New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-04-13
steamship Company were on board the vessel when she
was launched.
THE OLD DOMINION CAPITAL.
ITS STATUES. BUILDINGS AND PEOPLE.

lis STATUES. BIlLDlAJS AMI i Epl LIZ
lFRoM Az OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT oFTHE rEisUSE.l
RICHMOND. Va, April 10.---The statue
Of stonewau Jackson at Richmond by the irish SOUP
tor Foley has double value, first a. REPRESENTING
the most energetic soldier perhaps ever known on
thi. continent excepting Andrew Jackson ana next
A. good specimen of perhaps the best sculptor tie Brit
i-h Islands have produced He was selected by the
Queen 20 make the great statue Of Prince Albert uhde
the Gothic spire In Hyde Park He was almost the ony
British sculptor who could convey emotion ana SYN
pathv Foley also modelled the seal Of the Coniedero
states and put in the centre representation ~ the Ken
mond Washngton's monument The statue OF 9toneWaH
Jackson is exceedingly plain and what ttle cloak backs
the figure is hardly noticed Jackson looks Ike the III
carnaon of the Puritan Generals OF Cromwell who pu
down Ireland and could not help thinking, as looA'u
at face that nc might have been descended iro one
those stern Ironsdes planted IN the cohlu'iu
island His ancestor came 10 Annapolis. Nd ana ID 'o
next generation the family was settled in what Is now
west Virginia
few squae blocks the foot OF Jacksons statue
indicate the s,one-wau for which he named. His
face il almost like "A mask full Of predestinaon' and
thcky bearded round and he carries h practical sworn
point downward Ike and seems looking on a. at
assault The genius OF this man was the last deVeloP
ent Of that virginia Of character which long be-
fore lost di-tnctveness and in statesmanship had De
come merely executive and military and which therefore
displayed itself this Of the Protestant lsh less
negatively than In General Lee, though still with cei
tain tranceul fatam far removed from Christian men
tally The existing public spirit OF Virginia Is reu'eu
COPY Of Jack,onsIn and Is typihed in Malone young
Wise and Young Eiddeberger OF constructive states
man-hip like Madisons there seems nothing left III VT
GINA and looking the great monument to Washington
I saw that one Of the insignia expressed Finance o1
which there enough left to settle tho ordinary
state Debt question.
The Richmond state House which has alternately been
the shrine OF the rebellion for slavery and slaughter
house has about 1t interesting points In genera"
outlines it does not much differ from large odfash-
toned barn with chmneys although 1t is partial copy OF
one Of the vauntcd Roman buildings In France but
the portico at end. with abbreviated Ionic capitals
and double rows columns. has depth and dignity next
10 elegance Jefferson left his best impression on TINS
country natural though crude artistic taste
Secretary Of state under Washington ana the
only member OF that Cabinet who had travelled In Eu
rope and seen public monuments He was hdirr AMI
loved poetry music and building also. There was
sensuousne-s IN IA, nature. bctokened by his warm lips
In 1875 the commissioners OF this Capitol sent 70 him III
Paris 10 advise them to plan. NJ Cerssaui advised
Jefferson 10 change the order from COrnthan to Ionic on
account OF the difficulty OF executing the former kind OF
capitals, and Jefferson himself drew the plan o the in
terror The original building at Nismes wa- called the
S0uare- House Jefferson himself carried the measure FOR
removing the Virginia seat Of government from Williams
burg 10 Richmond IN l779.
While looking at this state Capitol. now I'm very neat
restoration observed the squirrels IN the public square
running along the trees the old squirrels teaching the
youus leap and 20 follow and 80 they would run out 10
the rthes points Of the limbs and then hy through the
air 10 catch on another twig and turn thmseve, over IN
the vgor o the spring did the oxperimenrrN In the
dangerous doctrines OF revolution start almost hundred
wears ago 10 show the younger generation OF virginia
now TO carry the game, Of venture and BLUM To- extremes
and thu. the Calf states succeeded i'm planting between
them and the North this venerable Commonwealth ana
robbed her OF the great opportunity. consonant with
the true wishes of her people to become the base o
operations against d-union and in that case Richmond
would have grown during the Ike Baltimore and ut
its conclusion have possessed more than the population
she now has. Of perhaps 10000 people. The three
heroes Of Virginia the light of the future whose monu-
rncnts may yet arise the soil of the Old Dominion
were George II. Thomas, born IN the county or Nat
Turner's Instructions Henry Davis. educated be
tween Alexandria and Charottesville and Farrasui,
who drew his wiie from Norfolk Let omit Farra
CUTS great assistant second him in responsibility Adj
mlra jenkins, Of Virginia.
In the women of virginia still remains the essence
which established IN many respects, the most powerful
of American states brilliant in biography widespread in
posteritv and even In rebellion against her buttons
steady and interesting Not single scholar under
stand now goes 10 william and Mary College which H.
think the third Institution Of learning IN point OF date In
this country. The long. vide sandy street stretching
from the ruined female seminary the site Of the former
legislative palace. the Old college and It's mutilaed
statue OF Lord BotetOur ned 10 be the hollow dust OF
skeleton whose head and feet partially remained; here
and there on the sidewalks ike bit OF rib or cartilage
some Old moss-rOofed building 1rred ana the FrgeS
house in sight the Palace Green ~ the royal gov
e,ors and Is said ~ have been the mansion Of George
Wyhe the friend Of Jefferson. he was born before Gen
ea Wa-Lineton was educated bJ his mother ana taught
his slave Latin and Greek, and he set them all free aud
gave Jefferson his instincts for liberty. And yet 10 l.
believed that poisoned by family avarice The
man who rreac begged through Europe for the
money to establish this college is said 10 nave been The
ancestor OF Montgomery Blair, who sat in Lncolns
Cabinet Behind the tavern where We took dinner stlll
trd tho OLD powder rouse. which various citizens IN
--.d had been the place whore Nathaniel Bacon got his
ammunition fight Governor Berkeley. and the tavern
heepor bad on th1 meu-r piece % skull which d" n-slel
was that of Bacon himself ana When asked "a' PROOF ne
dug ID mp Ou OF the graveyard where baron Wa bhieu
Alv r.cn ions o.. that matter are tha Bacon t-h var
gra, from lance and secretly buried 10 pro-
tect his BODY the penalties Oi rreaSon