AB,T. Affairs in New York—Relief of Chicago irtistsi Mr. Alex. White’s Collection—Metro politan Art-Museum. Brooklyn Art Association —The “Palette” Club. Sales of Pictures—-Mr. E. G. Asay’s Library. Correspondence ol Tlie Chicago Tribune. New York, Dec. 7. THE CHICAGO ARTISTS’ RELIEF FUND will probably be forwarded this week. The auctioneer, Mr. Leavitt, will make his report to the committee to-day, after which there will be little cause for delay. Tho amount raised will bo near $7,000; and the sub-com- mittee appointed to decide how the money shall be appropriated will make their report very soon. MR. ALEXANDER WHITE’S COLLECTION. There will be. also, some S2OO or S3OO from the exhibition of pictures belonging to Mr. Alexander White, at tho Leavitt Art Gallery; the entire proceeds of which, up to the 2d of December, when the exhibition closed for the purposes of aid, will be, by the generous liberality of Mr. sufier- ing Chicago artists. Some of-yoni loaders may be glad to learn, by the way, that Mr? "White collection of paintings will bo sold "by auctiou on Tnesday_and Wednesday, tho of December, 12th and 13th Leavitt Art Room, Sl7 Broadway; and persons wishing to bo present must .•api>ly to the auctioneer for reserved seats. ANOTHER SCHEME OF AID. There is another scheme of aid to Chicago artists, from which no report has heen re ceived until recently, "While visiting the beautiful collection of pictures at Goupil’s, a fsw days after the burning of tho city of Chicago, which wasprogressing so favorably in New York, received the hearty approval and interest of Mr. J. Ochme, the accom- plished connoisseur, andmanagerof thehouso of Goupil Co., in tho absence of Mr. Kuocdler in Europe. Mr. Oebmo promised immediately to communicate with Mr. Kuocdler, and with members of their house in Paris, London, and Berlin, for tho purpose of forming a plan to induce contributions to this noble aid from the x> rincipal artists in Europe. This action was both timely and jml j cions, as you shall see. A letter just re ceived from Mr. Knocdlcr announces that feeventy names of artists who promise to give pictures have been registered in Dusseldorf alone as many more may ho expected in Paris, and London is still to hear from. The pictures are expected in Now YorkinFeb- rnary or March, when they will be exhibited for a short time, and sold by auction. It is Believed by some persons that $30,000 will be realized from tho unique collection hut we may not anticipate and, certainly, all who Lave the interests of art and artists truly at heart will pray that tho munificent gift, if ever received, may he used in no ignoble manner, but soexpended astobecome a last ing benefit to the interests of art and civil ization in the "West. ALEXIS. At the National Academy of Design, last Saturday morning, tho Grand Duke was presented with Pape’slpicture of Farragut in the shrouds of tho Hartford, at the battle of Alobilc Bay, -when he uttered the memorable command,'** D—n the torpedo! Go on I” _ The presentation, ■was made by General Dry tC •whose short address His HigliScss replied in a full, round, musical voice, delightful to hear. Tho Duke and his suit* wore con ducted through the rooms and the School of th* Academy by Prof. T. F., B. _. o e, Henry Peters Gray, and Albert Bier stadt. Between 300 and 400 invitations were issued, and tho occasion will be long remem bered for the array of beautiful ladies who honored it by their presence; indeed, never before were seen upon an occasion litotlus informal morning reception so many or the brunette type of beauty, with ‘the eyes that burn.” As His Highness stepped down the broad staircase, ranged aroundthe balus trade of the ample corridor, there met his "aze a batterv of brilliant eyes, more terri ble, let us believe, than any fortress of hos tile cannon tbe world could present, in© lioyal party expressed themselves highly delighted. THE >IIHT.OPUTAX AET^irSF-01, through the munificence of Mr. Blodgett.has secured upward of 170 pictures hy the old masters, all of high quality and great inter est These will he exhibited in the spring at bodsworth’s up-town hall, Fifth avenue rud Fifty-second street. Ltttle *s known of this Art-Museum, except that it ,is in the hands of a stock company, of wmch Mr. John Taylor Johnson is Ihesident and its membership comprises some o£ he J and most distinguished gentlemen of the metropolis. .There is no reason to believe that the project of building in Central 1 ai K, which excited bo much intcrestafew mouths a ,r o. is now entertained: but elicits will be made to secure assistance from the State of A'cw York to establish a permanent Art-Mu seum. The beautiful collection of paintings ;md engravings already secured has called, forth much comment in Europe and it is, indeed, surprising that so many pictures which have belonged to galleries well known lo the art-world could have been secured. the nnooKLYX art association’ held its fall exhibition of paintings at the Acadcmv of Music, during the week ending the 7th of December. The object of this as sociation is tersely expressed by the first sen tence of the first article of the by-laws. -»Shall be the encouragement and promotion ofarthy a reunion of the members;”and these “reunions” are planned upon a scale truly magnificent, involving great expense, uniforming the most fashionable and nota ble social event of the season. +wifn, The supper and reception of the twelfth Season was quite as attractive and brilliant as on anv former occasion. The parquette of the auditorium was floored over, and in the centre arose a magnificent trophy of flowers and statuary; and near-hy a baud discoursed delicious music. The pictures, numbering 200, were hung in the great as- Femblv-room—the central subject being TVilliam Hart's “Golden Hour” first exhib ited In Chicago, but now much improved. Iso. lof the catalogue was Zamacais* cele brated “medaille” picture of “The Educa tion of a Prince.” belonging to Mr. R. L. Kennedy. The exhibition was heldopen but one week free and it is worthy of note that as much as SBO has been received in one day for cata logues at 25 cents each. The new building clothe association, adjoining the Academy of Music, and connected with it, will be one of the handsomest edifices in the city. It has been built by a stock company, at a cost of §IOO,OOO. It is a beautiful structure, in the early Norman-Gothic style of architecture, and intended to accommodate the Brooklyn Academy of Design, with ample room for schools, and a fine gallery for the exhibition of paintincs. The new building will be iu angnratedi>y the spring exhibition, when an occasion of great interest and magnificence may be expected. the art-club “palette” has attained a position, recently, which makes it the latest excitement in the art world of New York. Being, from its incep tion, principally in thecontrol of theGermau element, ithas very lately enlarged its scope and increased its numbers, until it is felt to be a power in the interest of art. Conceived for the advancement of the tine and indus trial arts, it has for its objects the support of free schools and the promotion of social in tercourse among its members. The list of members number between 500 and 000, and include nearly all the principal artists and connoisseurs of the metropolis. The club has rented the old Stuyvesant mansion, No. T'C Second avenue, with all the furniture and silver-plate of the once Insurious home; and has issued cards for the first house-warming supper, which will occur on the 9th of De cember and also to the fine mansion recep tion and art-exhibition at the club rooms, to be held on the evening of Monday, the 11th of December. The principal exhibition of paintings will bo held at the Leavitt Art Gallery, and open about the middle of December. A vigorous and liberal management, divested of the honorable me diocrity and respectable red-tape which .so relentlessly cling tomany institutions which otherwise might bo healthful and strong, Las thus far prevailed in this association and, if persisted in with purpose well de fined and clearly comprehended, there can be no limit to the good, which the institution may accomplish. AX ART’SALE Of paintings contributed hv the artists and art dealers of New York will he held on the 7th and Sth of December, at GO Liberty street; Mr. Edward bchenck, auctioneer. These arc called the noon-day sales, and have proven very successful, so far as the prices realized from the pictures arc concerned. The num licr ol picturcsuf a high class is about 100, and nearly one-half are by foreign artists. Mi:. i»:im:y. Mr. H. VT. Derby’s collection of paintings, brought from Luropi- ll„s year, for tho pur! pose of making another great auction sale similar to the one managed hvthat -entlc man last year, has been disposed of private lv to dealers. Mr. Derby is expecting to re ceive seme very important works in tho spring, which will be placed on exhibition at the Leavitt Art Gallery. MR. ASAY*S IJRIIART. The principal, hiit not the rare, portion of the library of Mr. E. G.Asay, of uhicago.— now travelling in .Europe,—will he sold'by nmcß Merwin Co., C!*i Broadway, at auo. the 18th of December. The catalogue, of 330 pages, is “ow^oad^^ CITY GOVERNMENTS. The Bill Before the X.cffialatnre to Pro vide for the of Cities and Toims- Prom Oar Own Correspondent. Springfield, 111., Dec. 7. Nest Saturday the Senate will take up the bill to provide for tlie incorporation of cities and towns wbicli is of much importance and interest that it may be well to give a synop sis of the bill in its present form, it having been amended in some particulars since its introduction last April. Tbe bill starts off by providing that it shall go into effect in any city now incor porated only by a vote at a general election which shall be ordered on the petition of fifty voters, Any incorporated town may, by a similar vote, come under the provisions of the bill and tbe way in which any area of contiguous territory not exceeding four square miles, with a population of not loss than one thousand, may avail themselves of tbe privileges of the act, is also set forth. It is provided that the Mayor shall hold office for two years; a vacancy occurring during the first year to be filled by the peo ple, during the second by the election by the Connell of one of their number. During his temporary absence the Council shall elect a Mayor pro icm. The Mayor, who is to pre side at the Council meetings, is empowered to suspend any officer he has appointed, and, if two-thirds of the Council concur, to re move him from office, and appoint a person to fill the place during the suspension. If the Couucil fails to act in thirty days, the Mayor may remove without their concur rence. If no does not report higjreasons for suspending, at the next meeting oithe Conn xil,the suspension ceases. He has also power to exercise, in tbe city limits, the powers conferred .on Sheriff'sto release any per son imprisoned for violation of a city ordinance to inspect tho books ami records of any city officer; aud to call out the militia to suppress a riot or carry out any law, and to call on all male inhabi tants over lb to enforce tho laws. For mis conduct ho is liable to indictment, aud, if found gnilty t tine and removal. The Council is to consist of Mayor and Al dermen ef tbe latter,citics between 10,000 and 30,000 will have fourteen, and two for every additional 20,000—the Federal, State or city census,which latter can only bo taken once in three rears, furnishing tho information. They hold for two years. Tho yeas aud nays must be taken on all ordinances to expend or appropriate money, and will require the vote of a majority of all tbe members elect. Any report of a committee must bo laid over two weeks on tbe request of two Aldermen. The Council has jurisdiction overall places with in throe miles of the city limits to enforce health aud quarantine regulations. A two thirds vote is required to pass au ordinance over the Mayors veto, and ho is empowered to veto one or more items in any appropria tion bill. City elections are to be held on the third Tuesday in April. Mayors will bo elected ou odd vears, the first election contemplated by the bill being in 1573. The Council may divide the city into wards as the increase in population demands, j Among tho mainfold powers given tho I Council are the following: To appropriate i money for corporate purposes only; to per mit or prohibit the locating, constructing, or laying a track of any horse railroad in any street, alley, or public place, but such per mission shall not be for a longer time tliau ten years; to provide for, and change, the location, grade, or crossing of any railway; to compel railroads to raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade, and, where tbev run lengthwise of any street, to keep them on a level with it; to construct, aud keep in repair, canals and slips for the ac commodation of commerce; to grant liquor licenses, provided noue be granted unless the pesple so vote at each annual election, aud provided that no license bo granted in any ward where a majority of the votes is against license; to prevent and punish fore stalling and regratinc; to prevent intoxica tion to prescribe the thickness, strength, and manner of constructing stone, brick, aud other buildings, and construction of fire escapes therein: fb prescribe fire limits, and direct tliat wooden buildings within them, when damaged to the extent of 50 per cent, shall he tom down or removed; to appoint a Board of Health, and prescribe its powers and duties; to direct the location, and con struct the management of packing-houses, bone factories, &c., in the city, and a mile of its limits; to establish street railways, and license and regulate tbe same, and fix tolls on them to tax, license, aud regulate lumberyards, and regulate aud prohibit the keeping of any lumber or coal yard in tho fire limits. They are denied the power of granting tho use of any street to any steam or horse rail way. except on a petition of the owners of tbe~land, representing more than one-half of the frontage of that part-of the street to be Power is given to establish Houses of Cor rection to which persons may bo sent who do not pay their fines, no imprisonment to ex ceed six months. The fine is to be worked out at the rate of $2 per day. The Council can institute .and prosecute proceedings to condemn private property lor public uses, upon makingjust compensa tion iu order to lay out or widen streets, or set laud for parks, water-works, or other cor poration purposes. _ n The people are also to elect a City Clerk and Treasurer, and the Council may, by a two-thirds vote, provide for tho appointment of a City Collector, Assessor, Marshal, Su perintendent of Streets, Corporation Counsel, Attorney and Comptroller, aud such other officers as thev may deemnecessary, aud may discontinue them by .a similar vote. All these officers arc appointed by the Mayor, with tho consent of the Council, and their term of office is two years. The election of any officer—Aldermen are officers—to the General Assembly, shall work a vacation of his'office. No officer is to bo in any way interested in any contract, and is to get no fees in addition to his salary. Any person trying to bribe an officer is liable to tine and imprisonment; and any officer bribed, to line, imprisonment, auddisqnali iication for office. The pay of tho Mayor is to be fixed by tho Council; that of Al dermen is not to exceed for each day of meeting. The fiscal year of _ each cits'begins at the day of annual election. In the first quarter of this year, the Council must pass tho Ap propriation bill, and no further appropria tion shall he made during tho year, unless a majority of the voters so vote; hut, by a two-thirds vote, the Council may order an improvement made necessary by any acci dent happening after the passage of the bill. By a like vote, tbe Mayor may bo authorized to borrow money to meet a like contingency. No contract is to be made, or expense in curred. before tbe appropriation is made. The Treasurer is required to report month ly and keep his moneys where ho is directed bV ordinance, but no ordinance shall pass directing him to deposit except in a regular ly organized bank, which must give bonds. The duties of the Collector and Comptroller are not materially different from what they now arc. The Assessor is to assess all taxable, real, or personal property at its true value. All personal property having its actual tutus in the city shall be taxed, whether the owner lives there or not. The Mayor, Clerk, and Assessor constitute a Board of Equalization, who have to hear all objections to tbe assess ment, and revise aud correct it. They are to be iu session three hours a day for ten days. "Where there are unpaid taxes, the way m which the City Collector shall report them to the county officer charged with their col lectiou is set forth. Up to tho time of actual sale the City Collector may receive taxes. All taxes and special assessments are a lien on tho real and personal property of the delinquent. Ju the case of special assessments, it pro vides for assessing benefits. When an im provement is ordered tho Council-elect throe appraisers who assess tbe special benefits. If less than the total cost, the city pays the de ficiency. Objections to any assessment may be heard before the Council, and tbe Council may alter or set it aside. The city may buy at any tax sale. No writ of certiorari shall bo allowed unless within thirty days after the confirmation of tbe assessment, and not then at the suit of any one neglecting to object to tbe assessment, unless he can give good ex cuse. Where a part of au assessment has not been collected, a new assessment may be made for the deficiency. All persons taking tontracts, and agreeing to uopaid from special assessments shall have no claim on the city except from the collections of the social assessments. city is also empowered to sink arte sian wells, and provide cisterns, etc., aud may go outside its limits to establish water works. bcu a city is liable to an action for damages through tho act of any person who is also liable, the person must ue made co-defendant with the city in any suit to recover. There is also one proviso for the beueiit of Cook County—that cities of over 100 000 people may continue to exercise all the pow ers which have been, or may be, conferred, ou cities of that class. —Father Galvazzi, the ex-monk, has been preaching and lecturing to large audiences in London. He says that since the Ist of January last, eight colporteurs hadhetm en caged in selling the Bible in Koine. From thousand copies of the Scrip tures and twenty thousand of tho Epistles were in circulation. —The leader of a new religions sect has anneared in Russia, giving himself out to he the Saviour. He preaches polygamy, ahro cation of all denominational creeds, and en tire religions license. He invariably ex presses himself in rhyme. The police ha\c announced that they will speedily puta stop to the new movement. -It is proposed to change the rates of rep resentation of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, so as to give two com missioners—a minister and an elder forov tverv 3,000 communicants or fraction there of. Tliis would make tho assembly consist of 340 deputies. THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 187 L MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. flairs at the Michigan Avenue and Globe Theatres and Arlington’s Hall. The New West Side Theatre—Wachtel Coming to Chicago—Music and the Drama Elsewhere. Chicago. LECTURES. Tlio West Side Lecture Course, No. 2, -will bo inaugurated January 15, with a grand concert by the Bamabeo troupe. The musi cal introduction will bo followed, in due order, by lectures from General Kilpatrick, Du Chaillu, Parton, Mias Edgarton, Prof. "Winchell, and George *VVm. Curtis, and read ings by Mrs. Scott Siddons, and George Vau denlioff. The ofder is nearly as wo have given it. The arrangement is good, the grave alternating with the gay in such a manner as to prevent monotony. Tickets for the course can do purchased at the places ad vertised for $3, a low price, the number and intellectual character of the entertainments being considered. The popularity of the course is best shown by the fact that 1,500 tickets for the full course have already been sold. GLOBE THEATRE, Business here continued uniformly good duringthc past week. To satisfy those not having been able to visit tho theatre pre viously, Divorce” was continued on the boards until "Wednesday night and then withdrawn. It proved, from the first night of its presentation, an excellent card for tho managers. On Thursday night the little comedy of Smoke,” a domestic drama in one act, was brought out for tho first time in this city and well received. Tho acting in the piece was generally good, and the moral unexceptionable. Tho play was supple mented on' the" -bill oy tho familiar comedy, “Nhyal Hn'Bukenioirib/**•tho hrutted.- number of characters required -for its production. being assigned to tho ablest members of tho company. Tim, same bill will bo repeated at tho matinee this afternoon, and for the last time this evening, when it will give way to Bertha,” a new play of the sensation order. The piece first mentioned will be' continued until further notice. Colonel Wood has leased tho Philadelphia Museum, and took charge of it last Monday. His numerous friends in this city will ho pleasd to leam that ho is doing well, the re ceipts of his opening nights being large in spite of tho presence of tho Grand Duke Alexis, and the existence of other counter ttractious. The prospects for his permanent succes are exceedingly flattering. MICHIGAN AVENUE THEATRE. The Wy ndham Troupe closed tho third week of a very successful engagement yesterday with an afternoon and evening performance. The bill on both occasions was Robertson’s elegant comedy of School,” which is always acceptable for its pleasant dialogue and its elevated sentiment. The stage, with its lim ited accessories, afibrded hut little opportuni ty for scenic display, but all tho means and appliances that the situation allowed were carfully husbanded and improved. Tho for mer favorites sustained their well-won lau rels, and the now candidates for public fa vors were kindly received, and gave promise of becoming as acceptable to theatre-goers as the old. \Ve are pleased to learn that tho Wyndhams will remain another week in Chicago. On Monday evening Miss Annie Goodall and redes Ryan will appear. WEST SIDE OPERA HOUSE The minstrel business has hold its own among tho several attractions ©fibred. The company has been entirely remodelled by Mr. Myers, only four of the troupe, as origi nally constituted, remaining. These are Arlington, Price, Boker, and Martin. .The following new favorites will reappear to tho Chicago public next week; John Kemble, tbo favorite interlocutor; Frank Kent, fe male impersonator; Frank Bowles, and Ben Cotton. As reorganized, this company will be one of the strongest that has over sought tho favor of the amusement-seekers of the Garden City. An entire new programme will ho present ed, which will bring out the strong points of the company to tho best advantage. Tho quartette will be strong, and far above the average,after a proper amount of practice to gether. In addition to the regular evening performances, there will be a matinee every Saturday afternoon. NEW THEATRE. The new theatre in process of erection on Halsted street, near Madison, will be an im portant addition totbe histrionic advantages of tbe city. The work upon it is being push ed with energy, and the public is assured that it will be opened for their reception on the Sth of January. Tho buildings occupying the site wore only removed week before last. Since that time a foundation has been laid eight feet in height, and thirty inches in thickness, above which tho brick walls already rise sixteen feet. Tbe builder. Mr. G. R. Gardner, ap peal's confident of being able to have every thing in running order by the specified time. The carpenter work is nnder tho charge of Mr. Wallace Hume, who hag- had consider able experience in theatrical building. The drop-curtain is being painted in Pittsburgh, by Mr. Arthur Palmer, an expert in that branch of scenic art. Tho scenery is to bo painted by Messrs. Rogers 2nd Farron, of his city. Tho upholstering is in progress, and the seats will be ready to bo put in place as soon as tho building is ready to receive them. The exterior dimensions of the structure are 100x52 feet. The stage will be :i5x22 feet, therefore exceeding in size the stage of tho old Dearborn. The seating capacity—includ ing a dress circle and gallery after tho style of Hooley’s—will bo 1,200. Tho parquotte will be nearly on a level with the street, thus rendering entrance and exit casj*. Great attention will, be paid to ventilation, a matter neglected in most of our theatres before the lire. The walls are to bo strength ened by timbers —eight on each side— let half way into the brick work, and strongly anchored, .the _ visible portion to be ornamented as pilasters. The acoustic properties of tho auditorium have been duly considered, and the general interior appearance will bo pleasing to tho eye. Such ornamentations will made as the haste of erection will permit, and fur ther decorations will in future bo added. A company is already being organized un der the management of Frank Lawlor. Busi ness will be inaugurated bythoWyndham Troupe, who will play a two weeks’ engage ment. Negotiations are pending with Pa repa, Theodore Thomas, and Strakosch, to furnish during the season some music of tho higher order," for which our citizens aro The”architect of the building is Mr. S. Shipman. WACHTEL COMING. Waclitel, the greatest living tenor is on his way "Westward, on a short concert tour, and will reach Chicago on the loth, as already an nounced in these columns. He will sing on tho date named, or on the following day (next Saturday), at a place not yet fixed. De Vivo, the indefatigable agent, who ar rived in town yesterday, declares hia protege in magnificent voice. WHEREABOUTS OF CHICAGO FAVORITES. Tho present whereabouts of somoof tho leading people connected with the star combinations playing at our theatres before the lire oro here with given: Sir. J. IL Wheelock, of MoVickcrs, is now leading man at the Grand Opera House, New York, where he is winning golden opinions; Messrs. Milton Rainford, H. L. Bascomb, and Miss Isadora Camoron, also late of Mc\ icker s, are now members of the Providence, R. 1., Opera House Company; John H- Power is playing at one of the Baltimore theatres; Sidney Smith and wife (Hattie McKee) are members of John A. Ellsler’s company, at the Cleveland Academy of Music; Miss Isabella Freeman, tho pleasing lead ing lady at tho old Museum, is in New Orleans with her husband, who commands ono of the New York and New Orleans steamships; Miss Augusta Dargon, who created such a sen sation at Hooley’s Opera House by her artistic acting In leading roles, is now tho leading lady oi one of the Pittsburgh theatres; Mr- Frank E-- Aikeu is East, looking for a theatre; Frank Law lor, his partner iu business here, is rusticating at Troy, N, Y.; Colonel Wood has leased Simpson’s Museum, Philadelphia, and is there fitting it up at tbe present time; Mrs. Allen, for several years leading lady at tho Museum, and Miss Emma Marble, juvenile lady at the same es tablishment, arc now acceptable members of the National Theatre Company, Washington, D. C.; John W. Blaisdell and Susie Cluer still con tinue great favorites at the Boston Museum: J. W. Jennings and Charley McManus are members of tho Boston Globe Company; J. Z. Little, for merly of tho old Museum, is playing “heavy business” at Mrs. Waller’s Theatre, Troy, N. Y.; Miss Mary Bicords (Mrs. J. N. Gotthold) formerly of tbe Museum, is a member of tho Pittsburgh Opera House Company, where ber husband is “leading man;” Miss Amelia Waugh, who will be remembered as a soubrette actress at the Museum, is now “leadinglady” of the Buffalo Theatre; Mr. Frank Mordaunt. who was the heavy man at MeVlcker’s about the year 18G0, is now playing loading business at the Buffalo Theatre; C. 1. Nichols, during tho season of 18C0 “heavy man” of the Museum Company, is paying the same lino of business at tho Galveston, Texas. Theatre; the gorgeous Harry Hudson is a member of a Balti more company. Elsewhere. MUSIC. Mine. Lichtmay. tlie primer donna of gener ous amplitude, who sang in the recent Chi cago last spring, is now travelling with Jim. risk’s hand. —Tamherlik, in some mysterious way, .has quietly arrived at Havana, and is now sing ing there with Mari and Mesdames Kobout and Testa. —Miss Blanche Davenport, daughter of L. L. Davenport, the actor, is studying music at Milan. —feciineuler is in trouble, having arranged, some time ago, with a Russian manager to appear in St. Petersburg at S3OO per night, and discovered that ho was proprietor of a second-rate concert-hall. As she sings sec ond-rate music, whv object i —Miss Nilsson will he heard in Philadel phia on and after December 11. —Mrs. McCulloch-Brignoli gave a concert in Richmond, on Monday last, which was not verj” largely attended. —A great revival of II Flauto Magico” is on the tapis in Paris. Mile. Carlotta Patti is designated, of course, as the Queen of the Right par excellence. —M. Heiold, son of the composer of Zam- pa,” has just given a banquet in Paris to tho surviving interpreters of “Le Pro aux Clcrce.” his father’s most popular work. —A Vienna letter, dated November 11, and printed in the London Daily Telegraph says:. “On Sunday, the 19th, there is to bo a great semi-private performance of all the singers, actors, dancers, and musicians—m the Carls Theatre, for the benefit of tho Viennese Chicago fund. The performance includes a new operetta, in which Mule. Minnie Hanck is to be the pr/ma donna; in deed, it is only fair to this lady to say that she is the ‘directress/ and, indeed, the first originator of the function/ —A writer in shc London Orchestra, whose letter is dated at Milan, on the 9th of Novem ber, says; “An American singer of promise died here, October 30. at the ago of 29. Hia name was William Nelson Perkins, and he was a native of Illinois, United States. After a funeral service in the Anglican Church of St. Giovanni, the remains of the deceased were accom panied to the new cemetery by the American Consul and nearly the whole of tho American colony resident here, besides many English, the funeral cortege consisting of about twenty carriages. The coffin was adorned with gar lands of llowors woven by the gentle hands of his fair countrywomen, who also, during his brief illness; were assiduous in minister ing to his wants, the poor fellow having no relatives nearer than his native place.” —M. Gounod has embalmed the sorrows of the French people in his deathless music. Tho sentimental rejoicings of fashionable Paris have been reduced by him to tho oper atic score, and are poured forth by an Eng lish prime donna Mrs. Weldon. His new can tata is called Gallia, or the Lamentation.” —Jullicn went to Boston, with a groat flourish of trumpets with his “grand orches tra,” composed almost entirely of Boston musicians, pnt on airs, and was successful— in making himself ridiculous. —Mrs. George L. Brown, wife of the emi nent landscape artist, has recently composed some pieces for tho piano. She wrote the popular “Shades of Evening.” —A singularity which has perhaps passed unperceived hi" many is that tho letter M, not only being the first of tho words, “mu sic anil melody,” is also the first of a great number of names of ancient and modern composers; for example, Marcelo, Monsigny, Mehnl. Mozart, Martini, Mercadauto, Mou pon, Meyerbeer, Malibran, Mayseidor.Mme. Musard Masini.Maillart.Medolssohn,Masse, 'MoschelTes/Mcmbro, Marmot, —ln a conversation with Grotry, the mu sician, Voltaire. while speaking-of fame, said, Oh, I’d give a hundred years of im mortality for a good digestion, any time.” THE DRAMA. Edwin Booth has revived his melancholy Hamlet,” with all tho Prince’s grief-etrickon friends. —Frank Mayo is playing D'Artagnan in Dumas’ “Three Guardsmen,” at the Grand Opera House, New York. —Susan Benin, who, twenty; years ago, was tho rage in Chicago, is playing in sensa tion’s at Wood’s Museum, Now York. —“Divorce” has reached its fourteenth week in New York. In St. Louis it never stops. —A few days since the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher received a note from a cleagyman, inclosing a piece of a theatrical handbill, in which was credited to Mr. Beecher tho state ment that, if tho theatres wore closed, tho world would bo ton times wickeder than now. Thereupon tho clergyman deplores Brother Beecher’s inconsistencies and says, I cannot but think your power for good is almost equalled by your power for evil.” Whereupon Mr. Beecher thus re plies: “Tho sentence which you send mo, printed as a part of a theatre handbill, is an impudent forgery. I have uttered but one life-long testimony on that subject. But what are wo to think of a man who is so vehement against theatres as you seem to bo, but who 'Trill yet go to a theatre handbill to get testimony against a Christian man; and, without any other evidence, will writo him such a letter as you write mo Your princi ples in respect to your neighbor’s character and reputation need bracing up.” It is to lie presumed that his correspondent will not waste his postage stamps any longer on Mr. Beecher. —The Howard Atlienamm has killed off the St. James, tho opposition variety theatre at Boston, and tho doors of the latter aroclosed. The Howard not only gave a more attractive show, but entered into a combination uy which performers who accepted a situation at the St. James were debarred from appear ing at any of the principal variety halls of the country. —Edwin Forrest, tho recent tragedian, is at Houston. Texas. —Charles Mathews waslast week in Pitts —floriacchi and tho Majiltons were in Bos- tou last week. —Mr. Dravton lias appeared as an actor at the National Theatre, in Washington. His performance gave much pleasure; but the piece in which ho appeared, a drama called Niagara,” is spoken of as devoid of interest or merit. ~r —The Zanstowski sisters and Mrs. Glad stane are reported in Melbourne. —Alexander Dumas has loft a translation in verso of “Romeo and Juliet.” —The Fall Moll Gazette gives its readers the information following: “The manager of the Queen’s Theatre has advanced another step on the path of democracy. Wo are in formed by advertisement that ballot-boxes have been placed in various parts of the house, and that visitors are expected to de posit their bulletins or voting-papers in scribed with the name of the bhakspoaroau piece thev desire to sec performed. Iho play which obtains the greatest number of votes, even though it be 'Pericles, Prince of Tyro/ or Titus Andronicua/ will bo produced; and the manager will have tbe advantage of knowing beforehand how many persons, at a minimum, will come to see the now represen tation.” —The Paris theatres were in a flourishing condition during the month of October, the authors' percentage amounting to 177.000 francs. In 18CJ the fees for the month of October readied 200,000 franes, but that sum is comparatively lower, as at that time the Porte St. Martin and the Lyriquo were open, —Matilda Heron has written the following letter to the New York Herald, in relation to the famous St. Louis scene To the Editor of the Herald:] Your kindness in forbearing to publish a raise and malignant telegraphic report of my reap pearance on tho stage at Do Bar’s Opera House, St. Louis, Mo„ on the 24th ultimo, emboldens mo to present a plain statement of the facta. It was the understanding that I should appear in mv play of “Noemie, tho Jewish Mother, to bo followed by my plays of “Pearl,” ami Agrahmara” a new tragedy adapted by me from tho German. For the first piece I had stipulated for four rehearsals —two of them “letter perfect”—and had for warded copies of tho piece and parts in advance. On arriving I found the Jano Combs Company had possession of the theatre, and that Dollar’s Company was absent, playing at Boom. T had, therefore, only one rehearsal. 2* oar the dose of the first act a principal per former was missing, and I had to talk against time” to “make a scene,” while a search was made for him. The gods” in tho gal lery, attributing tho delay and confusion to mo. made noisy and offensivedemonstrations which I rebuked sharply. At the close of the play—per formed under discouraging and embarrassing cir cumstances —I was called out and made a speech, ending with a humorous re max Ic. The telegraphic despatch alluded to above, and which has been circulated broadcast over tho country, stated that I then “danced on the stage, waving my arm wildly.” Tills is false. I retired quickly courtcsylng to tho audience. Tho impossibility of producing two new pieces at short notice compelled me reluctantly to consent to fill out tho remaining nights of my engage ment with Camille,” though I knew that play had been done to death in St. Louis. However, my reception in tho four x>crform ancee of Camille” was very flattering, and I was on each occasion called three times before the curtain. Although knowing full well the cause and source of tho hostility which has assailed a defenceless woman standing alone in her battle •with the world, I yet forbear at present to expose them, and rely on tho manliness and chivalry of tho independent press of the country to publish this brief vindication. The critic sets down ray manner to mama, it might, perhaps, propitiate his ire wore I to admit that lam mad. I cannot. On tho contrary, lam so convinced of tho perfect reasonableness of my malady that I bear no malice to my enemy, but rest my case in full trust with time and Heaven. Respectfully yours and tho public’s grateful servant, Matilda llhkok. How liitcrnr? Women Look* From the Revolution. Very intellectual women are seldom beau tiful; their features and particularly their foreheads are more or less masculine. But there are exceptions to all rules, and Miss Landon was an exception to this one. She was exceed ingly feminine and pretty. Mrs. Stanton likewise is an exceedingly handsome woman, but Miss Anthony and Mrs. Livermore are both plain. Maria and Jane Porter were women of high brows and irregularfoaturea, as was also Miss Sedgwick. Anna Dickinson has a strong masculine face; ICato Field has a good-looking, though bv no means pretty, one, aud Mrs. Stowe is thought positively homely. Alice and Phoebe Cary were plain in features, though their sweetness of disposition added greatly to their personal appoaranoc. Mar garet Fuller had a splendid head, but her features were irregular and she was anything but handsome, though sometimes in the glow of conversation she appeared almost radiant. Charlotte Bronte had wondrously beautiful dark-brown eyes, and a perfectly-shaped head. She was small to dimiuutivoness, and was as simple in manner as a child. Julia "Ward Howe is a fine-looking woman, wearing an aspect of grace and refinement and great force of character in her face and carriage. Olivo Logan is any thing Imt handsome in person, though car and attractive in conversation. Laura Hol loway resembles Charlotte Bronte both in personal appearance and in the sad experiences of her young life. Neither 'Mary Booth nor Marion Harland can lay claim to handsome faces, though they are splendid specimens of cul tured women, while MaryClemmer Ames is just as pleasing in features as her writings are graceful and popular. \Vo arc sorry for Mr. Beecher, but his eautution and usefulness are now at an end. He has at last been detected, and, whether or not he escapes the proper punishment for bis crimes, no honest man can now entertain anv feelings toward him but thoso-of horror nncl aversion. Dr. Bellows is the detective who has discovered Mr. Beecher’s wicked ness, and he has already openly proclaimed I it. “Mr. Beecher,” says Dr. Bellows, “is a i monophysite of the Antiochian school. THE TEMPTATION, From Longfellow’s Divine Tragedy." MOC|T QTTAIUKTAXIA. LUCIFER. Not In the Ughtndfe’a'flaah, nor In the thunder, Not in the tempest, nor the cloudy storm, Will I array toy form But part invisible these boughs asunder. And move and murmur, as the wind upheaves And whispers in the leaves. Not as a terror and a desolation. Not in my natural shape, inspiring fear And dread, will I appear But in soft tunes of sweetness and persuasion, A sound as of the fall otmonntaln streams, Or voices heard M dreams. He sitteth there In silence, worn and wasted With famine, and uplifts his hollow eyes To the unpitylng skies; For forty days and nignte ho hath not tasted Of food or drink, his parted lips are pale. Sore by his strength must fail. Wherefore dost thonin penitential fasting Waste and consume the beauty of thy youth 1 Ah, if thou be in truth The Son of tho Unnamed, the Everlasting, Command these stones beneath thy feet to bo Changed into bread for thee! cnaiSTUS. ’Tis written: Man shall not live by bread alone, But from each word that from God's mouth pren ceedeth! LUCIFER. Too weak, alas! too weak is the temptation, For one whoso son! to nobler things aspires, Than sensual desires! Ah, could I, by some sudden aberration, Lead and delude to suicidal death This Christ of Nazareth!. Unto tho holy Temple on Moriah, With its resplendent domes, and manifold Bright pinnacles of gold, Where they await thy coming. O Messiah! Lo, I have brought tnee I Let thy glory hero Bo manifest and clear. Reveal thyself by royal act and gesture. Descending with the bright triumphant host Of all the hlshermost Archangels, and about thee as a vesturo The shining clouds, and all thy splendors show Unto the world below Cast thyself down, it is the hour appointed; And God hath given His angels charge and care To keep theo and upbear Upon their hands his only Son, tho Anointed, Lest ho should dash bis foot'agalnst a stone -And die, and bo unknown. CUR IST us. ’TIs written, Thou sbalt not tempt tho Lord thy God! LUCIFER. I cannot thus delude him to perdition! But one temptation still remains untried; Tho trial of his pride, The thirst of power, tho fever of ambition! Surely by these a humblo peasant’s son At last may ho imdouo! Above tho yawning chasms and deep abysses. Across the headlong torrents, I have brought Thy footsteps, swift as thought; And from tho highest of these precipices. The kingdoms of tho world lliino eyes behold, Like a great map unrolled. From far-off Lebanon, with cedars crested, To where the waters of tho Asphalt Lake On its white pebbles break. And tho vast desert, silent, sand-invested. These kingdoms are all mine, and thine shall he, If thou wilt worship ino! ciinisirs. Get thee behind me, Satan! Thou shalt worship The Lord thy God; Him sbalt thou servo! AXGELS MIXISTBANT. Tho sun goes down; Iho evening shadows lengthen. Tho fever and tho struggle of tho day Abate and pass away; Thiuo Angels Ministrout we come to strengthen And comfort theo, and crown theo with the palm, The silence and the calm. BELXGIOUS. Another distinguished conversion to the Church of Rome is anuonuced. Tho new man is the Marquis of Bath —John Alexan der Thynne, whose family dates its ancestry from the time of King John. He is the pal rou of eleven livings in tho Church of Eng land. —The Lutheran Observer states that, ontof C 60.505 members of tho churches of Berlin, only 99,355 commune with |the churches at the Lord's table. —A convert took so kindly to immersion recently, out in Indiana,fltliat lio wanted to be dipped repeatedly, and force bad. to bo used to get him ashore. —John "Wesley Harper, eldest son of John Harper, of the llrm ox Harper Brothers, has built and furnished, entire at his own ex pense, a Methodist church at Port Washing ton. L. I. —The Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches in British Honduras have been disestablish ed. Two years of grace are to be given tbcm in which to set their houses in order: but, after January-1, 1373, they are to shift I for themselves. .1 —The Presbyterians of Ireland are moving in earnest in opposition to the demand of tbo Roman Catholic prelates for separate denom inational schools. —The Presbyterians of London propose to raise §150,000 to aid in building forty new cburcbcs, which are to cost not less than $15,000 and not more than §25.000 each. Each church is to receive a graut of $3,750. The lirst half of this is not to be given till half of the whole sura to bo expended on the church has been raised, and the second half is to be till three-fourths have been ob —The seventeen livings in the_presentanon of the Marquis of Bute, since his Lordship’s “perversion,’’-have been placed in the hands of trustees. In order to spare his Lordship’s feelings as much as possible, these trustees were all taken from the High Church party. In Longton, England, the following stun ning placard was recently displayed: Tim United Christian Band of the Royal Artlllcrv of Heaven! A company of extraordi nary men. who havo been rescued from among the champions o£ the devil,havinghceuwrestlers, miblicans, pugilists, etc., etc., but are now the servants of God, and of His Son Jesus Christ, Hallelujah’ I! who by the assistance of the Holy Ghost purpose making a desperate attack on the kingdom of Satan, in the Town Hall, Longton. —Bishop Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has cone to visittho American Episcopal church es in Europe; all of which, by a local Pinla pelphian tradition, are supposed to bo in cluded in his diocese. —The new English prayer books recently printed at London. Oxford, and Cambridge purport to be “according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland,” whereas no such church now exists. An inlidel propaganda is about to be start ed by the freo-t Linkers of Now York. At a meeting held December 1, a plan was .initia ted for tbo propagation of free-thinking doctrines throughout tbo United States, by similar agencies to those employed by relig ionists. It was determined to inaugurate an aggressive policy, and to begin by circulating infidel tracts by tbo thousand, providing for lectures and meetings, and tbo equipment of free-thinking missionaries to be sent to all parts of tho Union to establish frec-tlunk- of the 293 Congregational churches of Connecticut have celebrated their two hundred and sixtieth anniversary this year, and nineteen ministers havo died at the av erage ace of 03 years. _ —An Englishspiritualist.who has travelled all over the United States to find how many of the order there are beie. says that m New England they told him they were few there, but bo must go West for thorn. In Colorado they told him bo would find them in tho "States;” aod in Boston ho was in formed that they were thickest m the Terri tories. Individual estimates varied from two hundred thousand to thirteen millions. —The lion. E. K. Madge, lecturing, tho other night, before tho Boston Church Asso ciation, said tho Episcopal Church might bo divided into no less than eight classes, as fol lows 1. Radical Low Churchmen 2. Con servative Low Churchmen J. Conservative High Churchmen; 4 Radical High Church men 5. HighandDryChurchmen; 0. Newer High Churchmen; 7. Ritualists; S. The ’’—lt is known that nineteen copies of tho first Bible overprinted are still in existence. The hook is without date (tho first printed hook with date being the Mentz Psalter, of 1457) hut is known to havo been printed somewhere between 1450 and 1455, at Mentz (better known as Maj-cuce), in Germany. One of the nineteen; copies ismNewlork, belonging to the library of Mr. James Lenox, soon to ho dedicated to the public. The hook cost $3,300. —The Churchman says of Episcopal.clergy men that they bavo become'an itinerant class— parishes not expecting to retain roc f nr c 711 oro than a vear or t wo, —The Rev. L. \V. Brintuall. of Winthrop, lowa, has a parish twenty miles long by ten A rcceht characteristic sermon by the Rev T DeWitt Talmago was upon iho Reckless Penknife,” from the appropriate words in Jeremiah, When Jehudi Imcl read three or four leaves, ho cut it yith his pen knife —A majontv of the members of the Metho dist Protestant Church at Hopewell, Va., went over to tho Methodist Episcopal Church, and attempted, to transfer their property to that denomination. The court decided that the minority had the jc it to hold tho property, and a Board of Trustees was appointed, who are to hold it for tho benefit of tho members of tho Methodist Protestant Church.. —Tlio Scottish Episcopal Synod, lately as sembled at Edinburgh, declared m regard to tho claims of tho Church of Rome that the Pope is infallible, that the conned which nromni gated the doctrine m question had no mst right to he called CEcnmemoal. smeo neither the Church of England nor any of the Churches therewith m connection, nor tho Churches of Constantinople. Alexandria, or Jerusalem were represented thereat. The Synod declared that tho doctrine of Papal infallibility, as enunciated attho council, is no part of tho original deposit of the taitl.v and that it lacks those conditions of antiqui ty, universality, and consent which have ever been regarded as the tests of troo doc trine —A* lady says that church socials are a cross between a Sunday school andafuno- The Unitarians report encouraging pro gress in the collection of their SIOO,OOO fund. The returns arc not all in; but tho Liberal Christian says that, unless some strong and wealthy churches fail lamentably in their duty, there seems every reason to belioyo that tbo maximum of SIOO,OOO will be reached. MACHINERY. W. i. JMES CO., 113 Folton-st. WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE OF Iron Lathes, Planers, Drills, Bolt Cutters, Planers and Matchers, Farrar Surfacers, Resawing Machines, Sash Door Machinery. ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. 0. 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