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Innate Ream9e Statue.
A correspondent of the Chicago Post writes:
Your correspondent recently visited the studio
of pretty Vinnie Ream and her statue of Abraham
Lincoln. • We inquire , for "the statue." and we
are pointed to a mssterions canopy in the corner.
. A "notice" pinned to this informs us. thatnobod_v_.
is to uncover the statue without sending for Mies
Ream. Having no yearnings for that young lady's
society we turn to depart, ' when, lo! the
- amiable scribe , at the table announces
that if we will stand upon chairs he
will uncover the face. He lifts
the cotton curtain, and within we behold what
looks like a colossal corpse, standing erect, and
swathed In sheets. He lifts the clothes from
the head, and 'we behold a cheerful face In
dark clay. Mr. Lincoln's features, surely,
but how heavy, how . mechanical, how opaque;
, how clenched the month ' :,ow fishy the eyes,
how void of soul the whole hideous Image!
And this •Is the statue' of 'Lincoln for which
Congress has appropriated .$20,000 to stand
in the Nition's Capitol !- Why, my dear Con
. gress, you, had better, have paid that sum
to have had the girl> taught how to 'make
a statue. "How did you come to do it—to vote
for so large an , appropriation to one so inexpe
rienced, ana even Ignorant in art?" was asked of
a Senator a few hours later. "Well, the girl was
•crying outside what was es a man to do?" he
answered,' "When it waismotthe thing to cry,
.she smiled; and her smile . was just as potent;
she cast 'up her eyes, she shook her ringlets,
that's hoWit wits done.". The resalt—the ghastly
corpse In clay under the cotton canopy in the
Woolleydunkeon ! •
—Mr. Charles • Drayton, of Toronto, who
• ghrallit)O - a - voirdripols, - somtitcralsniattittrm - of
_a windo_wat_Magara Falls, and was picked tip in
sections. ,
Mc:tunas Dry l ileo - fis - Hoese.
Um 9 et=tant street.
ardor Directors.
GEORGE IL BOER%
Secretary
THIS PENNSYLVANIA ACADELCIY OF
FINE ARTS.
As a Museum. as a School, and as
an Exchange.
FOURTH PAPRIt.
WA SIIINGTON Au,srox.
The Academy possesses one work of the highest
class by this great American genius. It is the
Dead Man revived on touching the bones of
Blithe. The painter contrives, in this grand
painting, to tell a whole story of alarm and peril,
of thepromised land ievaded,of heroes pausing on
their way to battle for the pions interment of the
dead, of primitive rack-sepulture, of a foe at
hand and watched for and then of the awful
pauße thrown upon the Most pressing business of
a warlike • hour by the sudden = revelation of
miracle and the. hidden world. He Imagines a
steep and narrow defile among the rocks, with
sentinels irateldnir at its Ups. It is Ailed; With
annedliffuters and with the wife , and children Of
the dead soldier, who stand on different heights
of the nathral - terrace. In the foreground the
splielator is left alone With' the" conscious pia
phetic bones, shining with phosphoric lights hi
the unpenetrated extremity of the cave.
This fortgrcnind plane in left; unencum
bered,, 'except.:,,with.. the , relies of
the saint and I,IIIMo-fearful _lemiur, who, 'livid
and wrapped in white, struggles with the second
birth-agoiy. •He is allgantic hero, born in a
rude age of battles. Striving to unclose his eyes,
and lingeringly stretching one long arm to the
upper daylight, he leans upon the other hand and
begins to be alive. It is another phase of the pa
thetic old Greek attitude; it is the Dying Gladia
tor in his resurrection. In the instant of sur
prise his friends have crowded back, leaving his
appalling white figure thrown forward from the
shadows of the lonely cave, to keep company
with him who regards the picture. Two rude
Hebrew bondsmen, with the cords still clenched
in their hands, start back from the Corpse they
have lowered. On au upper plane, th ke groups
upon an antique bas-relief , cluster near spec
tators; and beyond, relieved upon a hit el lower
ing sky at the month of the defile, stands the Ig
norant sentinel, occupied with thoughts of battle
and looking for the prowling Midlanites.
At the time this picture was painted the taste
for High Art had been revived by West. It re
quires an effort for the present age, to which
classic art is not very necessary, to throw itself
Into sympathy with a School that Is out of date,
and which, after all, was a parasite schoeLfeeding
disconsiolately upon reminiscences of Italian art
among the damps of England. Allston, 'a young
Harvard graduate, went to Europe with hismind
filled with dignified and classic images. In Parini
in 1804, he contemplated at the Louvre the rut
equalled collection from every ancient school as
sociated by the strong band of Napoleon. There
was the Peter Martyr of Titian, now burned;
with its tremendous epic of flight, murder and
heroism. There,in the tinapproached chiaroscuro
of Tintoret, the luminous bosom of the Slave
burned upon the ground, like a fallen star. Vs
ronese'a Marriage of Cana still remains upon
the wall of the Square Chamber, to intimate whit
were the glories- that awaited the roving artist
in that day of , might and centralizatio
re meat and drink, to the 'eager
student from
cross "the sea. Standing before
them, he Baia, with his honest youthful . clo.
quence, "I thought of nothing but of the gorge.
ous'eoncert of colors,—or rather of the indefinite
forms—l cannot call them sensations—of pleas
ure with 'Which they gilled the imagination. It
was the poetry of color which I felt; procreative
in its nature, giving birth to a thobsand thfngs
which the eye cannot see. * * * * I wil
mention a picture which then took hold of me
by Ludovico Carracci. I do not remember the .
title, but the subject was the body of the virgin
borne for Interment by four apostles. The fig
ures-are colossal;• the tone dark., and of tremend
ors depth of color. It seemed as I looked at it
as if the ground shook under their tread, and the
air were darkened by their grief."
Directly from this sort of study, and from a
short sojourn in Italy, proceeded the great plc
tare before us. The Carracci has been restored
to Italy, to what gallery we are not etrtain ; but
on reading the above fine bit of description o n e
feels almost sure that the reminiscence of what
bad so strongly impressed him Is embodied in
this sombre chef d'oeuvre. Here too Is an inter
ment, with colossal bearers, dark tone, and "tre
mendous depth of color." Here too the ground
seems to palpitate and the air to darken under
a cloud of consternation.
The picture dates from 1816, when Allston was
thirty-four. Mr. McMurtrle, of this city, negoti
ated the sale of it to our Academy, receiving as a
token from the artist a beautiful Mother and
Child, which still remains in his gallery. The
Academy sold for its purchase a part of their
ground, now covered by the two fancy shops
on either side the entrance. The price asked
by the painter was, says Dunlap, $3,500, and
the sale of the land amounted to very nearly
the same sum.
Allston was almost the only man yet produced
in America to whom the grand style was . native.
When he atttempted comic delineation, as he did
twice or thrice, the, failure was singular. Ella
mind has just the same play in his poems; their
color, when serious, is xich,Venetian and superb,
but his would-be comic ballad of Ellen and the
paint-king has just the same infelicity as his hu
morous paintings. It is the ponderous mind
awkwardly disporting ; it is what Aurora Leigh
calls the mallet hand. decorating the cherry
stone. -
The Dead Man Restored is a painting thirteen
feet high by eleven in breadth. It is darkly
magnificent, with indications of a glorious eye
for color. The artiest studied the principal face
from a clay model made by himself. It was. but
little injured by the , fire from which the Academy
suffered in 1845, and was cleaned, with but trill.
ling restorations, a few years back. Before its
original removal to the new world it was ex
hibited at the British Gallery, the Prince Regent
then president, and received a prize of two bun
dred guineas ; this prenfium, added to the modest
price demanded of a young and struggling Acad
emy, constituted but a humble reward for the
long and intense studyoind unique genius it em
bodied. It was helped on its journey by the
cheery words and wishes of the vei-kind Leslie,
who writes; "I am on every - account delighted
with the • sale of .Alklion'a, large picture to the
Academy, first for' the service to so excellent a
man, there for the - promise it gives cifencourage
fifent ;for historical painting in America, and
lastly, for the honor it does to the city of Phila-
• The man,,7_ explains_ tho: iirtisk.in his.written
deeeription of the painting, "is in the moment
PHLLADKUHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1868.1
of re-animation ; the artist has attempted, both
in the action and. color, to express the gradual
recoiling of life upon death." The soul of the pie
tiire is in that vivid expression.
The following description is taken from. the
pen of Mr. Allston
"The sepulchre of Blithe is supposed to be - in
a cavern among the Mountains, such places, in
those early ages, being used for the interment of
the dead. In the fore-ground is the man at the
moment of re-Animation; in which the artist has
attempted, both in the action and color, to ex
press the gradual recoiling of life upon death.
Behind him, in a dark recess, are the bones.of, the
' Prophet, the skull of which is peculiarized by a
preternatural light. At his heart and feet' re two
slaves, bearers of the body; the ropes still in, their
hands, by which they have let it down, indicating
the act that moment performed; the emotion at
tempted in the figure at the feet is that of aston
ishment and fear, modified by doubt, as if still
requiring further confirmation of the miracle be
fore him; while, in the figure at the head, is that
otunqualitled, immovable terror. In' the most
prominent group above is' a soldier, in the act of
rushing from the scene. Tim violent and terrified
action of this figure wan chosen to illustrate the
miracle, by the contrast which it exhibits to that
habitual firmness supposed to belong to the mili
tary character, showing his emotion to preiceed
from-so mortal cane, The figure grasping the
soldier's arm, and pressing forward toieeic at.the
body, is expressive of terror,-overcome-by curi
osity. The group on the left or rather behind
the soldier, is composed of two men of different
ages, earnestly liatening to the explanation of 'a
priest, who is directing their thoughts to heaven,
as the source of the miraculous change; the boy
clinging to theuld man is too young to compre
hend the nature of the miracle, but, like children
of his age,unconscion.ely partaked of the general
Impulse. The group on the right forms an ept."
rode, consisting of th e wife and daughter of th e
reviving man. The wife, unable to withstand the
conflicting emotions of the past and the prese t.
bee fainted; a nd Whatever joy and saton lot ent
may hanbeen excited in the daughter by the
sudden reVival of her father, they are wholly ab
sorbed in distress and solicitude for her mother.
The young man, with outstretched arms, actuated
by impulse (noemotive), announces to the wile,
by a sudden exclamation, the revival of her hus
band; the other youth, of a mild and devotional
character, is still in the attitude of one conversing
—the conversation being abruptly broken off by
his impetuous companion. The sentinels in the,
distance, at the entrance of the cavern, mark the
depth of the picture, and indicate the alarm which
bad occasioned this tumultuary burial."
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS
zaTTRu. riconi
The Natural Beauties of Ireland—llLs
terhti for antiquaritus
.litalleftrebt
The Hound Towers Healthfulness
of the Cilmatu-Saultary Legislation
—The Sewerage SYslem•
(Correspondence of the Ilia. Evening Bulletin.?
DCBLEV, Aug. 1, 1868.;—American tourlstahave
heretofore, as a rule, generally thought:lreland
of little or no importance, or passed her by with
the promise to visit her after completing Eng
land,l3cotiand and the Continent. But when their
faces -are. turned hometvard, they rarely if ever
carry out their intentions, and fail to visit one
of the Most beautiful and interesting parts of
Great Britain. This is a mistake; and I. would
recommend those wishing to. see Ireland, to
first land at Queenstown,, v ling Cork, Blarney
Castle, with its world-renowned - Blarney Stone;
the Killarney Lakes, with their /mends, echoes,
and most exquisite and varied 'scenery; Dublin,
almost surrounded - with - mountains ; and - witir , . its
beautiful public buildings; the county of Wick
low, with its variety ofsea-coast, vales, moun
tains and ruins, made immortal by Thomas
Moore; Belfast, with its busy population and
celebrated linen factories; the Giant's Causeway,
with Its peculiar geological formation, and its
grand, picturesque, rock-bound coast.
These, and many other places of interest will
amply repay any one, whatever may be his
fancy. It the tourist be religiously inclined, and
interested in church history, where can more l i
lessons be learned than here? Its ruins of churches,'
abbeys and cities will carry one back to the earliest
stages of Christianity in Great Britain, when such
men as St. Patrick, St. Kevin, St. Colombo and
many others had here their great schools of
learning, going themselves or sending their dis
ciples to England and Scotland, there to first
plant the standard of Christianity, learning and
progress.
11 a lover of beautiful scenery, what can be
more novel and beautiful than the mountains,
everywhere bare, except a low covering of the
purple heather, ferns or fir, with their clear
streams filled with salmon and trout?—or the
Irish lakes with all their association. What more
lovely than the beautiful vales?—many of which
are intimately connected with the national poe
try of Ireland. The lover of scenery cannot fail
to be satisfied with the variety and peculiarity of
all that is beautiful in this Emerald Isle.
If a student of antiquities, what an unexplored
field will hero be found in the round towers, 70
to 80 of which are still standing in various stages
of preservation, and In almost every county of
Ireland, the highest 110 to 180 feet high. None
ouch are to be seen in any other part of the
world, except two, in Scotland. They are then
a peculiarity of this singular people, dating back
into the dark ages. They are positively known
to have existed 1,000 years, but of their origin
nothing is definitely known. The theories as to
t heir origin are various;some writers of antiquities
dive them Oriental, Pagan orChristian origin, as
the case may be. The Oriental, theory dedicates
them to the worship of the 2acred fire, in the
emblematic worship of the sun and moon, after
the Persian religion. As Pagan, for the exercise
of the religious rites and ceremonies of the
Druids. As Chistian, they are said to have been
made for various purposes; as strongholds for
containing the sacred utensils, relics, dresses,
.he., in time of war—as belfries, watchtowers,
and many other uses to numerous to mention.
All of which theories are nothing but specula
tions.
If the antiquarian will call at the Royal Irish
Academy Museum, Dublin, he can obtain food for
much speculation in the various ornaments
wrought in gold,silver mid iron,probably worn by
a pre-Christian people, and which are still oc
casionally found in the Irish bogs. If a politician,
'grave lessons may be learned here of misrule, op
pression and a course of conduct far from
the "golden . rule," with its consequent results in
a poor, dissatisfied, servile population ; • and what
should be a source, of strength to 'England
nothing but tisource of anxiety and weakness.
It is hard to say whois to blame for much of
the poverty now existing. Absenteeism drains the
country of all its money. returning nothing, the
landlords only coming to Ireland and their estates
to collect their rents. On the other side, who
I would like to live among a people in constant
much for Ireland—has built for her the finest
dread of the assassin's bullet? England has done
universities, colleges and free-schools—public
roads (without toll houses) are no where better in
the United Kingdom; and in fact hasdone all bat
one and the main thing—the granting of equal
' rights with Herself.
Politically, the same old "golden rule" would
work here to as much advantage as it will in
' America,when fairly tried.
• To the invalid - Ireland should be very attrac
tive. The climate is mild in both. =winter and
summer, without malarial poison to ruin the
complexion and be the insidious origin of many
diseases, as It is_wlth Amerida. - The beauti
ful-complexion of the Irishh - womew will-conclu
sively testify to the admirable character of the
climate. In regard to sanitary- matters, every
improvement can be made here; strulif - thera
free from our pest, malaria, they are, by
_want of
cleanliness - and ventilation7lit subjects - for th
greater plague, typhm fifulltary matters in Dab
OUR WHOLE COUNTRY.
En and in other Irish towns, as wellgas in Ame
rica, are now claiming the attention of the most
scientific men in the medical profession, taa well
as the law-makem It was onl In 1866, when, the
Public Health act was passed, that the Dublin
authorities were able to act to the full extent re
quired by the necessities of the case, and which
has brought every class of the community within'
its provisions so that few or none can now ne
glect with impunity any of the necessary public
precautions for securing health and guarding
against those diseases induced by a deficiency of
sanitary, arrangements. They have much yet to
lean, and in speaking to those interested in• such
matters they invariably say: "We cannot teach
you anything in regard to sanitary measures,
as we have seen the reports of the Health Board ,
of New York city."
In regard to the application of sewage to the
soil, Ireland, se far as I could learn, has done.
nothing,
_bnt is waiting for the question to be
thoroughly tested. in England, particularly at
London.
The Drouglat in Europe.
The London Herald , - notes the , fact that the
drought of which we have complained has been
by no means localized in Engles& It is the same
in. North America and extends over the greater ,
part . of Europe, There is no such thing as cool
ness or moisture anywhere, but in Norway. In
Paris the beat is increasing. There - had been
rumblings of a thunderstorm, but' the thirsty
Parisians were but tantalized with a'few • drops of
rain, when the old "roasting and baking" began
again. The thermometer has stood for days at
95 degrees in the shade. The citizens abjured
their Sunday excursions into the conntry, and
sat fanning themselves in the cares in the shadiest
streets. At the other side of the world matters
have bean even worse.
The complaint that comes from Russia is the
gravest of all. The peasants In man y of the
provinces of that vast empire are threatened
with a scarcity of which it is painful to contem
plate therobable consequences. ' Everything,
we are tol is burnt up. Since the commence
ment of • May not one drop of rain has fallen..
The provinces of the south are as badly off as
those of the Baltic. "All the farmers In the
Government of Pultowa are in despair. The
reaping should have commenced in . a fortztrght, -
but there is nothing to gather—neither rye, nor
oats, nor bay." The prise of rye, 024 staple food
of the country, bad risen to an unheard of
figure, and a terrible famine seemed impending.
In Kieff, Podolia, and Volbynia matters were no
better, and prices were rising daily. The crops
in Livonia and Courland were quite given up,
end throughout Eathonia nothing but lamenta
tions were heard.
The excessive drought in England, the unu
sually violent and continued riiin storms on our
eastern coast; the icebergs which early in the Oen
son blockaded the Gulf of St. Lawreuice, one of
which cut the old Atlantic cable, and which have
been reported by captains of whaling ships,
fleeting in immense numbers in the northern
seas, have been attributed to eccentricities on the
part of the Gulf Stream This immense: body of
water flovnng from the Caribbean sea and the
Gulf of Mexico in a channel as well de
lined as that of a river by its banks, which, how
ever, in the case of the Gulf Stream, are .only
banks of cold water,paat the island of Newfound
land and spreading out over the eastern Atlantic
from southern Europe to Iceland, has been under
stood to cause the comparatively warm and
humid atmosphere of .the; British Isles. The un
precedented drought which has prevailed there
this season may be en, indication that the course
Of this.currciat has changed, and_ that it now sets
,more towarQs the east. The increase of floating
ice in" the t.ack at vessels bound for Europe and
for thenorthern seas would seem to be et confir
mratiore.-of-AW: theoz .'To account for .the
change in the course of the current, it is re
marked that tremendous earthquakes and vol
canic eruptions have,. marked the' past year,
denoting violent internal convulsions , of
the earth, which may, in some unex
plained manner, have affected the course of this
oceanic current.. The,_theory seems plausible
enough, but, so far as we know, no, observations
bavelftn made which establish the fact that any
change in the course of the Gulf Stream
has taken place. If the fact is so it will not, be.
long without proof from the observation'of ship
masters. The effect of each a change, causing as
it must a natural and permanent modification of
the climate of the whole of Western Europe,
would be an interesting subject of speculation.
Such a change in the course of the Gulf Stream
has already been noted by shipowners, but
whether it has been accompanied by a modifica
ion of the climate of Western Europe, as sug
gecitgd by our contethporary,we are not informed.
—lYorcester Spy.
"La LantOrEle " Again.
M. Rochefort, the pertinacious editor of the
Lanterne dies hard. The government, having
tried to adonse his glim" by many more or less
despotic edicts and petty persecutions, has at last
through the ageney of- the police courts, sub
jected him to a year's imprisonment and 10,000
francs damages for his recent attaek upon the
publisher of the journal which had libeled him.
The Minister of Justice has further harassed M.
Rochefort by sending him an official document
called a communique, which he is forced to pub
lieh in -La Lantern under penalty of suppres
sion.
M. Rochefort, therefore, in No.lo of his paper,
writing possibly from jail, says: "After having
forbidden me the public highways, which it has
audaciously made its private property; after
having cast upon my name, upon my character,
and upon my family, every species of filth the
most infamous police spies could invent—the Im
perial Ministry to-day undertakes to suffocate me
beneath the heavy burden of official cortununiques."
* * lam neither a legitimist nor an Or
leanist, but did Messrs. Polignac or Guizot ever
arearn of suppressing the opposition of the Na
ri,mal, or of the Reform, by insisting upon the
publication by these journals of documents which
would absorb their entire space from the first to
the last column ?
"And all the time I have been killing myself to
repeat that the men of to-day are not serious!
Does not this convince everybody? Are not the
puns I have been accused of making at their ex
pense, weapons; of more than sufhcient power
wherewith to fight• public functionaries of this
anslanoral calibre?'
M. Rochefort continues in this strain for more
than a column, and ends his diatribe by,quoting
a strong though not very delicate maxim of Tax
ile Delord, to this effect: "One had best have,
nothing to do with the fleas in the church yes.;
The Pall Mall Gazette speaks in this indignant
manner of an offensively personal paragraph in
he London _Horning Post:
"The personal description of Mr. Jefferson
Davis and his family which lately appeared in
one of the papers was the most offensive piece of,
work of the kind we have seen for some time. It
stated that Mrs. Davis looked as if she had a
'dash of mulatto-blood' in her. and her children
looked as if they had the same. Can the writer
have had the least idea what he was talking
about? Supposing . that his object was to give
annoyance to' Mr. Davis, was it absolute neces
sary to grossly. insult his whole family?. It will
be long, we hope, before paragraplasts in this
country, make 'themselves the purveyors of such
shameful and unfeeling personalities."
From the lasi.' number of -,the C'9ntinenral
(Paris)_ aazotelweLextrdet-the-follouring very
intereetine-itenen--- -
—The Dutch - journals state that never has the
opening of a new railroad .rodne -dsgeb an
op I on as that, of ~the Island
of • Zeland, Ho ami...',Untit. novilthisiprimitive
,people had never seen ti-locomotive or railway.-
. Every one who possesses a-florin. makes a littla
The Gulf Streitih.
"An Insult to.Jefl. Davis."
14te - Foielgn , fit riu.
trip, only, as they say, to see "kow it goes."
ttr a
Whole villages m ke these excursions, and the
one who has no enjdyW this pleasure loses all
credit in his na ve ' villa still, there are many
old people who re afraid to make the attempt,
as they think his Satanic Majesty has something
to do With It.
—There has lately been placed in the museum
at the Louvre, superb carved table in Lapis
Lazuli and F lorentine mosaic, in the centre of
which is a portait of Charles X. In Roman mo
saics..
the ateliers of the Mint al Paris there are
twenty machines, which strike off a gold piece
every second,prodncingtwelve hundred and twen
ty franc pieces a minute. •Nearlyall the countries
In Europe have their money coined here, even
China and Japan. The confidence in the preci
sion of the money coined in France is universal,
and the Mint of Paris Is an establishment unique
in the world. • •
—The Emperor is bully occupied in examining
the conditions of • the neutrality of Belgium, Rot
land and /Switzerland, in the event of a European
war. , His Majesty, upon returning from Flom
bleres, . will visit .Nancy, Metz, Thionville and
other places which have heat recently fortified.
It is stated that he will also visit the King of
Belgium at Tourney, upon which occasion dif
ferent trials of artillery will take place.
—A literary incident of Interest is worthy of
note: 'A French author, being desirous to write
a biography of Charles Dickens, wrote to that
gentleman for materials, but received, none, Mr.
Dickens replying that he had "long ago formed
the intention of writing an autobiography."
—The bon of Theodore resides in the Royal
Hotel, Alum Bay, Isle of. Wight,and plays cricket
and other games with the young lads in the neigh
borhood. •
—Since 1850, fifty:two new villages haVe been
created in the environs of Paris.
—An important treaty concerning the fortress
of Ulm bas been ratified between the Govern
ments of Wrirtemburg and Bavaria.
—A factory of dynamite situated in,the environs
of Stockholm, exploded a few days since with
such violence, that nearly every house in the city
felt the shock.
—There is agentleman is living.at Poelllpo,
Italy a wonderful pianist, who though an' ama
teur preferred to nearly all the professionals.
He playa with his nose with such perfection and
wonderful precision that any one not looking at
him would imagine he was playing with his
hands.
—On account of the extreme heat and drought
in the province of Fria°, Holland, rain water is
sold for sixty centimes a pall, and well water for
thirty centimes. In the Island of Voorne, Hol
land, the inhabitants are almost without water,
the air being filled with all 'kinds of insects many
of which havti never before been seen. Ntuner
ous estes of sunstroke have taken place among
the fanners, and in consequence of the intense
heat, .the harvesting is done during the night.
troy the nuathapblsZvenizig Baal%)
General :McClellan.
BY JOIErt ivara,
Do you know anybody who wants to buy a
horse ? I have one I am anxious to sell. His
name is General McClellan, and he is sixteen
hands high: He is kind in harness ; indeed he is
kind anywhere, so kii4 that if you keep on feed
ing bushel after bushel of oats to him, he will eat
them all sooner than hurt your feelings by re
fusing them. In fact he Is the heartiest eaterl
ever saw. If he can't get:oats it don't maks any
difference.' He will eat Up tde' feed box and the
bay -rack, rind the stalls with perfect unconcern.
De - has eaten his way already tKrough two — board
partitions in the stable, and he begins to-morrow
en the brick wall.
He is not exactly a handsome horse. He is
too thin. His body is shaped like the smoke
stack of a locomotive. Around the thoulderelt
is thick enough, but it slopes •airay so thin to
•
wards the hind legs that you can clasp, bands
around it. And besides he is too bony. His
spine stands out very sharp, and when 'the
thickens try to roost on it at__lligh _ •
can't balance themselves. As to, bones,
am afraid his are too loose entirely. When he
tries to trot they rattle just like a
bag full of bil iard balls, and • the thigh joint of
his off hind leg creaks. ;This is objectionable, be
cause it does no good to hit him. He has noth
ing but bare bone under his skin, and when you
beat him for balking General McClellan will stand
stock still and quietly chuckle, as if he knew it
was of no use to hammer his skeleton. He is a
good balker. Very often when he is jogging
along, he will suddenly stop, as if an idea had
occurred to him. Then it will become evident
that he has forgotten something and wantsoto go
back; for he wheels slowly around, and tries to
canter. You just ought to see General
McClellan try to canter. His framework
clatters like stage thunder.
He hasn't mnch - of"a tail. He seems to have
shed the most of it, and what's left looks like a
second-hand gun-swab. This is inconvenient in
fly time if you are on his back, because then he
always runs up against a fence the minute a sin
gle fly gets on him, in 'order to brush it off. He
bas a disagreeable habit also of scratching his
shoulder with hie hind leg like a dog, and if you
remonstrate with him about it the General al
ways turns his head around and winks at you,
as much as to say, It ain't every horse that can
do that. And neither it is. He is a very accom
plished animal, Gen. McClellan is.
Day before yesterday he endeavored to rear, yes
this horse actually tried to rear up. _The conse
quence was he fell over backwards, but his legs
were so loose that they swang round as if they
were on pivots, and the General is at present up
side down, with all four feet on the ground and
his belly to the sky. Of course he is not- very
efficient in this position, but he seems well, and
his appetite continues good. I shall turn him
over all right if I sell him.
So if you know of anybody who wants a first
rate horse I wish you would just mention, the,
General to him, will, you?
THEATRES, Eto,:
Tun Guzarriem.—'The White Fawn attracts
large audiences nightly to the Chestnut, despite
-the-warm.-weather,-and—it seems--very- probable
the piece will have a long run. The brilliant
manner in which 3t is mounted entitles it to the
liberal and hearty support of those who are par
tial to spectacle. We sincerely hope and believe,
however, that this is the' final triumph of the bare
legged madness, and that there will soon be a
reaction in favor of legitimate and tinaensuons
drama.
THE WALNUT.-At this theatre the Black
Crook continues to, be a success. A number of
changes have been mace In the company, and
the ballet troupe has made an acquisition in the
danseusele. Jilorarant. The asserted "quarrel
between the management and the great news
• apers" is a fiction. If any journal is engaged
n contest of Ibis description, it rages in itsown
sanctum and hurts nobody.
THE Anzurc.A.s.—A miscellaneous entertain
ment will be given at the American to-night.
—As Mr. Andrews, of Lawrence„ Mass., was
walking along the shore near the month of
'Hampton river recently, he found a box contain-
in g three old Spanish coins, black with age, two
of the size of a quarter;: and one ninepence. ;Tile
date upon one of the coins wos 1721. The shape
of the box in which 'they were found cannot ,
easily be described. It is about that of a fat clam
or oyster, and had a tin cover. The article leof
Iron, from an eighth to a quarter of an Welt' In
thickness, well erueted over with rUst and small
pebble stones and the whole looked like , rimy.
I - 7:filTchrowtitottelt are IYlrtg a itlout
-the beach..-Itissarmised that thebox-wasorigl
wily round. and became flattened by the action
'.of the ilsments.^ '
E EMDKISTON. Pnbliablr.
PRIOE TRUE GENTS.
FAOTA AND FANCUCIR.
—Stage coaches are to be started by an Ameri
can between Yeddo and Yokohama, in Japan-
—The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is CO he
created Duke of Abercout.
—There is a revival of religion in Venice, the
city of the doges. •
—One of the.lturbides is said to keep a beer
shop in Paris. , •
—Wales's last was baptized Victoria Alexandra
Olga Mary. •
—An old rebel cavalry regiment in Loublitma
has reorganized as a Seymour and Blair club.;
—Young men anxious to , get rid, of their Wild
oats would do,vreil to get a sewing machine.
—Mr. Burlingame has gone to pay a;visit to r
his father, who lives twenty miles west of Obi-
- ,
in San Francisco there are six horse rail .
roads, and their reeeipts froM January to May
were $378,000.
—A delirious soldier at Quebec broke from his'
attendants, leaped over the cliff. 180 feet high.'
picked himself up unhurt at the bottom,and then *
deliberately drowned himself In the et Lawrence..
' _The National Intelllgencer wi_g•
nant because a guard of colored . soldiers was
placed In the Capitol while the body of Mr. Btek- -
vens was there lying in state.
A veritable monitor has been ordered by • t he
English admiralty. This time all experimeuta
and improvementa will be avoided and the Bldg
will be constructed on the American plan, irctn:c
and simple.
—A quartermaeter's clerk has recently discover-
ed in a corn busk mattress,on San Padre Nand i ,
BrazokSantiago, Texas, a rusty casket contain
ing diamonds and emeralds est im ated to be worth
$lOO,OOO. - '
—There Is a man in California who has not
worn,a hat for twelve years. Ho declared in 1856
that he would not cover his head wall General
Fremont was elected President. Let not any
Democrat enthuse to this extent over Seymour t
—Rev. Albert N. Fisher, a Gentile, lately
preached in Brlgham Young's Tabernacle, at .
Salt Lake, to 8,000 saints. Re is the first Gentile
who ever preached there by invitation oflirig
ham. His subject was the "Divinity of; Christ:*
—lt is announced by a religious paper In Rim.
land that tour million copies of the book,
"Hymns, Ancient and Modern," have been
No literary undertaking . of the present century
has equalled this in success. • - ,
—Mlle. Dejazet, in a recent theatrical tour in
Western France, stopped 'at a hotel Rennes.
The landlady, on discovering that the company •
was composed of actors, re.fused. •to•give them ,
food; and - turned them out of her, house. , This
wad in enlightened and moral France.' •
—A California .paper publishes what it calls
"Ante Post Modem Recollections" of a local poet,
beginningqhus:• Stoddard is not dead; but he will
be some day, and It may be as well to commence;
the 'recollections' of the . California BoyPoetirt
good tinie. For the sake of giving these memoirs
the gelpineportmortee; taint we will use the pilot'
—There are 76 marriage brokers in Paria„,
and two of therapy, an income tax of two hun
dred thousand francs per year. -They the*,
five per cent on the dower,of zlch wives and twos
per cent. when the fortune of the Itusband•aud.
wife are about equally large. An extra' clung° is
made for prwuring lnusbands with aristocratic
—The • Louisville Journal calls Sherman,
Thomas and Meade, "satraps," and the soldiers
"slaves of the satraps." It says- of course-6kt*
are for .latent, . together with "ell ewi ndlere ,
pimps, detectives, adventurers, bigot!" and black
guards,r-but-that-the-Pwhole-respectabilit
responsibility of the South are for Blairturi
mour."
—An editor in Germany has been heamilifined,
for selling space in his editorial columns to AL
Blanc, of the Homburg gambling hell. M. Blanc'
has filled - the space he bought with startl ing counts of the heavy losses which the bank, wins
reported to have sustained ; these accounts were,
of course, entirely fictitlous, and only destined"
to attract the gudgeons to Homburg. •
—Six thousand copies of the fourth number of
the Lanterns were sent to the newsdeal of
Rouen. The arrival of such a large supply of
the spicy opposition journal greatly perplexed
the Prefect who finally thought the best thing
could do under• the circumstances was to buy the,
whole six thousand copies. Fancy his venetian
when next morning six thousand coplealnere' '
arrived by the Paris train. :
—A Paris correspondent pretends to know What.
Eugenie wore when she presided at a Gabinet
meet.= in the absence of the Emperor. He says
her toilet on that occasion was a lovely lightgray
satin foulard, a black lace mantilla, a rice straw f
toquet (small hat), With White" feather,
,s white
veil tied over the face; and chignon behind, and :a
green parasol, covered with lace, to match, . the
mantilla.
—The Pope gives audience to about a hundred
persons daily. At these audiences, to which of persons half crazy with religious excitement
gain access, it Is very seldom that the Pops; eves
under the greatest provocation, loses his temper.
Sometimes; when a visitor proves too double
some,
.Pips IX. rings the bell, and says 16 the.
eamenere who enters the room, "Take Ulla 1111111
into the fresh air. He is unwell."
—Not long since a young man in St. Louis; thett
just married, got his wife's life insured for $1,000:•
in lees than a year from that time she died.. He
received the amount the other day; mid on the
strength of the good luck, "set np" the Wine for
quite a number of his companions; and, asonel
of them said, they "had a good spree and it didn't
cost him a cent."
—Victorien Bardon says that the first eighty ar
ticles, plaza, poems, &c., which he wrote, were
rejectectrby.tlie publishers and theetrkal
gers to whom he offered them. - For two yews
he did not make a sou by his literary labors. -
Since then nearly every one of the men who for•
merly treated him so disdainfully have made him
themost munificent offers; but he says healways.
took good 'care not to lot them have any of the( '
productions of his pen. . .
, —Signor Mario and Madame Grisi gave Patti due
presents on the occasion of her wedding. Th u
gift of the former was a very handsome and
beautifully executed arabesque, pendant„ com
pohd ofpeaxis, diamonds and large turqols, with
enamelled' scrolls, suspended from a large gold , ,
chain. Madame Grisi gave her a "pair of very
large and handsome gold and total pendant ear
rings the pendants being formed of coral'about
inches
two in length, carved le:the shape , ' or ,
Rtriuscan vases, with , festoons, the top beltig,r,
formed of gold, with , a solid carved coral bull'a,
bead. These earrings were "formarly the pos.:'
session of the Queen; of Naples,
—Tho following / is said ". to have. transpired
'during Mrs. D. P. Bowers's engagement;at lihr,
girlie City, Nevada:_"A countryman Watched
the great actress with an interest that appeared
to absorb , his .every sense—he say 'nothing, •
:heard nothing, felt nothing but the Borgia. - At
the end of the act he heaved a great sigh as he
gazed at' the green mirtain uTurning to his
Ineighbor,'he asked Do e s Mre. BOWOTO enjoy
good, health, do you .know ?' believe_ so ;
:why ?" 'queried the neighbor:- Well, "I - don't '
know, but it somewhat struck' me that A - Woman
:who is obliged to have many darned bad spells,
andlai'ent,sonatnial s .coulpn't be °gimpy right,,.
,you know , between *Wm"' - -
• ]jOis d'lettia, - ttki celebrated - European au-
thoress, whim° real name is Princess,•Roltzoff.
Mossalcky r oeciahiluta, haawrithn, in:the courser,
',ol the hat fifteen years, some sixty hooka. Com
prising morke on literatur social qaeations, pc:A.-
1 1UP itiStory; travels,noWs.„ dc .; and she hu,
.2.111040.Yer, 4rillemilmse.herdis.ll2 tho -
languages,all of which she writes and spawns
; fluently:---Bourman Garmani -- Ertgliski --
,Preneh,,Greek, Latin and Russian. And the Lady
is stiß beautifui. - •