The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-24
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The Stntue Mania.

song, tuere ID STATUE III tue alt! CVetyOouy
IL about to give somebody else statue.
Statues are expected to arise 10 every public
place, like mushrooms in an orchard. Time.
was when New York possessed only one
statue This stood for nearly score Of years
In the City Hall Park. It was o mysterious
one. It came like thief in the night, and it
disappeared as suddenly as it made Its start
ling debut. Who made it, who it represented,
or why 1t came or went are questions yet
perplexing the shoeblacks and philosophers Of
Printing House square. Although this was
the only statue it proved as serviceable as
twenty. Wayfarers got accommodated with
any identifying name which arose to the lips
of questioned policeman. Men died believ-
ing it to be Greeley, or Fernando Wood, or
any of the early fathers, or Rip Van Wrinkle.
But when this quieting statue walked away,
like the Commentators in the opera Of 'Don
Giovanni" q desire for other statues seized
upon our citizens, until now the fever has
attained the dignity Of mania. First we
had Schiller, appropriately hidden away in
Central Park maze. Next we beheld at the
Park entrance one of Humboldt-presentiag
the appearance of a bronzed head from Temple
Bar after the axeman of the Tower era had per-
formed duty. Soon afterwards the telegraphers
ideservedly dedicated statue to Morse. Then
The Scotsmen laid corner stone to the Wizard
Of the North. Until April showers fall the
Shakespeare statue, In box at the old
Arsenal. awaits Inauguration. Last week the
printers listened out in the cold to panegyrics
about Franklin, and scores of people who
were not printers ate Delmonico supper in
honor Of the new statue on Printing House
square. And now jocular contemporary
daily sends around the bat to raise yet another
statue In the Same square to the living philoso-
pher who recently sent up his reform kite and
retrenchment key into the Washington clouds
and brought down the sharpest kind of light
ming into the New York Custom House.
Let the work 60 on. Since the German
Franco war bronze has cheapened. So has
fame. The parsons can supbscrjbse for a
monument to the ''martyred Fisk" who has
furnished them with so many sermons.
And as the mania for bronze and granite in
tensifies statue coteries will soo1 become so
fashionable that Westenders will riyal East
enders In statuesque adornment; and no
citizen will be counted great, rich or happy,
unless upon the top of granite block his
bronze effgy, like that of Lncoln's at Union
square, shall be exhibited throughout summer
or winter in the attitude of an indefatigable
Inspector Of those heterogeneous hacks that
usually adorn the base Of city statue.
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TIE GREAT WHARTON TRIAL is ended so
Tar al the evidence, the counsel and the OFF,
-cers conducting the suit are concerned. After
moro than seven weeks Of patient watching
and listening TO an accumulation OF matter
rarely met with in criminal cases, notwith-
standing the strict discipline of the bailif' $
rGgi'nc, the privations of dull, monotonous
drilling in and out OF Court, stemming the abuse
OF newspapers and gazing into the eyes Of
uuerulous attorneys in their endeavors to
outdo each other in eloquence and court
house skill the indictment against this unfor-
inmate lady has been handed to the Maryland
Jury and they have taken her fate upon them
selves. Days have been consumed in en-
deavoriug TO place the evidence before them
In the light best suited to the interests OF those
immediately concerned-the defence from
their view, and the State officers in the way
they imagine to show most clearly tn
guilt of the prisoner; but Judge Miller. will
. brevity that cannot be too highly applauded
made his charge to the jury in ten seconds
characteristic as IL was antique, though amp
meeting all the requirements Of the moment
AS set forth In our full report Of the proceed
-sings to-day, up to midnight the jury had no
agreed upon verdict.
SHERIFF BRENNAN says :-'T try to do m
duty. l follow the law as strictly as car
and If any one feels offended thereat al
ready to answer" Let the Sheriff stick
that and his worst enemy will be compelled