AMUSEMENTS.A Barren Season at the Chi-

cago Theatres.

Activity in New York—

Green-Room Notes.

Approaching Opening of theMusical Season.

Musical College Soiree—New MusicReceived—Local Notes.

Hess’ English Opera Company inTrouble—Operatic Gossip.

THE DRAMA.CHICAGO.

HR. JOSEPH MURPHY AT U’VICKES’S. .

A treatise on the drama in Chicago during thepast week can be written in short order, epa>when finished, cannot failto resemble the cele-brated chapter on the snakes in Ireland. Therewas no drama in Chicago last week. Mr. - ur-phy’s piece, In which the dove and the horse liedown together, is nota play, but a show. Its

zoological features avowedlyconstitute its chiefclaim to public attention. Thedoves are shownbefore the theatre every day in gildedcages,and passers-by are informed by placards thatthese imported birds are used everynight byMr. Joseph Murphy in “The Kerry Oow.Lower than this the drama in Chicago cannotdescend. Even the educated-pig exhibitionswould not be worse. When the importeddovebecomes the most conspieuous actor in theprincipal Chicago theatre, it must be that thecrisis lias come* and that henceforth thegeneral drift ofdramatic affairs will he towardsbetter things; for progress in the other direc-tion would involve total destruction. There isapeculiar offense in the employment of “im-ported ” doves. Cannot American talent pro-duce doves good enough toappear on the stage!The Americandrama,"it is well known, is yet tocome. Is the American dove to come also?The Americanhorse hasarrived already, anditwas showing an invidious preference not to ex-hibit him in front of MeVicker’s Theatreduringthe engagement of Mr. Murphy. Whether thenative dove comes or not, we do not believeanything worse than Murphy andhis “KerryGow” can come. Neither the play nor theacting is redeemed by a single graceful orartistic trait. The story is full of the wildestimprobabilities; the moral is bad; the dramaticconstruction is awkward; and the dialogue isInexpressibly stupid.

COMIKG EVESTS.

The present -week will be no more noticeablein dramaticaffairs than thelast one. 3lr. Jo-seph Mnrphy with his “Kerry Gow” remainsat McYicker’s Theatre, the two minstrel com-panies offer their usual entertainments, and theAdelphi a vJrietybill. At the last-named placealso a local “sensational ” drama entitled“Nemesis; or, The BrigandsofChicago ’ ’ willbeproduced.

Thefollowing paragraph in an Eastern paperindicates the disruption of the minstrel com-pany now* playing: at Haverly’s Theatre, andthe beginning of the dramatic season at thatplace. It is known that a number of stars harebeen engagedto play at Haverly’s, with sup-port obtained from neighboring cities. 'fnETnincsE warns the management beforehandthat an inefficient stock company can soon ruinthereputation of that theatre, which is at pres-ent excellent, and well worth preserving. Theparagraphreferred tois as follows:

“Killy” Emerson has secured a lease of Hooley’sBrooklyn Opera-House, for a term of five years.He will inaugurate Ids season there on oraboutMot. 12. Mr. Emerson is very desirous to estab-lish a permanent minstrel organisation in Brook-lyn, that shall take rank with, and equal those of,Mew York andPhiladelphia.

THE OUTER WORLD.XEW YORK DHA.MA.TIC GOSSIP.

Kate Putnam is to play an engagement at theOlympic Theatre in “Little Nell and the Mar-chioness,” beginning to-morrow. The Olympicis a variety theatre.

Miss Rose Wood, an accomplished actress,.formerly a member of the Park Theatre com-pany in Kcw York, hasbeen engaged as a mem-ber of Wallack’s company.

The death is of Miss Kate Hol-land, daughter of the late George Holland, anda member of Daly’s company. Airs. HenriettaDyott, of the old Park Theatre, also died re-ccnilv.

Messrs. Jarrett & Palmer have bought W. S.Gilbert’s plav called “DaaU Dmcc, Black-smith,” and will sooner or later bringit out atBooth’s, with Mr. Lawrence Barrett in the prin-cipal role.

Shook & Palmer have purcliased the latestParisian success,—“Fromont the Younger andRisler the Elder.” It is said to be remarkablynasty, and will want a thorough revision beforeit can be produced in America.

It is noticed that Miss Amy Fawsitt, the Erf- #

gllsh actress who was added'to Daly’s companyat the opening of this season, hasbeen retiredon account or a common and vulgar “indispo-sition,” so frequent and embarrassing in its vis-itations os seriously toimpair her usefulness.

Mr. McVicker’s season with Mr. Booth at theNew York Lyceum Theatre trill last tenweeks,after which the company will travel with Mr,Booth ten weeks longer, while Mr. Jefferson oc-cupies the Lvceum with another organization.Miss Clara Jennings, a clever actress, has beenengaged as leading lady of the Booth company.

The principal dramatic novelty in New Yorklast week was the debut of Mrs. Pomeroy asJuliet at the Lyceum Theatre. She showedmuch ability and natural force, but was ad-judged inadequate to tbe responsibilities of thepart. The other programmes were: “Forbid-denFruit,” at Wallack’s? “Life,” at the FifthAvenue: “Baba,”atNiblo’s; “Sardanapalus,”at Booth’s; “The TwoOrphans,” at the UnionSquare: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” at the GrandOpera-House. “Sweethearts” and “TomCobb ” were brought out at the Park Tuesdaynight. These twonew plays are by W. S. Gil-bert. They were produced last season at Bos-ton and Philadelphia, huthad never beforebeenperformed at New York. Miss May Howardmade ahit in “ Sweethearts,” and 3fr. ThomasWhiffcn—another Chicago favorite—was muchadmired for his impersonation of Tom Cobb.

GENERAL AMERICAN NOTES.Anna Dickinson’s engagement at Cincinnati

last week was a fizzle.Madame J&nauschek’s egagement at the Bos-

ton Theatre begins Oct. 30.Adelaide Nciison is hilled to appear at the

Walnut, in Philadelphia, Oct 30.Maggie Mitchell has produceda play called

“Beck}' Mix,” by C. W. Tayleure, fit Providenceand Washington. It wasnot much liked.

Of the Messrs. Kindfys’ new spectacle, “TheLucky Star,” produced at Boston last week, theJournal says: “It is characterized on the billsas 4 the success of an entire season at the The-atre Cliatelct, Paris,'’ but was characterized lastniiriit by an amount of dullness which kept itfar short of success,”

Anna Dickinson and Fannie Davenport wereat Cincinuatnast week: George Fawcett Rowewas at St.Louis; Rose Eytinge at Buffalo; theFlorences at Cleveland;* Charles Fetcher andMrs. D. P. Bowers at Pittsburg; BoueicaultatBoston; Stuart Robson on the New England cir-cuit; Ben DcBaratBaltimore; Maggie Mitchellat Washington; John E. Owens atLouisville;Lottaand Frank Mayo at Philadelphia.

FOREIGN NOTES.Ernest Blum, the author of ‘‘Rose Jlichel,”

has a new comedy,’entitled “L’Avant-Scenc,”in rehearsal at thePalais Royal.

“The Duke’s Motto,” first produced at theLondon Lyceum in 1863hasbeen revived at theOlympic withoutsuccess underthe title of “The

i Duke’s Device.”Mr. Wills’ play on the subject of Jane Shore,

; In blank verseand five acts, has been produced;at the London Princess’. It is called by the* Tima “an indifferent play Indifferently acted.

MUSIC.AT HOME.

TUB SEASON OPENING.As will be seen by our advertising columns

| this morning, the musical season is about toj commence. Itwill fairly open next week, with

I a season of Italian opera by the Strakosch! troupe at MeVicker’s Theatre. The troupe in-

dudes quite an arraj ol artists. The primadonne are Mme. Maria Palmieri, of Milan;Mile. Persian! (alto); Miss McCulloch, wellknown here; Signora Martinez, a newcomer; Frida di Gebcle (alto);Signor Brignoii, vyhom everyone knows;Signor Palmieri, a new tenor; Tom Karl, thefavorite English-opera tenor; Albert Law-rence and Gustavus Hall, baritones;Nicola Barili and L. G. Gottschalk, bassos.The latter singer, it will be remembered, washere last winterwith the Camilla-Crso troupe.The season will commence Monday evening,Oct. 30, with “Norma,” which has not beengiven here for many years. The east will be asfollows:Norma PalmieriAdalgiaa.... Mile. Persian!Pollione S»S- f,alnl 'c"Orovcto o'- - • •?Ir" Jla IFlavio . Sig. Barberci

Mme. RomanosFIRST REUNION OF THE BEETHOVEN SOCIETY.

The Beethoven Society has prepared the fol-lowing programme for its first reunion,—postponed on account of the illness ofone of the performers,—which takes placeFriday evening, Nov. 3, at the FirstMethodist Church, corner of Clark and Wash-ington streets: Rubinstein’s Sonata in D ma-jor,for piano and’cello, by Messrs. WolfsohnandEichheim; the Beethoven concerto In Cminor, to be playedby Miss Bertha Burge; theBeethoven romanza, F major, by Mr. WilliamLewis; and theRapp trio in D major, No. 4, byMessrs. Wolfsohn, Lewis, and Eichheim. Mrs.W. A. Bond will sing the “Addio ” from the“Africalne”; Mr. Dexter, Beethoven’s “Ade-laide”; and Mr. Bergstein will singßalfe’s“ Hostess’ Daughter.” As the members mustpresent their tickets at the door, it is advisablethat they procure them as early as possible.

CHICAGO MUSICAL COLLEGE SOIREE.The first soiree of the season by the students

of the Chicago Musical College will be givenearly next month, with a programme includingWagner’s Centennial March; Rubinstein’s ar-rangement for fouri hands; romanza from“Robert the Devil;” Chopin’s Polonaise, op.22; duo from “Martha”; Beethoven trio forpiano, ’violin and cello; Venzano aria andwaltz; Chopin’s Concert Allegro, op. 46; Cava-tina from Mercadante’s “Elisa o Claudio”;Cavatina and chorus from Donnizetti’s “Pari-sina”; andThalberg and Deßeriot’s HuguenotFantasie for piano and violin.

KEW MUSIC.

Wehave received from Oliver Ditson & Co.,through the kindness ofLyon & Healy, of thiscity, the following new music: Vol. i. No. 1, of“The Organist’s Reliance," being a collectionof easy arrangements for church or cabinet or-gans, by Eugene Thayer, and including suchpieces as the March from “Judas Maccabams,”a Service Prelude in G by Naumann, Largo in 6by Haydn, Andante in G by Beethoven,Andante in F by Mozart: and also several serv-ice preludes by Rink, Keller, Hatton, Hesse,andLefebure-Wcly; also, two numbers of Mr.Thayer’s “Album for Organists,” containingHandel’sSixth Concerto and Mr. Thayer’s ownvariations on “Auld Lang Sync.” For theviolin and piano, Julius Eichberg has arrangedtwelve casv pieces, of which we have “TheWild Rose,'” “flougroise,” a selection fromSullivan’s ,operetta “Cox and Box,” and acanzonetta. For the piano alone the list in-cludes: “Minute-Men Quick March,” a galoparranged from “The Rose of Castile,” and“ Good By Sweetheart Galop,”by J. S. Knight;“VersaillesPolka,” “Vcsperßells,” “St. CloudGalop,” and the “Marseilles Hymn,” as amarch, by Georges Lamothe; “Flowers ofAutumn” and “Reminiscences,” by GustavLange; “In the Free Air,” one of JosephLow’s admirable “Tone Pictures,” foryoungplayers; “ O Mio Fernando,” a transcrip-tion. by cr Everest; “Sounds at Day-dawn,”anidvilc, bv W. F. Sudds; “IndependenceGrand March,” by Carl Wcndclstcin; “AmateurDramatic Lancers,” by Samuel H. Speck; “TheBeautiful View,” by C. E. Pathe; a “Lan-ciers Quadrille,” for Jour hands,) by L. Streab-bog: and another of Ernst Pcrabo’s fine“Ten Selections,” the Rubinstein “Berceuse.”The vocalpiccesin the list -are “My SweetestSong for You,” by J. A. Beatley; “La Vez-zosa," a canzone, by E. Bevignani; “To OurRedeemer’s Glorious Name,” arranged bvProf.Lull fromWilson’s well-known“ ShcperdBoy";“The Old Love is the New," by Frederic If.Cowen; “The Lord is My Shepherd,” an altosolo, arranged bv Hattie A. Hale; “SweetRest Beyond the' Stars,” a sacred song, byGomcz-Thomas; “Thoughts of the Past,” byH. M. Russell; 44 When Shall I Win ThyHeart,” serenade, by L. C. Eison; and thealways favorite canzonetta, “Mia Piccirella,”from Gomez’s “Salvator Rosa.”

Mr. U. Clarence Eddy, onrwell-known organ-ist and teacher, has accomplished a very im-portant work in the translation from the Ger-man of August Haupt’s “Theory of Counter-point, Fugue, and Double Counterpoint.” Theoriginal work was prepared expressly for theRoyal Institute lor Church Music at Berlin, ofwhich Haunt is the director. It has long beena standard authority in Germany, andits excel-lent and scholarly translation will now bring itbefore advanced students of mnsic and pupilsin counterpoint in this country. Mr. Eddy was aprivate pupil ofHaupt, and, being an admirableGerman scholar, his work has more than ordi-nary merit It is published by Schernier, NewYork.

Oliver Ditson & Co., of Boston, have just is-sued an excellent hook for singing classes byL. 0. Emerson, called “The Encore.” The firstfifty pages contain the usual singing-schoolcourse, or course in musical notation. Thereare aboutseventy-five exercises, tunes, airs, andsolfeggios, most of them furnished with words.After them there are nearly 100 paces filledwithharmonized songs, glees, etc., all easy enoughfor singingclasses. Therearc also about fiftypages of sacred music and about 100 pieces, iu-duding psalm tunes, chants, and anthems.

LOCAL MISCELLANYMr. W, C. Coffin, the tenor singer and teacher

of music sowell known here in musical circles,has been engaged as directorof the chorus choirat the Second Baptist Church.

Mr. Thomas Goodwillie, the basso of theChurch of the Messiah, will sing this morningHimmel’s “ Battle Prayer,” and this eveningSteam’s sacred song, “O, Holy Father, HearOur Prayer.” .«

Mr. John White, the organist of St. JamesChurch, gave his fourthrecital yesterday even-ing with a programme embracing selectionsfrom Bach, Hesse, Guilmant, Merkel, and Buck.Mr. White proposes to form a class in vocalmusic for the study of cantatas and smalleroratorios. -

A concert will be given on Thursday eveningnext at the MethodistChurch Block, by Mrs. E.F. Cooke and herpupils. The programme willincludevocal and instrumental numbers, to he

Scrformed by the Misses N. Cooke, J. Cooke,'elite Foley, J. V. Lothian, K. Klasscn, EllaBaker, J. Snell, Ida Coyle, J. Allen, Miss St.Clair, and Messrs. Morrison, Pratt, Allen, Ran-uey, and Cashin.

The programme of the Turner Hall concertthis afternoon includes Hamm’s “FroutMarch”; overture to Thomas* “Raymond”;second finale to “LucreziaBorgia”; potpourriouDicthe’s “Opera Glass”; Lumbye’s “Al-hambra Waltz ”; concertino for two trombones,to be played by Messrs. Helms and Braun:overture to Suppe’s “Pique Dame”; GrandDuchess Potpourri; and Strauss* “EldoradoQuadrille.”

The ChicagoMusical College will give a grandconcert in January', the principal numbersbeingChopin’s F minorconcerto, Moschcles* G minorconcerto, a concertoby Hiller, and Reinecke’sconcert stueck, all with orchestral accompani-ment. SignorDc Campl, the new teacher atthe College, is meeting with great success. Aclass in readingmusic ”at sight, which meetsThursday mornings at 10 o’clock, has' beenestablished under his direction. The class isfree to all.

Mr. Robert Goldbeck has been winning newlaurels at the Worcester (Mass.) musical" festi-val, which occurred during the first week in thismonthj and at which Miss'Kellogg and the En-glish Glee Club were the specialattractions. Onthe two programmes of the concludingday, Mr.Goldbeck was represented bv three numbers,viz.: “ThreeFishers ” (part song), “Morning ”

(vtxal septet),whichwere givenby theGlee Club,a trio, 4k Autumn Song,” jn speakintr ofwhich the Spycharacterizes them as the gemsof the occasion. We also notice the name ofilr. J. R. Nusen, an old Chicago favorite, whosesinging is highly commended.

abroad.MB. HESS IN TBOCDLE.

A special dispatch from Philadelphia, Oct. 16to theNew York Times, says; t 1

Miss Clara Louise Kelloggand C. D Hess travellng as the English Opera Company, bad-a Sher-iff’s summons served upon themwhile engaged Inthe performance of 4 ‘ Lucia diLammennoor ” atthe Acamedy of Music this evening. This is no-tice of a suit to be brought by some twenty-fivepersons who aver that they were encaged as thechorus of the opera company, and were summari-ly discharged. It seems that about the 17th of Au-gust last one Arthur Thamras came here as theagent of C. D. Hess and engaged about sixty per-sons to act as chorus sincere for the operas for theseason of 187G-’7. Written contracts were had,and in some cases individual contracts were mad*;.

but the majorityof the singers signeda paperbind-ing themselves tosing with no other troupe. Onlast Saturday, it is alleged, Mr. Tharamsgave no-tice to all but eight or ten persons that their serv-ices would not be ueedea, making as an excusethat it was not thought the season wouldbe good • enough to warrant them inhaving such a large chorus. The contracts guaran-teed to the choristers pay for at least four nights ina week, at the rate of §4 per night, the season tocommence this evening. As a resulttif this suddentermination of their engagements many of thechorusarc left without moneyand deeply in debt.One young lady resigned her position in theChurch of the Immaculate Conception, on thestrength of the engagement; several gentlemencame from distant parts of the country m Augustand have paid their board here since, forsakingtheir business, and all have attended* rehearsalthree times a day, eachpaying for their own musicand their pro rata share of expenses for the rent ofthe hall at Sixth andArch streets, wherethey prac-ticed. It is alleged that Mr. Tbamms kept themtogether under the most profuse promises, andevenlast week would not hear of any of the com-pany goingelsewhere. After being disposed of inthismanner the members of the chorus engagedthe Hon. John Goforth as counsel, andsuit will becommenced at once. It will not interfere with thecompany’s engagements, as Miss Kellogg and Mr.Hess arc provided with hall forall the suits.

MUSICAL NOTES.Blind Tomis in Philadelphia.Mme. Madeline Schiller is in Boston.The Irish critics like and praise Emma Ab-

bott.It is reported that Sims Beeves is going to

Australia.OleBull’s first concert in Boston is set down

for Nov. 14.There is talk about a monument to the late

Carl Bcrgmann.Thomaswill soon perform Robert Goldbeck’s

“ Idyl ” for full orchestra.The last concert of Nilsson in Sweden was

given at her birthplace, Wexio, for the benefitof the poor.

Mile; Heilbronn, who failed here, opened theItalian opera season at St. Petersburg with suc-cess. '*

John K. Paine, of Cambridge, Mass., haswritten an overture suggested by Shahspeare’s“As You Like It.”

The Duke Ernest of Saie-Coburg has writtenan opera, “Dianaof Solange,” which is soon tobeproduced ou the stage.

Mme. Di Murska is now en route for Califor-nia, where shewill beheard in operanext mouth,under the management of Signor De Vivo.

Before her departureforEurope the highestremuneration received by AdelinaPatti was SSOa night. Strakosch says' her price for Americanow is $2,000 a night.

Miss Kellogg’s season of English opera at thePhiladelphiaAcademy ofMusic commenced lastMonday evening, when “Xuda ” attracted anoverflowing audience.

Mazzoleni, the favorite tenor of Italian operain this country ten years ago, is back again,with Mme. Mazzoleni (nee Ortolani-Brignolijandaboy pianist, who is said to be a marvel.

Miss Laura Schiwner, an American vocalistwhosang in Chicago last season with the Bos-tonPhilharmonic Club, is now in Vienna, andissaid to be possessed ofaphenomenal voice.

Mme. Otto Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind) has justpresented40,00(1 crowns to the Stockholm Acad-emy of the Liberal Arts, of which she is a mem-ber. With the interest of the said sum an ex-hibition is to be founded for deserving students.

And they were sight. The women in thechorus of the opera in Prague struck becausethe manager put them on the bills as “ femalesingers,” instead of “lady singers.” The ad-jective “female” is odious, and the,sex areentirely justified in repudiating it.

The Bayreuth performances have, it is official-ly stated, resulted in a loss of nearly £3,000.The municipality ofBayreuth have taken thedebt on their own shoulders, and intend to re-coup themselves by the proceeds of a fresh se-ries of performances next August.

The Jievueet Gazette Jfusicale states that themedical advisers of Mmc. Adelina Patti, whois in Paris, have prohibited her from goin£ toSt. Petersburg again to sing. Yet the lady isseenat one ot the theatres every night, so thatit would not appear as if she were afraid ofcatching cold.

The Kent Zeitschrift fur JfusUc states thatFrau Matcrna has received aletter from Wagner,addressing her as the “Treueste untcr denTreuen,” and once more thanking her.for .herdevotion to his cause, and for her performanceas JBruntihUde. It is added that numerous en-gagements haye been offered to Frau Matcrna,from Italy, England, and Russia, especially forperformances of Wagner’s operas.

The Philadelphia Times says: “Mr. Hess hasevidently organized his troupe this season on anew plan. Hie Ims no prima donna capable offilling Miss Kellogg’s place and no tenor capableofmaking good Mr. Castle’s absence. Besidesthis, as hasbeen intimated, both the chorus andorchestra arc too small. This will lighten theexpenses, but it will also diminish the receiptsand injure the enviable reputation which Mr.Hess has established and which should becapitalwhich he cannotafford to see decreased.”

THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS.There is a reaper whose name isDeath,

And, withbis sickle keen.He reaps the bearded grain at a Dreath,

And the flowersthat grow between.‘ * Shall I have naught that is fair?” said he,

“Haveuaught but the bearded grain?Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to*mc,

1 will give themall back again.”

He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,He kinged their drooping leaves;

It was for the Lord of ParadiseHe bound them in his sheaves.

4 ‘My Lord hath need of these flowerets gay, ”The reaper said, and smiled;

“Dear tokens of the earth are they,Where He was once a child.

* 4 Theyshall all bloom in fields of light,Transplantedby my care;

And saints, upon their garments white,The sacred blossoms wear.”

And the mother gave, in tears and pain,The flowers she most did love;

She knew she could find them allagainIn the fields of light above.

Oh I not in cruelty, not In wrath,The reaper came that day;

’Twas an angel visited the green earth.And took the flowers away.

—Longfellow.

THE OCEAN.Oh, it is joyWithout alloy,

Musing where naught can annoy.Downat Cape May,Someaunuy day.

Watching the high-dashing spray;Listening to tbeSweet melody

Made by tbe deep-surging sea,Solemnly grand,

- Over the strandSwept by the Almighty Hand;

Listening with wonderWhilst the waves thunder

Whenmadly bursting asunderWhere the rocks slant;Then slowly chant

Music which everwill hauntThe ravished soulWhilst the years roll

On toEternity’s goal. E. M.

Dangerous Inventions.Many years ago, a gentleman in a subordinate

department of the Bank of Ireland discovered adevice more useful than hair-splilting, thoughof tfie like nature; be found out a way of split-ting bank-notes, so that each note became two,aud toall appearances were the same as whentbevwere one, including, of course, the water-mark and all the rest of it. He was an honestman,and informed the Government of the re-sulto' bis ingenuity; whereupon,onbis solemnpromise of never revealing his secret, theymade him governor of the bank. Anothergentleman, hut who unhappily is a roeue, liaslatelv made his appearance in London; he hasinvented a certain add which causes the writingtodisappear from the check, and then he fills uptheblank space according to his aspirations.His modus operand! is following: He pro-cures a good check, drawn by a good name, forseventeen or nineteen pounds; the word“pounds”is obliterated socompletely that notrace of the original writing can be discernedeven under the microscope, and the words“hundred pounds” inserted in its place; twociphers are added to the figures, and then thething is done, since all thr other parts of thedocument, including the signature, are quitecorrect. This ingenious plan is causing greatconsternation in London, and the gentlemanwho invented it could get a good round sum toretire from business.

The extensive authority of parents under theChinese laws is well known. A Chinamanof40years, whose aged mother flogged him everyday, shed tears in the companvof one of hisfriends. 4 * Why do you weepl” was asked.“Alas, things are .not"as they used to be!” an-swered thedevoted son. 44 The poor woman’sarm grows feeblerevery day.”

THE CHICAGO TRIBUTE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1876-SIXTEEN PAGES.

NEW YORK GOSSIP.Beeolier’s Hook Invited to Stay

Away from Church.

A Pretty Actress and HerGovernmentBonds.

A Bank-President’s Daughter and HerProfligate Suitor.

Wealth and Wax-Ends—The Ad-mirable Komeos.

A Verdant Green’s Elopement Case—A Girl’s Pranks.

Special Correspondence of The Tribune.New York, Oct. 19.—Members of Beecher’s

congreeationwill stand a irreat deal for theirpastor, but it is doubtful if the request they re-ceivedlast week to absent themselves from thechurch during the remaining Sabbaths oftober pleased them overmuch. We have allheard ofpastors urging their people to attendchurch, but this is the first recorded instance ofa congregation being asked to vacate. Thereasonof the request is that Beecher has been act up aspan of the Centennial show: and of the manythousand grangers who are here a very largepro-

portion regard it as a solemn duty to hear himpreach. The consequence is that the crowd aroundthe church has so largely increased of late that thevery street in front of the building has been block-aded. One of the pewholders is anxiously inquir-ing whether there is to be any reduction in therents on account of the enforced absence. It isonly just to say that this extraordinary request hasthus far been generally complied with, and theBcecherltcs overflowed the other churches lastSunday quite generally.

THE BONDS OP A PRETTY ACTRESS.Writinglast week of Aimse’s diamonds, and

the trouble they have caused her, recalls theexperience of a pretty actress attached to Au-gustin Daly’s company. She is or was theown-er of five SI,OOO United States bonds, and hadthem inher possession not long ago, when thehouse wherein she boarded took lire. She soon se-cured them, and for safe-keeping placed them inthe vault of the Bond Street Savings Bank. Thatbank failed, and she wasin a terrible slate of trep-idation, lest herbonds were endangered, but theywere all richt, and she again took them into herown keeping. One night she misplaced them in atrunk, and, on searching for them thenext day, was terror-stricken thatshe could not find tticm. However, theywere found the same day, and this time the adviceof a gentleman friendasked as to a proper place ofdeposit. He said he would take them down-townto a safe-deposit company, and get a receipt forthem. This was the last she saw of the gentlemanfor fourweeks, ana in the interim her mind waswrought up to a state of frenzy about the missingbonds. Last Saturday the gentlemanmade his ap-pearance again and handed her the receipt, butthe was incredulous about the safety of the bonds,so a carriage was procured, and, in company withher friend, she went down town to the .EquitableBuilding, and once more feastedher eyes upon thebonds, and ascertained theconditions of their safe-ty. Sheis happynow, and thinks that her bondsare in a safe place.

DOW TO MAKE A FAITHFUL WATCHMANExperience has shown that the employment

of a watchman to guard particularpremises atnight is by no means a sufficient security eitheragainst fire or robbery. The late A. T. Stewartwas as afraid of being robbed by an insidewatchman as by burglars, and many cases arccited by the police where fires have occurreduponpremises in which watchmen have slept Theowner of a wcll-tyiown stock of merchandise inChambersstreet, this city, has hit upon a device'which he believesbeats all the watch-clocks aridotherautomatic contrivances for makingmen faithful ever heard of.watchman is a German who has been inhia employ nearly twenty years. ThisGerman has deposited in his employer’shands the sum of SSOO, upon whichthe latter payshis 7 per cent interest annually. He has en-tered into a regular contract by which the watch-man agrees that if a fire originates upon the prem-ises during the hours of watching from dark todaylight, or the store isburglarized, then the SSOObefore mentioned is to be forfeited. The effectupon the watchfulness of the Germanis marvelous.He is the embodiment of vigilance, and so long/ashe has SSOO at stake there is no fear that he-willever be otherwise. Several other employers haveheard of this experiment and are aboutjmitatingit.

HOW A MISTRESS WAS REVENGED.There is a certain young fellow, well known

in thelower part of Wall streets, who hasbeennoted for his spendthrift habits and recklessextravagance. When he was flush he was guiltyofkeeping a mistress, but when his pocket wastouched by the hard times he sensibly concludedto do without this expensive luxury. He hadbeen livingwith a female who professed great ad-miration for him; he had fitted up handsomerooms for her comfort near the Academy ofMusic, and simply told her on leaving the lasttime thathe should withdraw Ids support. Last■summer this chap met a young lady, daughter of aBank-President, at one of the watering-places,and made lore to her in the usual fashion. Heasked her hand and woe referred to papa. Thelatter happened to be one of those cold-blooded,worldly men who distrust appearances, and hefanciedthe young man in question wasnotapropermatch for his daughter. To make sure of hisgroundhe employed a detective to investigate theyoungman’s habits and antecedents. It was notlong ere the detective found theabovefacts regard-ing the cast-off mistress. The investigation thentook another turn. The woman, judging fromin-quiries that something was-in the wind, likewiseemployed a detective to ferret it out. Her detect-ive speedily got the clew to the situation, anddulyreported to her the facts. When she heard thetruth, she called a carriage and proceeded to theresidence of tne family whose daughter her formerlover hadbeen courting, and exposed her intimacywith him, acknowledged her own shame, andwarned the girl’s mother against the profligateyouth who had sought to becomeone of the family.Since that call the doors of the house have been

■‘dosed against him.A VICIOUS system: and its results.

All merchantswho have bought goods in thismarket arc aware that in almost every line oftrade there arc various discounts allowed uponprice-lists, according to amount purchased, timeofpayment, kind ofgoods, etc., etc. In manybranches of trade there are combinations amongmanufacturers to fix discounts so that theywill beuniform, but there is scarcely a shadowof doubtthat there isa wholesale system ofcheating in these■discounts which places thedishonest upon abetterfooting withpurchasers than the honest. This isdone in various ways. Recently a manufacturerwas asked bv the Supply Agent of a certain railroadto make a bid fora particular article of hardware.He gave his price, which was the lowest allowed bvthe terms ofacompactbotwcenall themanufacturersof the article required. He was told that anothermerchant could sell It at a less price, and, on in-vestigating the matter, found thatit was true,though the bills were made out at regular rates.The trick was togive credit 44 by error ” so much,and thus reduce the price. Again, in anothercase, a* dry-goods firm was detected in paying acash commission to a buyerafter selling the goodsat an apparently low-down price. The manufac-turers who enter into combinations often find thatsomebody is cheating, and the cheating isalwaystraced to the discount system.

a rich shoemaker.In the taxables of Brooklyn appears the name

of aGerman whose annual payments for taxesexceed those ofmany of the so-called princelymerchants who live on the Heights.He pays taxes yearly upon real andpersonal property assessed at §250,000, butworthprobably double that amount. Yet this manworkshard at the bench every day, and if he spendsa dollarin recreation for bis wife and children onSunday he thinks it is a big thing. He has nohelp, bat works for a few customers, doing alltheir work andcaring nothing about any of them.If they are displeased with his way of doing thingshe simplysays they can take their workelsewhere,and he sorely tries their patience by his habit ofdisappointing his customers as to time. This mancollects bis own rents, builds twoor three newhouses every year, and from his frugal habitspromises, if his life is longspared, to be one of thewealthiest ofall the Brooklynites. His yearly in-come from real estate is hot less than $15,000perannum, but be regards idleness as a sin, andworks away every dayupon boots and shoes asregularly as If bis bread and butter were injeopardy.A MIXED CASE OP ELOPEMEXT AXD EMBEZZLE-

MSXT.One of the clerks in the Cheapside dry-goods

store of Ridley & Son is involved in a doublecase of elopement and embezzlement, in com-pany with a designing female, the wife of a manappropriately named (it should have been Verdant)Green. Theclerk's name is Akers, and he first metthe woman in the capacity of a purchaser for herstore in the village of Rhinebeck on the Hudson.She dealt with Akers, but whether she captivatedhim or he captivated her, is a mystery, but it iscertain he shipped large amounts of goods belong-in" to bis employers to her address, without charg-ing them on the books, andalso clandestinely vis-

her. Recently they visited the Centen-nial together, and stopped at a hoarding-house as man and wife. Akers has a wife,and children of his own. and pretended thathe was compelled to visit Philadelphia upon basi-

ness. The woman’s hnsband seems to have snapectcd something wrong, and. whenreturned to Rhincheck, accused her of u n f- thflt ,ness. After some pother, she admitted it, amttold the story of how Akershadbeguiled her. Ihehusband proposed she should return to her moth-er’s, to which she consented, but firstvis'ted iYork and had a farewell interview (she said) withAkers. Then slve went back to Rhinebeck, andpacked her trunks, to retire to anunnery with herrelatives; but itappeared in the sequel she metAkers bv appointment, and the two are now enjoy-ing the fruits of an illicit love together in CanadaIset result: Two broken-hearted families, twomiserable victims of their own passions, a defraud-ed mercantile firm, and a baffled Sheriff who hasbeen hunting theembezzled property.

PRACTICAL PENANCE WITH PEAS AND PINS.There are a few families who are associated in

a religious sect as a branoh of the Free Method-ists, who reside near New Rochelle. They holdmeetings in a school-house, and the PresidingElderis named Paul T. Parker, who is famil-iarly called “Old Peas,” not because of thcallit-erativeness of his name, hut by reason of the pe-culiar views he holds as to doing penance by put-ting dried peas in his shoes and torturing himselffor his sins. Parker isa shoemaker by trade, butis very earnest in his preaching, and evidently sin-cere. He has recently been interviewed, and frank-ly admitted that he believed that the flesh mustsuffer for sin,and that self-ffnflicted pain is the truesign of repentance. Once, hd said, be took a ham-mer and drove nails through eachof his feet. It wassummer time, and he walked about with the nailsin his feet until they festered, when he drew themout. He tried to persuade a lady to do the same,but she couldnot; so instead shestuck herarm fullof pins. Parker thought this punishment was notat all adequate toher crime, as she had been guiltyof gaudiness in her attire, wearing bright ribbonsand a gold locket J Another memberof this so-ciety is a Mrs. Weatherwax, the mother of sevenchildren, whowas also interviewed. The amusingpoint in her conversation was that she had triedhard to convert her husband to her views and pntpcasm his hoots whileengaged in his work;but hecould not see it. There are thirtyor forty honestpeople encagedin this delusion, and some horriblestories arc told of their methodsof self-imposedpunishment andpenances.

A REMARKABLE CASE OP TRANCE.A very extraordinarycase of suspended ani-

mation was revealed at No. 137 Delanccy street,In this city, a few days ago. The victim of it isa Swedish girl, aged 22, named Anna Froben.She was taken suddenly, while at work, with astroke of whatwas called paralysis, and fell deadto the floor. The alarmedfamily called Inf a phy-sician, Dr. Llndenborn, who examined the bodyand pronounced the girl dead. Her relatives weresent for, anda brother soon arrived. By this timethe girl’s face had turnedblue, aflfl there was everyevidencethat she was a corpse. But, to everybody'sastonishment, the brother declinedto believe it,an<T declared that she was only in a tranceand had been subject to such fits for manyyears. The friends of the cirl were indignantat Ibisstatement, and sent forthwith foran under-taker toprepare the body forintermeut. The manof coffins and shrouds arrived and joined with thephysician in pronounclngthegirltobe dead beyondpossibility of doubt He proved it by dropping hotsealing-wax upon the breast, and as the body gaveno sign of life it Was concluded that theundertakerwas nght. The body was placed on ice for thenight. In the morning the undertaker returned tocomplete his preparations, when to hishorror thegirl suddenly started up and exclaimed “lam socold,”—a natural result of being on ice all night.She was taken toa fire and in a short time was ableto converse. She said her brother was right andonce before she had been laid out for burial. Thephysician was recalled and pronouncedthe case avery remarkable one.

A PRETTY WORKING GIRL’S PRANKS.There was an unusualscene in the Fourteenth

Precinct Police Court a few days ago, when aprepossessing young girl named Jane Weisnerwas arrested for wearing men’s clothes on thestreets. The girl’s appearance forbade the ideaof her being a disreputable character, and shewasallowed to tell her story to the Judge withouthindrance. She explained that she was employedin a musical instrument factory in Crosby street, inwhich a portioif of her wont was burning out aoraesmall iron frames, which were made at a forge.Once her dress took Arc while so employed fromthe sparks, and to avoid a repetition of it she badput on boy’s clothing duringworking hours. Theothergirls hud complimented her onherrakish ap-pearance in masculine garments, and one day ina spirit of banter one of them offered to beta small sum thatshe did not dure to appear on thestreets in her male costume. She accepted thewager, and while carrying it out wasarrested.Two witnesses confirmed her statement, and theproprietor of the factory testified to her unvaryinggood character, so the eirl was released. In thecourse of the evidence apolice captain stated thatthere are fromfifty to sixty girls promenading theatrootc nightly in the garments or the other sex,and that, while the police were aware of it, tneycould not catch the women while in the act.

A JEW WHO TAKES MANX CHANCES.Upon Cedar street, dose to Broadway, there

is an old Jew money-lender, who by his tastesand habits reminds one of those cold-blooded,passionless creatures described so vividly byDickens,—the beau ideal of * a dose-fisted Jewwho inhabits the lanes and obscure alleys ofoldLondon. This Cedar streetman is in fact an En-glish importation, although he has lived here formany years. His especial business is discountingpaper withor without collateral for merchants andfast young men. He is opposed to the Usury lawof course, so he takes good care to include his in-terestcharges in the principal of the obligations hetakes. He seems to know whom to trust,and it is said that in ten years,upon loans aggregating $500,000, he has lostbarely SSOO. The pets of this notc-rshaver areyoung men who are living beyond their income,upon whom a certain amount has been settled forlife, or who are residuary legatees of estates leftthemby fathers or mothers with a life interest ofsome relative only in the way, or whose patrimonywill only become payable when the minorheirs allreach their majority. This man now holds the ob-ligations of one of the Fifth avenue fastyouths for§75 oOU os a lien upon his half interest inan estateworth $500,000, which must be divided next yearwhen his younger sister turns her 20th year. Forthis $75,000 the Cedar street Jew paid but a trifleover $30,000, but he has the papers drawn sotightlythere is no escape from payment.

TO THE MOST ADMIRABLE “ROMEO.”Apropos of the return of Miss AdelaideNeil-

son from Europe (she is onboard the Celtic,andexpected to arrive on Sunday), a good story istold by a dramatic writer of two calls he re-cently made on well-known actors. Thelirst wasyour oldChicago favorite, James O’Neill, who hasrecently been winning golden opinions from theNew York press. Mr. O’Neill showed the writera photograph of Miss Neilson, inscribed, in herown handwriting, 44 To the most admirable ofRomeos:' This cift from her fair hand was verymuch prized by' Mr. O’Neill, and very justlyso too, and it would be consideredinvaluable were itnot that the same dramatic crit-ic called upon Mr. Lewis Morrison, and saw like-wise in his possession a photograph of the samelady. It, too, bon» her autograph, coupled withthese words, 44 To Mr. Lewis Morrison, the mostadmirable of Romeos Now, the question whichwill occur to most minds is, how many other44 most admirable Romeos” are there in the list

of Miss Neilson’s friends, andis she in the habitof handing aroundherphotographs thus inscribedin a promiscuous manner? Herspeedy coming hascaused the critics of the city press toinvest in newswallow-tails andother fashionable toggery, so asto be presentable when they pay their respectsto the lovely Juliet.

A POLICE RAID ON ROBINSON’S HALL.The so-called ParisianVarieties, in Robinson’s

Hall, on Sixteenth street, near Broadway, hasbeen closed by the police. It is a great surprisethat it was allowed to remain open so long,with Its shameless women and shameless piecesplayed before shameless audiences. The so-calledperformances were neither more nor less than in-decent exhibitions, and the police conld not claimignorance of it. Since the raid, the managerscame forward and claimed that theyrepeatedlyasked the presence of the police, and de-sired to be informed if anything objection-able were offered. Fifty-five performers, four-fifths of them females, were arrested andlocked upfor the night. They made night hideous at thestation-houseby singingribald songsand indulgingin other noisy demonstrations. The next morningsome of them werereleased on SSO ball, and otherson SSOObail, while the least blameworthy of allwere sent to the House of Detention as witnesses.Among the arrested were Minnie Hall, Aimle De-vere, and Rose Fielding. There isan ample fieldfor further arrests in some of the low-down varietyshowson the side avenues, and if they are nottroubled the Hoblnson-Hallaffair ought to beapol-gized for.

A RIPE CHERIE J)EBUTAXTE.A private entertainment was given at the

Union Square Theatre recently to afford an op-portunity for Miss Adelaide Cherie to makeherdebut. This young lady comes of anaristocraticfamily, and starts her theatrical career wltnmorethan ordinary advantage in the partiality ofher friends. She is by no means a very younglady, but has a good figure, pleasant but nothand-:some face, and fair delivery; hut if she is per-suaded she is destined for a great actress she issadly mistaken. The piece chosen for the eventwas **Camille,”and she has been studying forseveral months under the tutelage of Miss MatildaHeron. Her first appearance, if in any publictheatre, wonld have been pronounced a failure,butshehad hosts of warm friends present, and theytried to manufacture success for the occasion byvigorously applauding every time she opened hermouth. As this ripe cherie is bound to “star ** itby appearing only in leadingcharacters, you willhear more of her anon. Beauty.

Beware of false teeth with gutta-percha fix-ings. Master Alec (who is fond of dogs):“ There is no mistake about you being thor-oughbred, Maj. Bumblebie.” Maj. Bumblebie(not displeased): “ Andhow’ did vou find thatout, my boy*” Master Alec: “Why, ’causeyou’ve got a black roof to your mouth.”—.Punch.

JACKSONThe MostExpert Horse Sharp

in the City.

An Exposure of His Busi-ness Transactions.

Big Prices Received for Broken-Down Horses.

Smart Horsemen Often Beaten by

tbe .Rascal,

But They Dislike to “Squeal” and BeLaughed At.

A considerable portion of thedisrepute whichhas of late years fallen on the turf, on horse-men, and.on their sports, has come from theactions of a few men who have used the horseas an accessory to a confidene game,—noton the

track, but in the stable, and with much theequipment of confederates that characterizesthe bunko-room.

Areporter of The Tsibdne was asked theother day to find out something about thesesharps and their workings, and on attemptingto get “a starter” from a gentlemanhaving todo with the turf he was met with the answer:

“ Look in your own paper; look in TheTrib-hne, in the small advertisements, under thehead ‘Horses and Carriaees,’ any Sunday,andalmost any other day for the last year,—yes,for the last five years,—and you will get on thetrackof the game. Youwill find all sorts ofhorses‘sold as ‘the property of the late Mr.Smith,’ or whatever the name may be; huntalmost any one of them up, and you will get onthe track of

ONE OP THE GREATEST SCOUNDRELSwho ever had a halter in his hand, when byrights it ought to have been around his neck.”

The answer was full and complete enough,and the reporter looked over the advertisingcolumns with care, and found, sure enough, agreat number ■of announcements offine pairs and fast trotters, “theproperty of ■ the late M. H. Willson,”and other men supposed to have departed thislife, andall of them to have left fast trottersorstylish coach or road horses. “The late Mr.Willson” seemed to have left his “span of 0-year-oldbay mares ’’ at a stable in rear of No.302 Michigan avenue, near Eldridge court, andanother “lately deceased” had left anotherfine specimen or two in the rear of No. 518 Wa-bash avenue.

OX INSPECTION,the two places were found to be identical, andthe emissary went around to look over thestock. The stable was closed, but a neighbor-ing hostler said that it was owned or leased byMr. Jackson, and that he couldbe found at No. 19 Harmon court. He wasfoundafter a search, and proved to be a stout,rather rotund personage, very well dressed,§resenting the general appearance of a well-to-o Englishman, rather on the swell lay. The

negotiations to buy a horse fell through, andthe reporter sought to ascertain from personswho had traded with Mr. Jackson

SOMETHING ABOUT HIS CHARACTERand ways of doingbusiness.

From conversations with some twenty differ-ent people, many facts were extracted whichmil be ofinterest to the public, but which badbetter be put in concise form rather thanspread through a lot of conversations. Itwill then be in order to say, first, that Mr. Jack-son is a swindler, a confidence man, and, gener-erally, an obtalncr on the falsest offalse pretenses.

His business is to rope in young (and some-times old) simpletons, and to sell them un-soundhorses at prices which would be extrava-gant if the stock were what the sellerwarrantsft. There are of course a certain proportion ofall the horses in the country which are afilictcdwith some disease which really disables themfrom use, though it may not affect theirap-pearance particularly. Under this head comethe windbroken, blind (U me eye docs not showtoo badly), and balky, the kickers and cribbers,those afflicted with heaves, and, above all, the“durables,” or horseswhich

GO CRAZY ONCE IN A WAY.Anyand all of these classes are the capital intrade of Jackson, who rarely or never has asound animal in stock.—in fact, a sound, wholebeast would be a disadvantage to him, becausehe could not, after the animal was once sold,get it back again; for it should be borne inmind that the essence of Jackson’s trade is tosell a horse as sound, and for a sound price,and then buy him back, after the pur-chaser has ascertained bis character, forwhat he really is worth. This last sentence isthe whole secret of the trade as carried on byJackson, and all the rest are, merely appliancesor extras. In this latter daks comes the con-federate; orsometimes two—the skillful groomand doctor—who can show a horse at his best.

THE AVERAGE CASEcommences with an advertisement, like the one•the reader is quite likely to find in the advertis-ing columns this morning, andwhen the averagereader sees that, andnotes that the horse is leftin care of “John, the groom,” he is verylikely, if he wants a horse, to go downto look at the animal. He findsthe groom, and, later, sees Jackson, who showshim the animal in such different ways, as theneeds of thecase demand.: if he is selling awind-broken beast, he cannot get a wagon togive him a trial, and the purchaser must besatisfied tolook him over; if the horse is afflict-ed with a disposition to goiamc after a fewminutes7 driving, he is tried half a block andback; and so on throughthe catalogue.

IT GENERALLYHAPPENS,while the trade Is being canvassed, andespecially if the purchaser seems to faqcy theanimal underconsideration, that a youne manrushes iu and says to Jackson that Mr. Joneshas sent him over to say that he will take thathorse, and that if he will send him over he canhave the price agreed upon. Perhaps the con-federate may rush in with a note which hasbeen left for Mr. Jackson, and in which' Mr.Smith ifetlllcs him that he wfil take thosehorses. The effect is the same, and the manbites and is landed. He takes his animal andgoes on his way rejoicing. In a day or two hecomes back and

DEMANDS SATISFACTION,which he by no means gets,and thematter endsby his selling bock to Jackson the horse at somesuch figure as $25, or perhaps SSO, which is fromone-fourth to oue-tenth what he paid. Veryfew men have the courage to acknowledge thatthey have been swindled, and in almost everycase theyswallow their loss and go away. This,perhaps, grows out of the fact that a considerableproportion of the young bloods have in somemysterious way acquired the belief that theyknow* something about a horse; from this classcome the largest class of

JACKSON’S RECUCITS,and itwould be out of the question for them tocomplain of being sold, wherefore they swallowtheir losses and try to kcco the matter quiet toprevent being laughed at. It is almost entirelythis fear of being laughed at which has enabledJackson to go on for so long a time in this citywithout getting himselfbehind thebars of someinstitution sustained by the public. Whenevera customer acts in an unnleasaut manner, andthreatens the law of the land unless he can havesatisfaction, then there are two ways out of thetrouble: the first is to inflict, or threaten toinflict,

SEVERE BODILY INJURYon him unless he shuts up. For this purposeone of the confederates is always a bruiser.Some time ago a mannamedBrown was engagedin that capacity on Jackson’s staff, but at pres-ent Barney Aargu, the pugilist, etc,, etc., issaid to be in company. He is alleged to beapartner of Jackson’s, or in his emplov, andtobe hand and glove with all his transactions.The second way ofgetting out of any trouble isfor the party, when threatened, to shut up theplace where they then happen to be entirely,and togo away to another stable for a time, oreven toclose up business altogether for a fewdays.

ANOTHER BRANCH OP JACKSON’S BUSINESSnotbefore referred to is the sale of buggies Amaker in this city gets up a stylislf-looklng,weU-pamted and finished buggv, with rottenwood, cheap Iron, inferior leather,'and unskilledmhov- These he can and does sell for §l4O toSloO. Jackson does apretty comfortable busi-ness in this class of goods, advertising them asmade by J. B. Brewster, of New York, a stand-ardmaker. Any man who knows only a littleabout a buggy might be easily taken in withone of the shams, and when Jackson offerst° “J1 a first-class Brewster top-buggy for S2OO or $225, they might be pardonedfor buying. But if the buyer were to lookafter the maker’s name-plate, he would finduot'J.B. Brewster, but J. B. Bruester, or some-times J. P. Breustcr. By this device the makerkeepsclear of the law, or hopes to. Of coursethe counterfeitsare by no means worth the $250which they are often sold at;

The reader can by this time pretty clearly un-derstand the general idea ofJACKSON’S MODE OP SWINDLING,and it only remains to give some instances to

show the means resorted to, and to warn thapublic against arepetition: *

Some little time ago a gentleman who likes afoodhorse saw an advertisementpurporting toe from a farmer, and stating tnathe and could be fomuiat No. State street. Theintendingpurchasevisited the number aud found it a small inn .

such as German farmers stop at. The. hostlerwas in the stable, and, being requested, called“:thc fararer^’who was none other than Jack-son. No shle wasdtffeetcd that time.A bookkeeper in a prominent position called

In answer to an advertisement, and met Jack-son, who explained that he was an Englishmanwhose father had just died, and who was desir-ous of selling out his fine stable beforereturning to England with his widowedmother. He would, therefore, dispose of thechestnut mare cheap; she was sound, and war-ranted so. The intending purchaser discoveredthat the mare was dead blind.

a WELL-KNOWN DENTISTwent, in answer to an advertisement, to a pri-vate stable and met Jackson, who sold him aflue-looking little mare forSIBO. The purchaserfound out, before he had gone two blocks, thathis purchase was wind-brokenand couldn't gomuch more than a mile an hour. He returnedand sold the mare to Jackson for $23!

A young fellow on the-tTnard-Of Trade bought“ a trotter” from Jackson for $225, and foundout in one day tliat he was crazy, and quiteaptat any time to rear up and fall over into thebuggy. He took him back to Jackson, and thatworthy replied as to his question how muchhowould give back for him: “'Well, now,blast my bloody heyes, you know; since youhaven’t squealed, I’ll give you SSU, and that’i$lO more than I gave tne last time, youknow."

Mr. G., a young man about town, went up toa private stabiti to seeabout a fine buggy, offer-ed cheap. He found Jackson, of course, andwas shown “ a first-class top-buggy, made by J.B. Brewster, of New York.” He nought it andsold H again after discovering that it was mad»bv “Bruester.”

"But it isn’t always that the young fellowsalone catch it; quite often the shrewder oldheads get taken in. It isn’t long ago that

EGBERT HILL, OF TUB MATTE3ON HOUSE,one of the sharpest horsemen of this or anyother city, called at a private stable to buy out“the stable oi the late Mr. Wilson, sold by thewidow on account of leaving the city.” It seemsalmostincredible, but Mr. Hill bought of Jack-son for an aggregate of nearly SBOO fouranimals that the sharper had picked up at anauction, and which costhim S3O, S3O, $22, and$18» respectively. “The stable of the late .Mr.W” was too much fora sharp man that time.

Another hotel man went to sec “abeautifuland fast Hambletonian bay, who made betterthan 2:40 last year,” and found Jackson with abirr fine-looking horse whichhe really admired,ana was about to buy, when the confederaterushed in with the statement that Mr. Sholinesaid he would take that horse. The purchaser“dropped” at once, and told Jackson that hehad bettersell the horse to the man whowas sosharp after him.

If space wouldallow, many other instances ofJackson’s style of doing business might bead-duced, but e’nough has been said to show*

HIS METHODS OF CHEATING,and, it is to be hoped, to prevent his carryingon his course as openly in the future as he hasin the past. It is pretty doubtful whether hewill be brought before a court, for thereasonthat people who have been swindled iu a horsetrade prefer, as a general thing, to stand andtake it rather than complain.

The onlyway to close up the confidence gamein horses is to ieave entirely alone all such offersas come frtuu private stables unless they takewith them some man who knows Jackson andthe whole brood of that name and character.

QUAKER MEETING.How manifald the temples raised to GodIFrom great St. Peter’s grand monasticpile.Throughall the grades, the ornate and the crude,By every sect, the pious and the.vile. *

But from the lowesthome may worshipriseTo Heaven, more worthy than perfected art;For He, who rules the ages and the skiesDeclares His temple is the creature’s heart.

Near by the country-road, severely plainAnd unpretendingto the last degree,The Quaker Meeting-House, obscure, is seen,—Remotest link in church-diversity.

Enter within. Here worshippeaceful FriendsIn garb that antedates the gray in years;No modiste’s eye the matronhere attends,To note the fashions, or who fashion wears.

But would you know who isbescemly dressed,conformed in love to theNew* Testament!Look on these bumble tone and bo impresaedtHere is no ’broideredrobe, orraiment blent

Withhold; no taper, jeweledhands, half-gloved,Exhibiting the brilliant diamond prize;No bracelet-clasped arms artfully moved;No beads bedecked with fairyphantasies I

The peace thatsways theirhearts is from above;Their ornamenta quiet spirit is.In meditation silently they loveTo seek the Master’s will; He owns them His.Their silentworship suits their humble mind;Bat, shouldthe Spirit move to vocal prayer.Some sweet Madonna-beadis low inclined.Inspirit and in truth, to worship there.Or whensome saint, revered in age and mien, -Chants gravely forth the Spirit-breathingTheirhearts to sacred oracles incline,Responsively they bless the risen Lord.Let him who worships look to God alone ILet those who lightly scoff repent—be mate; ‘

By faith and works secure the fadeless crown;The Master jndgetb, still, men’s lives by fruit.

October, 1876. C. B. Carter,

•In this country, confined to a sect (the Mor-mons) whose practices are, by common consent,socharacterized.

SVEND THE.VIKING.Down the rocky coast of NorwaySvend, the Viking bold, was sailing;While behind him, eastward, westward,Banging low and darkly trailing.Came the Stoim-King’s rushing legionsFrom thevast and frozen regionsWhere, unchallenged in dominion,Hales the Storm-King, rales forever.As a bird on rapid pinionCleaves the foamy-crestedriver,So the boat of Svend the VikingCleft the storm-swept, surging billows;While its masts bent like the willowsThat a furioustempest, striking,Bendeth low withmight unfailing.And the windwent wailing, wailing.Throughthe shrouds,went boarselyslghisg;And the birds, ill-omened. HyingO’er the boat, were screaming, diving,On the wing-cd tempest driving.Powerless ’gainst the Storm-King’s power.O’er the watery waste there flashes.From the threatening clouds that lower.Glittering lightning, upward leapingInits forkedtongues of fire.Like long, lambent flames that, sweepingThrough vast, stately palaces, iuoahesCrumblelow each tower and spire.Yet still southward Svend the VikingSailed away, yet ever sailing;And the lightnings, hcaven-ocaling.Shone on beetling crags extendingKightbefore, ana e’en impendingO’er the vessel speeding’ncath them,While the curlingsea-waves wreathe themWith their quiveringsilvery tresses,Folding them in soft caresses;And the storm was tohis liking.

—A. M. Bridgman in the Bpriugjield {Mass.)publican .

MY HILDEGARDE.For you it is a pretty name, andnothin? more;For me, itpaints a dainty picture, all complete.That my fond, loving eyes may real on o'er a™

o’er,—A picture of a smiling, girlish face so sweet,

My Hildegarde.

As background to the face, an ancient Germantown:

A Dncai palace rising in the distance clear;Sun-gilded windows, and deep arches, weather*

worn and brown;Fairer than all, that face so charmingand so dear,—My Hildegarde.

In the foregronnd. on the icy, glitteringriver,A changing crowd moves to and.fro to music*

melody;I seem to hear the swinging rhythm and the

merry laughter quiver,' .

And’mid itall behold that face, so gay, so fairwsee,—

My Hildegarde.The sun goes down; the twilight chill is round me,All my fond fancies fly like birds to rest:And 1 remember that the ocean doth surround me.And separates me from thy longed-for face, bo

blest,—3ty Hildegarde.

Chicago, 187G.

WEIGHING THE WORLD.I weighed the world to-day,—its golden treasure

Its gleam and glitter, all its splendid show;Its pride, its fame, —in most unstinted measure;

All its allurements that do tempt me so.I put them in a balance, altogether.

Against one heart—but one—yet surely mine.I wishedfor once to know forcertain whether

This way, or that way, would the scales inclla*Then slowly rose theplled-np, shining masses;

As slowly, surely, did that one thing fall.So have I weighed, and thus the verdict passes;I find that one true heart is worth them alb

V.i ipv p, AvTKiirrt

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