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Year: 1874

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There is among art circles considerable
speculation as to the quality of the coming
spring exhibition at the Academy of Design,
owing to the avowed intention of the direc-
this seasons exhibition worthy Of the metrop-
oils of America. During the last few years
personal jealousies and professional rivalries
have prevented many artists from giving that
support to the National Academy without
which its value as an art teacher must be i'm
paired 1t is now some tipe since we called
the attention of the artists to the mistake
they were committing in lessening pub
lie respect for the National Acad-
emy, and SO bringing American art
into distavor and disrepute with the
general public The selfish policy Of some
of the more prominent members Of the pro-
fession in Withdrawing their countenance
from the Academy exhibitions was for time
profitable; but the feeling soon began to grow
in the public mind that the higher class of
art was only to be met with in Europe, and
that whatever was American must necessarily
be mediocre. This impression has inter-
fered SO much with the sale Of works painted
by resident artists that the error we pointed
out is now generally recognized. A strong
effort has been made during the past winter
in most of the studios to remedy the evil, and
it is confidently predicted that the spring ex-
hibition will contain more works Of real merit
than have been seen on the Academy walls
for years. We know that many of our best
men will be represented by works of great
vigor, and we hope to see works from
men who have been long strangers
to the Academy. Most Of the prominent
artists have done their duty on this
occasion and striven to furnish works of
more than ordinary merit; but much will
depend on the action of the directors One
OF the great evils to be contended against is a
maudlin sympathy with the struggling men,
bers OF the profession. There are among the
artists number of immature geniuses who
will insist on sending pictures of no artistic
merit to the Academy exhibition; and the
tender-hearted persons who compose the
hanging committee have never been able to
screw their courage up to the point Of refusing
place to the appalling productions of unripe
genius. This weakness is the bane of the
Academy of Design. 1t is allied with belief
in the necessity of covering the walls with
certain number of square feet of canvas, ir-
respective of the artistic value Of the works.
This is supposed to please the public
and to prevent ON outcry being
raised by the slaughtered innocents
against the exclusiveness and TYRANNY Of
Year: 1874

OInda ny tho brnziIaan courts.


The question whether mankind is to be
ruled by Church or State is being debated as
angrily in Brazil as in Germany. In the case
of the Bishop Of Olinda and the Brazilian
government the struggle is not between Prot
estant and Catholic but between the lay and
clerical elements. In the exercise OF functions
which the Bishop regards as within the scope
of his religious authority he infringed on the
rights which belong to all citizens alike,
without difference OF religious belief, and the
law steps in to protect the citizen. The
question raised is delicate one, and it is by
no means so easy as it might seem to decide
where the line of spiritual authority
should terminate The Brazilian courts, how
ever, have wisely decided that where any
doubt exists the spiritual authority must be so
exercised as not to lessen the liberty OF the
citizen in any way. The cause Of trouble
with the Bishop Of Ohnda was his effort to
suppress certain Catholic associations which
admitted Freemasons to membership His
quarrel was, therefore, not directly with per-
sons outside his flock, but with those who
Claimed 10 De Wlth1n. Inc law, however, mas
decided that the measures he thought fit to
adopt against the Catholic organizations were
calculated to interfere with the freedom Of
action secured by the law to the citizens of
the Empire. AS the Bishop refused to ac-
knowledge the right of the civil tribunals to
interfere in q question which he claimed was
strictly one of conscience, he was condemned
by the Court. Though he refused to admit
the legality Of the proceedings, two coun-
sellors we're allowed to plead his case;
but, Notwithstanding the plea put forth that
the question was strictly question Of Church
discipline, the Court, with one dissenting
voice, condemned the prelate to four years
Imprisonment, with hard labor This SEN
tencc will not, in all probability, be vigorously
carried out, but it evinces determination on
the part of the civil authorities to put down
any attempt on the part of the ultramontane
element to override the civil power. The
extreme pretensions of the Vatican party in
the Church do not seem to be favorably re-
ceived by Catholic governments, and we
should not be much surprised if they should
prove source of weakness instead of strength
to the clerical element in the Church The
world has grown too old to be ruled by re-
ligious caste.
Year: 1874

From the results Of the election in Connecti-
cut yesterday. SO far as known. there is
little reason to doubt that the democrats have
swept the State. II is thought they have not
only shown their temper towards the respec-
tive parties by voting the democratic State
ticket but that they have also made Legisla-
ture so definitely democntic as to insure the
choice Of democrat as Senator. Although
the temperance vote, which is SO much with
drawn from either side is unexpectedly
large, it is believed that this will not defeat an
election by the people. This result is in the
highest degree significant. Coinciding SUBJ
stantially with what we have seen in New
Hampshire, it indicates unmistakably that the
republican party is in bad odor with the
people, and that the constituencies have
lost all sympathy with the men who
nominally represent them in the govern
ment. Out Of New England come,
no doubt, many of our political sharp
ers, yet the public mind of New England
is honest Buffers and Simmonses are acci-
dents only, and the honest and thrifty Down
Easter, who believes in his country and wants
to see it honestly keep its promises can
not stand party that haunts fraud as its
grandest achievement. Initiation legislation
may not have been necessary to insure vic
tory to the democrats in Connecticut, for
there was enough before to make that result
well nigh inevitable; but it came in time to
somewhat intensity the outburst against
party that has ceased to care for the country
and its honor, or the people and their will,
and that holds on to power only as power is
plunder and as it assists the unscrupulous poll
ticians to play prettily into the hands of their
financial friends. New Hampshire and Con-
necticut are sure forerunners of great
change.
Year: 1874

The ASSISTANT ALDERMEN join the Alder
men in urging the Importance of Legislative
action on the subject of rapid transit this ses-
sion. The legislators must be blind who do
not see that the people of New York are in
earnest in demanding of them rapid transit
commission, and will mark the unfaithful
representatives who oppose or obstruct such
measure There is rumor that the Wander
bilt bill is to be withdrawn. 1t will be well
Tor all parties concerned if the rumor should
prove to he correct.
Year: 1874

LAKE NAVIGATION is opening, and the large
trade dependent upon that will now revive and
have happy effect upon the markets and the
laboring classes The news from Ogdensburg
shows that navigation is open at that place
that one steamer left yesterday for the lake
ports that the craft in the harbor are rapidly
fitting out, and that the Northern Transporta-
ton Company would start their boats to-day.
Winter has been prolonged into spring, and
the consequent check to business and suffer-
ing among the working classes have been ex-
tended, but there is now prospect that relief
is OF hand. We should not be surprised to see
as sudden and as great revival OF business
and industry as was the depression at the
commencement Of winter,
Year: 1874

siOnary Condemned to Death.


Mexico setting good example to New York
is something new under the sun. 1t appears
that the same sentimental notions as to the
sanctity of the lives OF murderers has not yet
taken root in the neighboring Republic. At
least we should judge so from the telegraphic
despatch which we publish in another column
from our special correspondent. From it we
learn that six of the fanatical mob that assas-
sinated the Protestant missionary Mr. Ste
phens, have been condemned to death. The
priest Ochoa has also been brought to trial
on the charge of inciting to murder, but his
case has not as yet been decided 1t is pleasing
to notice that the religious fanaticism of the
ignorant Indians and half castes who make up
the lower stratum of society in Mexico does
not extend to the official circles, and
that in Mexico the man who takes life even
under the deluson that he is serving God, will
be punished with the utmost severity of the
law. Indeed, the Mexicans seem to be rather
in advance OF our boosted civilization in their
regard for the sanctity of life, for il a mob
were to kill a man here, from whatever mo-
tive, if would be difficult to obtain so severe
sentence as the Mexican courts have pro-
nounced against the guilty parties. If the
same severity could only be introduced into
the administration of our own laws life would
be much more secure among us than it is at
present
Year: 1874

BOSTON, April 8, 1874.
Owing to the numerous absentees there was
merely repetition Of the old form OF going through
the show Of casting the eleventh ballot in the Mas
sachusetts Legislature this morning, without the
least expectation that it would contribute to bring
about decision on the senatorship question. But
it Is said by those WHO are in q position to know
what transpires in the secret meetings OF the
friends OF Mr.. Dawes ana Judge Hoar which held
so frequently, that both factions have determined
to 20 into the business with vi00r tomorrow, and
in the event Of there being no choice 't0 make
day or it" on Wednesday. In the Joint Assembly
the following figures were inscribed on the Clerks
jOurnal:-
Year: 1874

BUILDING IN THE CRY appears to be checked
in consequence of the uncertainty that has
prevailed about the currency and the difficult
t,es existing between employers and laborers.
The first cause will soon be removed, for Con-
gress will, no doubt, take final action on the
pending financial measures. The currency
imitation will rather tend to stimulate busi-
ness, whatever may be the ultimate disastrous
result. And it is to be hoped the builders
and the workmen may come to some COM
promise, and that building will be actively
yusumeska as the spring opens.
Year: 1874

POLICE FACTS. Two men, who pounded q
policeman with his own club, are to be pun
ished. A policeman who brought boy out
Of a second story with brick will probably
be promoted as good shot.
Year: 1874

astic and excited meeting of Germans was
held last night, as reported elsewhere, to pro-
test against the management of Castle Garden
By Americans, the people of that objection
able nationality being so notoriously ignorant
and dishonest that it is looked upon as an
outrage Shat the honest strangers from Ger
many should fall into their hands. 1t all ap-
pears to be political fight, in which the Ger
mans have for the moment, the worst of it,


and denounce their opponents as people who
wish 70 make political use OF Castle Garden
Year: 1874

THE Police JUSTICE CONTROVERSY. The
General Term OF the Court OF Common Pleas
yesterday sustained the decision in favor of
the constitutionality of the law which turned
the elected Police Justices of the city Of New
York ont Of Office and gave the appointment
of their successors to the Mayor. The principal
point Of the opinion OF Chief Justice Daily is
are not Justices of the Peace, and hence are
not included in the constitutional provision
which declares the latter an elective Office
The case will now go to the Court of Appeals,
and as it is a preferred cause a judgment
will probably be reached in May. There
should be no unnecessary delay in the final
settlement of this important question.
Year: 1874

the academicians. However, the experience n


the past few years ought to teach the hangina


committee that no mere spread Of canvas viii
enable the Academy exhibition to sail into
public favor. The people of taste, who draw
the crowd after them, are sure to prefer small
number of good pictures SO disposed that they
can be seen and admired to heterogeneous
collection Of pictures in which the mediocre
ana the worthless swallow up whatever il
worm looking at. The interest of American
art as wel as that of the Academy of Design,
demands that this fact should be kept in mind
by those responsible for the admission of pic
lures We warn the committee in time that il
they, by weak exercise of compassion for
medlocrlty, expose worthless daubs on the
Academy walls in the forthcoming exhibition
the public will not be likely to condone their
fault or hesitate to express its condemns
ton of policy which seriously damages the
interests Of American art.
Year: 1874

WHAT is known as the "hot dollar
comes on at the rolling mills next mon
day, juno lst By agreement between
the manufacturers hero and at Pitts
burgh an extra dollar per ton Is paid for
boiling, dlripgthe months Of June, July
and August Whether tho mills will run
their forges during the summer does not
yet appear. The demand for nails still
continues fair Tor the season Of the year
and the stocks on hand are light.
Year: 1874

The Grange Outlook, the organ OF
the farmers, has this item;


Millcrs say they cannot afford to pay
IN ore than S1.00 to $1.l0 for wheat, and
still they ask from seven TO eight dol.
lars per barrel for family flour That
will not do. There is a little decrep-
ancy in these prices. When wheat is
one dollar per bushel, -four can be sold
at good profit for Ave dollars per
barrel. If millers ask seven and half
per barrel for -four they can afford to
pay Sl.50 per bushel for wheat. Milers
must either advance the price of wheat
or lower the price of flour.
Year: 1874

Al High Falls, N. Y, the other day,
n young lady, while crossing n field,
was knocked down by a ram, and the
next time tho damaged damsel saw her
lover she informed that astonisbcd


youth that he might go about his busi-
ness, as she was disgusted with the sex.
Year: 1874

A reporter for an Atlanta paper had
an interview with United States Sena-
tor Gordon (Gen. John b.. few DAYS
ago, and in reply to the question wholh-
er he thought the Democratic party has
victory ahead Of il in the next Presi.
denIil campaign, the Senator said:


almost certainly, unless they make
same terrible blunder. If, by any i'm
prudence Of speech or action, the
Southern people give the Republicans
n chance to dodge the issues of corrup-
ton and misgovei and run upon
the differences on which the war was
fought, and which are still invinCible in
the North, we will lose the fight. The
passions and prejudiccs of the war are
dying out very rapidly in the North,
and, II nothing rash is done TO revive
them, we eau meet the Republicans on
the paper issues and rout !hem, horse
foot and dragons. One reason that
have for believing that tho war pre-.
judices are dying out in the North, is
that the House, which Is the freshest
from the people, is much more couser.
vaive and liberal than tho Senate
Thfs Is a noticeable fact, aud very
significant one"


What n good thing IT would be II the
Injunction Of the Apostle was carried
out, "lr any man will not work neither
shall he eat" Ifali the drones Of society
the men who do nothing useful and
subsist OH the fruits Of oiher'e labor
were starved out, tho world would be
rid Of a great nuisance.


Somebody at Cincinnati wants n new
party. The little experiment made in
that direction two years ago seems Ia
lave been without effect upon soifie
people.
Year: 1874

Singular Effect of Twins on a St


Louis Journalist.


A young woman in a street car with
two results of her loves young dream
ofa year old, sitting up in her arms
like two funny little china images
1t is Immediately assumed that the
funny little results are twins. They
are dressed alike, and have similar
chubby little fat legs, and fat dump
ling fists, and the turned up fat little
nose of the larboadr. baby is the
identical spit of the baby on the star
board, and they are both endeavOring
to make harty meals out of the
dumplings in the same beautiful
style of early cannibalism. They
stare at each other out Of their
bright goblin little eyes, as if they
were very old acquaintance indeed,
and could tell a thing or to of each
other if they would, bat are bound by
a solemn compact not 70 divulge, un-
til they are through with their con
tract for finishing the dumplings.


They must be twins, and are so
much alike that nothing less than a
mothers instincts can tell the differ
ence between them, and even then
it is wonderful how she can do it
without a strawberry mark stamped
somewhere on one Of them. Yes,
Hooking again, there is q distinction,
The larboard baby has the dirtiest
little nose ever exhibited by a repu-
table with chubby legs within the
limits of public conveyance. We
look in Wonderment at that baby:
nose, and rush to the conclusion that
a hydrant has bursted somewhere
in his inside. If It isn't q by
drant what is it? One fact is patent
the larboard baby cares no more
for the interior hydrant with q nose
attachment than he does for fnan-
cial panic. Nor does the starboari
baby either.


The poor little mother-she is not
much bigger than good-sized fami
lily Thanksgiving turkey-is terrible
anxious about the nose Of the lar
board baby. Atany other time that
dirty little nose would be a well
spring of pleasure to her, but it ism
now. She rubs it with strong pa
rental resolution, always the wrong
way, and with red cotton handker
chief, until the nose of the lsrboar(
baby was as red as . beet, and tn
larboard baby looks up in her face
as if to say, aHoW long, 0 Lord
how longT All this time the star
board baby is smiling wonderfully
bright smiles of goblin joy, anC
kicking up his absurdly chubby lit
tie legs in a way totally unmindfn
of the proprieties of high-toned soci
ty. Altogether, he looks as if ther
was nothing in the world half 81
splendid and enjoyable as the con
temptation of the dirty little nose 0
his larboard brother being rubbed
red hot.


We take long five cents Wortl
with those chubby twins and tha
happy little mother with her red col
ton pocket handkerchief, and we g
out of our way to see her rub he
. larboard offspring the wrong way {
his nose. AS for the starboard che
rub, nothing can be more sublim
than his enjoyment of his brother
martyrdom, while both larboard an
starboard continued to elevate thei
legs in a most disgraceful manne
. and gum their dumplings with
! perseverance worthy Of all prais
! There is, after all, one great good
a dirty little nose as long as it last
we thought, as the mother and he
: twins left the car; this woman ca


tell larboard from starboard if the
happen to get mixed up.
Year: 1874

God make my life little light,


A little flame that burneth bright,
Within the world to glow;


Wherever may go.
God make my life little flower,
That giYeth JOY to all;
Content to bloom in native bower,
Although its place be small.
Sod make my life little song,
That eomfortsth the sad;
That helpeth others to be strong,
And makes the singer glad.
Coo make my life little staff,
Whereon the weak may rast;
That 50 what health and strength have
Nay serve my nsighbor best.
God make my life little hymn
OF tenderness and praises
OF faith, that never wa1etb dim.
In al his Wondrous ways,
Year: 1874

GENERAL rSTELLIGENCE.-Person at a
distance desiring information from this point can
address me. If the subject does not require much
investigation a few postage stamps viii be SUM
cieut remuneration.
Year: 1874

It would have taken several hours
to reach the city II a straight march.
It was so far away that you could on
ly see one ofits church steeples, and
you know the city Is on rising ground
at that. But Joe obeyed orders. He
carried line after line of works at the
point of bayonet, but the city seem
ed as far off as ever. About sundown


Kautz's cavalry formed a junction


with him. Kautz reported that he


had assaulted the works at different


places, and found them well manned.
| He had been repulsed on every side.


A strong force was already massing in


front of Hawley, and common pru.
dence dictated s. return to camp. It
was late at night when the troops
reached their quarters. Joe sat down
without going to bed-his newspaper
life had made him a sort Of q night
owI-and wrote out his official report,
sending it to Butler as soOn as it
was finished. Next morning an or
der came to the tent, and said that
Gen. Butler wanted to see Gen.
Hawley Immediately. Irode up to


Buffers headquarters with Joe. Joe


got off his horse and went inside. l


remained without. I could hear


them at it inside Butler was roar


ing ct Joe, and browbeating him as


though he were a witness in a rape


case. Every once in while Butler
would shout, you say in your report
40 and so.' Hawley would answer,
you misquote my report; I say no
such thing. Then Butler would
swear and talk about the Major Gen


erals he had removed. For a long
time Joe kept his temper. Then the
; lie direct was given. 1t was to much.


Joe went for Benjamin. He caught


him by the coat collar, and shook the


stufing out Of him. 1 was thinking
about going in when Joe appeared at
the door of the tent. He was as calm
! as a summer sea, Come, Seward ne
J said, let US 60. I shall be removed
! if stay here much longer And
: we went back to our quarters
Year: 1874

aWeI", said SeWart, you know
that Butler had about 10000 M \ at
Bermuda Hundred while Grant was
lighting Lee in the Wilderness. If
he had been prompt and bold he
might have gone into Richmond like
a book. But he got bottled up as
Grant said, and that was the end Of
him. Then Grant took the most Of
his men, leaving with him about A.
600 or 5000 men under Generals
Terry and Hawley. 1t tcut Butler up
terribly-knocked his military dig
nifty into q cooked hat. So Butler
got his back up, and determined to
do something on bis own hook. he
had his engineers cut a new road
through the woods which would
bring him out in the open country
between Petersburg and Richmond.
He ordered HaWley's brigade to
march over this road during the
night, expecting that he could reach
the open country by daylight and
then assault and'capture Petersburg,
He sent Kautz with a regiment of
cavalry around the other side Of
Petersburg, to make an assault on
the works south of that city, st the
same time that HaWley struck it on
the north. Well, Joe started of with
his brigade on as dark 3 night as
ever you saw. It was the night that
Grant was fighting Lee at Cold Har-
bot. I remember that we could hear
the guns of that battle. But Joe
found that Buffers road was wonder
fully and fearfully made. It was
hakeed out of a thick forest. His
engineers had left stumps two and
three feet high. It was almost in
possible for Joe to get his batteries
over them. He worked like a beaver,
but at daylight he was not more than
half way to the open ground. Butler
heard of it, and sent a message to
Joe, wanted to know why in hell he
wasn't in the open country. D
youp said Butler, don't you know
| that / have removed Major Generals
for less than thisf' Joe sent back
word that he was doing the best he
could and if it was no satisfactory to
Butler he could remove and be hang
ed to him. 1t was well along toward
noon when Joe struck the open
country. There was q line Of works
extending toward Petersburg for
miles.