New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-03-01
would have liked foors Of tssselated American mar

,,Id bava liked floors Of tssseated American mar
he. Doors in the inner wall open upon the cloak
rooms which incloss tho great hau' Dooio
in tbe oufer wall admit TO the committee
rooms the post-office the Speakersroom' ana o'ner
tabcrnaces Into the Speakers room we walk !"
il tho predictive foot Of Hercules. NOW you RnO"
what horrors await you in the House HSch' Inc
chamber is long, and narrow, and high. Ihe ceinne
is panelod pillars break the walls and compartments
disturb walls and ceilings Wherever band OF goiu
cqr he introduced it has been. Wherever it cannot,
il has forced its way without the ceremony OF an III
PRODUCTION. and is there. Walls and ceiling where
they are not gilded. are painted soft gray, Win
tinges of violet Gold, gray, and violet beng
the colors of the room, it followed that
the curtains should be vivid green, the carpet
maroon and crimson, and brown, and all the ugly
conservative lines. which are not colOrs, but only
parasites of cOlors; tho upholstery melancholy
velvet of floral pattern and the cabnetwork no KIN
TO the architecture the upholstery In one recess
Of This curostyshOp glares mirror only less vast
than fine Merde Glaze Opposite stands cabinetvery
bi very inconyenient and in high state of varnish'
A,nund the room some kind spirit has ordered TO dc
HING the pictures of the Speakers OF the HOUSE,
which cover certain square yards of the WALL ana IN
SHIRE gratitude in the breast of the Deholder Ill 'n'S
ana,tnenf could but be included in the plan OF recon
structOn!
I'm another broad range of steps (which we ex-
nectod for sings the poet the nights by greatness
reached and kept, were not attained by sudden
flight but they, while their companions slept were
toilineupward - at the top of (which, covering
the whole space, is Emanuel Leutzes fresco' est
ward the course of Empire takes its way" Gazing
over the railing at this extraordinary spectacle, one
comments are twain First "ITOw big" and
Al, IOola
the drowned world coming to the surface after the
Flood in such confused condition of mind as would
account for the oxen being driven up perpendicular
rocks. and the carts balancing on the taboard as
well as for the very curious cOors of the vegetation
which might he explained by the chemical action oil
| wafer. but upon no other hypothesis. There are
beautiful cherry-colored. and blue and pink, and
brown clouds in this sky, much prettier than any
! thing we have ever seen iii nature, and there arc
very soft rocks, and very smooth precipces' ana
| mountain nights built of rectanges of damp Drown
| sand and procession larger than that
| which went into the ark going IN one
direction which doesn't seem weSt-but' oil
| course. the phalanx must be Empire on Its way
The horned oxen are a quarter OF an inch behind the
baby the carts tilt over the flanks or the oXeh
the emgrants have their noses in the cart the dog
treads on tho heels of the emgrants the horses are
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rests on the tails of the horses and so on indefinitely
ike the nursery Jingle, the water began to quench
the fire the fire began to burn the stick the SUCK
began 10 beat the dog the dog began to bite the k
the kid began to 90. On the topmOst rectange when
| completes Che mountain man attempts TO sustain
| bimself above the quicksand which threatens TO
| engulf him, while his companion hands INN the
! American flag Imagine Mr.. Leutze making an
American picture without that perSecuted ouh'-
ing, II is his deCatest symbol OF nation-
| atty and he paints it for signboaru every
where Very properly. the emigrants pay no
aort of attention to this unatic the hight. They
see that if he falls lac can't hurt himself on such
tender rocks and they quite busy enough IN ma
ing trail which will avoid the extraordinary pillars
of yapor in the distance lhotspringS and the omhos
yellow pastures new which open before thcn' ana
look like the fires of the Underworld, though some
body SAYS that that is FL Dorado-and this huddle
is the passing of the Sierra Nevada. The effect OF
the picture is that of the Berlin woodwork which
young ladies achieve where "four blue, with black
center stitch" is the formula for the tender
ewes of Isaac at Rebekkahs we'll" and black.
twelve in line, four up. five down.
CONVEYS prophecies Of luxuriant, il square, trcsses
This painting is infinitely comforting. 1t is such q
settlement of dreary doubts to know that never even
in the gallery of sculpture there be anything sc
theatrical pretentious. and unmeaning 1t Is such
q ! relief to have touched bottom.
& Leaving the yellow clouds and purple cliffs behind
: us. we pass through the folding baize doors at The
left aud are in the balcony of the House II Sa vas
! chamber, with galleries oil around. Against The
south wall is the marble tribune, within which sit
the Speaker on his das Below and before him. dTonC
drearily the reading clerks Below, and before them
write YEARLY the reporters of The Globe On the floor
stretch back the seats and desks of the members
ranging out in lines from the unoccupicd center be
fore the Speakers chair like the spOkcs of wheel
Here again are tinted walls and gold gold gold every
where bard as the leg Of Miss Kimanscgg. and as I'M
comfortably ugly. But the carpet consoles one n
little for it is softly green IA meadow mOsses with
great yellow dashes which might bc golden butter
cups little OvergTown, 10 please the OycrgOwn
children who see them The members have green
leather arm-chairs. and desks with much ornament
| of framework. and-I blush to tell it-a sptoon
each. (lide your face, o, Goddess OF LibertyD And
the generous appropriation for the furnishing of
the room did not include foot stools, some of tho
more adventurous and eager spirits use their desks
for the purpose, and defantly plant their feet upon
that coign Of vantage as who should say What
boots tS'
0. how hot it is! The hall is forcing house,
which is the real why illdcveopcd and pallid
ideas have such luxuriant growth therein. After a
or two the members themselves got bleached,
and spindling like moral celery plants. Understand
! this triumph of architecture A vast wherein a
thousand people cOngregate daily without door, or
window opening to the blessed free air. and sunshine,
walled in by a bastOn of cloallroOms, by moat of
passage-ways by broad breastwork of large offices;
ventilated by some miracle OF machinery warranted
to be more thorough than the sweep of Nolus and
EurIs and the blunt Euroclydon. and more genial