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NOTES FROM THECAPITOL. (By Live's Special Congressman.) ONGRESS is in a state of donothingism just now ow- ing to the aversion of the Repub- licans to passing any bills which may reflect glory on the incoming administration, while all the Democrats expect Cab- | inet offices and are therefore unwilling to put themselves on record as favoring any fixed policy which may or may not prove popular with Mr. Cleveland. Mr. Richelieu Robinson is the only active man in town and he is wasting all his surplus energy toward the passage of a bill restoring Republican simplicity to the Inaugural cere- monies. M®* BARRETT concludes his successful engagement at the Star Theatre this week. We advise all who have not yet seen this most talanted actor to do so at once. On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday evenings he is to be seen in two new plays, “A Blot on the Scutcheon,” a Tragedy by Robert Browning, and Mr. Alfred Thompson's adaptation from the French of Theodore de Banville’s Drama of Gringoire in one act entitled “ The King’s Pleas- ure.” On Thursday evening will be presented Mr. Howell's Tragedy, “ Yorick’s Love,” and the lovers of comparison may see him on Friday evening as “ Richelieu,” to which Mr. Booth’s recent performance will lend additional interest. . . . E present on the opposite page some sketches from Mr. Carleton’s highly successful drama, which has been running at Wallack’s for the last six weeks to large and appreciative audiences. . + . UR artist, with the aid of photographs kindly loaned by Mr. Mora, has depicted some of the: most dramatic scenes of Victor Durand ; the discovery of the galley mark upon the prisoner's wrist ; his terrible interview with his wife, who at first believing him guilty, comes at last to an expres- { In just what this aforementioned simplicity consists no one is prepared to state, but from what we cari gather. Mr. Robinson wants the President-elect to walk from Buffalo to the Capitol and be sworn in, clad in home-spun overalls and a blue dress coat bespattered with brass buttons. This over, the newly made President. will ask all the boys to have afestive smile at his expense, and will then proceed to run | the White House on the European plan for four years at an expense of a dollar a day. At any rate it is unquestionably paradoxical for the Demo- crats to hanker for Republican simplicity. * . HERE is an expressed determination among the Rep- resentatives to mete out to President Arthur and Minister West the punishment due them if it be found that they, together with Queen Victoria and Mr. Gladstone, have conspired against the life of O'Donovan Rossa. sion of her confidence in his innocence; the interview be- tween the genial doctor and the organ grinder, and finally the discomfiture of the villainous De Mersac. . . * HE protracted run of this new work has been most gratifying to the young author and his friends, and its reception on the road has confirmed the verdict of the New York theatre-goers that Victor Durand is one of the best of American plays produced for years. . . * ARQUHAR'S old comedy, “ The Recruiting Officer,” was produced at Daly's on Saturday evening, with Messrs. Fisher, Drew, Lewis, Parks and Gilbert, and Misses Rehan, Dreher and Fielding in the cast. It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. Daly's revivals are as delicious morsels as his adaptations in point of represen- tation, and “ The Recruiting Officer” will undoubtedly have a satisfactory run, * . * HE “ Private Secretary” is still running at the Madison Square with its laughable silliness, and Mr. Thorn- ton’s “Do You Know ?” still provokes the most uproarious hilarity. . . * HOSE who desire a hearty laugh with some attractive music thrown in will find an evening with Apajune by no means wasted. The first and third acts are good, although not wildly exciting ; but there is more genuine, un- interrupted fun in the second act than one often encounters in opera comique. Mr. Wilson distinguishes himself most happily as the Prince, and Mlle. Cotrelli as the Princess adds much to the play. 2 comicbooks.com