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NOVEMBER 8rtu, 1883 VOL. II. NO. 45. “1155 Broapway, New York. . Published every Thursday, $5 a year in advance, postage free. Single copies, 10 cents. i Bact detonating patriot, Mr. O'DONOVAN Rossa, says, apropos of the recent upheavals in the tunnel of the under- ground railway, that England will soon find out with whom she has to deal. The density of England's ignorance of Mr. Rossa’s fell power, is one of those marvels beyond comprehension. She lives, laughs, and moves in the sunshine of apparent happiness. And yet she must know that Mr. Rossa lives. * * * M R. THOMAS OCHILTREE (of Texas) says that Mr. Irv- ING cannot act, and Mr. JOAQUIN MILLER declares that Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD is acad. Much as we like to be civil to strangers, it is evident that we must refuse to recognise either Mr. IrvING or Mr. ARNOLD from this day forth, * * * "THAT impudent and prying person, Mr. Gastron L, FEvar- DENT, has at last succeeded in dragging our highly esteemed fellow-citizen, General Louis P, pi CESNOLA, into a court of justice, where he brazenly expects to mulct him for libel, Mr. FEUARDENT, it will be remembered, had the effrontery to dis- cover that the statues dug up in Cyprus (an ancient capital for- merly situated on Fourteenth street, but now transferred to Central Park) were composed of heterogeneous and unrelated parts, and that the Golgof workmen hired forthe purpose from the Fourth Ward, were impious enough to put the head of a priest on the body of « soldier, and vice versa, besides committing other enormities too heinous to mention, General pi CEsNoLA, on the other hand, has long been known as one of the most suc- cessful and honorable manufacturers of antiquities in this country or elsewhere. His invention of the patent interchangeable statuette of Hope, which in six months becomes a Venus, is con- sidered by competent critics to be unique of its kind, and his generous Egyptian priests, who swap marble arms and legs, bor- row each other's heads or noses, and indulge in other anatomical extravagancies with an aandon which is wonderful even in an Egyptian, are celebrated all over the world. Americans with the slightest love of country naturally take more pride in Greck an- tiquities made in New York, than in the same article imported from Europe, even if they are in no wise better. But when it is known that the antiquities of General pI CESNOLA are not only interchangeable, but brand-new, their superiority over the musty old antiquities exhibited in low-flung foreign museums is at once apparent. Besides, it is clear that, being fresh and vigorous, they will last at least 2,000 years longer, and hence are a better investment. Every way we look at them, the antiquities of Gen- eral pt CESNOLA are/preferable to those exhibited abroad, and we have repeatedly urged that a clause be added to the Tariff which will protect the young and promising industry he has founded, Tt is clear then that not only is Mr. FEUARDENT inspired with amost malignant envy, but he threatens to nip the root of an en- tirely original branch of art. The extensive plant procured at great expense by General pr Cesnota for the manufacture of Egyptian mummies and genuine Assyrian jewelry, has been idle now fora year, while his Golgoi foundry, with a running capacity of forty antiquities a day, is closed, and the Cypriote workmen are thrown out of employment. These are crying evils, and the fact that the City of New York has $100,000 worth of plaster and fragmentary marble at stake, makes it all the more impera- tive that justice should be meted out to the General speedily and in full. . . * S a fit welcome to Madame Patti, sixteen tugs and two steamers, with fog-horns, went down the Bay, and saluted her with a chorus of whistles which lasted twenty minutes. It is a great thing to be musical. s 6 6 J HEAR that Mr. MATTHEW ARNOLD says he prefers editorials and articles generally which are not under four columns in length, I admire Mr. ARNOLD, Will you please forward to his address the accompanying seventeen folios containing a digest of my speech on the Bridge ?—Evarts. * . . OP highly esteemed contemporary, the New York World, in its issue of Nov. 2d, contained this thrilling despatch: Wicurta, Kan., November 1.—Nellie C. Bailey, charged with the murder of Clement’ Bothemly in Indian Territory on the 7th ult., was held to-day by Commissioner Sherman for aj ince at the next term of the United States Circuit Court at Wichita. ‘The prisoner is twenty-one years old, apd isa handsome brunette, She is well educated, and had moved in the best society of New York City and New Jersey, Of course it is well known that well-educated, handsome bru- nettes who move in the best society of New York City and New Jersey, commit murder habitually, and invariably spend their summers in Wichita, St. Louis, and other remote fastnesses of Indian Territory, where their dangerous excesses upon human life, express packages and cattle, excite the warmest admiration of even the most versatile cowboy. But it fills us with more than admiration to see that even our contemporary’s most distant cor- respondent is so familiar with the best society of New York City AND New Jersey, as to be able to distinguish one of its members at sight. . * . HE fierce and successful war made by our highly esteemed contemporary, the New York World, upon the valets who graced the corridors of the Metropolitan Opera House, has had the cruel effect of robbing the artists of the only auditors who really appreciated them. we “cc J HAVE heard that in a recent book by one William Shak- speare there is a very touching farewell speech originally written for a Mr, Wolsey. Where can I procure a copy ?"— Foster, comicbooks.com