The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-21
LOCAL WIS.


intellectual audience this evening" at the ectureroom Of
the Washington Art Association hear lecture BY r.
W. Lander, esq he had selected bis subject 1Ameri-
artits aptitude TO culture in relation TO the hne
arts and regret that only give brief abstract
Of his eloquent remarks which frequently interrupted
by applause
After discaiming any idea Of referring the Teu'onc
Norman Celtic or AngoSaxon minds their relations to
the American Character the lecturer proceeded to define
the latter individuality in itself There those,
upon this soil who denied TO ii heart and soul he
would combat this assertion. nation of such impulses
and energies liable TO follow the passion of the boar TO
bundsrs and mistakes requiring the full forces Of It's Won
deal recupratve powers regulate the pusaons of the
system, eoad not be denied heart lis sympathies
the fortune OF the political demagogues who and
tel the wave Of popular eling, like shaops upon the
ocean The soul or the had been shown in The
pilh and power of its onward Uneoumemora-
i've SIS regarded the hne arts the footsteps of its achieve
ments commemoralion and The enduring forms OF
the actual confronting in the dwelling aad the wotk
shop especially comuemoration. We had poems,
able American writer had said that this people
talked bullets They do talk bullets and, what is far
better than that their bullets always hit the mark Their
pitby sentences and pellets of thought the poems
of the nineteenth century. Go Ahead was a poem,
'Try Again" was poem, and "Hurra for jackson"
poem that would ring down through the centuries
He deprecated the worship Of foreign themes The fit
ting Of the ends of pretty words could be termed
poetry, addressed to nation SO close upon the
footsteps of the divine graphic poetry Of the Indian
If there complaint by the artist of misrepresentation
it because they not up abreast with the people
The nation moving EDWARDS like crowd rushing to
burning dwelhngthe red glare of the eonaagration
flushing tie faces Of its purpose bells ringing shout
ing the throng ostng he who clutched the rope must
not trip faer miss his grasp he would be thrown
down. and the machine Progress grind him into He
VIII uauld ha Iafff Eeatn Iafft
for him who stood apart that the benign Offices of this
association inanguasd Ii plain that the path
10 appreciation by The through The patriotism
which learned by them by heart reaching their hosp
tality which, shown in their worship OF foreign adve
turers and their Of every heroic OF the
daily worker, absolute mania
he defined inspiration that blending OF the faculties
OF heart and SOUL and reachng of the WILL which gained
the hint or suggestion from power beyond common
thought II was peculiar element Of the American
character The trust in apprehensions had guided the
national from the outset The faith in the d.
vine impulsion which directed the pilgrim fathers to
Plymouth nsrved the indignant of the colo
MES fired the immortal Declaration of Independence sus-
ned the ardor Of the revolutionary struggle shone in the
sublime selfreliance of Washington came down to our
day. and had the heroic Kane beneath the level
snnbeams of the poles.
| The genius of evolving the genius of invention.
Inspiration sat by the hearth creation urksd in the brain
Of the representative man. whether the Shakespeare or The
Fulton. Morse, who had cIu,ched the lightning of the
thought in his reachings toward the infinite from
the dark ages Of the sensual ground poet and an
artist The nation had produced its heroes of occasions
and necessities would readily produce the greatest
poe painters and scuptors the world saw when the
necessity chroniced- At the present moment the
representative had
Far better bring the shining act,
The pebble from the realms of fact
The thought by which the path Is tracked
Across the plain,
Than rounded sirsws by critics stacked
With bearded grain.
lie compmented the association. Is inauguration had
been guided BY the spirit of prophecy her philosophy
bad dreamed Of other things heaven and earth than the
agreeable passages If social eonvviaty Their Divni.
did not rise draped in the fumes Of the goblet She
was smiled upon by the benign angels of Pity Hope and
Charity. Trailing her bright hair the past respien-
dent in the present. who should say what destiny her
glowing wings might not fan out Of the future7
Iwas evident that their hospitality should comprehend
the genius Of the grand and beautiful of other lands while
it thought greatly Of him who up inspired from the
busting of the people this soil he concluded
with poem in Spenserean sanzs, defining that inspra-
ton which he affirmed the OF all art and de-
Tended the country from he assumption that there was
any lack of national themes
/ NATIONAL HorxL-Tbis much-talked-of establishment
was closed this afternoon by the propetors 1--WE under
sand 1t had been eniiey deserted by the rarellng
public and ihe resident guess II is red that the
subcommittee the board Of health confident
deecise sewerage il the of the endemic although
other buildings in the immediate vicinity are free from il
Some Of the New York papers insist that this foul air
could hare been the cause the symptoms would not
have been OF such sudden and uniform Development in ouch
variety Of constitutions Respectable physcans there
elsewhere who hare attended those attacked after
ing eaten or drank the National do hesitate TO pro
nounce their symptoms o arsenical character or such
would be likely be produced by the action OF arenc
taken to certain into the system The official re-
port Of the committee will be read with great interest
throughout the country
WINTER QUARTERs-aQ uauticos the able Washington
Of the Alexandra Sentinel says that one of
the gold fish in the Capitol reservoir caught near the
surface of the at the commencement Of the cold
weather frozen in the ice and remained in torpid
state until weather in February released il from
its icy prison. whsn after lying the sarfce upon its
side for while slight motion commenced in its side
fns which continued to increase until 1t slowly moved OF
to join its more comfortable fellows below the reach OF
/ frost
/ FEAsT OF TIE PAssovER-We informed that the
members Of the Jewish congregation in this city are
beginning make preparations for celebrating according
to the of hsr abers the feast Of the passopr
in commemorson Of the passing of the Israeites
when the fsborn Of the Egyptians perished and Of their
escape Of Egypt 1t commences on the 9Th Of April
day Of the Jewish month Nisan their year 5sl7 and
xtr-