Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-01

s73, 900 of this and meat packing $11 .614,-
900. Baltimore comes number eight, with f
product of $4,000 900, the largest item of
which is mems clothing, 50, 446, 900.
Pittsburg is the ninth in rank of manufac-
turing cities in the value of its product,
which in 1880 was 1914, 900, 900. It has $780,
900, 900 of capital invested in manufactures,
which exceeds that of st. Louis. Cincinnati,
in that respect the ninth manufacturing city
in the Union, those ranking it being in order
Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and Brook
lyn. The number of Pittsburg establish
ments is 1,O71; the men employed are 81
55l the wages paid in 1880 we're $l6,91S,-
1926, and the value of the material used was
$41 POI, OOO The largest item of manufac-
ture is iron and STEEL the products of which
are $35, 400, 900. The next is glass with a
product of S., 100000 After Pittsburg the
cities rank in the order of the value of their
manufacturing products as follows Newark,
tenth Jersey City, eleventh Cleveland,
twelfth; Buffalo, thirteenth; Providence,
fourteenth; Milwaukee, fifteenth Louis
vile. sixteenth New Orleans, seventeenth,
and Washington city, eighteenth.
Professional Prizes and Their Effect.
[From the London spectator.l
Tie sale for 5000 and upward-six times
the price given for it at its last sale-of Mr..
Ruskin's small MISSIONER of Napoleon sitting
on his horse at the battle of Dlarengo will
haps may encourage few OF them &c believe
afresh in the discernment of the public ror
genius and in the grandeur of the rewards
which it can earn. And il the first of these
convictions were the only which such
extreme pecuniary appreciation of works of
genius produced, we should hold that events
of this kind were of good eugury, and of
nothing but good augury for art, though we
should still not regard them as quite of the
first moment even from that point of view.
So far as it goes, however, it undoubtedly
does stimulate artistic genius of any and every
kind to feel assured that the world will Soon
or or later recognize it and smile upon it.
The poet, the artist and the musician live
more or less on the breath of sympathy and
admiration. and without at least expect
ing sympathy and admiration, they would
probably lack the motive which makes them
strenuous in labor, and which kindles them
into inspiration. But, for the most part, we
b leve that this vivifying expectation of the
worlds delight is due in very small proper
ton indeed to any external evidence of the
value set upon works of genius by the rich
and great. A true man of genius believes in
his genius so spontaneously that, if he finds
one else who believes in it, he ascribes
This to almost any accident rather than in
capacity in himself to deserve, and in the
world to give, the appreciation which he de-
sires. External evidence of the value which
the world attaches to the creations of genius
contributes very little indeed to the conf
dence which men of genius feel in their
power to awaken the admiration of others.
And of all the kinds of proof which do really
tell on the pulses of genius probably the high
prices which works of genius often fetch are
among the least effective. 'The hearts that
once +, at high for praise" will hardly beat
high for six thousand pounds; nor, indeed,
will that sum be regarded the true equiva-
lent of praise. There are so many motives
which bring millionaire collectors, like Mr..
Vanderbilt-for whom rumor at first said,
though, we believe, enormously, that the
MISSIONER, for Instance, was bought-into
the field, not one of which implies the quick
er thrill of single human heart, that true
artist will never feel the value set upon his
work by the virtuoso as an adequate proof of
its power to excite in the human breast that
enthusiasm which the artistic temperament
drinks in almost as ardently as the lark drinks
in the breath of the morning.
One who is praised by thousands of
tongues seems to live for the moment in
thousands of hearts. One who is heavily
paid by knowing tradssman or a keen con-
noisseur does not even suppose that he lives
necessarily in a single heart; nay, he is apt
to feel himself under d sort of obligation to
his patron, instead of feeling that he has laid
his patron under the greatest of obligations
to himself. Hence the very form which ap-
probation takes In this case-the form of
heavy payment-instead of stirring the ar
tistic pulses, rather stills and stupeties them.
1t does not quicken that stream of life which
binds the artist to those for whom he works;
it rathes makes him think heavily of the i'm
portance of his rich customers, and wonder
how, but for their excellent accounts at the
banks, he should earn his living.
But we go further than this, and venture
to doubt even regards callings which are
not of the artistic kind, whether the value Of
what are termed the great professional prizes
be not very much ovsrrated. AS regards
literature, poetry, painting, sculpture, music
and the like, we are satisfied of it. We are
quite sure that the fine arts never Aourished
yet on the hope of great pecuniary prizes, or
without the hope, which is almost always
distinct from it, and very often Incompatible
with lt-since the richest paymasters usually
value most the qualities which are not of the
wildly popular kind-cf touching the heart
| of the multitude. But even in homely re-
gions like those of politics, law, medicine
| physical science natural science and so forth
| we do not in the least believe that it is the
| great prizes they called-that is, the
| great prizes, openings animate the
| competitors, and make their efforts strenu-
Gus and ardent. We are sometimes told
We were told this other day during the dis
cusSion as to the danger of abolishing the
| better paid Judgeships, the Chief Justiceship
| of the Common Pleas, and the Chief Baron
| ship of the ExcheQuer--that if you abolish
| the great prizes of the profession you will
| lower its general calibre and quality and so
! far as a certain distinction in the character
| of these positions gees, so far it may be
| necessary to retain them in order to have the
| power of giving one man rank which you do
not give to another, we are disposed to think
that this is true.
| Ambition is one of the greater passions, and
ambition does, no doubt, live on the hope OF
| the ''bubble reputation, and could not live
the eager life it does live without that hope
| But, SO far as the mere value of the money
| prize goes, we do not believe O word of it.
| VI hen really great achievement ever
| yet made, whether in politics, law medicine,
physical science, natural science, literature,
or anything else, which depended on the
money reward to be gained Did his worst
enemy ever accuse Lord STAFFORD of devils.
ing the policy of thorough for filthy lucre
or Pym of denouncing him for the same endi
Did any man in his sense ever suppose even
Boiingbroke to have aimed chiefly at making
a fortune, or accuse MIR. Dlsraeli of having
| hunted down Sir Robert Peel that he himself
might die rich And in the law, did anyone
ever dream that Sir William Blackstone
wrote out of love of money, or that Romilly
or Brougham, or Lyndhurst, or Westbury
would have omitted a single great effors
merely because he supposed that he should
gain somewhat less pecuniarily by it than he
did Again, who ever heard OF great ply
stefan surgeon who was attracted chief
by the money value of his discovery? Elk
cept fame, what did Jenner gain by vaccina
ton? Would Newton have discovered wha
he did day sooner for expecting the wealth
of the Indies his reward, or Darwin hav,
brooded more fruitfully over the origin O.
species if he had been contemplating sue
cessful Stock Exchange speculation as tn
consequence of his discovery? And even il
pure literature, does not everybody know
that the great works of all time were pro
duced without reference of any kind to tn
wages to be earned by them What did HON
er or Dante net by his pen? Milton, it i
said, got G5 for his Paradise Lost, - with
dubious hope of 60 more, while Shakespear
certainly wrote for the stage With little or n
regard to the pecuniary value of his copy
rights. In our own time few great author
have gained large sums by their works, bu
hardly even they by their greatest works
nor could Dickens himself ever conjure BAG
again for the largest sum the freshness Q
the genius which he had spent on work
which brought him very little gold.