The Sun (New York) Newspaper, November 23, 1869, Page 2

of subjects that question of mere party. Though the result h 14 shinee for At TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 98, 1809 [_ eens — = ———— Amusements To-day, Academy of Mw adopted. Wedo not stop to speak of tl f the vote has not yet Deen ofliclally declared by the State Canons _ = | ers, sulliciont is known to render it highly provatte that the judiciary article haa been benefits which will follow this result, but Bree Hating 8 meg aso only refer to it asa gratifying proof that it sent Le oo ark ice is impossible for the leaders of the Democ: enh racy to coerce the whole body of their re- 16 Theatre A New Way to Py OM Diits tainers to pursue a course which they do hot os Approve, , he Democrats have carried the State by Setiee Pocseee 4 taguatss tore wna Cohavis Drums more than 20,000 majority, It follows, there- Ran Francisco Mines Broaden fore, that, by the adoption of the judiciary t <iaty T A Reguint Fix Wood's Museum Avon Vanier Rotinen, = —— Terms of the Sun. mercer ir: article of the Constitution, in the face of th down in the platform of their party. c= | Wil do well not to disregard, And thts eh Sherman for President. At the meeting of the Society of the Army ‘becun a nexorable declaration of their State Conven- 0, & large number of Democrats have chosen to yield to the dictates of their own judgment rather than to the doctrines laid ‘This exhibits an independent, not to say re bellious spirit, which the Democratic leaders: is especially true of those who control the or. ganization in this city, and who have hercto- of the Tennessee at Lonisville, on Friday | fore assamed to dictate the policy to be pur: last, Gen, Wittias Treemepn Sinan | sed by the wholo party. It was the bolting was nominated for President of the United | Democrats of the interior who secured the tates. This was not done by the Society at | adoption of this important article of the new large, but by one of the members: but as we | Constitution, They have thus shown that lear from that popular and trustworthy jour | there fs a point beyond which they will not nal, the Chveloneti Commersial, “the motion | fellow the lead of Tammany Hall. was received with ] amution Indeed, the unpreendented, not to say un There aro many things to commend G expected victory of the party in this State, MAN as a Presidential ‘late. He | by which it Is clothed with ample powers in ie towed with extraomlinary talents; bis | every department of the Government, is due a versatile and rapid as well ns | to the Democrats of the rural districts, ‘The hensive; Lis stores of information | Democratic majoritics in this city and rook upon olmost every subject are extensive and | lyn, as compared with those of last fall, hev urate; he is a good lawyer as well as a | f generally good ; his eouraye is equal to any danger; his patriotism is sincere and devoted too, aro free from all tra or arrogance, and he shakes Dorer as readily as with a millionaire pintens are his own, and belong to Party. On some subjects his sentim agree with those of the Democracy, on others he will advocete the doctrines of old- foned Federalism : but he always expresece himeelf without disguise, sometimes with au attractive paradoxical favor; and he avows bn unpopular idea just ss readily as one that hb universal plaudits. personal qualities, lon off about forty thousand; and yet, § of (his defection, the Deme f| it has never before achleved sinc «| publican party was organized. Tt will be prudent, then, for the metropoli | tan Democracy to allow their brethren of the the Re- what use shall be mado of the great victory sh. | which the latter have won. ———____ Grinnell’s Acceptance of Blatchford’s Resignation. ‘Tre Sun exposed the Blatchford robbery a the Custom House on the Sth of Novem ber, “Sparing neither ingenuity nor ex- pense in obtaining the freshest intorcsting in- Mr Mr h such and with the prestige of | his reputation | sctligence,” the Hon, Honack. GuEct.ty, on el ya ea renal A ola matter) tue sth of November, denied that Brvten- of ( fe em. EMERMAN sould) port had anything to do with the ve thought of forthe Presidency, and that | fraud. Five days afterward he told his he should think of it himself. Joubt whether he will ev: Gidnte. In the first plac ations toward Gen. Grant will keep him in background for some time to come. G GRANT is understood by those who are in the way of seeing him intimately to cherish f deep desire for a reelection. ‘This feeling will naturally grow stronger as the decisive 72 approaches; aud the influences President can always bring to bear will doubtless | And yet we seriously hen can- , bis ob) realers that he thought Mr. Buatcnronp might have been concerned in the robbery. Oy the 15th of November he verified Tie Sun's i nation, telliag his readers that Sauve. T. Buarcnvorp was the leading spirit in the villany.” On the 20th Tue Sex publ that Collector Grixxeut had written to the ‘Troaeury Department on the 10th inst., say- ing that he had accepted Mr. BLarcuronn's res uation, Two days afterward Mr, Gier. Lay, after d the fact © exerted to secure for r sparing neither ingennity nor an ue pominatioy ul eo epublicar i ay eee 4 % Pa publican | money in obtaining the freshest interesting bilge pvention, As jong a8 Gen. | intelligence,” denied that Mr. GRINNELL GRANT is a candic n. SHERMAN cannot | 1.4 said anything of the kind, H Mf and will not enter the field; and when itis| 4. nes erases ai determined that the Republicans will not | UNAMORE * - Ve are confident that Mr. Gnixnei. have Gant, it will Le too late for SummMan to fish for their nomination ; indecd, his rela tion to Grant would make St dificult for him to accept a nomination which Grant had failed to secure, though it should be ananimously tendezed to hin Hordinate to resign after he had proof of h pat M If Mr. Gueeiny will take the trouble to send his Washington correspondent to the ap- pointment office of the Treasury Department, in 187) Besides, it is not now probable t Mr. BeaTcuvonn’s resignation ia Mr. Gn. NELL’s own handwriting. Tue ac ither party will s The experience «f the Republicans with GRANT has been such ns to give them a dis trust of shoulder straps in civil office; and even if he should now forsake his follies and make a sensible and suceessful administra tion, he can hardly recover, either for him relf or for other statesmen of military educa- tion, the confide: ce he has forfeited, And as for the Democrats, while there is no- thing in Gen. Sim An’s antecedents or in his political convictions to forbid their taking himn np, it is almost certain that they will be less inclined to run a military candidate in 1872 than they have ever been before. For these reasons, we imagine thet the nomination of Gen, SuenMANn at Louisville will not be adopted by either of the gr parties, Dut that it will remain without any substantial There ia aleo an. other consideration which will be in the wa of his beceming President. When he came to Washington last Spring Le was prevailed upon to accept a present of hundred and two thousand dollars, raised, as we were told pt a wilitary candidate. ptance is on file in that Departme The Washington Herald would do well to accompany Mr. GREELEY’s correspondent. Meanwhile Tu two cents! it. ——__ Cheap and Decent Boardiag Touses, and sty! to whi of moderate income, houses was easily obtained at €2.50 per week for women, and §8 for moi onsequenc to §20. of living daily gro dreary for be at the time, at Gon. Grarr welal request, | dostress among that part of the community from various citizens of New York and | which is compelled to board.) Already em. New England. ‘Twothirds of this large sum | ployers wre reducing the wages of their was devoted to prying Gen ANT a greatly advanced price fora house which Mr. A, Kt. DonmIN had procured to be presented to him three years before, The givers of these rich presents were most of them patriotic men, who desired to testify their appreciation of corresponding reduction in the cost of thei from $4 to 80 per week, and yet the numbei of houses, apartments, and stores to let i greater than ever before in the history of th city. What is wanted by citizens of moderat means is the establishment of a number ¢ cheap and respectable Gen, Grant's and Gen. SHenman’s services to the country, and that was all right, But Gen, GRAN las found in these donations a reason for appointing some of the least deli- cate and deserving of the donors to high offico; and with this proceeding the country ix justly dissatisfied. Though it is not be lieved that Gen, Sinan has been actively | me a party to such appointments, yet the fact tha: he has been mixed up in the business at all will always stand in the way of his attain- ing the Presidency, even if apart from this unfortunate complication there were a wide spread disposition to nominate and elect him eee The Rural and the Metropolitan Democe racy—Which Shall Lead ¢ The Democratic party, at their State Con- vention, passed a resolution against the adoption of the new Constitution, They made no exception in favor of any portion of the instrument, but took ground against the whole of it; the general understanding be- ing, however, that the party managers in this city were particularly hostile to the judi. tiary article, while an influential body of with a rei te, HT sonable profit upon their inves is a field for philanthropists Bast lige Meas Mr. Grinnell’s Successor. Among the gentlemon talked of to succes Hataey, of Newark, has been most frequen ly mentioned, “Mr. HALSEY is an able, energetic, uprigl man, engaged in a large and prosperou manufacturing business. ‘Tho affairs of th in his hand Hlunder to appoint him, the Republican party, No President can g ae the Btate favored the adoption of that article, | hands of the Democracy, and one Feason for ‘and were rather restive at being thwarted by | it is that Gen. Guan? has made impor Lm the metropolitan magnates. tant appointments here tending to that Lis It was doubtless unwise for the rulers of | result. Ifthe Republicans are ever to regain party to force upon the masses the issue y bad adoption ce pateatico, ‘of the Constitu: | using the power that is in their hands, and | Mr. 11, cratic fealty, for it is one of that clase | New York should be a New Yorker, Not many years ago good board in quiet now the former pay $5 and upward, and the latter from $7 The burden of the extortionate cost likely we may have an unusually severe and winter, the pressure of high prices rd and lodging may result in absolute clerks and other employees, but there Is no living. Small apar:monts for single persons, furnished with the barest necessaries, cost Doarding houses, whose proprietors will content themselves Mr. Moses H. Gainne.t in the Custom House, the name of the Hon, Qronor A. Custom Honse would be well administered and yet It would be a political One great error of the present Administra: tion has been Its neglect of the welfare of along well who acts without regard to pro- moting the efficiency and success of the party Democrats in the central and western part of | which elected him. New York is now in the acy of the interior have not only saved the State to the party, but have given it such a triumph as s | rural districts to take the lead in determining | apie je j the correspondent can find the acceptance of There is where obtained its information, and the correspondent of the Sun shines for all, price A correspondent complains of the number of boarding houses and restaurants ‘h young, unmarried men like himself are condemned, We have rafts of the cheap and nasty, but few that are suited to persons 8 heavier, and as very r r 8 t od Mt 18 he et nght never to be made @| should be « thotoughgoing Republican Who has given no pr Conris, Winn CONKLING, Tito Bioporrt, Henny matter how yereat hi will anewer the Dill. oblest thinkers that th ein the world has lors, wonder that many m ness of heart a she 1d remain single Whether this be true or not, esenta to the President, and hae a knowledge of the art of politics. Ne should be a niny like Gro, Wintiaw OnTON, Frarpentcn A 8 Menmry, Wa. T. E, Davies, or Jackson 8. Screntz. No citizen of New Jersey, no 8 talents and his merits, 1 En It has been contended by some of our 1¢ greatest amount of good # been bestowed by bache- we often en, farnous for their kind. A generosity of disposition, throngh tife, There is no more remarkable case of this sort than that of the late Gronoe Pranc history there isa roman yot been made public, A number of years was just entering upon business man, in Baltimore, the atreet a poor girl opy, It is snid that in his ice that perhaps has never ago, when Mr, Peanonr his career of success as a e met by chance in who war but a child, but whose pleating face and gentle manner attracted his notice. Question and surroundings, he worthy his regard, and faction, I ond yeve her an edueut age, ber charms of pe ness of | efactor, intellect won ‘ongh this 1% her as to her parentage found her in every way a fit subject for his bene. at once adopted her as his ward, ion, As she advanced in rson as well as the bright- 1 the affvetions of her ben- relationship he had ample opportunity, of watebing her progress, and day hy day her hold upon b is affections grew strong. or At length, ns the ward bloomed into womanhood, thongh much her sentor in ver Tranopy offered her his hond and fortune. Gratefully appreciating his zenerosity, and acknowledging her attachment jor him as almost a father, she with great hg confessed that honor compelled her to do- cline the avcejtance of this his greatest act of on tions had been given employ of her benefactor Though disappointed the philan mn him th ation, Mr. Pranopy successfull rival in busin ceived, and it is possib! came the inspirati Pranopy #0 universally nity, informing her suitor that her aff to another, a clerk in the Ir, and grievously shoe: iat sent for his clerk, and learning the engage rent bad been of long at one established bis 4s, and soon after gave jetion upon the marriage of bis ward, js said, was the first blow his heart re- Jo that from this episode m that made the future of Mr. distinguished, and has rendered his name famous as a remarkable public benefactor. — Our friend OLtven Dyer, the popular lec- turer, who undertakos excapy Sing prison, to tell people how to hell, has, we learn, fetched up in Sing He was captured last Sunday morning by the prison chaplain, and taken into the chapel, where he first preached to the 1,300 male conviets, and prayed with them, in his ort- ginal fashion, until he Then the chapla chapel for female cony eyes. brought tears to their in made him go to the iets, and talk to them, which he did with even more power than he had talked to the males, Thi work was that the chaph Dye come again, and, procured several hundred printed copies of a re- port of his remarks for inmates of the prison, Man Advocate speers at Mr. Dyan a whose name ought pot t its advertising columns, — The new store of M in Union aquare, is nearly finished, Though not intended for dry goods, — If the projectors of the monument to Grona Pranon, who, failed to e will but change th achieve succes Peanopr in the Central tute for this a model lodging house for the poor, such as was crected with his money in London, Imitation, says the proverb, is the sincerest fhat- tery and imitating Mr. for the poor would be homuge to Lis memory, Americans possessed join, worthy of great prais and toady to the Britis! and, in obedience to th toadyism, sympathized with the aristocracy of the South in their rebellion against tho national Government, a philanthropist, but citizen he deserves little praise, 40 much of his example forget everything One of the best pay Tndianapolis Mirror, curate intelligence, Dr. Lavincstonr’s in of a tribe that lives al houses. Some excavat miles long, and have + writivgs!” therein, he ters. They are ing this remarkable pec Tt has been expe Constitution would ti ing sufficiently to de this city has been fixed ingly the article 1s ado favor in the whole Stat Italy eclipses all ot! An official journel pul july gives to the It turers, and navigators voted by the consular the nation, With the ex not yet brought their servive into accord wit) graph and cables, 1 ption of stupendons expendita Goverument informat “sn, either in whole oy in part, a8 9 test of | not by throwing it away, The Collector of He should not fail to take abolish oltogetaer the whole machis iat pwbdio ayrapathy in their schemes, plans alittle, they may yet They propose to erect or ap obelisk, or something of that kind, to Mr. For it cannot be deni spects than that of charity, Mr. Peanopy was not whole district ean stand @ siege in tl © upshot of the morning's jain intends to have Mr. , inthe meanwhile, has distribu Yet the M n among the hodiat Carive a lecturer 0 be mentioned even in esera, TIFFANY & Co., it is fire-proof. thus far, have signatly statne, York. Let them substi- Peanovy's thoughtfulness not only @ graceful act of but the only one in which of any self-respect can J that, in other re- He was a colossal snob h Queen and aristocracy, e same snobbishness and javeholding We can honor him PINE ANTS. + The Academy of Wewien—Three Question- able Pictures: In the winter exhibition of the Academy of Desten,there are, besides the contributions of Amer- Jean artiste, eome hy foreigners of celebrity, and & few by old masters, O1 the latter, the foreign and the antiqne, there are Hires whose origin seems to Us. at Teast, qnestionatte, We refer to No. 171, "A Hunting Seene,"” by Sir Peter Pani Rubens; to No. ©, “Captd,” by Sir Jostua Reynolds; and No. 91 “The meeting of Mary Queen of Boots and bia beth of England,” by Kanlbuch, the acknowledge! head of modem Qurnin art, We will consider the merits and demerits of these as justly ae we ma and see if they bave any claim to the honored names under which they have been introduced to an Amer: jean publie, No. 171 representa a cavalier mounted on a bright ay steed, accompanied by a lady on a gallant gray. Dogs are at their horses’ feet, a hanteman with fusil on his shonider leads the way down a declivity, and in the distance 9 well. ted landscape if shown. On the cavalterts gloved haud is a falcon, For the execution, it is enrious falike In color and manipulation, ‘The distingnishing merits of Rubens were admirable oolor, rent magniticence and har mony Of composition, exuberant and somewhat eens sunt faney, and a gay, lightsome manner. If any one weeks to find these characteristics in_ the #keteh we treat of, be will be disappoluted. The tones are Neavy and the light cold, which of neces: sity makes the coloring inharmonious, — The technique, that ia, the manner of painting over & fold body-color with brond, visible #trokes of the brush, has been copied, but the rewnlt hn not been achieved, There 18 no animation in the horses or in the figures, The expression of tho faces is utter blonkness, ‘The indy’s hair, light and in curls t9 no ridientonsly drawn that It scoms ¢ ped on like » wig,and tls improsston is strength. ened by the action of the wind, which blows ont the curls on one side, and loaves the others plastered ftraight down the Indy*s hend ae if fortenea mechan Her attitude on tho horse t6 deticiom Fd, for, to tae a enaracteristic expression of 10 mankge, she sits all of a henp, as if Khe Lad he dumped into her feat, and Was fra to stir an inch, Nor ore hier feore gronnd- Jess, for the extravrdinary anatomy of her charger ‘a ealenlated = to. inspire terror, Ho is represented nawing at the dows with his off fore. and this attempt at foreshortening has been som erably managed that the upver part of the Ing in question nenr the shoulder Ix wome thirteen Inches higher then the other, giving the chest of the gray a curiously crooked aspect, which does not foretell much prowess in the hunt, The cavalter fs reapecta- biy drawn, though the coloring is dull, nd inartiatie; but eurionsly enough, one of the dogs nt the horse's fect is remarkable both from its epirited attitude and bold painting. The other dogs do not show equal talent, One has the head of m fox; an- other is @ wetter, but as fit oud as clumay as ja prize pig. ‘The rest are not so conspievous. The landscape tn the distance ts delightfully vague, Tti# impossible to tell what is meant, whether itis a fleld and trees or a waterfall fand trees, but it evidently was a matter of no moment to the artist, who ex hausted himself on the figures. Something might. Ve sald about the lady's costume, bat it woult be unjust, sinoo Rubens is never punctilious about such matters, ‘This sketch is painted on panel, and there Js no sign of cracking or even of mellowing in the col- ors, which are as {res and as crude as woen they were first laid on, As it {s probable that the anthorities of the Acade- my Would not have admitted this dagb without some voucher, it may be weil to say that tn the de- scriptive catalogue of the works of Peter Paul Rubens, published at Brussels Ini94) by A. Van Hoa- sell, there {8 no mention of any euch #keten. ‘The only one in the leost resembling it belonged to the Delman coliection, was bought by Sir Simeon Clarke, of Englund, in 10% and was purchased in com: paratively recent tigies by George Hibberd, Esq., of England. The next, “Capida," by Str Foshan Reynolds, de- picts an unhappy Cupid with bis fst in ins cye, and 4 parchment scroll in the other hand, pouting becanse another Cupid showe him a brokeu arrow. ‘This sec ond infant js represented reclining on a cloud, #0 ‘hat only those portions of him are seen which we notice in the cherubim seulptared on tombstones in ‘Trinity Churebyard, ‘The mourner is fully dis closed in hla pouthiad end waked heaniy, but te drawing 1# #0 execrablo, and the outline so different from the rounded forms oi Infaney, and especially of the infant Hercules by this same master, that we do not hesitate for one moment ju pronouncing it fictitious, no matter what pedigree may accompany ft, The heads we admit promptly to be well drawn, and the technique to ve tn the school of Reynolds, He has Jef on record bie manner, which wos generally to make out his shapes, as well ae the light and shadow of his heads, in Witle more than blue-black and white, oF luke, bine-binck, and white, or Iake and white only, using In this stage a good body of color. ‘Then he scumbied this over very shin with yellow ochre and white, or amber and white, or sometimes orpimentand white, And on that he retouched the features und tinted the cheeks and other parts of the head which might require it with brighter color, A slight, very slight glazing completed the work, ‘The fauliv in drawing are manifold, but we will enumerate the mogt prominent. The belly protrudes in an astofishing manner, form- aman and an American Let us profit by ‘e9 wo can profit by, and ° — pers in the West is the It is edited by Mr. Benny ©. Souonove, a writer of unasual ability and eul- ture, who thoroughly understands how to make an interesting and valuable journal, who desire to take # paper from Indiana will find the Mirror able, manly, and full of fresh and uc- All persons Ra SATAY last African discovery Itogether in underground ions are said to be thirty running fills in them. A m, The lias been told by some of the people, are on wings of animals, and not let- id to be very dark, well made. Geographers and ethnologists will look with im. patient interest for further information eoncera- pple, aie ed that the majority in this city against the judiciary article of the new raised by fraudutent count joat the article, The Zivbune, however, states that the unfavorable majority in at 89,636, and that accord. opted. The majority in its e will be more than 5,000, ———— her Governments in the admirable organization of its consular service. lished at Florence regu n merchants, manufac all the information col- and diplomatic agents of In all other countries, and in ours more than in any other, these commereial and in- dustrial reports remain for a long time buried in the archives of the depurtments, md are only given to the public when tt mie too late for Any proctical ntillty for the commercial world, f Italy, governments have orgunization of the publie this age of steam and tel he consequence is that th re upon the collection of jion is wasted, Congress this matter in hand, Either ‘y of the old diplomatic and consilur red tape concern, or make it conduelye to the interests and the pro- gress of the country, ‘To all persons who French Janguage we 2, Bumpers, Tt require a newspaper in the corulally recommend the the ground they have lost, it must be by | Yoweaw Meade, publisved weekly i this eity by IMeral, progressive, and always well informed, beazpenatat th fies, aap filed with an excelent ing. ing @ globe, from which tho thighs etart forth without ony Intermediate part, ‘he knees are falsely drawn for a child, and on the tn side of the leg the calf comes down in one mou- strous curve, from the Joint to the heel, ‘The poor thing bas no ankics, And no infant, moreover, has a calf to the ex, which comes ouly in comparatively ripe yea: yet here ts a boby Cupid with one that would do honor to an Irish porter, Inthe repro sentation of his pouting, the artist hi 0 extended the upper lip that it looks ike a nog's snout, and the under lip, instead vf being swelled, as if a bee had stung it newly, 12 all but Invisible. ‘The flesh of the child ail over Is not flesh, and Kast of ail child's flesh, The eracions curves and rolls of fat shapelessness are nowhere visible; and it ts plat that the copyist, however carefully he had studied Keynolds’s manner, was ixnorant of ehild form, and therefure painted desperately anything, As for the ¢lond on which the urching sport, it is pretty aub- stantial; the part under the weeper is fat, and bas the consistency ond appearance of sandstone rock, whieh bas a small resemblonee to the cumull seen in Sir Joshua Keynolds’s real productions, For the color aud the eracking, we must «ny that the pictures we have soen by this master were, as regards the firet, almost colorless, and as reyards the second, in the most hopeless condition. Sir Joshua was always trying experiments ; he mixed his own colors, and the consequence was that in a few years his pictures were wreeks, A Indy who snpported Ms rival, Rowsoy, sald wittlly: “It must be admitted that Sir Joshua :Reynolds has come of with flying colors; and it ts unhappily but too true, He was a contemporary of Gajusborough, yet in the South Kensington Museum, where the Scollcetion of English masters, the colors of the one are bricht and only sweetened and mellowed by time, Dat in the pictures of the otuer they have utterly fled. Lis colors were indeed fly- ing, yet In the work before us this isnot discern- ible, Some things ore obscure and blurred, but the colors, though darkened, are not faded, Neither do the cacks altogether resemble those that we have remarked in vndontted works of this man, where they seem coming off like seales of paint in rounded masses rather larger than holfa dollar, In fine, from drawing, from color, from cracks, we draw the ‘one coneluston that this piece is fictitious. No, 81, the Mecting of Mary Queen of Seots with Elizabeth of Eugland, by Kaulbach, has points about itwhicl make it somewhat dimiouit to handle, We bolleve at to bea copy, but we unvierstand the author ties of the Academy have accepted ft as a duplicate by the artist's own hand, It ts, of course, a matter of publle knowledge that the oricinal forms a part or the Schiller gallery series in tne Art Hall of Munich, which belonge to King Ludwig of Bavaria, If It be, fas we think, a copy, it has heen made by an artist of At Teast manipulative skill, Oar reasons for donde ing Ite authenticity are derived from the cold Monotondas treatment, the want of expression in the faces, the heavy untranaparent sha: dows, the Muck ef that special handling which Qouotes tho bruvh of a master, Weare perfectly well awe that Kaulbach ts a disappoint- ment fo many who soe bis plotures for the first time, Like Raphacl and Michael Angelo, he dis Gaing the beauties Of sunlight wna shade and glow. Ing Color, and trusts to win admiration by truths of line which are statuesque to thelr severity, and ome oy tenths of sentiment which fe Indeod subline, ‘These, however, are dificult Of appreciation te the dducated eye, which longs for edlor, for chiatos- euro, and for imitetion of textures, Bat these, and that dexterous manipulation of which the Pre- raphaclite school are the best exponents, Kanlbach scorns, Hence it 18 eray for a conyiet to give his shortcomings; but his fire, his grace, his sublimity, are not tobe copied, Tn the criginal of the Art Hall the fignres of the Qneens are stntnerque; In the copy they are theatriesl, In the original the faces of Bur- leigh and Leteestor are unobtrusive and kept dowt in the copy they are at onee insignifleant and obtra- sive, Great care hws beew lavished upon the silk dress and the gokl ornaments of the English Queen ; the textare hus heen rendered with manipulative dexterity, which is altogether innarmontons with the Fest of the picture, And the foreground, In the ren: dering of We rose bush and herbage, the whip, love, &¢., on the ground, displays the ame attempt at object painting whichis not Kaulbach, The hand of Elizabeth 18 eleneved and pressed tw her borom yet it is soft, white, supple, The veins don't rwell, nor the knuckles show white and angry, The ges- ture i* fleree and jimperious, yet there is no red dueh on the forehend, no swelling of angry muscles of the neck. In short, it is Kaulbach without ail thet makes Kanlhach valuable, his failings exaggerated, hits glorious powers withheld, For this reason we believe it lo be a copy, and the mark “ Kaulboch, Iss," a forgery. — — A HUMAN BRUTE, tien Body with Joseph Durand, the Spanish merchant who shandoned bis wife, Mary, after having lived with her for sixteeeu years in this city, was rearrested yesterday on charge of having atvempted to murder his unfortunate victim, Mrs. Durand, tt will be re- membered, brought « suit for alimony against her husband; buta decision was rendered agaluet her, on the gronnd thet she had not been married to the detendant—n fret which the wretched iady has been obliged to concede, Hier counsel, Mr. KE. D. MeCarthy, however, has lastitnted proceediuga against Darand in the Supe- rior Court to recover damages for a felonioas ass nit he comitted upon his wife, The afdavit of Mrs. Du rand says that her boevand rashed into her room at #7 Cilnton piaco, on the HUM of Jaly Lust, and threat- ened to fire a loaded pistol at her if she did not sign acertain paper which purvorted to bea confession of her marital infldclity. She adds that sho sigued the docament, and that he hud previously threatened to kill her sf she failed to do so within twenty-four hours, Mrs, Durand farshor swears that about one month before this time, on a Saturday, the defendant came into her room in the same house, and having compelled her to romove her elothing, Isshed her person with a whip till she fell prostrate and bleeding upon the floor, She says she made no cries, for the reason that Durand, oefore he commenced the assault, ex- hibited a revolver which lie enrried coustantly about him, and_ threatened her with death if she made an alarin, She says eho still curries the marks of the lush on her body, and verily believes that Durand will atempt w take Ler life on the first lavoravie onportun sy. ‘The action ts bronght torecover $10,000) damages from Durand—about halt of his fortune, He does business at 2 Broniway, and rewidos at 4 Weet Washington place. His money ts believed to be de- ‘Mrs. Durand's heaith has by the brutal treatment . 0 been ‘completely tlie has recelved, esterday lous hnman monster was arrested, and d in the County Jail in deiault of bail, Marrings of Geo. HM. tow ‘Tne Sox of yesterday morning was led to say that it wos not trae that the Hon, Geo, TI, Botler, Consul-Gencral to India, was married to Miss Rose Eytinge. Since then the following las come into our hands: A TRANSCRIPT FROM TTR RECORD OP MARRIAGES 1M THs CITY OF NEW YORK. ag] Pu Nae of ren, | Te ae Oe eg ey patel Ne Nate of Bicther, ILL. Batter, Tivure.| Age Re ee leva | il | BMartige, ” [beat Rerscd seeming Rew, Geo. F Wepworth, Mlo-|J. P. on Wer, We Hoel. [NM original of the above (except the signatures of the groom and witnesses) was filled up ina Indy’ handwriting. The certifleate proper was filled up by tue minister ——— PROSPECTIVE RISE IN TUE OF WHITEWASH, PRICE Concern—The Printing Mismanagement Polished Over, and the Bindery Let Down jo Hurt, the Book Committee appointed by the General Conference of 1968, being convened in New York (0 attend to the * publishing interests” of th M. E. Chureh, have bad our attention called to alleged losses and frauds connected with the New York Concern, and after a earefnl investigation and serious inquiry into the business of the house, dur- ing ascraion of two wecks, and availing ourselves of the labors and investigations of a sub-committee previously appointed, have reached the following judgment, which, for the information of the Church and of the Conferences, we embody in the following resolations, to wit: Resolved, 1. That itts our deliberate jndgment that the last Pxnuble of the Agents is 4 (rae and reliable stace- Thent of the snanetet Reponmtahty wad olveusy of the hs "Agen doneht_ paper eae for at son rin rene Siiotgn paper denites or mniddjensen: sot it uoes hot ar pour Dy aay tueth before tie Comin cern hhs saffered any tertous lows by tg purehures. E That the investigation of the nVOLVINK ite CFolt OF ‘oval of the Com duittee aud command the © ‘thy pubic. KF, wns, Che rman, Indiana Coniei ence fioy MU Verion. er Re Lois Comte chee sahgodull, \-¥- Gunvervnice © pay nee vi k Confurenc » Honig Slicer nicrence, é ir Couference. dames Hewin, Cent George W, Maltby, Et w York Contere: 4 "onference.. J. F. Konnedy, North Ohio Conterenes, FA. Blades, Detrost Conferone Jieo) Rothweiler, Central German Conference, Cer: Minnesota Conferenve, TUE OTHER SIDE OF TUIS STORY, ‘The Book Committee have been in session in this city fourteen days, and the Sub-Committee six weeks, Many prominent paper-dealers of the city were called before the Comult ‘They testified that they would Nave sold paper at loss rates than were pald by the Book Concern’s agents, and one firm ‘declared that they had gold the Coneern $175,000 worth of paper, on which they had paid a cominission of from 2% to 7 # ecat, to the young man who is a relative or one of the managers, The gvod old, man, Dr. Porter, says that bie gon did sell to Mr, Goodebongh, as the ngent of the Con- cern, large supplies of paper, vit, 10 test the pries, the Doetor used frequently to inquire in Phila. Velphia ond Boston, when he was culled to those Pluces on Dusiness,'the value of certain qualities Which Le carried with him, and he found no sub- stantial difference in price, Wit thought he was buy- ing as low a8 any of his neighbors, This opmion 1s not very valuable, the Doctor not being (an expert, aud the “Philadelphia and Bostonzhouses not expecting to sell to lim Mr. Hoffman, the binder, who is said to be imphi- cated in $20,000, declares His innocence before God, and says that he could, if tue books were In his pos: session, show nis entire innocence, It 1s simple Justice to soy that his defejencies have been ar at by nding where he took the property of the cern aud sold It ‘The Committee have passed w supplementary resolution Which wil), it ts supposed, restrain the evil passions of hutmen nature, and partienhurly thoxe of the officials of the Book Concern, Jarges in general terms om the nec carcful in business, and does not ¢ purehases to be made on commission. But mittee have done nothing realty to event a repetition of the late offences; they axk for no boude from the managers; they propose no periodical mspection of their bookk by any one really competent and disinterested, and able to take nigh thine to do the Work thoroughly; aud they do not Cink that the choice of Luese persone should be made from among faymen trained to business, Packard's Monthly for December reproduces the tamous Elbows of the Mincio article whieh was printed long ago in thedivreputable New York Temes But the oub of the story is omiited, It is this, On the day previoas to the pablicution of the manifestly drunken Elbows of the Minclo, the author of that article bad quarrelied with the proof-renders of the disreputable THmes, and in his wnger ad given thie dangerous order, ** Follow my copy iiterally, under = 2 iy ot eine y ol being any further alleircurstances.” ‘The proof-roaders obeyed, aul | —the whole World knows tha rest The Brookly bers of thé lobbyist. aud the pastor left, ripid thinning ont of the congregation aud Society, and the “greentnck members” bave found out that cannot nave all things their own way, the Rev, Mr, at in nomination, but ‘The Hey, Mr. Pentecost, of Covin and proved majority, although his greenback” etan- seeing that the they endeavored to and to, to Interese with which th and eagerly wate they ani mM them suid: by ginnt was n tragn tem mous *nclentist one of his stat and the verdiet of Mr. W. reterred to a ies of Unky” and xents of the prone was loud tana’ Bai, 1b Bkorn ana died Xo the Supper, a1 hinlout ‘on, the Fron ard ta he cood re you about ? ered I. ist did 0u Bring tals pine) nommns quae here fur i\and he Bit the wax Migger a trewen)is bel: surnmed up briefly huve beon ound skeletions of human beings eleven fish petrified to perivet wrone sium. ant. , Etnink, that all statues o: delinite podition, with « tublet or Perteatal upon which they are de characte be a statue Lt nppears reasonable to suppose have represented the hi upon the hend, while here the hend Is wntirly smootis, Fourth—By knocking npon the he Ion 1 gives a ringing. hollow sound nut produced in uny other part of the body; and from the examin i+ tion made in ty. presen head iy hollow, whieh wou! figure been cut by hands from soli stone. nm consrrnacy h pacer he Bape preme Court Stepping tn between Ring and the Henry Smith Ineligible to either a Su vitorship ora Police Comm! Justice C in fe Canvassers from 0 at forty th inst he appoin ing to law. that Mr. Smith his tnfluential ship: Krorion 2. tection & of the act hereby amended shall hereafter read ne follows: (Any one of the said Commiasioners, Of the Poltee furce. who shal!. after anal t ANY Additional plueé of pul nent. Or who shmil d hie ts ly nominated for any office elective by days succeeding rn bAwon, 1 Pe I resigned fis corm: of Me. John Fy lerke granted a mandamus yesterday , enjoining the County nting anv votes east at the re- cent election for Henry Smith for the office of Super: visor, the some being absottely votd under the Mr. Foley furtlier clatms that he received over and votes, and wileges that Henry Smith ae Police Consmissioner appointed all the Canvass. ers amd Inspectors of Election, who bm him and counted his votes for Smith, The mondamua farther directs the Board of vaxsers to deelare that Walter Roche, having received the highest namber of votes, t* daly elected, and that John Foley, having the vext highest vumber of votes, Supervisor by the Mayor accor following Is the law under which It ir claimed ousted ng Supervisor, and under whieh niso it is beld that he may be thrown out of W Iucrative Police Commissioner. Bi) Votes cust at sny the office of Police Jaye after he shall have re- Signed eueh offer, shalt be vow Shoes fh his act Khali take effect immediately, —— A CHANCE FOR MR. 8. ——— AW of the reauit of the near and mite Ward no returi tmponsibi ward officers. Canvassers te ney where the Fri mitted, and bid Him go to Work, At the final meeting of the Brooklyn city Board of Convassers yesterday, the President, J. 1 Bergen, In the chair, Alderman Whitneg, from the Com tee on Rules and Election Returns, to whom had been referred the returns of the votes given at the rreent election for charter officers, submitted a re- correct, to except’ in ances. d Klection Distriet of the Sixteenth er were received, and it was nee of the canvaswers to explain or supply the oralaato From the Second Distriet of the Twenty-<econd Ward no return was received of the votes given for The explanation given by the can vassers War that they had left it to the make ap the sreturn, and they tad and that the negiect Nad not after the retarns had been dey they were required to be. which to make up a mew return, and it was there: fore impossible for them to fulfil the duty in that re- epect which the law imposed upon sem, ‘The Committee recommend that these instances of manifest violation of the election laws he 16 terred to (he District Attorney action In che Fremises as eo diecovered until ited where by law hey had no data from —+— indace of Cincinnat!, to be scheme fulled ton, Ky., next turned uj generally acreptable to style does not come up to the dard of the Fist vi Church is ¢o rapidly dwindling to op the inti robably receiv Ing to compro Pentecost will society shortly. Mr. Pentecost preached at Hanson place church on. Thanksgiving ht ie having a recep) ‘The Rev. tthe Inttey Smashing a Greenbnek Monopoly in the Hanson «trect Baptist Church, Brooklyn. Some time ago the few stylish members of the Hanson place Baptist Church, in Brooklyn, maa- aged to force n resienation of the pastor, the Rev. Profersor Lowry, although such a proceeding wae much against the wishes of the majority of the #o- clety, The majority Incked good leadership, and the minority being composed of the wealthiest mem- society, wore led by an old Albany ‘The majority were thas out-genoralied, Since thon there bh Baptists in Brooklyn, Although Rev. Prof, Lowry, he t+ quite pe persictenit advertising draws well. undoubtedly lose him. ing pressed sigh cd visitors, After x general survey of tho gtant ns he Iny tn his full propor visitors took a lamp and pro: eceded fo a minute inspection of the diferent parts of the statue, alded by a poweful magnifying class, and using, whenever they pleased, the kuife to de> ine the lozree of burdnoas of tle atone, pressed with the manifest Xamination was conducted, ificant gestures of the ‘igators, as in low tones the more striking There was no difterenee of opinion on the point that it was not # petritnetion, seemed to concur in t others that it was sculptured trom gypseous ons, th ‘he speccators were in — CAKDIVE GIANT, among thenselv features of the image. Caretul Examinntion~The made with Steel Implomouts~lew erful Anatomy, From the Syracuse Journal, Now. 18, Mr. B.D, Palmer, of Albany, the well-known Prof, Armsby, of the Alb ! H. K. Brown, a borgh, visited the Cardi G: bad fall opportunity for a carefal and thorongh ex- amination, although the crowd outside of the rail. pand With eager inter itest expression of opinion from the distin but a work of art. and ¢ opinion of Prof. Tall ne, ‘They freely stated that it was eut with sealptor's tools, and not with stone or fint instruments, regard to the tine when it wos made, they deciined at present to exp e¥ PRonoLTced tue slatne a Wonderful curiosity, and one of them said it was uo wonder that i tracied such a crowd of visitors, for it would be Sfrauger uit did wot attruet a crdwd ung where in v ntry. c attention being called to the position of the left hand, palm outward, under the body, on "It may be seen at once, from the ana- tomlcal appearance ot the ethow, that that ts the proper position of the hand.” A tarn, or twist of the elbow, referred to by the speaker, hud been observed is expericnerd eye, as accounting for the singn. lar position of the left hond, not been remarked epon by any. o! visitors, ny opinion. The ieee The Peirificnte Giant of Onondaga, the Attany Angus. ‘e have expressed our belief that the Carditt tof the famous colle ‘On referring to the works of that fa. we tind that he locates the loss of at Utien instead of Syracuse. it is evident from his deteription of the young man son in the Sd degre om of one of the fast furnt to an Oneida county inry. ve such, Here iy Artemius's accou hich 1s humbly suumitied to t niveraity aka solution of the Kypsum enigma that evidently so distrenser them ; ‘In the fall ot 18%) IT showed my troly great itty in the @tate of New Y: Ene people! eave “me a cordyal rec 08, 4 deseripshnn of my Beests dowry tule. z Hurly fe! axers of the L riot by le then eom) Pro is Ward, iy such that the affal eT dayas Lwas by, nda servasnun he caved in Jvaas ge to 1 oF te tusk Tauuilies of Citiy H 1 the joory brawt In ® Verdick of arson iu the Sd dugree. —ow Reasons for Thinking the Onond my Wa. fe 4. Petritaction, Prom the Rochester Chrontete, The opinions entertained by several good au- f Getrideuts om, may be f orities, favoring the feet tall: also Jar to dat of 'H known and con charneter have a ure bi Ae th that the sculptor wou) none of theory follows : T ive! assured that the not be th ivon Gosewineke, a barkee Cs in Reed's Cottage, Hoboken, having ruin, slashed aronnd witho: Capt, Donovan had a had t fhe police station, the dire, tempting to draw A tenced the in fearchied, ani nut respect to persons. tussle on taking risoncr, seyeral which was afterward lakep from him. Yesterday morning the Regoraer sen- prisoner to two mtine’ ‘the Count; . On yaenreed td ano er iy ti “D, MORRT! the District Is were Come r bim to take such ¢ may deem proper. WAR AMONG THR BAPTISTS. call from this bany Medical Col ted seniptor of Now: this afternoon. They t to euteh the Ins a wax Niger, nro: ‘ON to ay : ut E tell Cau't show hisselt In site,” with wal It ed to rest, with the knuck: SUNN AMS, —Simonin, the French savant, has recently pub shed @ work on California and the Far West, —A Boston clergyman preached a Thanke giving sermon, on the advantages of a new city park. —An old farmer, fifty-seven years old, be Weston in a walking match at Dubnque, lows, the other day. —A prominent champion of the French worke tng classes, th o printer Huct, recently died at the Neck» er Howpital in Paris. —Father Bauer, the chaplain of the Suez Canal, wears gloves of @ violet color, which are much admired by nie plows iady friends, —The celebrated Cardinal de Bonald, Arch. Dishop of Lyons, hae tendared his resignation on ac ‘count of his ndvanced age, —A Nashville serenading party travelled ter Miles to fddie two hours in front of a house before they ditooveret that tt was empty. —Gen. Fremont has iaened a semi-monthly Jonrualin Paris, caited the Tyane Continental, in the interests of the Memphis and El Pasoftaliroad, —In Missouri the disadvantage of not having mall change i strikingly fMlustratea, They shoot @ man there who can’t give stamps for a €8 bill. =A company of Russian vocalists recently parted through Hamburg on thelr way to thie city, where they propose to treat ws to Slavic and [usiaa Rational tongs, which are remarkable for thelr pathos, —A Texas paper highly extols a new dramatuia star, Tt The boys go to the theatre Just to he hor sing and see her pile on the style. she wears a Gro olan bend."* —The Chicago Times complains that most of the fowale servants in that eity are “mainly interested in area and back-door Hirtations, with a view to early matrimony." —The old-fashioned arms used by the soldiers of Priwia in 196 have ali beon remodeled, aud the Government has now 1,610,00 needle gans at its dis posal —Three Santee Indians in Nebraska have been ordained miniters in the Episcopal Chureh by Bisnop Clarkvon, They are to be iniew the Ta. diane —The small-pox is raging in Blackstone, Mass, panies amc And bas nstmed an epidemic form. It is contemplated to turn the Town Hall Into 9 sarali.pox hospital, me the English Duchess, mecting a member of Parliament as she wat leaving the thoatre, salt to him: “You have tho reputation of belug a vigorous public speaker, Pray call for my carriage." ‘be Due d’Aumate, one of the « f Louis be, It Is reported, has the largest and finest yrivate ¥ 1n Europe, hle purchases of rare beoks amount tng in vatue to $200,000 per annum, —Fifty convicts were transferred Inst woek from the Bing Sing to the Clivton Prison. There ore now five hundred and four convicts at Clinton, and not # Rie Ca Of BlokHESS IK roported amons the —The managers of the Pacitie Railrc are preparing fuel and provision ears to ran with every train during the winter, so that 1 ene a train got snowed ia the passengers will not freeze oF starve te doath. —Prince Charles of Prussia, Grand Muster of the Order of St. John, is expected at Jorneatem to take possession of the site of the ancient chureh of St, John, whieh bas been ceded by the £ultan,to the Crowa Prince of Brus —A sailor at the Brooklyn Navy Yard explained to wenrious landsman the other day how prize money We divided. “It is etfted throm cry he rat * What falls through goes to the officers; what sticks, the tatiors get." —At Machias, Me., the upheaval of vast quaa. tittes of water, mud, and stones to the distance of minny feet, with a furlony rushing noise, has occurred € Dumber of times during the rummer, aud once ns late se amonth aco. —The celebrated “ Gurney Horse,” said to be Afty-one yeary old, Mied at Alexandria, Lich ing eonnty, Ohio. ashort tine ince. He was exhibited at testate Fair at Newark im 185%—reventeen years ogo—and wat then quite xray —Within two months the country has lost by cath one «x-President, two ex-Seeretaries of the Trew sury, the Sceretury of V Jn ex-Seoretary of War, two ex-Sonators, one o: (General, the senios Rear Adwital,and a Major-eueral, —Mr. Boiliac, the Roumanian archiologist, Aoputy, and Jonraa’it has been elected a memie. of the Freveh Arehrolocical and Nuw Society. He tw the editor of a paper whitch dears ite sonoruus title of —Conundram by a clergyman at a Cloner party: * Why don't th sinetppi 2” Anew: 1 by a Indy of the party : Wail all's ¢ skate?” Answer: " How in — —Two colored gentlemen playing bills Detroft qunrrented, One hit the other a treine Dlow over the head with thy butt end of a cue, whieh made the splinters fly, whereupon the Hied darkey paused to remark: “Now, Sam, stop, and less reason dis yere thing a little."* —Isabelle, lately of Spaia, has purchased the estate of Neustadt, in Bolemia, for nalf a miltion of florins. The fabulous for e wh this w un wae allowed to take away from Spain shows that the Span Ish people do not yet know the first clements of revolw onary justice, =In reporting the execntion of Rell, at F Wardsville, Sonthern Iilinols, last week, the Ft. Lont Democrat rays: “The man's body was prepared by Robert Friday, the jailer, and his soot by ¢! Rev of the Methodirt Episcopal Church, and the A.D. Jack, of the Presbyterian Church, —A little girl got to school in Danbury, Conm., the other morning Jnst as it commenced, and her teact- or sald, Yon are Just im time, Susie." Then, mening tothe other scholars, she asked, “In time for what ehilaren?” A hand went up, and an tatelligont bos thus Figuifed had totved the probl Wer Thomas, just in time for what?" “Lanagan’s ball !* shouted the promising youn. —A plot has been discovered in Galicia or the fale of women Into Turkish harems. The Ausirion no Hee Intd hands on two fiends who have carried om fox tome time this trafic, The letters of some of these vic- Ums are published, giving a harrowing account of the indignities to which they have been subjected. then children being sold to the Turks and they thomeciver placed at the merey of the Pashns, Milled , mupports a poet who lates vy on the toss of hee little daughter, One of the stanzas runs thy +The wall of angnisi to Atlanta’s gat ith heavy freight of woman's boan Conserves from old Baldwin county —The Washington correspondent of the Bow ton Commonircalth writes: An officer of the rosniny army, now in this city, told a friend of mine yestontay that Gon, Wool wat excessively addicted to eambiine, ‘and in this way had done more perhans than any other gh officer to damoralize the servicn, He sald that Ii ad ucommoN Inek fe gaming, haying Won in a6) season over 10,00, | Mr. and Mrs, Barnoy Williams hey given up tho Sden of visiting California this year, and bave arranged to postpone their engagement wit! Burtt & MeCuilogh till next summer Traian Opens, —The production of * Willi ‘Tell this evening isan event of much mu terest. ‘The work stands perhaps at the very head of the Ttallan school, and wili doubtless seccive a very fine interpretation. ‘The very elaborate aria fn the fourth act, usually omiited, wilt be restored now thata tenor 1s found capable of movting Ite dimentties. Ninto’s.—Lotta appeared last evening in the “ Firefly.” ‘The theatre wes well fied, M nh ‘Taylor took the character of Harold Cecll, and Mase Kate Newton thet of Verefia, Lotta was ar sprightly And merry ua usual, and was repeatedly opplsuded. Mr. and Mrs, Florence, the favorite comedians, Will cive a performynee of Tom Taylor's ** Ticket- of Leave Mon” at the Brooklyn Academy of Masic on Friday evening next, Seats should be procured advance. fn Active Naval Moveme é The gunboat Swatara, Licut.-Communder Weld N, Allen, stcamed out of the Navy Yard yesterday, and dropped down to the anchorage off Bilis Island, When she at once took on board her powder. She Will sail to-day for Aspinwall, with a drait of one hundred wen for the Pacific squadron, The Res saca, with a draft of men from the Pacific Squadr whose term of serviee has expired, wilt Fexcll Panning about the me of the arrival of the Bia tara, when an exchange will take place, and the tat ter Will bring up the men of the Hesaca to New York, Under the new aystom, the Swx(ara te or dered to make her voynge under canvas alone, after A briertelal of her, envines under steam nod undee steam hd ‘safl, to test ner speed and scagolag qualities, On her retnrn #he will compiene her Ga) 1 Bey cous, Barta Arshad, and wi all for rediterraneyn to, Join the Edropean *4 The borveite Servern, ‘Oomitand i. G. Lowry, sole, ander spnled sore for the Host {ieee Vednesdyy, after swingtt¢ at e Droye in Bay, to abot her compasses, Like U Swatara, the into proceed ner Pall tone, Uulee® 4m 6wAR: cency uequiren the tine of Binam. ‘The Frulie, Com idee Moury Wivon: I ot smiling orders, whicl ¢ those of all the ver Tre sealed. Other ships are being Gtind ows et vard lp ali howe