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THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1879-SIXTEEN PAGES. Fifth Legal remedies fren of emetine. Lesal IfELIGIOJI WILL TJTSAPPHill. PARIS. KAKL MARX.

barkation most acceptable to him. The ship has and scholarship are becoming the comm jn property of the plowman and the artisan sow any is a hit, at the Gymnase. That theatre wanted a piece of luck most desperately; lor, ever sines "Monsier Alphonse and "Bebe." it has been persistently pursued by ill-fortune. "Fleur d'Oranger," Ilennequin's last farcical play, produced at the little Nonveautes last week, seems suit the taste of the public, if heavy receipts mean anything. Nor is it to be wondered at, with SUCH A COMPAKT interpret it.

Brasseur, the actor-manager of theatre, baa managed to secure the services of Theo, Gilly, Celine Montaland, and he comique Dailly altogether as strong a company of its sort as anv in the town. There was nothing striking in the classical concerts last Sunday. At the Conservatoire I heard Schumann's Si-bemal symphony, a Paternoster of Meyerbeer, two or three selections from Ooeron, and the inimitable overture to Leonora." The programme was shorter than usual, as the majority of the band had to play the "Huguenots," at the Opera, the same night. The question of modern Anglo-French seems have attracted some notice in America lately. I' If hi it 1 Al i'i i i ii proceedinsrs to be conducted by the people.

Sixth Education ta hi- the stur. treneral. oblisatory, and free. Freeiiom of science and re ligion. indirnr.t taxes to be abolished.

Money to oe raised for Stats and Municipal purposes by a direct progressive income tax. J.V Ml I rreeaom 01 comoination auiun 111a working classes. AinthThe leeal day nf labor for men to be de fined. The work of women to be limited, and that of children to be anolishcd. Tenth.

Sanitary laws for the protection of life health of laborers, and regulation of their dwellings and places of labor, to be enforced by persons selected by theui. Eleventh buitable provision respecting prison-labor. In Mr. Bancroft Davis' report there ii A TWELFTH CLAUSE, the most important of all, which reads: 'Stat aid and credit for Industrial societies, under democratic direction." 1 asked the Doctor why omitted this, and he replied: When the reuniou took place at Gotha, in 1S75, there existed a division among the Social Democrats. The One wing were partisans of Lassalle; the others, those who bad accepted in general the programme of the International organization, and were called the Eisenach party.

That twelfth point was not placed on the platform, but placed in the general introduction byway of concession to the Lassallians. Afterwards it was never spoken of. Mr. Davis does not say that it was placed in the programme as a compromise having no particular significance, but gravely puts it in as one of the cardinal principles of the prosrramme." "But," I said, Socialists generally look upon the transformation of the means of labor into the common property of society as the errand climax of the movement." "Yes; we say that this will be the outcome the movement, but it will be a question of time, of education, and the institution of a social status." This platform," I remarked, applies only Germany and one or two other countries;" "Ah!" he retuned, 'ifyou draw your conclusions from nothing but this, you know nothing of the activity of the party. Many of points have no signisreanee outside of Germany.

Spain, Russia, England, and America have plattorms suited to their peculiar difficulties. The only similarity in them is the end be attained." And that is the supremacy of laborl" "That is the EMANCIPATION OF LABOR." Do European Socialists look urjon the movement in America as a 6erious one i "Yes; it is the natural outcome of the country's development. It has been said that the movement has been imtorted by foreigners. When labor movements became disagreeable in England, fifty years ago, the same thing was said; and thaVwas lonj before Socialism was spoken of. In America, since 1S57, only has the labor movement become conspicuous.

Then Trades-Lnions bearan to floursh then Trades- Assemblies were lormed, in which the workers indifferent industries united; and after that came National Labor Unions. If you consider this chronological progress, you will see that Socialism has sprung up that country without the aid of foreigners, and was merely caused by the concentration of capital and the changed relations between the workmen and their employers." ''Now," asked your correspondent, "what has Socialism done so farf" Two thines," he returned. Socialists have shown the general universal struggle between capital and labor, THE COSMOPOLITAN CHAHACTEH, in one word, and consequently tried to bring about an understanding between the workmen in the different countries, which became more necessary as the capitalists became more cosmopolitan in birinr labor, pitting forehru azainst native labor not only iu America, but in En-eland, France, and Germany. International relations sprang up at once between the work-ingmcn in the different Countries, showing that Socialism was not merely a but an international problem, to be solved by the International action of worKmen. The working classes moved spontaneously, without knowing what the ends of the movement will be.

The Socialists invent no movement, but merely tell the workmen what its character and its ends will be." Which means the overthrowing of the present social system," I interrupted. "This system of land and capital in the hands of employers, on the one hand," he continued, "and the" mere working power in the hands of the laborers to sell as a commodity, we claim is merely an historical phase, which will pass away and give place to A HIGHER SOCIAL CONDITION. We see everywhere a division of society. The antagonism of the two classes goes hand in hand witn the development of the industrial resources of modern countries. From a Socialistic standpoint the means already exist to revolutionize the present historical phase.

Upon Trades-Unions, in many countries, have been built political organizations. In America the need of an independent orkingmen's party has been made manifest. They can no longer trust politicians. Kings and cliques have seized upon the Legislature, and politics has been made a trade. But America is not alone in this, only its people are more decisive than Europeans.

Things come to the surface quicker. There is less cant and hypocrisy than there is on this side of the ocean." I asked him to give me a reason for the rapid growth of the Socialistic party in Germany, when be replied: "lhe present Socialistic party came last. Theirs was not the Utopian scneme which made some headway in France and England. The German mind is given to theorizine, more than that of other peoples. From previous experience the Germans evolved something practical.

This modern capitalistic system, you must recollect, is quite new in Germany in comparison to other States. Questions were raised which had become almost antiquated iu France and England, and political influences to which these States had yielded into life when the working classes of Germany had become imbued with Socialistic theories. 1 liereiore, iroin tne oeeinning almost of modern industrial development, they have formed an INDEPENDENT POLITICAL PAKTT. They had their own representatives in the German I'arnament. mere was no party to oppose the policy 01 ine irovernment, ana inis devolved upon them.

10 trace the course 01 the party would take a long time; but I may say this: that, if the middle classes of Ger- manv were not the greatest cowards, distinct from the middle classes of America and En gland, all the political work aeramst the Government should have been done hy them." I asked him a question regarding the nu merical strength of the Lassalliaus in the ranks of the Internationalists. The party of Lassalle, he replied, does not exist. Of course there are some beuevcrs in our ranks, but the number is small. Lassalle anticipated our general principles. VV heu he commenced to meve after the reaction of 1S4S.

he fancied tnat he could more success! ullv re vive the movement ov aavocauuir co-operauou of the worKingmen in industrial enterprises, it was to siir them into activity. He looked upon this merely as a means to the real end of the movement. 1 have letters irom mm to tuis effect." You would call it bis nostrum Exactly, tie called upon Bismarck, told him what be designed, and Bismarck encour asred LaSalle's course at that time in every possible way." What was his omect?" He wished to use the workine classes as a set-off asrainst the middle classes who instigated the troubles of 1S4S." It is said that yon are the bead and front of Socialism, Doctor, aud from your villa here pull the wires of all the associations, revolutions, now going on. What do you say about it The old gentleman smiled "l.Kaow it. it is vert absukd; vet it has a comic side, tor two months pre vious to the attempt of Hoedel, Bismarck coin- platnei in his Jortn German L-azette that 1 was in league with Father Beck, the leader of the Jesuit movement, and that we were keepinir the Socialist movement in such a condition that he could do nothing with it." But vour International Society in London directs the movement?" The International Society has outlivea its usefulness and exists no longer.

It did exist and direct the movement; but the growth of Socialism of late years has been so great that its existence has become unnecessary. Newspapers have been started in the various countries These are interchanged. That is about theonlv connection the narties in the different countries have with one another. The International Society, in the first instance. was created to bring the workmen together, and show the advisability or effecting organization among their various nationalities.

The interests of each party in the diilereut countries have no similarity. This spectre of the Internationalist leaders sitting at London is a mere lnventioL it is true that we dictated to foreign societies when the Internationalist organization was first accomplished. We were forced to exclude some Sections in New York, among them one in which Madam Woodhull was conspicuous. That was in lSH. There are several American politicians I will not name them who wish to trade in the movement, Ihev are well known to American Socialists.

You and your followers. Dr. Marx, have been credited witn ail sorts of incendiary speeche against religion. Of course you would like to see the whole system destroyed, root and branch." We know," he replied after a moment's hesitation, "that violent measures against religion are nonsense; out mis is au opinion: as Social ism grows. Its he I I of a a disappearance must be done by social devel opment, in wnicn education must play a great part." "The Rev.

Joseph Cook, of Boston, vou know him We heard of him a very badly informed man upon the subject of Socialism." "In a lecture lately upon the subject, he said Karl Marx is credited now with saving that, in the United States, and in Great Britain, and perhaps in France, a reform of labor will occur without bloody revolution, but that blood must be shed in Germany, and in Russia, and iu ltalv and in "mo Socialist," remarked the Doctor, smiling, "need predict that there will be a bloody revolution in Russia, Germany, Austria, and possibly in Italy if the Italians" keep on in the policy they are now pursuing. The deeds of the French Revolution may be enacted again in those countries. That is apparent to anv political student. But those revolutions will be made by the majority. No revolution can be made by a party, BUT BY A NATION." "The reverend gentleman alluded to." I remarked, "eave an extract from a letter which said you addressed to the Communists of Paris in 1871.

Here it is We are as yet but 3.000,000 at most. In twenty years we shall be perhaps. Then the world will belong to us for it will be not only Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, which will rise against odious capital, but Berlin, Munich, Dresden, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Brussels, St. Petersburg, New YorK, in short, the whole world. And before this new insurrection, such as history has not yet known, the past will disappear like a hideous nightmare; for the popular con-flagratioa, kindled at a hundred points at once, will destroy even Its Now.

Doctor, suppose you admit the authorship of that extract" I never wrote a word of it. I never write SUCK MELODRAMATIC NONSENSE. am very careful what I do write. That wag put in La JPigaro, over mv signature, about that time. There were hundreds of the same kind letters flying about then.

1 wrote to the London Times and declared they were forgeries; but, if I denied everything that has been 6aid and written of me, I would require a score of secretaries." But you have written in sympathy with the Paris Communists i "Certainly I have, in consideration of what was written of tbem In leading articles; but the correspondence from Paris in English papers is quite sufficient to refute the plunders propagated in editorials. The Commune killed only about sixty people; Marshal MacMahon and his slaughtering army killed over 60,000. There has never been a movement so slandered as that of the Commune." "Weil, then, to carry out the principles of Socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed No great movement," Karl Marx answeaed, has ever been inaugurated WITHOUT BLOODSHED. The independence of America was won by bloodshed, Napoleon captured France through bloody process, and he was overthrown by the same means. Italy.

England, and every other country gives proof of this, 'and as for assassination," he went on to sav, it is not new thing, I need scarcely say. "Orsini tried to KiU Kings have killed more than anybody else; the Jesuits have killed; the ruritans killed at the time of Cromwell. These deeds were all done or attempted before Social ism was known. Every attempt, however, now made upon a Koyai or Mate individual is attributed to Socialism. Tne Socialists would re gret very much the death of the German Era peror at the present time.

He is very useful where he is; and Bismarck has done more for the cause than any other statesman, by driving tilings 10 extremes." I asked Dr. Marx WHAT Hit THOUGHT OF BISMARCK. ne repneu mat "iapoieon was considered a genius until he fell; then he was called a fool. Bismarck will follow in his wake. He began bv building np a despotism under the plea of unifi cation, ins course na Deen plain to all.

The last move 13 out an attempted imitation or a coup detat; but it will fail. The Social ists of Germany, as of i ranee, protested against tne war 01 sl as mere ly dvnastic. lhcy issued manifestoes foretelling the German people that, if thev al lowed the pretended war of defense to be turned into a war of conquest, thev would be punished by the establishment of military des potism and the ruthless oppression of the pro ductive masses. The Social Democratic party in Germany, thereupon holding meetings and publishing manifestoes for an honorable peace with ranee, were at once prosecuted bv the Prussian Government, and many of the leaders imprisoned. Still their Deputies alone dared to protest, and verv vigorously too, in tne uerman Keiunstag, against the forcible an nexation of trench provinces.

Howevei, Bis marck carried his policy bv force, and people spoke 01 the genius ol a Bismarck. The war was fought, and, when he could make no more conquests, he was called upon for original ideas, and he has signally lhe people Degan to lose iaitn in him. ills popularity was on the wane. He needs money, and the State needs it. Under a sham Constitution he has taxed the people for his military and unifica tion plans until he can tax them no longer, and now he seeks to do it with no Constitution at all.

For the nuroose of lewing as he chooses. he has raised the ghost of Socialism, and has done everything in his power TO CREATE AN EMEUTE." Ton have continual advices from Berlin?" Y'es," he said; "my friends keep me well advised. It is in a perfectly quiet state, and Bismarck is disappointed, lie has expelled forty-eight prominent men, amon them Dep uties iiasselman and rritsche, and Rakow, Bauman, and Auar, of the Frtit Prase. These men kept the workmen of iierlin quiet Bismarck knew this. He also knew that there were workmen in that city upon the verge of starvation.

Once those leaders were gone, he was confident that the mob would rise, and that would be the cue for a carnival of slaughter. The screws would then be put -upon the whole German Empire; his pet thsorv of blood and iron would then have full swav, and taxation could be levied to any ex tent. So far no emeute has occurred, and he stands to-day confounded at the situation and the ridicule 01 ail statesmen." ii. SPRINGFIELD. Arrival ef legislator Preparing for the Senatorial Fray.

Special Dispatch to The Tribune, Springfield, 111., Jan. 4 Members-elect of the General Assembly continue to arrive, and to-tight there were perhaps forty gathered at the Leland. Ex-Speaker Shaw, of Mount Car roll, Morrison, of Morgan, James, of Lake, Thompson, of Cook, and Mitchell, of McLean, are all on the ground, making a vigorous can vass for the Speakership of the House, which would now appear to lie between James and Morrison. Gen. John A.

Logan arrived to-night, accom panied by Mrs. Logan and Dr. Logan, and the Logan headquarters were at once opened. Long Jones, ol Jo Daviess, enitentiary Com missioner and Chairman of the Republican Cen tral Committee, is here vigorously worKing for Logan, and point withnride to a dilapidated cupboard which he brought with him set up in the Logan headquarters, and labels it "Logan's Literary Bureau." ihe Logan supporters affect great confidence, and claim a very large majority of members already here, although many are very reticent. A.

C. Hesing is here, and was a visitor at the Lotran rooms to-night. fceuator Oglcsbv has not arrived, but is ex pected in the morning or Monday. His adherents here, though less eiven to brag than the Logan partv, express great confidence in the ultimate success of their choice. J0LIET IRON MILLS.

Special Dispatch to The Tribune. Joliet, 111., Jan. 4. The Joliet Iron Steel Mills are now running steadily on the double turn (night and day), and the efficient man ner in which this vast industry is managed shows that its affairs are in a better condition than ever before. The rails manufactured are claimed to be superior in quality to those made by anv other mlis in the country.

New rolls and other new machinery have been procured for the manufacture of the sixty-foot rail, which will result in a great saving ot the waste ends and give the mills an additional advantage. Since the mills started, in 1S2, a total of 000 tons of steel rails have been manufactured. 32,135 tons of which were turned out since the 1st of Mav last. The present average daily production is Kou tons, anu iuo tons 01 raw material are used daily. Seven hundred and fifty men are permanently employed, and about 000 are distributed each montn.

The entirecost of the mills buildings, machinery, and repair is $2,000,000. MADAME ANDERSON'S TRAMP. New York, Jan. 4. Madame Anderson is in excellent condition, and at 2 o'clock to-day com Dieted her quarter-mile, two-thirds of New York.

Jan. 4 Midnight. Madame An derson, at. 10 to-night, completed her quarter in the Biooiuyn waiK. A be of of in oeen supplied Jew York with a fine-steam-launch, an Indispensable adjunct to a cruise in AMuuc aters.

In a let ter dated Dec 6. fit "Prm. in ranee. the ex-President savs he was t.hprp mi hi -w northward, and would be readv to leavt Europe for Asia whenever the vessel in which passage had kindly been tendered him arrived in the Mediterranean. He wa3 in doubt whether to embark at Marseilles, Naples, or Palermo.

The plan proposed is for the Rk'hmond to touch at Bombay, in Western India, where the ex-President and family might disembark, and, by rail, visit Poonah and the Mahratta country, the land of the fire-worshiD- ers and garden of Western India, Agra, Delhi Umritsun, the vale of Casbmir, Futtehpur Secra, Simla, in the lofty regions of the Himalayas, returning byway of the valley of the sacred Ganges, tarrying at Lutknow, Cawnpore, Benares, the Mecca of the Hindoos, and Cal cutta, and thence to Point de Galle, in Ceylon, in time to re-embark on the Richmond on her voyage to Singapore. Much superserviceable zeal has been displayed a number of newspapers in lecturing the Government on the act of courtesy extended to ex-President Grant, on the grounds of custom and extravagance. Were they at all familiar with the Yules of the naval service from the be ginning of its history, thev would know that the courtesy extended to ex-President Grant is not exceptional, but is in accord witn the regu lations sanctioned by law and usage. Naval egnlations authorize commanders of vessels the United States to receive on board and extend or reciprocal courtesies to distinguished officials of foreign Governments, detailed account of actual expenditures to be kept and sent to the Department at Washington, with proper vouchers for payment. Similar courtesies have also frequently been extended distinguished Americans, notably in late years Gen.

and ex-Secretary Seward. As there has been much harping upon ex- President Grant's cruise in the Mediter ranean last summer, it may be said, for the information of this same class of grumblers, that the aggregate expense outside the usual expense of cruising will fall below $500. It was said by a member of the Govern ment that, if the American people objected to such a paltry eum for the proper entertainment an ex-President, be had hitherto failed to discover this as an element of American char acter. The Vandalia is expected at Boston, when her accounts will be forwarded to the Department. Jioston vnrmpondem-e Philadelphia Timet.

As a description of 'the ship which has been designated to do honor to Gen. Grant by con veying mm and his suite to the scenes or his an ticipated Oriental triumphs may prove interest ing to tha readers of the Times, I paid a visit to the United States steamer Richmond, while lying at the Chariestown Navy-Y'ard, just before her departure lor New York on her trial trip last Saturday. The Richmond is one of the "crack" ships our rather feeble navy, and she is considered one of the few really presentable ships in the service. She is a sister ship to the Brooklyn and Hartford, built at Norfolk, during Buchan an's administration, rates second class, has a displacement of 2,000 tons, mounts fourteen guns, and has a crew of 320 men. The Rich mond has had a new set of engines put in her since she was built, and has recently had new boilers put in.

She has been thoroughly overhauled at this station, and much elaborate ornamentation has been indulsed in prob ably on recount of the distinguished passengers she is destined 10 convey. New and costly carpets, furniture, and fittings have been added to her cabins and wardroom. The after or admiralty cabin has been fitted up in an ele gant, if not sumptuous, manner for the express accommodation of Gen. Grant and suite, and it thought that additional embellishments and appointments will be made to the cabin and staterooms set apart for his Excellency and friends when the ship arrives at the port in Eu rope where Grant may elect to em baric for bis Oriental tour. It is the opinion among the off! cers of the Richmond that Gen.

wiii embark either at Marseilles or Spezzia. The ship will then proceed, by the way of the Suez Canal, direct to Calcutta. Gen. Grant will certainly have no cause to complain either of the ship or its officers, for more gentlemanly, efficient, and "elegant" set of officers than those appointed to command the Richmond cannot be found in any naval service in, the world. Cant, A.

E. K. Benham is commanding, and Lieutenant-Commander Lewis Clarke is executive officer. THE MODERN DRAMA. Another Manager' Opinions Mr.

Palmer'3 Views of Shakspeare's Unpopularity, San-day Performances and Their Immorality, and of Manager McVicker, of ChicagoHe Thinks Shakspeare's Plays Unpopular Because Immoral Compared with Modern French Dramas. Sew York 2. In an interview with Mr. McVicker, the vete ran manager, lately published the i rioune, reference was made to the fact that the custom of Sunday evening theatrical performances, long prevalent in New Orleans, was spreading to other cities. Some curious comments wers also made by Mr.

McVicker on the unpopularity of the Shakspearean drama, which from his position as the Western manager most promi nent in maintaining the legitimate drama, and also from his relations to leading Shakspearean actor, excited considerable com ment. Coupled with these curious statements were some good-natured animadversions upon A. M. Palmer, of the Union Square, who has become identified in most minds as the special producer of French plays. To enable Mr.

Palmer to reply in kind to these, and at the same time to elicit his views upon the subjects of Sunday performances and the alleged un popularity of Shakspeare, a reporter of the Tribune waited upon that gentleman yesterday afternoon, and by a few leading questions excited the manager to say a number of sharp things upon several subjects. Being asked if he agreed with Mr. McVicker in regard to "tne evil tendencies mat nave lowered the standard of the drama of late years," Mr. Palmer laughed and said: "I am afraid that Manager Mcvicker's late troubles have somewhat jaundiced his views of our progressive and healthful present. I don't think the drama of to-day is so immoral as the drama Jeremy Collier lashed 150 years ago.

I know, and so do you, tnat tne rani a 01 to-oay is, to say the least, as moral as that of Sliakspeare, and ten times more decent. Mr. McVicker admits tnat tne naK-epearean drama never was popular with the masses. He thinksjbecause he requires thought to understand it. think, because it requires a cast-iron stomach to accept it.

The fact is, the American of to-day is the most continuously thoughtful, su btie, and perceptive of human beings in any age or clime. Yet this thoughtful American, "who has annihilated distance, weighed the stars, and bored for the centre of the earth, turns his back on the Shaltspearean drama in the theatre, not because it possesses too much thought for him, but because its thoughts are too uastily expressed to suit his civilized taste. The truth is, that while immor-alitvin ali agesbasbeen the subject of the stage as well as of the pulpit, the manner of its treatment, to achieve theatrical popularity, must be in accord with the mauners of the age in which it is presented. There is perhaps as much average drunkenness, thelt, murder, and adultery to-day as there was in the days of Shakspeare, and the stage takes just as 'much cognizance of each, but the rough obscenity in rbvme, the nasty pictures in biank verse, suggestive of the animal or carnal side of all these appetites which was reflected in Shakspeare, Massinger, and Ford, are in our day decently veiled from s'ght when presented on our stage. Wc will, it is true, sit in our theatres and watch the sufferings of VamWe, the lorette, and count her struggles, but we do this because the struggle of her repentance and not the dirt of her vice is protruded on public attention, by the manner of the modern dramatist.

But day by day the feeling of modern decency renders disgusting to mixed assemblages of men and women and young girls, the picture of a Hamlet limning in nauseous colors the actual doings in the incestuous bed of his own mother. It is not our morality that shrinks Iiom tlu; picture, but our stomach which is nauseated by the manner of its presentation. The French drama of to-dav, of whose success Mr. McVicker so feelingly complains, owes its superiority over the oid legitimate orama to the superior decency of its manner of treating preciseiv the same themes trpated by Sonhrcles. Shauspeare.

ami Moiiere. It is not that the age likes tr.e philos ophy and poetry ot Shakspeare less, but that it likes decency more. Another reason why Sliakspeare is so little popular on the stage is that be is Partridge is good eating; but would vou like to tat partridge at every fnnnl in every dav of thi theatrical ycarf Another reason still why Shakspeare not noDnlar is that we neither have nor ever had a sufficient number of actors endowed with the genius to cast one of his plavs in accordance witn the require-tnr-nt his imagination and of the sympathy of the reader of Shakspeare with that imagina- tin-n Then you think that the stage has not de teriorated at all i I don't think that any art has deteriorated, nor do I see in an age when knowledge, taste. art ble his ot a worth preserving will be allowed to deteriorate. The truth is, that the stage is progressing beyond the old fotrh 3 who grumble at it because they s.e una to keep up with it.

Such perfec tion of plot, such accessories of scenerr, dress, and appointment, such correctness in rendition of an author's meaniug, such positive effect upon an audience as we see -wadays, Shakspeare never dreamed of, and buj ver oiiiy hoped for. Whoever is unable to keep un with times, damns his times, lhe apcsrism 13 not new, but its triteness proves it truth. These growls have attended the stags in ail times and In all ages, andthev cave aiw-iys coma from the lips and pens of dramatist actors, critics, and managers who have failed it the sev eral branches of their profession, and no believe they find apology for their failure almsa the public taste they lack ability to itisfy." isut is it not true that JNew roric is depend ent upon Paris for new plavs No. There arc to-dav's advertisements cf all the theatres in the and vou car not find single theatre in New York to-nhrht present ing a play written or constructed in P.ris not one. I shall myself probably not produce another French play this season.

Mr. WUlack is already reported to be plede-ed to three pnreiy American plavs this season. can as well monopolize French plays as the Tnbun can monopolize French news. The market i there, open to all, and the manager willing and able to pay the most for the best e-ood eel them. Take last year.

Mr. Tonmkius. of Bos ton, bought "The Exiles of Sardou, Wallac'i bought Diplomacy of the same autbor, and the Union Square bought the "Ce t-bra. Case ot Dennery. These were the three ne French plavs of the season that achieved suc cesses, and I am at a loss to see how monopoly was exercised in the purchase of then MfT McVicker might have bought any on of ttie three-or the whole three had he made money enough out of Shakspeare and Booth to pv for them.

He did not, and so he lost them. I might as well say iu mis connection, one for all, that 'there is cot one of those French plays that Mr. McVicker could get at that he has failed to prodvt at his own theatre, to the exclusion of thf Shakspearean actingof Larry Barrett, thu Shakspearean drama in Mr.McVicker's tciug confined to the engagements of his son-in-lav, Edwin Booth. This much is certain, that ve have never produced anew French play at the Union Square Theatre that Mr. McVicktrdidn't apply for the right to reproduce it in bicago, and all he is growling about now is that we refused to let him teres tie last one, 'Mother and for reasons! at once artistic and commercial.

Our refusal no play with Mr. McVicker has been abuadanMy justified by the success we have met with vt Haveriy's, to which also Mr. Maplescu's opjri company is engaged, probably for rear.o -is smu lar to those which induced our preference." "Is it true that you have no stock company for the Union Square Theatra in New Yrork?" "In the last five vears no theatre in the world, except the Theatre Francaisa, has had so little change in its leading artists. The mere names of some af mv -leading people as I mention them will strike your own ear as echoes of the stones of this theatre Charles R. Thorue, John Parselle, J.

H. Stoddart, Fanny Morant. Mrs. Wilkins, Ida Vernon, Sarah Jewett, Maude Harrison. Is there any New Yorker to whom anyone of these names does not recdl the Union Square Theatre? If you Mr.

Gilbert and Miss Effie Germon, at Theatre, here are no leading actors to thoroughly wedded in the public mind to a particular theatre as the' Union Square Theatre ia the memory and imsgmation of the public of New York. I sand out traveling companies peeause 1 am to keep the largest theatrical company cf first-class artists ever kept by any theatre I an English-speaking country. This is because cannot fall back on stars as Mr. Wallack does nexx ha plays himself, uses Mr. Boucicault, or agages Mr.

Southern. Mine is strictly a lorupaov-thcatre, as New York fully underspends. I must have a sufficient number of aviists to properly select and cast for each of mv str plays as it, comes along. No one play in employ ail of the regular company. Those ft out of the cast would remain idle during r.lie run or the plav, a period which varies in our theatre from seventy to ISfi nights.

Now, provincial managers know my people, and when they see the cast of a new play thev kiiow how many are out of it; they apply for people, as Mr. McVicker often has done, ta enable them to make up the season's attraction, and where 1 find lean make mony ror the provincial manager, for the artists, and for I send tbem out tn the belief that thev are at work than lounging around New York Inriug the three months' run of a successful pl 7." "Do you allow members of vour cri pan when they travel, to play on Sunday nigi-ts 1" "You have touched on the only point Mr. McVicker's interview wherein that gertleuiua has any justification for the reflections r.is.de. I share with him the hope that, as the majority of the people in this country are aud respect the Christian Sabbath, r.he ws'-ticc of playing on Sunday nights, such as now ists in New Orleans, Chicago, and oue or twi other cities, will be ended. 1 can safely say that no actor or actress has ever been compelled me to play on Sunday.

At the same tunc, when these artists are engaged to play In ciUes where it is usual to have these Sabbath performances, and they choote of their own free volition to make a little extra monev by accommodating the uiaa-ager who yiefds to the customs of the ctty in which he is managing, 1 am powerless to pre vent them. 1 am simply a manager, not a pastor, and as I would wish to be allowed k-j; the Sabbath unannoved by those who c'o keep it, so I myself cannot infringe upon the liberty of those who conform to the custom of the city in which thev fiud themselves. I desire to put it on record, however, that I an tirm'v opposed to Sunday performances, and shiiil ever be given under my management, in ie six years I have managed the Union auf.re Theatre there have been many offers x.v.idc to open it on Sunday evenings for concerts, lectures, but it has nev? bee.i opened on those evenings, nor shall it w' ie 1 manage it. I am sorry, very sorry, ti. it custom has gained ground in Nt Orleans it has long obtained, and I am inf ura that Mr.

McVicker himself, as well as his Shakspearean ton-in-law, have, in times past, there straight along, irrespective 01 ar Sabbath, Mahometan, Jewish, or Christ iav. McVicker's statement that I refused .0 let 4 Mother and Son go to his house beca'ise be would not play Sunday nights is entirely Well, do you, like Mr. McVicker, fe .1 ti.5 present to be a time of great theatrical tlepret-sion I trust if this be a time of depressk a that it will stay a long time with me. Iexpe' tthat one more play, that is three plays I. suffice to carry my present season throue wit-U as handsome a profit as a reasonable map oughT to expect on his investment and labor." THE SOCIAL EVIL IN ST.

LOUIS St. Louis, Jan. 4. The soeial-cvil qu which has been the subject of public disf nssioa and a bone of contention in the municipal assembly for several weeks past, there 'aaving been a number of conference committei the work on the matter has been finally compro mised, and both houses last night adopted the following amendment to the city charter, which rill be voted on by the people at an ele tiou tj be held on the second Tuesday in March TU Board of Health are authorized and quired from time to time to recommend, ai th municipal assembly shall, have power pass, such ordinances in relation to nouses 01 i-iamu and nrostttution as they consider neees ary to prevent or the spread of venereal seasc in the citv, but such ordinances shall bet ent with and subject to the constitution. and laws of the State.

IN MEM0R1AM. Cleveland. Jan. 4. The funeral over the remains of Judge Sherman wet held at his late residence In this city this -ruing The Bishop Bedell officiated.

A larre number of friends and relatives of the family were in attendance, among whom were Se a-etary and Gen. Sherman, Senator Don Camet aud wife, Gen. Miles and wife. At a meeting of members or the Bai ot thi Northern District of Ohio held at Cleveland yesterday afternoon for the purpose of taking appropriate action In regard to the of tha late Judge C.T. Sherman, resolution highiy eulogizing his character as a citizen and official were unanimously adopted, and apiu jnriats speeches were madiS bv prominent merr hers of the Rur.

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interviews with the Corner-Stona of Modern Socialism. tr Gives Sone Information as the Doings and Objects of Himself "and His Disciples. The Becent System of tel to Give Tlace ti Land and Capi. tal to uive riai-tj a 'su- kt. cr Social tonumon." Vill Plow, Because "Ho Great Blood Movement Has Ever Eeen Inaugu rated Without Bloodshed." Bidicnle All tie Kct.

Joseph Ceot Verj Jadlj-Iofornied Baa." tad Bptciai Gvrrmmirnce of The Tribune. Losdos. Dec. IS. In a little villa at Ilaver-k Bill, In the northwest portion of Lon- live Ha'1 Marx, the corner-stone ol mod-Wialism.

He was exiled from his native ountry-Germany-in 1S44, for propagating theories. In 1S4S he returned, TT hen tOOt Up uuuc "ui political theones procured his expui- ihoi riTV in 1 kiiu bluets ibat vear his headquarters have been in London. (is convictions have caused him trouble from he beginning. Judgiug from the appearance of is home, they certainly have not brought him Persistently dnriusr all these years advocated his views with an earnestness rtiieh undoubtedly springs from a firm belief in Bern, nd, however much we may deprecate heir propagation, we cannot but respect to a extent the self-denial of the now exile. tOUB CORRESPONDENT HAS CALLED UPON HIM twice or thrice, and each time the Doctor was in his library, with a book in one hand mi cigarette in the other.

He must be over TO ace. His physique is well-knit, mass-. lie has the head of a man of nrehceL and the features of a cultivated Jew ilia hair and beard are and iron-gray in rolor. His eves are glittering black, shaded by mirof bushv evebrows. To a stranger he shows xtreme caution.

A foreigner can generally gain ndmiesion; but the ancient-looking German jroman who waits upon visitors has instructions to admit none who hail from the Fatherland, anlcss they bring letters of introdubtion. Once mto bis hbrarv, however, and, having fixed his one eyc-elass in the corner of his eye, in order to take your intellectual breadth and depth, so a sDer.k, he loses that self-restraint, nnfolds to vou a knowledge of jien and things throughout the world nt. ta interest one. And bis conver sation does not run in ene groove, but is as varied as are the volumes upon his library shelves. A man can generally be judged by the 'looks he reads, and you can form your own conclusions when I tell you a casual glance re- vi-aled ShaksDeare.

Dickens. Thackeray, Mo- liere, Racine, Montaigne, Bacon. Goethe, Vol i aire, Paine; English, American, French blue 1xoks; works political and philosophical in llussian, German, Spanish. Italian, etc During my conversations I was struck with HIS INTIMACY WITH AMERICAN QUESTIONS which have been uppermost during the past 1 wentv Years. His knowledge ol them, and the surprising accuracy with which he criticised our National and state legislation, impressed upon mv mind the fact that he must have derived his information from inside sources.

But, indeed, his knowledge is not confined to America, mt is spread over the face of Europe. When speaking of his nobby, Socialism, lie does not indulge in those melodra matic nights generally attributed to him, but IweVis upon his Utopian plans for 44 the emanci nation of the human race with a gravity and iu earnestness indicating a firm conviction in 'he realization of Eis theories, If not in this century, at least in the next. Perhaps Dr. Karl Marx is better known in America as the author of ''Capital," and the iou ne'er of the International Society, or at least its most prominent pillar. In the interview whfeti follows, you will see what he says of this Society as it at present exists.

How-iver, in the meantime, i will srive you a few extracts from the printed general rules of THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY, published in IsTl. by order of the General Council, from which yon can form an impartial judgment of its aims and ends. The preamble sets forth "That the emancipation of the work-ins classes must be conquered bv the wording clafses themselves; that the struggle for the emancipation of the working classes means not a struggle for class privileges and monopolies, but for equal rights and duties, and the abolition of all class rule that the ecumenical subjection of the man of labor to the uouopolizer ot the means of labor-that is, the sources of life lies at the bottom of servitude in all its forms, of all so-cal misery, mental degradation, and political cependence; that all efforts aiming at the universal emancipation of the working classes have n.tberto failed from want of solidarity between tie manifold divisions of labor iu each country," and ttie preamble calls for the immediate combination of the still disconnected movements." it goes on to sav that the International Association acknowledge no rights without duties, no duties without rights," thus makin" every member a worker. The Association was ioimed at London to afford a central medium and co-operation between VVorkiiigmen's Societies in the different countries, aiming at the same end, namely: the protection, advancement, and complete emancipation of the working classes." '-Each member, the document further says, "of the International Association, on removing his dominie from one count rv to another, will receive we support of the associated working-men." THE SOCIETT CONSISTS "luaai uuutrress, wnitn meet annuallv; a uv-raj council, which forms "an international between the different national ana local KTOUps of the Association. ar thnt ilio nrt.ni.

men inone country can be constantly informed of OI tlleir cIass 111 cverv ottler r-I', luis Council receives and acts upon 01 row Krauches or Sections to ioin international, decides differences arising netw tDe gectionSj and Jn tact tQ use an AmeiK-an phrase, "runs the machine." exPewes the General Council are ir- i-u an annual contribution of aii'Tlish Penn Iper member, 'lhen comes councils or Committees, and lo- erlr tne variea countries. The Fed-w. UDCils are bound to send one report at M-f eYerv moath to the General Council, and tian a rtPrt on the administra- T. state of their respective are Punished, Cue nearest Branch or an. is boand to 6end at once a copy of w.7, D.ubllcation to the General Council.

The imr 01 Percale Branches among the work- icuoinicenaea. THE "ENEKAL COUNCIL comprises the following: Ii. Applesrarth, M. Bvxm, iredrlck Bradni. k.

ri UuDont (on mission), William Harriet J. Harris. Hllr imnn Ids Charles l.a I If l.nccnfii- 1 nrhnfir Longuet, C. Martin. Zcvy Maurice! liennr 7.

Pfand' Miiner, Charles Murrav, Cowbii c. lioacn, mini fcaaier, Tnr. Pey, Aitrea 1 aylor, lownshcnd, E. Vaiilant, John Weston beeretaries lor the various La Franka, for Austria and hrav; A. Reman, Belgium; T.

Motters- MrV A- Serraillier, France; Karl utlr ermany and llussia; Charles Rochat. J- p- McDonnell, Ireland; Frederick Pnf a and 'Spain; Walcry Wroblewski, ruianu: llermanr, Svcit7Prlnn(1 J. C. Vxu atesfLe Moussu, for French Ranches of United States. uring my visit to J)r Marx anudd to the w.u0na eiven b-, J.

C. Bancroft Davis in his report as the clearest and most ex Position of Socialism that I bad seen. 11 was taienfrom the report of the puuist reunion i.t Gotha, iermauv, in May, imv tranalatiou was incorrect, he said, liK a correction, wch I append a he dictated all 7. direct, and secret snff rase for cinni er i or all elections, iluni- the people. War 'fh In t- ma le Dy uirecc popular vote.

'tandinarmVersal obilSatiOQ to niihtia duty. Fourth eardin special legislation re- freB-iaWa and public meetings. and he of to its to Bon Marche and Magasins du Louvre at Christmas-Time. Philosophical msrression Con cerning- Toys Shopkeepers Tricks. Literary Christmas-Gifts Dore's Ariosto A Book on Ballooning by Sarah Bernhardt.

Gossip of the TheatresThe Concerts- Anglo-French and French-English. Special Correspondence of The Tribune. Paris. Dec IS. The approach of the New Year always work an extraordinary change in the aspect of one most important part of Paris, its shops.

Ten days or a fortnight before the arrival of "LeJourde Noel (how poor a ub-atitute it is for erand old Anglo-Saxon Christmas-day 1), the papers are suddenly flooded with advertisements. Now advertising is not so common a thing nere as in some other countries. French shopkeepers somehow cannot, as a rule, induced to believe in it. The national quali ty, economy, does not admit the principle of baiting with a herring to catch a whale. It is.

therefore, rather remarkable to find whole pages the Figaro filled with trade-announcements, all harping upon the same subject, the subject subjects from now till January. LES ETRENNES, or, to put it into English, Christmas-boxes and New-Year's gifts. But our economical friends well know they risk nothing, and are sure to gain much, by these particular fits of prodigal ity. Cusims are not changed like political in stitutions. Labruyere knew what he was about writing the oft-quoted lines: "You may to day take away the liberties, rights, and privi leges of this town nut to-morrow do not even dream of altering its signboards." You may turn Monarchies into Empires, and Empires into Republics; but, so long as human nature is human nature, there will De solicitors and bestowers of Christmas-boxes in some 6bape or other.

So long as children are chil dren, and fathers and mothers remain fathers and mothers, there will be toys to make, and toys will sell. In point of fact, TOTS are always tne great ieature 01 the beautiful displays made in the windows of the great Parisian shops at this time of the year. "Toys" is a generic word, descriptive of a good many species. Whatever is made to amuse may be, in a liberal sense, called a toy. To a baby'it means a rattle.

To a boy or giri of 10 it is a box of soldiers or a doll. I know many a 6weet maid whose toys are flowers, sweet as herself, or books. And I know some ladies not quite so sweet, according to our brutal masculine notions who prefer silk dresses and pretty bonnets. As they grow old, men do as St. Paul did: They put away childish things," and take to collecting pictures, just as they would once have collected postage-stamps.

Toys, all tovs. Mr. Gladstone's toys are old china and halfpenny post-cards. Almost a return to the childhood, here Y'ou perceive the passion lies deep at the root of our nature. Universal shops, like tjie Bon Marche and the Magazins du Louvre, make the MOST WONDERFUL EFFORTS every year to satisfy this universal craving.

A walk through them just now reveals a whole world of prettv trifles. Newly-shaped bows and neckties, fashioned as only the inexhaustible resources of French taste and ingenuity could fashion them, 'are there for one class of explorers, feminine, of course. We of the stronger sex are tempted bv a hundred fanciful nothings in the form of purses, glove-boxes, clocks, cigar-cases, writing-desks, and the Lord knows what besides. And this to mention none but the more expensive articles. For those who care to loosen their "purse-strings further, the Bon Marche and a dozen other monster bazars have Japanese vases, China silks, Persian carpets, Henri XL furniture, and Louis XVI.

bronzes. For the children there are tovs proper, guns. soldiers' outfits en miniature, model stables and butchers' shops, dolls, and rocking-horses. A great attraction this year is the mechanical swimming doll, which made such a sensation at the Exhibition, a clever trifle, imitating the natatory charmers ofTrouville and Etretat with astonishing fidelity. These, and all elaborate tovs of the kind, cost outrageous suras of money, but they are really charming if you don't mind this detail.

1 do, myself. THE CHEAPER TOYS are best bought in those little booths that will soon be lining the boulevards from the Bastille to the Madeleine. The large shops seem to ignore the humble wants of poor people's chil dren; or, when they do cater for them, forget to lower their prices to the quality of their goods. A favorite tricK ol the Bon Marche and the Louvre, at Christinas, is this, which I hold up to the indignant reprobation of all honest shopkeepers in the two hemispheres: They take a dozen common German toys. wooden animals, slate-pencil boxes.

and so forth; value, say a franc. These they cunuinglv arrange within a gut wicker basket, with plenty of glittering shavings and red cotton wool for padding let us sav another franc. And then they put the whole under the glare or au electric light, and charge you eight, nine, or ten fiancs for it! Latterly it has become usual to add a collec tion of books to the other attractions of the great shops or bazars here. Jules Verne, Gus- ave Aimard, Aiayne Keid, and Aime. de aegur appear to De the autnors most- in de mand; but thev do not exclude more serious writers.

One of the chief favor ites this vear will probably be Hachette's new edition of "Orlando lunoso," which has been magnificently illustrated by Gustave Dore, the greatest illustrator since Albert Duerer. This publication, indeed, has an importance of its own quite apart iromits casual connection with etrennes. That, reminds me that 1 haue not written you a word about A CURIOUS BOOK which appeared last week. The author is no other than Mile. Sarah Bernhardt, of the Comedie Francaise.

Under the signature of "Dona Sol," the fair creature has just perpetrated a fantastic account cf her ballooning adventures, which, as you know, have been frequent, if not very exciting. Whether it was worth her while to write "Dans les Nuages," seeing tne small amount of novel iniorniation she had to convey to her readers, may he doubted: and. as to the propriety or impropriety of having the work embellished bv such numerous portraits 01 tne author as Dans les Nuages contains, there is no doubt whatever. Bat I suppose we must not be hard on ladies. The book has one good point to recommend it, certainly.

It is most amusing though hardly in the sense the author would prefer. In one place Mile Sarah has to describe a sunset, she tells us that "The sun was red with anger at having to set so early and in another she in dulges in the bold but infelicitous image, drunken clouds." The cacoethe's scribendi is a terrible thing. Rumor whispers that the author of Dans les Nuages," who has now cultivated with more or less success the drama, sculpture, painting. and as we have just seen literature, is hard at work studying English, witha view to appear in London in English Versions of "legitimate IT Frencn plays. If she keeps to this arrangement, and does not allow herself to be beguiled into attempting Shakspearean parts, she is certain of drawing." I attended the opening concert of the PARIS PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY, at the Continental Hotel, last Friday evening.

The room in which the concert was given is magnificent, like most of the others in that splendid hotel; the company numerous and select. I could not 6ay anything very natterine of the Philharmonic band it is not up to the standard of the Chatelet or the Circus, far less of the Conservatoire, but of course it may improve. The programme looked well on paper. A couple of movements from Beethoven's minor symphony, a fragment of an unfinished symihony of Schutiert, a reverie lor violin" by M. Dancla, and a bit of a pretty suite d'orchestre by Massenet.

With these, an air from "Semiramiae and-several songs of Gounod's and Schubert's. As it happened, however, the programme was not adhered to. The order of execution was altered an air from "Paul and Virgin ie" replaced the "Semira-mide selection; two songs that should have been sung in the' first part of the concert were omitted; and Mile. Fooquet, of the Opera, who was the star vocalist of the evening, kept us waiting a quarter of an hour. The Philharmonic will have to reform it it is to succeed.

Ed Paelleron's pew comedy, "L'Agelngrat," to to the in to (as it a in to Bad as is the of mixing the two languages tuey ao nere, 1 thinK FRENCH-ENGLISH distinguished from Anglo-French) is a good deal worse. Take this sweet instance (1 copied on a restaurant wmaow at Bevresj "At the Bewer's Ensing." (That meant, "At the Signiof the And this, with which I close. 'Tis taken from pot 01 blacking DIRECTIONS FOR USE. Take a small portion of this Composition on a piece of cloth with witch you iya'l over thot men weap ary tcun a otner piece of ctotn. Save us.

flABRT Msltzek. GEN. GRANT. His Visit to Pau, In the Pyrenees. Correspondence New York Herald.

Pau, France, Dec 10. The quiet course of life in Pau has been interrupted by an event which especially interests Americans resident the colony, the coming of Gen. Grant. The General was expected last year when on his way Italy, and his failure to come led to the impression that he bad left the Pyrenees out of his tour. The other evening, quite unheralded, he dropped in on us, taking quarters at the Hotei de France.

Mrs. Grant accompanied him. The General's first duty on arriving was to Btroll over the townand study out its attributes. Most of his time here has been spent in saunter ing about on foot, sometimes alone, sometimes with Mrs. Grant, looking at the odd types and strange Pyrenean costumes that strike one at Pau, a blending of French, Basque, and Span ish.

It was suggested that be might make a pilgrimage to Lourdes, only forty minutes by rail, and see the place where the Virgin came down to the maiden, and where pious believers in that appearance have bnilded a church, and where thousands of pilgrims come yearly. But the General found Pau too pleas ant to leave, and preferred to take all that is told of Lourdes as a question of evidence, without personal investigation. A part of his time he gave to riding about the country. Pau was in grief because the weather which welcomed the General was unusually severe. There were frost and snow, aud what vou rarely see in this region, at least, a sharp wind.

A fox hunt of special attractiveness had been arranged, but the frost was in the ground, and the best that could be done for the General was an imitation affair, where he witnessed the meet and the finish. The most conspicuous social event during the season at rau was the dinner given to General and Mrs. Grant on Monday evening by Air. William P. Douglas, of New York.

Mr. Doug las has been spending a few days here, taking part in bunting, lawn-tcnms, and the other amusements of the town, lhe dinner of Mr. Douglas was especially pleasant to Gen. Grant, as it enabled him to meet many old American friends among the Pau eolony, and also to meet many English cousins. The dinner was given at the Hotel de France, and all the resources of that house were called upon to make the entertainment worthy alike of hosts and guests.

The large dining-room was turned into a flower-garden, and the room in Mr. Douglas received bis guests bloomed with exotics. Among the guests were Gen. Llvsses Grant, Mrs. Grant, Count Georges oe Koquette.

uuisson, tne rre-fect; Gen. Kampf, commanding the troops of the department; Air. and Mrs. James Neihson Potter, of New lork; Mr. and Mrs.

u. feaoody Wetmore, of Newport; Mr. and Mrs. rost, of New York; Dr. and Mrs.

L. Parks, of Boston; Gardiner Sherman, Mr. Thomas Burgess, Maj. Charles Hutton, Mr. Townsend, Capt.

Kirwan, Miss Kirwan. Mrs. Davidson, Miss Davidson, Capt. Fox, Mrs. Dixon, Mr.

Daniel Torrence, Miss Allevne, Mr. Alexander, Col. and Mrs. Burton, Mr. and Mrs.

Nugent Humble, the Hon. Mrs. Greville Nugent, Col. Luscombe, of the British Army, and his wile; uapt. Annesiey, 01 tne British Army; Col.

Millot, of the Eighteenth French Infautry; Mrs. H. Bobbins, of New Y'ork: Mr. Ridley, Col. Flovd-Jones, United States Armv: Air.

Leslie, of Scotland; Mr. Bagnell, Dr. Bagnell, Miss Florence Leslie, Mrs. John Post, of New York, and others. The hour for the dinner haying arrived, the band of the Eighteenth Infantry, which was in attendance, played Hail Columbia," and the guests marched in and took their places.

The band was placed at the disposal of Mr. Douglas bv Gen. Kampf, the commander of the forces, The General telegraphed to the Paris authorities for permission to do so, which was promptly granted. Tne band was in excellent practice, and its performance during the dinner was an agreeable feature. Mr.

Douglas had a little difficulty in finding an American air in the repertoire; but this was solved by "Hail Columbia," which should be half French, considering it goes back to days when French and Americans were under the same flag. At the conclusion of the dinner Mr. Douglas arose and said that he had no desire to inflict any toasts or speeches upon the company which had done him the honor to be present. There was one toast, however, which he would not deny them the pleasure of drinking. This toast was in honor of the illustrious guest of the evening.

Gen. Grant, the ex-President of the United States. Gen. Grant was not merely the ex-President of his country. That in itself would be an honor which all would he srlad to recognize.

Me had the higher distinction, the most enviable that the citizen of any nation could win, that of having been the savior of his country. In that tenser as soldier and President, the speaker, as an American, was proud to meet Gen. Grant in a foreign land, and proud of this opportunity of pauug his respects and 01 tcstnupg mat gran-riid to him which every American should feel. There was one epithet anplied to Gen. Grant rlnrinT the War which always seemed to the speaker to be especially felicitous.

That epithet he would now recall in asking his friends to drink to the health and prosperity of "Uncon ditional Surrender" Grant. The company rose and received this toast with ATeat cheering, the band playing Hail Colum- hin." The General said in response that it was prat.eful to him to meet so many American faces. to be among friends, and to be the recipient of so distinguished a compliment as had been paid him bv hia countryman, Mr. Douglas. It was well known that he had no eift for speaking.

Speeches might perhaps be made as battles had sometimes been won, by persistence and en- prtrv. He. however, would not venture the ex- nenment. but would justify as far as he could the pnir.hp.t nf Air. Douglas and make au uncon ditional surrender.

The General sat down amid the cheers and laughter of the table. Mai. Hutton, speaking in French, then pro- nosed a toast to France, coupling with it toe nam of the Tnis was drank with all the honors, and the Prefect, Count de Roquette Buisson, respotided, saying that he was glad to welcome in rau 50 jjreau a uiau v.cu. uioui, and also glad to be among those whom Mr. iinnn-las had assembled to do the General honor.

II snoke of the ancient friendship between France and America, which Frenchmen on every occasion were anxious to recognize aud celebrate. In response to a compliment to the ladies, the Count said he was extremely sorry that circumstances prevented the presence of. the Countess. Mr. Douglas then alluded to the fact tint many English fnetids in Pau had hon ored him with their presence, and he knew riothimr would so much gratify not only them, but all present, as an opportunity of drinking the health ol the Queen of England.

This sentiment was drank with cheers. The gentlemen then joined the ladies, aud the dinner was over, one of the most pleasant the General 1 al enjoyed in Europe. It was extremely well ar ranged and served. Among other courtesies to Gen. Grant, I will notice before closing this letter a dinner given to bini by Dr.

L. Parks, of Boston, oue of the leading members of the American colony at Pan. Dr. Parks entertained his guests at his house on the Place Duplas, and the evening was exceedingly enjoyable to the General and Mrs. Grant.

Gen. Grant's Contemplated Asiatic Crnlse. Washington Dispatch to St. Louie Glnbe-Democrat The official report of the trial-trip of the United States steamer Richmond (recently undergoing repairs at Boston) to New York has been received at the Navy Department. It is expected that she will now depart on her Asiatic voyage next week, aud Graet has been notified of ber prospective date of sailing in order to as certain his wishes in regard to the point of em- by of a to to of of is Si 1 1 i 1 1 i I if i i 1 1 1 I 5 1 1 1 1 1 II Pi.