Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 15, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES., ive verylarge figures, thus: The elerical staft E Fraoca consisted of 86 Biehops and Archbish- aps, 189 Deans and Vicars-General, more than 700 Canons, over 3,500 cures, and over 30,000 county incumbents. Adding what wecallcurates, but who are there termed vicaires, Bishops in partius, chaplains des dernieres ordres, cte., the total pumber amounts to something over 42,000. The other Ro- wan Catholic clergy not drawing State pay oonld not be put at much less than 80,000. These fizuroa combined make 72,000 regular clergy. - The mousstenes and_convents prezent results equatly remarkable, and it was maintain- ed by the returns of 1861 that thers were cighty- eix different orders, possessing more than 2,100 Bbouses, with nearly 17,000 mouks, friars, aod brothers, s pumber not very different from the whole clerical staff or the English Church at thst date. This number is hittls in comparison with that of the nnps and msters, which swood st 88000, occupying more thsn 12,000 bhouses a0d belonging to about 280 several orders or communities. These “religious” persons thus amount to 105.000, with more than 14,000 establishments. These establishments are all modern sad the growth of the soventy years before 1861. The returns of property are equally remarkable. The Secretary of the Statictioal Scciety estimates that in the soven years before 1859 the brothornoods To- ecived gifts amounting to £87,000, and the sis- Tecaived xa much 88 £360,000, and in 1857 the real property of these establishments was valued at £4,200,000, producing n rental of £196,000. The rzte of increase is also worth poting. JIn 1850 the mdagflgmpefix of these bodies amounted to abont 23,000 acres, in 1809 1t bad reached 85,000 acres, and at tha: rate it mast be now some 70.000 acres. - s PRESBYTERIAN STATISTICH. The foliowing table, taken from the forth- coming minates, ehows the strength of the Pras- ‘brterian Cburch, Nor.b snd South, for the year South. 12 158 Nerth. 36 . ynoda... PERSONAL. re. Dr. T. X Eddy and Bishop Jeanes are at Clifton Springs, N. Y. . The Bev. C. N. Bims, D. D., has declined the Presideacy of Illinois Wesleyan University. The Bev. S.Tayloris called to the Congre- gational Church st Wheaton, and is likely to so- copt 3 The Bev. Dr. Burton has resigned the Epis- copsl Parish of All Saints, 1 Cleveland, O.. of which be has been pastor for four yesrs. The parish now numbers 184 communicants. The Bev. C. M. Sanders, of Waankegan, held his farewell services at Wankegan Sanday even- ivg, previons i for the Congrega- ey Uhnxfl:o l‘." &m The ofl?:r ‘minis- ters sod churches joined in the exercisea. Among the ministers from sbroad who are g some weaks in mg‘d l.r:lDr.W_vrrelL E Ia; Dr. Warren, of Brooklyn; Dr. Miller, Deaver; and the Eev. E. C. Barnard, of Moline. The ional Council thai dismissed the Rev. H. lels from his fourteen yesars' astorate at Winnebago, report that he had Ia- aomd with eminent success, uuitiug the people #8 ane man to his sapport, being the means, nn- der God, of great prosperity aud growth to the church, snd that the diemission was against the unspimons remonstrance of the church. A seyere bronchial dificalty has compelled the RBev. Dr. J. W. Healy #0 again resign his charge of the Tabernacle Congregational Church. He resumed the pastorate one year ago on his re- twn from but finds the lake climate too sevors for bim. Great suocess has attended his Iabors einoe his return, and his resignation will be a great loas to the Tabernacie and the Church work in this eity. y The Bov. G. 8, Bailey, D. D., has accepted the call of the Church as Pittston, Luzerne County, Pa., out of the pumber be has received since he left the servics of the Theological Seminary, Thia is 4 fine church of about 300 members, and in the region of Mr. Bailey's early life. Twenty- nine years ago ho cawe to Springiield and began g ing thare, the only Baptist minister in a eld_as e 88 the State of Massachusetts, He has served many other churches in this Btate, having been s pastor eighteen years, and hes been largely identified with the progress of the denomiuation in flinoia. For twelve ears he has acted as Gerera! Snperintendent of iasions in connection with the State Associa- tion, and a8 Financiat Secretary of the Baptist Theological Union, in all of which capacitica he haa shown unusual ability and efficiency. Mrs. Bailey, t0o, has been ‘a worker above most ‘women, during all her Western life, both at home and in various branches of denominational efort. — BREVITIES. * Wat becomes of doge when they die?” was wiat & juvenile in Burlington asked his pa. *They go to the happyland of cenine,” he qaickly replied. After listening 1o an evening's readings from Shekspeare, given by a good elocutionist, &child of 8 remarked: ** O mamma, if Mr. Smith wonld only preach like that, I should never wantto leave church before it is over!” It was the opening remark of an ebony evan- gelto s congregation of his colored brethren : “ Let all the good ulzgahs cl'ar out. De Lawd moves me dis ebenin’ to spoke only tode bad niggahs.® Andin three minutes there wasn't a “mggah™ in the meeting-honse. Chorus of ladies to comely curate who is as- cendiug the ladder t8 bang decorations—** Oh, Mr. Rweetlow, do take care!” Don't goup! So dangerous! come down! OkI™ r (sarcaatically)—* Really, Sweetlow, don’t you tlunk you'd better let a married man do that 7" The Ezchawge and Mart, ao English paper, publishes the following advertisement: b Ser- mon Case.—Violet velvet sermon case, large size, with gold-embroidered monogramon cover. lined with watered silk, very handeoms, never been used, cost S3¢ guineas. Infants’ newshort underclothing desired in exchange,” “The shortest man in the Bible? Certainly. Eneo-high-Mish* ~Pshaw! No. agan.” * Well, Bildad the Shuhite.” * Notquite. Once more.” *“Tohi; unless it was them fellows who ‘had neither parse nor scrip.” *¢Ya-as, I'm beat. 1 thought it was Feter, who €old the cripple, *gilver and gold bave I none.’ Bat I didn't think o’ paper issues.™ “Tax Jmsurrs! "—Officer of Militin—** Well, sir, who are you? and what's the matter?™ Ex- cited Citizeo—*Me? I'm the bailie—the heid bailie, mon! Icatched this wee laiddie feshin’ on tho Sswbath day! ‘Saya he's s Casth'lic—a Roman Caash'lic! E-b, it's just dreadfu’ to think - o'—feshin’ in & Protes-tant loch! Bawbathl Lora save us! “—Punch, A Eansas ¢l an pansed in the midstof a wermon hLe was delivering & few weeks ago, aud remarked, with a savage scowl upon his counte- ©ance, and in » voice lond enough to be heard outside the church: * If the boy who flung tLat egg through the window will Temain unul. the services are over, Il sbow him whata Christian can do for the salvation of Aud o the pcThe chiet fowsl tn the crown of the truly 18 8] We havo heard of & family 1o ety oo 0% Frongsd oo the sttection o Gosiom waro ol lention of & Christy il - thropist, and who oo Pl liken angel and refreshed therr sonls the reading of copious extracia from the Bozi of Job.—. Argus. Old Sims poticed a bat handle sticking from wunder his boy's coat as he walked down the stoop 1ast Sanday morning, whereupon be rusbed out aud carried the youngster in by the ear. After giving him s cordial he shook bis finger in his face and said: “Do you know where boys go that play base-ball on Sunday ?* * Yes,” sobbed the boy; **down behund the monument, in the white lot.” A few days sinca, a clergyman who has charge of one of ths St. Louis suburban churches was called to the bedside of a dying man. A well- known veteran of she turi was present during the visit, and was much pleased with the actions man remarked: *‘You shonid have heard Alr. B talki® *~Ho talked well, did hel?" querisd theother. “Well, I shonld-saysc. He falked horse.”, s When 1ittle Jobnnv Peart, wholivedin New Haveén, was $ years old, bis father was freqneut- 1y catled from bome on busiudes. Oneé eveniug while be was sbsent on one_of these journeys, ‘which took him to Natchez. Johnny'e mumar was hearing his prayers, ** Qur Father who art,” etc., when Johnny raised bis head from its piace on his mother's knec, and, looking up eamestly ioto her face, sad, - Mamms, Johnoy's tired of say- ing *Our Fatber who art in Heaven;' let's 63y < 5m fatber who art in Natchez.' The girl from St. Louis went to church last Eund}y’,;"drflezd prottily in ber favorite color ‘bine. She got the hotel cashier fo change ner & $5 bill before ehe left, becauss she wanted to contribute to tho coliection plate. But, misc- Tecorde! Awake if you can & fellow fecling for her. Al the fatal moment when the vestryman stood before ter presenting the plate, and, n; she aseerte, erery eve in the churcll was rivete on her, sho @bcovered that the big pin which she bad at the las; moment skewered ioto her gkirt to make it suficiently tight fisting held ber pocket in its wiry grasp, and with it the purae containing the €5 in emall currency. Bhe was obliged to esy no_ $o the contribution box, and or cheeks burned painfally.—Graphic. et ) CHURCH SERVICES. EPISCOPAL. The Rov. . X. Powors will officiate in Bt. John's Church, Ashlané avenue, between Madison and Monroe stroats. . —The Rev, H.C. Kinney will officiate at 10:45 8. m, and 7:30 p. m. ai tha Chuzch of the Holy Communion, South Dearbort street, botween Twenty-ninth sud Thirtieth streets. —The Bev. Artiur Ritchie will oficiate t tho Church of the Ascension. corner Em and LaSalle stroets. Holy Communior. at 74, m.; morning prayer and Litany 10:30s. m. Evenlng service 7:45 p, 1. —Services marting and evening at the Church af our Savior, cornes Belden and Lineoln avenuss. —The Bov, Henry G. Perry will officiate morning and evening st All Bainta’ Church, corner North Car~ ‘penter and Fourth Streets. —The Bev. T. N. Morrisan, Jr., will officiate at 10:45 a.m.atSt, James Church, corner Cassand Haron stroets, —The Rev. A, B. Bogers, of Austin, Texas, will officiateat 10:30 &, m. s0d 7:45 p. m.at the Church of the Epiphany, Throop street, between Monros and Adama streets, £ —The Right Bev.J. W, Beckwith, Bishop of Georgls, will officiate in the morning and evening at Trinity Church, comer Tventy-sixth street and Michigan avenue, ~—The Rev. Dr. Locke will preach in the moraing a t Grace Church, Wabsih svenue, near Sixtoentn strects Sabject : “ Prejudices.” ~—The Rev. G. L. Tcdd will offielate at St, Poter’s Fres Chapel, No. 143 State street, Morning prayer aud Haly Oommunion at 10:45. ~—The pervices at the Cathedral of SS. Poter and Paul, corner West Washington and Peoris sireets, be commemaorative of the death of the lato Bishop ‘Whitehouse, this being being the first Sunday after the anniversary af his death. M proyer, Litany, and Holy Communior. at 10:30 s. m.; Sunday-school a3, p.m.; evening prayer at7:30 p.m. . B, APTIST. ‘The Rev, E. O. Mitchell will preach at 11 a, m. before the First Church, st tho Tabernacle, No, 666 Wabash svenue. i ~The Rev. W. W. Everts, Jr., will preach in the at Indisps Avenue Chapel, corner Indians avenue and Thirtieth street. ~The Rev. W, W. Everts, Jr., will preach in the morning st the church cormer West Harrison and jon streets, ] Bev. N. F. Ravlin will preack morning and eveningat Templo Church, corner Sangamon and ‘Barrison sizeets. ~—The Rev. Florence McCarihy will presch at 10:30 3. m. 8ad 7:45 . . 8¢ Amity Church, corner Warren avenue and Bobey street, Morning subject: * The Absolute Necessity of Prayer.” Evening subject: “Are There Any Sach Things o8 Special Providencea?” —The Rev. N, E. Wood will preach at 7:45 p. m. at Centennial Bspiist Church, No. 420 Ogden svanue. —The Rov. D. B. Oheney will preach st 10:30 a. m. Fourth Chi g subject : * Pa- the corner of Wash- ington and Psulina strects. Mo rental Boponsibility, and How {o Meot It.” Evening subject : * Ungearehable Riches.” ~The Rev. J.-D, Burr will preach at 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. at Immannel Church, No, $32 North Hal- stad stroct. REPORMAD EPISCOPAL. Tho Rev, Samuel Fallows will preach in the events at Bt Paul's Church, corner of West Wasbington an: Ann strests. Bubject: *Christianity and Human Progrees, Vicwnd in th Lignt of the Book of Nature, the Book of Human Nature, and the Book of God.” Bishop Cheney will preach at the same church i the morning. ~—The Bov. Albert Walkley will preach st3p, m. in the So.;lh Baptist Church, corner of Lock and Bona~ parte strects. ~The Rev. S8amucl Fallows will preach in the morn- ing at Christs church, icorner Michigan avemue and ‘Twenty-fourth etrect. Bishop Cheney will presch at the same church in the evening. BSubject: *‘ The Byrian General : the Prophet's Proscription "—the fifth of the series on this subject. . PHESEYTERIAN. . The Bev. 8, W. Duffield will preach st 10:45 s, m. ind 7:45 p.m. at the Eighth Ohurch, corner West ‘Washington and Bobey stzeets, ~The Rev. W. W. s{cEaig will preach at 10:30 a m. and 7:45 p, m. 0 the Kllis Avenus Church. Erening subject: * True Idea of Providence,” —The Bev. G, E. Noyes, of Evanston, will preach at 10:30 &. T, and 7:45 p. . at the Sixth Church, corner ‘Vincennes and Oak avenues, ~—The Rev. J. Monro Gibeon will preach at 10:45 a, m, and 7:456 . in the Second Church, corner Michi~ gau avenus and Twentieth street, ~—The Rev, J. 1, McClure will prosch in the morning &t Riser Park. —The Rov. Jxmes Msclzughlin will preach morning and evening at the Scotch Church, corner Sangaman and Adams streeta. DIST. The Rev. 0. G, Deming will preach at 10:30 a, m. and 7:30 p, m. at the Ada Street Church, on Ada street, between Lake nnd Fulton streefs. —Tho Rev. H. W, Warren, of Brooklyn, will preach morning and evening at Centenary Church, on Mon- Too street, noar Morgan, * —The Rev. Dr. Tiffany will presch at 10:45 a. m, and 7:45 p. m. at Trinity Church, corner Indians ave- nue and Twenty-fourth street. ~—The Rev. N. Jackson will preach morning and eveningat John Weiley's Chursh, No. 144 Korrest avenne, —The Rev, B. M. Hatfield, formerly of this city but Dow of Baliimore, will presch in the morning at Michigsn Avenue 'Chureh, on Michigan avenue, near Thirty-sccond street. —The Rev. R, S, Cntine wili preach st 10:30 . m. and 745 p. m. at tho Fulton Btrect Church, corner Fulton sireet and Artesian avenue. CONGREGATIONAL. The Rev. H. M, Goodwin, of Rockford, will presch 2410:30 a. m. in Piymouth’ Church, on Michigan ave- Due, between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, N i B Zoh . Holbrook will preach orning —The Rev, . Hol m sud evening in Oakland Church. —The Rev. W, W. Patton will preach morning and evening at the Firsi Church, corner West Washington aud Ann streets, —No morning or evening -scrvico at Leavitt Strect Church, corner Leavitt and Adams streets, Sabbath- school at 2:30 p. m. —The Rev. Washinton Glodden will preach morn~ ing and evening ot Unjon Park Church, corner Ash- 1and avenue and West Washington strect. ;“::EZ’-IF ;‘r C:nnmbc;lllu u‘:-.ltl., preach morning and ev New England Church, Delaware place, hear North Dearborn steects —The Rev. Dr. Savage will preach in the morning at the Clinton Street Church, corner Clinton and Wil- 0 streots. CHRISTIAN. 3 The Rev,A. N, Gilbert will preach morning and évening at the church corner Indians avenue and Twenty-6fth _strect.’ * Morning eubject: Evening subject : * Called from a Tree-Top.” —The Rev, 0. F. Mortimer will preach morningand evening in Campbell Hall, corner Campbell avenus and Van Buren wiroet. Evoniog subjoct: “ Motes & TRITARIAR. Chapel service in the morning only at the Church of t:: ll‘uaiah, corper Michigan avenue and Twenty-third eet. LUTHERAN, The Rev, Edmnnd Belfour will preach at il a. m, at e English Church, corner North Dearborn and Eria stroews. Fldor .G, McCalloch wil pie or 5. G, McCulloch will presch morning and evening in Advent Hall, No, 313 Wedt Madison atrect. —Elder D. Mathewsaon preach —&m&d mx-{au. the qn(m R _the First Society Spiritualiais at Grow's Hall, No, 517 West Madison street, morning and sven: ng. —0. M. Norton, of Brooklyn, and D, W, Wai .mmncmuguvmm’&mmmmm:.h i ——— CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK, EPISCOPAL. Aug. 15—Twelfth Sunday after Trinity, Aup. 15—Thisteentl Suadzy atter Peatecost 3 nth_Sun er P I ampiion of the B V. 8. Lo A Aug. 16-5t. Hyacinth, C. “ug. Li—ctave of i’ Liwrenoe. 2, Aug. the Octave; St Aj Ave: Bomht. Bermarar G. D, HE 245, 11—§C, Jane Frances do Chantal, W, CHARITY. Of God ¢|o a, Thrice bletsed from its rarity, I8 Charity, : A joweth no 1s Charity. ’ The firmest link - That fetters sin And lesds to paths of purity, 1s Charicy. Lo 2 % Bwact fiowers of life Are Faith and Hope, But sweetest in ita rarity 1s Charity. o % . ~CuICAa0, August, 18i5. Grozax Ropaxes. of ‘complainb;hat ercial consifsrations ‘| edteréd fhia the 'hanging aod msuagément of the piotures; and thab. injustice was doue home and other American artigts. This year THE POLICY UF THE MANAGEMENT of the Exposition is entirely changed. The is¢omposed of the following ‘ Franklin MacVaagh. Ohairmag § Willism E. Doggett, E. B. McCagg, John F. Stafford,Altred B, “Mason, The active duties and correspondence have fallen maicly on Mr. Stafford and Mr. Mason, whose energetic opera~ tions promise a complete success. It was early determined to aim chiefly ab .. A REPRESENTATIVE DISPLAY OF AMERICAN ANT. | A clrcular was issued to artists in all parts of the country, asking their co-operation, and Mr. Staf- ford has traveled to the Eastern cities «to secure pictures and perfect arrangements with the ar- tists. An agreement of -the following form has been eigaed by most of the well-known artista of the country,—Whittredge, Huntington, Beard, Church, Bierstaat, Inness, Bellows, Rothermel, etc.,—to the number of two or three hundred : ‘The undersigned wonld call sttention to the fact that at the Exhibition to be held in Chicago in September, 1875, the Directors of the Glncago Expasition Building® Troposa . to collect & good representation of American art, and to do full justice to American artists, both in the fair exhibition of their works and in affording the best opportunities for thelr sale, The gentlemen in Chicago who have this matter in hand are well known 1o us for their sincers interest in the advancement of American art, and for their honorabie desire to foster 1he interests of our artists. We oordially agree to co- operate with them by each contributing one or more pointings o the fortlicoming exhibition, and we heart~ ily commend Mr. John F. Stafford, tho representative of the Art Commitleo of the Eshihition, to tho confl- Aence and co-operation of all artiste, The arrangements have now progressed 8o far that it is safe to anticipate one of the best exhi- bitions of contemporaneous American art ever made,—perhaps the very best, since the range 18 wide,—and an unusual and excellent feature is the presentation by some of the best artists of a considorable number of their works together. An extraordinary opportunity will in this way be offered for the stady of American paintiogs and of the style of individual artists. The six rooms of the Exposition Building »ill doubtless be fully occupied (last year they were too fully occupied) mostly witli American pictures, but the depart~ mont will also contain some choice foreign plc- tures, perhaps 200 of the latter 1n all. Persons who ~despise _American art will have an opportunity to find out whether their opinious are well founded or not. The picturea will be bung under the personal superintendonce of Mr. William H. Beard, the well-known New York artist, and water-colors will, if possible, be al- lowed a gallery to themselves. There will be no auction sales, and the prices of pictures on salo will be printed in the catalogues. THE CHICAGO ARTISTS WRO DESIRE TO CONTRIDUTE are allotted a eeparate place, and have been asked to take charge of their own department. At & meoting beld at the Academy of Design Tuesday evening, a committes of seven was ap- pointed to examine, and receive or reject, and arrapge the Chicago contributions, Severalof our artista aro known to be hard at work prepar- ing for exhibition, The Chicago Committeo1s: J. F. Gookins, J. R. Robertson, F. Freer, Charles Peck, E. Root, J. F. Murphy, C. SchwerdL. Of course no detail respecting ths pictores can be attempted at preseut, but a few items will give an idea of THE EANGE OF THE EXHIBITION. The letters from Mr. Leavitt, of Massachusetts, promising two important pictures of Leutze, *The First News from Lexiogton” aond * Tho Battle of Monmoth,” have already been pub- lished. Another ricmm by the same artist is offered by a gentleman in the city, the subject of which i8, **Tom Moore w Younger Days." These pictures will give us an opportunity of forming sn 1ndependent opinion on Mr. J. J. Jarves’ severe judgment of a well-known artist. Tt seems as thongh there must be some mistako about a recsnt report that Loutze has lately sold a piotare ia London called * Layfayette Sigomg the Independence of America.” Walker, tho painter of the *Bsttle of Lookout Mountain,” recently exhibited here, will send eight pictures. Four large new pictures of Paul Weber, subject, **The Beasons,” sre offered from tho parlors of a gentleman in the city who loet gimilar ones in the great fire, aud has had them repainted from the same studios. Other pictures on the way are ** Sucset Among tho Icebergs,” William Bradford ; * An Autumn Day,” A. F. Beliows; **The Blind Reader,” tho same ; ** Moon Lake, near Munich,” N. T. Le- ganger ; ** Lake Sternberg, Bavaria,” the same; * Spanish Smugglers Crogsing the Pyrenees— Danger Ahead,” Kindler, Dusseldorf. A pastel ortrait of alady and children by J. Barbour, of aitimore, seems from the photograpi to be an ‘unusuaily good thing of its kind. Mr, J, O. Nicolls, the Seoretary of the New York Water-Color Society, writes: **Your Chu- cago Exposition has been brought before our Bocietv, and resolutions passed committing our meubers to do all in their power to cootribute. What this will really amount to I have no means of juagiog, baviug been out of town since the 1st of May. I send seversl drawings mywelf, and hear of others who will be well repre- sented.” Altogether, taking into accoust the Commit- tee's plan of operations, the genuina enthusiem of the immediate manager, Mr. Stafford, and the interest of the artists, there is every reason to expact un excellent opportunity for the study of American art, and for the purchase of good pictares directly from the artists at fair and reasonable terms. e HOME ARTISTS. MR. 3. W. DODOE has in bis studio, in Pike's Bzilding, three little 1andscapes which heis preasing upon the market at & pnoe considerably below their ordinary wvaloe. Mr. Dodgeis an old and accomplished artist; best koown as a miniature painter, and, in his specialty of small portraits highly finished, T THE FINE ARTS, ' |t Esthetic Advantages of Ath- Ietie Coutcs_ts. ¥ | gentlement Their Special Need in America -~A Grecian Example. The Coming Exhibition of Pictures at the Exposition. A Representative American Display—Pros- pect of the Best Colleetion of the Sort Ever Made. The Chicago Department---Some of the Pictures---J. W. Dodge, the Miniature Painter. Crufkshank’s Sketch-Book---Prize Award- ed to Chicago Artistic Photo- graphs. ART MOSAICS: I 1t ig & little abrupt, perhaps, to introduce the American rifle team, the college regatia, and the attempt at a regatta more recently undertaken ot Toledo, as well as the persistent feet of Mr. O'Leary, into a talk on fine art. Yet thereisa much closer connection between the athletic and the esthetic than the average American suspacts. We are, a8 & beople, scrawny, homely, lank, and dyspeptic. From childhood to the grave, we *“bolt ™ our food, and staive the liver in order to stimulate the brain. The typical American givea reat and recreation to all bis servanis ex~ cept the most eflicient, ag well as the most nee- essary and most faithful,—his own head,—and this he whips and drives, 80 that even in sleep it gathers no real repose, until Atropos cutsthe silver thread. Muscular sports are a gorrective of this evil, and they have a claim for respect and ocultivation on behalf of health. But we want to argue now for their cultivation on behalf of beauty and refisement. We have given littlo thought to the esthetics of muscle; to the relation between physical culture, beauty, and pational taste. We are so excessively hideous, so unfit, objectively, for the purposes of fine art, that our representative men actually terrify, sud sometimes nearly ruin, the artists who are induced to preserve their personality on canvas or in marble. If the ‘likeness” be faithful, the result is detestable—itis repudiated | by au art which despotically demanas symmetry and proportion ; if the ‘likeness " be sacrificed to the bebests of ast, the picture is denounced 88 worthless by those moss ioterested. The hybrids and mongrels of artistic form thus pro- duced have led some of the philosophers of art to decfare that nothing which is not intrinsically beautiful should be suffered to receive the re- sources of art, and several have even gone so far as to insist that nothing peculiarly modern should be entertained by the scuiptor.” Modern apparel—the dresscoa:, for instance—18 set down as simply abeurd, and Foley's statues of Goldsmith and Burke, in front of Trinity Col- lege, Dublin, are considered conspicuous excep- tions to the general rule of falures; and they derive decided advantage from the accident of their position, which gives them an appearance of alto-relicvo. One of the_cavilers at the mod- ern in art says such * works, as they have no higher design than to bs portraite, in most in- stances, the more fuithfully they represent the individual to whom they are set up the more ugly they are. It is not the statue of the ¢hu- man form divine' we have; it Is the statue of an elderly gentlemar, with bis bald head, his corpulency, aod his coat.” ¢ Fancy the Apollo Belvedere in such a oostume! Can anything more absurd be imagined? Yet we have throughout London statues quite as absurd of men who, IJ; their lives, did not deserve to be so caricatared.” Our national customs and tendeacies make our contours, as a rule, quite as arustic as oar costumes. Abraham Lincoln is a trifle more iu- tolerable in & Roman toga than in & Washington claw-hammer ; and, had he possessed an artistic head and symmetrical figure, he would have been pleasing in either. His chastely draped busts are the last resort of the artist; bub ptilt the incongruity remsiocs between the artistic effort and the non-artistic subject. Thoe characteristic angularity and scrawniness of the American islargely attributa- ble to the national hurry in business, and the national neglect of physical training, nud there is no better or more certain way in which these exasperating defects of featte and proporiion can be remedied than by & general practical in- terest in physical culture. The Greeks, the most beautiful of races, un- derstood this perfectiy. They have supplied fino art with its universally-accepted wodels of manly and womanoly beauty, and from living men and women did the artist copy the limbs of the Apotlo Betvedere and the enchanting grace of the Venus de Medici. Thero was the closest | he has no superiorin the city. His long prao- nossible connection between cheir ath- [ tice in painting on ivory has made him & master letic _eports and their fine art; and | jpthe smooth finish and high touching charac- they held almost egual prominence in the national .attention. “The highest distinction among the people was to be a conquerer at tho Olympic games. The city to which a victor be- longed considered itself signally honored and favored by the gods ; his statue was ordered from the best artist, and erected in a public place ; he was supported from the public reve- nue, and ** demonstrations of respect,” writes Winckelmann, “ were extended even to his chidren.” To the conquerorsin the greatest contests, statues were erected often in propor- tion tothe number of therr triumphs, notonly on the spot where the games occurred, butin their native places ; and these statues, which were required to be faithful copies, and of only life- size, exercised a powerful influence in caltivat- ing health, symmetry, morality, and art, at one and the same time. “So clearly nnderstood was the philosophy of physical culeure in Greece that men of everv rank and position in life, from the greatest teachers to the struggling artisan, coveted the victory of the athlete, aod _entered the common lists in the hope of schioviug 8 reward «o highly esteomed, Plato pariicipated in the Isthmian games at Cor- intth and the Pythian games at Sicyon. The re- pute of Pythagorse was greater as an alhlete teristic of that kind of art, and the finish which he gets even on photographs s extraordinary. He is occupied now principally in coloring pho- tographs, and it is an unpleasant index of the condition of the fine arts among us that a Vet~ eran artist, who for more than forty yoars has been a member of the National Academy, and is now Vice-President of our own Academy of De- sign, should find nothing better todo than to color photographs. The delicate miniatures in which Mr. Dodge excels have gone out of fashion since the discovery of photography, but there ought still to be "soma demand for fine ‘portraiture on a small scale, for nothing in the way of 8 portrait of a friond can be so elegant a8 a painting on ivory by a skillful hand. The advantage of having family portraits on a small scale was illustrated at the time of the great fire, ‘when even those who attempted to carry away large portraits bad them wrenched out of their hands by the wind. -Good photographs, nicely finished by a good portrait-painter like Mr. Dodge, make & very fair substitute for pictures in ol or water-color, and are very cheap. The Iandscapes mentioned above are * 8loop Iu!andbnx.nka George,” an ** Antumn Scene in than, in his own time, a8 a philosopher, for, | the tekills, N. Y,” and * Sooset on while the whole nation entered into the spirit of | the - River,” all quite small, the the games, only the minority was learned in the Jargest being perhaps 15 by 25 _inches. abstract. Pythagoras won the prize at Blis, and one of his pupils in gymnastics, Eurymenes, was similarly successful. Even the victorious horses in the chariot races were commemorated in ‘ronze stoue. Bo general was the interest of the nation in physical compefition that, after the return of the Heraclide to the Peloponnesus, the possession of the terntory of Elis was de- cided by & contest with slings, and one of the discovered fragments of Greek art is the moti- :;:d &ng tg{_n nl.mfier, supnosed o be Pyrech- , thie ian, who wss the winner i oy r in the Even the women of Greece shared the pre- vailing epirit, and omitted no pains to produce healthy, vigorons, and beantiful children, re- gortiog to such means ss placing in their cham- bers statuettes of Apolio in order to have be- fore them at ali times a perfect model of muscu- lar beauty. To be bealthy and to be beautifal were the first two wishes of the Greek ; beauty meant fame and happiness ; public prizes were awarded at etated intervals to the most beautiful of both sexes, the recipients being seleoted by tho artists. This love and cultivation of beanty had a tremendous 1nflugnos on the love and cul- hv;hg;: of fin:;n ; and thus tho finest nation-of sotiqr ‘was the most &; etrice - iest, ln?lhs moat_reflnody.m LA For the sake of esthetics, therefore, it is neo- mwinm;;: in every form of I @ need the creatiol national enthusiasm for the cnhi'lfii:no‘o; muscle 23 an aid toward th i S1%_2ad taxth. e cultivation of besuty, ——— THE ART EXPOSITION. THE PRESENT PROSPECTS. ° ° ‘The art exhibition of the September i- tion, a month distant, begins topuatl wn}ixxgs;:- ble shadow before, and it is, Perhaps, not pre- mature (o give s distinet account of what it is intended ta be, and what its prospects are. Tte collection exhibited last year was com- posed principally of the stock of three ar four Eastern art dealers, lorgely - French and Gm qu, and, while the exhipition The last-named is the most pleasing in color and management, & bright, pleasant picture for & drawing-room. **Sloop leland " appears to be 8 faithful study of a curious island ard group of trees, less forcible than the preceding, aod rep- resenting the szene in a colder light. The au- tumn scene 18 a little wooded ook, with & bridge and a woman's fi crossing it. Mr. Dodge’s friends will be sorry to learn that he is suffering from family misfortune in the severe sickness of hie youngest son. Those who know and like his pictures will do well to avail themeelves of the opportunity to buy them at sbout balf their original valuation. prbsdd ) GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. IS SEETCH-BOOK. - Forty years ago this year, George Cruikshank, already & man of middle age, aod the most fa- mous of living caricatmists, was issuing the numbers of his ““Sketch-Book" at irregular 1o- tervals, four oblong psges at a time, concluding with the ninth part. This book was not a sys- tematic illustration of snythiog, bus in it the artist followed his own fancy, making humorous drawings o‘t anything or notbing, without any very definite guide or purpose. The hook be- came rare some time 8go, and has been songht after by collectors, and the interest in Cruik- shank and his works has led to a reissue of it as nearly as possible in the nfi@ml form, The title-page of the *Skeich-Book” bears a Chica- go imprint,—W. 1. Eeenece, 94 Washingtonstreet, and it is the same as published by Sabin & Sons 1n New York, mentioned in the Nation two weeks 0. Cruikshank has been a prolific illustrator for many years, and almost everybody, whether he knows it or not, 18 more or lesa familiar with his works. The best-known perhaps are his illus- trations of Dickens, which have served to fix maoy people’s Ideas of Pickwick and Oliver Twist. A4 long ago as 1840 he was of im- portance encugh to form the subject of an eu- thusiastio esaay by Thackeray in the Wesiminster . Review, in which fho author referred to a famous , there was aigréhy dasl *stall living, and it is sttiolo upou the “Tilustrationsof the Time'' a dozen years earlier in Blackwood. Tha artist is apleasure Lo think of hid en- joyiog his_reputation for so long a time. The “Skerch-Book ™ . 18 one of “the . moat char- acteristic of tbo author's works, because in it be was entirely unlimited in sub- ject and treatment. The sheets are made up gen- erzily of ‘ope or two larger drawings (mot very large, however), and a- variety of little off-hand sketchies—vagaries ¢onnocted with, or suggest- ed by the main subject—scattered about the edges of the page, as though theartist bad taken up his pen, and, while making the princi- pal pleture, had (occasionally). tried the ex- pression of tlie attitude on 'the margin, and fivally bad filled up by skotchiog anything that occarred to bim in the same veln. . For {nstante, in one cut &’ street-preacher of & sanctimonious appearance is addressing a crowd 10 a pouring rain. Everybody appears at- tentive, bt everybody has an uinbrella’ The orator is rmt«cted by an umbrelia, and, of his andience, there is little to be seen but nmbrellas. On-the edge of the page are sketchas of people 1o the most 1mprobable positions all carcying umbrellas. Two stout gentlemen enjoying their grog and pipes at an out-of-Aoor table are under umbrellas ; & town-crier with hia bell, and an old 8a:t on.an exoursion, some. mounted huntsmen, even & cavalry officer and the flying soldiers whon he' is pursuing, all ¢arry open umbrellzs. On the two corners of the same page area pair of independént sxetches, which appear to have a moral relation to each other. Kx one's little figure resembling Napoleon hsa-upset a large Rrlobo of the world which 18 evidently about to crush him 1n spite of his utmost exertions, and in the other a vory amall boy is making extraor-~ dinary efforts to reach a door-knocker which is ridiculously beyond his xoach. The sketches, mostly smell and slight, are likely at first to be_disappointing to & public ac- customed to the bold “ cartoons ” of Nast and the late caricaturists. But it ia naticesble that everybody who looks over Crmkshank's pictures ~ beging with = a smile, but gradually relaxes until " he ends with & hearty laugh. The cuts' have little finish, and ought to be viewed as if somo intelli- gent and clever friend had sent us sheets of his ictorial conceits freely executed ib an hour of leizure. The wit is always kindly and pleasing, and the drawing ready and happy. The artist or amateur will find much good study for rapid sketching in the “ Sketch-Book.” Lho dnthor is a thorough Englishman, and laughs at dandies, and soldiers, aud Frencbmen, and Irishmen, in true Joln Bull fashion. He is a temperance man and devotos several. sheets to that subjact. One of the most amusing of the drawings is where a peaceable, insigmficant-lookiug gentle- man, i dressing-gown and slippers, enjoying lus morning-paper and coffee, 18 interrupted by tbo entrance of a tremendous military man, in full regimentals, 6§ feet high ab least, who staods in a square military attitude, his black moustache standing out terri- bly, and says: .**Sir, 1 am deputed by Capt. ‘tlfhun'«ierwhlcker to domand instant satistac~ ion.” Thers has been plenty of criticism of the cor- rectoess of Cruikshank’s drawing, and no doubt there is room for it, but Thackaray, Hamerton, and even Ruskin, praise bim warmly, and we may enjoy hum in good company. oot i ODDS AND ENDS. 8anford B. Gifford, the landscape painter, and Henry E. Brown, the scuiptor, are rusticating in the Adirondacks. The New York Metropolitan Mnseum has two original works of Hogarth in the losn exhibition, a portrait of Mrs. Hogarib, and One of her father, Sir James Thornhill. A cast of Rinehart's ‘‘Clstie ” bas Iately been placed in the Hall of Sculpture of the Corcoran Gallery at Washington, and excites the liveliest interest. It is .thought to be a successful rival of Powers’ ** Greek Slavo.” Eastman Johnson’s * Pet Lamb,” a picture for a long time exhibited at Williams & Ever- ott's, in Boston, has peen elegantly reproduced in an engraviog. It reoresents a pretty girl stooping 1p the 8 and feeding a pet lamb from ber ontatretched band. A colossal piece of eculpture, ropresenting “T'he Crucifixion,” by Prof. Halbig, of Munich, is to be erected in the Village of Oberammergan during the coming aotumn. Tho work was a cominission from the Kin% of Bavaria, and is ssid to be vory grand, both in design and execu- tion. T. L, Rowbotham, the well-known artist and member of the English Institute of Painters in ‘Water-Colors, died in Loudon on the 30ih of June, aged 52 years, Mr. Rowhotham's works are well known, a largo uumber of them baving been distributed through auction sales duriog tho past two years. O'Brien is fairly established in his pew art store, next door to the old one, on Wabash av- enue, and has much the most attractive rooms of the sort in the city. His establishment with its expandion has developea from an ** emporinm into a gallery. Empoiiums were getting too. plenty in this part of the countrs. There is an octagonal galicry back of the sales-room. lighted from above, and very prettily arrangoed, bus it is not yet huog. The Philadelphia Photfographer, the leading photographic publication in the country, and the organ of the National Photographic Association, offers prizes from time to time for the best pho- tographs in varions stvles. Ina recent cowmpe- tition, when a gold medel was offered ** for the six best natives of the new ‘Promenade’ style sent by July 20," open to Earope and America, the prize was awarded, over about fifty competi- o8, to H. Rocher, of this city. The * Prome- nado Style” is the full-longth figure upon a card a hittle larger than the cabinet eize. In the present state of photographic art cousideration 18 given in compstitions of this kind not only to mechanicsl manipulation and judiclous lighting, but to the tasteful arrangement of the figure, andits judicions composition with the accessories. It is said that American photographers are fully up to the bost Enropean practice in photograph- ic manipulation, but that the foreiga artists sur- pass them in what maybe called the purely artistic qualities, choice, and arrangement of subject. “Anybody who will have the curiceity to exumine the . pictures for which this prize Eu been awarded will perceive that the cemposition is of precisely the same character with that of a well painted picture, carefully studied o that the lines shall help each other, and the masses of light and sbade fall into proper relations. Photographers have lonz styled themselves art- iste, aud the day bas at length come when it is necessary for them to be go iu fact as well as in name. ART JOURNALS FOR AUGUST. ) The most interesting part of Appletons’ Art Journa! for. August is an articlo on the Spanish- Roman artist, Fortuny, translated from the French of Yriarte, and accompanied bya por- trait of the artist, and cuts of some of his worke. Fortuny died last November, only 85 years old, but with a world-wide reputation. The steel piate at tho beginuing of the number, ‘““The Young Shepherdess of the Abruzzi,” is an unusually pleasiog one. An engravieg from a statue of the Earl ‘of Derby looks much more like marble than like the bronze from which it was really taken. Thers is aleo an obituary no- tice of Frederick Walker, the artist who asssted Thackeray with the illustrations of his stories, putting the rough sketches of the noveliat into form ?nr engraving, and finally illustrating one or two of the mnovels by himself. Although only ‘30 years old, Mr, Walker had achieved dis{inction 1o three departments of art wood-catting, water-color, snd oil-painting. A much more extended notice of tais artist is given by J. Comyng Carr in the Porlfolio, and the article i3 a good example of the difference between this journal and ali our other art maga- zines, being a fine literary essay, with s careful examination of Walker's artistio career and works, from the mes; philosopbical and artiatio standpoint. The Portfolio is stroog this month, the etching at the beginning—** Port Ruysdael,” after Turver, by A. Brunet-Debaines—being the fiuest thing of the-sort for several months. ‘I'lhree sketches by Walker, a fac-simile engrav- iug of ** A Tinker,” by Legros, aod an etching of * Kingston-on-Thames,” by Phillips, are the other illustrations. Important articles are ** Al- phonee Legros,” by Reno Menard, and “ A.J. Wiertz," by J. Beavington Atkinson. CAPTURED. I met & facs not long ago,— © "Twag fweet and passing fafr, "~ And, &5 T scanued the features o'er, . Methought that Love dwelt there,— - Aloveas deep as Ocean’s bed, . A love as pure and true As suow-drops on the mountain's brow, An flow'reta wet with dew. And as T gazed, ds if in trance, In that soft, melting eve, N Ofttimen s thrill would through me dart, And oft I'd heava a sigh.. To call her mine,—to piess her hand, phodum tosmomr ese were the prom of m; . Forherl dldl:dulcl: K‘. % Since then T often meet that face, And till it charms me more ; Each time I mark a winning grace 1 naver saw before, Since then, my love for her ne'er wanes; Since then, sweet dreams by mght Oft came, and in them her 1 seo ‘Who Wan Iy heart on sight. T - APPRAISEMENT. The Machinery for Veluing Imports at the Port of Chicago. A Government Wheel That Works Only One Way. It Corrects an Undervaluation with Lightning Speed, But Does Not Act at All in Case of Over- valuation, of Books and Reports The System . TUsed. Claims For Damages---A Recent Decision and its Effect. Before the passage of the law creating inte- Tior ports of eutry, the business of the Chicago Castom-House was limited almost entirely to imports vis Moncreal, and the Appraiser had so little work to do that the office was almost a sin- scure. Now, upwards of $8,000,000 are collected in duties every year, the collections all being baged on the valuations of goods made by the Appraiser, 50 that that oficor has now plenty to do, and merits well by Uncle Sam. Indeed the imports through the Chicago Custom-House are B0 Iarge as to excite the jealousy of New York, and an oceasional bickering over appraisements is the consequence. 1t is apparent that in order for importars of differeut cities to stand upon the same footing as regards the Government the appraidement and “clasification of goods shonld be the same. A description of THE SYSTE3 OF MAKING APPRAISEMENTS will discover the difficuity of ebtaining umi- formity. When merchandise is imported it is accom- pahiad by a triplicate invoice, certified to by the United Btates' " Coosul at the port of shipment. One of these invoices goes 10 tho Coilector st the cosst port and anotner to the Collector at’ the intenor port of entry. - On arrival at the coast ‘port, the goods are merely examined by the whole pack- age to see that in number and marks they cor- reapond to the description of the invoice. When they arrive at the interior Dort of entry—as at Chicago—the Collector of the Port indicates o the Inspector what packages ara to be sent to the Appraiser’s store. It is not necessary that of & number of packages contaming ihe same kind of goods all should be examined. In Chi- cigo ona in every six or seven is selected acd sent to the Appraiger’s store, together with the invoice. . THE APPRAISER'S STORE of Chicago is on the northwest corner of Mar-: ket and Jackson. "It is in charge of an United Btates Storekeeper, an ofticer appeinted by the Collector and responsible to Lim., Tho Ap- Ppraiger cannot obtain access to the store-room excopt by his consent, aud at night, or when the store-room is not in uee, he retains the key thereto. Adjoining tne store-room is the'Ap- praiser’s oftices, and, during butizess-hours, a Iarge doorway places them ea suito with the store-room. ‘When the goods arrive at the store-room, the packages are-opeued by the Examtners, classi- fled, and apprased. They have the invoice 38 a bagis on which to conduct the examipativn, bat do not go by it. The law requirés the appraise- ment to be made according to the market value of the goods, without regard to the price at which they may have been purchased. If the foreign buyer of & merchantshoutd, for instance, purchase & quantity of dress goods at a bankrupt £ale at from 50 to 60 per cent below the market value, the priocipal dertves no advantage therc- from in paying dutics a8 the Appraiser ia re- quired to advauce. the value. up to the mexket value. The Department at Washington keeps the office supplied with foreizn price-lists ob- tained throuch the United States Cocsuls, so that the neglizence of Goveroment ofizials in forwardiog price-iists may make a serious dif- ference to the importer. It 18 very ofien the case that towards the end of a ecason when the market hus become weak, lots to cloge out may be bought at prices grestly reduced from the market value at . the height of the season, but the Appraiser, baviog & prce-list maae up on & fmn market, most ad- vance the value of the goods to that standard, aod so the importer; will be forced to Fay duties oo an amount 8 or 10 per cent larger than the invoice. In the appraiscment of fancy articles and notions difficalt to catalogme on price-lists, a guide is atforded by other invoices of thé same character, or by obtaimng the opin- ion of houses in the same line of buziness. THE CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS is also an importaut function of the examiner, as the rate of duty varies with tbe cLaracter of the goods. Thus it is necessary, for instance, to determine the proportion_of silk or cotton 10 a fabric in order to fix the daty upon it. A sjuare inch of the fabric will be picked out, the cotton threads separated from the woolen, or the eilk from the woolen, under the microscope, and the proportions weighed by delicate test-scales fur- nisned by the Government. Goveynment provides samples of sugar, fixing the different es. It is well understood in the West, the tariff legislation of the Government is controlled by a class of political economixts who desire, ac- cording tothe declaration of the leading expo- nent of their viéws, that a sea of fize rolled be- tween this country and others. The deficiency of nataral obstacies is, therefore, sought to be overcome by afixing' heavy penalties upon the parchase of foreigu goods, by means of enorm- ous import Guties, The impulse to escape pan- alties is so natural that in order to enforce them SEVERE AND BURDENSOME, RESTRICTIONS are necessary. According to the law an underval- uation of more than lgfereent eotaila the penalty of confizcation of gaods, €0 that & merchapt who ghould be tucky enough to buy goods at a forced sale at 20 to 30 per cent below the market rate before prevailing would be obliged by law to ms- ropresent the vaiue in invoicing them, mark- ing them up to the market rate 1o the invoice. Or again, to take an in- stance from actual occarrences daring Ilast season, if & merchant importa a Iof of wool- ens, the maiket for which has fallen off before their arrivals, go that they are not worth 75 per cent of. their invoice value, the goods must be marked up to, and daties colleczed upon, the amonnt thay were worth in the foreign market when bought. Owing to this, dunng aglat in the market for blanketa, some Beasons a0, an 1mportation of blaokets were sold in boud for the amount of the duties thereon. Or, in other words, the importer said to the Pobhe!: “*You may have the blankets if” yo1 will pay the duties on them.” Another hardsiip which importers have to endure is TNEQUAL TAXATION because of variatios in the appraisement of values at the diffcrent ports. R i3 very daficult to tix market rates for fanoy ariicies and toys, and the examiners of the New York Custom- House have cat under the Chicago valaations to sach an extent that Chicago importers have been dnven to New York. The same 18 trueof ribbans, in the impottation of which throagh the New York Cuntom-House there seems to be a reat deal of fraud going on, as the duties col- ed. It makesno differsnce how £003s may havo passed through san Haes Houge into the hands of the impoge. = X5 invoice can bo traced, the goods Ter 2 e tho additional smount. of dunies colles g 2 sides tnis sample report, 3 monthly rapoys made 0 tue General Appraiser of the tror 18 of goods arpraiged, the classification, ! ] he Immediately corrects “any error in’ clags] pod tion if one should have ocoarreq. g Importers generally employ. CUSTOM-HOUSE BROKERS to attend to b3 passage of - their through the Custom-House, and thegp will mark the classitication of zoods and thy of duty on_the wmvoice: " If, on exammens® this i Tound currect, 8 T6LUrD i3 made tha; sppraisement is correct as noted. Very 1.."" tempts at_fraudulent entry have been’ * Chicago importers. A case once occurred by which'a package of goods wus invoiced @ at alow valuation. Upon examinatien “np found that the so-called, ** rags” wers dat; pieces of clothing. When pleces of the e} and style ware collacted cogether, ic wag fooF that they were whols garments only peeding A be sewed togetter. The *“‘rags” wers ,m;“ ca;ed %v Unlqlo i‘S‘.mn‘xlal. n New York and gsome othes deal ot * Porten g brokery s done by xNocKING DOWN " i8 done by examiners in eamplin of the importer has *‘seen” them. It 18 Oftey. very important that goods sball e g turough the Cusiom-House ag idly aa sible, 80 88 to be put upon, £he markt whire aemand i8 active. In sach casey it will pay importor to fes Gastom-Houso ocers by to hurry forward the examination of taeir ig. voices. At some ports the receiving of REatai ties 1n the way of household sujplies, ete, by Custom-House officials has become so customary 28 to be looked upon as asort of vested righy and the cburl who sets his face againsg the pleasant custom is ot to receire avy accommg. dations, nor will bus invoice be. passed. uatil 4] the liberal men bava been atteaded to. In ports like New York, where there are storeroomy by the acte, 1he Appraiser mus: neossa.zily rly largely oo his subordinates, and under a carelasy or -*polincal" enpervisior such abuses may flourish. Under the system practiced by the dp. praiser of Chicago notbing of the and can. A baok 14 kept completely recording the work of the office. The dates when invoices aze reoei when examived, by what esamider. and whey roturoed, are all entercd, acd the Appraiser ;g at once see from 1t whether 5oods are being ey, swined ont of thewr order. First come, fm eerved, is the rule of th~ odies, aud the workis kepe well ahead, so ti:as 1o unreasonabls delypy occar. 1N CASE OF DAMAGE z to goods on the voyuge of importation, the im. porter makes an appaat to the Collector for sg apprasement and sllovaoce of damages Jb was 10 relation to this allowance or damage that difficatty arose soma ttmaazo. The lw allows ten days after the arrival of guods iv pat for the fiiing of a clum for allowancs of dsm ages. Assistant Secretary Conaut, of the Trag. ury Depa:tment, decided that the port refersd to by the language of the act was the coast part at which the gools wers landed. The effect af this decision would bave beon gimply to havads. bied importers torough iuterior por:is anv allow. ance for damages. aad wouald bave forced them tohave their xoods examived at the Custom. Houses of the coast por Attornes-Goners) Pierrepont decided aganss the constraction of the law gmven by AMr. Cooaut, and re stored tho privilegos of tho inwrey Uoder the law a8 it scanel™® now, claims can be allowed only for damuge on thy voyage of importation nod damage wcuned o transit to tho intuior poit Cansot be conaidsred, But under tie decision of Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont, the voyage of importation 18 2eld to extand fg the iuterior port, aud a test-case would proably cauge a decision to Lo made in faver of appraise mont of damages cceurnng anywhere pror ko the goods being received by tao Custom-Hoas of the intorior purt,—a result which would only make the Jaw conform to jusuce and common genge. All tho Goverumest does in alloiog aa* appraisement of daunges is to rafvain from fax. 1ng toat wineh bas uo value. Vhen a clain fer sypraisement of dnwages is mads within the propor tune, the Collector 1oairncis . tha Appraiser to maxe t4¢ appraisement. This it done, aud the amount of tha duty proportionais. ly reduced, as, for 1ostance, if it 18 fouod that . the value of the goods bas baen reduced 10 per cent, tae amount of the duty iz raduced 10 per ceut. Appraisement of damdges was of common ocourrence alter the fire, woen large quantines of plate-glass were beinz imported with 8 cone siderable amount of breakage. ‘fbe meikod of aporaisement vas to deduct the valus of the availabla squares, that conld be cut from the broken picces, from tho allosance of damages. 1n cass of OVER VALUATION of goods, the ouly rezourss of the importer iz ta appeal to the Department at Washmgtou. The Collector bas no powes to reduce the rates fixed or apgraisement of valus mads by she Asseasor, atthough he can mcresss them if they are 00 low. The goods never paes out of the custodyof the Collector, the datics snd responsbility of the Appraiser covering only the exam nationend appraisement. 'I'he goods are brougot to the Appraiser’s store in bouded wagoos, and ¢e- main in the custody of $ue Stoiexecper whis in tho Appramser's store. After the goods have been examiued hnd aporaiscd, the involcs is marked accordingly auda retorn made to the Collector. Gouds are withdrawn from the Aj praiser’s store only upan 2 porust issued to th importer by the Coilectur aud sddrossed to tos Storekeeper. ‘The bouks of the Apprafser contsins com- lcte s RECORD OF TT:S FRANSACTIONS of nis office, 80 that overy packago sent (0 him for appraisement can bo traced through every stage of its passage torouzh his hands, Oas 2 count book 14 called the *‘Iecord of Invoicsd and contains, 10 appropriate - columus, the of the receipt of the ficnds to be appraisod, aod when the return of the sppraigement was msde the name of the vessel on which the goods wers imported, the foreign port whence she the name of the imporier, tho articles co- tnined in the invoice, the foreiga walse and the value in cusency, the valuatios 88 which the goods were ontered, a appraised valuation, and the case-marks on he packages or other otber peculiar maiks. .t Another book is kept, s:yled *Record of Ap- praisements for Damage,” in which tao entns sre uimiiarly minute, 80 that the Looks of thed fice present a regularhistory of its business, ° The farce of the Appruser’s office of the Pat f_Chicago is 88 follows: charies C. D. Stina ected bave fallen too npuhy to be accounted for by declice in consumption, In 1872 ribbons imported o this country paid a duty of over $8.,000,000; in 1873, $6,000,000; 10 1874, £4.000,- 000; in 1875, $2.000,000. The ribbou importers have all been forced to New York, as a Custom- House importer can somehow managé to.obtain Jower valuations there than anywhere else. ‘Theso variations conld be prevented and uni- formity by the general adoption of & aystem originated in the Appraiser’s department «of the Chicago Custom-House. When goods are appraised conceruing which any question aa to o correctness of the classification or valuation might arise, & small sample is taken and pasted _into a record book, with 8 memorandum of the date when the goods was received, when ex- amined, the importer, etc,, 54 that, if becessary, the goods could be traced. A large book is kept for braids, farniture reps, dress goods, and wool- ens; aother for cottons, and linen fabrics, and embroideries ; another for eilks, ribbons, and veil goods, eto, The Aporaiser of Chicago makes a report every three months, sending on samples to Mr. Joho H, Mereditn, at Baltimore, the General Appraiser for the custome districtin which Chicago 18 placed. In bis sample report for the thiee months ending March 3, the Ap- praiser recommended the esinblishment of p A BUREAU OF BANPLES i by the Department at Washingin. Such a Bureau should be presided over by an expers, and Tegular reports to it should be wade by the Ap- praigers of the various ports. A difference in class; or valuation of goods -would by this means be discovered and e ertor correct- Charles H. Ham, Appraiser: Clerk and Verifier; Harvey S. Wheeler and Thed Felch, Examiners; Barncy McCormick, Opsos aud Pacuer. “BESIDE THE DEAD. Mercy ts for the mercital if thou HAnTboen of 8203, il bs Acoorded now.—~Iywe: 1 stand beside thy cold and pulselesa form: No pang of sorrow doth my spirit tholll; But a deep thankfulness that all is pasf, And past furever, dotirmy lona heart Al T presa thy hand, and fecl no answering claspj No tender nght beams in thy whiaded eyes; The heart's quick throbbings come and go not; S That thou art dead, Bo tears regretful risa. And yet thers waa within the pasta time, To stand beaid> thee 28 thou art to-nfght, From out my spirtu would have crushed ull hophy And o'ez existence flung au endless bilght. To ind theo faithless,—thee I degmed 80 pure,= To know theo fickle,—wus & curre that fell More dark and bitter than the hour which bolds For thee and me 3 jong and last farewsl. ‘Wrapt {n the calm, eternal slsep that’s thins, Can I upbraid thee ¥ No. I lowly bend For one last lock upoo thine fcy face,~ Tho lait on earth,—the Lk, or 'tis the el And so T touch thy wordless lips, and press “A Hisa forgiving on thy marble brow,— Leave thee at rest, all thankful that 'tis 80, Fot he ver, never claim thee 0o, ST Gwes . Wizsas, I S s ©'Connell and George 1V+ Pall Mali Gazotte. 0'Connell trocly Mmittod that Georeo IV, 4 bastowed s ‘*royal malediction ” updd pored 0'Connell attonded thg first levee afier b8 ing of the Emagcipation huil. +The ".M,,_' King," to give O'Connell's own ‘words, suffenng from an utterly broken mdmfl"‘m » and the presence champer was kept a8 possible to_preserve bim from M:"M& S crowding. When I got into the midsh 0 Aajorr proaching the throns, I asw the lips of 8 ty moving , and. thinking it pf ble be wm‘ e apeaking to me, [ advanced, in order ¥ it requisite, & suitable teply. Hs had' peie] epeak—1 kissed bands aod passed 02. . 1050, daya [ saw & mystecious paragrapk 23 newspapdr, femarking on the straog® b bis which ao Iish sabject bad been recerved BYED Prince, who was utated to bave veuted 8 S 1y bim. I happened to met ths Duke of M and asked him if he couid explain Lluimh' * Yes,’ said he * you are the persod The day you were at the leves his Majesiy ] a8 you were approaching, ¢ This is 0'Co80 God damu the scoundrel I”' 7 St giss Ml ouy Instead of putting money in stocks, w{“ people pukbit in nm&np : . v T