The New York Herald Newspaper, November 16, 1873, Page 6

NEW YURK HERALD, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1873—QUADRUPLE SHEET, Burning of the Opera House---The Fire Not Without Its Advantages. New Pieces Coming Out---Sar- douw’s “Uncle Sam.” OFFENBACH’S NEW DIVA, MME, THEO, Paris, Nov. 1, 1873, ‘The cable will have apprised Americans that the Grand Opera House in Paris was burned down on the night of the 28th ult. It wasaright splendid blaze, which lighted up the boulevards with a lurid glare, such as had not been known since the memorable petroleam bonfires which illumined the last days of the Commune. Although it was nearly midnight when the fire broke out, the ca/vs and restaurants were full, after their wont, and in less | than half an hour a crowd of 3,000 persons were jostling one another in and about the network of Darrow streets in the midst of which the Opera House was situate. Steam fire engines, with their furnaces aglow, and their living freight of brass- helmeted firemen, meanwhile hurried ap at the gallop; republican guardsmen on hbrseback ploughed their way through the surf of excited and curious Parisians, praying them, entreating them, roaring to them to stand back; companies of red_ breeches, nimble-footed infantry, snatched out of sleep by the alarm bugles, ran doubling up to the scene and drove back the crowds in com- pact lines, right and left and out of harm’s way, and soon, with a great clank- ing of spurs and scabbards, up cantered grizzled old Genéral Ladmirault, the Governor of Paris, and his staff, riding into the very thick of tne smoke and sparks, crashing of timber and riot of flames, as if he liked it, Certainly, if @ man would wish to be burned out of bouse and home in the merriest way possible Paris would be the city in which to try the experiment. The Opera House had not been long afire before the shout arose that the flames had caught the block of buildings form- ing the Opera Arcade and stretching to the Boule- vard des Italiens; and thereupon, to the no small gratification of the assembled sightseers, began a mad scarry of lodgers and householders of both sexes, Mattresses, books, dresses, carpet bags, clothing, valuables of all sorts, down to clocks and vases, were hurled out of windows by their dis- tracted owners; dishevelled women, half-dressed, panic-stricken men in their shirt-sleeves, affrighted servants and yelping children tumbled out of doors, dragging turniture after them, hug- | ging parcels or simply giving tongue to add to | the general confusion. As the spectators saw, or fancied they saw, that many of the persons who thus ran wild were in no real danger, and, as the Scared aspect of some of them was undeniably comic, the irrepressible jocutarity of this extraor- dinary nation found vent at every moment, and any stranger who had suddenly found himselfin | the crowd while the fire was at its height might have fancted the whole thing was A HUGE SALAMANDRIC MASQUERADE, got up by the government to amuse the people pending the triumphal re-entry into Paris of Henri V.,Who had not then yet issued the manifes to which shelves his prospects. I should add that politics Were not altogether absent from the scene; for Tumos of a possible coup d'état had been rife, ana ‘when the soldiery began sweeping through the streets at the dead of night timid citizens felt sare the coup d'état had indeed come. Terrified nightcaps might be seen peeping out of windows, and an unmanly bdourgecis, whom I met in a small street not far from the fire, was running home uttering exclamations aloud:—“O mon Dieu! It’s just asl feared! We are going to have barricades and executions again.” Iam sure if I had followed the fine fellow Isnould have seen bim take up his stand under | he fignt | some doorway, waiting for early news oi and preparing to baw] “Vive le Rot!” or “Vive la jiquel’’ to whichever faction had won the victory. But my present purpose is not to talk olitics nor even to describe the fire at the Opera louse. them is soon told in the three words “agitation, tumult and jokes.” But as to this particular fre it may be remarked that “t's 4N ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD.” and this burning of vhe old Opera House in the Rue Lepelletier will be a boon for several reasons. In the first piace it will hasten the completion of that new and bdeautilul opera reared by the architect Garnier, near the Grand Hotel. In the second place it will give the city of Paris an excuse lor ter- munating the Boulevard Haussmann, which the Emperor’s government had intended to run right through the Opera House which has just been burned, and which the republican municipality had delayed finishing because of the cost of buying up and puiling-down the said Opera House; and third, | the completion of the new Opera House aad the Boulevard Haussmann will render it obviousiy necessary to continue that magnificent Avenue de Opéra which is to lead irom the new Opera House to the Théatre Frangais, knocking down a multitude of small and tor- tuous streets on its way. As this last improve- ment will give the finishing touch to the restored Paris as Napoleon Iii. dreamed it, and as, more- over, all architectural renovations on this grandi- ose scale entail numerous sanitary reforms—light, air, better drainage, to say nothing of picturesque- ness and gayety—it may truly be said that tne fire-flend who applied his torch to the old Opera House was, for once, an agent of good. On the other hand, PARIS WILL BE THE POORER BY ONE PLAY HOUSE | THIS WINTER, and it is also very probable that the fancy dress balls which used to be held at the Opera Houre every Saturday evening from December to Lent will be abolished. They had long ago degenerated from their pristine splendor, and were beginning to be looked upon as 4 boisy and rather rowdy nuisance. The temporary transfer of the opera to the ['neatre du Chatelet, near te river (which is a trifle too far off for the dancing ladies, who mostly lived near the Rue Lepelietier), will afford tbe manager, Halangier, or rather the government, whose agent he is, a pretext for closing the carnival balls for- ever. No more shail we see young Frenchmen stalk through the streets of a winter night arrayed | helmets with | as clowns or wearing fantastic plumes a yard high; no more card board noses, grinning masks or flaming beards, blue, violet and carrot; no more sprightly ladies dressed as peasant girls, columbines or sporting men’s clothes. Mo- rality will be the gainer, and perhaps pure frolic, | too; lor the opera bails had been for the last ten years a somewhat ghastly sight of forced merri- ment and undiguisavle weariness. A SUBSTANTIAL LOSER BY THE FIRE is poor Ambroise Thomas, the composer. On the morrow of the day when the Opera was burned his “Hamlet” was to have been performed for the one hundredth time, and he was to have received a bonus of $3,000 irom his musical publishers. This nus is now adjourned for haps @ twelve- Month, for it so happens that all the scenery and costumes of “Hamlet” were burned. The scenery and properties saved we hose of “Le Prophete,”* “Guillaume Tell’ and ‘“Rovert le Diabie;’ also Dart of the scenery of M. Mermet’s new opera “goan of Are,” which was to have peen brought Out next week. It will be performed ail the sane in January, and with the wnree operas above named will probably give the staple entertainment at the Chatelet Opera till the new house be inaugurated, Imay obser\e that the opera in Paris is mainly supported by State subsidies; it receives from government $160,000 a year, and the tanager = 4s bound by treaty to ‘bring out at least one | new opera of jour or five acts ever. other subsidized theatres are the winter, The héatre Fran- ‘ gals, which receives $45,000; the Odeon, $20,000, and | he Opéra Comique, $40,000. ese subsidies are poy beneficial, ior there can be no doubt that Without them no grand operas of Mevyerbeer or Rossini, aad no plays of Corneille or Moliere could be performed bejore a French public witu pecan. | profit. THE POPULAR TASTE RUNS TOWARDS LIGHT COMEDY | AND OPERETTA, - The kings of the stage are Dumas, Sardou, Meiibac, Hailévy, Offenbach, Hervé, Vasseur and Lecoq; and these eight gentiemen—four writers and four composers—divide pretty equally be- tween them the gigantic receipts drawn irom the 16 Parisian theatres which devote themselves to light productions, M. Sardou will on Monday next bring out at the Vaudeville his long prom- ised “Uncle Sam,’ which was prohibited by M. Thiers out of deference to the American people, Whose institutions M. Sardon bas sought to faarise; and in about @ fortnight the Variétés i eatre will periorm a grand anti-repub- Mean comedy, by the same author, culled Les Merveilleuses."” In the latter piece itis bis pat coul men, the French, whom M. Sardou Fidicules, and the public may confidently expect some riots and figh' wee { Bignalized the setts among the audience such as Meanwhile M. Dumas has a ne for the Gymnase—a piece a blessed panacea for m: y' an Imouialeviis which French hy a authori; ‘and M. Offenbach is attend. Teh. she Fehearsals Of @ new operetta about the = ‘Van-Can-Khan.” At the Theatre Frangais 3 jose two excellent authors, MM, Augier and Sun- eau, are about to produce their “Jean de Thome- ray,” @ comedy-drama, which treala of w young @pendtarit of the Second Kmplee. tranglonmed All French fires are alike, and the tale of | house, | early performances of “Rabagas.’? | 'W piece on the stocks | vocating divorce, a | Ww 4 nero and & gentleman by the last war; and it is said that M, Victor Hugo is about to startle the public with a grand historical tragedy, in five christened “Washi n.'? So, on the whole, the Parisians have plenty of amusement in store for the coming cold season, and, despite tts politt- cal troubles, this city will continue to be the head- quarters of mirth aa of yore. One word before L nish about the new diva of Otfenbach’s pieces, who is cer- tainly destined before long to cross the Atlantic and charm New York. She is fatr-haired and dainty, a winsome, blue eyed, smiling little thing, who won the heart of all Paris on the first night of her appearance some 10 weeks ago, and nas continued to improve steadily in public iavor ever since. She is a great improvement on Mile. Schneider, who is growing 8 trifle too old and was always somewhat coarse, and she is by several cubits superior to that handsome but hoydenish per lady, Mile, Blancbe d’Antigny, who is the pet eroine ‘of 'M. Hervé’s operettas. Mme. Théo has all the French qualities of refinement, good taste and delicacy. She is every inch an artiste and half the witlings of the city have already composed madrigais in her honor, while such papers as the Figaro and Gaulois go into frantio ecstasies over her perfections, comparing her toa star and a rose blended together and endowed | with the voice of a nightingale—a curious image, | im truth, but French journalists have ever been | inventive, | THE LONDON THEATRES. Spears MADAME THEO, | A New Comedy-Drama at the Court— | ePhne Beautitul Mrs. Rousby” (Vide Photograph)—Premier Giadstone Hit Of at the Olympic—Age Cannot Wither Mr. Charles Mathews—An American Citizen Overcome by British Loyalty—A Favorite Oid House in the Market. Lonpox, Oct, 30, 1873, One by one the London theatres are opening for the winter season, and though, no doubt, the man- agers are reserving their trump cards for a later period, when town shall be more full and business | brisker, there is plenty of pleasant amusement to | be had. When Christmas pantomime was far more universal than it is at present, managers were in the habit of deferring the opening of their theatres as late as possible, and, without thinking of money making, were content if they could Keep the ac- counts balanced, relying on Christmas and the pantomime for their profits, This, however, 1s no longer the case, save at Drury Lane, where the Tule still maintains; at the other houses a certain class of entertainment, burlesque, revue or spectacie, is prodaced at Christmas time as an attraction for the children and the holiday makers; | but a far-seeing manager now selects no special period for his coup, finding among indigenous Lon- doners and the ever arriving excursionists @ suf- ficient gudience to welcome anything good, bad | or eccentric, which may happen to hit the public taste. “ALONE,”? AT THE COURT. The Court Theatre, a prettly little bandbox, situ- ate in Sloane square, far away on the southwestern confines of civilization, has produced tne novelty of the week, in the shape of a three act comedy- drama, called “Alone.” The authors are Messrs. Pal- | grave Simpson and Herman Merivale—the former an old stager, the lattera young gentleman who, | for the first time, comes forward in his own proper name, having hitherto been winning his aramatic | spurs under a pseudonym. They are indebted for | the outline of their plot to a French comedy by Scribe, “La Lectrice,* but they have | succeeded in giving the story an Eng- | lish garb, though they have falled to do away with much in it that preposterous and absurd. An elderly colonel, blind and misanthrophic, ts living “alone” at Torquay. His misantbrophy is not doe entirely to his blindness. He imagines bis daughter to have run away from school with a man who has not married her, ana he consequently hates the human race, and flies into the most terrible paroxysms of rage on every possible occasion. In a young lady, who comes | to him recommended as a reader, the public recognizes the daughter, and speedily learns that both the young lady and the young gentleman, | Irom whom she had separated immediately, have | been much belied. The girl had no intention of elopement, but started offon the receipt of a letter | announcing the dangerous illness of her fatner; the cavalier had attended the rendezvous on the receipt of a letter purporting to be an assignation | made by the lady. Alter the necessary amount of mental agony on all sides the forger of these epts- | tles, a jealous school companion of the hervine, confesses her crime, the Colonel being at the same | tinge mercifully restored to sight through the skill | ofasomewhat Mippant doctor, who forms a con- | necting link between the principal personages. { rhis is @ pretty little story, and it ia very well | acted. Mr. George Rignold looks like a genueman | ana comveys the idea of biindness without those unpleasant contortions which nagally accompany | such ap assumption; he (s occ&sionaly a little | | exaggerated in his iraacibility, but his outbreaks | | sre at least more natural than those of the stick | brandishing hoarsely bellowing old theatrical mili- taires to Whom We are accustomed. Miss O'Berne | plays the daughter with unexaggeratea force aud | teeling, and Miss Litton enacts a capricious widow | in@ style successiully modelled on that of Mrs. | Bancroft. A sponging, toadying hanger-on of the | Coionel’s is played by Mr. Clifford Cooper with an | amount of natural perception and humor which | leads one to look upon him as an acquisition to the | London stage. The worst thing about the little | piece—and consequently that which has attained | the greatest Per trom the majority of the | critics—is the disiogue, which bristies with rade- ness so palpabie aud so gross as to be necessarily | latal to the existence of any society in which it Was permitted. This atyle Of conversation, origi- nated by the late Mr. Robertson and improved upon by Mr. Hl. J. Byron, is considered to be “epi- | grammatic,” whereas it is simply insolent and un- Datural. THE ROUSBYS AT THE PRINCESS. Some time ago Mr. fom fayior, the dramatist, visited the island of Jersey and discovered Mr. and Mrs. Rousby, who were acting there, Mrs. Rousby 8 a lady with a very handsome face and a very small knowledge of the dramatic art. | Mr. Rousby is Mrs. Rousby’s husband, a gentleman who under one name or another had been acting about the provinces for several years and vainly | atiempting to get an opening mm London. That opening, Owing to Mr. Taylor's intiuence, Was ac- corded to the aspirants; ior them Mr. Taylor | wrote two plays, “"Twixt Axe and Crown”! and | “Joan of Arc which were produced at the | Queen’s Theatre with @ factitious success. It was | admitted by those who knew anything about it | that Mrs. Rousby could not act at all and that Mr. Rousby was a third-rate imitation of Mr. Charles Kean; but there was no doubt that Mrs. Rousby looked wondertully picturesque and handsome in the headdress of the Princess Ehza- | beth and in the armor of Joan of Arc, and the public, which is always marvellousiy lenient to the artistic shortcomings of a pretty woman, bore with ber and her husband for atime. Mr, and Mrs, Rousby have now returned to London ater a | lengthened absence and are playing in ‘“fwixt | Axe and Crown” at the Princess’. I reserve tur- ther comment upon them until the production of “Griselda,” @ new play in blank verse by Miss Braddon, which 1s announced jor ext mnt, | A POLITICAL BURLESQUE. ~~~ Regular theatre irequenters mustered in force on Monday nignt at the Olympic, where a buriesque ent 1 “Kichelieu Redressed” was announced tor | production. It was anticipated that Mr. Rigbton, who had previously given a clever imitation of Mr, Irving, would parody the great actor in his | | newest part. The burlesque turned out, however, to have little or nothing to do with Bulwer’s piay, | aod to be @ political skit. Mr. Righton was very | happily made up Jor Mr. Gladstone, and the politics of the present ministry and the recent electioueer. | | Ing tactics cf the conservatives were very happily | hitom. We are ukely to lave a good deal of this kind of humor, the taste jor which was inaugu- | rated by the “Happy Land.” MR. CHARLES MATABWS. The perennial Mr. Charies Mathews is juat com- | pletiug another successful engagewent at the Gaiety, aud though within siX weeks le will attain is Dis 70th year there does not seem to be the slightest lailing olf in bis vivacity. 1 had heard | thay his e Was failing @ littie and that he had | lost somewhat of bis incomparable finesse, | bat whe saw him the other night in | “The Game of Speculation’? there was | hot the smallest trace of any feebieness in | | delivery or manner, while his style was what It ever has been—the perfection of artiess art. It is | | Understood that Mr. Mathews tas achieved a hand- | | Some jortune and that a recent legacy has largely | | Saded to his means, but his fonduess for his pro- | Jeasion is such that he has no intention of relin. | Pr ire aeccin < will spend the winter at Nice, and r rin e e Pies: spring Le purposes being ready tor | ‘ THE FRENCH PLAYS. Messrs. Vainay and Pitron, who, fot the last two or three seasons, have catered for the London | lovers of the French drama—in the original, be it always understood—have commenced a new season at the Holborn Theatre. This is an uniortunate locatity for their patrons, who are mostly to be found among the upper ciaases, and at present no striking novelty bas been produced, wuile jhe company is rather weak. RIVIERE'S CONCERTS. The promenade concerts, which, ander the di- rection of M. Kiviere, have been carried on jor | nearly three months at Covent Garden Theatre, have been attended with singular success, This is | owing to the fact that the tastes of ali, the lovers of the classical and the tune-whistiers in the streets, are at different times conauited. You may hear Beethoven one night and Offenbach the next, while the grand instramenval morcearer are divided Ov the voualiaation of Mine, Carlotta att or Mr, | the last being direc Levy's donbie tonguing execution on the cornet. Saturday night last was given up Lo the music of Wales, There wore Welsh choral singers and Welsh harpers, with names of twenty consonants without a single vowel among them. There were [ully 8,000 people present, and when the band jayed Mr.’ Brinley Richard’s' grand hyma, “God less the Prince of Wales |" led by the composer in person, all stood ap and joined in chorus. The evect was electrical, An American friend accom- panied me there, and, on looking round, {found him with open mouth chorussin; ay “Yor still the cry re-echoes, Go-o-od bless the Pri-ince of Wa. -les,”” “Alallo!” (gatd, “What are you alter? this is nothing to do with you.” “I beg your pardon,” he replied, “I was so carried away that m (improper word) tf I could help it.” THR PROVINCES. Some of the vest metropolitan actors are Now on their provincial tour, Newcastie-on-Tyne is doubly blessed, with Mr. Buckstone and the Haymarket Company at the Royal and Mr. Webster with the Adelphi company at the Tyne. The sempiternal Mme. Celeste is play! the undying “Green Bushes" at Manchaster, Mias Ada Cavendish las taken the “New dalen’ to Scarborough. Mr. Barry Sullivan is playing legitimate tragedy to enormous houses tn Dublin. + TO LET. For the first time within the memory of man the Adelphi Theatre, the chosen home of str@e melo- drama and rattling farce, is to let, air, Webster, its proprietor, finding himseif too old to give the necessary attention to its management. The rent is £4,000 ($20,000) a year, THE NEW FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE. ee ‘The executors of the estate of the late Mr. Peter Gilsey have erected, in Twenty-elghth street and Broadway, on the site of the Apollo Hall, a theatre for Mr. Augustin Daly. The building has a frontage of 60 feet on Twenty-eighth street and 65 feet in the rear, and is 160 feet deep, divided into the vestibule of 20 fees; the house, 70 feet; the stage, 40, and the green room 30 feet. The givision walls are built of brick, 20 and 16 inches thick, covered to the roof, and form, with tron doors and shutters, a very valuable addition to the fire proof qualities of the building. The scene room and painters’ gal- leries are in a building adjoining the stage, 22x45 feet in size. The height of the house, from floor to ceiling, is 56 feet. The stage has a height of 62 feet, with a drop of 2 feet, the stage entrance being from Twenty-ninth street. The dressing rooms are in the second and third stories, over the green room, and the wardrobe in the fourth story. All are well lighted and supplied with all requisites—such as water, &c. The dressing rooms, manager's office, &c., are accessible from the I'wenty-ninth street entrance. The building is well ventilated by large registers, windows and ventilating skylights. The means of egress are 80 ample and direct that the house can be emptied in less than two minutes. The front has a portico of double columns, sure mounted with a balustrade, forming a balcony on tne second story, under which are the seven pairs of large doors. The doors connect directly with the staircases and prevent crowding the vestibule during the exit of the audience. The centre doors only are opened for ingress, and lead directly into the grand vestibule, 20 feet wide, and extending | across the entire front. The ceiling of the vesti- bule is open in the centre and enclosed with a hand- some balustrade, giving a view of the second story vestibule, with its elaborate frescoes. The covered ceilings will be nandsomely decorated in fresco. ‘To the right and lett in the first story vestibule are spacions staircases, which lead to the upper ‘‘ves- ibule” and the first and second galleries, and in the centre of the first vestibule is the entrance to the parquet. At the sides of the centre doors are the ticket offices, fitted up in panel work of white and gold and embossed plate glass marked with medallions. On entering the parquet the pro- scenium is seen, with its three tiers of double boxes on either side, with balconies, columns and capitals, all richly decorated, the pediments sup- porting Cupids with emblems, which, as well as the whole interior, are designed in the style of the late Renaissance. The proscenium arch is sup- ported by a pair of beautiful caryatides, and the arch over the boxes with brackets, held up by large fauns, which, with the pro- scenium and its boxes and their rich draperies, columns, capitals and decorations will form a fine specimen of decorative architec- ture. The seats in the parquet are divided by a wide central aisle and a passage leading along the wall on either side, connects with the first tier of proscenium boxes. At the entrance of the par- quet are placed eight French boxes, raised above the floor, seating from four to six persons each, ‘The seats are of iron, richly uphoistered and of un- usually large size and made expressiy for this the- atre, The parquet will seat about 600 persons besides what the proscenium boxes will accommo- date. The first circle seats about 400, besides hav- ing ampie standing room and the large vestibule. ‘The seats throughout are of iron, the same as those in the parquet, and there is not @ seat in the house that bas not a perfect view of the stage. The sec- ond gallery will seat about 500 persons, ‘The upper vestibule resembles the lower one, ex- cept in the closed arch ceiling, painted to resemble a forai temple. The vestibule connects by means of French windows with an open baicony, sup- ported*by the portico below, leading across the en- ure front of the building, which will be illuminated by ‘our large gas candelabras. This vestibule can be thrown open towards the stage by means of large | doubie folding doors, giving a fine view across the house and stage, forming not only a delightful | promenade, but excelient standing room in case of a crowded attendance, The iron gallery railing is very attractive, of graceful design, left open above the lower half, and made of festoons and orna- ments iu reliet. The columns are so piaced as not to interfere with the view, and are richly deco- rated with masks, garlands, flowers, &c. From the first circie landing is the door to tne ladies’ dressing room, which fronts on Twenty-eighth eighth street, and is 20x24 feet. itis a handsome | parlor, with dressing room attached, and will be elegantly upholstered and turoished in crimson satin. ‘The stairs connect directly with the second gal- lery and fet circle, the front portion of the second gallery being seated the same as the first gallery, and the lfamily circle arranged with sofas elegantly upholstered. Above la the covered ceiling carried over to the wall by a large cove, and in the centre a hal! dome of 23 feet dia- meter, which not oniy gives light and a deco: ve field for the artist but is also a gigantic ventilator. It {9 surmounted by a large ejector 10 teet in diameter and four square side ventilators. This is all connected with the attic, which extends over the entire auditorium, aud also connected with a large ventilator in front, giving a complete circula- tion of air without the aid of windows or doors. The grand hoarra is painted in perspective to represent one of the early open air theatres with its colonnade and rich supporting figures, and above all is a beautiiul sky with floating Cupids. The space above the proscenium arch will be decorated by a {resco representing the Olympian games, being 4s it were 4 companion piece to the ceiling. The theatre will be additionally ventila- ted from the side windows and registers in sum- mer in connection with the hall dome in the ceil- ing, and in winter it wiil be ventilated and heated with cold air passed over steam pipes at a low tem- perature through some registers inthe floors and Side walls, by which, with the dome, an even tem- peratidre and pure atmosphe 1 always be main- | tained. The lighve will be placed behind the seats on the side walls so as to give the audience a com- fortabie view of the stage. Lights will also be in- | troduced in the half dome in stich @ manner as to give a soft light tothe auditorium below without the jets being seen. The gas brackets and chande- ters are gilt, with rich crystal decorations, and all the fixtures will be iighted by electricity, In the rear of the stage, 0 the wardrobe room, is a large iron tank supplied from a powerful steam pump, and irom the tank is carried a large fire main, With outiets on the rear of the stage, car- penters’ gailery, seene buildings and parquette, ‘ 3 in irontof the stage, with hose, &c., complet Phe building throughout, in- cluding the scene building and dressing rooms, &c., is heated by a low pressure steam heating ap- paratus located onder the vestibule steam pipes and opened at convenient pointe throughout the buildings. The stage, green room and dressing rooms are separated from the auditorium by mas- sive brick walis. ‘Ine building used by the scene | painters and stage carpenters is entirely separate from the stage and anditorium, and connects only with the stage by iron doors. No expense has been spared to make the building sale from fire, To allow furtber egress, large doors are arranged from the first circle directly to Broadway, which can be thrown open in case of any alarm. The architect is Mr. Stephen . Hatch, under whose direction the entire work is being completed, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES. “The Habeas in the Wood” is to be the name of the new spectacular pantomime which is to follow “The Black Crook” ht Niblo’s, Mr. Edwin Booth will continue lis performances at Booth’s Theatre during the week, playing Brutaa, one of bis best impersonations. Miss Carlotta Leclereq bas made a genuine suc- “The new Magdalen,” at the Broadway Theatre, | cess as Mercy Merrick in Mr, Wilkie Collins’ draina, | Miss Kate Field will deliver a lecture in Dr. Por- | ter's church, Bedford avenue, Brooklyn, E, D., to- morrow evening. The subject she has chosen for the entertainment is Charles vickens, This will be Miss Ficla’s fret appearance as a lecturer in ‘his Vickmty for two years, AU eveMlag MuCCe Ab Ne a CONGETS Ab the fate ceum Theatre under the direction of Mr. F. ¥. Eben, bandmaster of the Seventy-firat regiment, The best feature of the entertainment will be the performances of Seflor Delgado, the Mexican violinist, An orchestra of 60 pieces will be present. ‘The Strakosch Italian Opera troupe will again ap- pearin operatic concert at Wallack’s Theatre, this evening. Mile, TYorriani and Miss Annie Loutse Cary, M. Capoul, M. Maurel, and Signor Del Puente are the artists who are to sing; Signor Morosini will be the pianist, and the entire om chestra is to perform. “A Flash of Lightning” will hold the boards at the Grand Opera House another week, when it Will be replaced by the Christmas pantomime, in which Mr, G. L, Fox is to appear asclown. The idea of the pantomime is saia to be Humpty Dumpty’s journey round the world, It is said that nothing in the way of pantomime was even seen in this city to equal this latest effort of Mr. Fox. Mr. McWade, whose periormance of Rip Van Winkle is artistic, if not strictly original in concep- tion, is closing his present engagemer® at the Olympic Theatre. He will be followed by Mr. Ed- win Adams as Enoch Arden. In this creation of the poet Tennyson platonism is prettily, if vaguely expressed, and vehement marital jealous- tes inferentially rebuked, though, it Is to be feared, ‘with poor effect. Mr, Lester Wallack has been playing Hugh Chal- cote in ‘Ours’! for a week with remarkable suc- cess, Doth in its business and artistic aspects. In accordance with the programme adopted at the beginning of the present comedy season at Wal- lack’s, the néw comedy will yield to the old next week, Mr, Charles Mathews? adaptation of Foote's famous comedy ‘The Liar,’ with Mr. Wallack as Young Wilding, 18 next in order. These two weeks, last week and this, seem to be the concert time of the season. Last night were Theodore Thomas’ symphony concert at Steinway Hall, and the Philharmonic concert; to- night the “sacred concerts’ noticed in other places; and on ‘Cuesday, the 18th inst., Gilmore’s Twenty-second Regiment Band will appear for the first time in concert, while Theodore Thomas and soloists will cater to the musical Brooklynites at Dr. Scudder’s church. After a very successfal run Mr. George Fawcett Rowe’s comedy-drama, “The Geneva Cross,” has been withdrawn from the boards of the Union Square Theatre, and to-morrow evening Mr. W. 8, Gilvert’s fairy comedy, “The Wicked World,” takes its place, Mr. Gilbert's play is an exceedingly beautiful poem, and its successful run in London gives assurance also that it ig an excellent acting play. The scenes are all in fairyland—that land = syhere every fairy has a mortal counterpart. The fairies have every gift except love, their love being only sisterly affection, There is a law in fairyland—an old and almost obsolete statute—which permits the mortal counterparts of such fairies as visit the earth to be summoned to the fairy realms during the absence of the fairies’ queen, Selene, accord- ingly, summons Sir Ethais and Sir Phillon to her dominions during the absence of iairy Ethais and fairy Phillon. The scenes which follow are the earthly story of desperate love and intrigue and jealousy. At the end of twenty-four hours the fairies have had such experiences of the blessing of love that after the mortals are dismissed they refuse the gift which their king was about to confer upon them. Miss Clara Morris is to play Selene, the Fairy Queen. STARVATION’S TALE. Remarkable National Gratitude to the Blackboard Martyr. eee! BALM FOR NAST IN GILEAD. A Vacancy in the Chalk Business, To THE EpitoR OF THE HERALD :— Please find a self-explaining but valuable sugges- tion as my second contribution to the Nash fund. I found 1t in one of the papers :— There has just died in London a man who made bis living by drawing pictures, with chalk, on the sidewalks and hiring them out by the day to the highest bidders, who received in alms from the passers by the means to pay their rene, A SYMPATHIZER. PATERSON, N.J., Nov. 15, 1873, A Legislator’s Tears of Sympathy. Cotumbia, 8, O., Noy. 12, 1873, To THE Epiror or THE HERALD:— My bowels of compassion have been stirred to their inmost depths by the knowledge of the hu- miliation that Mr. Nast has been forced to. I was foolish enongh to think that it was from choice that he degraded his talents, but sad reflection over my own tnisfortunes teaches me dilferentiy, and likewise to be charitable. Enclosed please find a Confederate note for $5 for his benefit. I might send greenvacks, but our | State officials have swamped ali these, and we Bo! nothing left us but the memory of bygone days. If sympathy will dowim any good put me down for any amount of that, to be paid on demand, Ihave been a member of the Legislature ever since reconstruction, but this is the worst year for business Ihave seen—seventeen days in session and not @ good job yet. I wish this financial stringency was over. Confidentially, yours, Senator BRINDLETATL. Multiform Charity. New York, Nov, 14, 1873. To 1H¥ Epivor OF THE HERALD :— Please acknowleage the following articles for the benefit of the fallen artist:—One ¢lothespin, one bootjack, empty cigar box, one toothpick, two cents’ worth of raisins, seven-eighths of a nutmeg, three cents’ worth of washing soda, half yard of paper muslin, two corks; one bustle, to carry his box of chalk on; pair of earrings; one ring to put im nis nose, to keep him from rooting; one ounce paregoric, one pair of garters, tail of codfish, one bone, one cart rung, half pound of bacon; paper collar, very little worn; two shingle nails; one gas burner, only three years in use; one box of Inatches, slightly damaged (by fire); haif pail of coal, bundie straw, one dead mocking bird; one pair calico slippers, for the winter; one cow hide, to make gloves; top of seltzer bottle; one second- hand shirt, open on either side; three mushrooms and a lamp chimney, corkscrew (no handle), one ticket to go up in @ balloon and take a breeze (Pro- fessor Donaldvon’s). J send these few articies with a willing heart, and hope they will do him the good for which they are intended, P. DOYLE, == | The Curse of an Unknown Power, AUBURN, Nov. 10, 1875. To THe Epiror oF THE HERALD :— . Seeing the curse of some unnow power has un- | doubtly. falling on Mr. Nast and our knoble sezor home he bas so faithfulle served fails to reconise his depiorble condishion I feel it my duty to come to | the resene, I theirfore enclose one pinney stamp which seeing our knoble sezor has ishew speshew payment he will realise more truble in gitting it exchanged for hard cash alithough this cold winter may hang heavyly on his hands which we through the journal of siviemeation has don someuch to bring a bout though the winter's wind may whisle through his tat ted coat and poverty may sfare him in the iace do not veary from the path of the writches ior] can asure him that hard is the Toad of the egresser, CAPPER JON, Anburn State Prison, A Currency Relic of War Times, To THe Eprror ov THR HERALD Desiring to assist struggling merit, no matter where found, and observing that you were getting up a Nast fund, | enclosed a 50 cent note, issued by our beloved State during the late disturbance, and known in general as ‘‘Nothin shorter’ —play on the Governor's name. One peculiarity of this kind of money 18 that a hoss won't eat it, the fact being established in this wise:—One of the Fifteenti cavalry, Biles’ regiment, being In a weaving way, placed in his horse's trough all the different kinus ol paper mouey then jn circulation here, among which was Confedetate money, all the railroad notes, cotton money, and many other sorta, in- cluding the enciossd bill. The gallant steed munched away, eating everything straight aion, until he came to it, when he ceased at on anc no persuaders, though liberally applied, could make him stomach “shorter.” Therefore have deemed it but fitting thatit should form pari of the Nast testimonial. gata ONE OF THE FIFTEENTH CAVALRY, A Fellow Calling Makes Us Wondro Kind. Mister “orror—Sinse dor extras is a comin out iwantto go out of der boot blak bussnes andi Drusn. Mister Nast can get dem by axing for Squint round to der paper ofiices. SQUENT, A Pill and a Cent. Novemosr 14, 1873, To THB Eprror or THE HeRALD:— Enclosed please find one cent, also one pill, the voluntary contributions of a friend of poor Tom's. The first may be used to relieve any present sul- Rprigges sak Reesciad genius ane ne ti jam-age ferings Rave 1a! heir to. . or DOS! TROTTING AT FLEETWOOD PARK. Three trotting races were started at Fleetwood | Park yesterday afternoon, and two of them were decided, but the third one was postponed on ac- count of darkness after four heats had been trotted, ‘The frst trot was for norses that had never beaten 2:38 under the saddle, which had five starters. These were Dan Mace’s bay gelding Sherman, H. Hynard’s black mare Betsey, J. Mur phy’s sorrel gelding Sorre! Jake, J. Kiot’s brown mare Ledger Girl and W. E. Week’s chestnut geld- ing Dick Yates. The betting was brisk on the race, Betsey selling for the highest figure. She won two heats and Sherman three and the race. ‘The second event was a match for $400, mile heats, best three in five, in harness, between Jerry Chickering’s bay gelding Pet and L. Devoe’s chest- nut mare Ice Cream, Pet was a great favorite. He won the race in three straight heats, The third trot was between horses that bad never trotted better than 2:26, There were eight entries and five starters, comprising Dan Mace’s black mare Blanche, J. Dugrey’s bay gelding Joker, John Murphy's bay gelding Charley Green, D. Jen- kins’ gray geiding Jo Brown and W. McCarty’s gray gelding Tammany. The latter was distanced the first heat. Four heats were trotted, Joker winning the first two, Blanche the thi the fourth being a dead heat between Blanche and Joker, It being then nearly dark the judges Epsponed the Tace until Monday, at two o'clock P. ‘The followthg are the SUMMARIRS. FLEETWOOD Park, Noy. 15.—Purse $100, for horses that have never beaten 2:38; $50 to the first horse, $30 to the second, $20 to the third; mile heats, best three in five, under the saddle; catch weights. bd ENTRIES. oe 8 T2121 D. Mace’s b. g. Sherman.. w1 38123 H. Hynara’s bik. m. Betsey. J. Murphy’s 8. g. Sorrel Jake 233832 J. Klot’s br. m. Ledger Girl. -4 4 dr. W. E. Week's ch, g. Dick Zates ~5 ar 8, Burn’s 8. g, John P...... ir. J. De cone. bik. g. Bill ir, J. HL. Phillips’ b. g. Happy . dr. TIME, Quarter, Hayy. Mile. First heat. 39 lt 40 Second heat, 1:17 3 ‘Third heat... + 39 1iT 9 Fourth heat + 39 1:16 194g Fifth heat. 39 1:18 2:41 SAME Day. , for horres that have Purse $350, never beaten 2:26; $160 to the first horse, $85 to the second, $65 to the third ana $35 to the fourth; mile heats, best three in five, in harness. ENTRIES, J. Dugrey’s b. g. Joker... B. Mace’s bik. m, Blanche. J. Murphy’s b. g. Charley Green. D, Jenkins’ g. bh. Jo Brown... W. McCarty’s g. g. Tammany... A. J. Feeks’ ch, m. Lady Emu Otis Bort’s b. g. Confidence. ©, Bliven’s sp. g. Spotted Colt. First heat. Second heat, ‘Third heat... Fourth heat + 8645 Same Day,—Match $400, mile heats, in five, in harness, play or pay. Jerry Chickering named b. g. Pet. L, Devoe named s. m. Ice Cream momen mec 222 First beat. Second beat ‘Third heat. The race unfinished on Friday at White Plains between the 2:35 horses, which was postponed by the judges until Monday, was claimed yesterday by the driver of Tanner Boy, who had scored two heats. The horse was jogged over the track under the belief that the race could not be postponed over one day, and his owner insists that he won the race and claims. the purse, RAGING IN AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 6, 1873. The racing season was opened on the 30th ult, “bythe Australian Jockey Club’s spring meeting at Randwick, when, for the first time in colonial his- tory, a horse owned by a Governor contested for the “blue ribbon.’ Fitz Yattendon, owned by Sir Hercules Robinson, started first tavorite for tne Derby and finished fourth, the winner being found in Benvolia, the representative of South Australia. ‘There was greater excitement regarding the Spring Stakes, for which everything was scratched except the champion horses of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. ‘The Ace, doing battle for the latter city, was leading until the finish, when Dagworth came with @ rush, Won on the post by a head, amid tremendous cheers for the local blood, Hamlet, the Victorian entry, taking third place. On Thurs- day last the Great Metropolitan Handicap of $1,000 and a sweepstakes of $50 each was run and re- sulted in a victory jor Horatio, stable companion to Dagworth. Both are owned by Ettie De Mestre, the first American domiciled in Australia. The Governor's colt carried off two good stakes—the Maiden Plate and the Produce Stakes, IRON-CLAD SHIPS AT SEA, A French [ron-Ciad After a Voyage ‘ to Australia. A special correspondence to the Hrratp, dated at Sydney, Australia, on September 6, reports as follows :— ‘The visit of the French iron-clad Atalanta to this port is not without interest to those who are endeavoring to solve the question ol! ships vs. guns, She is a vessel of the original European type, a wooden hull, plated with iron, and having an ex- ternal sheating of timber, overlaid with copper at and about the water line, Vessels of this class were considered gooa for any amount of ocean cruising, and the Atalanta has proved herself to be comparatively a lair sea-going vessel as well as a Tormidable antagonist viewed from a distance, Her present cruise has demonstrated that she is faulty in construction, besides entailing an expenditure here of some $30,000. ‘The first encounter with Atlantic waves caused her hull to work 80 much that some of the outer sheathing buckled and washed of. This was replaced at Rio Janeiro, only to be again stripped during the next gale she met, and on being docked it was found necessary to remove the whole of the outside woodwork and substitute Australian hardwood sheathing, fastened to the armor plates with screw bolts at intervals of four feet, the whole being cover- ed over with extra thicknesses of felt and sheathed with copper. As her present voyage will extend to San Francisco, the naval authorities there will have an opportunity of judging whether the new pian has proved'more efficient than that of the French builders. The Admiral appears satisfled with it, and also with the jacilities possessed for docking and repairing a vessel of ber size in Sydney. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. Commissioner Van Nort, of the Department of Public, Works, makes the following statement of public moneys received by that department during the week ending yesterday (Saturday) :— ir Croton water rent and penalties $15,622 or vault pe : + BID 300 142 Total $10,615 COMPTROLLER GRELN'S RECEIPTS, Comptroller Green reports the following pay- ments into the City and County Treasury :— Taxes of 1878 and water rents. $224,607 Atrears of taxes, assex«ments and interest........ 7,033 Vollection of asse ents and interest....., BS Water rents and sever’ 2122 Vaulis permi rote 1 Market rents and fees, interest on bonds and mortgages, &c bedeieu tests cooes 8,581 Licenses, Mayor's vilice vs (4 Fines and teeo—First District Court. #8 Total... THE TEACHERS’ SALARIES. Comptroller Green yesterday transmitted to the Board of Education warrants amounting vo $220,000 for the payment of the teachers in the public schools. ; RAILROAD ACCIDENT. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 15, 1873. At 11 o'clock to-day, as o freight train was Passing over the junction bridge which crosses the Schuylkill above Gray's Ferry, one of the cars left the track and, striking an iron column, broke 4% portion of the bridge, precipitating three cars loaded with stone into the river. Fortunately no | beens was injured, The road isa branch of the vennsylvanis jiroad, and leads to a treight depot on the Delaware Kiver, A POLITICAL HONOR DECLINED. SPRINGYIELD, Mass,, Nov. 15, 1878, Samael Bowles, of the Springfeld Republican, « HPAL ia mak Dials Naas 2 AESHSR OS ae BOR a J ha vacuumed a cAnOMM’ HOIMARADAR LOE gor. SEAMENS’ RIGHTS. A Curious Procession of Tars at the City Hall—Mayor Havemoy- er’s Perplexity. Protest Against the Sailor's Exchange Tostitution—Who Will Look After Poor Jack? A procession of seamen, firemen and others as sémbled yesterday in the City Hall Park and marched the streets afterward by way of protest- ing against the institution called the “Sailurs’ Ex- change,” in Cherry street. There might have been about 300 in the procession, which was headed by the little vessel called the ‘Red, White and Blue,” mounted on a truck and manned by several sailor, Doys. Astrip of muslin, suspended between the masts, was inscribed ‘In distress,” and if the pree carious altuation of the tiny craft on the old truck that bore her through the streets was in- tended to be signified by the notice it was quite im keeping. Either the “sailors” in the procession had been @ long time ashore and had adopted the dress of landsmen gy had worn out their marine suits, for there was a noticeable absence of the Jack tar costume, and in place of bine shirts and mop caps were many very ordinary overcoats, lik® unto those worn by car drivers, and wide-a-waka hats, common to "longshoremen. e A LARGE CROWD of spectators assembled on tie steps of the City Hall, 1t was much the same crowd as may always be found at the dull season of the year in this low cality, whenever there is any sight to be seen, and the Mayor is expected to make hts appearance and deliver a speech, When the sailors’ procession de- tarted, and there was nothing more for the crowd to hear or witness, a Cuban demonstration fortan- ately sprung up and afforded some intellectual entertainment for the remainder of the afternoon, At about one o’clock Mayor Havemeyer made his appearance at the top of the steps leading doww from the City Hail. He appeared a little confused at first, as if he did not quite comprehend the character of the assemblage before Lim. The tars were also alittle confused, not knowing exactly how to commence and splice an acquaintance with His Honor. The delay, however,,was but momént- ary. The tail end of the procession moved im the direction of where the Mayor stood, led by A HILARIO@S TAR, with @ wooden splinter in his hand, singing out to the venerable Havemeyer, “Here we are, mate, come along, lads," at the same time taking a hitch in the rear spare room of his partaloons, and mov- ing forward to ascend the steps as if he were about to climb the ratlines of a ship. Two [epost thought it just as well to take charge of this gal- lant tar and deprive him of the chance of acting aa spokesman. ‘The Mayor put his glasses up and laughed, and began to wonder what kina ofa marine view this was, A boarding house proprietor jumped into tne breach at this moment and ex- claimed, “Mr. Mayor, you see before you the gal- lant totlers of the sea, the glory of America, who come here in their majesty to remonstrate against ‘he cruelty to which they are subjected,” and something more to that effect, His Honor smiled a curious smile, which seemed to express the idea “sold” very plainly, but like a brave old hero he stood his ground, and went down in his overcoat for a speech, which was as follows :— THE MAYOR'S SPEECH, My Furenps np Fauiow O1rizens :— Tam nota sailor, a shipmate or_a shipowner, nor haw the business of my lite made me familiar with the mode of udininistering the shipping laws or with the shipping interests of this city and county; but, having been some-: what of au observer of passing events in r years, E have some recollection of the relations which existed tween the captain in the harbor and the sbipowner tm days gone by and the abuses growing out of them, but no such complication which Would call for such a de~ monstration as this ‘The act passed by the last Congress in 1872, which you seek to have repealed, and known asthe Shipping Act, provides for the appointment of shipping com: ners whose duty it is to superintend the shipping and dis- charge ot seamen engaged in merchant ships belo! to the United States. this law was evidently enac in the interests of the sailor, and to protect him trom any imposture-+he may be subjected to in procuring em- ployment, and trom cruel and inhuman conduct ot oftl- << cers at sea and in foreign ports, and from landsharka 1 judge, however, from the demonstration of to-day and trom the protests which have been made, that the objects of the enactment haye not been accomplished. Tum not surprised at this if Irightly understand the manner in which this iaw has been administe: A similar fate has met every law which takes from the fea ones the power and invests it in official wresponsi- lity. But, my friends, I am not sufficiently familiar with the subject to advise you. Ail I cgn say is that I-do not think that sailors or the followers of any other calling require laws to govern them outside the general la which are designed to regulate the intercourse of men with each other and which recognize the common rights of our common humanity—leaving every ‘man to pursue his own calling in his own par iend under gach Tuleg and regulations as cach man or body of men may tind trom experience to be for the common Interest of all, Laws may be right in their object, but all wrtag i the, way in which they are administered. From al un learn you complain rather ot the manner in which the law is administered than of the law it~ such the case you are not ut u remedy, and I suggest that you consider this question with great care before you ask for &, change in the law whlch generally may be very’ food. And, an pushing your case do not permit it to be allied with that ol others There are those who would take advantage of your wrongs, and the sympathy which you naturally excite, to lurther their own gelfish ends Let your case be distinctly your own, and I am assured that Congress will listen patiently to your petition and secure you all the enjoyment of those rights to which a8 seamen you are justly entitled. TALK AMONG THE TARS. In the crowd outside of the procession were @ good hatuta/ genuine tars who denounced both Dun- can and the procession impartially, One of these said, “If these fellows in the procession were to come out like that in Liverpool and do the work of the shipmusters and boarding house masters aa they are doing now, thera get stoned to death. These are not sajiors. If this Exchange was in other hands but Duncan's, who don’t know enough about sailors, {t would be the best thing at all for the men that ship out of this port. Formerly sailors had to pay a bonus toa shipmaster or a boarding house master to get @ lace ona ship, perhaps $10 or $20 or as high as 50, but now he can get his ship for 50 cents or about that. The Exchange, properly managed, 1s splendid thing tor the protection of the sailors, there is no use this trying to run it down, but Duncan isn’t the man to carry 1t out right.” ‘The arilt of discussion among the tars on the out- side of the procession was that the demonstration was a humbug as representing the sailors, and that it was in the interest of boarding houses and shipping masters, at the same time that Mr. * can’s management was generally called in question, THE TARRY BANNERS. As the procession moved off the following ban- ae carried according to their order here, came i View :. First—We are but a few of the many, all toilera of the sea, who ask Congress to repeal the Shipping Act; give us the law as it was; Jack will be no man’s slave. Qrerecererercococse rs serecrecserere sere we@ 3 Dungeons Freedom 3 for and jor z Felons Sailors. Qesevae es aees wear ange ne tO ae be be HOE. Second—‘‘Shangaeing” subsided at the close of the Crimean war, but was again revived by the appointment of Sipping Commissioners. 872. nird—The spirit of the deep spoke thus to Jack, “Beware of the coming vampire,” and Jack re- plied, “We fear not, we trust in God and Con- gress."” . 1873. Fourth—-The spirit of the deep again peaks thus, “The vampire is fattening on you," and Jack an- swers “Yes, but God will destroy it through Con gress.” After 1874 repeals Fifth—The spirit of the deep will speak thus, “The vampire 1s destroyed,” and we'll answer fer- vently, “God bless Congress.’? ‘Siath—Will Congress show Us they meant well in making this law by now repealing It? Seventi—For sale, sad or charter, the United States Seaman’s Exchange, whic in tain CHARLES C. PHILANTROPHY, Fighth—the petition for repeal will remain oper for signers at 61 South street until November 29, 1873. ‘vintn—We, the steamship men, denounce the act. What protection did we ask or receive ? Why should we support these uniformed variets or their “pensioned master” out of our hard earnings ? Tenth—steamship Columbia. Twenty per cent for cash and fifty ceats each to Duncan trom la married men, and that is called further protection to sailors. ‘The speaker who succeeded the Mayor was a Captain Osborn, He made a few vigorous re- marks denouncing the tyranny of the act of Con- gress which established tue sailor Exchange, and, after some few cheers, the procession moved on their forlorn tramp through the city to the mugic of a band, rh HORRIBLE MURDER IN MIDDLETOWN. PA. _—<—- MIDDLETOWN, Pa., Nov, 15, 1873. Verrible excitement was caused here by the res port that a murder had been committed in this vi- cinity. About six ofclock last evening while Abra- ham Beam, an aged farmer, residing about three miles from Middletown, was engaged cutting corm in bis barn with @ hatchet, two negroes entered, seized the hatchet and struck bimon the head with it, causing instant death. They then left the barn and proceeded to the house, the inmates of wht an old lady and gentieman, seeing the murderers by ch, one of them having the hatehet, locked and barred the doors and windows and deiended themselves, parsing, the negroes io fy, An alarm was spread wou the murderers are 1, uraued ayyROK OL ge