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DAILY EVENING STAR.TO AN ABSENT WIFE.

BY Q. D. PRENTIGE.

'Tis Morn.the sea breeze seems to bringJoy. hea tb, and freshness on its wing ;Bright flowers, to me all strange and new,Are glittering in the early dew.And perfum-s rise from every grove,As incense to the clouds that moveLike spirits o'er yon welkin clear;But I am sad.thou art not here!

'Tis Noon;.a calm, unbroken sleepIs on the blue wave of the deep;A soft haze, like a fairy dream,Is floating over wood Mid stream,And many a broad magnolia flower,Within its shadowy woodland bower,Is ftlearning like a lovely star;But I am sad.thou art afar !

'Tis Eve :.on earth the sunset skiesAre f rinting their own Eden dyes;The stars come down and trembling glow,Like blossoms in the wave below,And like an unseen spirit, the breezeSeems lingering 'midst thofe orange tree*.Breathing its music round the spot;But I tm sad.I see thee not!

'Tis Midnight:.with a K>othing spellThe far-off tones of ocean swell.Soft as a mother's cadence mild,Low bending o'er her sleeping child;And on each wandering breeze are heardThe rich notes of the mocking bird,In many a wild and wondrous lay.But I am sad.thou art away !

I siak in Dream*:.Low, sweet, and clear.Thy own dear voice is in my ear;Arourd m v cheek thy tresses twine.Thy own loved hand is clasptd in mine,Thy own soft lip to mine is pressed,Thy head U pillowed on my breast;Oh I have all my heart holds dear,And I am happy.thou art here!

[From Gleason's Pictorial.JWAITS FROM WASHINGTON.

BY ben; peuley poore.

Exceptions have been taken, by two es¬

teemed editors, to my opinion of Green-ougli's Statue of Washington. Well thePictorial is not a vehicle for controversy,neither feel I any disposition to engage inany personal discussions; but I must en¬

dorse what I have said, and protest againstthe propriety of representing Washingtonas a classical hero. No scholastic rules, noarguments drawn from the beau-ideal, can

reconcile me to the destruction of individu¬ality and identity, that an artist may hidehis incompetency under the folds of antiquedrapery. A half-naked man, with a toga,sandals and Roman sword, cannot be Wash¬ington.the citizen general of '76. And ifthe ancient sculptors used this garb, it wasbecause it was the costume of those whom

they reproduced in marble. If they hadslothed their statues in the costume of

Egypt.the country to which they were in¬debted for their alphabet of the art.weshould laugh at their poor taste, and scoffat their servile and merely imitative excel¬lence. Grecian sculptors were original andindependent, only because they allowedtheir genius to combine from all aroundthem. Proportion, beauty, costume.allwere natural. If Praxiteles were nsw

alive, and had to execute a statue of Wash¬ington, the same principle and sentimentwhich made him original in his life-timewould preserve him original now, and hewould reject the pedantic flourish of draperyaround the limbs of the Western Cincinna-tus. Like Clarke Mills, he would feel thathis grand aim ought to be to characterizethe man, and to stamp him with his own

unique individuality. This Mr. Greenoughfailed to do, and by substituting anotheridentity, he imposed upon a nation, whichordered a statue of Washington. So muchfor "my sentiments" upon this vexed

question of art; and I will ''conclude" witha jeu d' esprit suggested by a naked statue

of Apollo crowning Merit:''Merit, if tbou art blene'd with riches,

I pray tLee buy a pair of breeches!And give them to thy naked brother,For one good turn daserres another."

Clarke Mills proposes to make his eques¬trian statue of the great chieftain thirty feet

high, which will render it imposing indeed.Some four centuries before Christ, bronze

statues abounded in Greece, where the art

of casting them was ultimately brought to

the highest degree of perfection by Lysippuiand his disciples. The art of caatiug brwue

was then lost, and statues were constructedof hammered metal, riveted together, butMr. Westmacott revived it in England in

1822, and now a self-taught American coines

into the field of art to bear away the palm.The most faithful representation of VYash-

ington's majestic head, is the bust by a

French artist named Houdon, at MountVernon, where it was modelled from life in1785. A fine copy of it, cast in bronze bya foreign artist now in the city, has beenrecently purchased by that noble heartedmusician, Ole Bull. Declaring that theartist should be generously repaid for suchan excellent re-production of a faithful like¬ness, he gave him eight hundred dollars furthe bust, and has sent it to his Norwegianj colony.

George Washington P. Custis, the adoptedson of the chief, is an amateur painter ofno common ability, and in a recent visit to

"Arlington House," he showed me a largeand spirited representation of the ..rfurreu-der of Yorktown," then on his easel. Al¬though possessing some artistic dt-fects, thepicture interested me far more than many a

"classical work of art." Familiarly ac

quainted with the prominent actors in the

great Revolutionary drama, Mr. Custis hasgiven their features, forms and uniformswith faithful exactness, and his grouping isadmirable.

California will have a "delegation" in the

procession, and it is said that New Englandwill take a manifest part in the escort. 1even hear it whispered that a Boston Bandwill discourse stirring notes on the occa-iou.

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So mote it be!Office-seekers have been sadly perplexed

by the delay in forming the cabinet, not

knowing on which side of the "compromise"| to jump, for fear of offendiug the secretaryfor whose sign-manual they were sighing.Some of them, between two opinions, willfall sadly to the ground, and remiud me ofa good story told about an estimable ex-

president, who is famed for non-committal

opinions. Wishing, last fall, to take out ofdoor exercise, he borrowed a double bar¬relled gun from his eon John, and went a

shooting. Birds were plenty, and at everyfew steps he would halt, as a corey flew upbefore him, and raise his fowliug piece.."But somehow," so says son John, "ihe oldgentleman could not make up his mindwhich trigger to pull, and while he delibera¬ted the game would escape."

The Ends ofJnmttce.

"Plate pin with gold,The lance ofjustice hurtle** brvaka;Arm it in rags,A pigmy's straw doth pierce it M

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This sentiment was not a more prominentj truth in the time of Shakspeare than it isnow. Almost every day brings forth an

illustration, and the subject has beeni brought to mind by more than one occasion

lately in Washington.Not long since, a poor ignorant Irish wo-

! man was convicted of bigamy and sentencedto the Penitentiary, but the President, likea humane gentleman, pardoned her, after a

short incarceration. It was but the other: day that a poor shoemaker, who left a ter-

magant wife to get a better, was tried, eon-Ivicted and sentenced.

These things naturally enough excite thei inquiry, how is it that the officers of justicehave eyes only for the poor and ignorant,

' whilst the libertine of rank and wealth goes| "unwhipped of justice?"

Hundreds of men in high station have

their plurality of wires, but no one seems

offended at this. The law has no retribu¬

tion for him. The difference is. that one

takes au additional «rt/«, the other only a

mistress. One goes to the Penitentiary, the

other can flourish in a Palac#.The law, like a net, only catches the

samll fish.the others kreak through.[ Richmond Republic. J

\ Congressman from down East

says that "he kind o' gaeases that the

House, will bo conaid'raW/ dri* wI u&iness this week."