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ROME. May 26, 1856.


-rfetsfari5teya ROME. May 26, 1856.
Rome is never wholly without visitors, and
there are just now here some 20 or 80 Ameri-
can travellers. Among them is Mr.. Emerson
the educator of Boston, who IA making botani-
cal researches in Italy, Rev. R. Storrs Dickln-
son and lady. of Philadelphia, Mr.. Whitney,
of West Jersey, &c.
Mr. Cass has been absent some weeks on q
visit to Paris, and the business of the legation
is in the hands of Mr.. Ardisson, the gentle
manly u. S. vice cousul, who is ever attentive
to the interests Of our countryman here, thous h
he is hirlsefa foreigner. Mr. Crawford leaves
tomorrow for the United States whittier Mrs
c. and family preceded him few weeks since
on visit to her friends. The model of his
colossal statue of James Otis, for the Mt. Au-
burn chapel, is just completed, and will be in
the hands of the marble workmen during his
absence. The II models ofthe colossal sculp-
lures for one of the pediments of the Capitol
lat Washington are also completed, and will be
shipped this week for the United States, to be
put into marble there.
The artists designs for bronze doors, as
signed to him by the government, are now in
the hand of his workmen. The bas reliefs
comprise pictorial history of the revolution,
commencing with the death of Putnam and
ending with the bate of Yorktown. The
most prominent events in the life of Washing
ton are also included in the panels. Admir-
able as are all these works, which have been
conceived and put into form in an incredibly
brief period, they will, if one may hazard a
prediction from his miniature sketch in plas-
ter, be surpassed by his colossal statue of
America, which is to surmount the Capitol in
bronze. This fresh, purely American concep-
ton Of the Goddess of Liberty is, in express
ion and costume, the very presentiment and
express image of our Western notion of the
inspiring deity. Greek grace and American
vgor are here charmingly blended.
The equestrian statue of Washington, re
Gently cast in bronze at Munich, for the Nir-
ginia monument, will probably accompany the
artist across the Atlantic Four statues re
main to be made to complete the work, which
will be the largest, and we may reasonably
hope, the grandest monument ever created IN
memory of eminent worth; and the artist will
Justly share in the glory and perpetuity of the
achievement. He has won himself proud
name in the history Of the noblest of the arts
of design. Mr.. Rogers is celebrating the his
tory of Columbus and the discovery Of the new
world, in a. series Of bas relieis for one of the
mammoth doors Of the national capitol, that
will delight the country. He has also just
completed nne portrait statue OF John ADAMS,
for the chapel at Mt. Auburn.
Messrs. Ives, Mozier, Bartholomew and
Akers are engaged upon various private enter
prises that will honorably illustrate the genius
of the country in sculpture. In the multitude
of sculptors here contending for the laurel,
these, our countrymen, are foremost. Afterl
Tenerani and Wolf they have few equals and
no superiors. The American painters, too,
have earned high distinction in the midst of
strenuous strife. But of these it will be a
pleasure to speak another time.
A young Jerseyman, Mr.. Doane, son Of the
Bishop, is preparing here for the Roman priest
hood, and has donned the picturesque costume
Of his order, of which you have no example in
the United States. Several priests from Amer
lea were present at the celebration of the fete
of Corpus Domin on Thursday, but none of
them have assumed the costume of the Italian
priesthood. 1880 Yours, &c.