Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 5, Number 36, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 March 1875 — Page 4

H0J3ERG, ROOT & CO. OPERA HOUSE.

CARD.

Having completed our Annual inventory we return thank* to our innuy friends for tbeir liberal patronage the patftyonr. We, nhiall endeavor the coming yea*10 increase oar already largo sale* by offering our customer* still better Inducements, and by fair dealing and courteous treatment to Increase the confidence of our patrons and the popularity of our house. We extend a cordial Invitation to all who lmve not favored us with their patronage to give us a call before purchasing.

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ROO'T&CO.

THIS WEEK.

New Uoodsat poputar prlc «. Now Spring Calicoes, 7,8 and 10c. One hundred pieces iornest»cGingham at 10c, former price 121.

A large stock, of shirting Muslinfein Brown and Bleached, l',, 7, S, 10, 12 J» cents. .Shirting Linens the best goods in the market. .New prices 40, 30, Co, Too.

Bliirt Fronts, the most complete line ever shown 29, 25, 30. .'ft, 40c.

SEW EMBROIDERIES,

10,12,11,10,18, £0, -1, 28, :t o7c and upwards. NEW WHITE GOOPS,

HOUi»EKEEPIXti GOODS, TABLE LINENS,

."5, 10.50, 05,75-7500 dozen HUCK TOWELS,

'VNOVWOI^ANP DAM AHK NAPKINS, I 00,1.25, UA), 32.00 ier dozen and upwards, t'otton and Linen Hliwtings and Pillow Casings, Toilet (guilts, Table Covers, etc., all nt reduced prices.

HOBERG, ROOT & CO., OPEKA HOUSE.

Wanted.

'ANTED—RYE 8TR I.W—NICE AND will -h the highest price •will bo paid at MILLEli & AKUiTHri, South -Itlt street.

w-clean—for

will

WANTED-AGENTS

TO SELL A VAL-

uable and useful invention—the best IJiint? vet otIVred. Apply at once to L. ADAMS, 011 liocust klreet, three doors east of Lafayette srreet.

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Ppr D«v at home. Terms

tpZiKJ free. Address U. SriNSON A jnn'23-ly

free.

(Jo., Portland, Maine.

WANTED—ALLanyKNOW

TO THAT THE

HATUKDA EVENING MAIL has a larger circulation than newspaper published in the State,outside of Indianapolis. Also that it is carefully and thoroughly read in the homes of its patrons, and that it Is the very best advertising medium in Western Indiana.

For Sale.

[710K HALE OR TRADE J"1 ed city property. Kari miles northeast of Markle's mill. Gooo

FOR IMPROV-

Karm of *0 acres, 1

house, orchard, vineyard and spring. Inquire southeast corner of Swan untl 0a Hts., at K. V.UICHOWHKY.

J.IOR HALE-FRUIT TREKS-'#,000 APpie trees now standing In Fruit Ridge Nurseries, large euough to plant in permanent orchards. Two,'three and four years »ld apple trees, good (juality at 10c to 15c each. Pear trees, cherry trees, evergreens, ,fcc., at lowest prices for good trees. Hale grounds on Fruit Ridge, 14 miles East of sugar Urove Heho«l House. J. E. SOULE, proprietor. martWt

SALE-A TWO STORY HOUSE OF nine rooms in good repair—gas in every room—also cellar, cistern, ^yell, tic., price and terms reasonable. If not sold by the I5ih, will be forreut. Also two other houses for sale, one of four rooms ajid one of live rooms, at a bargain both in price and terms. A. C. MAT fOX. .luartt 2t

F?1.S

tKMlUM CHEMTKU each, $28 a pair. Chester (bounty

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WHITE PIGS. Chester Count

MAMMOTH CORN," and Imported BELGIAN OATH. 4 tKs by mail, 81 peck fi ,% kmshol S-'i bushel S5. Circulars and Sample JAickagcs of Seeds Free for 2 stamps. Addnms, N. P. BOYER,

Parkcsburg, Chester co.. Pa

171' »RSALE.-FOUR FIHHT-OLAHS COPJP per Soda Fountains and one first-class Generator. Inquire at or addressSHELLE»Y A, COX, 0th and Main streetTerre Hautr Jnd

1:iORHAI.R-HMAM.

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OFFICE SAFE—AT

a bargain. Enquire at M. M. JOAB*S l.aw Office. J23-tf

^OR HALE-WHEAP-A FULL SET OF Silver Instruments—all nearly new. A ttue chance to part Ira wishing to organize a Baud, as they will bo sold cheap. For particulars call on «r address M. W. STACK, Exchange Hotel, neRr Union Depot, or M. (£. WADE, at V. U. Dlckhout's Trunk Fac0O*» No. 19i Nftln street. JanS&tf

OR SALK-A BOULTINU CHEST, FOR FUurlng MUI, containing two reels, 10 feet long by 30 Inches In diameter, with gearing untl cloths all complete and all uew, built on the most Improved plan tor oountry work can bo easily removed will •oil It cheap for cash, or good paper on time. (t»U and see It, or address Mct'lure & Co., tttaunton, I ml.

For Rent.

JIOU RENT-HOUSE ON SOUTH Fourth street, near Sheets, containing 5 'ooms, kitehen, cellar, well cistern and outbuildtoo*. I n«iu

I rv southeast corner of Bwan »nd

»rjsinv-t. at F. V. KICIIOWSKY.

RENT-A DWEI.LINO ON NORTH Svooiid street: five room*, cellar. And out-hou^s. Apply to JaiuesRoai. 00 Cherry street, fifth house above Sixth, north *tde.

Pstr^t,(above

)R RKNT~«TOREROOM.No.t« MAIN Ath). Apply «t Bee Hive.

Found.

rpOt'ND-TllATTHK SATURDAY EVKI nlna Mali Is the in»*t widely elreulate'd newspaper In Ute State outside of ImlinuapoHs.

f?oVN|)—THAT WITH ONESTKOKEOF the iM^nyou^n rsach. with aw mlrertjseaoent in ihe Srti ir lny Evenitia Ji. il, almost every ivn«tlne laudly

this vui, us well as

the r»**lilent« of the towns and cAontry surroundlna T.-rre HauU*.

REMOVAL

Tilt:

Saving Fund

NOTION STORE

llnx Removed toSIMortli Foartk Street*

oppoilto (iljf Ncheel.

Whero can bo found a tall Stock of

Notions & Fancy Goods,

itiitterick and Domestic .Patterns.

Ptampinjr, Braiding &uU Erobrolderin* tu wiui,.

THEMAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

P. S. WESTFALL,

EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

TERRE HAUTE, MARCH 6, 1875.

SECOND EDITION.

TWO EDITIONS

Of this Paper are published. The FIRST EDITION, on Friday Evening has a large circulation in the surrounding towns, where it la sold by newsboys and agents. The SECOND EDITION, on Saturday Evening, goes into the hands of nearly every reading person in the city, and the farm era of this immediate vicinity.

Every Week's Issue is, in fact, TWO NEWSPAPERS, In which all Advertisements appear for

ONE CHARGE.

WITH this issue The Saturday Evening Mail enters upon its fourth year under the present proprietorship. Its business prospects were never more promising, nor its extraordinarily large subscription list at any time so large as at present. This state of affairs is certainly gratifying, and we do stop to inquire whether it is from any real merit the paper possesses, or the indulgencoe of a generous community.

THERE are some dismal prophets who think secession will bo reattempted.

Foil the first time in fourteen years the Republican party is out of power in Congress. _____________

DIALECT poetry has apparently run its course. Consent, A little of a good thing goes a great ways.

THERE are barely half a dozen editors in the land who get $10,000 a year. Net one of the six reside in this city.

CREMATION is almost forgotten, and people may compose themselves to being buried in the old-fashioned way.

MUCH valuable time is now consumed by thousands of people in reading the voluminous reports the Beecher trial.

THE Civil Rights bill as passed by the National House .'Representatives is now the law of tho land, having been concurred in by the Senate.

ONE of tho marked indications of the extraordinary cold weather of tho past six weeks is the presence of seals in the waters aUjacont to New York.

TnE South Bend Tribune is of the opinion that there is plenty of good timber in Indiana for legislators, but that this has been a bad year to get it out.

THERE are eight establishments for the manufacture of Bessemer steel in this country. There should bo one more, and that planted right in this city.

SAMUEL W. ALLEN, of Nevada, is believed to bo tho greatest herdsman in the world. His ranche is eighty miles long, and ho owns 225,000 head of cattle.

THE North Carolina Legislature recently expelled, or refused to admit a momber because lie did not believe in tho existence of a God. Tho acts of some legislatures lead many people to believe thoro is no God.

THE Providence Press says it never heard in funeral oration or sermon, and seldom in private conversation, the opinion expressed that a man with $10,000 incomo had gone to hell.

THE Missouri Legislature has refused to pass a bill making tho carrying of concealed weapons a penal offense. A bill should be passed to prevent the ruflians of that State from showing their weapons so often.

LIOHT

trowsers should be worn

only in the morning," says a fashion exchange, "and dark trowsers for semidrew." Things have lately been getting so mixed that we may bo pardoned for inquiring whether this item relatos to male or female apparel.

WHEN the fibrous currency paper was first introduced, it was clrtimed for it that it could not be Imitated. To have made such an assertion in Yankee land seems too ridiculous for a moment's consideration. Events have proven that it can be* readily imitated, and doubtless has been to a large extent.

ONE of the strangest features in the decision of the suit of Ann Eliza for divorce from Brigham Young, is the award of only $3,000 for Attorney's fees, oat of the 112.500 whl*h B. Y. hi willed on to pay. Have thft lawyers out there been civilised? No civilised lawyer in these parts would bare been content with less than half th* grow* receipts.

COXORBSSS, this week, enacted a bill Tor the equalization of bounties, which gives ,38,33' a mouth bounty to every private soldier and non-commissioned officer that served in the late war, deducting all bounties before paid. It is said to require SOU*1 |S0,000,000 to do this. On the passage of tho bill In the Senate it become neowaary for the Vice-President to cast the deciding vote. It w*s a heavy responsibility—that of one man voting to draw mo much money from the treasury. Senator Cameron said in conversation afterwards that it would make Wilson the next President.

The above was put in type for the first edition. Since then the telegraph tells us that the President refused to put his antAgraph to Hie bill, and thus it fails to 1 *me a law. He assigns'as a reason that the treasury Is not in condition at the present time to sustain such a draft—Hod pwlipr** risht«

IA"J'

rERRE HAUTE SATURDAY WENIK

DIVORCE.

Wo are in receipt of a letter from Mount Vernon, Pennsylvania, which reads as follows:

MR. EDITOR Will you furnish me with some information relative to the laws of divorce in Indiana.

Our knowledgo of the law—especially of divorce laws—is so limited that we have turned tho letter of inquiry over to one of our young lawyers. In fact we no not care to hold correspondence with tho writer, satisfied that if his cause is just he can find the release he desires in the courts where ho is best known.

Indiana divorce laws aro easy," but not so easy as they were two years ago, We may be superlatively dumb, but wo never could crowd into our brain all tho wonders, all the peculiar feelings of a divorce, especially where there are children in the case. If no such charge had ever been born to the household, even then tho legal estrangement of husband and wife is badeneugh, but the responsibilities of the new comers on the stage of life cannot by either parent be thrown so easily away. We will add further, here, that we do not believe that in nine cases out of ten where the reality is accomplished and the parties stand aloof, in their new relation, but that the kind intervention of friends would induce them to tear the decree of the court to pieces, and trample it under their feet as null and void forevermore.

Let us go a little further and attempt a little picture, which we commend to this divorce seeking husband. The court has granted the divorce, and John and Mary have come together once more beneath the roof which has witnessed many a happy hour when little Nellie was an infant, and Willie, yet a baby was tumbling around to his heart's content upon the floor. The father was then proud of his offspring, and the mother's heart was all their own. They witnessed a scene of sorrow, when there was an hour of shadow, which never lessened until they had long returned from the graveyard one quiet summer day but it all made up tbeir married life. Now they have met for such a division of the household stock, for wo will presume that is all they have, and we are curious to witness how it can be arranged. John claims the old arm chair, and Mary lays her hand in silence on the chair in which she used to sew. Well, then, chair by chair they make an equal dividend—tables, stools and all the furniture of the lower -rooms. There are many things which John has chosen that are coveted by Mary, and which, as common property, were enjoyed by both, but "divorce" is the order of the day, and they are acting under its decree. The old clock falls to Mary, and in coming years, as in the past, it will serve to tick away many an hour of sorrow in the past and sad reflection in the years to come.

So fitr the divorce is easy, but upstairs they go, that region of the household closed, except on extraordinary occasions, from the vulgar eye. The bureau, with its drawers, so much the mother's care, that, of course, must fall to Mary the bed, where both rested after many a day of toil, John will not rob her of that, and so far that is well. The next—the next—well, it's but a little cradle, the need for which neither may ever know again but it has been a feature of that family circle, and rent though the past may be, yet it is the most priceless article to be disposed of by the pair. Why, from that little bed the father's stout and brawny arms pulled up to his embrace at noon and night the little idols of his heart Down on the little bed the mother, releasing tho baby from her breast, fanned it into quiet slumber until John should come. In it little Willie and Jennie wore nursed, and in it also the suffering, pale-faced, brighteyed Jimmy died. Time had been when John and Mary sat the live-long night on either side, and bent their listening cars to catch the feverish beating of the temples in the weary head that relied so continually to and fro. They are here now for a different purpose but the morning comes back fresh to them when the angel came and tipped Jiis feeble eyelids o'or. The law has performed its work, costlier articles have been partitioned off, until the memory of a love that will not die, comes struggling to the surface, and makes its contest over that little, neglected, and it may be, dusty cradle. They leave it undisturbed, perhaps, and go away to the closets to find a trinket which the baby wore, a string of beads, perhaps, with which the mothor looped its sleeves, an Ivory whistle with which the baby hands had often played.

Then go out Vith them to the little grave where John has placed a stone and Mary planted flowers, flow will they divide the little bones that whitened some years ago, but yet arc Ja«t as much their ba1»y after all. Lands and lots mity be divided off, and alimony but how about these precious relics, which no lawyer's lengthened writ can will away. But enough of this subject. Men and women may be divorced and form new associations, but parents with the tie imposed by children, alive or dead, bav« a link between them no edict of the law can ever tear away. jjjjr ),. II,

IT IS now quite probable that Beecher will address tbejury in bis own behalf, and that the legislature will so ehange the law as to permit Mis. Til ton to take the witness stand.

COLORADO was let into the Union is a State, but New Mexico was teld to stay out ud grow up with the country.

MONDAY will be the last day of the Legislature.

MANN-BLACKBURN BREACH OF PROMISE. .«ra

VERDICT

have been

married eight years, and have two children living, besides one dead, but I have had enough of married life, and they say Indiana divorce laws are easy

By a sharp dodge of the counsel for the defendant, in declining to plead, Mr, Voorhees was shut off from speaking lor the plaintiff. It was a great disappointment not only to himself, but to hundreds of people who had como from all parts to hear him—for he was expected to make a master effort—and really, without intending any disrespect, it was too bad to thus puncture snob an immense gasometer.

There was nothing left but for the Judge to charge the jury, and that body retired. C. S. Voorhees is in reueipt of a dispatch from his father announcing a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, for fifteen thousand dollars!

The Mayor of Galena, 111., sees nothing out ef the way in the can-can. Mr. Pope, a St. Louis manager, says Janauschek has the brain of Bismarck.

The tendency with most of our star actresses is to work themselves to death. J. H. Haverly went to Indianapolis last night to meet his wife, who came from Cleveland.

The admirers of Tony Denier, in Savannah, Ga., have presented him with a solid gold cigar case

There are more circifsfes fitting out for the coming season than ever before, notwithstanding the disasters of last year.

Minstrels are getting back to the old plantation songs—"'Way Down upon the Swanee Ribber," and "Massa's in de Cold, Cold Ground."

Frank Lawlor, who comes next Week at the head of 4he company supporting Mrs. Lander, is the divorced husband of Josie Mansfield, of Jim Fisk notoriety.

Seventy thousand dollars have been laid aside as the fruits of Miss Kellogg's experiment in English opera, and she would just like to see any man step up and propese to take charge of it, that's all.

Chas. G. Hale, the clever and talented press agent of Haverly'fj Minstrels, formerly of the Fifth Avenue Company, is in the city, and although he has made repeated visits here, will see the interior of our beautiful Opera House to-night for the first time.

Dan Rico's new show will leave Girard, Pa., en its California trip, May 1. How many men there are in California to-day who remember Dan Rice as the great clown ef the period when they were boys in the States. And what a welcome* they will give the veteran. We believe this trip to the Pacific coast will be the most successful Rice ever made in his lift).

James Robinson, the great hftto-back rider, having recovered from thfc rheumatic attack which obliged him to go into temporary retirement, made his reappearance at John Wilsons' Falaoe Amphitheater, San Francisco, Califor-nia,-February 8. He was received with great enthusiasm, and during tho week he has ridden with success, although he shows lameness in walking aerow the ring.

A drunken nan at tbe Theatre Corn iqae, Pueblo, amnsed himself by addressing Insulting remarks to one of the actresses. After the thing bad become a little monotonous the woman seined a piece of board, and, bounding over the footlights, belabored the fellow over the head, while the audience cheered. After pounding him to her heart's content, she pirouetted back upon tbe stage, and the play went on swimmingly.

Dr. Hubner has been making some investigations Into the progressive changes in the atmosphere of the Maria Theater at St. Petersburg during a dramatic performance. Tbe

opfie.ooo.

The evidence in the breach of promise suit at Danville, Ills., of Miss Sarah

Mann against Capt, David S. Black' burn, for breach of promise to marry was all in on Thursday evening. It has been a rich bit of scandal for the people up that way. The nsstiness of tho cawe may be judged by the testimony of the defendant, who—with strange ideas of what constitute true goodness in woman—testified to improper relations with the plaintiff, and to a knowledge o( her promiscuous associations with other men. She was also, ho said, vitally affected by disease, and given to obscene language and actions, and yet she was "a good woman—better than those who talked about her.".

WE are unable to give a translation, but are satisfied just from its looks that it is useless to "give the old man another chance" after the appearance of the following in the "Y Drych," a Welsh paper

Dro arall gwelodd Mrs. Tllton yn eisted ar liu Mr. Beecher yu diningroom a chlywood pregethwr yn jjofyn cwestwn—"How do you do Elizabethth dear? i'r hyn yr atebodd hithan —"Dear father, so, so.' Dlsgyiioed tystiolaeth ferch liou fel teranfollt ar glustian cyfreithwr a'r jajynulleielfa. wel»dd Mr. Beecher yn eistedd yn ront room a Mrs. Tilton wedi "cocni at ei chlustian."

THOSE who have been for a long time complaining that we have none of those "old fashioned winters" any more, ought to be satisfied with that which they are getting now. But they are not. They insist that to be a real old fashioned winter, we ought to have afoot or two pf ,spow.

W SHOW PEOPLE.

Sue Denin used to play Romeo excellently. The ancient Corinthians bad 200 theatres in their city.

There are not six shining' tenors in American minstrelsy. Mrs. Lander, the actress, has bought a house in Ft. Scott, Kansas. 1

was made on December 1, in a seoondtier box facing tbe stage. The temperature rose every quarter of an hour, although the movements of the public going out between the acts helped to freshen the theater by the admission of air in the corridors. [People who step out to "see a man" thus stand vindicated by seience.] At the end ot the representation tbe Doctor found six times the normal quantity of carbonic acid gas in the air, and the temperature had risen thirteen degrees.

Car DO rose, the minstrel, was surprised at Pittsburg, tbe other night, when an audience of pnddlers and moulders insisted upon his singing the sacred song "Sweet Spirit, Hear My Prayer," in response to an encore. "One would have thought," he safd, "those hard-fisted men would have been better pleased with a negro breakdown or a piece of burlesque." Perhaps those bard-fisted men knew hew infernal bad their breakdowns and burlesques were, and preferred almost any thing instead.

Speaking of the recent appearance of Miss Kate Fisher and her horse, at the Academy of Music, the Indianapolis Herald says: Some fifteen or twenty years ago we entertained the hope that Miss Fisher would grow immensely wealthy and retire from the stage but we begin to despair. It's no use, and the public may as well reconcile itself to the idea of her immortality. Every year she grows mere bulbous above and below the metallic ligature which divides her bedy, and becomes redder and fatter, and more like a walrus in grace of movement bnt the spectacle of an apparently naked woman (with the exception of a bit of green silk about tbe loins,) strapped to the back of a horse that gallops up zig-zag stairs to get out of Poland with his burden, and down the same stairs to get into the kingdom of Tartary, still draws, and so long as the people pay to see tbe exhibition Miss Fisher will hold out.

The New York Heme Journal thus talks of Toole, the comedian, who was here recently: His professional career in this country has not been a success, we hear, and this is not singular. While no critic may justly charge this actor with being vulgar or indecent, his humor is coarse, broad and common, and essentially English. True genius is universal, and may be appreciated in any clime by any people. Mr. Toole's fun is limited, and can only be understood within the sound of Bow Bells. Some writers, who praised Toole in the highest terms on his first appearance here, now acknowledge their error. They find that he cannot change his manner nor his mannerisms in any character, but that he is the same (Toole) in everything. His fun is not refined nor high-toned neither are bis pictures delicate or nicely finished they seem to have been painted with a white-wash brush instead of a pencil. His acting and grimaces remind ono of the broad, burlesque break-do^n style of the negro minstrel stage, th»'====a^^^^===

OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

THE GREAT WALKING MATCH—CLASSICAL MUSIC, THE PHILHARMONIC, AND TIIBO. THOMAS—RISTORI'S "WOULD

FAREWELL"—A MAMMOTH LITHOGRAPHIC? PORTRAIT—MR. TRACT'S OPENING FOR MR. BEECHER. Correspondence of The Mail.]

NEW YORK, March 2,1875.

Mr. Barnum says that bis Hippodrome establishment, menagerie, horses, performers and attaches, cost him $5,000 a week a larger number of twenty-five cent stamps than the universal Now York nursery-maids and beaux, children and mammas—can be coaxed to turn in weekly in these times, by all his nnparalled gifts of story-telling and amusing. Nevertheless, with Roman grit, be doubles his $5,000, this week— or says he doesi, which is exactly the same thing, you know—paying tbe extra to the winner of

THE GREATEST PEDESTRJAN MATCH Ever walked on this planet. "Prof J. R. Judd, who attempted unsuccessfully to emulate Edward Payson Weston's unparallelled "feet" (that went 500 miles inside of 144 hours, at Newark, last fall) now stumps him to stump it again, and proposes not only to emulate but to beat him. Tbe walkef of 115 miles in tbe first 34 hours is to got (2,500 or, in othor words Mr. Baranm bets very confidently $2,500 that neither of them can do it aud the one who does the 500 miles farther inside of the 144 hours is to have the other |2^00. But for the first prize. Judd is not oompeting. p,S.—Barnum won the bet. The two men are opposites in physique. Judd is excessively muscular his "professorship" being not anything In tbe line of learning or even of ourn-oxtracting but Simply that of gymnastios. Nevertheless, Time beat nlm by 151 miles be having succumbed aft the 309th, while Weston, light and long-legged, with thin, soft muscles, went through after repeated failures, overdid his 60v in 1CM than his 14i hours, and was crow nod king of pedestrians. Judging from the crowd drawn bjr this new attraction, Barnum will make a much better profit on his extra than on his ordinary $6,000. Weston allows Judd 35 miles odds: that is, Judd is allowed to win if he makes 4«5 miles before Weston makes the 600.

CLA8SXOAX1 It CHIC

Ha* been sustained In New York by the old fashioned Philharmonic Society, for mere than thirty years past. This Society undoubtedly Includes tbe best musicians resident in New York, many of whom could not be Induced to itinerate and piay in strange and ill-natured places, or tbe open air. It has also the iw«tat orchestra, numbering ono hundred or more performer*. Among tbe linuted class of persons who realiy **Plro

a consummate tact, an artist's tfnthusiasm and the most indomitable, and persisUmt enterprise. Having successfully popular hied symphony concerts in NewYork tfM) other large cities, he has for a few seasoto past, extended his mission* ary enterprise to the minor cities, recardless of money out of pocket, and looking only to the future and the broad collateral effect, for repayment. In the city of Newark, for instance, after one or two seasons, either of which wonld ha^e been enough for a concert ist of narrower aims, he is now giving a symphony series to large and gratified audiences un- I der the primitive timber of the "Rink," an unfavorable place and who knows but the impulse may result in a music ball worthv of that city oi magical growth ana of its growing musical culture?

ADELAIDE RISTOKI

The great tragic actress of the time (Miss Cushman having bidden the stage farewell, and become of the past) is also about to retire from tho stage after a

triumphal progress of the world 1—a thing unprecedented in the annals of the stars." She arrived in this city on Friday night, from Havana, with her troupe ot forty-two actors, and her immense cargoof scenery, stage properties, wardrobes, and other baggage appurtenant to such an unprecedented number 1 of traveling theatrical ladies and gentlemen. As everything and every person accessory to her performances lias been made or trained in Europe under her own superintendance and accompanies her wherever she plays, her progress is* something really as stupendous as that of a first-clas circus and menagerie in fact, considering that she itinerates tho world, and not merely one paltry continent, it may be called without exaggeratioa decidedly more so.

Madame Riston's New York season of. three weeks at the Lyceum Theater, commences to-night, with an already foregone jam, seats being nowhere to be had without an enormous premium if at all. Her farewell tour of the world was commenced in Paris last June. Since then, she has done South America and the West Indies. Next month sho will be seen in our principal Eastern cities, after which westward the star will take her way to the setting sun, supposed to be located in San Francisco, and will leave with that other luminary in June, for Australia, China, Japan ana India. Everybody remembers her immense popularity in this country, at her former visit, when she netted $800,000. She is immensely rich, and able to support in becoming styio a good-for-noth-ing Italian Marquis, to whom she was married in early life, and whose name of DelGrillo sho honors in her private or social capacity. She has been on tho stage fifty years, having commenced at the age of five, and having now reached that of fifty-five. W

MRS. ROUSBY,

The handsome and clever English aotress now in this country, is to be represented as the Lady Elizabeth, her favorite character, in all tho elaborate richness of one of those costly costumes that have been so much celebrated, on one of the largest lithographic stones ever engraved or printed. It is too large for a tomb-stono, ooing on the contrary, nearly life size, or five feet high, and forty inches wide. The steam press of Ferd, Meyer & Sons, this dty, on which this magnificent print is executed, is tbe only machine of sufficient size for the purpose ever built. The print itself is an exquisite engraving, done by the artists of the concern without tbe aid of photography or other mechanical helps, by free hand drawing.

THE BEECHER OPENING.

The adage, "Ho who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," is substantially tbe same saying as that no man can see himself as others see him with the additional consideration that the personal animus as woll as bias which almost every man is sure to betray in his own qparrel, strongly prejudices everybody else against bim. "Let another praise thee "—and above all things get somebody else to damn the other man for thee. Another can do it under less prejudice and better still, be can do it much more Judiciously.

But to these advantages of oounsel, Mr. Beecher's counsel appear to be in some measure an exception. They are said to be thoroughly convinced of bis innocence, and I think they leave no

tU^hls

high aesthetic culture, the 1 hliharmenic Society has done a w«»rk of vast importance, and prepared the way for the broader and more pojui«»r success or

THRODORK TIIOMA8.

This gentleman Is a true builder in art, who professionally raises at once his orchestra »nd Hi audiences, out of the best raw material the public -rds,»

room to doubt that thev are more than sincerely, even passionately, enlisted in his cause and embittered against his adversaries. In tact, they have "put themselves in his place" too much, and become assimilated in position to the man who is conducting his own case. At no stage and in no step, have they seemed to be able, as calm, cool-headed counsel, to see the outside of this case, and how it looks to tho world without. Conduct and language alike aro as hot-beaded and immoderate as might be expected of a man defending himself and not another. Made up of friends and partisans, some of tbem with much at stako for themselves on the trial, the personal susceptibility of Mr. Beecher's connsel is too evident and excessive not to Jte a great disadvantage to their client. For instauce, in tho cardinal matter of Judicious and skillful abuse, they overshoot the mark exactly as the man with a fool for a client is liable to do. Where pure professional shrewdness would, if anything, overstate its adversary's advantages, personal susceptibility betrays itself inevitably in belittling and sneering at him, at every point. Where tho shrewd advocato makes his severity appear «ts if forced from bim, and heightens Its effect by skillful tributes of appreciation and impartiality, tbe passionate partizan, like any man in a passion damages his own cause by eager and unrelieved vi-

is the grand professional fault of

Mr. Tracy's very a

Die

opening for tho

defence. If ^e should succoed in proving Mr. Tiiton's resemblance to a putrid corpse tickled with the of Its own "post-mortem." and Mr. Judas Iscariot and an atheist then these will be very effective points to Impress tbejury in tho closing philippic. But to exhaust all that is loathsome in metaphor against these gentlemen before having proved anythfng. was tho rTiost maladroit opening possible. I repeat, it was precisely what the ma?, with a fool for a client would do: i. c. the man not, by opposition superior to the passions of hi* own cause, and by so much leas than master of the Judgments and sympathies of the jury. Mr. Tracy has taken on himself so much more than his share of vituperatiou, that he has not left his seniors much of a show. Tbeir pleas must bo made eithor tame by comparison or weak by extravagance, in tbis respect.

Shrewd lawyers who really know better# &0!HeLiuic& yield to the

natural

do-

sire of a client for a blood-and-thunder, or thud-and blunder defence,

when

they

secretly fear tbat is all tho satisfaction they will be able to return bun for his fees. But in this case, tbe fault seems to be In the too sympathetic position ot counsel from Mr. Evarts down.

PHILIP NKWHART bfcs one thousand plows at bis manufactory ready for spring plowing-