The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-04-23

| what was going on in his protinces
until it would be too late to
! inhibit or remedy. We SOW and reap
the prodpcts of the field by machinery
/ in Incredible quantities and distribute
the same by perfect means of commu
nication all around us, thereby
making famine or starvation lmpossi,,
BILE. We print and read books anu
newspapers, thereby making knewl-
edge the rule when it was wont 20 oe
! the exception; we have schools and
colleges free and open to all, and
above everything else, all over the
civilized world, we are beginning to
learn to respect the rights Of the 5ndl-
vidual, of which rights there are GER
| tain inalienable ones, as set forth IN the
Declaration of American Independ-
! ence. and mankind is approaching that
governments are made for the benefit
Of the individual, and not the indi-
yidual for the benefit of the govern
ment. In fact, wherever we may in
!. .stitute COMPARISON, it will always re-
suit In the exaltationa of the present
over the past, and the generation
| living has certainly no cause for re ;
grets over the generations that were.
EsaWhile ] stat my window and OBJ
serve the passing crowds in carriages
and on foot, / find them to be in ap--
| pearance about the same as at home.
In fact civilized humanity nova
days / looks = alike The a world
over. Y : There !. may be a. little
difference in color Of skin, hair and
eyes--dress and behavior1is nearly
lahke-the exquisite loungessin tights
and aobtail coat, the fine young lady
wears the smallest of Partisan bon
net and the largest ditto of waterfall,
while the italian =" Moses" or rough,
is about the same as our own, except
ing that he lacks the pluck, and don t
run with the machine. Even With
the country people, peculiarities in
dress are fast disappearing. 1t is true
that, farther south, distinctions are
somewhat more perceptible, but even
about Naples one very much misses
the picturesque dress of the peasant,
so well known to us from paint
ings. At Rome the social pudding,
sof course, is much liarded with
the ecclesiastical plumes, and the gay
picture receives many a dash of black
and brown from the gowa Of the
priest and the cowl Of the monk. s
Florence is not only noted on ac-
count of its being the capital of Italy,
but it is mainly remarkable from its
extensive galleries of painting and
statuary, and ahere4liye many artists
who enjoy the privileges very literally
granted them. Those who copy are
both the { Ufizzi and ..Pitti gaTl
leries; The Tribune in the +" Utizzi 7
contains Madonnas aud Holy Families
by Raphael. Andrea del Sarto,
Correggio and other masters; healthy
and solid-looking females by Titan,
and one of the three authenticated
easel pictures of Michael Angelo,
noted for that magnificent bold style
of outline peculiar to that great mas
ter. There are only five pieces of
statuary in this room, wit: The
Venus de Medici, the Dancing Fawn,
the Two Wrestlers, the Apollino and
rArrotino, or the Slave Whetting
Knife, all of them of antique Greek
workmanship and very highly priced.
The inner vestibule of this gallery
contains the far-famed Florentine
Boar. and the life like Two Wolf dogs.
These, together with the Two
Lions at the foot of the tomb |
erected to Pope Clemens XIII, !
by Canova. ia st. Peters at Rome, are
the noblest and most perfect seulp- I
lures after animals in the world, and i,
SO hfe-like are Canova's beasts, that /
in moment of mental abstraction, j
shuddered while imagining the dead I
stone live lion. The Hall of Niobe
and her children, sixteen groups in
number, found near Rome, are sup
posed to have adorned the tynpanum of |,
a temple. The Pitt Palace contains, +
if not a greater number, the better
specimens of pictures, and both to- !
gether form the largest collection
of Europe There are also an
Etruscan Museum, collection
of the original drawings of the
old masters, numbering twenty eight
many ancient bronzes,
of gems, worries, medals, I
coins, canoes and intaglios, and
numerous works in marble and
bronze, by John of Bologna, Dona-
tello and Michael Angelo. In anoth-
er quarter of the city is the gallery of
the Academy of Fine Arts, containing
specimens of the various Italian
schools of painting. arrayed in such a
manner as to show the progress of the
art, beginning with the thirteenth /
century. In an adjoining room are ex-
hibited casts in plaster of sratuary by1
late and living Italians. Close by is I
the Government Manufactuly of
mosaics. The Florentine mosaic.
as the name indicates, is "a
branch of industry and art,
necnliar to this city. and differs