The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-05-14
OUR CHICAGO LETTER.
Correspondence of the Mani.owoc Tribunel

CHICAGO, May eth, 1868.
The Methodist Episcopal General Con-
ference which commenced its session on
the 18th inst, has been sitting steadily
ever since but if it progresses in its bust
ness yet to come with no more rapidity
than it has gone through with that al
ready before it, there will be no waste
time in the allotted month during which
it is to sit.
BY the yin speaking of their reports,
| should have mentioned one fact which
will interest at least your Methodist read
ers, that the collectors for the ''Educa-
tional Fund during the last year, the
Centenary year of Methodism amounted
to $S, 397, ,66215. A church has good
Claims to be considered in earnest which
''comes down" with such libera!ity
You have doubtless been informed, ere
now, either by telegraph or through the
Chicago papers, of the result of the
recent Republican State Convention, how
they nominated Gen. Palmer, enthusias-
tically endorsed Grant, denounced y.
johnson and his policy, secuted the idea
OF reputation, affirmed the right of
American citizens abroad to Government
al protection. The ticket as it now stands
bears the names of seven soldiers and but
three civilians and is generally believed
by Republicans to be the strongest which
could have been selected out of all the
prominent men of the party.
Tonight ends the season of the French
opera troupe here. | am sorry to say
that it has not been so successful as it
! should have been. Three of Offenback S
most beautiful works have been given.
La aGrandDuchesse, La Belle Helene
and ''Orphee aux Eufer,'' each abouding
in rich comedy, sparkling music and
delicious novelties, yet not a single house
has paid expenses until the present week
during the run of the last named piece.
Even now the attraction does not seem
to consists In either of the charms which
I have mentioned, but in the free revel-
ations of the hitherto concealed physical
beauties of two of the prettiest women OF
the troupe. For once | profess myself
disgusted with the taste of a Chicago
audience. A large proportion of the
members who attended nightly this week,
went to see Venus whose dress, con-
sort of chemise split at one side away up
on the thigh, really did not reveal any
thing more than an ordinary ballet dress
would, but was far more suggestive.
Last evening | overheard one remark on
that dress which aroused me by its sar-
castle naivete A Frenchman leaning
back spoke to friend couple of seats
behind him.. ''Such dress would not
be allowed on the stage in Paris, she
would have to have at least one button
more on that chemise.
Our next dramatic sensation viii be the
white Fawn" spectacle, SO famous IL
the East for its ballet and transformations.
Messrs Hovey & Nichols of this city,
recently discovered in the southern por-
ton of this state a bed of clay, practically
inexhaustible in extent, which has beer
proven, by thorough trial, superior tC
most European clays for the manufacture
of terra Gotta and have just completed
the erection Of extensive works here foI
the manufacture of this beautiful anC
valuable material They have already
at their store No. 81 State street a vas
variety of architectural ornaments su3I
as window and door caps, brackets, modll
lions, quoins, chimney tops, etc, and !;
large assortment ofvases, hanging baskets
fountains, statues, groups, rustic seat:
and other articles of use and ornamen
for garden and lawn and are rapidly In
creasing the variety of their stock. This
material costs less than one third as mucl
as either stone or iron and is more durabl,
than either For instance, richly or
namented window cot which in stone
would cost S75 to 100, they furnish 70
, SIC. Terra Gotta is impervions to damp
almost as bard as glass and has beel
found unimpared by the ravages of tim,
! 10 the monuments of the glories of tn
ehascan period, where the stone with
{ which it was used In connection ha
crumbled away. In England terra cott
work three hundred years old is as per
feet to day as when first made.
J The great German Saengerfest to b
, held here this year is to begin on the lit
aud end on the 22d of June. Ahead
our German fellow citizens are maxim
r great preparations in view of the event
, intending to quite eclipse all the previou
Saengerfests held in this country
The great tunnel under the river a
Washington street is rapidly progressln
toward completion and will, the constru(
tors say, be done before the close of thi
season. As soon as it is opened I'm
of omnibuses well be started to ru
straight UP Washington street, frol
Estate street to Union Park. DON.