The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1870-08-20
IrRou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENCE
NEW YORK. June, 1870

NEw YORK. June, 1870.
Summer is upon us, and the Beethoven cente-
nary draws nigh. New York proposes to cele-
brate the OCCASION by festival at the Skating
Rink in Third avenue. The Rink will contain
- ZOO persons and the projectors of the festival
propose to make the occasion attractive, in
musical point Of view, as was the Boston festival
Of last summer. An immense orchestra and an
immenser chorus are in process of organization /;
the city railway companies promise to put on as
many az the tram-ways viii hold; and We
may expect first-class affair." as far as noise and
numbers make it so.
In this Rink the pedestrian Weston has just
completed, claimed to complete, the feat of
walking hundred miles within twenty-five
hours. The course around the circumference
of the Rink, seven circuits making a mile. An
admission fee of fifty cents charged and at
the expiration of the time Weston had large
audience gathered to see the finish. Weston
not allowed to sit during the whole time of the
feat; the sum of his pauses amounted to but
nine minutes and his only nOurishment upon his
walk was beef-tea, which he took at moderate in
tervaIs. Toward the finish he moistened his head
and his feet with brandy and water; and, thus
refreshed, he finished his rounds at p. M. amid
great applause from the spectators 1t is claimed,
however, that in turning at the corners of the
Rink Weston cut off enough Mt each circuit to
make deficiency of three miles in the whole
distance traversed. Nothing seems so difficult to
ensure as honesty in the management of pedes-
trian and other forms of professional "sport."
The amusement of the town is, however. the
Fenian GascO upon the Canada border AT st.
Albans, Vermont, at Huntingdon, Canada, and
Mt other points, demonstrations in small force
have been made by Irish volunteers against the
Canadian troops, and with utter failure TO the
Fenian arms. In Vermont the unarmed Marshal
of that State arrested General O'Neil, the Fenian
leader in the midst of action. and drove him
away prisoner through the midst of his own
troops. There was 80 infinite Jest - in the situ-
alton. Already the city papers are satirizng and
carieaturing the man who permitted himself to
be arrested. ut rhe head of his army, for breach
of the peace. Ii would seem as il Irish gesconade
and dupIicity were never better represented than
in the person Of this warrior whose life is already
threatened By his exasperated followers. O'Nel
pledged himself to cross the Canada line with his
troOps and not to return to the United States
unless victorious or dead and then surrendered
himself, never having left American soil, to an
American citizen. Ii is evident that the I" liber-
alton of ireland is to be accomplished by the
O-Nei.''
have preserved discreet silence during the
past year, respecting the various art-exhibitiops
that have taken place in this city. They have
mostly been quite unworthy, indeed, of any ex-
tended notice. Bot the exhibition of this spring
as the Academy of Design is the best that has
been made for several years upon those walls
Sanford Clifford sends two landscapes,-one OF
the Giudecca and San Gioggio in Venice, glow
ing piece Of color, perhaps the most striking
work in the exhibition: and a view of Tivoli,
which illustrates the weakness OF this artists
style, It's occasional oyercharge of dreamy senti-
ment- Hare, opaline mist, languorous distance,
she glow of Indian summer and the mazes Of
shade and eoIor,-these are Sanford Gif0rd's
forte, but in " Tivoli" " he has given us a fore
ground 50 charged with smoky haze that the out
lines OF the nearest objects are dimmed; while
yet he depicts visible distance at least ten times
remoter than the farthest limit of possible sight
through an atmosphere so thick as that which he |
has painted. The romantic artists will fall into
these discrepancies; yet they create beautiful |
objects. and 50 may not unreasonably claim gentle
freatmeat at the critics hands; whereas our
fschoo BOY realsts generally make, in their selec-
fIon Of subjects. such deliberate and malignant
fAoIce Of the hideous, that no amount of literal
sn m the treatment can keep out of the limbo of
Inc unloVeiy. The Farrer brothers still maintain |
their bad eminence in painting that which should |