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Show GEORGE FRANCIS TRMN. lalhc Theatre Last ivlght. A en wded audience ass--mb'ed last b; lit to bear George l'ra . is Train, ' and gre ted bim most v. ar 'y on his appeal ance on the board , u; need by I'resid - lit Young. Mr. 'J rain, sddre-stng t'.e audience gaie, hat aeiordint t .- ; tui.-s of pul ic speaking he th ul I uo a pear lefuielh m, for the t ave mg e has bt'e i ' oing i-houtd have tiled liii i out A 'xtite h part of it would have sufficed suf-ficed to give a pooular preach r the urn : . or l ave u-ed in - e cal f pea her. Kut he Wasn't t j. al-th al-th ugh he had been I rave ; a d itv-tu itv-tu . ir almost every n ght. i was h '" f're. S'seteliins on .i hi :av els i'ii-Siiino months, he a'it. u -c i hat hi i ,-d earned the Ciueinn i e! rinn for e LMuoerats. and A hi he we t or the politic! ius o; C u.v. go to hiv 'It-' -Uvtiun there 'urrieu fir th. Republicans in the i": -n-t "''tiie ntoi l -. He gave an ep strain, whiih be fined to be boiled mvii tliiu. kr and i 4.htninir, with which he s id he wip.-d out the Chic go j a: its. He dnwa i.tugti by his d e ; t.ou of a free political lecture w! er two l.un-dn l.un-dn d t i rs"tis could rot be i. t a-scu-r, win e be drew twe ve bun r. ' perions a' lata d ll::r a lead. v. he s. me town. He made a poiiit b.. shoving the anxiety manifested, by the jtess to get accounts of :n-auotis, uo matter how bestial, while purity, virtue and truth might hide in a corner unnoticed and unsought. He proclaimed himself independent of the press, but Courteously Courte-ously acknowledging the fairness of the reporters of this city. The manner in which education is conducted received a rather Severe cut. the idea of teaching teach-ing latin when other more important studies should be attended to, being ridiculed. He then walked into tho Cooper Institute, In-stitute, and told the circumstances under wliuu he obtained a theatre in New York, lie was refused the New York theatre and Nibio's, but got the Tammany, in which the '"Rev. George Francis Train preached!" He was re-fuatd re-fuatd the Tammany after five nights, but told them hi would ppeak arid did speak; and then went to the Bowery and spoke sixteen n'ghts. Here followed fol-lowed three pungentiy personal and pointed epigrams, the first on Bennet, Bryant, Greeley and Weed; the second on Bennet alone; and the third on W endell Phillips and Horace Greeley. Having briefly sketched hia course during the delivery of 40 lectures, he ascribed his vigor and his power to stand fatigue to his temperance, and obstruct observance of the laws of health. Running over the route by which he intended to make his "around the world" trip, he got on in a style that required a phonographer writing at double express train rate to keep up with him, announcing as a conclusion that about next November he would bring up in an English jail. He mum tell the truth, he said, ior it was just as natural for him to tell the truth as for politicians to lie. He had spoken all over the country, believing that a small tire would burn up a city. He saw the people were divided following venal leaders; and he set out to get one man to think convinced that could he do so he would succeed ia making others think. He said it was exceed iug strange to find a man that wanted to be president; and he was that man He not only wanted to be president, but he would defy all the politicians in the country to prevent the people of the United States placing him in the White House. By the use of the blackboard he then demonstrated his chances, and to show his powers intellectually proposed pro-posed that any of the audience who pleased should select the subjects to be talked about for two minutes at a time The Oullom bill was called for, and Mr. Train showed he was posted n at least a portion of the causes at work to put that precious bill in operation. Daniel Dan-iel Pratt, "the Great American Traveler," Travel-er," came in tor a bhare of his epigrammatic epigram-matic pungency, with Sam Bowles and Governor Bross. He said that he had stated befire the largest audiences in the east, that he had traveled farther and had seen more than any one ol his auditors, and Utah was the only place There he had seen no. drunkard, no gambler, no prostitute; and out ot forty millions of people but two public men had the cou.-age to defend the people of Utah Thomas L. Kane and the orator then speaking. The Chinese question was next called call-ed for, when the speaker maintained ther ght of the Chinese to come here, with pertinent, plain and forcible irgu-ments irgu-ments which lack of space precludes our reproducing. Showing the process by whieh peoples become powerlul and wealthy, he referred to the condition o) Utah, and said there was no place on the fice of the earth where so many working men live in their own houses; aud then delineated the absurdities of a certain kind of statesmanship which would take the wool of Utah, freight it to Omaha, Chicago, New York, and Europe, and return it back here in cloth a year after, so that the shepherd miiiht have a coat from the wool of his own sheep. His opinion of one-man-power being called lor he expressed himseif in favor of it, explaining that the two great political parties of the country had become so corrupt it required a one man-power to force purity and morality upon the country. He went into the subject financially and elaborated elabor-ated his views at length. By a series of diagrams on the black boaid he gave his ideas of the serious position in which France is placed in the present war, with Russia, Prussia, Italy, Spain and Egypt to grind up France, Austria aud Turkey; growing pathetic in his quotations aud eloquent in his peroration. " 'J he lateness of the hour and our limited space prevent us giving a more lengthy synopsis of the lecture. Mr. Train leaves to-morrow on his way lotind the world. |