The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1872, Page 3

WASHINGTO Congress in the Throes of - the Holidays. HIGHFALUTIN ORATORS RUNNING AWAY, Shilly-Shally Policy of the Man of the Avenue. OUR OWN PARTICULAR CATACAZY. Polygamous Questions Disturbing Virtuous Legislators. FUNNY FLAPPING OF LAME DUCKS, Congress Before Its Race for Epizootic Geese and Turkey and Healthful Sauce. merry Christmas after the full.exposure of their eperations as given in the HERALD. It appears that Some of the shrewdest men in the House were tempted by Ames and roped in by Alley, although others, ike Boutwell and Banks, saw a cat under the meal, and declined to thus enrich themselves. ‘Thies Spartan firmness of Boutwell’s will be made the most of by Butier in engineering for nim the coming Senatorial contest, while Dawes will suffer. Whatever Ames may say or may not remember, the testimony already before the Committee shows that Dawes did receive and pay for ten shares of this Crédit Moblhier stock, and did seceived dividends on it, although when it had eased to pay wellhe virtuonsly sold it back to Ames, This will damage the chance of Dawes to suc- ceed Wilson im the Senate, andit will enable Butler to repay the damage Dawes did him when he en- @eavored to get the republican nomination for Governor of Massachusetts, Wilson wes another of the victims of Ames and Alley, and they alsosaw ‘that the son-in-law of Dawes—bliot, of the Freed- man’s Bureau fame in the House—had fia quota. Whenever Ames sought to en- snare, a Congressman by offering him this stock at par he would refer the victim to Alley. Of course Alley would vouch for Ames ‘nd then the latter would offer to guarantee ten per cent on the stock offered, provided he could re- ©eive one-half of the income above that rate, The lamest ducks alter the Massachusetts men are Gar- Geld and Bingham, of Ohio, and Schofield, of Penn- syivania. It remains to be seen whether the House will folerate as a representative aman who has delib- erately sought to secure influence by beguiling his colleagues into becoming stockholders. As for Alley, he broke down so completely in attempting to cross-examine Colonel McComb yesterday as to excite sympathy for himself and pity for Ames, who suffers from his adviser’s stupidity. Big and Little Statesmen on ‘the Run. “See how they run!” The three blind mice did Mot display more alacrity in. escaping from the farmer's yard than have our Senators, representa- fives and lobbyists in leaving this Capitol to enjoy their seventeen days of holiday vacation. The im- pecunious people of the district had hoped for the enactment of the Deficienncy bill, which contains an item. of $1,250,000, sadly needed to replenish their exhausted Treasury. But Senator Rice per-, sisted in taking up the time ef the Senate dur- ing the first part of the afternoon with his recital of the political ‘feuds in Arkansas, ‘itd the, House-gradually dissolved until it found Melt without a @zerugt and adjourned, When the Senate Wid get at the Deficiency bill if was fougné by Edmunds, of Vi , Who does not think the street in froht of his house here has been properly graded, and by Logan, who expects to be the capi- tal-in-the-Mississippi-Valley Presidential candidate in 1876, but they were generally voted down, and the bill was finally passed by the Senate with some trifling amendments. Nothing can now be done until the House resumes its sessions in January to concur in these amendments, and meanwhile thousandsof destitute people here will pass anything but a merry Christmas, The Board of Public Works in carrying out their plans have not only spent all the money at their command, but the appropria- tions for paying the firemen, the police and the school teachers, It had been hoped that Congress would have made the appropriation, and that these funds could be restored to the Treasury for their legitimate purposes, But now Christmas turkeys ran be purchased by submitting to extortionate discounts on pay warrants by the Shylocks here- abouts, It was not gracious in Congress if it in- tended to appropriate this money to do it thus gradgingly. Little Congressmen Hurrying Home for the Holidays—Blows Aimed at Our Im~ passable Executive. ‘The exodus of Congressmen homeward bound tor the holidays commenced yesterday, and when the House met to-day there was no quorum left. This ‘was to be expected, for during the week preceding the holidays Congressmen are like schoolboys, im- ‘patient to hurry home before: school is out. Mr. Dawes vainly whistled for a quorain. There was none to be had. The Senate was just then discuss- ing the Deficiency bill appropriating $1,250,000 for the Board of Public Works, which was passed in the House yesterday, and the quorum was required tobe on h&nd for its final adoption in case the Senate returned it with an amendment. Some of the members were in the House from a sense of duty, others because they are property-holders in Washington and personally interested; but it was all ‘‘love’s labor lost.” At the opening of the proceedings Mr. Por- ter. from Virginia, introduced two joint resolu- tions, one proposing a constitutional amendment for the election of the President and Vice President and the other for the election of Senators by adirect vote of the people. The resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Commit- tee, and will doubtless be acted upon after the holidays, as the complications that might have en- sued from the death of Mr. Greeley, had he been elected, have aroused Congress to the urgent neces- sity of changing the present cumbersome and dan- gerous mode of electing the Chief Executive. Polygumy in Peril—-No Gammon for Grant-—Shilly-Shally Policy. If the forecast of the political prophets be not | all astray, the Utah social and political situation will next loom up as the great problem to be solved by the administration. The servants of the ancient seer and revelutor, Brigham Young, are already here in strong force, but with decreasing wonfidence. Hooper and Cannon, the Mormon dele- | gate, without his four wives, and Territorial At- ftorney Snow, are here zealously striving to mould Congressional opinion to resist the coming storm. The President has on several occasions fecently expressed in the most earnest manner his determination to put an end to the lawless pro- seedings of the polygamous saints in Utah, and to do away with their “peculiar institutions.” He | thas said that if necessary he will place Phil Shert- @an at Salt Lake with 10,000 troops, and will en- force the laws without war. Leading Senators and Congressmen are ready to pass the necessary Jaws, which will be presented. alter the holidays; and acts, repressing polygamy tn the future, while Protecting the unfortunate women and children— victims of the Mormon creed—and regulating the elections, will be passed at an early day. The shilly-shally policy, as the President calls it, will give way to one of energetic action, -and Brigham Young, it ta expected, will speedily place himself and followers in sympathy with American institutions, Cannon jg said to have 1 NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1872—TRIPLE SHEET. gfven up all hopes of obtaining his seat in the next Congress. He finas opposition too strong to polyg- amy ana to him as possessing four wives. Rumors of an impending change among high officials in Utah are current. The President will retaim the Judiciary, especially Judge McKean. All suspected of want of vigor in aiding to peacefully remove the “last twin relic of barbarism’ will be set aside. ‘Tale is the programe ¢1 the administration. New York Capitaliste Getting Up «a “Job” im Washington. Aparty of New York capitalists, lately arrived in this city, have in view the acquisition of the public lands of the District of Columbia. Thie scheme imyolves the plunder of grounds in and around this city, upon which the nation has already ex- pended millions of money. They propose to carry out, at their own expense, all the improvemente contempiated according to the plan of the Board of Public Works, the cost of which is estimated at about seven million dollars, if in return Congress donate to them public lands worth a hundred mil- Hons, They argue that Congress has been tardy and reluctant 0 make the necessary appropriations, that the werk is therefore going on slowly, while they would carry out ali the improve- ments within the shortest time possible. They say they are prepared to spend $20,000,000 to beau- tify the city, in order to raise the value of the lands, if donated to them. They count as nothing the logs of all this property to the city and the na- tion, which would thus haye spent millions of money upon the lands in order to give them away ae a present, This is the outline of one of the most stapendous jobs ever conceived by audacious schemers, . Mr. Orton and the Postal Telegraph Scheme. It is the current opinion here that Mr. Orton, the President of the Western Union Telegraph, has made a bad impression upon the Appropriations Committee by his overbearing conduct toward the Postmaster General and the other gentlemen who did not happen to agree with his statements. One of the ablest members of that committee, who is not personally interested im any postal telegraph scheme, has said that Mr. @rton injures his case more and more every time he comes before the Appropriations Committee, He says Congress will certainly adopt some postal telegraph plan, though it may be an intermediate one. siaers Mr. Creswell’s proposition that the govern- ment should assume the ownership and manage- ment of the telegraph*as by far the best solution of the question. He doubts, however, that any postal telegraph bill will be passed during the present session. The Little Dipicmatic Chap from Rus- sia—His Dealings With the Holy Father. Information has been received here that Mr. C, Catacazy, formerly Minister to this country, has not fallen in disgrace with the Czar. Though diplomatic exigencies required that he should be disavowed as a public functionary he 1s still in the service of the Russian government as a @ecret agent, and his talent for in- trigue has lately found @ profitable field. Gortschakotf has employed him to carry on negotiations with the Court of Rome, in order to adjust the ecclesiastical difficulties existing be- tween the Pope and the Russian government with regard tothe appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Poland, The version of the trouble is as foliows:—During the Polish revolution of 1863 six Roman Catholic bishops were deposed by the Rus- sian government and transported to Siberia, be- Cause they would not submit to the orders of the Russiangovernment, which interfered with the free exercise of their spiritual authority, After the exile of the bishops Russia desired that the Pope should ®ame others to fill the vacant diocese. The Pope refused, and has evér since maintained that the exiled priests were still the legitimate incumbents of those bishoprics. During an audience with the Pope the then Russian envoy used disrespectful language to the Holy Father, who thereupon ordered him to leave the room. The Papal Nuncio was re- called from St. Petersburg and has never since been replaced. tions Been going on betweem Rome j, but witheat oo PY few months ago Prince Gortechukor hit upon the plan of sending Catacazy to Rome in order to bring about some satisfactory arrangement. this he has succeeded by obtajning the gonevssions desired by Russia, The Pope has consented to nominate six new bishops who were recommended by the Russian government to fill the vacant diocese in Polanu, Catacazy has obtained all the credit for this diplomatic transaction. It is said that Cata- cazy ison intimate terms with President Thiers, who supported him throughout the negotiations, Thiers is said to have advised the Pope to comply with the desire of the Russian government, promising in return to give all the assistance in his power to the Holy Father, Catacazy is thus reported to have been instrumental in producing more intimate relations between France and Russia, Civil Service Reform is being gloriously exemplified in Washington, Congress favors civil service reform. No more offices are to be filled by mere soldiers at the ex- pense of valuable services to Scnators. The War- wick of Pennsylvania is as unremitting as ever in his efforts to purify the political atmosphere. He is dissatisfied with fair and true men, and he does not disdain to try his hand among the more humble servants of the Republic. He is now engaged in the laudable work of purging the government printing office (an Augean task he avers) in the shape ofa young man who holds a situation there ag an assistant foreman. Cappers for a Copper Company. ” $.'T. Snow, of the Revere Copper Company of Boston, heading a representation of the leading manufacturers of copper and composition metal for shipbuilding “purposes, are now in this city in consultation with the Maine Congressional delega- tion, Mr. Dawes and the Secretary of the Treasury, in regard to the admission of shipbuilding materials provided for in the act of June 6, i872 Their Object is to secure a wider application ot the law which will be more satisfactory to, the shipping interest and entireiy so to the metal manufacturers. They will be heard before the Com- mittee of Ways and Means in January, and the in- dications are that the act referred to will be amended at this session of Congress to harmonize conflicting interests and give it greater usefulness. Allegators Taking Watcr in the Senate. During the session of the Senate to-day, while Senators Clayton and Rice, of Arkansas, were de- bating the question of the appointment of a com- mittee to visit that State and investigate the recent trouble, Senator Clayton denied the statements made by his colleague, and said :— The honorable gentieman may deny this allega- gation, but f can produce the allegators, The President pro tem. was donstrained to ask | the Senator what he meant by the term allegators. Clayton explained that be referred to the parties who gave him the information, and said they were gentiemen of the first water. The explanation was entirely satisfactory, the President recognizing the intimate relation between alligators and water, Confirmations by the Senate, ‘The Senate in executive session to-day confirmed the following nominations:—George Bliss, Jr., United States Attorney for the Southern district of New York; John T, Croxton, of Kentucky, Minister | resident at Bolivia, vice L. Markbreit, recalled; William B, Crosby, of New York, Consul General at Rome, vice D. H. Armstrong, resigned; B. W. Bris- bois, of Wisconsin, Consul at Veeviers, vice C. W. Kleiberg, recalled; A. J. Cassard, of Louisiana, Consul at Tabasco, vice F. M. Nemegyi, resigned; William A. Baldwin, Collector of Customs at New- ark, N. J., vice William Silvey, deceased, War on Consuls. ‘The ist of foreign consuls is to be revised, and the consuls recommended by Schurz, Sumner and Trumbull are to be rotated out on the 4th of March to make way for the protegés of more steadfast re- publicans, Naval Orders. Masters Clinton H. Cartis and William EF. R. Delahay have been detached from the Powhattan and ordered to the Supply; Passed Assistant Surgeon F, M. Dearborn, from the Ohio to the Sup- ply Assistant Surgeon G. O. Allen, from the naval hospital at Cheisea to the Ohio; Assistant Surgeon William A. Corwin, ordered to the naval hospital a Chelsea ; Acting Assistant Surgeon W, Elston, tw Mound City, 1, He himself con- | ARTISTS AT WORK. Preparations for the Spring Exhibitions. Studios and Ateliers Brimming with Professional Business. The successful painter reminds one of the busy little bee, of whom the playful emendator of Dr. Watts remarked that it gathers honey all the day and eats it all the night. The artist gathers art honey all Summer and feeds upon it during the frosty months. In no other proiession is one por- tion of the year so exclusively devoted to acquiring the material for labor and the other portions so re- lentlessly monopolized in making valuable use of that material. The artist lives out of doors during Summer and Autumn that he may to the better ad- vantage work in doors when the cold months come and Winter wraps the landscapes up in white and draws her veil over firmament and field, Sel- dom or never have our artiste been busier than they now are. The ateliers brim with studies glowing with the freshnessof the Summer and Autumn which have justelapsed. The greater pro- Portion of the memoranda made by our more prominent painters possess an originality and vitality which will enter into the composition of many a picture now in its initiatory. stages, The following jist does not pretend to be a full one, but will be found correct so far as it goes :— DAVID JOHNSON. Two pictures are engaging the attention of this artist. One isa view of Colwell, Lake George, no- ticeable for the delicious quality of its grays. The Other is @ scene on Fourteen-Mile Island. The first ts a commission and derives a tinge of bistorical interest from the fact that a portion of the ruins of old Fort George occupies the foreground. Both of these pictures are tobe reproduced hereafter on an extended scale. FROST JOHNSON is profitably occupied with several pieces of stil) life which are principally remarkable for their rich and subtle contrasts of color. “Ninety-two in the Shade” is the somewhat equivocal title of a just completed picture representing a common street corner scene in one of the proletarian sections of New York during 4 Summer day. An average group stands around a street fountain—a laborer mop- ping his unctuous face, a woman with a baby, a newsboy shouting the HERALD, a demoralized dog quenching his thirst. ‘The dog is too unconventional to please the averave customer, and Mr. Johnson in- tends to commit the mistake of eftacing him and painting in some sleek and proper and wholly un- interesting nonentity. The artist’s studies in heads, mostly taken abroad, are unique, They are simply studies of coloration from nature, and unite individuality of color with strength of effect. Mrs, Frost Johnson is busy on a theme which illustrates anidea borrowed from the late Nathanicl Haw- thorne’s ‘‘Mosses from an old Manse.” WILLIAM HART is pursuing with enthusiasm his new discovery, made during his Summer absence, in regard to the application of positive white—a discovery which Turner made for himself tong ago, and which may be said to be the keynote to color. All of Mr. Wil- liam Hart’s fature pictures will be painted accord- ing to this standard, The latest specimen, to which he ia now putting the final touches, is ‘The Break- ing Up of a Cloudy Day,” the locality whence the material was derived being Cape Elizabeth, The light green of the sea and the tender blue of the ky are exquisitely blended. “A Scene on the Ausable” is a complete song in color, the warm, rich, passionate hues of Autump oeing compared and contrasted with @ taste and touch that are simply lyrical in their fineness and melody. Mr. Hart brought home from bis Summer jaunt twenty-five or thirty studies wonderful for their brilliant vivacity and passing with the ordinary amateur for finished pictures, 3. R, BREVOORT. Three or four pictures, just finished or finishing, are found upon the easels of Mr.-Brevoort. The scenes are principally taken from Farmington, Con! Lights and Shadows of a Summer Day” and “Autumnal Rain” are in the ast stagé of completion. In the first-mentioned the sentiment is that of pensive serenity and the canvas is crowded with rich greens. In the other a gloomy day of October rain is indicated—a subject for which Mr. Brevoort seems to have peculiar sympathy. The foliage lacks those vivid and surprising contrasts for which the American Autumn is famous, the distant hills are murky, and the feeling of loneliness and desolation is re- lieved by the presence of but one solitary figure. A third picture, just finished, and entitled “Novem- ber,” left Mr. Brevoort’s study only a day or two ago, and occupies a place in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association. The view was taken off Gloucester shore, Mass. LOUIS C, TIFFANY. This artist recently ended a residence of many months in and near Tangiers, Morocco, and brought back with him many picturesque and useful studies. Some of these have been used for com- position, and Mr. Tiffany’s easels are full of progress- ing works. ‘Outside of the Prison at Tangiers” is one of the largest pictures of the kind ever painted in this country. It is m water colors, and will be exhibited next Spring by the American Water Color Society. It contains about twenty figures, and is principally noticeable for the ac- curacy with which it indicates the fanciful and picturesque ensemble of the people and locality, Of less interest than this are “A Street Scene in Tangiers,” two Moorish figures and “Nile Boats,” all in a very imperfect condition. R. SWAIN GIFFORD is surrounded with studies taken at and near Cairo, and most of these memoranda enter into the pic- | tures he has lately painted or is painting. “The Approach to Cairo” represents two camels bearing burdens, outside the walls. The atmosphere has that particuiarly hazy effect which is dug to the alr i: being full of brilliant dust particles in incessant motion. Another picture is the “Rosier Battery at Gibraltar,’ which wall be completed in three weeks. A third represents one of the principal fountains in Cairo, surrounded by a representative group lolling | on mats and smoking pipes—beggars, water-car- riers, and the conventional Cairo “merchant,” who does the bookkeeping for all the shopkeepers in his neighborhood. “The Port of Cairo reproduces a landing place immediately opposite the Pyramids, with freight boats about tq disburden themselves. ‘The sky 18 a fair represeutative Egyptian sky, less blue than the Italian, and absolutely cloudless. In | a picture, as yet ia its earliest stages, nameless even to the artist, but meant to be strongly characteristic of Egyptian life, lazy motion on a warm day is the motive. Even in this initiatory stage it is not impossible to believe that there wil! be @ sort Of lotos languor about it. ALFRED T, BRICHER is particularly happy in light and water, and is busily working on two pictures in which this fell- city is made abundant use of, One of these repre- sents a light effect on the Mississippi, in which little or no attempt is made at local coloring, but in which the light glittering upon the water is indicated with a glow and _ brillianc; beyond the reach of most artists ambi- | tious for this order of result, “Morning on Narragansett Bay” is in an exceedingly unde- veloped state as yet. It will be full of figure and incident, and Mr. Bricher expects to be busy on these twp pictures for some week: his just-begun efforts is “Shower at Bricher bi 180 @ large collection of studies fro nature in r colors, taken at Newburyport and Manchester, Mass. The most noticeable of these rep- resents quantity of ébris along with it. MISS M. J, WALTERS has made, for future use, studies of Brass Castle Brook, Warren county, New Jersey; Belvidere, on the Delaware, and Saddle River, Bergen county, just above Paterson. BISPHAM has several important works in progress. One of these is culled “The Chafye to the Front,” and 18 oe sold to the Seventh regiment, Another ts the “Stampede of Wild Horses on a Prairie.” The artist has been working on it two years, and ex- pects to complete it this Winter. The prairie is supposed to be on fire, and the horses are endea- voring, With variously and intensely expressed terror, to escape the rapidly raring flames. ‘This picture is already purchased, and will be for- warded to England in the Spring, “Cattle Going Out inthe Karly Morning” and a “Portrait of a Pojnter’’ complete the list of pictures which, ir ing the Winter, will engage Mr. Bispham’s brush, The portratt represents @ somewhat ce ted dog, named George, which took the prize at a dog September tide dashing in, carrying a | fair, and which possesses a history that the col- lecters of stories about dogs would find interesting. WILLIAM SATTERLBE. “Never Too Old to Dance’? has just left the easel of thie artiat. The scene is Italian, and the subject represents an old Italian woman dancing, a8 is frequently the case in that easy-going climate, with a young peasant. The coloring ia very brilliant, and the contrast of the sanctimonious priests with he of Principe) actors ie cleverly effected. Other pictures of Mr. Satterlee, in various stages of unfinish, are “A Glimpse of a Happ: Home,” representing a young girl wistfully 4 “Flower Girl” of- ing some doves im an aviary; fering a Making up her nosegay, and “The Song of the fea,” taken from Was! ry Irving’s sad but delightfully told Atory of Annetia Delarbre. 9. H. BEARD hag in hand several of his curious and unique pie- tures, which will be completed during the coming week ortwo. ‘The New Year's Call” represents one dog visiting another, and, having exhausted all the commonplaces of conversation, one of them watches with anstcipation a glass stand containing New Year’s cake and other dainties, while the other wears a bored expression, for which the via- itor is plainly responsible. “No House Large Enough for Two Families” is another equally orig- inal and cunni heme, handied in that peculiar vein which burlesque human interest to much of Mr, nimal life, @MILLIE is illustrating the Yosemite for a work now in process of publication by New York publisher, ia work reproduces all e characteristics of Yosemite scenery—Indiang, “big trees,’ wrecks, rock slides, fractured granite, and so forth. He is also preparing for the Spring exhibition at the Academy of &@ large picture, for which he has as yet no name, representing Yosemite Indians and ides making i from _ threaten danger. P ture to thie will bo ‘Eve Shades Amon; the High Sierras,” which, amid Mr. Smillie’s multi- tudinous work, May not be completed this season, oe. which promer to abound with purple shadows rich contrast to the melting radiance of evening. Ea spoeio 1s fairly lined with studies made in the foesm: the more valuable are “The Foot of Bentinel Rocks” “Merced River,” “The White Oedars,” oe emten,” “The Dames,” “Half Dome” and “‘agle } hog bee awa! A companion A water coler, “Mother and .” inishing, and will be exhibited in the Spring-by the American Water Color Society. JAMES M HART hae given superb illustration to that line in Whit- tier’s poem of ‘The Drover’? whieh reads thus :— ‘Through dust-clouds rising thick and dun, This Hne will probably be used as the title of the picture, though ashorter one would perhaps be more apposite. The subject represents cattle being driven through a wood. There iga great deal of bot and action and pure feeling in this picture. foliage is exquisitely painted, Another picture, susiuew “View on the Catskill,” is fresh from the easel, JOHN ROGERS, the sculptor, will, in afew weeks, finish a group upon which he is now working, ¢ntitied, ‘The Fa- vored Scholar.” Both subject and treatment are fascinating. The figures are three in number, A oung and handsome schoolmaster is explaining a lesson to one of his scholars, a young girl, beauti- ful and coy. His glances are bent upon her with a tender yearning which the mere pedagogue could never feel, and the beautiful scholar listens to him with a shy demureness, in which is perceptible a consciousness of the emotion she has created in her teacher's breast. I front of the desk at which she stands site a laughing boy, all unre- garded, who has adorned his ears with paper-curis, ornamented the desk with grotesque devices, and is doing all in his power to Make the favored scholar smile, The sentiment of this work is delightful— 80 pure, 80 delicate, so ingenuous and go earnest, T. 1. SMITH, “The Moated Grange” has inspired Mr. T. L. Smith. Two words, 6, oken in Shakspeare’s ‘“Meas- ure tor Measure” by the Duke Vincentio to Isabella, supplied Tennyson with material for seven twelve- line verses, and Tennyson in turn has suggested a theme to Mr. Smith. ‘The verse to which the artist acknowledges particular indebtedness is the one beginning— And ever, when the moon was low, And the shrill winds were up and away, In the white curtain, to and {ro, She saw the gusty shadow sway. Itisa@ picture im which one expects to find the biack mosses and rusted rails, the broken sheds, the clinking latches, the flitting bats, the crowing night fowl, the lowing oxen, the cold winds, the blackened waters, the shaking poplars, the gnarled barks, the level wastes, the glimmering faces and tie ghostly footsteps mentioned by the fastidious author of “Mariana.” The sentiment which suggested all these minute particulars is indicated by Mr. Smith, and the pele of hopeless and lonely isolation is reproduced wit! painful intensity, It is to be hoped that Mr, Smith whl repudiate alt suggestions to repaint the s4y in the leit background. The gloomy and lurid treatment he has given it is happily adapted to the subject, and any alteration in tl respect would be almost sure to be for the worse. The ture ig not yet quite finished, but probably will be in the course of a week or two. The final touches are likewise being applied to a lovely Autumn view, crowded with golden foliage, as warm but not 48 rich as some Of the Autumn studies of William “Hart. PAGE. The present résumé must include a reference to Mr. Page’s “Portrait of Shakspeare,” which will probably evoke almost as much discussion in art and literary circles a8 his “Head of Christ.” Jt Might be mentioned in passing that, by those to whom the ‘Head of Christ” ig offensive, Mr, Page is generally accredited with having introduced Paganism into modern art and with having been impiously ambitious to paint a periect anthropomorphic portrait. The facts simply are that Mr. Page ts one of the most orthodox of the orthodox, and that in painting the “Head of Christ’? he merely endeavored to express his own conception of absolute Godhood resident temporarily in the form oi man. His “Portrait of Shakspeare” is the climax of long years of study and labor. It is a repetition of the celebrated Chandos portrait, and during its elaboration Mr. Page has not ignored the existence of the Strat- ford bust and the Droeshout print. It is painted ina much higher key than this artist usually em- ploys, and during its recent exhibition at the Cen- tury Club labored under the disadvantage of being placed in too stronga light. Page generally paints his pictures in the same key as Titian, and will without doubt return to that standard in all future portraits of Shakspeare that he may attempt. The present one may almost be termed a tentative effort. Atleast it is reyarded nearly in that light by the artist himself. The scar over the rignt eye- brow is retained, to which tne poet is supposed to allude in the 112th sonnet, beginning Your love and pity do ression fll, Which vulgar scandal siamped upon my brow. ‘The distance between the brows is very great and gives repose and strength to the countenance. ‘The eyes are a8 earnest as self-possessed, as re- posetul and as unfathomable as those of tne sphinx; the cheeks are florid; the lower lip has that hanging look to which the dramatist may be suspected to refer in one of Falstaff’s passages, and the countenance expresses a large, generous, charitable, lovable nature, to which pettiness wag impossible and to which humanity was infi- nitely dear, The portrait is imtended for Judge Daly and is now at Mr. Page’s studio. This artist will go to England in the Spring, where he will most probably lecture on Shakspeare, a task for which he possesses several eminent qualifications, W. H. BEARD. Upon the easels of this artist may be seen “I Thought I Heard Something” and “Narcissus.” Both are imbued with a spice of that fantasti genius which has contributed to whatever is bi- zarrein Mr. Beard’s reputation. The first men- tioned picture represents a dusky sportsman, gua in hand, peering from underneath a prone tree that in falling forms a hypothenuse, to which the jround and the portion of the trunk that remains standing hold the relation of base and perpendicu- lar, Thé sportsman is évidently looking in every direction except the right one, for above him, on the upper side of the trunk, is an immense black bear gazing downward with hungry eyes. The | comic sentiment in this picture predominates, and the very title implics that Mr. Beard had not at. tached toit serious Import. “Narcissus” is piquant. It is a burlesque version of the fable of the beauti- | ful stripling who pined after his own shadow. Mr. | Beard’s “Narcissus” is a squirrel complacently re- garding its image in the water. The management of the reflection is perfect, and this is the more noticeable because nine artists out o7 ten fail in at- tempts of this character. JULIAN SCOTT. “The Battle of Cedar Creek” is a very large paint- ing, twenty feet by ten, which will almost monop- olize Mr, Scott's attention during the Winter. The original’ study is comparatively instgnificant. When the preparer of this article called on Mr. Scott, the large painting had not yet been trans- ferred to that artist's new studio, and, consequent- ly, was not visible. It will be one of the largest pictures of the kind ever painted in this country, and its historical interest will enhance the perti- nency of ore curiosity in regard to it. The only other picture upon which Mr. Scott will probably labor much during the next few months is “Far- ragut at Port Hudson,” in process of completion, for one of the Farragut family. It will presently be transferred from West Point, where it is now. It represents Admiral Farragut on the poop-deck of the Hartford, teaching his son how to tie a to Not having yet seen the work, it is impos- sible to announce its merits. W. J. HAYS has, unfortunately, been something of an invalid for the past two years, and, therefore, has not as Many studies on hand as the admirers of his ‘‘Buf- falo Hunt,” “Prairie on Fire” and ‘Prairie Dogs” could wish. In fact, only one picture, and tha’ small one, is occupying his brush present. It represents four deer, and is named ‘Scene in the Autumn Woods.” It is graceful and spirited, and the timid expressions of all the animals, and the startled appearance of one, are very clever and truthful reproductions. But Mr. Hays is never so much at home as when delineating life on the prai- ries, He has made these a peculiar and enthust- astic study, and indicated them upon canvas with a vivid fidelity to which it is not casy to give too much praise. The swells and undulations, as soft and melting as though they were the literal breasts of nature, in his chef d'euvre of ‘The Prairie Dogs” are wonderfui in the harmonious and tender mu- tuality with which they subside into each other. But since none of the pictures except the work EL idcaaati te | the four deer, now in hand, are new, it is needless to linger over them here, J. MENTRE. vs | Pharmacy, Heratp Building :— 1s’ The latest work in which Mr, McEntec has ex- Dressed bimsell is termed “Looking Out to Sea.” the Massachusetts coast, near Gloucester, farntsh- ing the material For beauty of effeet and elab- orateness of finish it will not compare with two Seapewe pletares, one of which the artist hay re- painted, and both of which have their scenes laid mong the Catakilla, One of these efforts is strangely beautiful. It gives the interior of a forest that has undergone the bewildering trans- figurations of Autumn. The silver cord ‘of Sep- tember is loosed, ana the golden bow! of October ig broken, and the last red and golden ood-drcps of November are spilled The fons ted with tawny, rich-hued leaves, re ‘an delicate tracing of foliage overhead, and in the midst of the luxuriant ms lonely scene is discerned the figure of a solitary woman seated on a prostrate tronk. It is such pictures as these which mar the effect of ‘Looking Out to Sea.” One of the disad- vantages of exceptional merit is found in the very criterion it unconsciously makes itself, 8. RB. GIFFORD. A very beautiful and romantic theme has fascl- nated Mr, 8. R, Gifford—“A Foggy Morning on the Golden Horn,” The locality, as the reader is aware, is between Stamboul and Pera, the Bospho- rus and the Sea of Marmora. It will be in ume to return to this picture when a minuter degree of Hinish shall render a@ fairer estimate possible. A just completed work is ‘‘Rhetnstein,” presenting a castle on the Bhine, near Bingen, the summit steeped in sunlight and the base reposing in shadow. F, B. CARPENTER. eat deal of labor has been projected by or | Un A artist for the Winter which hag just set in, the last few days he has been employed at his | country studio in repainting his celebrated “fman- clpation Proclamation,” which may now be said to be the final result of eight years of thought, expe- rience and observation. One of the last expressed wishes of President Lincoln was that this” picture should be owned by Congress, and all who revere the lessons of Mr. Lincoln's life and character will be glad to learn that there is now a fair chance of this desire being realized, ‘The picture soloree the Savantage Of being painted at the White House, under Lincoln's own eye. It containg portraits of Lincoln, Seward, Stanton, Chase, Welles, Caleb B, Smith, Blair and Bates. Mr. Carpenter will likewise finish, during the next few months, his picture of ‘The Joint High Com- mission,” begun last year, just after the signing of the treaty. It includes likenesses of Earl De Grey, Northcote, Tenterden, Sir John Macdonald, Bernard, Sir Edwasd Thornton, Secretary Fish, General Schenck, Judge Nelson, Bancroft Davis, Hoar and Judge Williams.’ Other works in the later stages of finish are full-length portraits ofthe Hon, Asa Packer, of Pennsylvania, for the Lehigh U. iversity, which he founded; Ezra Cor- neil, for Cornell University; James Russell Lowell, for the aame university, and Dr. Chapin, for the new Chapin Home for the Agea and Intirm. CONSTANT MAYER has this time extracted inspiration from those lines in Gray’s “Elegy” whioh read :— Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his flelds withswod. He has named his picture ‘The Village Hampden,” and surely a more felicitous title has not often been bestowed. It represents a little rustic tatterdema- lion of six or seven, hands in pocket and frown on Drow, with pugnacity oozing out of every pore, and contrasting finely with the latent good humor and generosity of the face. The very costume is a valu- able stndy in the Tagged picturesque, ‘The theme is simplicity itself, but it ts handled xo genially aud pogettully such strong and rustic individuality is indicated In the attitude and expression, and the entire sentiment is 80 happily crystaliized in the title, that ‘‘The Village Hampden” will probably be oad the most popular of M. Mayer's lucubra- jong. M. F. H. DB HAAS. Sunset and moonlieny effects are among the favorite efforts of this artlat. Accordingly two fresh, unfinished specimens in this line are to be found on his easels. ‘The one nearer completion represents “Moonlight on the Coust of Maine.” The effect is very pecullar—the roseate after-glow of | sunset being in strong contrast to the shower of yellow light raining from the perfectly risen moon and strongly tinging the water, The sky needs mellowing, and this belongs to the unaccomplished poricn which will immediately employ Mr. M. F. . de Haas’ brush. The other picture, only half finished, is “Sunset on Long Island Beach,” with the usual fishing boats in the distance and desul- tory groups on shore. One or two weeks’ work re- ins to be done on it, WM. F, DE HAAS, For many weeks past Mr. William F. de Maas has been working at a picture representing Appledore Island, among the Isles of Shoals, The season of the year is September, just alter a northeast gale ceased and the wind has veered to the west. The water at this point is perfectly clear, the rocks are clean, and consequently no mud or sand mixes with the breaking waves to lend them a yellow tint. A bright green characterizes the breakers as they dash over the rocks, an effect not often seen save at this and similar localities, The green is in vivid contrast to the water in the distance, docnly Hn ged with the biue firmament it refects, re tempering the reficction. Two smaller pictures are “The Shawangunk Hills,” near the Catskills, | and “Mol on the Coast of Maine.” In the last Mentioned picture the light of the rising sun is represented as softly filmed by the misty atmos- phere, so that its yellow glare, losing its intensity, subsides into a golden glow. Mr. William F. de Haas’ principal work, however, is ‘The Appledore Jsland” scene, which promises speedy completion, WEATHER REPORT, o- OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER, WasHINeron, D. C., Dec. 21-1 A. M. Probabilities, For the New England and Middle States fresh and occasionally brisk northerly to westerly winds, clear and clearing wi the South Atlantic States northeasterly to north- westerly winds and clearing, but partly cloudy weather, with lower temperature. For the Gulf States, Tennessee and Kentucky, northeasterly to northwesterly winds and clear weather, with low | temperature. From the Ohio Valley and Missourt o Lake Erie and Upper Lakes northerly to westerly winds and generally clear and cold weather, The Weather in this City Yesterday. The following record wili show the changes in the temperature for the past twen comparison with the corresponding day of last year, as indicated by the therinometer at Hudnut’s 5 1872. 1871, 1872, 30 OP. M... 15 Bo 34 OP. M. il OT 38° 9 P.M, 8 38 122M . 40 12P. M. 5 35 Average temperature .yesterda + 364 Average temperature for cor ling date TAsE YOAT sss eeseceees Trains Delayed by Snow Drilfts Ten | Feet Dee PovcnkeEsrstE, N, Y., Dec, 20, 1872, ‘The morning passenger train on the Poughkeep- sie and Eastern Railroad, coming West, was de- tained five hours at Boston Corners, this morning, by snow drifts ten feet deep. A furious gale of wind was prevailing there at the time, and the Harlem trains did not dare to cross the high em- bankment, on which trains have been blown jrom | the track, _- Snow and Rain in Boston, Boston, Dec. 20, 1872, Three inches of snow fell here after miduight, but it is snowing heavily this morning, “Old Probabilities at Fault tor Once. CHICAGO, Dec, 20, 1872. The great storm of yesterday throughout the Northwest occurred contrary to the predictions | of the Weather Bureau of the War Department. | For two days the weather report had been an- nouncing clearing and fair weather, when it per- sisted in being cloudy, and, after a dash of snow the day before yesterday, cnded yesterday with | one of the most extensive storms witnessed here fora long time. ‘I'welve hours after the storm had generally commenced the Weather Bureau came out With the probabilities for to-day, predicting what had already passed, The sky was bright an clear this morning, although every thoroughiare | was BLOCKED WITH SNOW. The snow storm appears to have extended over a@ large extent of the country. Trains ar- riving here last night and this morning on nearly ali the roads were more or less delayed, but no serious inconvenience has resulted, To-day the weather Is clear and bright. ae Three Inches of Snow in St. Louis. Sr. Louis, Dec, 20, 1872. The snow storm of yesterday ceased last night, About three inches of snow fell. The weather to day was clear and cold. Below Zero in Ka oo LAWRENCE, Dec. 20, 1872, The mercury this morning was eighteen degrees below zero, which was the lowest for.the past five years, Sixteen Degre: Snow Accident in Utah. SALT Lake City, Dec. 20, 1872. There have been heavy storms in the mountains here. buildings of the mine were carried away. Two men were severely cut and bruised, and two others were taken down by the slide, but were not seriously | injured, Severe Storm at Halifax, Hawirax, N. S., Dec. 20, 1872, A heavy snow storm has prevailed all day from the northeast, The storm has prevented the ar- rival of any train from the West or East since yes- terday liam F, de Haas intends, however, to modify | this deep azure by introducing clouds, and tius | her and falling temperature. For | four hours in | There was a snow-slide at Alta, by which the | | od NEW ORLEANS Seizure of tho Times by the United States Marshal. The Citizens’ Committee in the Supreme Court. tt SE oS Associate Justice Bradley Not De. cided to Go to Louisiana. Marshal Packard Takes Possession of the New Orleans Times, New ORLEANS, Dec, 20, 1872. . | A high handed outrage has been perpetrated to- | day on the press on a trumped-up charge involv= | Ing only $1,500, but alleging fraud. The New Or- leans Times was seized by the United States Mar- shal by order of Judge Durell. Although doubl¢ the amount was offered im discharge of the debt @ release was refused, ‘he Times has been verge severe lately in its comments apon Durell, The act is regarded by the public as an attempt to stifle | the pr Great indignation exists throughout the cily. Mr. Justice Bradley to Use His Own Judgment Whether He Will Go to Lous. isiana or Not. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1872, After the Supreme Court adjourned to-day ex~« Judge Campbell and others of the sub-committea, of the Louisiana delegation, had a conference with the Judges of the Court, and gave their reasons Why: they desired Associate Justice Bradley to proceed to New Orleans to review the genera! proceedings of Judge Durell, Judge Bradley, instead of going thither on his own volition, preferred that the re quest to do 80 should come from his colleagues, who took the matter under advisement, It was subgequently ascertained the Judges cama to the conclusion that it now remains with Asso- ciate Justice Bradley himself to decide whether he will go to New Orleans for the purpose already stated, bi After leaving the Supreme Court this morning | the committee held a private meeting at Wil- | lard’s. | The committee, at their meeting this afternoon, | agreed to issue an address to the people of the | United States, setting forth the Iw and the factay in the cage now disturbing that State, and to peti-” | tion Congress for relief when its session shall ba’ resumed, immediately after the holidays, \ The committee adjourned to meet in New York. on Monday next, the committee having been in« vited by prominent men of ail parties to visit New, York and lay the whole matter before the people. 4 Subsequently the committee went to the Capitol and paid their respects to Speaker Blaine in his re- ception room. The New York Programme Changed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1872. The New Orleans delegation at a meeting to-night reconsidered the resoiution adopted this morning) | to visit New York in a body, to present their grievances to the merchants of that city, It Is now! | determined to leave Judge Campbell to prepare am address to the American people, and for tiis pur pose the Judge, accompanied by two meinbers of the sub-committee left for Baltimore this evening, © | where he will remain until the task 1s finished, | The address will give @ clear and suceinct history | of the troubles, the efforts put forth by, the administration to hold the balance of power im | the State, and the proceedings before the Untteat | States Courts, bringing the history down to date. It will repudiate political application, and directly! claim to be the expression of the citizens of Louis~ | jana, irrespective of party. It is understood to- might that the request of the delegation to have | Justice Bradley visit New Oricans and hear tha | case now pending before Judge Durell will not ba acceded to, ag under the circumstances to comply; with the committee's request would, it is saidy | virtually impugn the correctness of Judge Durell’ | proceedings. rr THE PACIFIC COAST. eee | The Wreckers at Work on the Sunken | Steamship Sacramento—Hopes of Sav~« + ing Most of the Furniture, Machinery, | | | &c.—The Modoc Indians Bold and De= fiant. | SAN FRANcrIsco, Dec, 20, 1872, + | Advices from San Diego indicate that nearly al of the cabin furniture, some of the cargo and apart | of the machinery of the steamship sacramento wilh | be saved. The steamer Fideleter brought away some of the property. The wreckers are still ay work. The ship has not gone to pieces, but the | bottom is all stove In, The weather has favored | the wreckers in all their operations. The latest news from tue Modoc Indian country states that Major Green was preparing to surroun® “Captain Jack’? and iis band, The military are moving very slowly. ‘The {ndlans offer to fight tha | troops ten to one and will never surrender. An att: y the troops is mqmentarily expected take place. Captain Jack’s camp is not so dini- It to be rei 1 sat first supposed. The Id battle ground on Lost troops to fight them, Al vithout affect on either sick rhe Modocs were seen on the mountains watching the movements of the soldiers. Volun- | teers have gone to Yreka for more arms and am munition. | ovement is on foot among certain capitalists, h 0 convert the vacant Pacific woollen mills im is city into a cotton facto: it is believed that the cotton crop of this State for the coming year. will amount to 500,000 pounds. Every British ship in this port has been supplied with crews at $35 per month each, without bounty. | American ships pay $30 per ‘month, withoug Fight boarding house masters’ claiming » the United States Cir’ | few shots rt to-day and g: A performance will b | the California Theatre f nejit of the famil of the late Colonel Albert 8. Evans, who lost his life | by the burning of the steamship Missouri. sday night a OBSOENE LITERATURE, ’ A Large Quantity of the Matter Cape tured. ‘ John Wesley Nichols and George Francis 'Traim were arrested last night by Captain Byrne, of tha | Filteenth precinct, upon bench warrants issued upon complaint of Mr. Comstock, President of tha Young Men's Christian Association, charged witly publishing and putting in circulation an obscens r. Nichols Was captured at bis place of busts xt rain at the residen s West Twenty-seconi strect. ne was watching for the ap= nin front of Nichols’ store, he, Hoticed a boy leave t! e, and, sending Detec= tive Carr to look after the boy's movements, the police discovered he was making arrangements ‘for the transfer of @ quantity of the papers to Captain B pearance of the m | some place down town, Suiticient time was al- lowed the people in the store to get eve | thing ready, and when the truck the boy hire haa gone a little way ‘own Broadway the parcels were seized. OMmcer Young, on taking the matter, o the station, found the parcels that were in ther cart contained about two thousand copies of the | paper, Detective Henderson then arrested Nichols, and, after locking him up, returned to | Captain Byrne, and both proceeded to the house tm | Twenty-second street, where Train was concealed. | He was taken front there to the Fifteenth precinct station and will be sent before Judge Ingrahang | this morning at eleven o'clock. BOWLES BROTHERS & 0. | whe property of Mr. Appleton in Newport Attached by the Creditors of the Lata Banking Firm. Newrort, R. I., Dee. 20, 1872. . The property of Nathan Appleton, of Boston,, | situated on Bellevue avenue, was attached to-day by the creditors of the banking-house of Bowles | Brothers, The estate is represented to be worth $60,000, but would not probably pet more tham | $50,000 were It put up by auction. "FIRE LAST WIGHT, A fire broke out at eleven o'clock last night at No. 314 East Thirty-fifth street, in the sash and blind manufactory occupied by George Weyer. The butlding 1s surrounded by tenement housed and the fire created considerable consternation among their inmates, who were seen in group every window, Two of the steamers were da} aged in getting to the scene, but the flames wera easily subdued. The loss was $2,000 on stock and | $600 damage to the building. The fire originated in the boiler room. Weyer, who was tw burned out in Forty-second strect, Bad but receutly Fe moved to the buding, : y