The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-11-19
DAILY CRESCENT.


Fvsrv one who has visited Washington, ] sup
pose, has spent half an hour before the picture Of
the embarkatiOn of the Pilgrims, on the panel m
The Rotunda. Painters have told me thai il is the
best picture there and others, whose connoisseur-
ship is that Of feeling, merely have confessed TO
daily and nightly hauntings for many weeks, IRON
some of its figures and groupings.
The tender sadness on the meek face OF Inc IN
valid boy, and the sanity goodness making that Of
bis mother beautiful, with all its wrinkles, contrast
harmonionsly-as indeed, is there not Arrays har-
mony in the antlhess of objects beautiful IN them
selves with the youthful and stately figure Of
Lady Winsow, and the proud, soldierly seeming Of
the handsome Miles Standish.
Bnt liz Ia believe, the exquisite countenance of
Rose, his young and lovely wife, through who's
incompatible eyes speaks the whole soul of femi
nine constancy, tenderness, and trust, and or
whose forehead rest some rays from the far off
crown OF martyrdom-that elected heritage of wo
manhood-which attracts all regards, and conquers
all hearts, conseCrating, in thousand memories,
shrines where its remembrance may keepits throne,
90 thing of beauty" and ga Joy forever!"
Mr.. Wier, the artist, received, as perhaps all
your readers know, ten thousand dollars from the
Government, for this picture This he in
vested entire tor the Of his three beloved chill
dren. Alas for his poor heart-his poet heart Ii
was his lot to survive them all. When they were
dead, sentiment of religious delicacy prevented
his approprating this fortune which reverted to
him from his children. We can all understand the
wardrobe of the little lost darling, though the
widowed mother must toll the later of winters
night 10 clothe her younger living children the
same that guards untouched in the old homestead,
the library and laboratory now useless, Of the dead
student though his sturdy brothers must labor the
harder through the long summer days, to redeem
the holy extravaganza. But the bereaved father
bethought him oil a worthy use, to which he would
consecrate this inheritance, sanctfed by utetr
brief ownership. Having chosen lovely noun
tain-shadowed knoll in rural village by the Hud-
son, he built thereon commodlous house oil wor-
ship which he named the "Churoh of the Holy
lnnocents." Other children, who should at that
font be baptized into His name who the friend
of children priests, who should at that altar take
the "vows of God upon them lovers, who should
there promise to each other a lifetime of mutual
help and mutual love- the dead, over whose clay
the solemn words of burial, Earth to earth ashes
to ashes, dust to dust" should there be spoken !;
these to be the egatees of the artists children
Is i net " touching poem" as Mr.. Willis says,
this offering which love and grief have laid the
altar Of faith and charity
1t is easy to believe those children must have
been fair and lovely and, with the image of Rose
Standish in thoughts, to fancy their mother
most beautiful and good. Indeed | cannot conceive
that the artist could have painted such face, ex-
cept as the portrait, in form in soul, of the
that he loved. For it is not a sisters nor a
daughters face-there is something wifely in the
tender meanings clustering around the beautiful
mouth, and in the earnest-oh that word is weak!
the intense devotion and truthfulness of those
wonderful, upward lancing eyes. 1t needs not the
@manly figure by her side, the familiar touch oil
her slender hand upon his shoulder, to tell us that
Rose Standsh is BRIDE
Mr.. Willis adds, that Mr.. Wiers church, half
buried in summer foliage when he saw it, is a
beautiful specimen of rural architecture and that
its bell has tone very musical and sweet. This
is as we would have chosen. Let beauty and mel
ody hang the garland and the Tyre over the thigh
places hallowed by the affections--et them adorn
and dignity the affairs where the dead are mourned
and where the tender voices of religion and desire
whisper hopefully of a reunion. 1t is their true
apostleship on earth. Correspondence of the Ma
tional New Era