STATUE OF THE UNION. - Powers, the << sculptor>> , besides his statue of California, is engaged on one of the Union. A correspondent of the Intelligencer says he suggested such a work, when Powers took him into his room, and showed him that he had anticipated his suggestion, by exhibiting a clay model, representing a female of majestic proportions in a standing attitude, with one hand resting on a Roman facia, the emblem of union and strength; whilst the other arm is gently uplifted, with the hand pointing to heaven, to which the solemn and earnest expression of her face seems to appeal. Like the other works of Mr. Powers, the writer says, the attitude and form of this statue is easy, graceful and noble, and is characterized by that peculiar dignity observable in, and which forms one of the chief attractions of his Greek Slave, even amidst her fetters. Powers, when asked what he intended to do with it when finished, replied, "To hold it at the disposal of my country; perhaps, when completed, Congress may purchase it." - Dem.

November 3, 1887
THE CHRISTIAN RECORDER
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Philadelphia Press of last Sunday contains the following concerning a few notable << colored>> women of the country: << Colored>> women have hardly had opportunity to do much that is sensational, but still there are several who are prominent among their own people and who have earned a solid reputation. The most prominent << colored>> women in Washington in the best sense of the word are the teachers-such women as Miss M.B. Briggs, professor of English in Howard University, a most talented woman; or Josephine J. Turpin, of the same school, who is a frequent contributor to newspapers; or Lucy Moten, who is the efficient principal of a big training school; or Mary Nalle or Marian Shadd-all highly cultured women, respected and esteemed by those who know them. In the ranks of prominent << colored>> women of Philadelphia there is the skillful woman physician, Dr. Caroline V. Anderson. She is the daughter of William Still, a wealthy << colored>> merchant, and a regular graduate of the medical department of Howard University, and enjoys a big practice. Then there is Mrs. Fanny Jackson-Coppin, the lecturer, who devotes most of her time to the Institute for << Colored>> Youth, and Mrs. Gertrude Mossell, who used to conduct the Women's Department on the New York Freeman, and who has written for The Philadelphia Press as well as for papers published in the interest of the negro race. Mrs. Mossell is also a member of the Women's National Press Association. Mrs. Frances E.W. Harper, the temperance lecturer and writer, has also been a resident of Philadelphia. Among << colored>> women who have become more or less renowned in the arts and professions must be mentioned Mrs. Nellie Brown-Mitchell. She is a musician with a mechanical turn of mind. She has invented and patented two or three appliances now in common use by musical instructors. Equally well known in another branch of the fine arts is Edmonia Lewis, the << sculptor>> . She is an Afro-Indian, and was born in New York State, but now has her studio in Rome, where she has plenty of commissions and has done some fine work. “The Old Arrowmaker and his Daughter” is one of her best known productions and is owned in England. Ida B. Wells-“Iola”-whose suit for damages under the Mississippi laws for being forcibly thrust out of a passenger car in Memphis by three or four white men brought her before the public a few years ago, is probably the best known of << colored>> women journalists, and Mrs. M.E. Lambert, of Detroit, is a poetess of genius. There are two << colored>> women in the ranks of the law, Miss Florence Ray, of Brooklyn, and Mrs. M.S. Cary, of Washington. There is at least one << colored>> minister, the Rev. Mrs. Freeman, of Providence, and there has been one woman at the head of a newspaper published in the interest of
Afro-Americans, Miss Carrie Bragg, who for sometime edited the Lancet at Petersburg, VA. Nor would it be difficult to pick out a dozen << colored>> women in the country whose property in the aggregate might be expressed, “on information and belief,” by seven figures. In such a list would come the Gloucester, he rich boarding house keepers of Brooklyn; Miss Aman da Eubanks, of Rome, GA, whose white father left her $400,000; Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, a wealthy Florida woman; Mrs. Mary Pleasants of San Francisco, who holds something more than $35,000 in Government bonds, owns a ranch and has some city real estate; Mrs. James Thomas, of St. Louis who is worth something like $300,000 and whose barber shop, the “Lindell,” is the most luxurious in the country, and Mrs. Catharine Blake, who owns the Kenmore Hotel at Albany, which is reputed worth $150,00. Miss Drake, a wealthy young << colored>> woman, of Nash, NC, has taken the prize for the best production of cotton at all the State fairs, and several other Afro-American women with ample incomes are doing solid industrial work.

(For the Christian Recorder.)

THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION.

BY R.D. DOVE. (SPECIAL)

Some years have elapsed since in the great city of London, I made the acquaintance of Mons. Linstant, a young Haytien who had been studying law in Paris, and who had come over to England to perfect himself in the knowledge of the English language. A friend presented us to sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S. who exhibited to us his collections of paintings. Five specimens of Sir E. Landseer R.A.; Sir M. Archer Shee P.R.A. and of Mr. Howard R.A. were in his gallery. We found Sir Anthony a very courteous gentleman, and listened with pleasure to his eloquent remarks upon paintings and Artist. I was surprised to find that he ridiculed the idea of the poetry of painting, that ideality which enables a great artist to portray humanity, endowed with the graces and perfection which his genius renders palpable to himself, although it may be and is invisible to the masses until it glows upon his canvass. “You see,” said Sir Anthony, “how natural these animals appear from the pencil of Landseer.” We have all seen dogs and horses and recognize the truthfulness with which they are represented in these paintings. Now I would not exchange one of the pictures by the great animal painter, for a number of the ideal or painter, for a number of the ideal or poetical creation of angels, or other beings, whom we have never seen, although they might be the happiest efforts of Mr. Howard. But, “Revenons a nos moutous.” We are in the Austrian Department, and from a distance, we can perceive the bronze figure, a souvenir of the Abolition of Slavery in the U.S. - a noble subject for a great artist; but I think the << sculptor>> has failed in his endeavor. He seems to have taken a very low type of the race, a very poor specimen as a model, and to have copied it clearly. It could not well be more realistic. It could not well be more realistic. So true is it to nature, that it seems a great bronze photograph, if that were a possibility, and causes one to regret that it is formed of such enduring material. We are all familiar with the portrait of Cinque, the here of the Amistad, who himself struck the blow for liberty, and [ ] it, say many of us saw and heard him relate in his native language how he did it! Mr. Jocelyn in transferring to canvass the African Liberator, has been very successful. Perhaps it was because he had so fine a model, for physically considered, Cinque was simply superb and there was little necessity for the artist to idealise. Years ago a celebrated who << sculptor>> in N.Y. City, Ball Hughs, made the statue of Alexander Hamilton for the Exchange, in that city told me that for that statue, a << colored>> man had served as model. the << sculptor>> was then working at a group of Uncle Toby and the Widow Wadman for an English nobleman, and for the Uncle Toby a << colored>> man was the model. Mr. Haydon the historical painter, thought very highly of one of the same race, whose services were acquired by many artists. The genius of the Austrian << Sculptor>> , as he was not fortunate enough to obtain a fine model, should have supplied the deficiencies, and for the illustration and commemoration of as great an event as the “Abolition of Slavery in the U.S.” The subject should have been endowed with beauty of form, grandeur of action and an ideal development approaching the heroic.
Here are two fine paintings in the Spanish Department. One is the “Landing of Columbus,” by D. Puebla, from the Museum of the Fine Arts in Madrid. Excellent in composition, drawing and grouping, its effect is sadly marred by the crimson costume of the principal figure. It shocks the taste as an ungreased axle does the hearing, or a playful school boy might set one's teeth on edge, by the charming license with which his Penell is made to curvet over his slate. Like a terrible discord, introduced inappropriately, while the soul is rapt in ecstacy by the ravishing harmony, so this red dress of Columbus is actually painful to the cultivated eye and makes us wonder how so skillful an artist should commit such an atrocity. El Senor Don Penbia, however, is not alone in his color-blindness. Some artists nearer home exhibit occasionally the same visual defect, if so it may be termed: notably in two fine pictures by two great artists, in a private gallery in this city; for in each entrancing scene, from the same play, by “the immortal Bard of Avon,” the effect is positively injured, by the great red dashes of costume which, beside preventing the observer from enjoying to the full the great merit displayed in the drawing and expression of both works, promise to outlast all other effects in those splendid pictures and to remain unchanged. They mock the power of Time, who will bring the other portions of the pictures into a soft harmony as sweet to the cultivated visions, as to the listening ear is “the music of the spheres.” But those terrible 'reds,' like certain 'pardoned offenders,' who, “hoping against hope,” still sigh for the success of the “Lost Cause,” they will always be in rebellion. The other painting also from Madrid, “The landing of the Puritans in America,” is by A. Gisbert, and in charming contract with the Columbus.” Mark its quiet tone, its purity of drawing the fine expression of each countenance, and then its appropriate coloring. No abrupt and overwhelming discord is here. No despotic exaggerated red, but just the necessary quantity to give value to the other coloring; subdued, subordinate, and effectually increasing the beautiful harmony of the whole. It tells its own story distinctly and you are not so dazzled by the glare, that your attention is diverted from the silently expressive, yet clearly speaking emotion, exhibited by the fortunate Puritans. Once at a sale of paintings, a group of picture dealers behind me expressed their opinion the moment a picture was exhibited by the auctioneer. “That will bring a pretty good price,” one said as a painting, sombre in its coloring was held up. Another followed, “Ah! that will bring a very good price!” “Don't you see the red in it,” said another, and it was so, - 'the picture sold for a great price.'

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-Bishop James A. Shorter was in the city this week. &#150Springfield, O., Weekly Review.
-To the Rev. H.H. Lucas we are indebted for a copy of the Leadville, (Col.) Herald.
-Daniel Seales, of California, rather of Cleveland, passed through the city and called.
-Two of the principal jewelers of Augusta, Ga., are << colored>> &#150Messrs. E.J. Crane and R. Lowe.
-Mr. W.A. Ridley stands at the head of Augusta tailors. Besides him, there are a half dozen others.
-Bishop J.M. Brown is at home resting, having given his entire district quite a general supervision.
-Rev. A.L. Stanford has been elected a judge in Liberia. We should not be surprised if he made an intelligent judge.
-Revs. Lewis and Simpson, of Cincinnati, with their congregations, sent help to the Rev. J.A. Jordan and his congregation, sufferers by the flood.
-Prof. H.T. Kealing, in charge of Paul Quinn College, Waco, Texas, writes: “The spirit of the Lord is working mightily among the students.”
-President Gardener, of Liberia, is ill. The little Republic has lost so many prominent men of late that really its future has become cloudy thereby.
-Wm. Anderson, a graduate of the Detroit High School, has in seven years risen from a porter to a cashier in the great business house of Newcombe, Endicotte & Co., Detroit, Mich.
-Rev. E. Winston Taylor, of the Princeton charge, N.J., has had a year of rare success. Under his management African Methodism may be said to lead off in the college city.
-Alfred Trouman is the name if the << colored>> gentleman appointed by the Governor of Tennessee one of the School Commissioners of the State. He is said to be gentlemanly and well educated.
-The Rev. Benj. W. Arnett (or young man eloquent) preached to a large congregation at Brown Chapel last Sunday. Subject, “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.” &#150Weekly Review.
-Bishop Turner preached at Big Bethel last Sunday night, and the church room was not sufficient to seat the audience. Better have open meetings, brother Gaines, when he comes &#150The Vindicator.
-The Recording Clerk of the Ohio Senate is Walter S. Thomas, a position he has reached through dint of great energy, and which he is said to fill to the perfect satisfaction of that august body of legislators.
-R.E. Primus is superintendent of the Texas Commercial and Mercantile Joint Stock Company, an organization on Mexia, Texas, that gives promise of donating a great work in the training of our people for business.
-Bishop H.M. Turner is in Washington city. The suddenness with which the Bishop has become gray is the surprise of all. We are of the mind that scoring the great South-east as he does, is calculated to make almost any one gray.
-Rev. G.M. Elliot, Principal of Know Academy, Selma, Ala., writes of his school: “Our school is very large. We have students from various parts of the State and they continue to come in every week. We have now enrolled four hundred and fifty.”
-Mr. T.F. Cassells, of Memphis, recently appointed by President Arthur as Surveyor of Customs, was educated at Oberlin, Ohio, taught school at Trenton, practiced law at Memphis, was Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Court, was a member of the Legislature, elected in 1880.
-The South Louisiana Annual Conference of the A.M.E. Church met in Franklin yesterday morning, with Rev. Bishop Cain in the chair. The St. Mary Herald says that the Bishop has been invited by the pastor, Rev. F.K. Faunt Leroy, and is expected to preach at the Methodist Church, South, in Franklin, next Sunday. &#150Southwestern.
-The Countess de Bardi, a neice of the Compte de Chambord, recently urged her uncle to re-enter Paris on horseback, surrounded by Legitimist cavaliers, and wearing the white plume of Henry IV. “My niece,” he said, “you speak like a heroine; but it would never do for the king of France to be arrested by a policeman and taken to the lock-up.
-We clip the following from a recent issue of The Bulletin, Louisville, Ky.: “Rev. J.W. Early, pastor of St. John's Church was pounded last evening by quite a number of friends. The gifts were quite numerous. The reverend seemed highly delighted.” Many brethren, and in many sections of the church, will rejoice to hear that this venerable father still lives in the hearts of the people.
-President Gardner, of Liberia, had been compelled to resign his office, owing to extreme ill health and disability from paralysis. The Legislature granted him $1,000 and the expenses of removal to his home, in Grand Bassa County. Vice President Russell was sworn in as President on Jan. 20th. Steps are being taken for the removal of the Liberian College to the banks of the St. Paul's River.
-Miss Edmonia Lewis has completed at her studio in Rome a fine bas-relief in white marble for a white church in Baltimore. It is pronounced to be one of the very best of her productions. It represents the three kings from the East adoring the infant Jesus, and of the three the African is given greater prominence than either the Caucasian or Asiatic. Miss Lewis recently found a patron in the famed Marquis of Bute, the Lothair of D'Israeli's novel of that name. She sent him from her studio a statue of the Virgin Mary. No other men, hold a position in the world of art equal to this << colored artist>> .
-The coronation of the King of the Sandwich Islands overshadowed an event of greater importance which occurred about the same time. This was the unveiling of a fine bronze statue of Kamehameha I., the Conqueror, who unite the Sandwich Islands under one sway. The statue is intended as a memorial of the centennial anniversary of the discovery of the Islands by Captain Cook in 1776. The << sculptor>> was T.R. Gould, of Boston, who states that it does not pretend to be a portrait, as materials for such a work were wanting; nevertheless, the face and hand correspond very well with the portrait of the great chief, taken in his old age, which hangs in the Government buildings here. He is depicted as he may be supposed to have stood on the bluff at [], when drilling and reviewing his warriors in their canoes before his last invasion of Maul. One hand grasps the [] which is at rest, the other is [], and the whole figure bends slightly forward upon…