New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-26


I.h ef year powder AID pis.y ssa say, vM II
sBoos, weA .
Jsst new the talk Of the town 10 mach more
turned IL the slosiss Of the Exposition than t.
Tie elo,ip, OF the war The twenty five thousand
exhibitors are getting more sSd more uneasy about
their medals and honorable mentions, and even
about their chances Of having Usht II the dis
trbution of the same forit IS setsled matter
that there il no inele.ed space large enough IN
Psrs 70 seat them al. Ii will always be . ss'e
N the dissppeintea ~ know, or think they know,
that they should have received 4 medal or men
lion; and tor advertising purposes-the cher
value Of e,her-they still have the privilege, Which
il largely exercised at the shop Windows OF LABEL
their good. as admitted TO the Erpsstion Among
90 numerous rival and meritsrious candidates, It
is nearly impossible for srors-let them be
8. e1per;, patient, and impartial a. may be-so
invariably measure cut exact justice. In respect
n The fne arts. their duties were more difficult
than for tie industrial part Of the Exhibition Tae
display of art though unparalleled in its kind is
much less complete and universal than tina. of IN
dustry. The awards, however, are equally Alb
sslute though they seem TO have been allotted on
. diff. reLt principle from that which guided the
Judges of machines and fabrics. Indeed, what
that principle it, il is bard to say, beyond the very
general one shat no eminently bad artist should
receive prize. Eminentiy great ones, s Kiul-
that painters are a. irritable poets AID musicians,
YOU nay ina CINE the discomfort Of the disappointed
and Of their friends. However unjust some OF the
Jury decisions may be, the comparisons they pro.
woke are inexpressibly more sdious. Happily real
genius works its way alone. Our country men,
Rossiter and Nay, are to have medals Of the third
class
French art has just met with grave loss by the
death Of Francis BVde, holder and moe orr
Il tl.p pr.1t atsta nf ha
faups Fisherman one Of bis early pieces is well
known. The proper characteristics Of ais genius
strength ard vigorous realism are developed
in a grand group Of totally different nature;
refer to that famous group OF The Departure,
on the northeastern pier of the Arch Of Triumph,
at the Bsrrier de FEto,ie. 1t is departure OF
French fighters for the threatened frontier in l19l
There 10 no other fker IMPLYING Of the terribly
sublime spirit OF that time. No French Repub-
liean looks on that group At this day ~ithout .
swelling enOtf in his breast; strange express
ion growing into q fixed sternness. comes over
bis features, and be huns to himself the MARCEL
laise. In one OF Rude's last productions the
statue of Marshal Ney-of which ! spoke at the
time Of ito erection near the Luxembourg, two or
three years ago, he shows US what the French
would call the defects Of his qualities
into the error that borders on bis excellence.
more living, real fighting man could not be done in
but it has nothing heroic about it, suggests no
nobleDess Of bravery. There is . fine physical
energy expressed ia the forward movement of his
body, and brass coat tail flies out behind with
wonderful vigorous positiveness that makes you
laugh. But Rude Was already old when he exc
cuted Ney for the second time He died last Sat
uIday, aged seventy.fve
Net at all apropos of Rude, but brought to
mind by thinking Of bis group Of The Departure
L.. tallA 81. 49, ha finn
as it was told to me the ether day by a friend
with whom j was walking through the Rue Ser
peDtc. The Rue Serpente 10 one Of the old fash
toned, narrow, high-hOused streets of old Paris.
He said
when / resided in London some years ago
made pleasant acquaintance with an elderly I'm.
gli,h gentleman Of the name Of s., who had
spent part Of his youth and patrmony amid the
pleasures of Paris before SO. Indeed, he had
seen the beginnings of tie steiner phases of the
Revolution. Among bis acquaintance In that city
was the family OF Count T, who conveyed his
young daughter and . handsome portion Of his
large property 10 England, where he finally died
The daughter, brought up to English manners and
married to On English gentleman, had no desire to
return to a country that had been the scene Of
suffering and death of most Of her relatives, and
became q permanent member Of the society she
ornsmented. After the peace of 1915, Mr.. 5.
having in mind to revisit Paris, called upon the
Countess, at whose house her fathers friend was
always welcome guest, tO ask if she had any
commands Tor France. In reply she handed him
. baIk- note and said get this changed to French
gold and when you are in Paris, if you can place
1T in the hands Of an old man. giving his name,
who lives somewhere in the kue serpente, and
tell him it comes from Hsamselle Louise, you
will do NE true kindDess. Unfortunately, DO
not know the number Of the house he lives in,
bot an sure that il is n the Rue Ssrpente.
Luckily the street is short one, and Mr.. I. took
his frat leisure morning to go there and inquire
from house TO house the names Of each ones
dodgers. After enough difficulty with crussy
and humble mouthed pOrteresses, who would not
or could not understand his questions, and could
not or would not make intel igble answers, he
found at last in little room in garrett Ut the fifth
landing place Of dark staircase, q quiet, pale,
calm old man who answered ~ the name mentioned
by the Countess. The room, like its occupant, was
neat though poor. His companions. cat and
raven seemed as old and quiet as himself. Waen
Nr. T. handed him the money and told him from
whom it came, he repeated the name Ms'amselle
Louise with much emotion, calling her his young
mistress"
To make the story short-for find am not tel.
ling it "as it wac told to met seems that the
old man had been q servant in the Counts family;
became in the Revolution member OF one OF the
Sections became corporal, and WAS drafted In
that capacity to form the guard that stood round
the guillOtine, when Louis xvi was beheaded.
He saw the King mount the scafold, heard the
click Of the guillotne, and saw the head fall.
When his company was dismissed that night he
left his lodging place found out this garrett in the
Rue Serpente, and from that day to the one he was
visited by Dir. S had never put his foot in the
streets Of Paris.
ENGLAND.