New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-06-01

do the work of the frantically struggling
Opposition Probably we may now let them
clutch at the next thirty or forty straws they
think they see, without interruption.
circular Of the Fine Art Department Of the Gin
cinnati Industrial Exposition has been sent gem
orally to orr leading artists aud connoisseurs. IL pre-
sents scheme worthy of their attention and coop
Grafton, which. if its results are commensurate with
the expense and magnitude of tho experiment, will
be of national Importance. IL is proposed. in
nectiOn with the third Industrial Exposition. to
form an exhibition Of works of modern ant includ-
ing painting, sculpture, architecture. engraving.
&C. larger in its scope than any hitherto attempted;
and not less than 81 premiums. consisting of
medals in gold, silver and bronze offered in the
several branches of art. With the concurrence Of.
tho City Park Commissioners the managers are at
present building Fine Art Hall, spacious, elegant,
and fre-proQf, in WashiDgtOn-square, separated
from the buildings of the Industrial Department.
and atfordng in its suites Of apartments wall sur
face for exhibition purposes Of iO feet The regula
tons of the exhibition copied from those govern
ing the Paris Salon, with some slight variations,
and among the inducements offered to artists be-
sides the premiums facilities for the sale of their
works, The Exposition is made under the auspices
Of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, Board of
lTauc, ana mecnHnlCS fAStlIutts WIN B""h"iiVSS
fund of over 100000 subscribed by leading citizens
The past Expeditions have been visited by over
100000 persons each year, and the coming prom
Uses to be popular STILL 1t opens on the 4th Of
September and ends on the 9th OF October, 1872.
American art-critcs in the minor journals Ito say
nothing of of the MajOrs are the whole, po-
found and awful mysteries. The way in which some of
them disregard all critical and technical laws would
be ludicrous If it were not dsQaceful. OF course
there is always feud between artist and critic, and
the complaints of the scourged must be taken with
many grains of sat-but there is great deal that is
right and good in the protests OF our painters
against the too often eccentric and indisorminaoo
pipings of callow journalists Men must qualify for
the Office of critic as well for that of artists there
can be no sort of Justice in opinion which is not
dictated by knowledge of the canous of art anda
cultivated taste Those luckless editors who send
incompetent people to criticse pictures often say
they do it because they "cant get any one better
but that no for insulting the artist and tho
public with their ignorant scribblings. The depart
ment of aIt-criticism had much better be ignored
altogether in some of them until better educated
authorities can be evolved from space
Ofcourse when THE TRIBUNE spoke of about every
Free Trader in New-York whose name bears any
political weight as DeluB luo cHdnPIVh VI Jun.
Grants reelection it was in discussing the Liberal
Republican movement, and with reference to Re-
publican FTee-Traders only The Express Is perfectly
right in holding that in any other sense the remark
would be unwarranted. But in naming Mr.. jack
son S. Schultz and Mr.. Isaac fl. Bailey as at once
two of the most enthusiastic FreeTraders and most
devoted Grant in the city, we did unintentionaf
injustice TO another proeninent than either;we
mean ex-Mayor Opdyke. While these men, though
earnest Free-Traders, fervently support Gen. Grant
it is a curious specimen of political sagacity to hnd
Liberal Republican Free-Traders insisting that the
sin gle point on which they agree with these Grant
supporters shall be taken as the principle about
which to rally the opponents of Gen. Grant.
Our civilized friends in Ontario have betaken
themselves to the of the lash as penal instru-
ment The Guelph Mercury describes with great
Qsto the logging of two culprits in the prison there;
and tells how the cat was discarded and the cane
used because it cleaner than the cat though the
after effects of Gaming are far worse than those OK
the old-fashioned implement. The ofense OF tho
wretches thus acerated was felonious assault. Is
is savage work" says The Guelph Mercury. but for
crimes of this description it is none too severe, and
NAV deter Others from committing them" 1t is Won
derf how people stick to the old faacy that great
severity of punishment deters men from the commits
sion of crime-a fallacy exploded by figures and
facts hundred years ago.
There have been good many jokes about clergy
mems sore throats, and the impossibity of curing
them in any other way than by voyage to Europe.
But the sore throat itself is no joke. 1t is usually
attributed TO bad habits of elocuton; but though
these may hasten its development, it is the opinion
of The Pittsburgh United Presbyterian that usually
the disease is the result of bad habits of life, too
much eating too little exercise, with other similar
indscretons at is now thought" says The PreSby-
terrain that marrying rch wife has nothing to do
with it, This we suppose, is sarcasm, or irony or.
possibly, a good-natured INVITING upon not un-
pleasant fact.
Attempts at suicide may be expensive; and moth
ing can be more ridiculous than for man to pay tho
bill out of his own pocket for cutting his own throat
This happened to an unfortunate fellow lately at
Iowa City. He 10 make matters sure, not only
severed his windpipe but slashed the arteries OF
his wrists. Then three doctors took him in hand
and stitched him up and insisted upon his living;
and so live he did to receive from the high-cost
doctors bill of $780, He said that he would MT pay
t Int the sawbOnes brought an action against HIM,
and the Judge and jury said that pay he must. Tho
DOOR man will probably refrain from such luxurieS
III future,
lavish Reform. according to The Jeicsh Tines Is
advancing rapidly. The old Orthodox congregation
,yorshpng in Attorney-st has acquired BY purchase
the Norfol-st Synagogue, with its family pews and
organ. and will make such changes in its public
Uorship "a will conform TO this new arrangement
awe hear nothing as YETI says The Times, of tho
annointment of competent minister, and we should
rofar that congregations expend less magnlhcent