New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-25
FROM BOSTON.
Few w-and-Par.Between Letters Statues
Erapkiin's-Miss stebbins'r Horace
Maun-AIexander III ami ii'on-Dr. Rim
mer-The Great Organ-An Ugly Case
Mr.. Heurter.
Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
BOs roS, Nov. 20. lso-

Correspondence Of The n Y. Tribune.
BosroS, Nov. 20 lsoj.
In the far-betweenness of my letters,
you must allow me to he angelic CORES
Sondent, aud, crowded at your columns are. !
sm only afraid you will wish we're more angelic still
But you know very well that the dreadful prerogative
Of the waste paper basket is yours aud take up my
varous quilts with the calm that, my pip
ing comes of season. YOU viii put tender stop TO
It, without saying by your leave
Pending the arrival of the cholera, who. under
stand has decided to go 10 New York first, such warn
and eordia invitations have been extended to him by
your Street Con missioner Boston has been visited By
one of the most vrnent attacks OF statue mania ths
she has ever experienced IL began long way back
was IN its nepiaDcy remember. when ! lefi Cam
bridge in ISL: and after several exacerbations OF
rather sporadic character has At last settled down
INTO what threatens 10 be- unless heroic treatment
can be applied regular od.fashoned chronic affection.
La our Chauncy sehoo-days, The only statue IN Bos
ton was one in Franknst il the midGe OF the little
inelosed green which used TO adorn that since then,
wonderfully altered thOroughare Now there are si1,
public places in the city itself TO say nothing of the
statues in the chapel at Mount Auburn, and the bus Of
distinguished citizens in the Athenaum and Mr.. Sor'
carries back with him.o Italy commission cI statue
Of Mr. Everett, and there is talk about one 20 Col
Shaw. Compared with the poverty OF New York IN tins
field of srt Boston 10 be superuousy rich; but,
.. is not gold that glitter and there is quiet under
standing among those who know that in spite o. ali the
money and effort expended there il statue here e1
sept the Beethren of Crawford ON which Boston is to
congratulated.
OF the statues of Daniel Webster and Bciouin
Franklin would be old 10 speak for they have been
pretty well discussed Powers, whose name, consider
ing his Inherent weakness is curious simplicity never
Aid ANYTHING more unfortunate than the Webster
shose bacgy trousers and incongruons Jasoss have
sufficiently laughed at but il has been helped
little in popular estimation by tine erection Of Miss
sebbins's Horace Mann, Of which viii speak pres
sntly. The statue Of FRANKLIN, by Greenough which
stands opposite tie new City Hail. is inferior to the
Webster d Characteristic pOri rat; It is snirkng
little potbeled fop, aud not Franklin at ali bat be
iieye the sculptor meant 70 make good work tue T.
aature and t. history. and OD failed because be must
How meddesOme man can bc 20 be- ,uIe Just as SIR |
Silmans new Louvre.City Hall was well finished. the
little bronze philosopher, whose prorudng paunch had
ong defed the laws Of gravity, delighted 10 lind him.
.elf once more a. he supposed IN France suddenly be
same Renai,sant himself and in his eager desire to
zee the new Yankee Imperial architecture. gave him
.elf al awful wrench md tumbed bodily over the cen
Ter OF gravity in the solid little, coiuar paurch afoTe
aid asserting its rights with energy end causing TO
,nrrow deep into the ground great many worthy
md long suffering people thought that, Ne Nature her
elf had tipped the thing over il oug 10 be lc where
he had put IT, or at least caried away and made into
annon but the superseryic authorities have sol il
I'D again ard We shall have tolerate il while longer
Meanwhile Miss Stcbbins has come into the public |
quare with ber Horace Mann, the iustor Of Whose
ilded bronze makes Daniel Webster the other s.de
the stairs look grimuer and rusier than e,or IL
generally conceded believe thai Miss S'ebbins has
lade very good likeness Of Mr. Manns face but that
be statue as a whole il unfortunately stiff aid eless
till she has shown more drec4uess sad noturalness in
he action Of her Subject than Powers has n his Web.
ter for we must always be pOzlled TO know what the
reat Expounder is going % 10 with that Chinese um
relia st his side some call il tic,s, and Il may as
ell be one thing anoihoDi Wlilo any child can see
at the Great Founder Of Common Schools s present
z Mrs aanu's Primer t. the infants oiIosoa. NhIe
ss s,ebbin, has confessed her weakness and Ostrich
&C. has ondcayorcd 10 conceal hor Ignorance Of the
inau form By the stale device Of a gown which fsle
4 bat know IT, reveals more than it Lics POwcB
H. at least met the difficulty Of costume M manly
sy. and must have he credit Of Ae effort even willie
smile Al bis falnfe Boa Miss StobbiHs has sIiied
nearly altogether We DO indeed, ser a modern
await and collar, and the cuds Of trousers sitting
,kwardy over booted feet, but these are details moi
iiccd IN Die general effect which ~ unreal and ,
,gey. when Will og. seulDlols isars lLsI " Nuel