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Show Tho e SeiiNiilionnl Drama. Its I'lot himI Arciiiiicnt. The following plot and argument of Mr. Johnson's new sensalional drama, to he presented to-night at the theatre, will give a goal idea of its character charac-ter : The drama opens in the olli. e of Mr. Allen, a speculative banker of Xew York, where we are in(nlii.-iil t. tho hero of the piece, Mr. liobert Thorn, his senior clerk. Mr. Allen having receive 1 a large amount of moner from Mr. Morton, to be in-vestal in-vestal in slocks, hca m from Mr. Jenkins, Jen-kins, a lawyer, and they together resolve re-solve to appropriate the accumulated funds, thereby defrauding the widow and daughter, :md leaving thenr penniless. Thorn being in the secret of the deposit, is a nece.-sary tool lo iho villains, ami apparently complies, but resolves to watch the pair and eventually fi.il their plans. He substitutes sub-stitutes fictitious cheeks for the origi-nals, origi-nals, which the villains destroy mid think themselves secure m their scheme. In the second scene we become be-come acquainted with one of the low comedy elements of the drama, in the person of Joe Doskey, one of tho New-York New-York "boys," who, together with his sister Jane, are deeply interested in the Morton family, Jenkins interviews inter-views Mrs. Morton and her daughter Clara., and persuades them lo allow him to destroy tho only evidence of the original deposits, but is foiled by the interference of tho Donkeys. The second act finds us at Newport. New-port. Here the hero meets Clara .Morton in attendance on Mix. Allen, wife of the banker, who is desperately enamored of Thorn, hut he, preferring tho honest love of the girl lo the wicked passion of the woman of the world, provoKcs her fury and she resolves upon his ruin. The villains, Madigan and Anderson, i lav the plans for the destruction uf Thorn. Scone three brings belbre Us Ebencer Josiah Longbow, a Yer-monter, Yer-monter, with a strong passion for short card playing, and a wonderful ' speculative faculty of converting poik into cash, who "bucks at the tiger'' without any satisfactory result. In the third act Clara, having incurred in-curred the enmity of Mrs. Allen, is homeless in the streets of Xcwporl, and accidentally finds shelter in the . house of Madigan, the villain, where Thorn, through the inllucneeof Anderson, An-derson, is conveyal, druggal. rohhal, and the house fired to conceal the crime; hut tho timely arrival of Jxtng-bow Jxtng-bow rescues the hero and heroine from the burning: building. In act 4 we find our hero who has discoveral iu his lady-love the daughter daugh-ter of the wronged Mrs. Morton under un-der arrest tor the supposed arson of Madigan's house, tho charge being prcforml by Mrs. Allen. He is placed under examination, and is acquittal through tho evidence of 1mghow and' the confession of Mi's. Allen. Act o opens in the saUion of a magnificent mag-nificent gambling establishment, i where Ijongltow proves, though a nov- iee at .faro, ho is an adept at "short konrds." Thorn, having met Anderson An-derson after a lanse of a vear. deter mini's toreooveifiho papers stolen from him on the night of the lire; follows him to the counting-house of Allen, Jenkins & Co., and arrests the three worthies. Our hero, having fultillal his vow of restitution to the wronged, iicknowlaigcs his love to Clara, and iu tho midst of his many friends, shows Tli ui wlti-tltcr it Lc al tlio piiino .if car.l-0r car.l-0r lit tlio t'.uiio .if life y.iu slum), Vmi will tunl Hint I'nrtuni fi.voi' nnlv him Wlm h'l.I n wiiiiiiiis lun.l. |