6 THE DAILY E flNING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1868. NO VMM BE 11 MAGAZINES. Tim "Unlnaj." The November number ef this magazine presents tbe following table of contents: A ontlnuation of tbe novel of "Cypher;" "Tbe Btory of a Hero," ly Edward A. Pollard," in which la given an interesting sketch of the late Rear Admiral Bell; "London Beggars," y N. T. Dodge; "The Picture of the World," by H. R. Still; "A Talk with Mr. Barllngame," by Richard J. Hilton; "The Ballad of the King's Broadband," by Charles Pawon Stan ley; the concluding chapters of Marian liar land's novel of "Buckdale;" "The Attempt at Strasbourg," as described by Louis Napoleon in a letter to his mother, by John S. C. Ab bott; "Demooratio Deities," by Eugene Baran; "By Rail to tha Rocky Mountains," by J. Edwards Clarke; "Two French Editors" (Effi'Ia d Girardia and nenrl Rochefert). by Virginia vauguanj "iToraa and Their Uses, " by Richard Grant White, The "Galaxy" "Miscellany," "Drift Wood," "Nebnl.-c," and "Literature and Art," have a number of inte resting items of Jnferniation on a variety of subjects. From Mr. Pollard's SiC'yof a Hero" w Snake vii following extraoig reluti."- lamented Rear Ad"iutr " t0 tae The h .. U: r-rolc iu Bell's character was a sens-? of utv. We hear much In ordinary conversation of that phrase "a scuRe ol duty:7' it is a cuiire riient ftipreotvpe, but its meanings are ad various a? tbe constitutions and tempers of men. In orae cases wo Und It a dull, speculative aiqul rsccuce, in others a timid and lalteriu casu iBtry. Iu the character of Bill was found not a weak eentimentalism, but a keen, fruitlul, active feiihe ot duty, constantly In combat witb all other eoutjideratious, apreresslve In Its mooJa, executing its decrees with a sublime rapidity and dccis.ou. The struggles of such a principle are noroetimes very terrible and frranl, a' id moke battle-fields in tbe heart, It was so in the case of Bell, when divvied considoiatlou9 met him at tbe threshold of the war aud attempted to baffle his decision. Mauy things claimed his ad lienion to the 8outhen Confederacy. Ho -was a native ot North Carolina, lie bad a large and Influential kindred in that State, aud to many of tbem he was most aftectionitely attached. He had married into a Virginia family which had produced several distinguished names of Southern politicians and was con nected with the leaders of secession iu that Bute. All his blood relations were in the ISoutb, and many of them urt;ed his accession so the Conledcrate cause or treated it as a certain conclusion, lie had always been a tir.u swid unwavering Democrat in podtics, and his sympathies were in entire opposition to tbe auU-elavtry party. In view ot some of tbese consideration, I bad expected Captain 15 -W to dccUrc lor the South, and, accordingly, viited bim nhortly aficr I'rcMdent l.incolu'6 proclamation of war. A conversation on tbe subject was opened, not without some be.-itutlcn aud delicacy on my own part, and, 1 must confess, witb an attempt at adroitness; but the Captain cut it short by a vervouick and ertiDhaUc exciam-ition. He said. fcriefly, decisively. "1 have made up my mind; I fcball stand by tbe ling." "But," I argued. what's in a flag? There is rio virtue In a piece of buntiiip; tbe dag is notbiug but as representing just and beneficent piinciples In the Government, aud when these have departed, we are not going to worship an empty idol, a de-ad type." 'That may be as you think or imagine," replied the Captain. "ou are a civilian; but that flag which you regard only in tbe light of political principles is to roe tbe symbol of a solemn, and sworu duty. It represents the Government that com mands my services, tbe Government thtt aided my education, tho Government that is to me both master and beneiactor. I have my own political opinions, and as much freedom in them ns any other citizen; but when the Government once give - the word of command, all questions of politics stop there lor me, aud I must do my duty." lie paused as If collecting bis thoughts, and the writer precisely remembers the exptes bion that succeeded, as it was soaiewuat remarkable for tbe elevation of its words in au ordinary convcisatiou. lie said, ' I cannot, shall not make of my duty as au officer a qaes tion of moral casuistry; if so, there woald be no Government." Whatever 1 may have thought of tbe logical value of this argument, 1 a in sure it was insp rtd by a Rcnerous feeling in the breast of Bill, un sullied by a trace ot "seltisbiiess, and brpfttuiu.' a spirit ot loftiest devotion. Bell was a man who would have done bis duly with a steady counte nance, although tbe striugs of bis heart were snapping under tbe oppression of tbe uk. His was au antique heroism, aud troui it proceedei that steady courage which, owing nothing to the Inflation ol cvrcuTiHtancc, could bo trusted in every situati jn, and counted upou in tbe drct extremity. His brst important service in the war was at New Orleans It Farragut was hist trickily the captor of this city. Bell was its dramiiic hero. Here be performed one ct the rue-it remarkable actions of the war, accounts ol which have Den curiously neglected iu our present atterup'.s at history, considering, too, the fondness of the nifikiuir tlie-c attempts for dramatic situations aud coLspicuous figures. There is certainly no mire sinking aud theatrical attitude in the war than that ot Bell lifting into tbe broad nuked aky tbe flag of tbe UuiteU States over the Oust.joi House of .New Orleans, In the presence of a populace of thousands ot augercd and desperate men. As the fleet captain, he was selected to take symbolical possession ot New Orleans by taking from the Custom House tbe flag which Mumford 'ha J erected there, and raising in its steal the Stars and Stripes. He was' ace mpanled only by a file of marines. He marched to ibe building through a turbulent mob, blocking his way aud threat ening his life; and it was aitnoit certain that when he appeared on tbe Custom House, a lair and single mark lor tbe a-uassln, his iti'e woull be the forfeit ol the adventure. Buo he marched steadily through tbe streets. Uu all sides threats and execrations assailed him. Bin one word ot comfort reached him. An Irishmau pressed close to him in the throug, and whis pered: '-Sir, jour life is in danger; but therd are friends watching lor vou." Captain Bell found at the Custom House the Mayor of the city aud some other of tbe muni cipal authorities. Tbey surrendered tbe keys ot the building, but they refused to show him the way to ttie roof. ' There is not a mau woman, or child in New Orleans," said Mayor Monroe, "who w 11 take down that Hag; you must rik it yourself." Captain Bell, accompa nied only by bii cockswain, groped his way to the roof, and in a moment his commanding llsure sttod between tbe crowd aud the sky upliltiug tho Federal flag iu calm, lotty deti auce. The brave officer stood iu the lace of death, witb his tosolution erect, aud the blood surging in his vein. A dead silence fell upon the crowd that, a few moments beiore, had been rent witb commotion and clamor; aud without a word of challenge, in the face of dumb aud motionless thousands, the Mars and Stripes rose into tue sky and swelled on the breeze. There is a magnetism In courage. It is not only that it overawes, or tbat it produces sudJeii admiration und sympathy; it gives it-e to the most various ft el inns. Duly the veriest caitiff csn kill a truly brave man in the penoroiauce ot a brave deed. Bell, on the loo of tbe New Orleans Custom Ilotue, saved his life by a grand exhibition of courage. A moment's hesitation or a single balk would have been the signal of the aBHHsin'e bullet. But no man in tbat vast and furious crowd had tbe heart to slay one wbo so promptly and proudly accepted the pot It ion ot martyrdom, and so grandly saluted tbe death that threatened him. It was ono of the most sublime and memorable scenes ot the war, the dramatization of a .great event, tbe attitude of a truo hero. The circumstances of Admiral Bell's death have not yet been fully reported. There has tfmly I'tea a general tuleiacfit la tbenewspapers that be was drowned by the rap iging of a b';i on the bar ot O aca, Japan. 1 am able to ad ! some details, and to supply, the firit complex: narrative ot the sad event. It has been tuti u.nled or Imagined that the Admiral was rn-li in atieinptirc to force a landing through a lug.i ecu, pud that lie whs tbe victim of a leckles or too daring euicrpr1e. There is no truth in tbi-. There was no trace of imprudence in tiie ad verdure. On the 11th of January, 18C8. the Admlr.il, accompanied by his flig-lteulPDant (B'-ed), leit tho Hartford, and pulled for the bar, a'tem.iting to enter the Osaca river, for the purpose of visiting the American Minister, General Van Valkenburgb, preparatory to the departure of bis fleet for home. A lew days before, the Pa cific mail bad brought bim direct intelligence from tbe iSerretary of the Navy of the Immediate sailing of his iclit.f from the Uuited S'atcs, and he a? to meet tho new admiral at 9 ngapore early in March. He was lull of hope and spirits at the propped of the termination of his cruisi, and anxious to mnko Lis final visit to the Japanese shore. For some days a heavy wiod had set in, and rendered the bar irapasablo; but, on the morning of the 11th of January, the wind had decreased, end the Admiral noliced, from the deck n the Hartford, that a number of I Janaucee boats bad sa'ely crossed the bar. He rendv tor uiio. i j x. nur Uu5 bar, . "fv ?Urm step 10! st? ?inleo;,,,r,th h,s babltu' walked W the side of thl ' m 5a?'f T. i bad so long and - th "oblo old ship ih?t through - - u clten carried him saitly -iwrrn aud battle. 5 the boat approached the bar, the Admiral, true to his promise, threw off bis sword, aud Lieutenant heed followed his cxampK Tue danger wns not, apparently, great; but, in a moment, three heavy rollers dushed, in q.iick succession, over tbe bjat, the last of wh'cU broached her, and threw her bottom up. The Admiral, Lieutenant ltced, and three of the crew succeeded in regaining the boat, ami, clambering up on her, clung to tho keel. But one survivor was taken from the trail wreck. He (one of the crew) reported that the others bad fallen off, one by one, before relief could reach them, and that the Admiral, from the Intiradtles of his npe, bad been the first to quit b'.s bold. It was intensely cold; the blast ot the billows was deafening, and not a word was uttered in the last vague, and benumbed struggle of these men tor life, The hovsa bellow ot death was ronslautl.v in their ears drowning every ut'.ernntie but the irrepressible prayer to God tho.-e fewest words, which no storm, or clsmor, or convulsion can silence or intercept In their parage to tbo skies. The Admiral clung but a 'cw moments to tho keel of the boat, and then run bruve form vanished beneath the billows, and was lost in the mist of the storm. His body was afterwards recovered, cold and stark, on on-1 of tbe lo,v flats at tbe mouth f tbe river. He was in his 77lh year when he died. Thus perished dismully, on an obscure coast, in an indifferent a lveuiure, and, apparently, by the merest accident, one of tbe most useful officers in our navy, on? ot the bravest spirits in tbe lute war, aud olc ot the true Cbrisdan heroes ot modern times. Mr. Richard Grant White, in hia article en titled "Words and Their Uses," discourses thuB about "Words woioh are not words:" To know what ore w rds that are not words, we must first kuow what arc words that are words. What is a word? Kvriybody knows. Tho most ignorant chil l, V it cau speak, needs no definition of word. rVobably no word in the language is so rarely re.tvrred to in dictionaries as this. I a tmit tbat until I began to wrue this article, and had framed a deniiitiou of word for myeeli, 1 had never seen or heard one that I remember. Yet let anv reader shut this bjok here, and try to tell exactly what a wjrd is, and write down his definition bafore he goes on with this article, and he may find thtt tbe taik is not so easy as be may have supposed it to bo. Br. Johnson's debnition is "a single part of speech," at the limited view and schoolniaslership style of which we may be inclined at first to smile. R'chari son's first definition is "anything spoken or told." liut this applies equally to a speech or a stoty. His second is "an articulate utterance of the voice," which is really the same as Worcs ter's "'an articula'e sound." But this will not c-o; for baclumipivit is an articulate sound, but it is not a word, and I hope never will be one in mv lutifruiiffe; und and you are not articula'e sounds, and yet they are words. Webster's debnition is: "Au &rtieulae or vocal sound, or a combina tion ol articulate and vocal rounds uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing au idea or ideas." Here plainly, fulnrss aud accuracy of definition have boeu Fought, bu', th.y have not been at'.auicd. Tue de3uitiju, considering its design, is superfluous, inexact, aud incomplete. The whole ot tbe tirst fiartot it, mnking a distinction betweeu artlcu ito and vocal sounds, and between such sounds and a combination ot tbem, is needless aud from the purpose. The latter part of the dea nition uses custom" vaguely: and in tlu word ! idea fails to include (all tbat is required. My own definition, above referred to, is "iu utter ance of the human voico which in any com munity expresses a tbo ight or a thing. If there is a village or a hamlet where ee expresses I love, or any other thought, and kikit means bread, or any thing else, then for that community te and kikit are word. But words genera' ly uro utterances which express thoughts or things to a race, a people. Custom is not an essential condition ot worship. Howells,' in one of his lcl.ers (Bojk I., Litter 12), says of an Italian., towa : " There are Jew places this side the Alps better built and so well streetod as this." Streeted was probably never used before, and has probably never been used since Howelli use J it two hundred aud forty ycur ago. But it expressed his thought perfectly in en to all English speak ing people, aud does so now, and is a participial adjective correctly formed. It is uokuown to custom, but it has all tbe conditions ot words nip, lad is a much better tinglish word taau very n.any in "Webster's Dictionary." And, after all, Johnson's oetiuiliou covers the ground. Wo must dismiss from our minds our grammar-class notion of a sort of things, prepositions, uouus, adveibs. and ariicles, the name of which is ptrt-of-specch, aud think of a single part of speech. Whatever Is a bingle pint of auy speech is a word. But as there are books that are not books, so theie are words tbat are not words. Mostol them are usurpers, interlopers, or vulgar pietenders: some are deformed creatures with only halt a liie in tbem; but some of them are legitimate enough in their pretensions, although oppie;tive, iu'olerable, useless. Words that are not words sometimes die spontaneously; but mauy liLger, living a precatious life on the out ekirts ot society, uncei utu of their position aud a cause ofgieat discomtort to all light thinkiug, stralghtionvard people. Presidential This adj"clive, which Is used among us now moro frequently than any other, not vituperative, l.tud iiory, or boastful, is not a legitimate word. Care.le.-Bness or iguorauce has saddled It witb an f, which is upon the wrong horse. It belo'MS to a sort of adjectives which are formed Iroui substantives by tba addi t'on of at. For exinnplc, incident, incidental; orient, oriental; r ginient, regimental; export nmt, experimental, when tho noun ends in ce, eupbouy aud ease of utterance require the mod ucatioii of tbeso.nd ofal into i bat of lul ns otiic, tuieiul; consequence, consequoutial; commerce, commerci ,1, But we nilgutasweU' say parectial, moiium. utlal.aud governmental, as i rtsldential. Ihe proper form u oresidsntal. Presidential campaicii is a blaiant Amciicauisui for prehiden'al canvas. Jeopardize is a too1 sh and intolerable word which has no right place in the language' although even such a .vriter ui Charles It -ade thus ues It: He drew la tbe horns of speculation, and went on In tbe old ealu routine; aud K tue reaiiug activity tbat had Jeopardized the Arm auooedui a strange torpidity. Certain verbs have been formed from nouni and adjectives by the addition of ise, or pro perly, l.e; as for example, equal, equali.e; civil, ciy.lize; patron, palionize. But jeopardize has no such claims to toleration or respect. It is formed by adding ize to a vetb of long standing in the lat puage, aud which means vo put iu peril; and jeopardize, if it weans anything, means nothing more or less. lticha',don is all wrong upon this word. II jrjves Jeopird as roon nud jeopardize as a verb, bt Inadver tence, perhaps, lor all his examples are to the contrary. Experimentalize Is a word of tho mime charac ter as the loregolng. ' It has no rlglr.ful place to the language, and is both nucoiitU and preten tious. Hie termination ize, which we have hor lowed from the Greek, is not to be tacked ind -criminately to any word in tbe language, verbi and adverbs as well as adjectives anJ nouns, for the purpose of making new verbs that are not needed. It has a moaning, and that mean ing seems to bo continuity of action; cer tainly action, and ac;ion which is not momentary. Thus equalize to make equil; naturalize to make as natural; civilize'') make civil; so moralize, legalize, Immunize, etc. But the people who use experimental n use it meaning to try experiments. Kxperi mcnt, however, is both noun and verb, and will serve all purposes not better served by try and trial. Controversialist and frequently heard, are inadmissible for lik-i leaspns to those given against cxoerimentali.e. 1st is the substantive form of tho verbal ize. Ibe proper words are coutrovertist and couver luiguage '-uer8 havj no place iu the Preventative, disutility, nnd Agriculturalist receive a passing notic, only beca ise they are 'd so oltcn msiead of preventive, casualty, m.. '- Tbey ought to be. but I tear and aaricunut.. .. " n au utter w.iat of that they are not, evident.. , education and a low grade of iutelliaeuur. Iionate. I need hardly say, I hope, to any reader of these articles, that this word is utterly abominable one tbnt any lover of simple, honest Ktiglish cannot hear with patience aud without otlensc. It has been formed by sone presuming and iguoraut person from donation, and is much such a word as voca'.e would be from vocation, orate from oration, or graduate from gradation, and this, when we havogi .'c present, grant, confer, endow, befmeath. devUp. with which to express the net of tranterrin'T posses-don in all its possible varietios, Tbe Brnt of these will ans.wer the purpose, inmost cases better than citner of these wards, and donation itself is no,', aniong our best words. If auy mau thinks .r,at he and his c'tt nri madp to uppm vaorsa imposing because the latter is called a 'ioiiation which be donates, let him remember mat when "Anwjio" requires tht the wealthy "Shylock" rtMl leave all he dies possetsbd of to "LoTeuzo" and "J'-ssica," he stipulates that "he do record a gitf'of it, and that "Portia" in consequence sajs, "Clerk, draw a dei d of gift;" and more, tbe writers of the simplest aud noblest Engl sh that has been written called the Omnipotent "tho Giver of every good and perfect gilt.-' Gent and Pants. Let these words g together like the thinus they signify. . The one always wears the other. Resurrected. This amazing combination has lately appealed in soma of our newspapers, one of them edited by a man who has been Clerk of tbe Senate. What is it intended to mean ? Pos sibly the same act which people who speak Knglish mean when they say that Lazarus wa3 raised from the dead. The formation of resur rect from resurrection is just of u piece with the formation of donate from donation. But it is 6omewhat worse; lor resurrected is used to meau raised, and resurrection does not mean raising, but rising. Thus we speak of the raising of Lazarus, but tbe resurrection of Christ; of God's rai-ing the dead, but of the resurrection of tbe dead. The "Atlantic.' The November number of the Atlantic, has the following list of articles: "Co-operative Housekeeping," first paper; "What Five Years Do," by E. II. Appleton; "My Darling," by Alice Carey; "Foreign Faces," by Eugene Benson; "My Visit to the Gorilla;" "Sculpture in the United States;" "The Face in the Glass," Part III; "Bacon," second paper, by E. P. Whipple; "Sea-galls;" "The Traditional Policy of Russia," by Karl Blind; "Calioo Printing in France;" "Mayden Valley, Spin Bterland," by Adam S. Hill; "The Land of Paoli," by Bayard Taylor; "The Harvester;" "Kentuck's Ghost," by E. Stuart Phelps; reviews, literary notices, etc. This number of the Atlantic id the best that Las been issued for some time. The author of the article on "Soulpture in the United States," after expressing his opinion about the propriety of Congress giving a ten-thousand-dollar order to Miss Vinnie Ream for a statue of Lincoln, discourses as follows: If modem sculpture, by patient following of the KLtique. could attain its marvellous perfec tion iu tbu representation of the human figure, could the art by such means hold a rank in our culture equal with that which it held lu Greece? If subjects worthy of such vast science and nice haudiwerje cannot be found, the acquiiornent ot tl.is branch ot tecliinal power is uelcss. By repetition ol antique subjects, sculpture cannot re-eslablisb its pioper relation to ibe people. Statues of the gods cannot iulorra the American mind, except through its sympathy with the an cient Greeks aud their mythology a remote aLd vague influenco. The masses regard such marbles as workmanship or ornamentation, and art is more than that. Something must be done to carry the mind beyond externals. Zeus was a vital force to the Greek, he is only a snadow to the American. The ancients saw the ruling god; the n.oden.s, only the historic representation. These themes belong to literature. This may also be said of subjects chosen from the com mon lite of the ancients, it was no more worthy than our own, and our people care in fi nitely less about it. There is at Newport, Rhode Island, a splendid copy In marble of tbe Dviug Gladiator, very beautiful and significant;" bit its presence in this country is known by but vt-ry lew, and it is not likely to be appreciated by more than a few connoisseurs. The fine col lections of ctMs from the antique iu the large cities experience something ol the same neglect; tbe artists study them, but tbe people look at tbt-m curiously, as they regard objects in the galleries of Natural History, and often with a leal or affected horror ot their nudity. These w ho desire the encouragement of classic art sometimes assume tbat it is folly tor the artist to try to maintain a direct relation to tho gci.eral public, which cannot appicciate flue art, tnd tbat he should mocel or paint only for those whose culture and taste fit tbem to be connoisseurs. Herj a direct issue may be stated; for tbe realists, who also claim the best culture, believe that it is vain to model or paint for anybody else but the people. They say tbat if art is but the lauguugo of the learueJ, or tbe toy of the rich, it may as well die utterlv, hav ng bttome a useless luxury. History sustains this SositiOB. Ino really great art hss ex sted whi.iti id not in some degieo tetlect ihj iuuer lite of the people; aud n- art can help us in America, unless it is oued upon tbe syuiputby ai.d criti cism of the public. Had there been ouly half a dozen Athenians who kno what was fitting aLd bi auiilul iu a statue of Zeus, it is tinorobs blo that i-bid ins would have given It's time an I toil to the guat Parthenon statue lor their pleasure. It is events likely that the splendid tiauieol athletes, aone by the brass-casters of that period, were wrought lor the appreciation of a select few wheu the fames had made Ihe people so familiar with the human form that cvitvmunot ordlnarv rerceDtive rower must have been a true crl ic. The best Greek work left to us is from tho exterior buildiuns. where it was placed lor tbe instruction and delight of the nation. That magultlccnt school of art, so far excell.ng ull others knowu in the histury of tbo world, though rebued to the utmost by the wisdom of the learned, bad its foundation in the hearts ol the people. Happily, our artists ate not often forced to dtrlde between the Bup Fpjf f tll0lr wise and wealthy patruns aud ta it of the masses; but where such a choice becomes necessary, there can be little hesitation in the minds ot those wuo ref-pect their calling. To mi del or paiut for a person of wealth la com fortbble, and ta be conscious of the sympathy of a lew choice souls U very pleasunt; but to model or paint for a nation raises the artist to his true place ol a ari at teacher. Tilts rank the modern sculptor doe. not yet hold. When called upon to prophesy, he has only old stories to tell. Many ot these re stones of ghosts. a"d most of them are not cbecrlul. The people are seldom wiser or bappier for them, nnd do not care to listen. Among the dozen locally notorious portrait statues at Boston, there are none likely to attnin lame beyond a narrow limit, or to sorvo as models lor future workmanship. But it is apparent that such of them as are most real, most nearly literal tran scriptions of life, attract moil attention from tbepubdc, whe'ber auch attention results lu praise or blame. Theclasio statues are severely let alone. The extraordinary efligy of George Jupiter Washington at the national Cpltol, it U'ry classic nnd fine and hercic; but these qualities cannot compensate for the utter con cision of ideas Involved in it. Nobody can get from it any notion of Washington as' he wa and the inscription alone will show pns'.cnty What the marble intends. Take any good speci- n Cl; oi modern ciussic or uoman pla-tic art, by Pn American anist, aud set it quietly 111 Park New York or Botnn, without any advertising, and it will encounter veiy little criticism, au i ex"lS but the most transitory admiration. Give the lull history ot the subject In tbe public priuts and a biographical f ketch of tho sculptor, and it wend attract much more attention; jet the influence o.' "10 fieure "Poo popular thought would be larnl'eclV1' at,d wo,l,a lcS8u year ttf 3 e,r. nffeii ... " w" n hR uumblest moV.. lilnS.'rom ii.eof the ,,aMent :ni1 kind. It the subnet is a public mau, the is immediately a sym'palhctlc and a correct, crl'lc. It is tbe same, li'inc subject is taken from our common li'e, c Httie groups by John Kcgers, sirtipsl vealism as they are. nud next to the. lowest order of true art, carry nio're sliMilflcarce than all the classic sculpture In tho country, and win pos sess historic value which we caunot overestimate. Though the classicists and tbe realists are almo-t equally helpless in the great ebb of formative art the former in lackot any thing to say, and the latter in lack, of ability to say auythiiig their positions relative to tho future arc different and opposing the realists enjoying possibilities. It is among tbe things hoped for that the plastic art may be and will be revived iu America, aud that it will attain here as good de velopment as it had In t.reece, under entirely dinercnt conditions, and, ot course, in a widely diflereLt direction. While the influence ot foreign art prevailed lu Greece, what was dene was comparatively insignificant; it was not until the transition had been made, aud sculpture thoroughly nationalized, that the marvellous gods came forth from the mines nnd quarries, such a transition from foreign in fluence must ot course be made hero before the true growth begins. It is only a question of tbe time when tbe change cau be made. Study of Greek art, especially iU history and relation to the people, must always retain great influence iu tbe education of our artists; but the time will come when it cannot denationalize them. The successful sculptors of the future will carefully appraleo tho work of the at cients, but they will net try to reproduce it. Tbey will know the secret ot its power in the land where it was native, aud will therefore be able to gauge the'r own work by a noble standard, worthiest after that of nature and a contemporary criticism. They will admit tho limits of the plastic art, and not attempt to combine with it lorces which belong to painting or acting. H truth requires the rendering of haish and uncomely costumes, they will patiently deal with these until the much needed reform is accomplished; believing that, however ugly our garments may be, it is better to represent them as they are, thau to trick out our marbles with the shreds and patches of antiju ty. They will discriminate between facts tbat are vital and those which are meiely accessory, giving but its due share of time to the woik of tbe tailor and shoemaker, yet taking care to tell the truth about such work as fur as they go. Tbey will not ppend their lives in copylug the woik of other artists, nor will they seek beauty in syste matic lines or symmetrical proportions, but they will find it in tbe siguilicance of nature. And, iu order to realize it, they will, if necessary, ex pend study and labor upon the smallest objects, provided those objects are first hand; for it cannot be doubled that the great artists ot the future will take their models from the best school, with whose works the whole people are familiar. These works they will not blindly try to imitate with tbeir poverty of means; but they will seek to represent truly, to interpret in art's beautiful dialect tbe elorious hand writing of nature. From the least matters of leaves and flowers, and from the grandest life of the woild, the new school will study to draw the best meaning; and it will be couscious that this best meaning, or foreshadowing, can only be attained lroin a firm foundation ot facts. Knowing that tte essence of all art lor man is in form, the sculptor will reverence his art as the simplest and most Im mediate interpretation of nature; and though he mny leel that in some respects bis limits are narrower than those of tbe poet or painter, he will be conscious that in an upward direction he has no limitation. Results so remote from the tendency of pre vailing art, it is ea-y to see, will not be attained in little time. Tbe experiment of realism in sculpture has not been fairly tried since tbo Christian era, but the opportunity seems to be with us. It is not impossible that the present generation may see the beginuiug of pood formative ait. Two thousand years of subjec tion to classicism has not produced half a dozen great sculptors: aud wheu the grand old Torso Las been warmed by the life of the greatest artists, little real advancement of art has been achieved. Tbo iLevitable consequence ot buoua rottl is Berniui; ot lierutui, Borromiui. It caunot be a vain hope that tbe transition lrom the old school witb its spasmodic revivals to the ever new school of life is at hand. The American people are capable of giving realism in art a fair trial. They are comparatively untrammelled by established styles. Loving all kinds of art ardently, und eager to avail them selves of its help, tney flit their dwellings with cheap daubs from auctions and with plaster casts, rather than allow tbem to be vacant; but the tendency is in itself sufficient to insure tbe final euceess of art iu a country whose thought and criticism are comparatively independent, and whose mechanical means are unlimited. CLOTHING. rj;ilE OLDEST ESTABLISLiED BOYS' CLOTHING STORE IN Till: I'MO. We have now on band a lane asiorto.eat of very Hue KcadyOIade Clothing for IJojs, Yi nlch will be sold as cheap as the siuue style aud quality can be purchased 6iew here. An rxienslvb atSLiriiueut o' Uus cii'JTHS, C'ABSU MlliKS UiiAV-cKS tic, for lieudetueus crUer F. A. HOYT & liltO., AbBKMBLY BUILULNO, 4tui?ia TETH and CII KSMJT sweats. BOARDING. I TSJO. 1121 GIKAKD tlUKKI', CUVi'IULLV ; J-1 located, I lb In two sutmres of tue vndum aiidOiiard House An unfurnished HCCOKU-bTUltV JUVOHT BOOM, with firsi-cluas Hoard, Vfcct.uc.les for Uontltweu nud Table Boarders, Kefereuuj rtyulrbd. jij EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH. TIIE EAST INDIA TELEGRAPH COMPANY. This Company have an exclusive grant to lay SUBMARINE CABLES FROM Canton td Ticn-Tsin, (TSE SEAPORT OF FEKIN), COECTINO ALL THE PORTS ON THE ASIATIC COAST, Whose foreign commerce amounts to. One Thousand Millions Annually. This Company is chartered by the Legisla ture of the State of New York, with a CAPITAL. OF SG.OOO.OOO: SHAKES, flOO EACH. A limited number of Bhares are offered at (30 each, payable 110 each, $15 November 1, balance In monthly Instalments of l 50 per snare. THE INQUIRIES FOR THIS STOCK ARE NOW VERY ACTIVE, AND THE BOARD OF DI RECTORS Iff STRUCT US TO SAY IT MAY BE WITHDRAWN AT ANY TIME, AND THAT NONE WILL BE OFFERED ON THE ABOVE TERMS AFTER NOVEMBER 20 NEXT, GAS FIXTURES. GAS FIXTURES. ttlbKKY, MERRTLL A THACKARA. No. 7l (JJJlieiNUT Btruel, tnaun facta ren of Hmi l-'Uiares, Lumps, eto., ska. would oil ihe ntujution or Uie public to their Ui e aof He nut aurUnfmt ol Ow OiiandellttrH, PoudauU, Brackets, etc. Tliey also Introduce (aa-plptw law dwelling aud pnbllo buildings, aud atUutd Iuk, altering, and retiring M pipe, . AH work warranted. JU For Circulars, Maps, ana full information, apply to DREXEL & CO., Ko. 84 Seuth TllUiD Street, rhlladelpliiaj To duly anlborlKed Banks and Bankers throughout Pennsylvania, and at (be OFFICE OF THE COMPANY, Hob. 23 and 25 NASSAU ETHEET, 8 29 NEW YORK. FLAGS, BANNERS, ETC. 1863. PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. FLAGS, BANNEES, TRANSPARENCIES AUD JJLNTEMS, Campaign Badges, Medals, and lias, OF BOTH CANDIDATES. Ten different styles seal on receipt of One Dollai and Fifty Deals. Agents wanted everywhere. Flans In Muslla, Banting, and Bilk, all sties, whole sale and retail. Political Clubs fitted ont with everything tbey m require. CALL ON OB ADDRESS W. F. SCHEIDLE. Ho, 19 SOUTH THIRD STREET, Urp PHILADELPHIA, HOOP SKIRTS. ityw HOOP K I K T 8, fJOO NEW FALL STYLES. LA PANIER, and all other desirable styles and ilse ot onr CELEBRATED CHAMPION SKIRTS, for ladies, u-ls, aud children, uoustanlly on tit I aud uiade to truer Largest asaortuieut in thejlti and specially adapted tor first class trade. COBcJETB I CORbETSI OORSETSt Retailing at very low prices. Onr assortment U complete, embracing TbowpBon's uiove Jfiitlug, lu all giades, irojn sslsli to 'o; iieukel's buperioi irt-nth Woven Corset, from ialt to WSU; supe I lor Wbalebuiie band made (Joneta, troru (tl oeu s to M HO, lu sbielos aid circular gore; MadaiueFoy's Corset bklrt supporters, at ftl'tfO. Also, Mis. Moody's Paieut belt-AdjastlDg Abdorn cal Corseiii; wblon every lady should examine. Cornel Ciasps, tt cents a pair. Wholesale and Retail Manufactory and Salesroom. No. tt ARCH bireet. I I Em WM. T. HOPKIWS. O B N X O H A S Q.JC RAO MAJXOFACJTOllY. JOHN T. BAILEY A CO., BBMOVKD TO ' N, K. comer ot MaKKKT aud WATER GtteeU Philadelphia. DEALERS IN JiAGia ND BAQQINti Of every description, for Grain, Flour, Salt, buper-Phphate of Ume, Bons ltnat, KU3. Large and small GUNNY BAU8 constantly on;hand Also, WOOL UAOKM. Jomm T. Bah.mt Jampw CUaoADan. DR. KINKELIN, AFTER A RESIDENCE and practice of thirty years at tbe Northwest corner ct Third and Union atresia, has lately re moved to y'Jhsjj!ij!J;VfifiiT11 street, between MAR His superiority In the prompt and perfect cn re of all rtcent, chronic, local, and constitutional aduo llenB ol a special nature, Is proverbial. Diseases of the skin, appeurlng In a hundred dif ferent forms, totally eradicated; mental aud physical weakness, and all nervoua deblUtles scientifically "J suopeasiuUy treated. ClUce hours from I A. M, 0 9 M. FIKE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFl p I R OP ROOF SAFCt $10,000 In Mono j, Talnnblo Hooks at Paiiors perlcctlj prescrred through tl fire or Jul 20, 1808, at Dotc'b Pcpo South Carolina, In one of MaUTLY SA1 XS, owned by $ DEL0RME& DOTE.' i 50,000 fret of Lumber destroyed In on rianiiig Mill In Brooklyn, 31 ay 15, ISC'. All our Money, l'apcrs, aud Books, sate In excellent order in a MAKYLN'S SAF1 Alum and Dry l'laster. i SHEARMAN BROS, j Both of the above were VERY SEVER! TLS1S. 4 A r u o x i o w. Ulrica Dfpot Coumissabt ok 8obibticncic, Wash in. tun, l. ',, Uclooer 8, lHi8 PROPOSALS. A PERFECT 8 AFC MARVIN'S CHIIOME IRON SriUTJCAL B?EGLAE SAFS Cannot bo Blou ed I Cannot be Wedged i Cannot bo UrilHd CALL AND BEE THEM, OB BEND, poa DE bOUrni'V. ULKCCLAAk. ; riAcwirj & CO., rilLNCITAL 721 CllESTKUTST WAREHOUSES, (Masonic Ball), riUIa., S65 BBOAIMVAY, NEW TOKK, 10S BANK fctTllKET, C'LEVELAMJ, On And for sale by onr Agents In the principal cltla throughout the United btates. 8 31 ax wf3oi K MARQUETTE! Another letter from th great lire at Marquette. BEKKING'H BAFhS preserve their coutouts whera Bales of other makers fall t M arqukttb, Michigan, July 20, 1868, Afrtiirt Ilerrtny t Uu. t . . Ui.NH.kMKf.: On the 11th nit., the entire business; porilou oi our town wan destroyed by Ure. Our .are, which was one ol your luouulaciure, wai subjeutto au lulerse heal, but proved llBeif adt-iuaie to tba sevrie tent. It !! rvin fourteen aVijj, aud when taken out irom us appearauce (the uulsida covering being burned Ibroiiisu lu mauy piocesi, and In view ul uie ittCi mat several uiuer nmeo previously tukt-n out were enuiely destroyed, it was a great surprise to as to llud the contents legible aud In good conalilon. several oruero iur n . . j udqu . sent you. wblch Is Ihe best prool of this moHi satlstao- i T ' ......I a.... . . 1 .. t. .u fif thl. niimmii nltnU 1 lory lenl. ailu UI IUS wuuuvuw v. ...... wwu.t.u.v kit your salt. Uespeuiluily yours, ' WlLLKINoON & SMITH, HKRRING'S PATENT BANKERS' CHAMPION PA Ks, made (it wrougbl Iron and stet-l, and the i'aleut Fraiiklinlte, or '-dplegel Kitten," tue best re sistant to burglars' drills or cutting Instruments ever manufactured. . DWKLLINO-IIUOSR SAFES, for silver plate, Valuable papers. laOlts' Jewelry, elo. etc., both plala and In Imitation of buudsouue pieces of rurulture. HKKKINU'tt PATKdT KAi'iiS, tbe Ihainpfon Bale lor the past twm.nty sii.vicn yjcabs; the victor at the Would s 1 air, Loudon; tbe Womu'i Fara, tiew York; tbe Exposition Univkrbki.lb, Pans, and wiNMKU or THa waukh ov uo.liUO jtuancu at lha reci-nt International con :tsi lu Paris, are made and sold only by the uudeisigned and our authorised, a&ints. FARHEL, HERRING & CO., PUILADKLPH1A, EEiUiLNO. FARRJLL fe blli'HMAN, Mew Vorlc HEBRINO A CO., Chicago. HEKIUNG. li'AUUlLL & bHKHUAM, 2wfiHnrp New Orleans. C. L. 11 1 I B II, MANUFACTCBKB OF HRb AND BURGLAU-PK00P 8 a FES, LOCKbWlTH, B KLl.-n ANQER , AND DEALEJ5 IN BU1X.DLNU KABDWAKU. 85 NO. 434 RACK Street GOVERNMENT SALES. SALE OF CONDEMNED ORDNANCE AND OltDNANCfa. B i'UKh,4. OiUCK or U. b. Obdnancb Agekcy, " Cor, Houston t Uuhksk his. (eutrance ouureeue), JvltW Vouk JiTV,bept. 24, lo8. (!'. O. Box mu.) I bealtd Proposals, In duplicate, will be received at thibomce until bA'l UltDA V, October 24, ims, at U M., lor the purchasing of condemned cannon, shot, -shell, scrap, wrought aud cast lion, brans, and other ordnance stores, local til at the lohowlug poiutsoa tbe Atlantic coast, to wit: fc'crt llamlitou aud ite dcubt i'urts Wadsworth, Latayetie, Oulumbtu, and: fcbuylcr, and Castle WIlllMms, in New York Harbors Fort Trumbull, New London Harbor, Coun.: Port Adams aud Walcott, Newport Harbor, It. I,: Port Constltutli n, Portsmouth Harbor, N. U.i Fort Knox, Buckspoil, aud Ports Preble and Bcammel, Portlaud B arbor, tie.; Ports Piciten'iaud Barrancas, Pensacola Harboi, Fia.; Mobile; aud Porta uaiues and Morgan, Mobile Baroor, Ala. This sale contemplates the disposition of 79 cannon In New York Harbor, estimated as weigh, lug 437, Wit pounds: 28 cannon In Portlaud Harbor, esilmaud as weighing lus,6uO p.urdt; 4i cannon la New poi t Uarbor.eatimated as weifjblu g 2tv,fiuu pounds ; J cannon In New LouUou Harbor, estimated a welgblng H6 645 poundbj lit caunou in Peusauula Har bor, isilma'ed as weighing (jI1,Ms7 pounds; 40 cannon In Mobile Harbor, estimated as welghiug lii.4uO . pouuda; 10 cannon In Portsmoutb Harbor, N, H., tslimated as weighing lnu,64 pounds, , Also smaller loin at Port Niagara, Youngstown, N Y.; lort Ontario, Oswego in. Y., aud Isackett'a Harbor, N. Y. Tbe condemned shot and shell, amonntlng tn the aggregate to l.H'8,464 pounds, aie In quantity at each ot the above-mentioned fun; also, scrap wrought Iron, amounting lu the aggregate to 4ti8,&tl pounds. Pull uil complete catalogues of the property ottered can bu uad nn epplication to this oliioe, the Orunsnce Oliioe at Wan!uugton. aud to the oom- , manding ofheur of ihe dllleieut lurls. Terms, can in ten per cent, on the dy tt sale, auu tbe remainder Wheu the property Is delivered. Tulrly days Will be allowed fur the removal oi heavy ordnance; all other stoi rs will be required to be removed within tea day from close ol sale. The Ordnance Department reserves the right to reject all bids not denned sallsiactory. Prior to the aioeplauce of any bid, it will have to be approved by the War Department. B.odeis win state explicitly the fort or forts whera Uey will accept stores, and the number and kluda they propote to purcbaie. lx liver k s will only be made at the forts. Proposals will be addreooed to Brevet-Colnnel 8 Crispin, Major OI Ordnance, U b A., ludorsed "Pro potalt lor purchasing condemned orunauce and oid nance stores." b. CttiHPiN, Brevet-t'oionei. u is. A. 9 24 4w Major of Orduuuoe. 'Wilt be otlertil at luUUc aucllou, at tbe Hubslateuoe t-tui liout-e, at blxin street lm.f, In mis city, on TUi-.bUAK.lhe 2uihof Ool'ber, at 11 o'clock A. 21, , abouu .stu.WiO pouuda Desiccated Mixed Vegetables. The mention of hotel aud uoardlug-huuse keeper Is celleU to It, as It Is capable of making au excel lent soup, Llvery-ttable owueis and sioca-raiaere are also requested to examine IU Terms, cash lu . Ooveixment londs. bamp ea cau be seen at auy time at ire place oi ;sale, Hie ilonumeLt lot.-on Pour ttenih bireet. or at tbe cmue ot the nndemlgued. 10 IU til U. BELL O, 8 U. H. A. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF TUE fcOUlH, tunr QuAKTsaiiASTaR'a Ornca, Atlanta. Ua bept. iid. -8U8. Beale d proposals will be received at Hits onice uut'l 12 tn., Ocu ber gl. lKWi, t'r Tit A LUPJBT AiTON Of OOVH.KNi;lNT TUOOPsi AN U bTOKICS from -Charleston B. C, to Bavannah, Oa,, Pernandlua, Jackronville, iaiaika, Plcoiata, and Bk Augustine, Plurlda. Bios shou'd be lor through rates from Charleston to each point, aud aho rates trout one point tw another. All stores shipped will be classified aud paid ferao cording to ike Ooverumeut ola'slhoallon. Tli la cuutraet to rea aln lu force lor ona year. Tbe usual requirements for bids will be exaoted. PioiosalKsuould be lu trlplicate.twlib acupy of ibis adverllKenieut attached to each, aud shuu a bs In dorsed ' J'ropuals lor Transportation," and addressed totbeuuderalsued. K S,,1 i Bvt. BrlK.-OeD. ard U. M.. U- at. A , K 14 ct Chief u. M, Dip of the b juth.
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