Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 3, 1880, Page 11

THE STAGE. ‘ Tragic Trinity — McCullough sia Barrett, and Keene. ; Some Few Facts Regarding Their Antecedents. . ‘What the Managers Propose to Give Us Next Weck, pramatic Notes of a Local and a General Character. THOMAS WALLACE KEENE. Asa star, Mr. Thomas Wallace Keene will pake his first appearance in the tragedy of *Richard TIL” (Cibber’s version) to-morrow wening at the Grand Opera-House in this city. ‘a this first appearauce there is manifested un- ysualinterest among playgoers; indeed, it may wesid that had Mfr. Keene been a European elebrity who had been paragraphed for years jomore curiosity could be evinced. He is an (merican; American born and. American in @uvation and stage ‘training. Unlike the mob iM well-dressed society gentlemen who crowd thestage of to-day, he has not walked into no- tice through the influence of a goed tailor, but hehas won whatever name he is entitled to by, hard and conscientious work. Born in New York City in the year 1810, on the 6th of October. he was educated for mercantile pursuits, but, the ledger not proving to his lik- ing, he turved his attention to the stage.. Ab the age of 16 he, on Aug. 13, 1856, made his first’ ap- pearanceat the old Chinese Buildings, Néw York, a5 Lucius in “Julius Cesar" fora benefit. His first regular engagement was at the old Bowery, then under the management of the late John Brougham, where he played minor parts. Ia ‘1863-'64 he traveled with the late J, H. Hackett, ‘who was then starring in “Falstaff.” While he was always looked upon as a reliable young actor, he attracted no particular attention un- til, in 1885, when at Newark, his personation of ‘Mercutio so pleased the star (Mr. J. W. albaugh) that he procured him an engagement as juve- nile man at the New York Broadway, then un- der the management of George Wood. Here he ‘won considerable recognition, playing with such sarsa3 John E. Owens, F. S. Chanfrau, Mary Provost, and Lucille ‘Western. It was during tis season that, with the Worrell Sisters, he made his first appearance in burlesque. From that time until he sailed for England in 1670 his labors were divided between New York, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia, playing every line of character. His first performance of Richard Hil. was giver in 1868 while traveling with Mra. Sefton. = He went to Engiand for his health, but was in- duced to play a brief engagement. At the Marylebone he’ opened the. theatre in which ‘Obariotte Cushman, the Wallacks, Mrs. Mowatt, and Z. L. Davenport achieved their London sue- cesses. Mr. Keene was spoken of in the moat favorable manner by the ngglish ‘press, and the ate John Oxenford, of the London Times, and Mr. Russell, ot the Liverpool Mercury, were Par Ucularly enthusiastic in their predictions or his future, After making a London success, he ob- tained offers to appear in the provinces. In the chief cities he played a variety of characters with more or less success. - Mr. Keene returned to America, and early in 1574 we again find him at Wood's Museum piay- ing opposit parts with the late E. L. Davenport. In the spring of that year John McCullough, then lessee of the California Theatre, while in New. York hunting for attractions, saw Mr. Keene and made overtures to him to go to Cali- fornia, which overtures he finally accepted. Up to that time, whatever may have been Mr, Keene’s ambition, he had rarely gone beyond melodrama, but on bis arrival in San Francisco Mr. McCullough -besougbt him to turn his serious attention to tragedy. Since then he been a close student, and “has Played with Mr. McCuliou: oth, and others leading tragic réles. 6 first part he played in San Franoisco that won for him great recognition was that of Bob Bricriy in “The ‘Ticket-of-Leave Man.” This performance fixed his status, and from the time of this perform- ance his career in California was of the most brilliant character; indeed, no stock actor on the Pacific Coast ever received more admiration ‘from the press and from the public in every line of business. —burlesque, farce, comeds, tragedy, or character acting. During Miss Clara Morris’ first visit to that city he appeared to great ad- Yantagein the oppoatt: parts to her, but more Sccalenly as Gloster in “Jane Shore” and lacduff in“ Macbeth.” It was said of him that during the great eight weeks’ engagement of Edwin Booth there (where he was continually ae against Mr. McCullough and Mr. Booth) ie had the greatest cause to be congratu- lated, as he passed the ordeal bravely and came bcd with fiymg colors in many of the plays pro- juced. fs Mr. Keene remained in California until August, 1878, and opened in Baltimore in thet-year under themanagement of John T. Ford.” He becamoas. great a fuvorit in Baltimore as he did in Califor nia. His chief successes were as King John, Cassius, lo, Jago, Richard IHI., and’ Hamlet. ‘Under Mr. Ford’s management he made a most successful tour of the South in the above réles, a Ener joined Me Booth as ptadelrhe. ut two years ago he was again enga; ry Booth, aud earics: ‘the last engagement of the tragedian at McVicker’s, about eighteen months ago, Mr. Keene's excellent support wili be re- membered. His contract sought his services for the part of Coupeauin * Drink.” He accepted, and played the got for the first time (his first appearance in Bos- ton) at the Boston Theatre on the 2ith of No- vember, 1873. He woke up next morning to find jMumself famous, We all remember his extraor- ‘dinary ‘formance of that réle,—a performance which, if he never poe anything else, would Stamp him as one of the great actors of America, We have already alluded to the remarkable im- Pression he created as Richard I11., in Boston.. For over two years past the advent of Mr. Keene asastarbas been talked of. He would have been under the management of the late Tom Davy, of Detroit, had Mr. Davy lived. Upon that’ manager's death, Mr. McVicker thought of making a contract with Keene, but William K. Hayaen. a manager who has becn ‘aseociated with the successes of Modjeska and Robson and Crane, came to an arrangement With him, by which arrangement willbe. under the. management of Mr. Hayden for three years. Mr. Keene will Supported by Miss Heurietta Vaders, one of ‘the best of our few tragic actresses, Miss Va- as for the past five yoars played second Parts to Neilson. and Janauschek, and with the chief male stars she has for some years been as- Soclated. During the last engagement of Booth in Kastern cities Miss Vaders supported him, andattracted the most favorable notice wher- ever she appeared. The plays will be placed Upon che stage under the direction of Mr. Charles Webb. the gentleman who superintend- ed the presentation of “The Comedy of Errors” for Robson and Crane. 3 ,0n Wednesday evening, * Richelieu’ 3 Thursday, “Hamlet”; on ’ Friday evening, Othello”; on Saturday afternoon, “Hamlet”; on’ Saturday evening, “Richard IIL"; and. the jast appearance of ene will occur on Sunday. The Tull cast for “Richard IIL.” to-morrow night will be: Gloster... - Thomas W. Keene mond Frazer Coulter Buckingham. Frank Roche King Henry Vi. Charles Webb Prince of ¥ iss Grace Roth Duke of York, +++, Matie Everham Norfolk, ¢. Cowper Stanley. 72.3. B. Everham Fressel ‘Harry Thompson fates W.J. Hurley Onn! Fred Warner ford. jugene Moore ord Mayo Charies Kent lant unter Smith fire, H, Mason entenant of Tower.. J. Dunbar ‘ueeu Elizabeth... ‘enrietta Vaders qaghess of York... Brs. Octavia Allen dy Anne. ‘Miss Agnes Keene \ JOHN M’CULLOUGH. An important engagement will also be com- Dae at Haverly’s to-morrow night, when ohn McCullough will appear in one of his Strongest parts,—that of Virginius, While the euorty Of well-informed playgoers are per- dee) familar with the incidents of the actor's fe, af) Spe, Erecent ume, when there is 50 much @ simultaneous appearance of the three tragedians, a recapitulation of a few of these incidents may not be out of place. Pa, McCullough is just one year younger shen eee Barrett, four years younger win Booth, and three years older than ae W. Keene. He was born in November, norte of tee, place called Coleraine, in the and, tke and. His father was a small farmer, tolwice Most small farmers, had little moneys fae upon:the teaching of his son.. Farm- wee uls were ‘more familiar to .bim than Sow Hs Works of Shakspeare. Whatever edu- country did receive was obtained in the little that 1 Preis of Coleraine. The studies of ante fame. soba bad We creas 0 the adventurous SOL OF tig Soleraine was alittle too Umited for-his -vaul mbition, He had Ustened to the glowing from the land of promise to all Irishmen lying beyond the At- lantic. He embarked for America, aud at the age of 15 be landed in New York with 37 cents in bis pocket, without.a friend in the country, but with a stout beart under his cost. His introduction to the works of Shakspeare was under rather amusing circumstances. Mc- Cullough obtained a situation to shovel coke in a Philadelphia gas-factory. One of his compan- ions, it is said, named Burke, who combined a weakness for stimulants’ and a passion ‘for poesy.in moments of spirituous and dramatic elevation would seize upon McCullough, cut his throat with the handiest stick, tell him to con- sider himself Julius Cesar murdered, and recite over his sup} diy-bleeding corpse the oration of Bfare Ai y. Continuous pounding on the art of Burke made Jobn acquainted with the ‘act that such a being as Shakspeare had existed, and that he was the author of several works called plays. Burke was stage-struck, and Jotun became similarly affected. He be- gan . the pair ‘wont at it r and tongs, and that gas-factory resounded with tragic Jamentation and heroic appeal. What became of the embryo tragedian Burke we cannot say, but McCullough, through the friendship of the son of a lager-beer vender, obtained admission to an amateur.dramatic club, and soon shone. as star in that little firmament. He then be- fan a course of self-study, and by hard work ‘was enabled to obtain his first engagement in the winter of 185;-'58 at the Arch Street Theatre, Philadelphia. = He made his début as a servant in “Tho Belle’s Strategem,” and started with the modest stipend of $4a week. Wiiliam Wheatleigh, tho manager of the house then, wns attracted by the earnestness of the young actor, and engaged him for the succeeding year at $10 a week. Actors then were not phid the salaries of to-day. In those duys,it is often said, theirexpenses were lighter; but this isnotso. The average actor of to-day plays but one part during the-entira. season, and can walk through the year in an ex- tremely slender wardrobe.. Then they were often cast for many different parts ina week, and it was only by rigid economy that a yount actor could in time become tic possessorof an outht suficlont to dress the réles even decently which were given bim. ' For this $10 a week Mc- Cullough played the heavy villains of the Arch- Street Theatre, and such partsas Edmund in .“Lear," Antonio in “The Merchunt of Venice,” Claudius in “* Hamlet,” ete. . - This was the sturting pojnt of ‘his thedtrical career. It is unnecessary’ to enter into the minute details of “his subsequent engagements at the Howard Atheneum, the Walnut-Street Theatre, Philadelphia, his five years’ experience with Edwin Forrest, his progress as an actor, and his‘signai failure as a mauager in San Fran- cisco. He was lessce of the California Theatre in that city, but, like most actors, financial re- sponsibilities and’ acting did ‘not go well to- gether. ‘After remaining there somo five or six years he determined to branch out asastar. For a long time it was up-bill work with him. Ho played the leading parts then now found in his répertoire, but his acting in those parts was very much different from what it is to-day. His association with Forrest had been fruitful. He had studied him carefully, and with something of the dramatic fire and intensity of that great actor, an excellont. knowledra of his con- ceptions and of his careful study McCullough has succeedet in commanuing an admiration for_some of bis Portrayals similar to that won by Forrest in the sameréles. Those who remember, even -three years ago, his crudities, his inartistic method, and his iuefticient knowledge of his own powers, are surprised at tho change oxhibited in such rolesas Virginius, Lear, the Gladiator, and Othello. It is very easy to fix Mr. McCullough’s posi- tion on the American stage at the present time. In the heavier réles of the drama—such as Lear, Virginius, the Gladiator—he has no equal. In those characters requiring the most subtle treatment he is not nearly go satisfactory. How- ever, in such réles he shows progress every time he reappears. In his assumption of Othello, Hamlet, Richelicu, Richard IL, ete., critical in- terest welll more particularly centre during the coming engagement ; The present support of Mr. McCullough is strong, among the members bee Messrs. 1d B. Warde, Edmund K. Coltier, John A. Lane, H. A. Langdon, Miss Kate Forsyth, and Mrs, Au- gusta Fuster. ‘The bill for the first week—the engagement will last two weeks—wili be: 3fon- day. “Virginius”; ‘Tuesday, Othello”; Wednesday afternoon, “The Lady of Lyons” Wednesday night, * Hamlet”; Thursday, “ Vir- ginius” ‘riday, ‘* King Lear”; Saturday aft- ernoon, “Othello”; Saturday night, “Hichard UL”; Sunday night, “ Jack Cade." LAWRENCE BARRETT. . At Hooley’s Theatre this tragedian will to- morrow evening reuppear. He, like the other two, McCullough and Keene, has selected his strongest part in which to open—that of Cassius, in “Julius Cassar.” For several weeks the man- agement of the house have been busy in the preparation of scenery for the production, and 80 elaborate, it is said, have been these prepara- tions that it has been decided to run the plece the entire week. The published cast shows the distribution of characters tobe: Caius Cassius, Lawrence Barrett; Marcus. Brutus, Louis James; Mare Antony, Frederick Bock; -Catus Julius Cesar, Robert Hudson; Publius Casca,' B. G. Rogera; Trebonius, F. Moseley; Octavius Casar, Archie Cowper; Decius Brutus, T. J. Martin; Cinnc, Charles Hawthorne; Pupilius, C. Wood- ward; Soothsayer. H. T. Charles; Afetellus Cimber, Pierre Stevens; Servius, Charles Pluokett; Lu- ius, H. Frankson; Pindarus, Henry Martin; First Citizen, F. P. Barton; Second Citizen, G. Harris; Portia, Miss Kate Meék; Calphurnta, Miss Anna W. Story. Lawrence Barrett is the eldest of the three tragedians, having been born in New York in 1838. He, like John MeCullough, is of Irish parentage. It has been said that bis real name was Larry Brannigan, but this has been dis- proved. Mr. Barrett bas been an industrious and a conscientious student since he first puthis foot on a stage, and:against many .disad- vantages has commifided recoguition as at able exponent of traj les. He is also one ot the ripest scholars in Profession, and his ability asa writer bas frequently been seen in magazine articles. Mr, Barrett was first heard of asa linen clerk in a Detroit dry-goods house. He was 15 years of age then. Instend of utilizing his eloquence in the persuasion of customers to purchase wares, young Barrett spent most of his time enter- taining his fellow-clerks and customers. with imitations ot actors and disquisitions on acting. His employes discharged him, with the sarons- ticadvice “to go on the stage.” Barrett, sar- caam or no sarcasm, determined to take the ad- vice, and accordingly engaged himself as su- mumerary at the old Metropolitun Theatre, etroit, where he drew the munificent salary of $a week. He sosuccessfully carried banvers and figured in the mobs that the manugement cast him for Afuratin “The French Spy.” This was bis rst speaking part, and it was like to be his last, : for he was seized with such an attack of stage- fright that he completely forgot his lines and was hidsed off. It is said that for the next threo months he could not speak a line correctly, and was invariably hissed off in disgrace. But his drawbacks did not dampen his courage. He was determined tobe an actor. An opportunity in 1854 arose to join a traveling troupe. He was engaged. The tronpe came togrief. He was stranded, and was only enabled’ to return to Detroit through the charity of a railway con- ductor. & ee) ‘The experiences of thistrip were bitterenough to make Barrett abandon the segs for a short time. In 1855 he entered the Detroit Dady News ofice, a littie afternoon new: lished by Jobn N. Ingersoll. Here he remained forafew months in the capacity of printer's devil, when be became aguin attached to the Metropolitan Theatre of Detroit. He was en- wed by Sam Gulick, the scene painter, who jatended to make him en apprentice. In afew weeks, however, Sam turned him over to'the Stage manager, and before jong he played Rich- mond to Couldock’s Richard, und made a success. Foun. Barrett also played -Romev to the Julict of Jujia Dean Hayne. His timidity had disup- peared; he was now fairly started in his career, and from that time to the present—with the ex- ception of brief service In the army during the War of the Rebellion—be .bas been constantly before the public. His. first appearance in New York was in 1656, when he played Str Thomas Cifford to the Julia of an inexperienced actress, His success in this part secured him an engage- ment at Burton's Theatre, in that city, where he became a favorit. Whatever is_of interest in the subsequent career of Mr. Barrett may be-brietly stated. He was manager of the Varictics Theatre in New Orleans during the season of -1665-’64; in 1807 he visited England, where he was received with fayor; in 1869he became manager, with John McCullough, of the Californian Theatre, San Francisco; in the following year he played sec- ond to Booth at Booth’s Theatre, New York; and since 1871 or 1872 he has been before the public 28 2 star. The most notable among the succes3es of Mr. Barrett bave been in “ Rosedale; or, the Hifle-Ball,” | ‘*The }fan_o’ Airlie,” “Dan't Druce,” * ¥orick’s Love,” Cassiva in “Julius Richelieu. DRAMATIC NOTES. Fanny Louise Buckingham appears at ‘Theatre as Mazeppa. Sprague’s Georgia Minstrels begin an engage- ment this afternoon at the Olympic. Robson and Crane gave their final performance last evening. Theinenragement has lasted three weeks, and large receipts have been gathered in. Fox's “The Showman’s Guide,” by John Jeffrey, for, the season has been published. He has added some new features, among them the Australian routes. Plerey and bis “Deception ” combination ieee thls city for New York on Friday. They came from Francisco, and intend to open in “Uncle Tom” on ged Harry C. Brad- Manager Nixon depute ing. Francisco, for his feet again. He has enga: ley and fat Ingles, late of San the piece. rae Mr. Charles Webb, stare-manager of e Reeve combination, who bas just come from London, says that things theatrical are ina ‘bad way there. . . Je Webb, after getting his company nivaly wicunded at Grand Haven, hns returned to - methods, by |: aper, then pub-. Aaverly is organizing -a’-new “Mastodon Minstrels’ for this etait It will bé cotn- priced of the very best negro minstrels that can enguged. ; aes Rico's “Revels” was given to a: large house last night for the’ task time. This evening “Horrors” will be presongec , and the perform- ance will finish the engagement. : A combination, managed by C. H. Wilson fz being Ent jsucether tn ta elty. It is 330 be called “The Glo! mn O any,” and will open at Frankfort, Mich., on the ith, . ‘Tom Maguire, the Cafifornia mannger, passed through the city yesterday ‘en route for San Francisco. - He says te only attraction he made money with last seasoh was Neilson. The Dalziel-Li wd buriesque company has done well durmg the-week. To-night at Hooley’s the last performance in this city will be given. On Monday and ‘Tuesday the troupe appear in Mitwaukeo and on Wednesday in Detroit. An Eastern paper sdys that McKee Raukin's nightly receipts at the London Globe have been 43 low as £20 ($100). While at Sadler's Wells he did well, but, belleving’ he. vould do better, he was induced by Henderson to go to the Strand. “ Abenefit will on Tuesday afternoon be ten- dered Manager James >Nixon at the West Side Academy of Muste, Mz. Nixon is oue of the oldest theatrical managers in the country, and deserves to receive the liberal attention of theatrical patrons. Ww : For the coming week atthe Academy of Music the specialists willbe: Gus Bruno. in dialect medy specialties; Carl Hertz, magician; the gift brothers, negro cbmediqne; Miss Edith Lyle, vocalist; Charles Glidden, banjoist. _ ‘The drama will be * For a-Life” in which Mr. W. J. Thompsgun will be supported by. Mr. George Learock and stock company. Tho Board of Education wants bids for Haver- ly’s Theatre. Haverly has‘put in a bid, but he has no idea that his bid will be accepted, a city business firm having off . more than the manager. ‘If Haverly docs hot optain the lease he says he has not determidéd whether be will take another thoatre in this.city for the pres- ent. Two or three sites havg been offered him. Manager McVicker received the following telegram last night: “Poitaperpnia, Walout Street Thontre, Oct. 2, 188.—Mary Anderson played to tne | it week's business ever known in this house. Georaz.K. Goopwin.” ‘Mr.. MeVicker replied: esoshoe, ateoney a its fourth wreck. hs ness so large compelled to put people in the ilies, J. H. MCVICKER.” =: Ou Wednesday next tho 200th-performance of “Joshua Whitcomb" in this dity will- occur at McVicker's. For that occasion the ‘manage- ment have prepnred tastbfully gotten-up souvenirs, which will be distributed during the afterooun and evening of that day to ail who enter the house. The attraction of “Joshux ” still continues. The coming will be the last week of the present engagement. = - FROUDE ON IRELAND. eg AScotch Review of the Essay. t Glasgow North British Muth Sevt. 21. An article from the pon of Mr.'James Anthony Fourde on the subject of Ireland occupies the foremost place in interest, as well as {n position, in the number of the Nineteenth Century for tho present month. It is characterized by nearly tho same obvious and undeniable merits, and disfigired by the like absolute defects, which marked the previous contribution of that brill- iant writer to the literature of this subject. The same ample range of information, the old fellci- ty of phrise-making, are to be found in every . page, while at least equally conspicuous are the exaggerated statements and the dogmatic ut- terances which mar so much of what he has written on the Irish question. Mr. Froude draws a dark picture of the past history and present condition of the Irish people. The 70 years during which they have been attached to'the nglisn Crown have been with only a few brief exceptions alike disgraceful and disastrous to both nutions, and itis hard to suy which, in Mr. Froude’s opinion, is most to blame. If the Irish people are unfitted for freedom it is the English nation who heave untitted them for it, There has been nocontinuity of system in dealing with them. The English have tried every system, * Poptsh, Protestant, tyrannical, indulgent,” but almost the only result of pearly all their efforts bus been 2 deplorable fiasco. Feudalism was tried firstas a civilizing force, and ended in failure. Concession, “the goveruing Ireland by Irish ideas,” next hada trial, end fared even worse. Mr. Froude elaborately traces the his- tory of Ireland from one bad experiment in government to another; and as the wisest of men ian taneen years ago came to the con- clusion it there was nothing new ucder the sun, So Mr. Froude, confining bis contemplation to @ narrower sphere, and speaking with no less confidence asto the justness of. bis observa- tions, says that - there is nothing new -in Irish politics. he present situation is but a repetition of Tyrconnell’s time. The only period, indeed, which does not appear to till bis mind with the most. nomixed. disgust.is that when the Ponal laws .were in-fult force and Protestant ascendency, joined, be it remem- bered, with tne oppression of all Dissent, held undisputed sway. ‘Then, indeed, there was an “Trish Auburo,” and the small clique to whose interests everything else in the nation was sac- rificed basked in the sunshine of prosperity. We pass on’ from the melancholy review of former exertions to Mr. Froude’s comments upon the work done during the Inst twelve years. Here at least surely it might ke expected that he would find something upon which he need not bestow en. altogether unqualitied cen- sure. .Was the instinct of the country wholly wrong when it returned the great Liberal leader to power with a strong majority for the express Farpcse of disestablish! the Irish Church? ir. Froude admits that it was impossible for the Irish clergy to retain their exclusive priv- ileges, though be still maintains (with some con- fusion of metaphor) that their overthrow “as the branch of a upas trea” served chiefly to weaken English authority, which will have to be asserted again. ‘ The Irish Land act does not a) pear to Seplenee Mr. Froude quite so much. His Janguage in discussing it is somewhat vague, and indeed in some sentences he seems alinost to advocate revolutionary doctrines, and to think that the wisest solution of the dificulty tmaust be found in measures going far beyond anything that ‘vas then done. His opinion, how- -@ver, On the whole scemsto be that the eviis arising from the manner in which the thing was done more than counterbalance any good that was attributable to its substance; and that Mr. Gladstone's allusion to Clerkenwell Prison, and, above all, the one unfortunate metaphor of the upas tree, had the etfect of simply turning the measure into so much fuel for disaffection. By far the.severest censure, however, is reserved by Mr. Froude for the Compensgtion for Dis- turbance Dill of this session: Its | secret history, he says, will probally. never be known. Sfr.. Forster. knew nothing of Ireland, while. even Mr. Gladstone, unlike Mr. ‘Forster himself, knew neither Ireland nor its history welt. The result, therefore, was that inan houn.of more thao usual futuity a bill was produced which it pleases Mr. Froude to describo us “A bjll to suspend the obligation to pay rent for at least two seasons,” It would almost seem as if Mr.#roude had never read the measure, which only-pruposed under exceptional circumstanecs anf in exceptional districts to prevent oppressive forfeitures of claims which in ordinary yearsand under ordi- nary circumstances he himself bas admitted to be demanded by tho: pluinest justice. ‘The ten- ant, he says, has been’ told by the Cabinet and by a vote of the, House of Cowmons that whether he pays rent or not he bns an equitabie property in his holding. The tenant has been told nothing of the kind. if;ho had, then the bill would have proposea it every tenant wouid be at once, and in all, cases, entitled to demand compensation when:evicted for non- payment of reat; whereas the Government never proposed to do umything more than to euuvle 2 certain class of excepnonally unfortu- nate persons to obtain. reliet under cunditions when to refuse it would hete been the grossest hardship upon them. Azatni be tells us the Premier, with his forty-eight yeurs' experience of Parliamentary life, must"tave’ known that. the Lords would reject his bill, and must proba- bly have anticipated the extent uf the majority. Amore gratuitous assumption of a prophetic vision of almost incredible stolidity it is simply impossible to conceive. ‘It is, indeed, nluost marvelous to see how coipietely unable Mr. Froude appears to be tu appreciate the bearing of the few renily: admiratle' efforts that bave been made to deal with the‘difficult probiem of Trish uisaffection. His essay deserves to be read, if for no other renon, at ali events ns affording a proof of how absolutely’ deficient ns a politician 8 really brilliant Nterary.man may be, a __ IN THE FALL, For The Chicago Tribune. In the Fall the ice-maniwhimpers, For he knows his jéys#re done; In the Full the plunni For the Winter’s freezing fun. Then the proud mosquito, numbicd, Droops his gaudy; gittering wing; And the Sunday ty; ‘rheumatic, - Crawls where erst Yesoyed to Bing. In the Fall the milkddn glories; Butter touches thitty-tive: heese gues up as feives are falling, While the winds wth branches strive, In the Fall the codl¢nan ’s bappy, ‘With a solemn, lengthened trace Hoping how before the’Springt * Goal will pan out “mighty ence In the Fat! our Wibtertrousers Changed to plastar-casts we tind Little Sammy bumbly kneeling, Broken, propped by books bebind, In the Fall the breeze meanders Through the airy broken pune, And the meek +‘glass-puddin” vender ‘Comes from dark to light a; In tho Fall the kittens ripen, ’ ‘on the roof in concert pray; In the Fall the whisky sours sa tho Pall Sota faves and weadiags, ~ the Fall, ‘mi 23 and wer bd Dread of Caristpes Sis Gar souls, ag For our pockets then entonnter. \ Fashion's grasping fur'clad’ ghouls. | : tai” New Min. ae . Hancock smokes and enjoys thejele- patted Hichond Gem Cigarettes. ‘So willyou. fad to take-out the orchestra.” A Dull Weoek;,,With No Heavy ee a Buyers Still Héliing Of, Until After Eledtion. Be a oe Michigan Avenue’ Boulevard—New Buildings, DHE MARKET, ‘The market for real estate in Chicago during the past week presonted very little thatis new, and the transactions werp few and confined to smatler deals entirely. There have been reports of large transactions here ‘and there, but laquiry develops the fact elthor that the sales were con- summated on private terms and that the parties do not care to make the trades and prices public, or that the papers baye got yet been signed, or that there is adifference between buyer and solier. One agent told!'Tae Tamone, repre- sentative that he had, made some large sales during “the pust week, but that _he kept them back at the request of-both buyer and seller, because they might have a tendency to unsettla the market. The truth is, the ‘holdors of real estate are asking too much in many instances for their property, and” “for this reason the capitalists are holding of. It is a well-known fact that 2 large'‘amountof Western “bonanza” money stands ready to come into-: Chicago, but not p@yfor land that which is asked" for it. Re On the other hand, Chicago real estate is the cheapest investmentJu the land to-day. A city with a half million or more Inbabitantsthat promises so well is certainly an inviting-feld for lucrative investments, But there is.this to bo said, and upon ull sides, We want.o wait until -ufter the Presidential election.!.-, There sro many who think that if Hancock should be elected that it would unsettle the value of every- thing and check the present era of prosperity, because the Democratic party is unsettled in its unancial policy. This 1is: not mere’ idle jolitical . talk, but ob ‘fact that cannot e gainsaid. On the, other hand, they know thatif the Republican party is continued in power that ithas asettled nancial policy. and that it will not tinker with the surrericy. , There is capital amountmg to: millions ready to step into Chicago, but holds off until the parties seo “which wny the cat is going to jump." ‘There has been inaulry during the past week for South Chicago property, which has not been the case since last spring. ‘There is a desire for purchasing both residence lots and acre proper- ty. Several large manufacturing concerns are taiking of erecting buildings out there, but, s0/ fur, it has been only talk. itis notatall likely that Haverly’s Theatre will remain upon the old Post-Offico site another year’ In the adver- tising columns of to-day's paper will be noticed a card calling for proposals to lease the property, and parties can address their com- munications to Mr. E.G. Keith, Chairman of the Committee who have the matter in charge on behalf of the Board of Education. The First National Bank bas already proposed to lease the property for fifty years, and {it is understood that other parties arc anxious to secure the site for business purposes, ~ ‘The prices of building ; material deter many from carrying out contemplated improvements. ‘There is still a large demand for flats and small houses at rentals of from $18 to $35 and $40 per month, Thus far, all the buildi that have been constructed for .occupation in™ flats have been readily and profitably rented, and those under construction are nearly all leased for occupancy at completion. There is no class of investment that promises better thun this, and convenient and well-ventilated tiats can be easily rented if thoy are reasonably easy of ac- cess from the business-centre of the city. The Messrs, Porter Bros., the California fruit men, own nearly two acres of ground at the southwest corner of Cottage Grove avenue and ‘Thirty-first street, being 300 feet on the avenue and 200 feeton Thirty-tirst, Upon this at pres- ent sig have Lr igl ghey bit well rented. ‘They propose, spring, iS U. P. Smith? carries out ah contem- Inted improvements, to put at least four handsome three-story stone buildings, each twenty-five feet front, on Cot- tage Grove avenue, to have stores on the first floor and dwelJing tlats above. They say that they will javest $100,000. in improyements in the vicinity the coming year if adjoining property- holders will do likewise. Oneof the owners is a resident Californian, but’ a great belfever in Chicago, and during the past few years this firm has invested largely in Chicago real estate on the North, West, and South Sides, one of their largest purchases being a, number of buildings ‘on North Clhri'strest, wWhléh have ‘since amply paid tnterest on'the Invéstments. MICHIGAN AVENUE BOULEVARD. The recent decision of .the Supreme Court Placing the title of Michigan avenue in the Board of South Park Commissioners has given & new impetus to this long-talked of im- Provement. Though no active work will be commenced at once, the sssessment will be made, and it is expected’ that the: rolls will be completed Jan. 1next, so that the work can be Proceeded with in the spring. It is the inten- tion to place the roadway in a temporary good condition at once. The plan of the street has already been given in Toe Tripune. The-drive- way will be fifty feet in width; there will be thirty-four fect of granit macadam, seven feet on each side Belgian pavement, and the other foot on each sido stone gutter. This will give an unbroken and elegant drive clear to Hyde Park, by the way of the South Parks. Michigan avenue will be a boulevard to Thirty-fifth street, which will be qmproved in like manner and be the connecting link to ‘the Grand Boulevard. The proposed improvement will be earried forward as rapidly as possible, and it is very-probabio that the con- tracts for the grading, curbing, laying the pave- ment, ete., will be let this winter. The ques- tion of keeping heavy teams otf the street is one that Gen. George W. Smith, attorney for the West Park joard, thinks has not yet been decided by, the Supreme Court, and he believes "that the Park Board has no control over ‘this matter. This question will, however, be decided in the, Yery near future, since the West Town Park Board 1s anxious to- goon with the improve- ment of Washington street. It is most likely that before next summer is over Chicago will have a system of boutevards which will connect. all her great chaing of parks upon the West, South, and North Sides. The improvement of Michigan avenue’ will bave a tendency to in- ercase the value of residence property on thoroughfare, é. SPECIMEN SALES... Messre. Thomas & Bragr report the following: Twenty by 180 feet, south front,.on Washington street, 80 feet west of Franklin, $6,000, all cash; 82% by 178 feet, weat front, on Prairie avenue, between Thirtieth and Thirty-frst streets, $3,900, all cash; 40 by 107 fect, northeast corner of Har rison and Franklin streets, for $9,000, all cash, and the taxes for 1880 and assessment for paving Franklin strect; the same lot, with 160 by 107 feet adjoining it on the east, for $30,000, all cash. ‘This property is to be at once covered by a brick barn for the United States Express Company. Lot 26 by 178 feet, No. 2729 Prairie avenue, aurawe. cottage and brick basement, $4,000, Lot 25 by 125 feet, with two-story and _base- ment brick house, ‘No. 400 (old_mumber), Forest avenue, for $3,300 and the taxes for 1880. "., Lot 23% by 60 fect, with three-story Euglish basement brick house, No. 2351 Indiana aveaue, for $3,500, al! cash. a Ira Brown has sold two-story house and 50 foot lot, No. 382 Sedgwick street, for $4,500; six is in La Grange for $600; one lot in Evanston, SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The following instruments were. filed for record Saturday, Oct 2: CITY PHOPERTY, ‘Thirty-fourth ft wu fom egass BEAL OGM SE Philip Riger).. $ Thirty-fonrth oo Lib Fin! a iereaa ei improved, dated Oct. 1 De ian Wititam Gittmanyon., eevee BA ‘TH OF CITY LIMITS WITHIN A RADI SEVEN MILES OF THE COURT HOUSE a 5 Sheffield ay, north of and near Lincoln ny, wf ‘50x12 ft, timpro’ dtrey. Bohmid to Valontine HensjePe, , Coatrey, SOUTH OF CITY LisiTs WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN + Mites or THE Coung-HOUSE oF” Mapes of iter lute er aN ee ae ninth, w f,%2 15, 1979 (At. and Be Conant Fonruson to &W: Conse $1000 Forty-saventh st, sw i) sedate Pale cat remit ae 48x! yy to Mar JOD) nae _ 1) ST x5) ae re SUMMARY FOR THE WEER. ‘The following is the total amount of city and Suburban transfers within a radius of seven “mnfles of the Court-House tiled for record dur- ing the week ending Saturday, Oct. 23 City —Sales, 115; consideration, $103,704. North of city .limits—Sales, ‘11; ‘consideration, $16,085. South of city limits—Sales, 27; consideration, ane west, if city anit gee 3; considera- + $2,700, 4 - aon ope. | : ies, ; total considera. _.. NEW, BUILDINGS. ‘There were twenty-three building permits is- sued the pagt week by the city, aggregating in value $231,9(0,°0f which the following were the Principal, . G. H. Bantley, two-story dwelling, No. 252Pine atreetts'tost, $4,000. Uqyiies & Co., planing-mill, corner of Blue Isigndiavenue and Robey street, to cost $2,500. .Jabu P. Eck, three-story malt house, corner of rent fearthy street and Stewart avenne, to regat $10,000. ot, B, Farwell; five-story stot by 90 hsMarket atreet, near Slontoe, to cost $200, °°" A. Loeb, six two-story dwellings, Lincoln nue, near Sophia treet to cost = 000. aR . Diekinsall, tive three-story dwellings, La Balle street, neur Schiller, to cost $25,000. Isaac Greensfelder and Jacob Rosenberg, three-story hvepital, corner of Cottage Grove Place and Twenty-ninth street, to enst $40,000. John Keyzor, three-story store and ice-house, no ae Jarrabes strast, to oe 500, |. Halverson, four-story fac Nos, 1m Green stmet, to cost $5,000. i ae nell, eleven two-story gwellings, corn Randolph and Ada mtreots td ‘cost’ $55,000. erat ‘rhe Kov. P. Fischer, two-story dwelling, Han- over street, near Mctsregor, to cost $3,500. M. Saulisbury, two-story dwelling, No. 3% Wells street, to cost $3,500. J.N. Maynard, three two-story dwellings, Lo~ gost street, between LaSalle and Clark, to cost 000. ~ Among tho building-permits issued’ yesterda: was one to the ‘United States ‘express Company to erect a two-story bara, corner of Harrison aud Franklin atreets, to cost $30,000. THE LOAN MARKET. | During tho past week there bas been a fair in- quiry for loans on real estate, but no yery heavy transactions arerecorded. Theaverage of loans of from $2,500 to $20,000 have been made from 6% to 7% per cent upon good inside improved property. ‘There were one or two loans made at 6 per cent, but they were exceptional, the ruling rate being 6% to 7% percent. The smailer loans ot from $500 to $1,500 have all been, as far as Jearned, at 8 percent. The lowest $2,000 loan reported was at 7 per cent. THE SUPERB: HANCOCK. Savage Cruelty to His Men—How He Made a Cold, Wet Regiment Return Straw to a Kebel’s Stack, While He Slept Warm and Dry in the Rebel’s Bed—Related by a Soldier Who Ex- perlenced Years of His Cruelty. Correspondence Cleveland Leader. Lop, 0., Sept. 27.—It is positively assured that not one of the Hancock soldiers who live hereabouts will vote for him, and one of them, a Democrat, will even so far renounce his party affiliations as to exercise his franchise in favor of Garfield. Col. S. W. Dewitt, who lives a half-mile west of Lodi, 0., and who enjoys the highest reputa- tion for respectability and truth smong all classes of citizens hereaboute, lately gave bis testimony to a party of listeners, Democrats and Republicans, of the style in which the Sec- ond Corps commander lorded it over his men. Col. Dewitt entered Company B in the Eighth Obio Volunteer Infantry as a private in August, 1861. This regiment was, in September f the same yeur, incorporated in the Second Corps, of which Hancock had been made commander. Its term of service expired in the fall of 1864, when. it was mustered out. The remnant of the regi- ment, which had been literully decimated, re- enlisted again, and it was consolidated with the Fourth Obio, and,the two regiments together from'then’bn formed the Fourth Battalion Ohio infantry, Col. Dewitt commanding, who had risen from the file to this rank through bravery in the field and excellent behavior. Tne bat- talion remaiacd in the game corps until the close of the War. - Nobody at all acquatnted with Mr. Dewitt will attempt to gainsay anything he re- {ated of his experiences and observations in the bloody struggle: “ Tt was late in the fall pf 1863._Our corps was then down in the Shenandosh Valley. It was not very far from Fredericksburg. Ido not re- member the names of the smaller settlements and plantations. It was on a cold, wet, und ralny day. We had been march alt day through the knee-deepmud. We were drenched tothe skin, and tired and hungry. As night came on our brigade, composed of the Fourth and Eighth Ohio, Seventh West Virgiaia, Four- teenth Indiana, and Teath New York, went Into camp on alarge plantation, my regiment pretty cloge tothe large dwelling-house in which the corp's headquarters had been established. Tenor fiftcen rods from the house were the large barns, and close by stood a big straw stack with onough straw in it to have made good bed- ding for half a dozen regiments. Of course, 28 soon as rinks were broken, the boys made for the straw pileand the rail fences. You see, if they couldn't get something warm to eat, they would have something warm and dry to bunkin. Justasthe boys were making away with the straw, busy like a hill of ants, laughing and Joking, as soldiers wit! in the worst extremities, andall happy to think that they would have something dry to rest on through the wight, out came an order, with a bugle blast from Han- cock, that every bit of strawbe at unce put back aud the rail-fence,on which we had also made an attack, be replaced up to the top rail, A strong guard was placed around the straw stuck and-alorg the rail- “fence by orders from headquarters. Well, we boys had to Iuy on our wet blankets ou the damp ground, witha cold, drizzling rain over us. But let me assure you, if the sky did hang likea wetrag over us, and we were shivering like Sept. 27 (i: W.Campb eters). e of Hoyne av, n f,25 ft, dated Sept-2i (same to Adolph Pitsch) ‘De Koven st, 144 ft e of Canal, nf, 25x10 ft im- yoved, daied Aug. 5 (Jacob Rudolph to John nat De Koven si 10 tte of Canal, n 1, 35x10 ft, im- iroved, dated ‘Aug (samie'to Toresio Bola- West ‘Washington ‘st, bet Lincoln and Wood, n f, 2x14 f1 improved. dated Oct. 9 (John Rk. Jetta M.KO@lCr)....-seseenvee 0250 ‘Stone st, n ¢ cor of Division, wf, 3 ftrunning to Drive. dated Sent, 2: (Master in Chancery to Willitm #..Fprness).... centage South Halsted st, 12 ft 3 of Thirts sixth, wf, 38 xis 7-10 improved, dated Atg. 20 gtopher Gadersann to Jonn Guderyabn), ‘Ambrose at, n 6 cor pe ‘Leavitt, suf, 503 PMed Sept 6 (John G, Lobsiein to Sedawick's tin oF si in, wf, 24x) f GR Sept. 25 (William Page to Williams Pix ie TiS tt SOF Onley av at Siz be Felix Weat Harris, 124 ft, datea bet" 1 x rk ot tT 140 fr, dated Gott no) oat ted July 21 (James Pleasal to, varia’ Loomis st, no cor of Glipin dated Sept 28 (William A- 0 1.250 as 1,562 500 1.200- Bi 080 The Sebu ibsitanter half-drowned cats, the air was made slightly sulphurous by the imprecutions and curses by the boys at our commander, who was sweating ahd suoring, probably half drunk, in a warm feather-bed inside the bouse. Idon’t know why ‘we were deprived of the straw, and whether the. order emanated from his ‘regular’ military cussedness. or whether he had given way to the persuasions of the Rebel planter, who was his host, and who was feasting him inside, Per-- hapsit was only bis * cussed’ discipliamg of the ‘regulars’ that made -him issue the order. I think he was one of the ‘regulars’ witha vengeance. If you could have oaly scen him in the army,—swaggering. cursing, swenring; he treated Us worse than dogs. He could discount any trooper for swearing that I ever suyw. Then ace the style that he put on over us! But Isup- pose he had a perfect right to do so. Often baye we had to®pen ranks on our march and let the large covered carriage, drawn by six white horses and a nigger coachman on top, with the ‘superb’ Hancock lolling inside fast asiee i some potoonte nabob who has been imbibing too freely of wine.” 3 os But then he wane Rood fighter,” piped in ne of the unter! ont yes, sir; give the devil bis due. But. gen- tlemen, I am not going tocriticise his General- ship. I must say he was. good fighter, if ne aid not have much regard for us #3 human be- ings. He was generally with us in the thick of ‘the fight. Iam only talking to you us he ap- red to me, a3 8 man in his actions to man. Fitre ig no doubt of it, he was cruel, and brutal, and overbearing in the highest degree to his men and his subordinates. Every. one of the four regiment will corroborate what has been sald about his cruetty in the newspapers lately. Ont regiment, with others, had to wade the streams waist-deep, us has already been told by come of the boys of an Indians regi- ment, when we might just as well have crossed dry on a pontoon bridge, witn ‘the enemy fifteen miles away. We bad to give up our canteens of water, os did the Wisconsin regiment, and then afterward were ordered to fill up out of 2 pool of soap suds, in which thousands of men had washed, We also were witness to the battalion drill through which he put. the Fifth Wisconsin for some of the men calline for water in. bis presence. We thought at first that it.was a punishment mete by the regimental officer of the regiment, and were shower- our, imprecations . upon him; but we found out afterward that Hancock bad done it because one of the officers of the regiment could not or would not give him the names of the men who had called for water in his august and lordly presence. This is some of what I have personally known and seen of Han- cock, and If Mier is avy one that does not be~ lieve it, bring him tome. ne ‘Even it iewas not for other, and I think far ter and weightler, rensons, and aside from e great ideas and principles at stake in the present contest between the two partica in this country, Ido not think Hancock the right man to be President of a Republic. By what I have seen of the man I think he {s the worst type of the military autocrat in this country, and he embodies ‘more in him of the despotic. and monarchical idea, which, paradoxical as it may suem, is one of the bugaboos that is frightening the unterrified Bourbons of the couner. a This ig the sort of sentiment and talk in wa! the solalers speak who bave served under the “His Royal Swaggering Blankness"; and from this it is plainly evident that Han '3 COrps, tog man.—as the Democratic papers say,—will not yote for him, and that the soldiers of the country have their minds in the right piace. and t they are conscious of what they fought for for four long years, if one of their commanders, in his valn-i jous ambition. has formotien it. ‘OHIO. ‘Democratic ‘Still Hunt~Cunning Scheme to Carry the State in October. How It Was Foiled—A Hot Cam- paign, and a Republican Victory. Cormunus, O., Oct. 1, 1880.—It is a fact that the Democrats are making a canvass of Ohio, which, for energy, determination, and desperation, is unparalled inthe history of that party in this State. Not within tne memory of’ the oldest Politiclan have the Democracy exerted them- selves tothe extent thut they are now doing in thelr endeavors to make fnroads in the Repub- lican localities, and to swell Democratic majori- Ues in Democratic counties. They are fighting with the flerce energy and desperation of men who have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Every artifice, and instriiment, and scheme known to politicians {8 being made use of by. them in this campaign in the most daring and unscrupulous manner. Republicans of « the. State, secure in the confidence that the State is sure to yield a Republican vic- tory im any State election preceding a National election, and as sure to go heavily Re- publican in a National election as the stars are w move on in their courses, should so far over~ come the lethargy born of this confidence as to consider carefully a few statements that shal! be made to them, and to act upon the same. First, they should disabuse their minds of the idea that this hot and tlerce fight that the De- mocracy ure waging in Ohfo is merely a local burst or aes of that party. It is not a local fight; their desperate camp: ig the result of @ carefully considered, shrewdly managed, and deliberately planned scheme of the National Democracy to CARRY THE STATE OF OHIO FOR THAT PARTY. ‘This is what they are sirempting: to do, and with their usual indiscretion nave’ alre: begun to boast that they are sure to accompiish it. It became known to the Nationa! Democratic leaders and managers that the National Repub- Mcan Committee had dectined to assist the Re- publicans of Ohio in their campaign on the pore that the State was Repubilcan, and that ithad the candidate for President, that there ‘was no danger here, and that ull the strength of the management should be centered in other and doubtful States, such as Maine, and espe- cially indiana.. The Democrats reckoned, too, upon this fact, which seems sometimes to escal the memory of the Republicans, that of the 17,000 majority given Gov. Foster in the last campalia, at lenst 5,000 was due to the votes of the hurd-money Democrats, the genuine Repub- lican majority bemg not over 12,000. These considerations, coupled with the repre- sentations and promises of money and work from such menjas Judge Hoadley, William Groes- beck, Theodore Cook, George H. Pendleton, William Armstrong, John Thompson, etc., in- duced the attempted flank movement in Ohio. Leading Democrats of the State shrewdly repre- sented that under the circumstances, with Ohio Republicans left to tight their own battle with- out the assistance of money or speakers from the National Committee, with their own speak- ers sent to other States, it was possible, witn plenty of money and concentration of attack, to carry Ohio, and that a Democratic victoi Ohio would completely and tinaily settle the Nu- they would be merely cai ing @ State they must count upon, and wouid sti! leave the Repubifc- ane in fighting order, and with the question ot ies jationul election yet to be settled in No- vember, " THIS WAS THE PLAN, and it was determined to pour money by the barrel ‘nto Ohio and to organize there and carry on the fiercest, most desperate, and detor- mined campaign ever conducted by’ the Demo- crats, It wasusbrewd scheme, While the Re- publicans haa their energies bent upon their campaign in Maine and Indiana, and were ub- eratly assisting those States, and the Ohio Com- mittee was struggling along without money and ‘without speakers, except such as could be gath- ered frum local talent, the Democrats were quietly pouring money into the State and or- ganizing a campaign which, for thoroughness gad effectiveness, hus never been equalcd in the tate. - With their unlimited means, a system of dis- tribution of documents and campaign work was adopted which made every individual in the party a committee in himself, and a personal missionary in the campaign. The whole of this documentary work was confined to personal charges and assaults upon the character of Gen. Garfield. These charges and assaults, turned and twisted into all sorts of shapes that would make. them appear ugly, and printed in all kinds of forms to attract atten~ tion of different classes of- readers, have been sent into every household in the State of Ohio, Democratic or Republican. They were even printed upon pocket-cards by the millions, and distributed to ‘individual Democrats in every part of the State, who were charged to fill their pockets with them, and to hand them to every person they met, especiutly Republicans. - The Thompsoniun plan of $ BRAG AND BLUSTER AND EXULTANT CLAIMS was ordered to be employed to the utmost. Every wavering Hepublican who could be bought over at any price was to be tuken into the camp, all possible tumult made in the Dem- ocratic papers over such defections, the brag and biastee game to enter largely into this feature of the campaign. It was derermined to put $100,000 into Ohio be~ sides all the money promised by the local man- agers, $25,000 of which was promised by five gentlemen in Cincinnati. Allthis money has been faithfully turned tn, and when » Democratic correspondent writes from here “ that there is not a centin the Dem- ocratic treasury of the State Committees," while he howls about a vast Republican corrup~ tion fund, he ia deliberately stating that which he knows is not true, in bis effort to d9 his share inthe “personal missionary” work, und carry on the grand scheme, no matter to what extent truth and journalistic veracity may be sacrifice by so doing. ‘In furtherance of the Thompson bluff and bluster policy, which is so peculiarly adapted to the Democrats, and bas heretofore proven ef~- fective in. frightening timid Republicans and ‘bracing up weak-kneed Democrats, a fund: was set aside for betting purposes, and a “depart- ment” for advertising for bets was opened in the Columbas daily Democratic paper, which is reully owned and edited by the Democratic State Committee. Some long-headed Republigans who are used to and are not frightened at the sound of Democratic hewgag began to take these bets as good business investments, and the ce denaremieny “was promptly hauled in for the time a ‘The Greenbuck success in Maine somplated the Democrats that they lost their heads and became indiscreet, .and their indiscretion served ‘the double purpose to betray ‘thelr own purposes, and plans, and expectations, and EXCITE AND ALARM THE REPUBLICANS. Only one man among them, and he theshrewd- est and strongest leader the purty ever bad in Ohio, was wise enough to foresee this dungerand endeavor te avert it. John G. Thompson, when besvught by the Democrats to organize» grand jubilee in Columbus, and all over the State, upon the news from Maine, angrilly denounced then: all as a pack of fools, and said that the re- gult in Maine had been the worst possible thing that could happen to the campaign and Demo- cratic prospects in Obio. knew the wenk- ness of nis le, and he. forbade any public ‘feat Gen. Kobinson in the’ Ninth District and demonstration in Columbus, and did bis best to prevent it in every other purt of the State. - ‘That result in Maine was the long roll in the camp of the half-awake Republicans of Ohio, and saved them from surprise and staughter in their own tents. The point and methods of at- tack of the enemy bave been betrayed to the Republicans, and every plan and movement of the Democracy are known ‘to the Republican man: and hereafter contest will be asquare stand-up struggle. The Democrats are obliged to come out of the underbrush and fight in the open,—and to sucha centest between the two parties in Obto there can be but one re- sult. Itwas determined by the Democrats in theic scheme in the Ohio campaign to make a terrific struggle for CERTAIN OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. First, that Frank Hurd must be reélected and Ben Butterworth defeated at all hazards, and at any cost, Not that Mr. Hunt was eapecially de- sired In Congress, except a8 xa additional factor in the Confederate caucus, but that Butterworth was 80 highly obnoxious to that ¢aucus and the element that it represented. Mr. Hurd was too yaluable to that caucus and that element for them to permit bis defeat, It was, too, de- termined to concentrate money and work to de- Gen. Dawes in the Fifteenth, and also to put any mooey and work: that were necessary in the Third and Fou icts. basa Another scheme for the purptee of defeating Maj. Townsend, the bead of the Sfate ticket, was concocted, and Is to be put into operation next week. Opto this time they have let Townsend alone, and concentrated all-their fire upon Gar- field.’ The pian is to defeat Townsend with the German votes, por the ground that be'ls a Pro- hibitionist and ierce temperance advocate und Jocal optionist. In speéches and tons of docu- ments in English and German he is to be assailed all over the State at too late an hour for suc- cessful contradiction. The documents and printed assaults and statements are all prepared and ready for simultaneous distribution. This notification at eve the Republicans time to are for that atta : Prxhother pian canvassed and adopted, and which:has been actively worked, was to endeay- or to create the impression that there was A KIND OF STAMPEDE ‘rom Republicans to the Democratic ranks. Et eee eadea or weuk-kneed Republican who, by money OF promises or any other Induce- ments, could ursunded to desert his party, was to be paraded in all the Democratic news- apers and @ great burrth made over it. This Fowl of exultation was made to extend even to every person who had ever voted a Republican ticket, though he had been in and properly peionged to the Democratic party. ‘While it js made to appear by the newspa- pers working upon this plan that ‘the defections. from the Republican ranks are numerous, the tional election, while by carrying Indiana alone. fact is in.reality that the changes and def. dons are lal iy fa the opposit direction. KG The Republican papers have appeared smgu- lastly remiss and negligent in reporting the numerous remarkable desertions of Dembcrats to the Republican cause. Where the Democrata have devoted columns under great hend lines to the defection of some inconsequentiai per- son from the Republican party, the Key abilean, papers haye contented themselves with 2 mere mention of some much more remarkuble gain to the Republican party trom Democratic ranks. ‘To-day the premature Democratic boom in Ohio ig on the decline, an: = REPUBLICAN BOOM BEGINS. They Started in too early and too often, as usuat with them, and roared so loudly in the in- dex that they expended the wind and wisdom beeen lg eep up the organized racket to They have stirred up the Republican bear in -- his den. will not: have things their way ihe rest of the campaigns nee mete Own - MUSICAL NEWS. The Beethoven Socicty’s Scheme for 1880~81—Theodore Thomas and the .CincInnatl Chorus—Musical News at Home and Abroad. : ‘The Beethoven Society is assiduously at work forthe musical season of 1880'81. This, the Society's eighth season, promises to be nn- usually interesting, as some novelties will be presented both at the grand concerts and re- unions. The season will begin with the per formance of Mendelssohn's oratorio of * Elijah” ata concert on Tuesday, Dec. 14. This oratorio bas been selected with special reference to the engagement of Mr. George Henschel, whose name has been connected with oratorio. musio in_ London, and whose representation of “Elijah” is regurded as his best part. Mr. Henschel bas attained great reputation in Ger many, England, Russia, and other countrics where he hasstng. Heiscngaged to sing this part in most of the principal cities in the East, and the Beethoven Society has been fortunate enough to obtain him for their opening concert. The concerts and reunions given by the Beethoven Society will be exclusively for the members of the same, and no-single admission tickets will be sold nor any complimentaries issued under any circum- stances. No extra concerts wili be givgn to which the public at large can obtain admission, 80 that those des{rous of becoming associate members ought to apply to any member of the Bociety. : LOCAL MISCELLARY. » Mme. Cappfani has left the city for New York, ‘where she opens her course of teaching Out. & ‘The Sunday-Night Concerts at Hooley’s Thea- fre have been abandoned. Reason, didn’t pay. ‘The Liesegang-Helmendah! Quintet Club com- mences its season with a concert at Fairbank Alall, Oct. 12, John H. Garner, a new vocal teacher, who has sung in opera 28 a first baritone, has cothe here to reside and give lessons. He can ressed. at Lyon & Heniy’s. . vests The Boston Idea! com} is booked for the Grand Opera-House in umber, Likewise a Bexson of Dudley Buck's new opera, **. rer,” whien it is hoped Dudley Buck will’ conduct in person, Miss Emma G. Hovey has just returued to the city after filling a number of musical engage- Ment at the Enst, among others the concerts of the National Normal Institute in New York and of the Erie (Pa.) Musical Association. ‘The Rivé-Ring concert company is_now fairly onthe roud. It consists of Mme. Rivé-King, fanist; Miss Emma E. Mabells, contralto; Mr. rge H. Broderick, basso: . Herr “Reinhard Richter, violinist; and Bir, Ferdinand Dulcken, a2companist, : Avery pleasant surprise party was tendered to Dr. Ziegfeld, the President of the Chicago Musical College, on Friday evening last at his residence, 44 Loomis street. The inpromptu program was made up of music, dan Ireshments, and flowers. The program for the Turner Hall concert this afternoon isas_ follows: * Boccaccio March,” by Suppe; overture to Auber’s . “Masquerade Bail": Strauss’ waltz; “Honor to Womon” ‘Waltz, by Strauss; selections from “ Fatinitza ": overture to “Merry Wives of Windsor,” by Nicolai; Brahms’ soto for flute, * Little Bird in the Woods”: ballet music from Gounod’s * Queen of Saba "; Scherz’s potpourri, “An Eve at Bilse’s"; Filege’s guvotte “Circus Henz"; id Bergmann’s “ Echo Galop,” 3'f ‘The Liesegang orchestra commences a series of Sundzy concerts at Brand's Hall thig after- noon with the following program: Overture, “Tricoche and Cucolet,"” “by Suppe; ‘Der Freischuetz Fantasie,” saxophone solo, by M. Lefebre; “Rowantique Waltz," by Launer; © Norma Fantasie,” cornetsolo, by Sig. Liberati; selections ‘from .“ Lohengrin"; from » Belisario,” trombone solo, by- M. Zeller; “Traumerel,” by Schumann: ‘Liebeslied,” by Taubert; Polonaise. by Wienianwsky; violin solo, by E. Heimendahl; “Hungarian Over- ture,” by Keler Bela; Air and Variations, by De Beriot; cornet solo, by Big. Livers Serenade,” . by Filege: e's aria “Li tu. Savais,” sixophone salo, or Mr. Lefebre; “Pola. -sod “Polka Schnell,” by trauss. THEODORE THOMAS AND HIS CINCINNATI CHORUS. Mr. Theodore Thomas writes to the Board of Directors of the Cincinnuti May Festival for 188: “Lhave come to the conclusion the right work for us to take up for the next festival is the ‘Passion Music, according to the Gospel of St. Matthew,’ Buch. Some say again that we cannot do it, but | am an American, although not born, and know what the Americans can do. It is the greatest chorai work written, and our Cincinnati chorus 13 up toit. Thedouble choruses do not require tho masses of Handel's double choruses, but s higher musicai education and training. which wahave. We have proven that. ‘The progress of our festivals demands that the fifth featival should bave this work inciuded.ip its program. We will, this time, really bave two years for study, and the Festival Chorus will never be stronger in numbers, nor the circumstances more favorable.” < MUSICAL NOTES. It ieanla ee Lag ate pete hae tee engaged at the San Carlo. Nuples, especially for tue purt of Margherita in “ Mefistofele.” ‘The Blanche Roosevelt opera company bas — disband rineipaily on account of the pre- cavius' “Saliton of ne heulth of Miss Hobse- yelt. tine Sternberg. a Russian pianist with a considerable home reputation, mukes his American début at the New York Academy of Music Oct. 7. ‘The semi-annual report that Carl Rosa is com- {ng to this country with an English opera com- any is revived with the addition it Clara ise Kellogg will be associated with him. The usnal contradiction will probably be around soon. Tagliapietra has formed an Italian opera com- pany and gone with it into the British Provinces, He ‘fs the chief aeeer and the other members lathilde PbUlips,.. Baldunza, Papinithe buifo, and Hugh Talbot of “ Pina- fore” fame, who now blossums out once moru a8 Signor Ugo Talbo. Guene is conductor, and chorus and orchestra number sixty persons, 1118. said that this will be the last scason of Steinway Hall at New York, the proprietors having found that the necessities of their regu- - lar business make it desirable to devote the oor to other purposes than concerts, “his is much regratted in New York because the place, de- spite some faults of construction, possesses ad- mirable acoustic qualities, and is the only hall where grand concerts can be given effectively. ‘The Handel and Haydn Society, of Boston, will eo Tremont Tempic on Son = ages il, with e performance of * The Messizh.” The aolo- ists will be Miss Lillian Batley, who will make ber first appearance there since her return from Europe; Miss Winant, Mr. W. J. Winch, and Mr. M.W. Whitney. On Wednesday “ £ifjab ” will be given, with Miss Fanny Kellogg, siiss Emily Winant, Mr. C.R, Adams, and Mrs. J. F. Winch in the soloa, Miss Marie Pauline Niainger, @ soprano whe has lately returned from Europe, where she has been’singing in opera, will make ber appearance on the concert stage fa New York exarly in Oc~ tober. Miss Nininger, who is anieco of the Hon. Alexander Ramsey, etary of .War, is suid to possess, u fine voice and decided ability as a Stoger. and some foreign critics ure enthusiastio ag to ber“ flexibility of voice, excellent method, and unfailing accuracy of intonation.” NEW MUSIC. Boston: G. D. 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