening next, assisted by. Miss Mary P. Hendrick. ‘The program will be as fol- Jows: “ Wedding Match,” Soedermann, Ella Dahland Alina Jevne; “Danse de Fées,”” oP. 14, Jaell, Miss Grace Beryson: Gavotte, artini, Ella Dahl; “Awake, Saturnia,” Handel, Mary P: ‘Hendrick; “ Soldiers’ -Chorus,” Gounod, Minnie Sherman; ‘Tarant- elle, Heller, Martha Lagergren; “ Lorely;” Haberbier, Amelia G, Ward; “ Where Roses Mary P.. Hendrick; chubert-Liszt, Celin- de A. Carter; “Fest March,” Tellman, Julius Goldberg; Second Rhapsody, Liszt, Mrs, Anna Barker-Hurlbut. Mr. Emil Liebling’s second pianoforte re- eital will take place at Hershey’ Hall on ‘Thursday afternoon next. ‘The program will be as follows: ‘rio, major, Haydn, Messrs. : Liebling, “Lewis, and Eichheim; Barcarolle, Schubert, Miss Jennie Dutton; (a) Sonata, G minor, Scarlatti; (b) Passa: saille, G@ minor, (c) Gavotte, G,major, Han- del; (da) Tocata, major, Paradies, Emil Liel ing 5 Romanza, Ries, William ‘Lewis: (a) Nocturne, ap 17, Brassin; (b) Scherzino, Op. 18, ‘N. 2, MoszKowski: (c) “La Melan- colie,” op. 51, N. 1, Rubinstein; (d) “Soirée de Vienne” (Nachtfalter), Stratis Tausisy Emil Liebling; Romanza, Saint-Saéns, M. Eichheim; “He, the Noblest,” Schumann, Miss Jennie Dutton; Concerto, F minor, op. 21, Chopin, Emil~Liebling, assisted’ by Miss Agnes Ingersoll; and String Quintet under the direction of Mr. Hans Balatka. ‘The Following isa_notice from an Italian paper on the'début of Miss Blanch Smith, of alesburg, Ill., daughter of the Hon. A. A. Smith, of that, city. She was for two years a pupil of Mrs. L. M. Dunn, of this city, and for the past two years hag_becn studying with Lamperti, of Milan: “Tuesday of this week, in place of ‘Ii Paria,’ the opera of Verdi, ‘Il Masnudien,’ was represented, the second one of the season in-which the at- tractive Signorine- Bianca Ricordi distin- guished herself greatly. In this her début she made evident all the talents that adorn her and that predict for her a brilliant future. Her beautiful, melodious voice, true in in- tonation, with its grace of emission, rare agility, accomplishing arpegei and thrills with perfect ease and abandon, called forth bursts of applause. We earnestly await to- morrow evening'to be able again to admire this new star, which, full of light, is just rising above the horizon of art.” ~~ The midyear concert at the Park Institute on Friday evening last was an unusually pleasant affair. The vocal numbers were the ichumann duets, ‘ Cottage by the Mill” and “Come Where .the Soft Twilight Falls” (Alisses Gibbs and Buswell) 5 Schubert's “Faith in Spring”; Franz’s “Out of My Soul’s Great Sadness” iss Floy Van Pat- emi Luzzi’s “Ave Maria”; Schubert's “Thine is My Heart” (Miss May Black); and Tito Mattei’s “Romanza” (Afiss Stella Clark.) _ Miss Flora Sherburne, who was down for two’ additional songs, was unable to appear, . The instrumental numbers were: Chopin Valse, op. 6 (Miss Grace Douglas) ; Gottschalk’s “La Jotu Aragonese” (Miss Mary Davidson), Beethoven’s ‘Sonata Pathetique” (Miss Hattie Cornwall); Hel- Ter’s “On Wings of Song” and Liszt’s “Pann- hauser March” (Miss Lillian Brown); and Chopin’s Polonaise, op. 22, and Mendelssohn’s Capriccio in B minor (Mrs. Hattie Colburn). The performance as @ whole reflected credit’ on the teachers concerned in preparing it,— Miss Smythe, Mrs. Yreshwaters, and Messrs. Brittan, ews, and Pratt. - Last Friday eventig Di. F. L..Peiro; of this city, gave a lecture before.-the Bach ‘and Handei Society, in their rooms at-the corner of, West Washington street and Ogden av- enue. His subject was “The Vocal Organs; How to Use and How to Abuse Them.” His lecture consisted of a description of the vocal apparatus, definitly illustrating the parts by means of a blackboard.. He pointed out many popular errors about these organs, and backed up his assertions by stating that he dealt in- no theory, but only that which he had observed thousands of times by ‘meats of the laryngoscope. He described the action of the yocal chords while producing tone, and-in a general way touched upon the ques- tion of respiration. is theory .con- cerning. the avenue by which colds most frequently come to us was new to most if not all, and seemed to elicit the in- tense interest, of the Society. This part of the lecture is worthy the attention of all singers, as the Doctor states that, by atten- tion to his suggestions, nearly all colds will be prevented. At the close of the lecture the Doetor answered many questions propounded by members and others. By unanimous re- quest, the Doctor has consented to deliver a lecture on the subject of “Respiration” on Friday evening, Feb. 18.. All singers and public speakers are invited to atten: ABROAD. THE PRIZE COMPOSITION. The Cincinnati Musical Festival Associa- tion has issed the following circular: “About a year ago the Musical Festival Association.of Cincinnati offered a. prize of $1,000 for the best musical composition by a .native-born citizen-of the United States. The authors were at liberty to select any subject they pleased, which should include the chorus and orchestra. Over twenty.com- positions were offered for competition, and, while the terms utterly prevented the identi- ty of the author, there is intrinsic evidence for believing that all. the best composers of this country have contributed for the honor of the prize. ‘The title of the chosen work is ‘Scenes frome Longfellow’s Golden Legend.’ The name of the athor of this composition will not, according to the conditions of the prize, be known ‘until the sealed envelope containing his name is opened on the night of the performance.” * . It is well _understood that the succesaful composer is Dudley Buck. - ; MUSICAL NOTES. Mme. Nilsson has made a successful ap- Pearance as Mignon in Madrid, and is an- nounced to sing in Norma” shortly. Mille, Marie Van Zandt, the young Ameri- can prima donna, isto make her début in Paris next week at the Opera Comique. Mr. William Courtney, the English tenor, has been engaged by the Handel and Haydn Society, of Boston, for their May festival. ». Planquette’s new:comic opera, “Les Volti- geurs de Ja 32%,” was highly sp ken of on its presentation in Paris. ‘The plot is somewhat of an imitation of ‘*La-Fille du Regiment.” The music is described as “pleasing and tuneful,” full of bright airs and effective choruses. ” ‘ = Mary Louise Swift, the well-known $0; @.0, has been engaged. by Col. Mapleson for une year, commencing next May, to sing in Italian opera. Mrs. Swift rece ved her musical education abroad, and was the pupil of Sangiovanni before going on the Italian operatic stage, where she sang for two years. A Milanese journal enumerates twelve composers who have set ‘Romeo and Juliet” to inusic: Benda, Dresden, .1772; Schwan- berg, Brunswick, 1782; Marescalchi, Rome, 1789; Rumling, ‘Carlsberg, 1790; Daiayrac, Paris, 1792; eibelt, Paris 1793; ' Zingarelli, Milan, 1796: ‘Giuglicimo, 1816; Vaceni, 1826; Bellini, 1880; Marchetti, 1865; Gounod, 1867. With Jan. 1, 1880, the original proprietary Tights to the works of Fr. Chopin expire, and henceforth they will be issued in the fol- lowing popular editions, at moderate prices: 1, by Breitkopf and Wartel, in Leipsic; 2 by Frederick Kistner, in Leipsic; 5 by C.F. Kahnt, in Leipsic; 4, by C. ¥. Peters (Bu- reau de Musique), in ‘Lelpsic and Berlin; 5, by Henry Tt in prunswick, Other edi- lons are expected to follow. Mr: E. C, Phelps, well known as the com- poser of a Hiawatha” symphony and other works, purposes, with the aid of @ subscrip- tion, to produce ‘at. the Brooklyn Academy of ‘Music, March 2, his ‘“ new historic choral symphony, “The Emancipation,’ ” with. the Philharmonic orchestra anda chorus of about i is in six move- tttier’s Hymn. a0 qroleess tha symphon: ents, _ani Air. B°J. Fitzhugh nas volunteered to ganize and train the chorus. ¢ : ‘We unde: there is a prospect of Mme. Marie } ee es pearing in New Yor! at the Academy of Music March next, rogram: |’ Since this popula iste. left America she R ansses has met- with -several brillant aucdesees, at now 1880—SIXTEEN ' PAGE Her Majesty’s Opera, London,’ an mal atour of-Great- Britain and Ireland. with Ilma de Murska,.. Carleton, Susini, Darialli, Teechi, Sacconi,-and_other. well- known-artistes; “Mme. ‘Marie. Roz6 will be welcomed back by her many friends..° ~ ase p. NEWMUSIG. 2. From 8. Brainard’s Sons,Chicago and Clevoland: “Phi Kappa Psi Waltzes," by Edward 8. Rail; “Good Night, My Child,” by Wilson G. Smith; “Still My Heart Is Only Thine,” by George W. Persle: Persley’s Newort "; "Till the Clouds by James M. North;-" "Tis Darkest Just Olis H. Carter; ‘At Sunrise,” transoribed | by: Oscar Mayo; Bird Funtasie,” by, Oscar’ Mayo; “Shades of Evefing,” valse brillante, by Charles Gimbel, Jr. 2 ists agate THE STORMY OCEAN. Perils of the Deep—Winter Voyages of : Atlantic Stoamers., é + “Harper's Weekly. ae ‘Quiet as the winfer has seemed, so far, to those ‘of us who have passed our time inthis metropolis and its neighborhood, rarely has there been so much and such a continuation of bad ‘weather off our coasts atsea, The reports of passengers and crews as they ar- rive go to show that the stormy déep has re- cently behaved with a. boisterousness for which there are few parallels in the records of Inte years. A century or two ago, when adventurers from Europe first began to make their way to our shores, the violence of our winters, and the fury of the gales that op- posed their passage, made the voyage some- thing to be dreaded; bit of late the increas- ing mildness of our climate, both on land and sea, has divested such journeys of nearly all terror. Qply in rare instances. is an ocean steamer endangered by storms, provided her machinery remains in-order, and the crew know how to bandle their.yessel. The expe- riences of .the ‘last few weeks will, however, strike terror to those who hayé learned to place too much confidence in the gradual pacification of old Neptune. ‘When the steamer Batavia arrived . at this port on the morning of Sunday, Jan. 12, it was after one of the stormiest passages with- in the recollection.of any of the. ship’s of- ficers. When the ship left Liverpool, on the 27th of December, theré was a strong breeze blowing, but not such. as to- occasion any special alarm. In the afternoon the wind in- creased to a gale, with confused seas, and the weather was very rough all the waydown the Channel, with strong, head-winds and fogs. Queenstown was not. reached until late in the evening, seven or eight hours be- hind time. When the vessel lett that port, at 5o’clock on the afternoon of the following day. (Sunday) there was a strong westerly wind, so that Fastnet was passed at half-past i. On Monday the storm began, and during the night there were furious squalls, rain, hail, terrific thunder and lightning, From this time-until Jan. 4 there. was. little cessation in the grim succession. Then the weather’ moderated, but only for a new though somewhat milder edition of the storm. On Jan. 7, when the vessel: stood off the For Banks, there were -lizht head-winds; ‘an finally, as the sighted Fire Island Light, the slty cleared, and she came in, the storms left behind ‘her, and the weather fair. During the entire voyage the wind kept veering from southwest to west-northwest. The barometer. from - Auber, ranged from 28,30 to 20,20, and_ the tempera- ture ran down to 22 deg. Fahrenheit. ‘The experiences of the passengers and crew during this yoyage were of the most unpleas- ant character. There -was not only. ship- wreck to fear, but discomfort of every kind to endure, Nothing in the way of amuse- ment could be undertaken, and, confined be- low hatches; the unhappy voyagers gazed at one another day in aud day out ina sort of |. hopeless, misery. a i Z _.The experiences of the Britannic, a vessel Of the White Star Line, which arrived some hours later on the same day, were similar, if not quite as severe as those of the Batavia. There were strong westerly gales, but the vessel made her usual time, and the officers were disposed to make light of the storm. The Purser, in describing the passage to a Teporter of one of our daily journals, said: “Tt was tempestuous weather all the time, but we took no special. count of. it, and were not delayed by it. What is a very sgvere passage for other vessels is no serious 0 sta- cle to the Britannic. We came right slong: but we did not have agingle-clear .day unti if yesterday-- You can say we had strong west- erly gales, and [thatis all there is to be said.” A gentleman ‘who was present spoke of the splendid sailing qualities of theship, and gave as an instance a gale during a passage he had made recently. “Ah! but this was much more severe,” said the Purser, “than when eu crossed with us. It was one continual low all the way to the Banks, and we did not have a single clear day.?” ‘The steamer City of New York, of the In-° man Line, occupied nineteen days on her yoyage from Liverpool by way of Queens- town. The officers say that for-eleven days they.ran through a series of very heavy rales, during one of which a tremendous sea roke-over.the bows, carried away the ‘port cathead, and split the breakwater. Two sea- men on the forward bridge were dashed to deck and severely injured. The experiences of the passengers and crew of the Aragon present a most appallin picture of ocean travel: This . vessel saile from’ Bristol on the 19th of December. Twenty-four days she was tossed about on ithe ocean by the ‘storm, and several times it ‘was reported that she had gone down with all onboard. . Capt. Brown, her commander, it telling the stary of the voyage, said: “We had tourteens passengers—eight of them women—in the steerage, and a full cargo of freight.. The first day out we struck the storm.coming from the northwest, and varying at times to southwest. Day after day for fifteen days we had hard weather. Such seas as we had you-neversaw. Fora time we'd have the gale from the northwest, and then it would change to southwest, cut- ting up cross-seas that swept the deck. The men had arough time on deck, I tell you. Early New Year's moming a cyclone struck us, with most terrific squal Hs. 16 Wind vary- ing all the time. Tremendous seas were created almost instantaneously. On thenext day a heavy sea struck us, carrying awa) some of the bridge stanchions, the wheel- house, the ventilators, and one of the boats, and smashing another boat. The men in the wheelhouse were knocked about like toys, but no bones, were broken. In fact, during all the voyage the men had only afew bruises, although they were roughly handled.” . On the last day of the year the Aragon sighted-a vessel of the Inman Line. With some difficulty, and- by going out of ‘his course, Capt,. Brown exchanged signals, in the hope that the larger. vessel, arriving sooner, might.report-him.”- This unfortu- nately was not done, or much anxiety would haye been-spared those who had either prop- erty or friends on board. ‘The conclusion of the Captain’s Story’ is as follows: _ On the Gth of January we were ice-bound in fearful cross-seas, It was very cold, the ship was coated with ice, and the sails were stiffened, - Then Iran away south, and for the last seven or eight days we had moderate weather, with fogs. Some of. the passengers were sick all the time, and one-old woman was in bed for seventeen days. We sighted pilot-boat No. 1 about 150 miles off shore, and ilot Hall boarded us. The passengers were Jad to see him, I assure you. "tive made ifty-seven voyages in this ship, and although T’ve seen just as bad weather, T never saw it continue bad so long.” ‘ The Herald insists that thus indivectly we have the best authority for assuming that the hurricanes moving off our coast follow the well-known current of the Atlantic toward Europe. The disturbances at the Azores are effects of or offshoots. from the monster cyclones which- pursue their normal path- way along parallels a-little north of these islands, where they are frequently, though comparatively -feebly, felt. The regularity with which: they affect. the weather at St. Michael’s, while-within a days’ travel of European waters, is regarded /as incontro- yertible proof that they régularly cross the Atlantic, and impinge upon or assail the European coasts*- = «3 is Since so-much has been discovered, the ban of ignorance removed that existed in Seriptural-« times,‘ and’ though- the - wind bloweth where it listeth, we know whence it cometh and whither it. goeth, it certainly would seem that, with our ample means of communication with all parts’ of the globe, we are only within one-short step of that knowledge which-would enable. the mariner to avoid the storm, and keep his vessel where the skies are comparatively fair and the waters smooth: Sons ‘Wild Animals in Endin. © ° A writer in the Cornhill Magazine, reviewin; the many good works done by the English Tee the peopie-of India, notes, prong other things, the almost total.extermination of wild animals in that country. $4. At As the rural communities relinquished their hamlets and drew-closer together toward the centre of 8 district, he .says, the wild beasts pressed hungrily on theirrear. In vain'the East dia Company offered a reward for each tiger's head sufiicient to maintain g peasant’s f1 in | the cultivated land. f outley comfort for three in item 0! a ish rg deemed so importan' That’ a in, ite financial crisis of 1790-'91, the Treasury had to suspend all payments, it made areievae money and diet allowince for prisoners ct . In-valu it spent thesole. exceptions to the rule. Se Arc Et i elt of jungle rewards for killing wild beasts. belt o} i ci ims lay for years round filled with ferocious ania iu i recor ree ¥ Kk of the mail-bag carries By alates and the custom of the mail-runners carrying. jaugling rings or bells to scare pes the wild beasts survived to our own day.- Lo Me een 1789, had to. sunction a grant of mublle wore Lis, baal 0 itary road from the le) redations of those animals. 3 after the country passed under. English sale igers, leopards; and wolves slew their thousands .of men and thelr hundreds of thou- sands of cattle: But the herd of wild elephants was absolutely resistiess; Hitting: off roofs, push- Jing down walls, trimpling 2: villnge nner ‘as if it were a city of sand which a child ha built abort the shore. In two parishes alone, during the last few years of the nutivegdminis- tration, fifty-six hamlots with their su ‘ounding ; Jands “had all been destroyed and nc tojungle, . caused by the depredations of. wild elephants.’ ‘Another official return states that forty market Yillages throughout Birbhum district had been Gesertod: from the same cause. Large reductions bud to be made in the innate ind ‘the Bast India Company borrowec tame elephants from the native ‘Viceroy’ 8, stud in order to catch the wild ones. I ius ocular proof on my journey,” writes an En; ar officer in 1791, ‘of their ravnges. ite native tie hig cot in u tree, to which he retires when the elophants approach, and silently views the destruction of “his cott and tho whole profits of his lubor.” “One night, eee ard, the men o! Fouled tothe trees, and the women. bid them- selves among the’ cattle, leaving their huts prey to the elephants, which know very wel where to look for grain. ‘Two nights before, some of them had unroofed a but in the: village and. had caten up ‘all the grain which 2 poor family possessed.” “Most, fortunately for the popula ion of the country,” wrote the greatest: slephiny buater ot the last century, © thos de light in the sequestered range’ s if thoy preferred, the plains, whole kingdoms wastes" : would eae |. One of the ‘com- All this is now,.chan; jodern Englishman in India is plaints by the modern Englishman in India fs that he can so seldom get Wolves are dying out in many provinces; the ancient Indian lon has disappear The wild elephunt is so rare that he is specially protected by the Government, and in most parts of, India he can only be caught by oflictal license or under offlofalsupervision. Many sees have peti- tioned for a close season, so as to preserve the edible game still remaining. The only animal that has detied the energy of the British official isthe snake. One may, however, judge, of the loss of life by wild beusts-in the last century from the deaths caused by this, thelr chief sur- yivor, ut the preset day. The ascertained num- ber of persons who died from snake-bite in 1875 was 17,000, out of ‘a total of 21,801 killed by snakes. and. all other wild animuls. ‘The deaths from wild beasts in the Inst century were prob- ably not under 150,000 a year. PERMITTED TO WED. AMarked Falling Of In the Candidates for Matrimony Last Week. ‘The number of permits to wed granted last week was 113,—a decrease of twenty-seven from the week previous. Itis expected that this week will show a large increase, because of the near approach of Lent, when marriage is not solemnized by thé Catholic and Epis- copal Churches. The list of last week pre- sented no new features from those of pre- ceding ones, One boy of 17 took out a Jicense to marry a maiden of 27, and the oldest couple had unitedly reached the age of 93, = . MONDAY. 4 Name. Age. Residence. George Keeling. .:..28...-Hydo Park, TL Bertha Behm. 25....Sherman House. : Gottfried Sc! Bi....Chicago. Maria Kiehl Thicago. William Hau) SheDoyeem Wis. Muay Leonard. .Chicago. Frederick Wente....: .Chicago. Lizzie Lynch .. Chicago. James Charles H. L. Flint. Elizabeth S. Owen. Gustav Odencrantz.31. Anna F.’5mith. Jeremiah Ryat Providenzo Soutoro.13 Willinm J. Madson..26-..-19) We Mary Steen. is. P Noth Re Leopold Buch...--.3-21--..10 Juliane ee jEmelia Smldtho..- 200 Wee Walter. E. Foster... Hattie G. Perkins | Fredericka Winter. Franz Novotny. Mary Bilak.. Christoph Thiel Sophia Hill...... Conrad A. Lefka... Annie §. Benson....20.... William Strave......34. : Fredericka Lorenz.:20. James Kensella. 2B. Ella J. Sayle.. Frank Hinsbe: Mary Girsinges YVenzel Vydle, a Matzal fatznk. Leopold Schroeder..: Emma Diekman. Ferdinand Putsch, ‘Angusta Winter. Churles F. Ste: Ella Mf. Hill. | | : Ida Hutchins. John Blaney... Maggie Harrington. George Anderso} 1 piary, Hansen.......-2£. A. J. Gritzmacher.. Mary J. Lowe: 22, Martin Lasby...... Sophie M. Anderson. Friederich Ervert...27 H. J. F. W. Bittrich.19, Edward H. Aitken. CONDITION OF IRELAND, Reply to Ewo Orange, Tory, Anti-Irich Journals. - : + "+ Chicago News. : The Globe-Democrat and the New York Herald both take-the landlord side of this question; of course they havea mutual ad- miration of each other’s views thereon; of course one is ready to sneeze when the other + takes snuff. But are the views of these two mutually interested sources of authority cor- rect? ‘Let us see. ‘We will take the views of one for those of both. The. Globe-Democrat | says that emigration is the only remedy. The humanity of this is only equaled by the supercilious . self-sufficiency with which it is advocated. “Why.shoula emigration be the only remedy for Irish distress? Why should Irish distress be the only distress for which emigration isthe sovercign panacea? Emiigre tion is never recommended for distress in England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Russia, Italy, or, in fact, any other European coun- The Globe-Democrat says that the soll-of Eva Warner... Mi hicago. Joseph Polland. 112 Newberry &v. Annie Roynolds... 199 Brown. dlexunder es 13 Wost Lake. Oscar E. Lehow.. Eloise L-Sargent 1 1 Joseph Murphy. Mary Warton. Charles P. Stivers. Kate A. Ducat... ie ‘ ‘WEDNESDAY. ‘August Stenke.......26....557 Taylor. Caroline Pud ..21....5¢ Kansas. William P.. Wilson 21, Luoy A. Kirtland. ..-19 August Heiman.....3f Mrs, P. Pesall. 30, William Schrader. . .4 Mrs. S. Mielow, Nellie St. On; William Gro Frederica Lue: Gray. 5 : Carrie - PR: Augusts Beant Lueia Schornal 4 Mrs. St. F. Devere | Joseph Kanica. H 4 Gertrude Koztot John Evenson Maury Strom.. ce. 20. 88 West Madison, William Muiligan...25....150Sedgwi Mary Donshue....:.19.-2124 ks Johann Zeinz. Ireland has Jong been overworked;: that, itis now in many parts almost exhausted ; that it cannot support the population.. These state. . ments are totally and maliciously false. The leading products of Ireland in 1958 and 1871 were: - : : n Pigs, No...) “These figures show a decline in some products, but an immense increase in others. ‘The population in 1851 was 6,553,201, and in 1871 only 5,418,783. The’ valué of, the live stock in ireland in 41870 was no less.than $17,503,300, A vast number of these cattle are exported to England. We have before us the Cork Constitution of January, 18%, ‘which gives.the exports of live stock to Great Britain for the week ending Jan. 3 at 8760 cattle, 9,141 sheep, 11,090 hogs, 170 horses, and three asses; a total of 99,168 head. The total for the precéding week was nearly La same number. This would be an agetegal of 1,500,000 cattle of all 1 Oe tions in ‘the course ot the yer, fer 1855 thee rts grain to Great Bri were F ters of oats and oat-meal,and 170,000 of wheat; 214,636 oxen; §,163 calves, sheep, and 254,054 hogs; to foreign countr 292 hundred weight of bacon and_hams, 7, barrels of beef and pork, and 17,475 hondred- weight of butter. Immense quantities 0! butter, eggs, bacon, hams, and o! er products 0 while the population over 1,000,000 since 1855, the exports of products are constantly increasing. ‘Do these facts, gleaned from the records show that the land is deteriorating? ‘That the soil is overworked or exhausted? ‘That it cannot support the Population? On the contrary, they give the lie to all these state- ments, and prove thatitis some inherent polit: ical or social cause which is at work to pre; Yenta just distribution in the country! of the profits of its labor. O’Connell used to de- clare, and to prove it by the statistics, Treland produced enough in one agricult- ural season to support the entire population for five. Its capabilities are crease than they were in the Great Liberator’s time, But the truth is, the products are exhausted. in order to sustain the drain of absenteeisi@ and the exactions of the landlords. _. Asto manufactures, they have largely i creased inthe northern part of. the island, where Ireland’sspecialty— inen--is manufac ured in mamher and style nowhere else ex celled, if equaled. But in other manufac ures the keen competition of England, bing want of capital,—one of the results of senteeism,—and the unjust discrimination 0 Great Britain against the country in fora years'has kept down nearly all e! orts in ie direction.. But Ireland. has inexhausti d mines of anthracite and bituminous rn iron, copper, lead, and even silver and, 80! That there is no present prospect of. developing these industries ‘is. true, the villainous landlord and. absentee, systems are eating out the vitals of the country’s ustries, z Cit ‘We defy the Globe-Democrat, or any othe American-or British Jandlord jours i publish a table of Irish imports and exp? a end then dare on that the: sonny at no! pable of su: amuch lar than it hos ’at present. Its exports are cote ieee eee ae canes impo. showing -that it is be E drained of its resources and impoverished its means. ———_——. = : "IMPROVISATION, More wan the morn than young Regret ‘Long sobbing out her one great pais - Uponthe heart of Time: andyet - “Awake I weep, and weep a O cold the mist upon the lake! O far my hope, and lost to me! The cold rain-drops in terror shaxe, And from the shutter wander free Farewell! ‘The trouble in one word! ~~ Farewell!’ How still the early alrt 3 My loud heart-beatings, ever heard, isturb life's deepest currents And, tremulousty painful, rise 23 -Aithe notes of one, complaining birds. Se eet _, The night-mist ye Soma —_—$——————_—— The Duke of Edinburg: .- Norris Castle, Isle of Wight, a handsome, between Osborne and Hust Cowes, bos bard: ought for $400,000 by: the Duke of Edinburg, ‘The Duke's allowance prior to bis marriages 375,000 a year and $125,000 a year since. “Tg this he hag his naval pay. and $5,000 8 year 3 aspecial appointment. He has always beet 5 ceedingly careful in money matters, ‘and made & hit in mining when in New Zealand. . _-