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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JPNE12 T 1883.—TWELVE PAGES.
Uictiard Brinsley Sheridan. one 0 f (,; 8 letters, “of fitting next to Slier-
I . i^udon Telegraph. . idan at the dinner table of George Rob-
■ 3 !'l . plays which have attained the bins, the auctioneer." After describing
. n.Hilarity and longevity, the the splendor of the banquet, the illustri-
,,tfSt p°l ,ul } .. , .... r . f ous guests and the high Spirits winch pre-
l5 ,conspic‘ ousareHamlet \^ heL8d £°r vailed, Lord Byron records that a toast
The Hunchback, Money, The wag proposed “to the honorable sturdiness
S and the School for Scandal Tl.ua j of the'Vhigs in resisting office for r.rin-
* Mr- Percy Fitzgerald :n Ins Lives c ipl e ’a sake.” In nn instant Sheridan
, .Sheridans, published in 18E6, and, w ,th tears streaming down his
ij #t be accurate and exhausted— j cheeks, rose to his feet. “Sir,” he ex-
, we take leave«to doubt—the death claimed, addressing the proposer of the
ir Kichard Brinsley Sheridan, grand- - toast, ‘it is easy for iny Lord G., or the
.[ ,t,e author of The School for bean-1 Marquis of B., with thousands upon thous-
ihould not pass unnoticed in au ago ands a year, to boast of their patriotism
P. given us no plays of the same because they keep aloof from temptation;
, qbe School for Scandal was per- i but they little know from what temptation
-icd'for the first time on May 8, 1777,: otiiers have kept aloof who had equal
it King Sir Peter Teazle.^ ^Palmer as j p r i,le, at least equal talents, and not In-
never knew what
of their own.”
. iod, according to
Becky Sharp,'on five thousand a year Let
us leave poor “Sherry," his faults and
follies, alone, aud remember only that he
wrote “The School for Scandal;” that
when he sat down, after his five hours
speech on the spoliation of the Begums of
Oude, Pitt moved the adjournment of the
House, as being “too much under the
spell of an enchanter for continued de
bate;” and that when the Prince
Regent was about, by Fox’s ad
vice, to accept a loan
from Louis Egalite, Sheridan successfully
interposed, and forbade the Prince to be-
, - come, like Charles II, a pensioner of
Sir Deter and Lady Teazle a duplicate France. “Sir,” he remarked to Kelly,
bird and Lady T wnley in The Pro- w i, 0 , being a composer of music, was about
iked Husband of Vanbrugh and^ Clibber, a lso t 0 become a wine merchant, "you will
i •• - import your music and compose your
Pleasanter it is, perhaps, to turn
DAINTY WORK IN CLAY.
! but American ware is already making for
rogreas ot the Art „r 1-ottery-Recent U^lf a name abroad as well as at home.
Development 1.. America. t U a reee « # «“ ,K,0 . n of china 111
, . , London the charming Rookwood ware
TV . p ‘’T*; r r.i I claimed wril-descrved admiration for
It is safe to assume that very few of the origina li t y 0 f shape, beauty of gla.se and
many decorators of China know anything exquisite harmony of coloring. In fact,
Of Uflt * . - A 1... * « «
the history of pottery, or even^ of Jthe 1 one piece of this ware was awarded the
component parts ot the china itself* The j palm ol beiug the most perfect example of
history of pottery is a most interesting glazing in the great exhibition oi wares
study, which once taken up is rarely laid irom all parts of the world. 0thc7 Ameri-
Itl King as Sir Peter leazle. 1 aimer as ; pride, at least equal talents, ai
I u Surface, and Mrs. Anington as j forior passions, and yet never
fjj Xetxle; and in every English speakl ^ was to have a shilling of thei
| country Sheridan’s masterpiece stil- it is so easy to be good, ac
firml y tha " an 7 P la Y
Lt every written in or out of these
lu'.ould, indeed, be impossible to con
i'. the advent of a time when the parts
Eir Peter and Lady Teazle, of Charles
UJoseph Surface, will cease to find plav-
t.ho aspire eagerly to enact them, or
fences ready to receive them with
l .nUuous applause. Nor should it be
n"ntb.tthe author of The Rivals
hi The School of Scandal, had not corn-
til his 2Rh year when he wrote the
mer norhis 26th when the latterappear-
r Sheridan has been accused of produt
JhU father mercilessly suggested that
[ order to create Charles and Joseph Sur-
L he had but to dip his pen in his own
Lrt Yet the death of bis grandson
Could remind us of the rich gifts of in-
lllect wit, eloquence and worldly wisdom
(itl, which he was himself endowed and
Ihich he bequeathed in some measure to
liree generations of successors. Sixty
(ears have almost flown since the scene oc-
nrreil which Fannie Kemble has described
^•Records of a i.irlhood.” “The Nor-
Us’ house," she writes, “was close to the
Lue from St. James’ Park into Great
fcorge street. I remember passing an
liening there when a host of distinguished
lublic and literary men were packed into
fheir small drawing room, which was lit-
Irally resplendent with the light of Sheri-
1,1, beauty, male and female—Mrs. Sheri-
lio ihe mot' cr of the Three Graces, more
jeantiful than anybody except her daugh-
Jers; Lady Graham,their beautiful aunt;
Mrs! Norton, Mrs. Blackwood (afterward
Lady Dufferin), Jane Georgiana Sheridan,
Kuchess of Somerset, and Queen of beauty
ly universal consent, and CharlesSheridan,
INr youngest hr liter, a sort of ‘Apollo
Belvedere.' Certainly I never saw such a
lunch of beautiful creatures all growing
a one stem."
The “Three Graces” were the sisters of
he quiet country gentleman who has just
Idtcd m Wimpole street; the owner, through
_hu wife—the only child of Lieut. Gen. Sir
t^Sltltuhonn Grant—of Frampton Court
rtr Dorchester, which borough he repre-
mted in tlie House of Commons from 1855
|to 1868. His runaway marriage in 1832
(with the heiress of Frampton Court was
■assisted and encouraged by his sister, the
[“Queen of Beauty,” whose connivance
| with the abduction, as he called it, of his
[only daughter, was so indignantly dc-
I Bounced by the fiery Sir Colquhoun th at ho
|was with difficulty prevented from fighting
laduel with the husband of the fair con
pirator, by whose alleged plots and arti
ices-her brother and inn Grant had baa
I made one.
I With the gifts and graces of the Sheri'
Idiiisfora theme, it is not easy to guide
[the pen aright amidst the multitude of
uubjects which jostle for attention. If,
I however, it be impossible now to deter-
[mine which of the recently deceased gen-
I ilemsn’s lovely sisters was best entitled to
I receive the apple from a modern Paris’
I hand, there can be no donbt that, as a man
lot letters, diplomat st, a graceful orator and
1> skillful administrator, the present Lord
I Dufferin, nephew to the lute Mr. Richard
I Brinsley Sheridan, hat few
■ equals and no superior among our existing
I public men. With truth indeed, might it
I he said of Lord DufTerin, in the words in-
I scribed by Macaulay on the marble tablet
I reared in Wink field Church, near Ascot,
wine.
from that bizarre and brilliant, yet pathetic,
memory to Miss Kemble’s account of Mrs.
Norton in her glorious prime. So little
promising was Caroline Sheridan’s personal
appearances in her girlish days tnat her
mother entertained the gravest apprehen
sion as to h :r future. She grew up to be
beauty of the Juno type, and, as Miss
Kemble expressed it, “splendidly beauti
ful, with an un-English character of face,
her rather large and heavy head and fea
tures recalling tlie grandest Grecian and
Italian models, to which her rich coloring
and blue-black braids of hair gave her ad
ditional resemblance. Though not at
lovely as the Duchess ot Somerset,
nor as soft and charming as Lady
DufTerin, she produced a more striking im
tression than either of them, by the com'
tination of poetical genius, with which she
alone of the three was gifted.” Often at
the great Sheridan’s life has been written,
his biographers and most of all, the latest
of them, Mrs. Oliphant, have utterly failed
to do him justice. It will be long another
family arises in these islands with such
gift of body and blind as rendered the
Shetidans famous.
I ?* k? wa * J r * e d man 7 high P<)*t» and
‘ ’ It
difficult conjunctures, and found equal
! In the Dominion of Canada Lord
Dunerm’s fame will ever be remembered.
Long will Canadians repeat the happy
numerous words in which the noble
Jonl, nn miring from the Viceroyalty of
Gnails, introduced his successor, the
Marquis of Lome, to the great people
*no* destinies were about to be intrusted
I »hu care. After skillfully enumerating
<ne many admirable qualities and accom-
P-tahuientt for his high and arduous office
*hich Lord Lome was endowed, bis
Pjwecessor added, with seeming hesitation,
i regret to have to say that he has one
n“qualification.” A profound stillness fell
»we-stricken audience os with bated
nrvtth and in low tones, Lord DufTerin
continued: “He is not an Irishman!”
"* ar * tempted to linger yc( awhile
I u .. Pregnant memories suggested
•V ■ an< * wayward son of genius,
“o, in Lord Byron’s words, “wrote the
fVinnul* the best speech, and com-
powd, in his‘Verses to the Memory of
L "‘ck, the finest (ode in theEnglish lan-
IPH?- It wis by the first Richard Brins-
I ■ J Micndan that the happiest retort ever
aunwtered to Pitt was delivered in the
Commons. Galled by Sheridan’s
nvv i 18 comments on one of Pitt’s
Pk«* C i ’ ihe great minuter, whom Lord
L.“*" a 7 pronounced to bo the •‘incar-
pride,” advised the member for
vuuiiue hiBUciil
dramatic productions
1 10 those
which he had
Oatheting Ctgnr Stubs.
A New York correspondent of the St.
Paul Dispatch writes; “The gathering of
cigar stubs jtives employment to a large
my way homeward early one morning re
cently, I saw an Italian lad with a bag
strapped on his shoulders, wading in the
gutters of the streets in the vicinity of the
city hall. The boy was collecting burned
cigar ends. At dawn the public thorough
fares are thronged with industrious little
laborers, who, before the sun rises,
clear tlie streets of all discard
ed cigar stubs. Until an inquiry
was mile at a Park Row cigar store, tlie
reporter was at a loss to know what be
came of the cigar stubs gathered. The
dealer in tobacco said: “You would bosur-
irised to know tlie amount of money
Italians make by gathering cigar stubs. X
do not think I put the figures high when I
state that no lew than 100,000 cigars are
smoked in Now York city daily. The
number consumed may he more or lew, hut
nevertfielew the fact remains that nine out
of ten men smoke. During the day a larger
part of the smoking is done out of doors,
and the stubs of the cigars, when wholly or
partially consumed, are thrown into the
f utter. In the vicinity of the City
[all, where large crowds of men
gather at all times during the day, the
number oi cigar stubs iound is scarcely
credible. The cigar stubs are utilized iit
„ v „ ua „ U1K A(tul many ways. After being gathered the
to the memory of Charles Theophilua, first b “ lt *’ which “* me C i g,r ? nd * *5® f 0 ”®!
*»d last Lord Metcalfe, that “Vs a states- li ““ known. are sorted and graded, and
—-i- .... > ... • the dark and light shades of tobacco placed
in separate heaps. The tobacco in the
stubs is then pulled out and thoroughly
wished. After the tobacco has been dried
and graded again it is ready lor sale. Ci-
gar.stubs are sometimes made up into a
cheap quality of five-cent cigars, or of-
tener sold to cigar manufacturers, who
mix the stubs with other tobacco.”
no rival in or
l * of hou *®. “Flattered by the right
morable gentleman’s approbation,” was
• oonstant tejoinuer. “I might be
lemft to . *“ act presumption, to at-
tj/ 11 ai J improvement on one of Ben
iait* u ?i*. b ** t cb “racters, the Angry Boy,
u Alehyinist.” The author of “8her-
I Times," published anony-
1859, tells us that on the death
l ui,i , J h r. rom 1816, the Prince Regent
*° *l r - Peter Moore, member for Cov-
fcs/’i s,1 * r *d«n was undoubtedly a great
. a i out m the simplicity of his nature
“Jtover knew it." r 7
til., IL **' b “ 1*“ indicated a knowl-
mor, astars, that knowledge wm
^Cired to hU pen aKne, for in afl hU
4 ik*? 10 . 11 * h* rendered himself the dupe
»n aiM * ‘1“ designing knave.” His
and humor, however, covered a multi-
Ad T number of stories
0 bu irrepressible vivacity, »nd
j. *|w. none more characteristic than
UviJ! h V* ^* iau * bow he retired to a
sf lU clo “ , y •dj?ining the smoking ruins
(rilj’y. La®* Thiter, and replied to a
Sj'*‘*»bohad brought him the news,
aZV**7, a man may take a glare of wine
n J?fown fireside.”
**d the honor," says Lord Byron, in
All Get Slurried.
Albany Journal.
By one of those nnpected turns of for
tune which occur in Albany as oiten as
anywhere, a man who but half a dozen
years ago waa a hodcarrier has become
comparatively wealthy. This change of
financial circumstances has had the usual
effect upon the ex-ho<lcarrier’s wife, who
enjoys decorating her adipose form with
what she supposes to be the latest styles.
She has also, notwithstanding an utter dis
ability to read, affected a fine literary
taste, which she ostentatiously announces
whenever powible. Calling upon a lady
whom she has been trying to make her
self acquainted with, she picked up a
book from the table, and, innocent of any
knowledge that it was a copy of the Bible,
asked the loan of it for a little time, as
“she had not the book in her library.” The
lady readily consented. After keeping it
about a fortnight her visitor returned the
volume with profuse thanks. “How did
you like it?” was asked. “Vonr well, in
deed, hat I knew how It wooM turn nut
before I was half through. They got mar.
ried after all.
Metallic Hop In North Carolina.
Prom tbe Greensboro (N. C.) Workman.
Curious incidents occur in this land, and
one of them is sufficiently to excite inter
est. Mrs. Andrews, who lives five or six
mile* from town, bruught recently to tbe
drug store of Mr. Porter a quantity of a
certain metal resembling what is known as
“babbit” or pewter, but which, on being
struck with a piece of steel, gsveiorth a
clear ringing sound, as of silver. Mrs.
Andrews’s account of the metal is as fol
lows: One of her sons, during the late
cold snap, had cut down a tree and put
nsrts of it on the fire for fuel. Presently,
when the fire had well burned, this metal
began to pour from an opening in the stick
of wood, falling on Ihe hearth in front of
the fire. This metal was gathered up in
the obape it had taken on the hearth, while
among the aihes particles of the same
metal were found. The qnantity was sup
posed to he several pounds, and alt pro
nounce it of queer origin.
“Por those that fly may flght again,'' though
realiy If the cause of tbe trouble u headache or
neuralgia, there'll be so more fas. after using a
bottle of ffalvation OU. Tbe druggists wit II for
aside or forgotten. Ths Chinese are among
tlie earliest (totters and decorators, and
are bead and shoulders above any other
country in the matter of colors, which aro
divided into families. Many of them are
curiously symbolical, owing their origin
to some remarkable occurrence of a past
age. Blue, for instance, which lias always
been a favorite color of the Chinese potter,
is divided into a great number of shades,
each of which has its own particular use
and signification. The same is true of
other colors in a less degree.
“blue ok the sky after rain.”
Very brilliant blues were made by the
Chinese as early as 265 A. D., and a certain
soft clouded blue, called “blue of the sky
after rain,” was used exclusively in the
Imperial household for many generations
of Emperors, after which green became
the _ favorite. A deeper shade of bide was
again adopted for the royal porcelains iu
1566. There is no record of the precise
color favorite with each succeeding dy
nasty, but whatever color was chosen by a
family or individual of rank
was kept exclusively for their
porcelaius. At one time a brilliant egg
yellow was the joyal color; at another
colors of the rose family, which embrace
all tlie rose,- pink, crimson, purple and
violet shades. These colors are all derived
from gold, and although they have always
been ,a subject of continual study nnd
experiment with the chemist and decora
tor are still unreliable in tbe firing, and
present many aggravations to the amateur
who attempts their use.
PAINTEn porcelains.
The Chinese likewise produce a greater
variety of colors than any other nation
for the very good reason that the manu
facture and decoration of pottery has been
for more than 2000 years one of China’s
most important and highly favored indus
tries. Emperors have given special atten
tion to porcelains and their decoration and
have placed unlimited means at the dis
posal nf their chemists for the prosecution
of their experiments. At one period the
enthusiasm on this point was so great that
a piece of unpainted Chinese porcelain
wfis a rarity.
ABORIGINAL ART IN AMERICA.
In our own country the Indians became
especially skilled in the art. They seem
to have made pottery from time immemo
rial, and their ornamentation was very di
versified and comprehensive. The clay
was often used without any admixture, but
usually it was kneaded with pulverized
shells or mica. The ancient pottery ap
pears to have been made by hand, nnd is
generally graceful and symmetrical. It
seems a mystery how it could have been
so weii made without tile aid of the pot
ter’s wheel. 8ome of the shapes sug
gest that a wicker or rush basket
was used in which to mold
them, as the outside is covered with the
marks of the rushes of twiggs. This is
true of most of the larger pieces and of
some of the smaller one*. A writer op
the subject traces tbe origin of pottery to
the imitation ot the wavs of birds and in
sects. Many birds build their nests of
clay and straw, the straw serving to bind
the clay together, and certain solitary
wasps build little globular nests not un
like “the Napier coffee machine,” which
draws the cuU'ee into a class globe furnished
with a short neck, shaped exactly like the
nest of this wasp. The theory of this
writer does cot seem unreasonable.
CHINA CLAY OR KAOLIN.
The American pottery of the present dnv
is composed of pulverized quartz or flint,
pulverized feldspar and kaolin. Ths Hint
and spar are found in many parts of the
country, in ledges of rocks, whence it is
quarried, calcined and ground to a fine
powder before it is rcadv (or the potter.
The kaolin comes mainly from Delaware
and Chester counties, Pennsylvania, and
New Castle county, Delaware. It
is found also in other parts
of the country, but the quality is not so
goon. The clay as taken from the pits
contains a largo percentage oi foreign mat
ter, which has to be removed by repeated
washings, the water holding the particles
nf kaolin in solution, while the foreign
substances sink. The water is then carried
bv troughs into vats, where it is left until
the clay settles to ihe bottom, after which
the water is drawn off and the clay dried
by passing it through hydraulic presses
upon heated floors.
HOW THE CLAY IS HANDLED.
The usual proportions are substantially
12 parts kaolin, 8 parts flint aud 4 parts
spar. These ingredients are thoroughly
mixed with water to about the consistency
of cream and passed through a silk sieve
in order to take out all lumps. The par-
ticles of irou are removed by running the
clay as it comes from the sieve on its way
to the vats between suspended magnets.
From the vat it is pumpcil into hydraulic
presses, where nearly all the water is re
moved, and the clay is left in a dough
like condition ready for the (Hitter’s win d.
It is not, however, wise to use it at once.
The longer it is kept the stronger it be
comes, but it must be kept continually
moist. The workman now take* the clav
aud kneeds it thoroughly to exclude all
the air, after which he shapes the ware,
either by means of molds or with his
hands and sponges.
IN THE KILN.
The clayware then goes to the drying-
room, thence to the kiln for the first tiring,
where it remains from sixty to seventy
ksn** ( .ml i. then iwiImI miintll. lionss.
ally two days are consumed in the cooling
process) and is taken from the kiln in the
state known to potters a*"h»cuit ” Rough
■pots are then sand-papered and the ware
is ready for the glaze. The glaze material
is composed of flint spar, a little clay,
prosaic acid, white sand, zinc and Fans
white held in solution b> water. The
ware after being dipped in the glaze is re
turned to the kiln and fired for fifty or
sixty boon and then cooled. The “spur”
mariu (made 1 y the points upon which
tbe articles rest while in tbe kiln) are re
moved and the'manufacturing process is
complete, each piece having passed
through the hands of upwards of thirty
operatives. Think oi this, and the won
der is how china is sold ao cheaply.
IVVCRtoa CROCK KEY.
The difference between china and earth
enware is mainly in tbe degree of heat at
tained,it being generally greater in making
can polU-rs are likewise doing geed work.
COX ON COBDEN.
Tho Great Work ot tU« Apoitl. of Cheap
Necessaries of Life,
rota the Tariff Speech of Hod. 8.8-.Cox.
Mr. Chairman: I should he derelict os
member of this Congress, or as a citizen
of tho United States, if I did not, even in
this feeble way, vindicate the splendid fame
ot Richard Cobden. He was not mcrclv a
friend of the poor when they needed
friends, but he was a distinguished econo
mist when economy was thundered from
tlie hustings for the relief of the
starving. More than all these, by his
speeches, writings, diplomacy, and parlia
mentary etlorts, he has done more than
any other Englishman to hold up the in
stitutions of our own country, not merely
for tho imlulgeuco of mankind, but for
their imitation aud admiration. Nor were
the encomiums which he bestowed upon
our country born of a mercenary or trad
ing spirit. He had a genuine love for
America. lie twice visited us. He de
nounced those who had depreciated our
character andslnnilered our people.
In a volume of his writings which I
have to my hand there is a comparison
between Great Britatn and America. With
what ferver he turns to the industrial,
economical and foreign peaceful politics
of America, while with the live coal oi a
seer lie bids at a distance our future, hail I
He does this with a pride that knows no
selfishness, and with a humanity that
{awards no isolation, England and
America were in his view, bound to
gether iu peaceful fetters with the strong
est of a2I ligatures that canj bind two na
tions—commercial interests and the des
tiny of representative governments. [Ap
plause.] He took pride in our discharge
of our public debt. L’hough he found in
America a rival with his owe country and
analyzed the disadvantages of the position
of England in comparison with America,
he saw in the unlimited extent ot our un
settled territory a means of employing
capitnl and labor with which the little
islvsof Great Britain would in v»in strive
to compete.
He was not insensible to the fact that
the_Englishman was a born aristocrat,
with an insatiable love of taste, which, he
said, pervaded every degree from the
highest to the I iwest; but he believed that
United States. They were used in vain.
England could no more be independent of
foreign supply (or her bread than America
couM be inue"endetH of England in the
•ale c( her grain and cotton.
The fruit Witness of labor was increased,
toil itself was mitigated, misfortunes were
avoided, and the benefits of the repeal,
through international dependence and reci
procity, gave a new impulse to both coun
tries. It opened a market for English
goods here, while it enlarged our market
for our produce abroad. It did not
injure cither country. It aided both
beyond all the dreams of avarice.
During the twenty years preceding 1849
the exports of British and Irish produc
tions had tner asi d 33] per cent, for each
decade. From 1849 to" 1859 the increase
was 105 per c-nt. It is fair to presume
that by 1859 English industry had be
come adjusted to tho new conditions. Nev
ertheless, for the period up to the Franco-
Prussian war there war an increase of ex
ports of 45 per cent. The value nf the ex
ports per capita in 1849 was $10.93; in
1859 it had more than doubled, being
$22.11. In i860 it bad risen to $29.79. In
1878, while we Americans were making
grcatjhoastsof our exports, their value per
of the important purposes of such an or-
ganization, membership in it will soon be
a distinction greatly sought for, because it
will argue a sound economic faith, a patri
otic impulse, and an association witli the
most active inou dersof tlie broadest pub
lic sentiment of the day.
A HOME FOR THE F14TEBS.
Rdwln Booth tc Give Them a R138.00O
Club House.
From the New York Evening World.
An obscure entry on tlie books of the
register’s office yesterday, recording the
transfer of the building ltt Gramercy Park
from Virginia M. Potter to Edwin Booth,
afforded a cluo to tlie story of a great act
of generosity on tlie part of Mr. Booth, and
one which will redound to the lasting ben
efit of his profession.
The great actor has purchased this
building at a cost of $75,000. will renovate,
decorate and furnish it thoroughly at a
further cost of $60,000. and will then hand
it over as a free gift to "The Players’”
Club.
The house, which is on the south side of
capita was oul^r $12. Nor have tho work-| Gramercv Park, next to that of the late
ing people of England been routed out of | Samuel J. Tilden, is one i f brown stone,
.i— —*■>- i~r- — — - ■ * four stories high. It har a frontage on
tho mills by fo eivn piuptr labor, in cot
ton manufacture the number of hands em
ployed tncrea-cd Irom 330,924 in 1850 to
479,512 in 1874. The woolen trade for the
same period nearly doubled its force. So
also the flax industry.
THE NEW NATIONAL IMPULSE.
How the Tariff Reform sentiment Ha. E*
pressed Itnelf in New York Club Life,
New York, June 1.—[Special.]—At
the time when popular sentiment was
aroused a generation nzo by the great
struggle for the preservation of free insti
tutions, the very llowcr of New York lifo
was gathered into the Union League Club.
Wealth, youth and patriotism strove with
one another to make the new organization
illnjtrious; and it isa matter of history
that the impulse given by this club was a
very strong force iu keeping public senti
ment, not only in New York, but through
out the North, clear and resolute. Tito
club did its work and long enjoyed tho
fame it so honorably won. 11 is to-day, of
course, one of the foremost clubs in the
world; but its work has been done. It is
no longer n force, hut at most, merely a
dignified tociul institutipn
. And now, when smith- r great struggle
lit behalf of freedom is beginning to stir
tho hearts of men, the history of the lost
generation is repeating i self in New York
Club life, as well as in the disin egration
and reformation of political parties. This
second struggle for human lihirty—it is
really a continuation of the light oi a
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in t he course of time such changes would of a century ago-gavebirth to the
come through education and sun rage as to ', . rn ! ’> , wb ,' j , * spontaneous
bring England upon the roster of |enuine | beginning, and already gives promise of a
Republican state-. Eveiy reform^ which I “reer so vigorous as to warrant the pre-
Englaild lias made in the interests of her | fn Z tl "‘ t “> t0 °’ W ‘“ C " rt 8 n8t,on81
pr-.pla L.S her colonial advancement. I ..4* DCe \. „
found K'chard Cobden its friend and his
gifted speech its ally. And it comes with
an ill grace from an American, whether
native or adopted, to blur the escutcheon
of thin champion of America aud this
honest friend ol the people.
I had the honor of being on the commit
tee weieh welcomed him to America. He
visited this hall. He was received with
mu ll, if not more welcome from the
oputlican than from the Democratic
ie it the chamber. No one moda his
name a reproach, i"r lie had been the
: ri. nd of our linion. Ib* bad been tie-
spsnionof Jolm Bright, the Quaker
ttufaotDKr of Birmingham, in denounc
ing wilii resonant eloquence and virile
logic, tlie infamies ot protection.
I must beg my Irish friends to remem
ber that Daniel O’Connell spoke tor the
repeal us tlie friend of the English and
Irish people. Spooking ot Manchester,
lin d. mantled to know "why, if tho corn
laws are good to rescue a people from
wretchedness, they do not rescue the peo
ple oi Ireland? If these prote .tive lows
give employment and high wages,” said
ho. “why do they not give them in agri
cultural Ireland?" Subsequently, in de-
manding-to know what the corn laws were
for, lie answered his own question by say
ing, “to (iut money into the pockets of the
landlord, not tlie money of the Russians,
the Danes, or the Swedes, but that of their
fellow -countrymen.”
POETRY of the repealers.
Seconding these efforts of the tribunes of
the people came the blacksmith poet, Ebe-
neser Llliott, nnd the “Voices from the
Crowd" by Charles Mackay. These corn-
law rhymes not only denounced the actions
by which bread was made dear to the peo
ple, but they looked forward to that influx
of grain from the new hemisphere—Amer
ica—by which the loaf would be cheap
ened and the people saved from starvation.
These men sung as if they disdained any
compromise. Tiiey moved on to victory;
they found the realm of England in dis
crowned and mitnger-ridden anarchy. The
time was “ripe, and rotten-ripe,” for
change.
They gave it comparative quiet and
prosperity, and progress followed the vic
tory. More than that, so far as America
was concerned, it gave ns lessons by which
we were mutually bound and by which our
values were immensely enhanced. The
Democracy of the United States recipro
cated. Robert J. Walker shook hands
with Cobden across the deep. In the in
terest of the people of both nations a great
bent faction tell like manna in a wilder
ness of selfishness. [Applause.] The event
justifies _ the truth that nature, iu her
overflowing goodness, had provision
against scarcity and famine, so that when
crops fait in a small area like Great Bri -
ain, or are insufficient to supply her needs,
there is lavish abundance and a surplus in
other lands in tbe valley of tbe Mississippi
and its tributary streams. The law to
which Virgilreferred2,000yearssgo asthe
“eternal federation” by’ which Rome
grew great, is the same law in modern
days. Progress has given to the phrase a
miraculous meaning, ior it multiplied the
loaf for the multitude. The result here
was not merely a home market ior home
product, but the widest extent of surface
for production in our own land, causing
less danger of scarcity and an abundance
of tbe necessaries and conveniences of life
for importation abroad.
The repeal ot the corn laws and! tbe
tariff of 1846 was the consecrated protest
of lienevoient legislation. They vindi
cated the piuvM.-uee uf the ali-luving
Father, whereby tbe excels of one lead and
its opulent harvests and the diversified
, B labor oi tbe people of all countries corn-
china and porcelain than in making * or tbe deficieneiei of another,
earthenware or crockery, in order to bring! *he same arguments which are need to-
the china up to the point of vitrification day by the protectionista here were used
to obtain the desired trunslueeney. The by the protectionisU ot England to pre
excessive degree of heat recoils in much TeDl °f the corn laws, The old
imperfect and unsalable goods, hence the, ?* or 7 °* “J home market, and especially
greater cost. j m the contingency ot foreign war and the
fine ware. - dapsndancs upon another country for tup-
The maoofictnre ol fine china iu this plt*J. wa* u-,d in.the Parliament of Eng-
conntry is of comparatively recent date, • J aet ** nolr 10 the Congress of ths
1, lien me t reniueut evut in* last me»-
sage to Congre>s, the inclination that a
number of public-spirited tariff reformers
in this city had h it to start an organiza
tion which should represent th < most
courageous reform views, became an im
pulse; and that impulse, before au exten
sive organization coaid be planned, devel
oped into the Kelornt Club. One man
said to another: “There ought to be an
asMiciation of some kind broad enough to
ake in men of all parties and agrs and
conditions of life who agree its to tho
f carrying the President's re
commendations into effect—some sort of a
club. There is not a club in the city to-
day wliii h Ir,. vu iliiv ..r bn- tli i ii.mgli
to d aw into it the vigorous public senti
ment which is so rapidly taking shape.”
“Good idea,” was the response. Thus,
without a plan, one man expressed this
opinion to another, nnd ho to a third and
on, until quite a little company has
formed itself in this spontaneous way. A
few gentlemen met to talk the matter over,
and very soon there was a roll of members
loDg enough to satisfy the ambition of any
one—members who had come into this
club, nobody knew precisely how. For as
yet there was no organization, no commit
tee on membership, and the club had not
even been baptised. But a meeting was
held by a few of the most earnest oi tho
■elf-elected member* and they elected a
president—Mr. Anson l’h.lps Stokes—and
u board of trustees, tor whom the greater
part of the members did not vote, because
they knew nothing about it, and nobody
knew who all tlie members were. But
everybody was pleased.
Tlie fint information that many oi the
members had of the organization was an
invitation to attend a dinner given in
honor of several distinguished reformers.
It was then that the assembly room at the
Metropolitan Opera-house w'as crowded to
hear the Hon. W. C. P. Breckinridge, Hon.
Malcolm Ford, Henry W. Watterson, 51.
D. Harter, and others, discuss tbe tariff
question.
Still, without a single meeting of the
club, the trustees incorporated it, rented a
house on Thirty-third street near Fifth
avenue, aud, meanwhile life dues having
been promptly paid by a continually in
creasing membership, the house was com
fortably fitted up with all the usual ap
pointment* of a New York club house, and
NIr. James Russell Lowell was invited to
be present st the house-warming sud to
make «n address on politics in Steinway
HalL
In fact, up to this time, there have been
two lull meetings oi the club. But i- is
organized as thoroughly and is •« com
plelely a part of tbe recognized club life of
New York, as if years had been spent. in
■electing its memberrhip. Like tbe Union
League Club of twenty-five yean ago, it has
wealth and vouth and enthusiasm; aud it
is to this Reform Club-house that men now
S to get their bearings on the drift of re
ran opinion, tnd to discust plana for
furthering the movement back towards the
first principles of scientific government.
Iu apiteof this—or. perhaps, rather because
of it—it is the club of the dozen notable
ones in New York, where partisan politics
are least heard. Republicans, Democrats,
Mugwumps, politicians, merchants, loung
ers, journalists, manufacturers, authors,
artists and young fellows who are just en
tering thi iirsg£i'~ kr a foothold in New
York, all meet there. And they not only
meet, but they work. Tbe
several committees of tbe club
have already done a prodigious amount of
correspondence with tarifi reform associ
ations throughout ties CuuiiLy j they base
distributed hundred of thousands of doc-
tbey are preparing a number of
publications, which will be is
sued under tbe auspices of the club; they
are investigating toe evil effects of the
high tariff on many industries; and they
are fast collecting a library which will be
one of the notable reference libraries on
economic subjects in the United States.
The club boose is rapidly becoming tbe
meeting place of the most prominent work
ers in this country for a reduction of tar"
taxation. As l result, though not a- ot
the park of 32] feet and a depth of 135
feet, Btretching clear back to Nineteenth
street.
The house lias at present a high stoop
and basement door, hut tlie whole front
will be changed according to plans pre
pared by McKim, Mead & White, the
architects. The new entrance will be level
with the sidewalk, and the firat floor made
lofty and imposing.
Mr. Booth is in tho city, but cannot he
seen. He is in great sorrow over the loss
of his sister, Mrs. Clark, .who died at
Bournemouth, England, last week. Her
body will arrive on the Elbe to-morrow.
An old and intimate friend of Mr.
Booth’s, who was with tlie actor when the
reporter called, gave the reporter the fol
lowing additional information.
Mr. Booth is the originator and first
president of the club called tho Players,
which was formed a few months ago.
“Its main object is tho formation and
preservation of tlie finest picture gallery
and tlie finest library relating to tlie the
atrical profession in tlie world.
The membership will hy no moans con
sist solely of actors. The title, “The Play
ers,” was chosen by Mr Booth with refer
ence to its wider meaning—“All the-
world’s a stage, and all the men nnd women
merely olnyers.”
Among 'the incorporators aro I-csler
Wnlinck, Gen. W. T. Sherman, Judge Jo
seph F. Dajy, Samuel L. Clemens Augus
tin Daly, Richard Wntson Gilder, A. M.
Palmer, Joseph Jefferson and Stanford
White.
fl'lie officers are: President, Edwin
Booth; vice-president, Augustin Daly;
secretary, Lawrence Hutton, and treasurer,
William Btspah,
“The club,” continued the Evening
M orld's informant, :: wiii be tne recipicni
of gifts which w ill he the pride, not only
of New York, hut of the whole country.
“lb iddm his money gifts, Mr. Booth will
present the club some extraordinary line
pictures, hook- and relics. Among them
will be the gallery of pictures of John E.
Owens, which Si.: ftonth hought In Balti
more last year lor $20,000, and a line por
trait by Sully of his father, Junius Brutus
Booth.
“Mr. Joseph Jefferson said at the last
meeting of tlie elnb that he would give us
n enne which formerly belonged to David
Garrick, and a pair of gloves believed to
have been worn by the immortal Shakes
peare himself. Mr. Augustin Daly will
resent us witli a dramatic library which
ie has formed by years oipersistent search,
and at a cost of not less titan $25,000.
I wish to say that the whole plan of
this club originated witli Mr. Booth, and
his pritieeiv generuaiiy would iievef iiftTd
been known to the public if lie had been
able to prevent it.”
AVntttiow A mold's Estate.
From tbe New York Tribune.
,’Matthow Arnold lias left so small an
estate that the condition of those wbo de
coded upon him seems more titan dti-
lious. That he ever could have acquired
riches by his own application to money
making business was out of the question.
He belonged to that order of men in whom
tho business faculties are aborted, if not
altogether lacking. This js a larger class
than is commonly supposed. A praatioe
oi referring to tno age ns materialistic,
gold-worshipping snd self-seeking lias ob
scured tlie fact that a large proportion of
every civilized nation must rest content in
honorable poverty, and it follows irom this
that many people everywhere -put various
aims before that of wealth. We may be
confident that Matthew Artmld did not re
sent his narrow means for himself^ though
he may well have lamented his inability
to make adequate provision for his family,
lint does tlie responsibil ty for failure in
this rest upon him? That which he was
best fitbd to do he did lealotnly and
effectively. Iiis intellectual eminence, his
spiritual influence upon his generation,
were conceded. But where belongs the
discredit of the obvious fact that the Eng
land of the latter part of tlie nineteenth
century so lightly appraised his genius and
his usefulness that, dying, he ieaves an
estate such as a -mail tradesman would
think contemptible?
He bad not the faculty ol money-making
after the prevailing methods, and so he
never could have been rich. But does not
this conclusion involve a biting criticism
of existing civilization? Docs it not really
imply tlie dominance of a standard of
values so gross, sordid and mean that the
higher elements of life are by it put to the
bottom of tho scale, and the lowest and
least deserving perversely exalted? In a
really advanced civilization can w e believe
that the services of so fine a spirit as this
could have been practically ignored liv the
government and the people oi England?
It was always open to the government to
give Arnold such an appointment aa
would, while increasing his usefulness, en
able him to provide for the future. Hat
it only grudgingly yielded hint a small
and poorly paid office, and later an equally
pitiful pension. There could be no ques
tion of a sinecure in his case. Yet he was
allowed to live iu decent poverty and to
die almost penniless. Sorely, iit the face
of such facts, eulogy from bis countrymen
loses much of its value and nearly ail sig
nificance. Barbarians, Philistines and
Populace have unwittingly osufirmed the
justice of his discriminating triti' -m. aud
have shown how low the estimate ’.hey
place upon intellectual (icw.-r r. ally is.
l'o-.tt.le Republic,t„ Yll Ucl.
Atlanta, June 5.—It is onde.—tood
tin- I'.. I .Mil alts 1 iltctl Cl''.inly
are considering the advisability of putting
out a full legislative ticket this fail.
They think there is a g< <1 chanc to elect
their ticket Ot. .termini ol the serious <’i-
vi-inn ot the Democrj. v uj the county on
the prohibition question. SOtKk