Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-25

UASh4NGAON. JaHuaIS ~os-OsCdH w hue. VI
England, the high priest of estheticism, is in
the city. He has been here for two or three
days. have met him and talked with him.
Everyone who has looked at the aesthetic carl
catures in Punch, by Du Maurier. which have
been very familiar to the American people
through their reproduction in the New York
Graphic, has a very good idea of how the
Young aesthetic looks. Du Maurier hit him off
exactly. He made but very few exaggerations.
The original is such an exaggeration
that it is unnecessary for caricature
to go beyond it. Young Oscar
talks with the English drawl. to which
is to be added very marked effeminacy of
delivery. He is an excellent French scholar,
and is very apt with running in a French
phrase whenever it can be made effective. In
speaking of Du Maurier, who dished him up so
numerically in Punch, Oscar said, 'Oh you
know he and 1 are on the best of terms.
know him very well, and as each picture ap-
peared in Punch used to talk and laugh with
him about it, telling whether thought it good
or bad" Mr. Wilde thinks that there is great
deal Of estheticsm in the United States and
that all that is necessary for the rapid deve-
opment of that school is a few
leaders bold enough to carry out their
ideas To foster aeStheticiSm which MIR. Wilde
told me with feminine drawl was true art,
and to see the country. is why Mr.. Wilde is
among us, he says. He wants to see how far
the people love art, and how we can he taught
to love it.. 1t might be sandwiched right here
that Wilde is going to teach us to love art
through the medium of lectures delivered by
himself at one dollar per head, and no extra
charge for reserved seats Wherein the young
man shows sense. When / was talking with
him be half recned on a lounge covered
with a bear skin, and was dressed in
| style so familiar to the public by means or
pictures and newspaper descriptions Or all
that he said he was most animated about
| Walt Whitman, and the wood eDgravlngS or
| America He regards Walt Whitman as the
| greatest genius of the day. and as the strong
| est and grandest man, and yet the slmplest,
! that he ever knew. He was quite too utterly
! enthusiastic over Whitman. When told him
that Whitman was removed from a place IN
| one of the public departments a few
| years ago, partly because he was not
much good as clerk, and partly be-
| cause some of his poetry was quite too
| broad to be decent, he threw up his lily white
! hands and exclaimed "Oh, shame! Oh, what
| a shame! How could anyone have been so
| crulp' He regards the wood engravings OF our
| country, as shown by the monthly magazine S
| something which forms fit subject for pre-
| ciouS wonder That class of work executed IN
| the United States is 'immeasuraby superior
| to anything of the kind done elsewhere, as
| said before, Wilde talks well; he is remarka-
! bly, bright young man of perhaps twenty llVe
and entirely guiltless of hirsute growth. He has
not received one tenth part of the social atten-
| tion which was his in New York He IS gong
to lecture tonight at Lincoln Hall, and the
seats are nearly all sold. He will have crowd
| ed house and secure much ducats. RE would
| be regarded as a bri liant man were he not an
ass. But at the same time he is an ass with
plenty Of brains
A DULL SEASON.
The fashionable people of the city are com
| planning that this has been q remarkably dull
| social season Lent, which puts stop to all
~ e g.. 20 OF
hand, and but two large and bril- liant
| social occ ,sions can be counted. Exactly
what is the cause of all this no one seems to be
able to give a satisfactory answer 1t cannot
be that the death of Garfield has another great
hand in checking social doings Garfield Is too
long dead. NJ st everybody here except a
committee, which is struggling to raise sut11
cient funds to erect Garfield memorial hospl-
tai apparently has but very dim remem-
brance that there ever was President by that
name The most probable cause for the dnil
social season is probably that the Cabinet
officers have not as yet been able to
get so fixed that they can hold
eceptions and things vulgarly known aS
'crushes " But very few wealthy people have
entertained on a LARGE SCALE There has, in
fact, been but very little society" business at
all This comes hardest on the army, navy
and marine corps officers and upon the mem
bers of the corps dtptOmGtlque, who nave
nothing to do but the so :ial caper.
CoNKL1NG, FcLGE7, EDYUNDs.
The bill to retire Justice HUT, of the Su-
preme Court who is physically incapacitate7
| forever will become a law shortly. For three
years Justice Hunt has done no work
Of any kind. His retirement will
make vacancy on the bench, which President
Arthur will fill. 1t is s. ated on the best author
ty that President Arthur thinks that the place
belongs to either New York or Vermont There
are two reports in connection with the selec-
ton of man for the place. One is that Sec
retary Folger will be made Supreme Court
Judge and that such was understood to be the
arrangement when Folger accepted the Treas
ury portfolio. If he is selected it is further
stated tn It Conking will be his successor
in the Treasury Department The other
report, which is equally we'll founded, is that
President Arthur will first offer the Supreme
Court place to Senator Edmunds, of Vermont
In cose he declines. which it is thought he
to Conkling, who would undoubtedly accept
All this looks a little as though Conkling was
again to emerge from his present. private life
and enter the public service-Which he has
adorned so welll-again.
CONGRESS-
The week opens without any work of specia
interest mapped out for either branch oi
Congress. In the House the fight over the
enlargement of the committees, TO enable
Keifer to placate some Of those he had grossly
offended by the makeup of the committees
has ended in an overwhelming defeat Of the
scheme. That defeat was in the nature of 6
public rebuke from the House to its Speaker
While this little fight went on there was some
thing lively in the House, but this week opens
; duh T he committees have not commenced tC
report the appropriation bills, out are expected
to have one or two of them ready in week OF
In the Senate the discussion of the Sherman
funding bill continues. 1t is not certain by any
/ means that this bill will go through There i
much more opposition to it now thar
there was two weeks ago. In the SAINT
measure the opinion that the public deb
, should be allowed to stand as it is gainine
supporters Those most opposed To the sb~~
man bill will if they see it gain great rangtb
endeavor to put on to it an aTr endment. wha
is,known as the 5th see .On of the Carlisle bill
II thaU amendment should go in the friends o
the nat..Jnal banks who are so strongly il
favor of the Sherman bill would have to wee
around
: SAVANNAH IMPROVEMENTS.
Representative Black has introduced in th
House three bills which should command th
support of the people Of the First Georgia dis
! trict. All the aid possible from that end of thu
line should be extended him. His three bill
propose appropriations of S30,000, $4,000 ant
S25.OOO, respectively, for the improvement o
Romney marsh Jekyl creek and what is known
as the inside route.
J EMORY sPEER AND PLEDGER,
There is reported to he considerab BILE bad feel
, ing on the part of Pledger towards Emor!
Speer. because the latter has Withdrawn hi
Influence" from Pledger in the latter's candi
dacy for the Postnaastership. Pledger is re
ported to be gesticulating the air wildly ant
crying revenge. POTOMAC.
New York Stock Market.
NEW YORK, January 24-Share specula
tion opened for the general list at a decline
: of Is per cent from yesterdays closin!
quotations. the latter for Norfolk and West
7 cru preferred, and Ohio and Mississippi
Illinois Central, however, was / per cent
2 higher. In the early dealing an advance O
4 to IL per cent. took place, in whicl
Wabash preferred and Northwest were mos
: conspicuous Following this was a decline
, OF "A to 1% per cent, Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western, Denver and Ri
Grande, and Northern Pacific pre-
ferred being most prominent in the down
! ward movement. Richmond and Alleghanl
} however, sold up 21S per cent, and reacted
. IL nar cent at MON SnhsennentIV thI