Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 12, 1880, Page 18

q 4 Ai. sa / THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, \880—TWENTY PAGES. Fisk will preach in the corner Indiana avenue and Twen- street, at 1u:%) a.m. é ‘he Mev. Henry T. Miller will preach in the h Church morning and evening. Morning Suiijeet: The Children at Church.” — ‘A. E, Kiuredge will preach in the Vuxd Church, corner Ashiandand Ogde ave- W:aba. m, and 7:30 p.m. Morning sub- ‘The Men and Women Which the ‘Ties ” s subject: “Is Our God a God “L. Patton-will preach in the yp and Ad- Ad: licth street, at J08 2. mi and ins subject: |“ Hereafter.” “ Crints af the Soul” + —The Kev. Prot. Wilson, of Lake Forest, will preach morning and evening in the Westmin- fer are, corner of Peoria und Juckson Bree! ig Wp. m. Evening subject: COXGREGATIONAT. The Rev. Charles Hall Everest will preach 2 ind evening at Plymouth Church, on venue, between Twenty-tifth and sixth streets. « ‘ = Rev. LE. F. Williams will preach morning and evening in South Church, corner Drexel av-, enue and Fortieth street. ‘The Kev. F. A. Nobic.D. D..will preach morn- in Union Park Church, corner 1 —The Itev. George H. Pecke willpreach morn- ing und evening in Leavitt Street Cnureb. Even- ing subj ““What?Did Ghrist ‘each About Hiuzelf ag an Atoning 5: —Thet P. Good in will curner Ann an at I & m. and 7:3) p,m. e Rev. Arthur Littie will preach in the sugiand Church, corner Dearborn avenue and Park place, at 10:00 a.m. und 7:00 p.m. —The tev. Be F. Leavitt will preach in the Lincoln Park Church, corner Mohawk and So- Dhin streets, at 10:45 a. in. and 723d p.m. —The ley. C. A. Towle will preach in Bethany of P und West Huron a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Morning Weighticr Matters of the Law.” he Rev, Evarts Kent wilt, preach ‘in tho ton Perea corner Wilson street, at a. mi and 7:3) p.m. g A. Stonroe will preach in the Un- Wernacle, corner Ashiand avenue and renUeth street, at 10:40 a. in. and 7:0 p.m. —Vrof. Wilcox will preach in the Western Av- enue Mission, near Poli strect, at 10:30 a. m. and 70 p.m reach in: the » Wasbingtun REPORMED EPISCOPAL. Bishop Fallows will preach morning and even- ing in St. Paul's Church, corner of West Wasb- ington and Carpenter strects. Evening subject: “Themes for Thinker. Are We Itesponsible for Our Beliefs?” —Bishop Cheney will preach in Christ Church, corner of Michigan avenue and Twenty-fourth sirect, morning and evening. Ail scats free at night. Half-hour prayer-meeting in tho tecture- room immediately after evening services, —The Rev. R, HH. Bosworth will preach in the Presbyterian Chureh at Englewood at 3:00 p. m. —The Rev. F. W. Adams will preach in the morning and the Rev. Dr. Elliott in the evening in St. Matthew's Church, corner of North Clark and Centre streets. Seats free. All welcome. —The Rev. J.D. Wilson will preach morning and evening in St. John’s Church, Etlis avenue, near Thirty-seventh street. = CHRISTIAN. The Rev. C. H. Caton wilt preach in the morn- jog in the Second Church, corner of Oakley fr venue and Jackson street, No evening serv- ee. —The Rev. J. W. Allen wil! preach morning and evening in the South Side Church, Prairie avenue and Thirtieth street. —The Rev. O. P. Miller, of La Porte, Ind., will preach in the First Church, morning and even- dng, —The Rev. J. H. Wrigbt will preacn morning aad evening in the Western Avenue Church, near Vun Buren and Harricon streets. Evening subject: “ What Must J Do to Be Saved?” LUTHERAN, y ‘The Rev. Ashmegd Schaeffer will preach in ‘Wicker Vark Church, egrner of Hoyne avenue and Le Moyne street, In the morning, and in Trinity Church, corner Erie anu Dearborn strects, in the evening. Services at Trinity Coureh at Ila. m. : NEW JERUSALEM. ‘The Rev. J. B. Hubbard will preach in Lincoln Park Chupel, corner Clark and Menomineo sircets, in morning. —The Rey. W. T. Pendleton will preach at 4p. im. in Union Park ‘Temple, corner Ogden avenue and Washington strect. —The Res. L. P. Mercer will preach in Her- shey Music Hallutll a.m. Subject: “ Revela- tion of God in the Incarnation.” 2 UNITARIAN. ‘The Rey. Brooko Hereford will. preach in the Church of the Mcssiah morning and evening. Morning subject: “Two Types of Religion.’ Evening subject: “ The Rise of agers Rome.” —There wilt be no services in Unity Church to-day. Sunday-school as usual. ‘USIVERSALIST. : ‘The Rev. Sumner Ellis will preach at 10:15 a, m.in tne Church of the Kedeemer, corner of Sangamon and Washington streets. —The'Rey. W.. A. Ryder will preach morning and evening in St. Paul's Church, Michigan ave- Bue, near Eighteenth street. MISCELLANEOUS. The Rev. George C. Needham will preach morning andevening in Chicago Avenue Church, corner of La Lulle street. Evening subject “ The Heavenly Home,” illustrated with large, artistic paintings. Prof. Case will sing. Sun- day-school at 3p. m. —The Liberal Reunton meets at No.213 West Madison street at 2:30 p. m. —The Kev. ir. Thomas preaches at 3 p. m. in the Chapel of the Washingtonian Home. “—A Spiritualists’ and mediums’ meeting will be held at 508 West Madison street at 3p. m. —Fiorence McUarthy will preuch in the Cait Board room, Exobange altey, between Clark and La Salle streets, at 220 and 7:50 bm. <The Seventh-Day Baptists will hold services in Pacific Garden Mission, corner Clark and Van. Buren strects, at a. —Dr. Mathewson will preach in the Advent Christian Chureb, No. 91 South Green‘street, morning and evening. : —Murk H, Forscutt will address the Society of Latter-Day Saints at 619. West Lake strect at 10:3 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. ~The foliowing icaders have been selected for the So’clock meeting in Lower Farwell Hall during the ensuing week: Monday, Mrs. A. P. Dice; Tuesday, Mr. Jobo B. Ciark; Wednes- irs. C, Goodman: Thursday, Mr. John R. Y W.G. Waddell; Saturday, A ak . Baker. ples of Christ: meet at No. 229 West Ian- até p.m. ans tics meet nt No. 213 West Madison Strect at 4:30 Pp. m. Mrs. Mills will speak on “ Christian Civilization.”: —Central meeting of Frienas in the Atheneum Building, corner Dearkorn and Randolph streets, at 10:3) 1. m. Anniversary of the Pacific Garden Mission takes plice this evening. Col. George R. Ciurke will lead. All friends of the Mission are invited to attend. —Chicago Progressive Lyceum meets in Castie Hall, No. 619 West Lake strect, at 12:30 p.m. isitors are welcome. dolpn stre THE STAGE. Sheridan’s “Rivals” Accord- ing to Mr. Jefferson. A Pertinent Question—The ‘Press i and the Private Life of Bernhardt. Coming Events in the City—The Actors at Ober-Ammer- gan. Negotiations for the Union Square. Engagement Next Year in 3 Chicago. “«TTe RIVALS. Some little irritation seems to have been felt at our protest against the mutilation by Mr. Jefferson of Mr. Sheridan’s classical « comedy, “The Rivals.” We are afraid that those who are dissatisfied with our protest do not exactly understand’ the motives whence it sprung. ‘he tendency of the American stage since it has run into the combination system has been, and Is now, anything for money or personal aggrandize- ment—very little for art. Had Mr. John A. Stevens, of “Unknown” celebrity, uider- taken to mar the “Hamlet 2 of Shakspeare, or “The School for Scandal” of Sheridan as, Mr. Jefferson has marred the latter author's comedy of “ The Rivals,” no word of protest would have issued from us; but Mr. Jefferson. occupies the position of the leading and most refined comedian in America. It isnot our purpose to contest whether he fully fills that position. Suflice it to say he has it, and when one so highly placéd’ beconies an iconoclast in lieu of a defender of that which, is pest in’ our dramatic literature he sounds’a note of alarm to every critic interested in the real Welfare of the drama and arfxious to see its higher uses preserved in the theatre. A comedy of Sheridan’s is not simply a great work of literary.art. It is not merely a play asa play is now looked upon by many people,—merely something to entertain an audience for: an: hour or two. A work by Sberidap is something more than that. It isa historical document, recording the manners, feelings, and the state of society in one of the most interesting periods of our race. It is not only a historical document, but it is a biographical document, for it illustrates the mode of mind—the social philosophy—of one of the greatest political orators that England has produced. The mutilator of such a work is therefore thrice guilty, and he betrays a lack of. understand- ing of the very work he pretends to present to the public. If the stage is to have no other use than to afford a guifaw in comedy or to rouse a thrill of horror in tragedy, why then Ar. Jefferson is perfectly entitled to reduce “The Rivals” to the compass of “The Spectre Bridegroom,” and to make of the fear and terror of Bob Acres something like a counterpart of that of Diggory; but we be- lieve that the stage is something more than a show-shop, and it is in its interest that we protest against the mutilation of works of such value, either to fit a starring somany and Jimit its traveling expenses over our rail- roads or to throw out only one character among many for the gratification of any single actor. We ask those who approve of such vandalism whether they believe the “present Mr. Wallack or his father would have so presented this work of Sheridan toa New York audience? The guif between. the intelligence of the better class of play- pes in New York and Chicago is far from ‘ing as wide as some of our traveling stars and combinations contemptuously seem to thinkit. Although for some years, indeed for very many years, Mr. Jefferson has not. been identified with the legitimate or clas: his mind to the study of Mr. Boucicault’s “ Rip Van Winkle,” yet there was a time, before he struck that popular and money- making play, when he was considered one of the chief pitlars of classic comedy that Amer- ica could boast. And it is for this reasqn that we should like to have him, when he présents such comedics, forget for a moment the box-ollice, and remeinber his old pride as an exponent of that which is worthlest in dramatic literature, s Thus, our protest having been“entered against what we think is a mutilation of the purpose, the scope and aim, of .Sheridan’s work, we may say a word or two regard to what Mr. Jefferson bas. really given us. You may take a diamond, break it into little pieces, and yet each particle will remain a diamond as brilliant aud as precious as ever. So itis with “The Rivals.” Mr. Jefferson has cut out five characters, he has condensed the five acts to three, ho has reduced the part of Lydia Lanquish to a span, he has eliminated the sentiment, which, as we in a previous notice remarked, served to relieve the comedy of the great wit. Fuulkland is now a mere nonentity. He is brought on in two scenes merely to act asa feeder for Bub Alcres, and Bob Acres has been elaborated, often very cleverly it must be admitted, for the purpose of making what was merely an incident in the comedy astar part. Mr. Jefferson has also here and there altered the dialog put into the mouth. of Acres by Sheridan, and made him utter phrases sometimes of such 8 modern char- acter as to be a little out of keeping with the spirit of the play.and the dialog of the other characters. Mrs. Malaprop, Capt. Absolute, Sir Anthony, Sir Lucius, David, Fag, and Lucy are there, and their individuality has been preserved. Se Mr. Jefferson’s version is certainly a most entertaining play, but it required no particu- lar ability, with such material at land, to turn outa most entertaining play. And, in the belief that we should be thankful ‘for CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK. EPISCOPAL. ty Immaculate Conception; ¥mber-Day—Fast. Dee. 1st, Euschius, B.M. Der Fast vl te sition of the B.V. M.; Ember- ust, A PHILISTINE, Take away nll your adornments esthetical, Piutes of blue China and bits of sure green; ‘Thourh you niny call me a monster heretical, J can't consider them fit to be seen, Etchings and paintings I loathe and abominate, Grimly T sunile at the nuine of Burne-Jones, Hating ‘the pictures where big chius predom- inate Over lean figures with augular bones. Buy on what grinning stage-rustics call “far- niture,” Such 4g was used by our fathers of ald; Take away ail your nonsensical rarniture, ‘Tapestry curtains and borders of guid. Give me the ancient and solid maboguny.— Mine be the board that will need no repairs; Don't Jet me see, as I sit at my grog, any Chippendale tables or spindie-legged chairs. Bang up a vivid vermailion wall-paper, Cavered with roses of gorgeous hue, Mutcbing a varnished and beautiful ball-pager, ‘Louking tike marble so polished and uew, Carpets should all snow u dora! variety, Wreaths intermingling of yellow and red: . ‘hen it enters my home. will society y here's a house whence esthetics have tied. Punch. or Coercive Measures. Galveston News. A Galveston Irishman basa very bright boy. who reads the papers. The other morning the old man asked Patrick’ junior why he didn’t re- turn the change front the marketing. There no answer except that the boy muttered, ‘he toirant:”” you fed the pig, Patrick?" ture was the only reply. Then for about Diteen minutes there was x vislou of & son closely pursued by a bareheaded father re- round the house, until the former over- wok the latter and yanked him over a wator~ arrel. 1 Was only trying Boycott on yez, favther: for the suke of ould Ireland, lave ine alone.” “It's a boy caught ye are,” panted the old Vi tache yer to thrille wid a bome- fuer” and he reached out and gathered « bar- F ve. ‘The upplication of coercive measures could be heard four blocks off. smallanercies, we may feel grateful to Mr. Jefferson for preserving as much of the orig- Inal as he has. A little of a good thing is better than “none at all, and the admira- bie manner in which thé majority of the characters are taken may com- pensate with many people for mu tilation. | Mr, Jefferson has grouped about him an admirable company for this kind of work. Few can appreciate the difliculty in these days of getting actors and_ actresses who have the faintest idea of a style of com- edy which during the past ten -years in this country has become almost obselete. Taste and judgment is also shown in the dressing, We have seen a more ‘unctuous Mrs. Mula- prop than Mrs. Jolin Drew, but the meaning of the character could. scarcely be more ex- quisitly grasped than it is by this admirable uctress. She gives to the rdle just that arti- ficial refinement of manner, that vanity, that antique and ludicrous coyuetry which inake her misapplication of words irresistinl comic in effect. Inthe letter scene with Capt. Absolute she i little bit of bu: here, by the ‘ay, we do Temember having seen before. As it is carried out by the pair It is yery effect- ive. Instead of Irs. Malaprp pulling out the letter from Beverly to Lydia which she “intereeded,” she inadvertently hands ; the last loving note she has received from Sir Lucius. Mr. Jefferson’s Bob Acrcs is 2 fine yerformance, not a great one. Occa- sionally we notice a gesture, an action, and even a plirase, reminiscent of Rip ‘Van Winkle. Lut this can searcely be wondered at, remembering how thoroughly the actor. has indentified himself with that part. How- ever, those suggestions are not. prominent enough to seriously mar the beauty of the ef- fort toa miscellaneous audience. He pre- sents in the early scenes the country squire, “fighting? Bob, as a possibility, warm- hearted, kindly disposed, timid, not as the coarse. country clown who would never have associated with the characters in the comedy, and in his first scene, that with Capt, Absolute and Faulklend, and in the second act, where he indites the chal- Jenge at the dictation of Sir Lucius, this con- ception of.the character is finely revealed. In the fighting scene, that straining for ef- fect noticeable on the first night was not si apparent as the, week advanced. Still, it is yet evident. ' Mr. Maurice Barrymore s Capt. Absolute gaye the best perform- ance he ever gave in this city, and it was oneof the gems of the presentation. Asa bit of pure comedy, his scene with Sir Anthony, when he signifies his willingness to accept the wife lis father had chosen for him, could not be excelied. The manner in whieh he conveyed the humor of the lines in this scene, and also in tie incident of the tet- e a Ice water is perfectly harmless, and more re- tresuing wath «ttle Hop Bitters in each draught. ter with Mrs. Malap » was deliciously droll Afr. Barrymore ease and a grace eomedy of -our language, having confined | jas_acquired an } thiscountry soon. 3 his bearing, a { prominent burlesqué mafager of this coun- polish, in, his delivery, not shown formerly. This improvement fs clearly seen -in the personation of the Captain: | Overact: ing might be charged against Mr. Frederick Robinson (Sir Anthony. Absolute) in his first scene with his son. With this single blemish his assumption was a rich, a mellow, and a carefully elaborated one. Mr. Charles Waverly’s Sir Lucius was deficient in that heartiness songht for in the sanguina O'Trigger of Blunderbuss Mall. Miss Ro: Rand, an excellentactress, did well with the m ed Lydie Langnish, and Mr. J. Gallo~ s David, in speech, action, gesture, and make-up, pi xd a must complete picture of Bob dures’ servant. At may be added in closing this article that the audiences during the wevk have been larger than those of any theatre in fown, and that these audiences have generously ap- plauded the excellent acting of the company. A PERTINENT QUESTION. . Tb the Editor of The Chicayo Tritune, Citcaco, Dec. 11—You would really oblige many readers if you could inform them when the press of the United States in- tend ceasing to insult our mothers and sis- ters in order to afford advertisement to a French actress, Iallude to the editorial and communicated apologies that have appeared in leading newspapers for this person’s al- Jeged ‘fimmoralities, and her protests against the social ostracism she ict with in New York, and is meeting in Boston. We in America knew little of this woman’s private life, and cared less, till it was obtruded upon us in the colunms of the American press, and it was never obtruded there tiff she had been engaged to come: here and gather a harvest of American dollars for herself and an American manager, the same who attempted to increase his store by speculating on the. agonies and Cross of Christ. This actress is irritated as Camille at finding that society, in obedience to the law of self-preservation, shuts its doors against her, and, while avow- ing that she is “guilty of increasing the population of the world without bur- thening herself \ith a husband, claims that she is excusable for this peccadillo be- cause she did not apply to some French Madame Restelle to saye her reputation for chastity by the commissions of murder, in- sinuating, too, that such is fhe practice of the American society into which she has failed to gain admission, The sovereign im- pudence of this is truly Gallic, for the wom- anwho could do this must not only be a Gaul, but must have it, too. She claims she was received in England. Perhaps she was, but the code of morals that suflices for an aristocratic society de seended from the Amelia Palmers, and the Duchesses of Portsmouth, and tho Nell Gwynns, is, thank Heaven, not sufiicient for asociety of decent people in a country where there are no titles to protectingly cover licentiousness. We have sin of our own, it is true, but we have also what this woman fae! ie ce NOt to boast but to bu ashamed of it. We will pay $3 a ticket to see this person In her proper place on the stage, because we have the money and can afford it; but we cannot affurd to lay aside our Saxon sense of decency, our reverence for our mothers, our sisters, and our wives, so*far as to receive such a woman in our homes as their equal and thelr companion. And when a_ powerful Amer- iean journal sneers at us for this ‘feeling it does an ill office, disgracing itself and mis- representing its own readers and supporters, . however: evident its latent motive may bo in thus trying to confound vice with virtue and dirt with decency, Lam, etc., Mancts Saar. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune, ER, Wis., Dec. 9.—We notice in a recent issue of Tue Trmune a “Defense of Mile. Bernhardt by One of Her Countrymen,” tovertain portions of which we take excep- tions. The agitation and discussion of the question of her admission to society has given the general public a general knowl- edge ofsome of the unsavory chapters in her life. We maintain that that subject is one in which the public is interested, the opinion of her champion to the contrary notwithstanding. We fully agree with him in his censure of the two men whom he re- fers to, and, whom he terms fentle- men. Also condemn as_ seriously as he ‘the manner of advertising — the matter of whieh he speaks, Further than this we are at war with him, ‘The plane of morality from which he views such charac- ters as the actress, the grounds upon wh he bases his arguments, and his arguments themselves, may do for France and French- men, but ought to call forth a vigorous pro- test from every American who loves purity and virtue, His first argument, that she 1s endowed with great talent and energy, that she is charitable and a devoted frienti and mother, weadmit. Great energy, ‘devotion to friends, charity, and mother-love are not peculiarto any person or class of person ‘The brute creatures. evidence a remarkable love for their young, and show in ir mute way thi wonderful deyotion to their friends. As deep deyotion to friends, as fathouiless love for y be found among the most aban- sas can be claimed for the act- is aS mreely, sly, children, m: doned fem i Among that class charity and, accoriling to their means, us genero bestowed as by the actress. Hence we' that talent, devotion, charitableness, and love for one’s children giyes no persen a claim to a position in good soelety if unac- companied by those other virtues which go to make up the pure man and woman. Again, he claims that if her private life is not free from fault, it is her affair and not that of the public. Also, thatthe public has the right to discuss the talent of an actress but not hey character, even if it is the worst fa the world. This isan outrageous doc- rine. «He farther argues that people should feel honored by her triendship. of his whole argument is that goud society should receive on terms of equality any per- son of pronounced ability and charitable di position, no matter what the record of their private jife or complexion of their character may be, This is infamous, Actors and actresses are not an absolute necessity, but pure women and men are, and the way to make and keep them so is not to be found in associating with people of known bad characters, no mutter if they do possess some good qualities. Amusements’ and en- tertainments are a necessity, but should be of a character calculated to elevate people,— at least not to demoralize them. The people also who offer to the public entertainments or amusements should possess a character calculated to give a healthy morai tone tothem, We maintain that any person who. comes before the public as an instructor or entertainer is, as it were, public property, and should be discussed, and, if found to be morally unworthy, should ‘at/once be de- nounced. People possessed of great talent and eminence in any profession wield a. mighty influence for good or evil, according to the character of the possessor. * Noblesse oblize. People do not always look to the Inoral code for their guidance, but, as is too much the case, gauge their actions and con- duet by thatof those who are in sume respect their superior, or who occupy prominent positions. We would be just to all, and, therefore, would deal as Jeniently with those in the humblest_and lowest walks and cir- cumstances mn life who have gone astray as with those who, owing to superior talent, position, circumstances, and wealth, have gained prominence but have sinned as deep- ly. There are hundreds of women who from various causes haye been driven—or at least they believe they have been ‘driven—to lives of shane, For these there is some excuse; but for those who sin from choice there fs none. Which of-the two classes will “Frenchman ? champion, and can he say his countrywoman is not one of the latter? We would not eternally condemn a person Who has done wrong, but we want to see some evidence of repentance and reforma- tion before they ask forgiveness. ‘The way to correct an evil is not to wink atitin one person and frown. on it -in an- other. ‘The way to correct errors or faults isnot to condone them in one person and condemn them in another; the difference between the persons being ‘that she former bossess some great talent or prominence and the latter none. No personcan afford to be slandered if they are bad, and wherein Mile, Bernhardt has been slandered we hone the slanderer may be brought to justice. We believe that New York society in excluding her has done wisely, believing-its action to be in the interest of morality and Wrtue. DRAMATIC NOTE: Herrmann, the wizard, at Me’ the 20th. Frank Mayo talks of tackling the legiti- Mate next season. Minnie Patmer’s “Boarding School” will be the next event at the Grand. Lydia Thompson talks-of coming back to ‘Last year she wanted a yicker’s on ‘T tonal to-tsorrow evenitic. The substance + 5 T Ty to npage her for a season in the States, but he ‘lidn'’t exactly see that there was money ii the scheme. Mattil'Vickers and Charles Rogers will, it is ‘sari close their engagement with “The Strafegsts” to-night 'Thé eagagement of Mary Anderson at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, will be- gin to-morréw evening. eeu 7 y al’s_ “ Strategists” will close pe gareeertt at the ‘Grand this evening. Business has been fair. . ' At the Halsted Street 0) Deanties and the agonies of * a Barroom” will ba shown. Miss Annie Graham and Mrs. Isadore Da- vidson will play leading parts in a new piece -eutitled “The Vitiage Orphan.” “The Black.THand” will appear at the Na- Frank Jones and. Alice Montague will hold it up, There is a praiseworthy effort at reforma- tion in_the way of stage setting at the Grand Opvera-House. We hope this reform will be curried still furthe;. It is rumored that the Alf Wyman _com- any have been lost in the snow In the Rocky Mountains: while on their way to a mining town where they hid an engagement, A New York payer says that Clara Morris hos received an cier from the manager of the Court ‘Theatre, London, to play there in the spring, and thai she will probably go. The New York Herald says that Tompkins & JL, of Boston, and also Dion Bouci- cault, are inentioned a3 probable managersot the Union Square Theatre after Mr. Paimer leaves it. : Tom Keene opars in Norfolk, Va., to-mor-. row night, and pays the last three nights of the week in Richmond. The tour through the South has deen successful beyond ex- pectation. John McCulloigh’s engagement at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, has been the largest financially played there fora long time. ‘The tragédian opens in Baltimore to- morrow evening." * = ‘The Chicago Dramatic Club will give their first performance at the West End Opera- House on Tuesday evening. They will pre sent “Othello,” uader the direction of Mrs. Auna Cowell Hobsirk. Manager Mill was in the city during the eel ile says he has with both “Joshua Whitcomb” I the Rage” felt the general depressionin the theatrical business Since election very slightly. To-morrow evening Mr. Joseph Jefferson will reappear at MeVicker’s as Rip Van Winkle. We may expect from the company supporting the comedian an unusually fine presentation of Boucicault’s popular play. Gulick &° Blaisdell’s minstrel company haye not done as large a business as antici- ‘pated, but they have come out ahead finan- cially. The troupe is a small one. In it there are several well and favorably known nninstrel-men. Miss Fanny Herring will be the star at Fox’s Thentre during the week. “Little Buckshot” is the sensation in which she will appear. ‘The variety element will include Miss Ida Cory, Mr. Tom Dalton, Mr. Alf Taree, Mr. J. J. Lodge, and Miss Olive es: : “Blunders; or, The Maid, the Mimic, and the Spinster,” will be seen at the Olympic to-morrow evening, ‘The star will be Mr. Al Phillips, and he willbe supported by J. Mt. Johnson, Bobby Neweomb, Willfam Arnold, W. Hamilton, Wajter Fletcher, Miss Lingard, and Miss Lou Fuller. Schiller’s “ William Tell” will be produced by Colmer and Isenstein’s company at Me- icker’s to-night for the bénetit of. the able stage-manager and leading man, Mr. Rich- ards, who will assume the title role, All the leading characters are in good hands, and a tine performance may be expected. At Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, the management are preparing to perform a new play’ nititled “The Son of the Wilderness,” Which is a version of Herr Munch-Dilling- hausen’s famous romantic play “ Der Soh der Wilderness,” produced at the Royalty Theatre, Vienna, in 1$2, and since repro- duced in most countries of Europe as the well-known “Ingomar.” Critical richness: “If the United States cannot produce not only in every century, but in every year of each century, a stronger dramatist than Shakspeare, one who knows as much of menand women and all their httle strength and weakness, then there is no dif- ference between the express-train of to-day and the mud-clogged wagon or the haphaz- ard chaise of thirty or forty years ago.”— Charleston News and Courter. John T. Raymond will finish his engage- ment at Mooley’s Theatre this evening. John has appeared in his creation of Col. Sellers, and the audiences have found in his inimitable picture of the eccentric Sellera as much food for merriment as of yore. We wn- ra-IIause the ‘en Nights in derstand that Mr. Gunther has ‘almost com- pleted a new play ‘for Mr. Raymond, and when he next appears in this we may expect to see him-in a different character, and that character we trust will prove to the comedian as profitable as has Col. Sellers. The opposition against the theatre, says a writer in slppletons’ Journal, that still ¢: ists among a few extreme moralists, is for the most part based on the stage of the past. There is little in the theatre of to-day that justifies this hostility, and the number that Teeognize the, propriety of dramatic amuse- ment is continually on the increase, The time is not far distant when denunciations of. the stage will be confined to the special plays that offend against morals and taste, amt rightly-conducled theatres must meet the ap- proval of good men and women generally, Manager Emmett will on Monday evening, the 20th inst, open his new Academy ot Music. A few days ago we gave our reaters some idea of the magnificence of this new structure, which will eclipse in glitter and gorgeousness anything in the shape of a ace of amusement in this country. On Thursday next the stock company will as- ble for rehea: ct Ly Wild comprise George Learock, W. T. Melville, Miss Georgie Tyler, Frank Foster, Langdon, Miss ‘Polly Booth, Miss Iioward, Miss Hie Moses, Robert Me and John Leach. “The False Friend.” by Edgar Fawcett, was played in this city. recently, therefore we need not here touch npon the. merits of + At will be produced to- morrow evening at Hooley’s Theatre by a comvany specially selected: by Manager A. M. Palmer, of the Union Square Theatre. ‘The production will be specially inter- esting ‘inasmuch as we -shall be introduced to an actor who has been highly spoken of in San Francisco and also in the East. He will play the part of ‘Lucien Gleyve, the role formerly enacted in this city by Mr. Charles Kt, Thorne, ‘The cast will embrace: J. J. Sullivan, John Wil- son, George F. De Vere, Hart Conway, W. A, Paul, “Alfred Becks, James HU. Sutith, Richard M, Stanley, ¥ leanor Carey, Miss Kate Denin, Josie Bachelder, Miss Nellie Morant, Mrs. George I’. De Vere, and Miss Sara Lascelles. This was cruel. The John T. Raymond company traveled from St.Paul to Still- water, a distance of eighteen miles, They took three hours tomake the journey. They found the theatre cold, cheer! inviting, They played. Next morning the paper said Raymond and his company were fit only for country towns,—not for such @ metropolis as Stillwater. Sorrowfully the troupe made their way to depot, boarded tne train, and then found that there wasn’t enough wood on board the engine to earry them from the inhospitable shores of Stillwater. ‘The engineer said he’d be — if he would wood-up. He'd wait for laborers to come along and doit. John said hed match him to see who.would carry the wood on board the engine. John lost, and he, with the assistance of Horace MeVicker, managed in the course of an_hour or two, with’ the thermometer some 18 below zero, to gather enough fuel to carry the party to the next town. _._No definit arrangements have yet been made between A. M. Palmer and a Chicago manager for the engagement of the Union Sai ‘Theatre Company, which will begin some time next September and end about the play asa es Cc Mr, A. RCazauran is still in the sity awaiting advices from Mr, Palmer be- fore closing with either of the city managers, We hear of three reasons for the delay in the negotiations. One isattributable to the argu- mentative disposition of Mr. Hamlin, of the Grand O; discuss a vroz 4 : fore he comes to any conclusion. The. it is rumored, arusethrough a grand “kick on the partof some of the actors of the Square when they. discovered they were so- ing to be afflicted with the lake breezes for | three months. The third reason for the de- lay arose, according to one of the attachés of Haverly, through that manager insisting that he should-have the Union Square Theatre Company at his new house by reason of some | verbal understanding, THE TELEPHONE, Some Interesting Facts Con-. cerning a Useful Inven- tion. The Troubles and Vexations of Learning How to Talk by Wire. A Scientific Explanation of How the Machine Is Worked. ‘The malicious old comparison of angling to astick and a string, with a worm at one end andafool at the other, might be para- Phrased into a likeness of the telephone in some stages of its u: (When aman has gotten along so nicely in business that he feels that some extraordinary display is necessary he invests ina telephone. Two men come over from the agency, prowl around for an hour or two, exchange mys- terious nods and winks, whisper together in the darkest corner of. the office, go off, come back again, measure the length of the room, then disappear, and are next seen shinning up telegraph poles in the vicinity, to the im- mense alarm of timid old gentlemen passing below. ‘The following day they bring in a mahogany box, with several curious trim- mings, screw it to the wall in the most inac- cessible corner, exchange more nods and winks, fool with the snapper at the bottom of the thing for an hour or so, and then an- nounce to the junior clerk that the telephone is ready. For three days following business is turned over as one turneth a flapjack, and the office isin an uproar. General interest centres in that telephone. The bald-headed bookkeeper tries it, turns the crank thrice very gingerly, keeps his ear glued to the nozzle as tightly as though the President’s message was com- ing .in, smiles blandly, says * Well!” twice very mildly, gets red in the face, and marches back to his desk, refusing to reply to any in- quiries. ‘Chen the cashier takes a turn, spins the crank around furiously, yells “ Lello!,” in an exasperating crescendo, listens awhile, swears some, and gets into an argument with the junior clerk which terminates disastrous- ly for the latter, but which doesn’t material- lyenlighten any one in regard to the practi- val working of the instrument, The office- boy then come in, and he says the whole secret lies in the switch at the bottom of the tele- phone-box. This gives a new impetus to investigation, in which all hands join. Finally, when the crank is nzarly wrenched off, and the old bookkceper’s back almest broken with stooping, the bell emits a faint tinkle, and a general smile of satisfaction breaks out allround,—the main ottice has been reached at last. Just at this exciting juncture the success- ful business man who runs the office comes in, unwinds his comforter, takes off his worsted mits, and sits down in a glow of en- thusiasm to see how the thing works. Be- tween the man and the telephone then en- sues the following conversation: , Man (confidently) —" Hello!” ‘Pelephone (obseurely)—“ Br-r-r! tick-sss [?” Man (nervously) — (ello-0-0 1? _ Del. (mysteriously)—* R-r-r-tictie-sp-r-m-r-r- T- (excitedly)—* Wha—what’s that 2” Hel-lo-0-0!” Tel. (eolamnnly) Beret i Man (uside, to bookkeeper)—“ This thing don’t work ——”. (gives 2 furlous grin at the crank and gcts back a prolonged rattle through the telephone). ‘Oh, it’s all right now; hello P? ‘Telephone—“Rat-tatatatat . . . chick— bzet-t-7—T-1--T- sy ‘Lhen the bookkeeper tries it, the clerk tries it, the cashier tries it, and the oftice-boy takes a grind at it, No use. ‘She only re- sponse given is A FAINT SOUND . very: closely resembling those proceeding trom the agitated maneuvres of flies ina school-boy’s blue-bottie trap. - The man ex- presses a belief that the old bookkeeper has wot the crank-out of order, the old bookkeep- er is firm in opinion that it was the cashier, and the cashier says it was the oflice-boy. As the latter has no one to shift the responsibility upon, he is sent off by way of penance to the telephone agency to get somebody to fix the thing. Alittle later, an acquaintance drops. in who is familiar with telephones. Jie steps to the instrument, gives the erank one turn; says “Helio!” quietly, then “wait a iminute,” turns round, and remarks thet this is the clearest telephone he has yet used, and then holds faite 8 lengthy conversation by ils means with a friend four miles away. Boston lady, whose “cuichaw” was undeniable, is said to have Jikened a con- yersation by telephone to “listening to the yoice of conscience.” Ifthe simile be true, st number of hardened men peopling iful world have a good excuse for not attending to the counsels of the in- ward monitor. ‘There are two. breeds of telephone ram- pant in Chicago, and each operates on the same principle—the vibration of a thin steel diaphragm in unison with the vibrations of sound, by a current of magneto-electricity. ‘The Bell instrument, with the microphone detached, is the simplest form of a telephone, Li consists of a bar magnet, surrounded at the poles by coils of insuiated wire, and hay- ing in close proximity to one pole a thin and h ly elastic plate of steel, known as the “diaphragm.” - Two such instruments, con- nected by wire in such manner that the coils around each magnet form with said wire a perfect chain of electric communication, or circuit, work thus: By speaking or singin; in close proximity to the diaphragm of or instrument, the plate vibrates to and from the pole of the magnet in unison with the vibrations of ‘air causing the sound. ‘This plate, being of iron or steel, atfects the magnet as any ordinary armature. When it is in contact with the pole it renders all or a portion of the magnetism passive,—with- drawn again, it develops the magnetism in itsactive form. ‘Thus it will be seen that the vibration of the. diaphragm will cause the magnet to fluctuate in_active magnetic force for each movement. Now each of these fIne- tuations sets up what is known asan “in- duced” current in the culls of insulatedgwire surrounding the poles, ‘his induced cu®rent passes instantaneously over the line and through tho coils surrounding the othermag- net. Now, if this induced current flows in one direction, it strengthens that magnet by induction.—it | reversed, it weakers it. Said magnet bomg strengthened, ex- erts a trifle more force in at- tracting — the diaphragm in front or itbeing weakened, the natural elasticity of said. diaphragm will cause it to retreat. Call the two instruments now A and B. On a sound being produced near A the diaphragm of 4A begins to vibrate in exact unison with the vibrations of said sound. For each vibration two electric currents are set up in the coils surrounding the magnet in A, one in one direction as the dlaphragm approaches A, the other in reverse direction as the diaphragm recedes. ‘These eurrents, flashing over the ling, pass through the coils surrounding theanagnet in B. One of these strengthens said magnets as explained, the other weakens it. ‘The diaphragm in front of the magnet in B, being elastic and: at- tractable, will now advance or recede from suid magnet as often as it is strengthened or weakened, and thus WILL MOVE IN EXACT UNISON with the diaphragm in'A. By these vibra- tions it communicates a series of snall shocks to the surrounding air, setting In motion waves of sound echoing those which are op- erating on A, as will readily be seen, and thus producing, the phenomenon familiar to the thousands who have the telephone in daily use. In connection with the telephone as, prac- tleally applied are used the microphone to intensify the electric currents, and the “call- bell” ty give signals for use. The former operates on a principle impossible to explain briefly in language not technical; the latter works like any other electric bell. It has been noticed by physicists that iron rapidly magnetized or demagnetized emits a distinct sound, and no doubt in thetelephone this phenomenon contributes to the strength of sound produced by the vibrating dia- phragmn itself. ‘ f course the telephone” reports shrill ‘sounds as well as hoarse, since change in piten is simply an increase or diminution of the number of vibrations. It is found, how- eyer, that very low notes, say the deepest of of in organ, are reproduced very imper- fectly, since in that ease the slowness of the vibration is such that the tenseness and narrowcompass of the little diaphragm fur- bids its usage. | ence persons with «high yoice—as a child ‘or a woman—are as a rule } eator wires, and the result is general chaos. . ize his troops by army corps; in fact this r of arnty corps was used for commands, which much more distinctly heard through the tel- ephauie than persons whose voices are bass. So sensitive is the telephone to induced currents of electricity, that if a telephone wire be strung, for even a block, upon the same pole as an ordinary telegraph wire, in- duced currents will be set up in it of sufli- cient strength to report ail the messages passing over the telegraph wire. By apply- ing ..the ear ‘to nearly any telephone in the city, the click of telegraph instruments may be .heard, from the reason that nearly every telephone wire in use is strung ona pole in proximity to some tele- eraph wire. THE SYSTEM BY WHICH THE TELEPHONES ARE WORKED is of great interest. The wires running to hundreds of offices in town centre in one buildiny, and are there conducted to a huge~ “switch-board,” as it is called, in the rooms of the telephone company. | Said switch- board is covered with small brass terminals, each of which is the terminal of a wire, and eaeh of which is numbered. At hand are numbers of pairs of brass plugs, which fit into holes in said terminals, and are electric- ally connected with cach other by ueans of a tlexibie strand of fine wires. Before com- ing to this switch-board each wire runs through an indicator and a call bell. Numbers of small but vigorous boys swarm around, nimble and busy as potato- bugs in crop time. The working is now as follows: A_Trimune reporter, attending a lecture on Blue Island avenue, hears .of a murder six blocks away, and wishes to no- tify the office. - He steps into the nearest telephone-station and rings up the central office. A small boy at a telephone which embraces that district, and who is ever on the alert, hears the call and sees No, 318, , drop on the indicator. He immediately Is * Hello!” gets through the telephone that the reporter wants to communicate with} the office, and sings out: “ Put 318 on 467°— supposing 46 is the number attached to Tne ‘TribUNE tag. The boy tending the switch- board instantly grabs” up a set of plugs, shoves one in 318. and the other in 46, thus connecting them, while a third’ boy, sends an electric signal over Tue TinbuNe’s wire to call some one to the telephone. The conversation being concluded, the reporter gives a signal to dis- connect, and the boy at the switch-board, at once removes the plugs. : ‘Theswitch-buard-boy’s position is one which taxes memory and agility to the extrenic. He must kuoweach subscriber’s’ name and number, and be able instantly to put his hand upon the terminal in the: board which belongs toeach. There is no time to study out numbers, and the boy would scorn to do it if he had months of leisure. When asig- nal comes in that Carter Harrison, for ex- ample, wants Perry Hi, Jr. be doesn’t mosey around to the Superintendent to find out what Carters number is and where Perry car found. Ob, no! he «just grabs up two tgs eft- Pp jabs one in 94, near the lower hana corner of the switch-board, and shoves the other in 713, way at the top to the right, and knows that Carter is sympathizing with Perry in the next two seconds, Of course the boy sometunes makes mis- takes,—he wouldn’t be a .boy if he didn’t. Sometimes two orders are yelled at him sim- ultaneously by the boys running the indi- Mr. Jefferson, for example, is going out to dine witha friend, and has rung up the iain oflice, asking to be connected with his house, Mr. Jobkins, dealer in short-ribs, wants his storehouse, in order * to give particular fits to his foreman, who is delaying an important shipment. - The boy gets both orders at once, connects Mr. Jefferson with the warehouse, and Mr. Jobkins with Mr. Jeffersou’s house. Mrs. Jefferson gets blue blazes from the exasper- ated pork dealer, and Mr. Jefferson, after having poured a sweet excuse into the fore- man’s ear, shuts up the telephone with a snap and hurries off toastag dinner. Mr- Jobkins, having been told that he was drunk, rushes off to discharge his foreman, while ‘Mrs. Jefferson sits up until 2a. m. fo inter- view her spouse and find out why be had dared to abuse ‘her so dreadfully over the wire. ( The cause of these mistakes lies frequentlf in the similarity of vowel sounds in some naines, which cause confusion on the tele- phone, where the consonants, with persons not accustomed to clear enunciation, are nearly Jost. Then, again, cones a person whose enunciation fs so decidedly clear that the boy thinks there must be a mistake some- where, it being the usual habit with sub- scribers to talk like a man with his mouth full of hot mush. Thereupon ensues an an- imated conversation, between the man and the boy, woundup bythe man’s dancing a syarcganes and spelling, his name over four time$ with horrible distinctness, and asking the boy what in hello is the matter. With a little practice in receiving, one can converse by telephone as easily as in the ordinary way, recognize clearly the voice of the one he is speaking with, and transact an immense amount of business in a short time. ‘The number of telephones in use in C! eago is rapidly running up into the thou- sands, and the wires have literally cobwebbed the city. It is. estimated that “hello! is said 6,461,009 times every day in the trans~ mission of messages. Sometimes the sylla- bles of this exclamation are reversed,—but this is irreleva Merely a baby as yet in age, the telephone has nevertheless risen to aprominent place in public esteem, and is now almost an actual necessity to any one engaged in large business. By its means now a man is practically placed in the same with every large firmin the city, to erse with its members at will and with perfect ease. His Campaign Ecfore Richmond — Progress of the Grext Democratic Un= ready~The March to Yorktown— Helutzelman Wants to Assault at Once—McCleNan Sits Down to Siege ‘Operations Against an Open Country on a Line of Thirteen Miles—Eleven Thousand Fen Stop His Great Ahmy— MeClelian Shrivels Up Hix Own Num- ber, and Multiplics the Enemy—The Months Siege Fixes the Fate of the Campaign. Gen, Hoynton in the Cincinnati Gazette.” ‘The first troops embarked for Fort Monroe were of Heintzelman’s corps. The word corps is used for convenience; McClellan was still resisting the President’s order to organ- ‘was never carried out, but at last the nature, on the Peninsula were five in number, and which kept on increasing until at Gettysburg the Twelfth Corps is mentioned. Thus the Army of the Potomac was never organized, and it suffered serious disasters from this multiplication'of commands. ‘The first division embarked was Teintzel- man’s old division, now under the immediate command of Gen. C. S. Hamilton, at Alexan- dria, March 17, arriving at Fort Monroe tha isth, Fitz John Porter’s division of the same corps embarked the 22d, and. Ieintzet- aman with ig, arriving next day, and going | into camp. McClellan’s orders were “to en- eainp as near to Fort Monroe as possible, so as not to give the enemy any idea of the direction in which we were going to move, whether toward Yorktown or toward Nor- folk.” Strategicallythis iumuense prepara- tion and movement was secret. Gen. Keyes? corps bern to arrive on the 25th. On ‘the 2th Heintzelinan sent a reconnaissance. ag far as Big Bethel, and out on Waits’ Creek, finding very few of the enemy at Biz Bethel, ie reported this to McClellan, who sent. an auswer of a reproving tenor, hoping he had done nothing to disclose the plans to the enemy. Strategically the enemy were, blinded: actually they saw through it all. McClellan arrived March 2, dnd sent’ for Heintzelman, and then an advance was de- termined, Heintzelman relates that he, with two divisions, and Keyes, with two divisions, making about 40,000 men, marched on tho ath, and carly next. day were before York- town. McCleNan enumerates, besides these, as marching on the 4th, Sedewick’s and. Smith’s divisions, Averill’s, and the Fifth Regular Cavairy, and the reserve cavalry, ar- tillery, and. infantry, which must ve amounted to 70,000 oF 80,000 at least. Heint- zelman says that the information which he obtained of the enemy’s force was that there Were about 7,500 on the peninsula, and cer- tainly not to exceed 10,000. - He sald: Ithink if {had been ‘permitted when. landed’ to advance I could have Teotatedt ta troops at Yorktown, and the pluce would have fullen in a few duys; but my orders were very strict not to make any demonstration, and Tex: pected Gen. McCiellun every day, 30 Cwalted. 1 thought from tho tenur of “bis telegram that he wus not pleased with my moving as faras Big Bethel, although I remained there only two or three hours, MeCletlan, while. stratezically assuming that the enemy would remain iemorant of his design until he chose to sound it by trumpet, left them to know aul, while he kept his own Generals ignorant of his intentions. Heint- zelman says that when he had reached the tront of Yorktown he knew nothing of Mc- Clellan’s plan: .““I was always of the opin- ion that we could have forced their Tings Subsequent Information, after the enemy had retired, confirmed this opinion. “We were Willing to try it with a single brigade. Gen, Hamilton made the application, and Tfor, warded it to the commanding General.” {ft brought no answer. “I knew nothing of what was proposed tobe done... . "Phg siege of Yorktown commenced beforel knew. anything of it. Imerely judged so from the orders that were issted. . le Gonerat Zot he idee: tint the place bad tobe besieged, and that delayed us from day to da: il it Tan into a month.”? Y S anHhe ‘The width of the peninsula at Yorktown is se after which’ ru the James, followed the course of that makinga Hineot abont thirteen miles— ton says thirteen anda half miles. about seven miles, but the enemy’s Teaching the Warwiek River, wl hto Swi The Confederates always knew McClellan’s in- % tentions, and now, after his first division had landed on the peninsula, and the might: fleet_of transports advertised . the gene: coming, they had seventeen days to prepara on thatline. Yet they were not intending to inake any resolutestand there. But when he sat down to dig parallels for siege operations, they embraced the opportunity, and they re intorced their force and began to dig also, And in siege operations against such a Wide country, which has a continent behind, cannot be invested, the enemy can make new intrenchments faster than. the besiezers can dig parallels and plant siege batteries. To sit down to siere operations against a line of thirteen and a half miles, With an open country behind ft, without tryin: any- where to see if it can be broken, isa new thing in the tactics of war. It was not known to Frederick, called the Great, nor to the great Napoleon, nor Wellington, nor Washington, It is unprecedented in history; and is nog found in standard works on the art of war It was invented by our youns Napeleon, and. from him has become fixed in our West Point school as the art of war with the mod-- ern improvements. McClellan’s narrative ‘ives With much complacency a particular lescription of the forinidable works which the eneny left there; but his account is of works which, in grent part, had been made during the whole month in which he was digging trenches and planting great guns, - When McClellan arrived, Gen. Barnard says: ae When we first saw them (April 5) there were very few guus upon them, and those mosth field-guns on traveling carriages, in barbet, which could not Have maintained their positions against u vigorous cannonade. The connection between Fort Magruder and the red redoubt was a mere ritlepit, and from the red redoubt to tha - swamp there wasnothing whatever. The zround between and behind these twh works could be seen. and could he swept by our actillery fire. Our assaulting columns would bave been from two-thirds of 2 mile to one mile removed from tho artillery at Yorktown, from the fire of which undulations of the ground afforded much cover, cven supposing that the fire of that place coufe not bave been subdued by our own bat~ teries, ‘The red redoubt, toward which the as sault would bave been directed, was a very in- significant work. McClellan’s narrative says: “The opera tions on the peninsula by the Army of the Potomac commenced with a full field artil- lery force of fifty-two batteries of 299 guns.” Among these were three-inch guns, twenty- pound Parrotts, and — thirty-two-pound howitzers. He had an army Sufficient. to cover all that line of thirteen and one-half miles, and still have large reserves. The army-rolls show that he had 121,500 effective men under his command in front of tha enemy. But he sat down toa siege of this wide country and scattering line of intrench- nents as if this were his objective in coming tothe peninsula. By this decision he fixed. the fate of his whole campaign. When he Jeft the front to fetch round by the pininsula, the forces of the Confederacy were at their lowest point. Not more than 63,000 men could be mustered in all Virginia to oppose him, and the Confederate Provisional Con- gress, in war aduiinistration, was a match for McClellan’s military imbecility. But now the regular Confederate Congress took up affairs with an energy equal to the danger and the opportunity. It enacted on the 16th of April an iron conscription, taking from State control every non-exempt citizen between the ages of 18 and 235 years, placing them absolutely at the disposal of the Presi- dent during the War; it annulled all con- tracts with the volunteers. embracing then in the conscription in mass, and established in each State one or more training camps for conscripts. It was under this act, while Me Clellan sat down for 2 whole month in the mud at Yorktown, and then spent two weeks in going forty miles, from Williamsburg to Bottoms and New Bridges, on the Chicka- hominy, and sitting down astride ‘of that river thirty-seven days, building. eleven bridges (as he says), and elaborate fortifica-- tions that were only-to be abandoned, that the Rebel Confederacy created the army which, with less number than MeCiellan’s Jong-preparing army, drove him frightened in retreat to the James, : it was this planting of that great army ina: swamp to be poisoned with malaria until the enemy should see fit- to go, that relieved tha Confederates from all menace of Richtnond, and left them free tosend an army into the Shenandoah Valley, to rout the sevarated- forces there, and to throw Washington aac the North into a panic, and this not without | sufficient cause. It was this eager accept- ance of a state of siege (for he was as much besieged as therenemy), in an open field, for which there was not a shadow of exense, either in lack of overwhelming numbers, or of gallantry in the volunteers, or of codpera- tion by the navy, which would have left Washington open tobe easily occupied by the Rebels, if McCiellan had been allowed totake: MeDowell’s corps. In time the enemy saw. fit to leave Yorktown, and did it unmolested; but all the conditions of the situation and of McClelian’s mind fail to show that, after he - had opened his bombardment along the whole line, he would have ever come to the point of assaulting. ie - At this stage he says the telegram reached him that McDowell's corps was to be held at the front, which broke up all his plans. He says: “It was now, of course, outs of m! power to turn Yorktown by West Point; nad therefore no choice left but to attack it in front as best I could with the force at my command.” Of course, having but, 1213 men for ar active column, and Gen. Wool to , protect his ‘base, he could not be expected to do anything but zo into the ground. ARSON. Abraham Robinson Weld Over to the Criminal Court. . The examination of Abraham Robinson, Who is charged with arson in setting fire to the buildmg Nos. 13 and 15 Dearborn street, for the alleged purpose of obtainingan insur- ance of $10,000, was concluded yesterday forenoon before Justice Summerfield, and, resulted in the holding of the prisoner for trial at-the Criminal Court. In default of $5,000 bail he went to jail. ‘ Deputy-Collector John .S. Phelps, of the Internal-Revenute Departinent, Capt. Calder, of Engine Company No. 18, Detective Shes. and Capt. Ben Bullwinkle gave ‘testimony: describing the manner in which the fire was kindled on the sccond floor of the building occupied by Robinson as a cigar-factory- Mr. Phelps said the estimate made of Yalue of Robinson’s stock; machinery, ett. by himself, for the Government, was 52.313, | and Capt. Bullwinkle produced the policies of several insurance companies to show he carried an insurance of $10,000. A. G. Van Buren, counsel for the prison. er, said he did not think there was any ne ity for producing testimony for the ‘de tense, and asked for the prisoner's dischatee _ saying that some one had. tried to set fire to the building. but there was no evidence to show that Robinson did it. A Prosecuting-Attorney Cameron held £ the contrary The Court said there had been 2 areat Preparation to fire the building, and there Wa3 certainly suspi Believing that were Was probable cause ‘to hold’ the prisouer, be aceordingly did PROPOSALS. a OFFICE OF Engineer and Superintendent of the Town of Lake. ALRNS, Tows oF LARE (Cook 8 will be receleed. at the ofties of nt of Public Wurks of the rte day noon, Dec 1, 1s for e snd: fo nishing TW feet B-Inch cast-iron Prowgbt-lron pipe. both for suction lays she sais and for furnishing m: Ine samme, The bine to bo sellvered a elglith-s Spite on Stxty- A-st.at the Hyde rs ‘ Plans und specitications may be secn at the above Ramed oflice. ‘Cie Boned of ‘Trustees reserve the right.toreloet any ofall prouowala. _#AILEOAD ie aa ars Ie. LIS ALNAT. REEVES £ COX Fag henfaninge Storeh Tickets Bowe & Furnishing Sold. and Exchanzed. Veduced rates tu ali parts EDUCATIONAL. WOME SCHOOL, for boss. alte Geneva Lake, Win” 107 BS™ TOT,