New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-19

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overstrained muscle Of the black human maeLile on
Louisiana sugar plantations. Curtis, who is mod
iGcation in the practical form Of Mrs Stowe careless
American Hamlet ST. Clair, sees and hates tie MUS
tioe of Slavery and gets half profits from the Panta-
lion managed by his cousin Johnson the sister Of Lucy,
his impuIsve, seemingly frivolous, soeiotiy case
hardened appointed b,ide. The next four acts pass
in and near New-Orleans. l must crowd them INTO
less than ss many paragraphs.
Curtis, on FIRST eeeng Cora at tie ball, had imme-
diaely detected the signs, inyifible to any but d
Southern American counoiSseur, of her slight III
heritance of black bood-a aixteenth part only Of
Hams wealthy curse. she is the daughter OF one
Gerard, rich French creole planter.
On arriving at New-Orleans, it turns ont that
Gerard is on the eve OF bankruptcy. His besutf ul
white daughter comes to be known as the offspring
of q quadroou slave, whom he afterward sold, to
avoid "scenes" with childess, jealous, white wife,
TO one Kraig-whose character is briefly told by the
fact that he is a Nonhern-born Southern planter,
and lawyer by profession. Rather than be bis mis-
tress as she had been Gerards, Coras mother Kills
herself, 10 the considerable pecupiary and lustlol
loss of said Kraig-who afterward becomes by vlr-
tue of pure rascaty the seeming creditor OF Gerard
10 the amount Of 100000. johnson is bis creditor
to the amount Of $50 600 The white brilliant ac-
complisbed, French-edacated Cora is no longer the
boarding -school friend of Miss Lucy; cannot be
received by, or spoken WITH by that estimabe, pref
udiced young lady. Lucy's brother, the chlValnc
planter johnson, sensualy charmed with slaye-Co-
rae beauty proposes 10 balance his claim On Gerard
Ly personal possession Of her. She indignantly re-
ier,s such abomination. Meantime, French Engineer
aprears conessing his love for Cora without respect
TO the Tract Societys sixteenth part Of Hams curse
invisbly 20 him inherent IN the corner OF her eye
and the roots Of her finger nails; notwithstand-
ing the which, and = chivalric Southern duel WlIh
rifles in which he Las Curtis foT second, and gets
alnost MORALLY wounded, rascally Krag pushes his
scoundrelly.secured false claim aud has Gerard 5
property cold up. Cora is part Of this PROF erty ana
il bought in on account by KrIg for che chIyalrio
Johpson--from whom, in passing honest Curtis has
dissolved partnership at great pecuniary loss and at
considerable r.k Of being mobbed, or worse If lie do
not hurry of noribward. To Pass over details,
skllfully arranged and highly dramatic situaions 1t
u enough IN order 10 arrive at the denousmeHt, to
say that Kings coundreIism il proved, Gerard be-
comes thereby solvent Cora saved from q choice
between hopeless shame and saving suicide by The
finally aroused womanly goodness OF Lucy breaking
; fercely through the conventional Southern social
bonds sails away 10 Free Despite Imperial France
with Der unpreudiced French Nan bnd husband.
And 40 Lucy conquers the gIadly-yislding love Of
Curtis.
The strictly literary merit Of this drama il Of
the slightest. Its strictly dramatic merit is great
It's general trulhiuluess is, unhapPy, in6spu'abl.
It's special injustice to American institutions Is
patent caricature but these details. The simple,
disagreeable fact il that general truthflneS aud
caricatured details are all accepted here as definite
, truths. And why not Every generous emotion
and generous action Is attributed either TO native
+ born French or to Americans thus inspired by
French education. And why not is there \
Northern American to-day Of tie same social posi.
ton US French Be,sitrcs, who would dare obedience
to the dictates OF lie heart and Of simple justice in
face of don't say Southern, but-AmoIican CON-
yentional prejudice. You, the Northern General
jenkins, dare you to-day marry beautiful white
Girl whom Won cannot help loving, II you know that
che has a sixteenth part of African blood in her
veins, TO mingle in your postertL with your null
Of Danish Saxon, and Norman pirate and penal
British brute savage blood And should the Jenk-
ms no dare, is there entrancsway possible for him
into that phenomenal inexphcable inclosure Of
wealthy New. York first society
Speaking Of the theatert, the Colleen BaDH Of
Dion Bourccaul, whose London SUCCESS lasi season
resulted, am told in an equal division Of $4,000
sterling between the acting author and the theateT
manager il to be brought out al this same antique
condue as room as Cora begins 10 lohe s attraction
: for the public. Bourcicault's drama i, adapted,
= with radical changes, to the French by the famous
dramatist DEmery 10 whom we owe Don Cesar
&c Bazan.
? Here are the titles OF some notable new books:
lie SoansH RI les Rcres, Sleep and Dreams an Syo.
volt ne BY Alfred Many Of the Institute. The sub
title Of this book IL so honestly descriptive In its
brief measure that must repeat it: Psychological
studies Of the phenomena and divers conditions re-
latng to sleep and dreams, followed by investiga-
tions into instinct and intelligence as related to
the Phenomena Of Sleep. The authors name zoe,
far TO prove the FERROUS value Of this work. lis
method is the only scientifically, truth.seekng sound
ONE careful observation and strict analysis Of fact
preceding all theory. M. Many finds q certain in
teIectual relationship between dreaming and wild
insanitya remote but real family Likeness, between
the sound mans dreams after indigestible dinner
and tho maniacs waking fantRses-natural and srti.
fetal somnambulisn, magnetic sleep, hypnosm all
belong to and bring their claims to bear this fam
iiy come ,tiou." NJ. Maury might have styled his
studies physiological well as psychological studies;
bat their choicest merit is that they studes his
iplerences however yenturesome being always based
- o,.;,oo,t.1 otseryation And a gin,1lIar merit