Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-15
LITTER EROM CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, June II, 1865.
THE FENIANg

- IN -At1lT SA% ~N~e-
citizen of that persuasion, to wit the re-
doubtable Lynch and the plucky Senator
Scanlon dropped in at the Office Of the
United States Commissioner to ascertain
what action the District Attorney pro-
posed to take under the order of the At
torney General, and were speedily in
formed that the first step would be their
own arrest, as the two Irish knights
are chiefly responsible for the share Of this
city in the perilous fray.
Of course they were very much sur
prised hadn't anticipated anything of
the sort didn't know that there was any
neutrality laws, or if there we're any, had
no idea they would be enforced we're
surprised that the Attorney General
should issue such IN order didn't see the
call for It at all. The Fenian campaign
would dissolve without results, if this sur:
Prising and unprecedented policy was
persisted in. OF course, of course. But
who could have anticipated such unkind-
ness from the paternal government of the
United States Why could not the gov
eminent of the great United States see
that its true interest was to keep quiet
and let General Sweeny give the British
Lion a sound t~hwacking, while he wal,
about it ? He was sure TO do it; sure, if
he was only let alonel
At this point the Commissioner inter-
posed a suggestion that the case was not
yet open TOR argument, and that the only
question legitimately ready for remark
concerned their choice between free lodg-
ings in the county hotel and bondsmen for
100000. Once more they were surprised,
but when they were brought to the choos-
ing point, introduced acceptable bonds
men, and we're thereupon enlarged.
A troublesome and almost an efectual
obstacle to the early movement of recruits
from this point, was %interppsed by the
officers Of the Michigan Central and
Michigan Southern Railroad companies,
who repealed all oyertures for t~ransporta-
b4tA dtlN LAtlA HhLAlpLlt tAhlAplb war lOi-
lowed by Mr.. n. j. Howe, the agent of
the Northern Transportation Company.
The conduct of the wOuld-be soldiers
has been peaceable here, and ~hereabout.
They have only sought money enough to
get out of town with, carafnHy k~ettlins
their sOldierly terccitv against the landing
on the foreign shore. Some burglaries
and other Outrages committed since the
xror farar pr,1pasnnE1l k,yo I1o- -. IL
to individual members of the Army of
Liberation, and perhaps with propriety !;
but there Is no certainty that they would
not have fallen into similar indiscretions
if there had been no such army in the
field. If this army, indeed, would but
collect about one-half Of the Irishmen in
the city-the roughs of the several grades
and take them beyond thu jurisdiction
of the United States, there forever to re-
main, their travelling expenses would
gladly be paid by general contribution,
and any railway or steamboat company
transporting them would become the fav-
orite of a grateful community. Thus an
enthusiastic tax payer, on hearing the pa
triotism Of the impracticable railway
managers commended, exclaimed !:
POUNDS man! doyout thank men for chok-
ing up your sewer Let EN- run for
goodness sake let EN- run; and don't let
the British Lion shut his mouth till the
last n is inn
Il y ARTS
Fer q refreshing change, let us turn to
the fine arts, leaving the Fenians and the
British n~eutrals TO settle their own &C.
counts.
As you know, the citizens of Chicago
have been up to their eyes in work, since
the first colonists pitched camp here, only
one generation ago. The site of the city
is 4 prairie marsh which was full of
standing water until the filling in with
earth, and the draining that followed,
emptied the water into the river and
thence into the lake. After the filling in
with eight feet OF earth over Il large sur
face, and the finishing of an hundred
miles of main sewers, there were houses
and stores and grain elevators and fac
tories TO build, not for the of
100000 people merely, but for the traffic
of the millions of the Great Northwest.
Beside these, there were ships and
wharves and bridges and railways 10 be
built. Eleven through lines of railways
center, having an aggregate length of
more than four thousand and six hundred
miles And within the city limits there
are upwards of seventeen miles of finish
ed wharfage.
All this, and the intitely moro of which
this aggregate is but an index, has been
finished within the life time Of a single
generation. There has been little leisure, |
therefore, for the cultivation Of the finer
tastes. l was not surprised, on coming
here three years ago, to discover that there
was no opera house, no art gallery, not
even a third rate picture store; only two
or three patient artists in out-of-the-wav
places, and a few good pictures in the
Weather families, brought from the East.
But we were near the dawning of the
morning which has already risen to a
shining day. We have now the finest
opera house on the continent, in which is
an entire floor allotted to studios, cluster
ing about a gem of a gallery, where the
pictures at fast as finished are exhibited in
contrast with the chefs-d aurre of Eastern
pencils; and the contrast is not ALWAYS
to the disadvantage of the Western
artists. Healy, for instance, has Just
hung up a portrait which will not soon be
1 have seen in Eastern galleries
abundantly beprsised which
would not compare with this.
We have Just now on exhibition and
or sale a score or W of pieces worth
more than a passing mention.
Among them are Bierstadt's "Yo Sem
te Valley" with its wonderful steroscop-
C effects, and its more wonderful mists
md may foliage
j. NJ. Harris "Wcods in Autumn" al
most as good in some of its points, al
hough widely different in subject and in
lyle of treatment. This picture is for
at ) 5000.
Pages Flight into Egypt" after the
severe, and very graceful.
"a New England Snow Storm, by !
ioweller, of Boston; the best conception !
f the kind upon canvass I remember to |
ave seen. ]
"a Night View near Stockholm" by
'erg; weird and graphic as few pictures {
f its class are. '
Besides these, are several admirable I
.~ortraits by Hesly, the best of them 3
Ill length of Tom Hoppin, the Rhode Is
artist; a piece that seems TO have
ron the painters most loving touches. I
The best Peaches I have seen are az :