The New York Herald Newspaper, July 11, 1870, Page 8

THE FINE ARTS. ‘The Palace of Industry, Paris—Crowds of Visitors and Intensely Hot Weather— The Rewarding Goddess and the Medals—Scenes in the Interior of the Building—What the Critics Say— Aendscape Painting and Seulp- ture—The New School Ele- ment — Female Artists— Speech of the Minister of Fine Arts—Inferences at the Close. PaRis, June 24, 190, ‘The sun 1s glaring with tropical intensity on the Palais de "Industrie and on the crowd of Vif jitore at present assembled im front of that edifice, /Notwith- standing the dazzling brightness of the blu esky the gaze of many ts momentarily upturned to’ wards the @olossal figure above the fagade; for It Te presents a lovely woman whose brow 1s wreathed with reful- gent rays, and from ner extended bauds; drop laurel @adems for fortunate mortals below. Very natural fare the tender glances with Which this figure ts Ronored to-day; for she 13 a rewarding, goddess, and her majestic motion towards the ipultitude is most Spproprate. In an houror two the Minister of Fine Aris tn great state wil) award unte’the deserving the gloriees medals they have won ‘om the fleld of strife for excellence. As one by one the owners of admit- tance tickets pass through the ever-revolving turnstiles they wipe their foreheads and feel Felieved by the cool aspect of the interior of the Dullding. ‘There are reserved places in the square and velvel-covered chairs there are con- friends on bepebes which form a kind of and however precious in itself the medal or decoration to be awarded must be, still when each recipient will hear his name called out @mong those who have distinguished themselves in ‘their own sphere, that world of thoughe and intelli- gence called the republic of arts, each will feel this 4s the proudest moment of his life. CRITICISM. Now that the sazon is over I will, having given the ‘werdict of the people on opening day, convey to your readers the conclusions formed by French @ritics on this year’s exhibit, It isnot tobe sup- posed that they agree—critics never do—nor that if Is @ very easy thing to define in a few words what for @ix weeks has been the burden of many colamus ia ‘very paper; but Ido not pretend ty sua up the dictates of all who have dabyled in criti eism. Out of one or two hundred who have “cone” the salon there are but five eminent judges, and ven though within this Moiited circle there 1s a vast divergence of opinion, all their views have radiated foward one centre—that of an ardent desire to be truthful; consequentiy they can be trusied. The Most authentic fuct stated ts that landscape painting das made mighty strides hand in hand with scuip- ture; that the so-called historical and religious atyles are totally degenerate; that cabinet pictures have dealt a terrible blow to higher aspirations, and that a new vivilying element has at length been Aniused, which is destined to triamph over past con- Ventionalities. The paragraph resumes about the matter of half a volume if published in close print. As f perfectly adhere to the judgments here cited I Will endeavor to fathom the causes of these effects tn the space allowed me, confirming tt by palpabie evidence. Landscape {8 in progress—not that minute, “pricked up,” green aud giassy blue attempts at stereotyped haiire, but we have broad, comprehe: sive handing of the vrush aud palette; we have ists aud morning haze; we have twidght and we aye laidday san, the sombre furrowed clod and dancing forest boughs; we have Corot’s “Viiie @’Avray,” Heilvach’s Sail on the Lake,’ Daubigny’s: “Nigat Seene,” Chintreuii’s “Fieid of Foud gard’s “Sanset in the Forest’ and man, ‘Whose sty i¢ may be less bold, but who ar the beaten track in Search of atmosphere as well as form. There ure paths m the wood, such as we have ali been through, and running streams, re- freshing hedge-rows und tangiea meadows, orehar ‘@nd lirvests, such a3 Frenca painters have never Wicd beiore. Axain, it must be repeated, sculptors are not be- Rind ; but here tue future of the latter greatly per- Dlexes @ Vast, thinking community, What 1s io be- Come oi ail the statues which the State cannot buy ? Statuary jas been so much encouraged that model- ug ior industrial purposes has been thrown aside as Inglorious, and Une talented have no other ambi- tion ‘than to sell their works to the gov- ernment. So far so good; but the gov- erument will purchase fewer statues fn the future—the cily of Pans has uo longer @ Baron Haussmann in the prefectorial chair, The new opera is truly a splendid qwarket, oniy some Tooin must be left Inside for singers and dancers; ihe Rew Louvre and the new churcies are fnlahed, and fe. each vacation turns & host of sculptors out of the ‘iné Arts School, ail promisiny youths and generally gilied with sturdy digestive organs. A Statue is noc as indispensable ina dwelling as @ne’s father’s portrait; granting that the wealthy in- ‘Vest in busts, itis not an order of this Kind here and tuere Wich Will keep irvepressibie sculptors alive. PATRONAGE AND DIFVICULTIES. However willing some generous art patrons may be in Prance, few houses can take ta more than one Hercuies, one Ariadne, one Penelope. When tie last Biche bas been filled with a Venus and Cupid the aly 2Val.able space left is the centre of the entrance hall. Sapposmg this to be occupied everywhe: ‘Where are all the other colossal bronzes to be pl ? The squares and gardens are very ull. Nothing is g@dvisable but museuins. This brings sculptors to the state again, aud Causes the upper adminstration of the Vepartment oi the Fine Arts to regret that the @ucouragement given by government was more Wholesale than provident, it can never be regretted shat there are too many artists. It was timprovident to establish no difference between a scnuiptor of emi- mence and the autuor of a piasier siatue in the re- Muneration line. The same sum should not have been overed for the intrinsic worth of both. Where ds the disciple Who would not endeavor to obtain the same reward as Praxiteles and Phidias? Why if it 4s held out should he not try for it? When a dis tinction will be made between the déoutant and the great aathor of many preceding works, sculptors of UL Very Inferior Laleat and much ambition will turn to ol ranches of their art, and there are #0 many. instead of carving nude deities they will #Jorn Monuments, aad even work for manufactures, @ modern industry tending to combine the charm of elegan| form with practical uillity. Here they will find a ready market, and masterpieces, instead of fevching as now from government but just enough ‘to cover the outlay they have entailed, Wil be pald flor according to their worth. Happy and fortunate America, now in travail and bringing forth new in- etitutions, she will consider the experience of the Old World, and Jearn by the errors in which students nave jailen for want of reform in the regulations ‘hat govern them. THE NEW SCHOOJ, ELEMENT. What, it may be asked, is the new element from Which 80 Liuch 1s expected, I have but to mention afew names and luis will be explained. Fortuny, Regoaull, Giraud. There are others, bnt these three, ‘With Courbev's new manne&, suit my purpose. ‘Too much wonderment has been expressed about For- tuny, an unknown, having received the sum of 70,000 francs (or an unknown picture, to allow of his maine being ignored at this hour by lovers of art intelii- gence. And where does he come from? What School does he belong toy How did his “Mariage en Espagne” come to light? As genius must, woula ‘De Lhe proper answer to the latwr query. FORTUNY 4s a young manof about thirty and belongs to no particular school. He i8 a cosmopolitan, has studied wt the foot of every shrine, especially Goza and ihe Spaniards; acquired faultiess, sure outline with the Germans, and that purest taste of combination with the French. Such is Foreany. His works have been exiibtied at Giroux, We have a rlyal draugnesizan now for Gustave Doré to compete with, So miuch for bold attempt, And now REGNAULT. ‘There sits nis “Salomé”—an andacious, scandalous success—the refutation of Ingres, the vindication of Delacroix, That the unprejudiced siould applaud fs natural. The “yellow girl,” seated in radiant id drapery, cut out as it w his dazzling aimee with the half voluptuous, half savage, smillog demon, @ child and unconscious tigress, with Woy fest resting on a leopard’s skin, must revolutionize all reconceived notions, But herein isa short triumph. the real success of Reguault found in semt-sneer of the scholastic. “He has attempted a tour de force,” they say, “and won.” What applause can exceed this? To conceive a tour de surce is Tach, but co execute tt and be styled a winuer by Opponents is the greatest tribute of all. nence from Giraud’s “Charmeur we fall from ‘What is marvejlous mto gorgeous Babylonia. Here we are before ® canvas contaming neither esky nor light, and here sit dark, opaque figures, clothed in antique drapery, both violet, yellow, green blue. Itis anything but what we have ever geen. Still those ladies looking on at the conjurer who is enchanting tropical birds are pure Asiatics of the noblest type. It isa Sardinapolian feast for the eye, but itis a feast of color, and the jar awarding unto its author @ medal, have rew: patient research and local truth. CAROLUS DURAN. The innovator in portrait painting is Duran. Thus there is a keynote ln every o« the artists’ gamut this year. LADY ARTISTS. Concluding the preceding remarks your art corre- Bpondent had but just time to shelter his scrutiniz- ing organs under a large nmbrella and dash out of a Sacre at the Palals de Vindusirie, when M, Maurice leaving Richard (who, fortunately for me, was behind time) arrived at the ‘principal entrance Was happy l squeeze in @ remote corner witich I had sectre early in the morning and though I bud no chow room, I on Que other hand had, in my Felreat, wot to be ig a the eifecia of the elbows of all the, ialy sts Present, ‘The lutver element was largeay rey: Tesenie’, in very scnsakwnal costujues O% UDpid Sencueg but siugularly striking shades, earl Wore spectacles, bu’ (ook uppreciaitye atutudes whFe lisiening to the abie specoh ute by ie ‘Mrister. Au art critic canaot help discerning; ot us It goes, succeeds wonderfully well {a inspiring to ‘Ro sinail extent the Influence of the eek it Mare,” however, does more—it 18 comprehensly real- ves @ more perteet, complete whole, It is the whole story of the church. It embraces all the feelings, wonderings, lougligs which the beaulliul place iowpires and awakens, The view 18 one Ol & portlon of the nave, with one transept and a partial view of tue choir, It is the stand- point from which most large buildings of that character appear to most advantage. The beautifal sercen, eniiched by its vartcolored marbles and could not fail % observe thal tho physdcal beaaty of | guarded by us sine of loug-robed apostles aud saints, M. Richard elicited as much aduitation trom tie daughters of the Muses a4 bis arguuicnts. He proved that-art was in progr ress aud expiaiued what were his duties towards artists Wéeraci aud men of science, “2 shail,” said be, on Oaishing, **be the AMvassador of (he empire to the repabic of arts aud letters,"and, of course, he Was applauded. applause once begins iu an artistic circle It caunot stop, So it wenc oD; even whem ghe mames of rivals When were ovtled out aud these advanced to receive their reward. If such fraternal demonstrations were not short- Uved what a chosen set of inen would patuters be | Traty, there is enough virtue left in them still to drew a dunuess over the eye of a shaired criie like Myself, and better that tt should come ov oictal Cecusions Luan never come a¢ all; [or arustée are not uke other men, they are terribly eclectic. MEDALS. The two medals of honor were given to Robert Fleury, Jr., aud M. Hiolie, the former for his paint- ing, Which I have described in a torimer letter, “Lhe Destruction of Cort of Arion, M. Fieury, Jr., 03 bis father's pupil, ad as the elder Fleucy was seated at the Minister's left 4,” and the lacter for tis statue separates the gave from the chow. Beyond, in the din gad misty ight, where (he alr ig ncavy with the perfused incense, as dimly discesned ‘the altar canopy, With 18 marble columus. Over the organ lt the lion of St. Marc. Overhead and on al the arches are those famed mosaics, on tucir golden ground, wila for.as of ea nts and angels barely traces abie in the uncertain light. No one who has ever seen those mosaics Could fall to bo impressed with ther wonderial vividness aud freshness of color, while they are subdued into @ most charming and incoiceivable harmony on the bright yet modulated gold ground. ‘This seeins one of ‘he Most remarkable features of the pate ing. it would be Impossible move correctly aud feelingly to render this singular effect. The golden grouad which forms most of the roof and covers the archways gleams W.ti @ softened brillancy where the lignt falls on it, while in siadow iurks the hidden glory with a pecu- Mar rich and varled tone, Tue deep shadows be- neath the broad Byzantine arches seem rman: with wealth of untold color and mysteries of strange aud beauteous forms. Spirits of music and beauty, of form and color, seem crowded there, ‘The beauty, of religion mantest ia the gorgeous splendor of hand, his aon, in a@ transport of elated emotion, on | Oriental laxary is here dominaut. It appeals to taki his father’s bosom aud there remained ta @ Lond emn- brace, while another round of applause added to the svene. HONOR AND RIBBONS. After the distripation of meds M. Richard read | Ward the artist, as they have aloud the Emperor's decree, by whieh several artists | work M. were nominated knights of the Legion of Honor aud others promoted to the rank of uihoet 8, Among te laiter were A. Bida, P. Rousseau and | and a@ very fair rendering i let. ‘Tue following are newly elected knights:—MM. Courbet, Touknouche, Rusehdre Bonyin, Schutze berger, 'f. S. Brown, Vallon, Vibert, Harmo.eau, G. Flemming and J. Lefebvre.” A general ovation for ail the decurds closed the procecdings. The uames Which met with the most cordial welcome durag the distribution of medals were those of Zamacuis, Mie. Nelle Jacquemart, Victor Giraud and Carolus Duran, THE CLOSK AND EFFECTS. Ali the wi which have been purchased by government or have oeen médauls will be exiibited for several months gratis, This is an excellent novelly. The public will thus be able to study what the competent Lave approved and do encourag' {t will aiso be the means of securtug patronage ou forelguers, and itis a mark of paternal soiicitude on the part of the administration, The curtam uot being totally drawn between the public and artisis, and the contemplation of masterpieces not Delng & chron requirement henceiorta, 1 will Jeave my sadder also standing and send you a blidseye view Trom so high @ position over all the arts, Firstly aad lastly, nevertheless, an earnest word beiween an earnest Well-wisher and your readers. An article morning appeared which must be by works. alt has this revated A writer giving some a count of where the paintings go to tha cannot be sold ¢, alirms that all the trash “gos over the Atlantic, Wuere tv 14 the joy and de- light of Californians and Yankees, Waose dol- jars are blind and whose millions are indulgent’? Shail this be said much longer of the clearesi-ighted population in the known world’ Are “Americans? and “Yankees” to be derided when they have taken “trash” off the shoullers of self-congratulauog Europe? Young men may possivly scan these lines over with that praisewortuy indifference whi is the stamp of acquired masiery over anger and of weil KnoWn power to defext Use catculstous; but ebier- ly men fecl the same young blood boil im heir veins which twoscore years ago rose Lo their cheeks, When they trusied they would, ére they died, see Ue noblest talents of their countrymen acknowledged by the Uld World, If there 1s a sign worth holding up by the side of the banner over commerce aud in dustry, tt is that fuir wand of art which turns the leisure hour into # soothing rest, which draws man’s brains from aching figures to self-communion which seaches him to prize the smallest gift for the plessing | aehleved his great 4 confers on all, and, finally, witieh elevates the soul { years ago he ART NOTES. New York Academy of Denign. RVENING IN NORMANDY, FRANUB. HAMMBR. An unpretending little work, with considerable fecling and not a iiitie pathos in it, The general harmony of color 18 good and well managed, ‘1 univ 1award Worship of tue beauttiul, (493.) de oe early evening Mght, soft, gray and misty very truthfully and skilfully the idea of evenfall ia that latitude, (496.) THE WEAVER. ©. W. PRMRY, NL AL This, although not a new work, and, 1 We mistake not, it has already made jts acbit in th 4s & Work full of the artist’s best characteristics, The scene represents the attic of an old New Eng- Jand farmhouse of a kind now rapidly passing away betore the inevitable progress of inodera innoya- tions. Ata loom iu the middie of the room is seared @ fresh young girl. She 1s inient upon her work. From a window at the extreme end of the room falla @ patch of sunlight on the floor, apartment Is rendered with a cure and Hdeliily which evince very careful stuly and familiarity with lke ‘The Agure of the young girl is easy, natural ceful, She is beading over her work, with turned downward. She is a fair type—a ew Eugiand maiden- The clear pink and white of her complexion her face wise perhaps flatiered—ot hood. are not common, We Imagine, among women much of whose life 1s spent in the open ‘The truth and feeling, however, of the picture, the careful study and thorough appreciation of local character and Aetail, cannot be too highly commended, (499.) THE APPOLNTACE WILLIAM MAGKATH, There ls considerable promise manifesied tn this work. Though tht execution in every respect is uot altogether what might be desi the idea of the work, which is one mata point to be regarded, is ad- mirably well carried out, Everything on the pleture suggests it, The watung, impatient figure, with the letter in her hand; the quiet, subdued foliage, all contribute to this keynote of the work, But there is much to which exception may be justly take The figure ts somewhat strained; the position is not alto- gether easy or graceful, the drapery ts monotonous and gives no hint of what the material might be. More study and care would make the artist one of the better of our artists in his line of subjects, (500,) GODESBERG, ON TUB RUINE. T. A. RICHARDS, NA. The artist, asia most of his works, has very suc- | Worigage iis road ceasfully grasped the spirit of the scene, but the pte- ture in detai!, and especially in the foreground, Is far from satisfactory. The foliage is worked up care- fully, but without breadth, and with considerable monotony, which Is tedious and somewhat vitiates the Interest of the work as 4 whole. (506-507.) INTERIORS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND OF BT. MARC'S, VENICE. DAVID NEAL In many respects these are two of the most re- markable pictures among the additions made for the summer exlibitton, The subjects are not common ones with our artists, and possess an interest them- selves which claims and secures atiention. The works are both suifcientiy large to Insure some accuracy and detaf, aud are in general harmony with the dignity of the subject. Mr, Neal is an artist Who spent some time in that art-loviug city, Munich, aud seems to have very diligently studied and taken advantage of his opportunities. The general treatment of both the pictures bears the im- press of foreign study aud training. The feeling ts that one might imagine In one accustomed to and loving deeply and truly such scenes, it 18 not every qgne who could so thoroughly feel the mfuence of the place he depicts. Between @ casual or super- fictal observer and the humble disciple and fre- quenter there ts a vast difference tmevitably percep- tible thronguout their work, The scene in “The Abbey? is in thé Passagé around thé clio, and Introduces tn the background the door lead- ing to Henry Seventh’s chapel. The light falls on the foor from a staimed glass window in the fore- ground, supposed to be at one side of the observer, The shadows, deepening 1n the distance, hide be- neath the gothic arches, half vetting in a softened obscurity the forms an jumns. Far overhead the light, misty with the distance, relleves the dark and solid masonry. There is always a feeling of solemn awe and majesty In gothic strnctures, which 1s ad- mirably well given. The calm diguity of the sober hues abd the force and impress of great size are all he ‘The general balance of light and shade, both as to amount and quaitty, are effective and pleasing, Ir “The Al {sa creditable work, what shall bo said of the pic'ure of “st. Mares, Venice? One who has once se that most wonderful and bewitehing conty of uty will not easily lose the’ Impression made apon him; — bub one who has studied it and felt its magic influences can never forget or help wiat might seem an almost childish enthusiasm over its very mention. It is not ofien that representa- Hons of places at ali accurately convey an idea of them, rhis is especially true of buildings, There are local influences it is douttless uuerly hopeless even to attempt to render. There are inevitable misconceptions a8 to extent and space for which it Would seem hard to call the artist to account. Mr. Neal’s work of “The Abbey,” excellent as it is, we can- not but consider in this respect, at least inferior to hi ‘y"’ isan excetieat pie- “St. Mare’s.”” “The Ab) vure—trathiul, feeling and Larmonious, and, as far | place somewhere, aud there is poug Like the pr Ing the medal from Ml. Kichard, threw Auuuceil on conveys | The detail of the | | i \ | | | morigage its road aud francliises to secure its bonds, every scnge, to every sentiment of ry and feel- ing. It is all this which Mr, Neai tells most forcibly in ils pleture, No ordinary or superflcial a Imiver could have caught the feedng. ‘Time and study with @ ieart in harmouy with its glories could alone re- jowe La the sucoossial Neal has achieved, (509.)—A QUUGT NOOK.-—WILLIAM MAGRATH, There is some sentiment and feeling 1a this work of distance. A vey @ whole picture, which charming spirit pervades is readliy poreeplble. (510.)—THK EMJROLDERRR.—GRORGB Wl. HALL, Ne A ‘there depth and richness of color in this pic- ture which can only be commented as it is rare and excelent, There are few works in the exhibition, 1n Chis respect at least, more excellent, The draw. ing, however, is wretched. In several places it would disgrace @ schoolboy. ‘The composit.oa 1 strangely forced and unnatural, The whole group, ja the calin satisfaction of conscious perfection, have taker: a pose which would rather shock the sensibill- Ues of a respeciable photographer. “ZEsculapias,” a Statne. The Park was designed to promote the health of New York, and it seems proper that there should be among the many statues to be erected in that beautl- ful creation of landscape and arcnitectural art one statue to represent the divinity of healing—the tdea Of health, either in the form of the god of medicine or of some mortal personation of his spirit who might be deemed worthy to share his honors, Whether by chance or desiga that beautifully and powerfully wrought statue of the “Indian Hunter,’? vy Ward, was the frat siatue to be placed in the Park, there is no doubt poetic justice in the prionty of the honor conferred upoa the aboriginal owners of the soil upon which the elysian gar- den has bloomed as if by the magico of Aladdin’s lamp; equally just that Schiller, the great poet who, inflaitely above all others, has su of the dignity aud glory of art, should be early there, as weil as Huimbolit, the revealor of scientific truth, the facts and laws of the cosmos. In orderly se- quence, then, from a lint of the wild, original con- dition of the ground, ues the suggestion of the power of art t) Wansform it to beauty and use, which use is the promotionof health, Asculapius, or Harvey, the statue of whom is proposed to be erected near one of the gates, will appropriately represent that idea. At the chief gates of many of the eyee in Europe stands the statue of the divinity ne ot the healing art, Harvey was one of his most worthy disciples, and had he lived and discoveries three thousand would have peen deified in like manner with tue son of Apollo, In ny intellect and moral natare he was as beautiful as the most periect Greek ideal of the personages of their Olympus. The bust and statue by Mr. Stone, from which it ls proposed to form aud erect in the Park a colossal statue in bronze, were modetied (rom @ por- trait by Donunichino when Harvey was of the age of Afty-two, and reveal the utmost excellence of form and expression, The statue is in the sitting position in which Harvey is represented tn the act of demon- strating his theory of the cireulation of the blood. It is a work of power in the expression of thought and Ife, and Gas been on exhibition dariug the past week at Mr. Stune’s rooms, 103 Kast Filteenth sircet. | THE KANSAS PACIFIC RAILROAD. More Ald Wanted—Whut For ¢—The Amount Alrendy Received—A Poor Mouth for Con- gross—Karnings of the Kansas Pacific for May—Senator Casseriy’s Speech, Wasuinaron, July 9, 1870, And now one old friends, the managers of tho Kansas Pactiic Ratiroad Company, formerly the {| Union Pacific, Bastern Division, Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western, are again before Congress asking more aid. ‘This time, wey ask, according to | Senator Edmunds, an additional gift of more than | 20,000,090 acres of Jand, worth at least $70,000,000 | cast. Whey also ask “that the said Kansas Pactie Railway Company may Increase its capital stock, and to an amouut and for sums sufficient to obtain the money to construct the road herein provided for.” In other words, these very modest gentlemen ask, in addicion to wit tiey have already recelved dur- ing the pust six years, a free gift of over twenty mil- lion acres of land apd congressional authority vo in- water their capital stock and issue nds authorized by the United States.’? ‘The road is In uo sense a onai one. Its charter was granted by (he Kansas Territortal Legislature in 1855, The company has nevertheless already re- ceived from the nattonal goyerument a free gift of 42,800 acres of land per mile along the line of its road, estimated at 5,000,000-aeres in all and worth fully three dollars per acre or $24,000,000 altogether, Besides this maguificent gift the company has re- ceived from the Secretary of the Treasury $6,303,000 ta bonds, and the priviiege of a lien, for a similar amount, on the roau prior to that of the United States, The last montily statement of the public debt shows that $339,54% 97 has been patd from the national Treasary on account of interest ou bo nds wranted the Kansas Pacific Raliroad Company, aud not one ceut of it has been refunded, Under act approved March 3, 1560, Congress gave this highly-favored corporation turther authority to and issue bonds to the amount of 000 per mile. The lowest estimate Lcan make of the total direct and indirect grants to ‘aid’ the construction of thts 663 mies of road is $46,500,000, The cost of constructing te road cannot yet be computed, aa itis uot Dnished; but L appretiend it will be found many million duliars less tan the di- rect and indirect “ aid” grante We have seen altogether too much of this sort of “ald” of late, The practice of granting it was 80 admirably criticised by Senator Casserly, in lis apeech of April 21, that I yeuture to reproduce the following extracts— What is necessary to bulla and open it ready for busice What is cailed ior in ths way toward the sam ult is quice another ion, allow me to aus, of ail sons d polley as betwe ment and ite citizens to hold or tor Congress to admit by tion that the goverment shalt.'2 @ny case put into the handa of @ raliroad company ali the moans required to com- plete the road, in its road bed, in fis frorty {0 its equipment sonsto give the road subsiautially, when finial ea toll company as {ts property outvand out. This fe NOt aiding the company to build the road. ft ts buliding the rom! for ft, 1s ina paralysis of all individual energy; iis @ stifling Of the whoiesome (reo action of private shierprise, If the exty'ut of a8 itis called, fs demoralizing, the modo of giving muck worse, Under the il ied the grant of miu is limite rporation. Congress has not ouly failed to ‘8 sound polley, but ft has industriously chosen the worst policy pos- sible. In the first place, Congress should have begun by Aacertaining as noarly as might be the probable cost of build- ‘cad complete, to equip it to the pubiic, la ope thin, vatantin}, edie ing any given road. It should then have bestowed its aid with Lberality or even muniilces but always so that the private enter of the country suould be set in motion and should furs full part, w! rest, It should always hi overnment should supply inetsind on the obvions pro- n that no more af least of the aid in money should be than was required. In the next place, Congress should have rostricted it8 grant to the one Mt, It should have ascertaing: ive railroad interesta of the W..t-; WHAT FO? The additional aid now asked for by the Kansas Pacific is for the purpose of huiiding a branch souta- West, to connect with tne Southern Texas Pactile, or the thirty-second parallel road. As well might Fisk, Jes, ask Congress for $60,000,000 to extend we Erie road farther west, NO MORE AID NERDED, Thave showa b much the Kansas Pacific has al- ready recelved from Congress. It appears to be getting along pretty fair. In the Manhattan, Kansas, stand- avd, ihe loading paper of the State of the 2d instant, I flad the fohowing: ‘The earninga 0. 1870, were 41,787, month i 1360,” ‘Ti June 1, 180, were Uae warme tine in 18 A Lawrence (Kansas) paper of May 16 says:— ‘The arrivals at this place by the Kansas Pacific are about 200 daily, At thix rate it will not be long before Kangas prai- igo will blossom and bloom, ough the company managers are putting ono or mouth” here im Congress and making most piteous appeals for “inore aid” nearly all the local papers in their State tesiify to their unbounded wealth and prosperity, Their bill had better “go over under the rule” until next wiiter, When We can see how they get along without “more aid.” There must be a eto; a na Pactt use of $119,574 over the same of this road from January | to AD increase of 455,63 over ¢ for the month of May, LIFE IN LONDON. Arlstocratic and Fashionable Enjoyments— Afternoon Pariles—Queen Victoria’s Gar- don Feto—‘‘Who” Were at Windsor— Lord Clarendon’s Last Appearance— Minister Motley—Not Much of ai Entertainment—Royal Hospi- tality—-The Prince of Wales— Disraeli’s **furnout.” Lonpon, June 27, 1870, ‘The old saying that extremes meet seems about to be verified in London fashionable life. Having got to what may be considered the extreme end of an artificial existence we seem about to return to the early hours of our great grandfathers, and to be- come more economical of our time as well as of our health. Until lately—-that is until the last threo or four years—the rule for all reunions, or balls, or as- sembiies, or ‘at homes” was that people should go to the houses where they were asked about au hour after midnight, The great and increasing lateness of the dinner hour—if you sit down at a large party very fortunate tmaced; the terrible long time that necessity of ladies who have been at a dinner party changing their dress before they go to a@ ball rea- dered it almost impossible for people to meet tn the ballroom before the small hours had commenced, These small hours got further and further into the morning, until I have actuaily seen women of fasnion arrive at the house to which they were asked at uke many, like most, other evils, tt has worked, at any rate in a certain measure, its own cure, Peo- ple begun to see that anything like enjoyment at a ball to which they went at these hours was out of the question, And yet how to alter or change them was the question, You could not make the hour for the opera earlier because you could not make the dinner hour earlier. You could not make the dinner hour earlier because you could not make earlier it would interfere with the five P. M. tea and the cosey chat of Intimate frien ls at that hour. If you anticipated the five o'clock tea what was to be- come of the luncheon hour? And so on ad infinitum, At length it struck some fashtonable genius, of greater wit than his sober fellows, to cut the knot by commencing at the other end. Why not have atter- noon parties? Why not dance by daylight, and thus relieve, at any rate, some of the heavy pressure { by half-past eight P.M. you may consider yourself English people sit at dinner, and the (Imaginary) something like two A. M. The evil was great, but, the park hour earlier. If you made the park hour upon the evening time? LADY HOLLAND. The first person to make the idea popular was Lady Holland, the owner of Holland Housa, in Ken- sington, close to London, where so many Americans and so many forelgners of all nations have recely ed hospitality and kindness, She commenced by hav- ing afternoon parties once a week, to which, per- haps, some two thousand of the cream of society were asked, It is true that her magnificent gardens and extensive lawns made it easier to receive her friends aid amuse them than it would have been With most persons. But even fashionable people are not totally devoid of common sense, and otner ladies began to find that they could dance and en- joy themselves much more, get to thelr work much fresher at four or five Y. M. than atone A. M. They began to approve of the novelty, and afternoon dances are, not gradually, but very quickly, becoming the rule more than the exception in London. It 1s true that they interfere with the afternoon drives in the Park, but that can be dispensed with from time to time. A year ago it was deemed impossible to give one of these afternoon reunions unless you had a large garden or @ lawn attached to your house, But itis otherwise now. No later than last week I saw at three niost fashionable hoases in Belgravia these afternoon partics going on, and from the sounds of music within I guessed, not wrongly, that there was dancing at each of them. QUEEN VICTORIA'S FRTRE. Last year, and again on Friday, the 24th of this month, her Majesty has added to the fashtonable stamp of these parties by giving one herself. Last year it was at Buckingham Palace; this year it was at Windsor. It was called a “state breakfast; but how an entertainment to which the guests were only asked at five o'clock 1m the afternoon could be called a breakfasi | leave others to decide, Windsor Castle is some sixteen miles from London, and every per- son asked to the /éte was provided with a ticket, or pass, by which he or she, as the case might be, would be taken by spectal train from the Great Western Railway station at Paddington right away to Wind- sor. ‘The sat rathway station was magnificently gol up, part of the platform being carpeted in scar- det cloth and railed off se that the ladies and gentle- iuen on their way to Windsor might not be herded with “the common crowd.” The “common crowd,” how- er, consisting of many hundreds ofthe upper middle classes, Was there to see the departure of the fortu- pate guests of royally, My countrymen are—there is no use disgmsing the fact—very much given to “flunkeyismn.’? To see, to behold even at a distance, to bow to royalty is to them a delight that cannot be expressed in words. But if they cannot get royalty to bow to, the next best thing is to bow to those who are going to Where royalty is, From about three P, M. to five P. M, the carriages ot some of the leading poopie of London kept dash- ing up to the Paddington station, THE UNITED STATES MINISTER. Almost the first person to put in an appearance Was your representative at the Court of st. James, Mr. Motiey. He looked tn capital spirits, was dapper, well dressed, and shook bands warmly with Lo) Clarendon [!he very day on which his lordship took nis fatal illness] and Lord Grenville, who came ether. soon as the station master had got some two hnndred of the gaests ether he bundled them into the first epeciai train, and off it started for its desti- nation, Your representative and our Foreign Secre- tary, Lord Clarendon, and our Under Foreign Secr e- tary, Mr. Otway, with the ladies of their respective paruies, ail went in one compartment; and as on arrival at Windsor station there is still @ five- minutes’ drive tothe Castle they had, of course, the advantage of one of the royal carriages to take them on, Mr. Motley, as I have noticed at every public party in Lendon, seems on the very best of terms with all the great and the titled mea in England, and he ies to be exceedingly popular with them. The Jadics of his family have mace guite a reputation for themselves In London by the great elegance of tieir dregs, But, as I understand, neither your Minister nor the members of his famlly are a8 popular among iad own citizens who come here 48 they might be, However, this is a topic of which more on some future occasion. THE “BREAKPAST?—WHO ARE INVITED, In my last letter I auld that chere were 1,800 guests invited to this “state breakfast” at Windsor. I was wrong. There were $00, not 1,800. Now, as what 1s considered ‘fashionable life’ in London numbers at the very least some 81x thousand foliowers—as there are about four hundred members of the House of Peers and 650 of the House of Commons—you may imagine that a very great many must have been “left out in the cold,”” But royal hospitailty in Nera Hr always excepting that shown by the Prince of Wales, which 1s really large, Kind and in every way pleas- iog—is one of those things which, as Sotnern, the ctor, Bays, “No fella can understand.” At Windsor ‘astle, particularly when the grouuds are open, at least ten thousand visitors or guests might find so much room that they would be a mere poiting upon these magnificent premises. There are, 1 am credtbly informed, some twenty cone with their famiiles, from the United tates who would lave been asked to any court in Europe. Not one of them was asked to this the ouly party at which her Majesty will be present durin; ‘the preset season, nor has one of them been aske to the state ball which is to be given to-morrow at Bucning 4a Palace, Surely there ia something wrong here. The chict magistrate of @ nation, whether Emperor, King, Queen or President, 18 paid, among other things, for showing hospitatity to the strangers that are witha the gates of that nation. I donot say that every rowdy loafer who goes from England to the United States or vice versa ought to be asked to the White House or to Windsor. But, surely, those who are testilied to by the representatives of their nation as being respectable ought to be asked. This 1s the rule in Paris, Vienna, Berlin, Washington, Florence aud every other civilized capital, except London, But now to return to the state breakiast at Windsor. ‘UECELVED,”? The $00 guests were sent off from Paddington to Windsor in three special trains. It was very hot to go with the frst one. Arrived at the Windsor ter- Joinus a terrible shower of heavy summer rain buret over the place, but very little was Gone in the way of spotling the ladies’ dresses, Carriages and horses nd servants in scarlet liveries were walting to take up the guests to the castle. These, however, did not, of course, sufice, and numerous hack conveyances nad to be pressed into the service, Of course whea- ever the royal servants distinguished @ Mintster, or @ frequent guest at court, they got him and his party Into one of the Queen's carriages, Lord Clarendon was thus favored, aud he made a point of taking Mr, Motley with him. In fact, nis lordship throughout the day seemed most anxious to piay the host by deputy to your represeutative, and to make himseif agreeable to him. As fast as one batch of carriages could get Wed, dash of vo the castle, empty them- JULY 01, 1870.—TRIPLE SHEET. selves of their freight, and then rush back to the station, they did #0. Asa whole the affair was cer- bys Well Managed, The rain was the great draw- THE AUTHOR OF “LOTHAIR.” Poor Mr. Disraeli and his wife, the Countess of Beaconsfield, were among tie rst to arrive, and had to put up witha sinall open hack cacrlage, which had but a very sorry hood over it, Fortunately the author of “Lothair” (by the way what @ fiancial success, but what a social blunder that book has been—liis best iriends bate Bim for it), nad with him @ large waterproof coat, by Which his wife and Lim. self covered themselves {rom the rain ag well as hey could, Arrived at the castle the reception was truly regal, and made oue feel like the relaiives of @ man who hardly ever, opens his doors for the purpose of hos- pitalities, ‘The Prince and Princess of Wales, the ties who were present entered the castle by the grand entrance; but the rest of the guests entered § wh my up vo drive by the doorway to the quadran sie, Here they were met by the Lord Chamberialn, the ceived them in the Queen's name. ‘All the grand stave apartments were thrown open, certain erican visits England on these days without see- Windsor Castle, and therefore 1. is hardiy need- balls and those onghitoent staircases in waich every English speaking nation seems to have an who have been among us, thelr cousins on this site the Atlantic, must remember the Queen's au- ing room, the slate ante-room, the graud staircase, the Waterloo chamber, and the St. George’s ban- que nents decorated with all that nature can add at this s9ason of the year in the way of fowers. | never in decorations. ‘To say that they were diffuse and most superb would be ne too little, The marvel re- they were arranged. Ten thousand pities tnat such a national palace, and such rare naional treasures than it is, THE QUEEN, About five P. M. the weather began to clear and which had been pitched upon the non the east side of the castle, Here the seene was very antiiated showed at She came forth into one of the vents and remained there, perhaps, three-quarters of an most favored guests, I don’t believe that out of the 800 members of the upper ten thousaud that were am certain she did not, WHAT WAS “TO BE HAD.’? hardly say much in jayor, They woud not bear a close comparison with what is provided on similar down to eat, merely a very handsome buffet (or what might vulgarly be calied “a bar”) fitted up in there is no use disguising the fact that neither in quantity nor in quality were the refreshments such Londoner, peer or commoner, upon a similar occa- gion, ‘Those who were known to the servants not so known no donbt thanked their stars, as I heard a we'l-known M.P. do, that he had dined gotback, The bands of the Second Life Guards and of the Scots Fusileer Guards playet very beauuful certainly to enjoy what they heard. HOW THEY WERE DRESSED, gotien something. What about the dresses? Well, as regards the fadies, lean only say that what. ae RIGHT RO with a splendid home and large income never, ‘Duke of Cambridge and some minor German royal- is called’ Henry the Bighih’s gateway, am Vice Chamberlain and other court officials, Who re ri fluer sight.could hardly be seen. No Tut for me\to make mention of those glorious old interest, and seems to take a@ pride, Those dience chamber, the Vandyke room, the state draw- eting hall, But they have not seea these apart my lie beheld anywhere such maguificent floral speciing them was the wonderful taste wiih which of nature and of art, should not be opened oftener people began to venture forth in the marquees which indeed, r Majesty, strange io say, hardy hour, talking to her own family and to a few of the resent, her Majesty spoke to forty persous—in ict, Of the refreshmenis provided for this party T can occasions at the Tuileries, There was no sitting that glorious oid room called St, George's Hall, But as would be met with at the house of any wealthy did run some chance of bemg served; those before leaving London, and would dine wien he music during the whole forenoon, and people seemed And so home again. Stay; 7 thougut I had for- wore, and all they wore, seemed to be “mazy,” if may be allowed to invent a word. The Queen does not admire the short dresses which are now so much worn, and as a party 1n the open air, or intended to bein the open air, affords plenty of room for long trains, there were long, very long trains, and plenty of them, And the materials? ‘They were of muslin, of gauze, of cobwebs, of everything that is lightest and most airy, avd most floating, and bewitching. And the colors? Pink and white for brunettes, piue and white for fair women; and every dress seemed to have its bonuet—il a flower can be called a bounet —to match. Certainly once the rai cleared off the aight was @ pretty one. ‘he genUlcman were dressed some in frock coats, some in tail coats, some in uniform, some 1a plain clotiics. Your Minister, Mr. Motley, had cn a plain Diack frock coat, white waistcoat and black pants. Other gentieinen wore blue swallow tal! coats, with dress buttons, ‘The officers of the Guards stationed ‘fat Windsor of course wore uniform. Ministers and others connected with Court wore what 1s cailed the Windsor uniform. There seemed to be no rule Whatever about the dress of tie male portion of those present. HOME AGAIN, About seven o'clock some of the Ministers and mgibers of the houses of Peers and of Commons bezan to fidget. In the upper house there was a erand discussion that night on the lish Land ques- iion, and in the Commons on the Education ont They wanted to be back at work, And 80 the royal carriages were again called, and if the first special truin had come to grief nearly ali the public men of England, peers a8 well a8 commoners, woula have come to grief with it, By hali-past seven o'clock the Castle was clear of its guests. And so, I repeat, home again. Home to London, to work, to think over what we have seen, and to lament that the royal hospliaitty of that right royal castle, for which the nation pays about three-quarters of a million of dollars every year, shouid be doicd out at such loug Intervals and with so very sparing a han THE PRINCE OF WALES’ “Pani The following 4 \y, Saturday, there was a grander party given at Chiswick, by his Koyal Highness the Prince of Wales, which was a very different affair, Queen Victorin’s State Ball—Dress Fa at Court. By command of Queen Victoria a state ball was given at Buckingham Palace, evening of June 21, to which a party of about 1,700 was invited. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Countess of Morton, the Hon. Mrs. Coke, the Marquis of Hamilton, Lord Harris, the Hon. A. T. Fitzmaurice and Lieutenant Colonel Keppel, and escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, arrived at the garden entrance of the palace from Marlborough House at @ quarter past ten o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein arrived at the palace from Frogmore, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Lieutenant Colonel G. Grant Gordon, Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, his Royal High- ness the Duke of Cambridge, and their Royal High- nesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meck- Tenbury Strela were present. The Royal lage Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard ‘was on duty in the interior of the Palace, under the command of Colonel 0. P, Bourke, the Exon in Waiting. A gnard of honor of the Coldstream Guards was mounted In the court of the palace, ‘The Prince and Princeas of Wales, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Loutse, and the other members of the fod f family, conduct- ed by the Viscount Ewer (Lord Chamberjain), and attended by the Ladies and Gentiemen in Waiting, entered the ballroom at half-past ten o'clock, when. the bc as immediately commenced. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales wore a dress of biue satin, trimmed with tulle, fine Brus- sels lace and flowers, Headdress a tiara of dia- monds, Ornaments, pearls and diamonds, Orders, Victoria and Albert, Catharine of Russia and the Danish Order. Her Royal Highness Princess Christian of Schles- wig-Holstein wore a ball dress, color “vert du NU;"? triinmed with satin and garden lilies; diamond tara and ornaments. Orders, Victoria and Albert, St. Isabelle of Portugal and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise wore a dress of cherry-colored silk and white tulle, trimmed with chateiains of cactus blossoms and variegated leaves, Headdress, cactus blossoms and diamonds, Diamond ornaments, Victoria and Albert Order, the Geer of St, Isabel and the Coburg aud Gotha Family er. CHESS MATTERS, The Willinmsburg Chess Club vs. F. Bock. In the subjoined interesting and brilliant game Mr. Frederic Bock, of Chicago, gave the adas of pawn and move to several members of the Willlamsburg Chess Club in consultatiot Remove black K. B, P, from the board, Williamsburg, White, Bock, Black, —P to K 4 1—Kt to KR3 2B to B4 2—P WKS 8—KttoK BS 8—PtwQs 4--P tks P 4—P tks P 6—B to QKts 6—B to K Ki 6—PWKRS 6—-BtoK R4& —Castles 7—B to K b—P to Q4 8—Kt to K B2 9—-QBUWBS 9—Casues 10—P toQB4 10—P tks P 11—-Bu NIK to R sq 12-Q to QKts 12—B tks Kt 13—B tke Kt Sore tie fee Po Qs 2° 15—P to Q5 16—Q tke Kt P g Ki 17—B to K6 rt tks R 19—-K to R aang — 6q 22—B tke Bt bes 23—-Q to QB6 23—-Kt to KB 3 (a) p toK6 4—Kt to K 5 2%—K w RZ 26—B to Kt 6, ch 26—K to Kt sq 26—Q to K 6, ch 27—K to R sq 27—Kt to B 7, ch 28-—K to Kt sq (b) Black mates in 3 moves (c) COMMENTS. {2 This positton for, cae eet was very well chosen, aa the sequel show. (0) They should have captured Kt with Rook; still Dae nae win with his extra plece and fine posi- jon. (c) The mate is effected, as follows: — bd *'" 28-—Kt tks RP, dble ch 20—K to R 20—Q to Kt 8, ch 30—R tks Q 30—Kt B7, mate This mate, one of the most beautiful in the game of chess, 13 knOWR Ag Philidos’s legacy, THE CARPET-BAG. Carpet-baggers for Certain Purposes a Failure-- Southern States in Many Instances Not Represented—The Indian Ring Its Btroug- est Supporters—$160,000,000 Paid for $139,104,060 of Bonds—Down with the War Taxes. ‘we Washinaron, July 9, 1470, very unprejudiced and fair-minded person who has gtven this session's proceedings the least atten. tion must have come to the conciusion that & large Portion of Southern Senators and Representatives do not in any sense represent the States that send them here, Several of the Nortuern States have in effect three or more Senators, while many of the Southern States have but one, and in some instances: none at ail. Take the case of Louisiana, for exam- ple. That State cannot be said to have more than one Senator. Willan P. Kellog@ 18 @ man of very moderate abil- ity from Peoria, Ul; who had the good fortune to get ‘the appotntment of Collector of the Port of New Or- Jeans in 1865, and by 4 judicious use of government patronage was elected to the Unite | States Senate ostensibly from Louisiaua, but really from Mlinois. His allegiance was weil tested when the’ Southern Pacific Rallroad bill was before fhe Sen- ate the other day. For awhile he st up for Louisiana interests to the best \ poor ability ; but before the cont st was over he was found following the lead of Senator Trambull, of Tilinois, who managed to load dowa and nearly de- feat the enterprise altogether. A betrayal of the ta- terests of a State has not been exhiiiied for a long time. It is quite certain that Mr. Kellogg will be permilited to return to his home in Iinols on aud efter the 4th of March, 1873. He certainly does not in any sense represent the State of Loulsiena— . nothing more than @ tall to Senator Trumbuil’s kite, Mr, Revels represents Kansas as well as Seuator Ross, who 1s really a ciiizen of she Stace, New Hampshire has in effect five United States Senators holding seats in the Senate and voting for New England interests, New York has but two, New Jersey one and Pennsylvania three—Mesers, Scott, Cattell and Cameron, I might extend the lists of misrepresented and over-favored Stites, but this will do for a sample, While 1 do not sympathize with those who claim that Congressmen must in all cases be natives of the States they represent, 1 thivk 1 cannot be dtspated that they shonid have a residence long enought to get acquainted with the people and become identified |. With their int 8. Senator Sherman, Secretary Boutwell and Com- missioner Delano are worklag might and main to force or coax through Congre:8 a re-enactment of ‘the expired war tax on incomes. In plain English, they are trying to get tt through jer false pre- tences—a strong case of attempting ‘to obtain noney under false pretences.” They prevead that the gov- ernment needs the money. What are the facts? During the sixteen mouths ending the Ist ins‘ant Secretary Boutwell has reduced the public debt Fa 9,104,660, at a cost of over $160,000,000, drawn vom the taxpayers’ treasury for the pu 1 Mr. Boutwell’s purchases of bonds during the first twelve months of his administration amounted to exactly $99,223,050, for which he patd precisely $11,040,282 93. In other words, for every $100 0£ | the public debt that ts paid, over $115 is taken from. the ta 4’ treasury, And we call this fine fnanel and talk of making our Secretary the “ing, next President. On the 4th of Ausust last Mr. Boutwell paid $2,431,136 89 for $2,000,000 worth of bonds, the premium patd being $21 55 on each bun- red, Ever since Mr. Boutwell has been in office sotie $1,009,000 per week has been diawa from the na- tonal treasury to pay the publ.c d>bt, but the week- L eceaon of the debt las averaged only about TAXPAYERS’ BURDEN THE SAME AS EVER. Though the people have been taxed $160,009,000 au the last sixteen months to pay off $159, 104,060 indebtedness, our burden of taxation has not been reduced thereby one cent. Secretary Loutwell cout.nues to draw money from the Treasury to pay interes: ou the paid up and can celied bonds prec'sely the same as tt agn they formea part of the ouistandtng debi of the nation. ‘the people are taxed and the Secretary of the ‘Treasury is pay- ing $8,346,279 per year Inteiest on their own matured and paid up obligations. By tus hocus-pocus pro- j } cess tle interest burden of our debt cannot be de- creased one cent until after the last dollar of the ~ {i principal is paid. af THE INDIAN RING strongly favors the re-enactment of the expired war tax on jucomes. That close corporation has several “Indian treaties’? on hand that it hopes to have rati- fled shortly. A large amount will be required to carry out the stipulations of existing treaties. They have all, been ved and neyer did have the force of treaties, ‘ertheiess $10,000,000 could readily be absorbed; auy lesser sums ars, of course, acceptable, Fifiy thousand dollars, a were trite, was. OE gee for the entertainment of Red Cloud when he was here a few days azo. The great Cherokee swind.e, so many times exposed in the HERALD, wud which is now being pressed, in the senate for ratification, Wil Fequire aout $10,000,000 co carry its stpu- lations into effect. The Cooper Iustitute Indian powwow that came of but a few days ago cost the natioval government about $6,00). Every Indian. “Delegation” of savages that is brought to Wash- ington to make treaties, to be broken at pleasure, costs the government more {ban $50,000 per trip, Red. Cloud was furnished by Secretary Cox w.th seven- teen horses on the occasion of his return from his recent sai East, All these things cost money, and it } can readily be seen where the influence comes from. that prevents Congress from reducing the taxes. If such operations are to continue the present rate of taxation must be continued, DOWN WITH THE TAXES. If the leaders of our “governing class"? won'd consent to a sweeping reduction of taxes—to the ex- tent of $100,000,000 per year—tiere would yet be enough collected to pay all the necessary expenses of the government, the interest on our public debt, and $59,000,000 per year of its principal, With such & reduction tndusirles now taxed almost if not ge out of existence would spring into renewed Ife, and miiitons would readily be obtained where thousands are now collected with diiticulty, Our Congressmen do notas yet seem to realize that a lightly taxed nation raises its revenue the easiest. They may, many of them, have an opportunity to stay at home after March next and learn sometoing of these matters, EXCITEMENT IN RANDOLPH, Mss, § A Bank Cashier Elopes With His Neigh ber’s Wife. {From the Boston Transcript, Joly 9.) A blight ripple was caused on tie suriace of Ran- | dolph society when it became known on Friday morn- ing that, on the day previous, a well Known and highly respected citizen had my-teriousy disap- peared from town, together with the young wife of another citizen who moved in a respectable circle, As the parties’ names were hawked fiom lip to ear through the usually quiet community the mpple in- . creased to & wave, and the fact tiat the male eloper held a high position iu the only bank in the place led the moneyed interest to look sharply into tho affairs of the institution, feariul that a defalcation— ‘the natural outgrowth of such atfairs—imight prove 4 reality in this case. Tie facts, 80 far as we have been able to hastliy father them from trustworthy soul are these;— m Thursday morning Mr, Henry Se ag the cashier of the Randolph National Bank, came to Boston on the Newport train in company with by wile, ostensibly to select carpets for a new house lie ‘was about to farnish. Leaving Mrs. Stepuens at the carpet dealer’s to pursue her Inquiries and make her choice he made an excuse of down-iown business of more or less urgency and departed. On the samo day Mrs. Moulton, the young and esteemed wife of Mr. E. Mouiton, Jr., also left Randolph, in company with her two very young Cilidren, for Boston, on a later train, however. She remained over one train at Braintree, the place of her nativity, and left her children’ with her relatives, stating that she intended to do a little shopping in the city and procceded there. This is tne last seen or heard of either party by their friends or acquaintances, and previous ciream- stances, including slight familiarities Of manner and Speech in which both bad been seen to indulge in each other's company, lead to the strongest suspi- cions of their unlawlul joint disappearance. The gentleman Is of fine personal presence, about forty years of age, and bas been employed 12 various ca- pacities In the bank from boyhood, verving in the vacity Of Caxhier for the past twelve years. He bas been considered perfectly trustworthy in every regard, and the officers of the Randotph and all as- sociate banks have lad the highest faith in his ine tegrity. He has been married ten years, and to ali outward appearance lived in accord wi his wife, by whom he has had two interesting cbil- dren, Up to thia morning a searching inquiry into the accounts of the bank has failed to elicit the shadow of an t larity; but when the property and securities of the depositors are reached there is no predicting the result of the mvestigation. The unfaithful lady is but twenty-five years old, and has been married between two and three years. Her maiden name was Libby, and, as before stated, she came from Braintree, je of her children {s a mere iufant, She is the opposite of her recusant partner in personal appearance, being quite plain, though her manner ts agreeavie and her education well up to the New England standard. She has some By slg as a ee singer. The direction 1p which the guilty pair have gone to enjoy each other's society away from the reach of the moiesting arm of the law is of course mere conjecture; but the quiet hints thrown out by the wise ones of the busy littic town that they lave goue on a European trip are not at all improbable, as steamers leave New York every day to cross the broad Atlantic, Though neither of tue parties has the reputation of beng. overnaire dened with this world’s goods or filthy lucre, ubey undoubtedly have the wherewithal for an agreeayle sojourn over the Water.