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FINE ARTS.

The Genius of Humanity is at work in St. Louis: were the last words we uttered in our last number; and we now repeat: The Genius of Humanity is at work in St. Louis, and working too, with the aristocratic instruments of Fine Arts. Concerts of Music have been given for the benefit of the Poor. The Drama has bowed to the same benevolent spirit, which seems to have taken the lead in the Dance.

But why do Sculpture and Painture place themselves so far off in the background of Humanity? Why do not they also come out in bold relief for the Poor? They are not inhuman, they are as humanizing as their sister arts, and the hearts of their devotees are proverbially sensitive. Then why will they allow their fine feelings to stagnate, like a morbid pool? Why will they not stir themselves like our rivers in their might, purify themselves like the air and the ocean in their action, and besides benefitting themselves by their activity, spread blessings around the fireside of misery? Even apart from the feelings of benevolence that should actuate them, can it be possible, that the friends and professors of the most distinguished and undying of the Fine Arts can be so ignorant of, so utterly blind to their own interests, as well as honor, that they will not embrace the popular spirit of humanity, that they will not make a fortune and a fame by embalming their Arts and themselves in the hearts of their countrymen? Will it be said, that Sculpture and Painture are less popular in their nature than Music, Drama, or Dance? We answer, that as nature is popular, and is also the end and test of every art, every art has a common relation to popularity; and we will add: that if popularity naturally favors any, it is the Pictorial Art. Youth and old age, the gentleman of leisure and the man of business, even the devotee of religion, and the devotee of dissipation waive their antipathies, and join hands in their admiration of pictorial art, yielding it an homage, which they refuse to pay either to the drama or the dance. Then why will the pictorial art allow herself to be eclipsed by sisters naturally less favored? Has a fear of shame for her neglect of natural charms triumphed over her love of glory? Or may we not hope that conscious of her beauty and her power, she will soon come out in St. Louis triumphant with unrivalled popularity? Entertaining

this last hope, we would say to the daguerrean, drafts-man, moulder, cutter, lithographer, engraver and painter, to amateurs, connoisseurs and dilettanti, join hand in hand, meet together, appoint managers, find rooms, display works, establish an ART GALLERY, receive fees, pour the surplus in the POOR FUND; and then

you will not only bless the poor, but you will bless the rich, and you will bless yourselves, generations unborn will rise up and call you blessed, and blessings will drop upon you like the 'gentle dew from heaven. Many men of wealth in St. Louis have pictures of rare beauty hanging on their walls, which they would freely offer for a while as a nucleus to form a durable Art Gallery. And more than this, they would defray its primary expense, until its income would overflow and refresh thirsty and faint hearts perishing in want. Who shall have the honor of taking the first step before the people in the progress of the cause of the ART GALLERY FOR HUMANITY? Will not the proposition be carried by unanimous consent?

The rich want to encourage the Fine Arts as they love refinement. The poor want the Fine Arts encouraged as a means to supply their necessities. The body of the people want to see the Fine Arts flourish, to enjoy their civilizing influence. Ladies and Gentlemen want the amusement which the Fine Arts afford as a source of entertaining conversation.

We will not speak of the wants of the Artists; they can speak for themselves. This subject belongs to their profession; with it they can now win great glory. And St. Louis expects every one to do his duty.

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Hate and Love.-Science without Practice.-"Our Country's Good."

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Stationery.

SCHUSTER & CO.-Stock of German,

F. English, French, &c. Books, Engrav

ings, Blank Books, Music Paper and Stationery, No. 38 Walnut street, corner of Second street, St. Louis, Mo. August, 1851.

Trunks.

PENDZINSKI, Premium Trunk Maker.

M. hand, at wholesale and

retail, and made to order at the shortest notice, Hard Leather Trunks, Solid Leather Steel Spring Trunks, Valises, Carpet Bags, Packing Trunks, Ladies' Dress Boxes, &c. Trunks repaired in the best manner. and examine for yourselves before buying elsewhere, as I am determined to sell as low as any house in the trade, at all risks, No. 42

Call

Stoves.

HUDSON E. BRIDGE.

MA

HARRISON P. BRIDGE. BRIDGE & BROTHER. ANUFACTURERS of Pierce's Patent "American Air-Tight," "Empire" and "Victory" Premium Cooking Stoves, and every variety of Wood and Coal heating Stoves, dealers in Tin Plate, Copper, Sheet Iron, Iron Wire, Tinners' tools, machines, also, manufacturers of Jewett's improved Patent Cary Ploughs.

ILES F. FILLEY, Manufacturer of the U celebrated pri e preminm cooking stoves; also, Irving's air tight cooking stoves, fancy box and coal stoves; dealer in tin plate, copper, sheet iron, block tin, rivets, tinner's tools, machines, &c. Warehouse No. 163 North Main street, St. Louis, Mo. Foundry on Lewis street, near the water works.

North Second street [Westside,] between athematical Instruments.

Chestnut and Pine streets,

May, 1851.

A. B. LATHROP. J. W. MITCHELL.

L. G. JEGFERS.

A. B. LATHROP & Co.

and wholesale and

J.

maker, Datier in Guns, pa

BLATTNER, Mathematical and Surgical

tols and Sporting Materials, No. 58 North Second street, between Pine and Olive, St. Louis,

MANUFACTURERS INKS, Velises, Carpet Mo-, manufactures, and has always on Land?

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FLORA

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GARDEN.-This establishment contains a collection of Plants and Flowers not excelled perhaps by any in the United States. Of ROSES alone there are 230 varieties; and the proprietor has devoted ten years to storing his HOT-HOUSES, 420 feet in length, with specimens of rare and beautiful plants, and flowers from almost every part of the globe. The Garden is pleasantly situated on South Seventh street and affords a delightful retreat from the noise and dust of the city. A commodious SALOON has been fitted up and will be supplied with confectionary, ice creams, and other refreshments suitable to the season and the place. Spirituous liquors are excluded from the premises. Boquets of the richest flowers and most tasteful combination furnished throughout every season of the

year.

April, 1851.

Surveyor's Compasses, Levelling Instruments, Theodolite Pocket Compasses, Sy-glasses, Barometers, Thermometers, Drawing Instruments, Spectacles, Ivory and Gunter's Scales and Protractors, Hour and Half Hour Glasses, Microscopes and Magnifying Glasses, Hydrometers of silver and glass, hydrometers for acids and salts, Magic Lanterns, Electrical Machines, &c., also, Surgical and Dental Instruments; Pocket, Dissecting, Cupping and selfinjecting cases; Taylor's Shears, all sizes; Syringes, large and small, Scarificators, Lancets; Forceps; Turnkeys; large Scales and Weights for Druggists; Prescription Scales on Stands; Revolvers, Guns, Pistols, Powder Flaks, Game Bags, &c. All the above Instruments repaired at short notice in the best

manner.

Hardware.

WILSON & BROTHERS, Wholesale Deal

ers in Hardware, corner of Main and Olive streets, St. Louis, Mo.

WONDERLY, Manufacturer of Copper, Tin and Sheet Iron Work-such as Copper Pipes for Steamboats and Distilleries, Soda Fountains, Copper ettles, Well and Cistern Pumps, and every other article in his line of business, No. 233 Main street, South-east corner of Cherry, St. Louis, Mo. He also manufactures and keeps constantly on hand, Premium Steamboat Cooking Stoves. Tinware always on hand, wholesale and retail.

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DAVID PEARCE & CO., Manufacturers and

wholesale dealers in Hats, Caps and Straw Goods, No. 110 Main st., St. Louis, Mo.

HENWOOD, Hat manufacturer, No. 72

G. GOEBEL. J. Chestnut street, St. Louis, Mure

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To the people of the South and West few topics are more congenial or interesting, than the broad domain, the mighty rivers and fertile valleys of the United States. But while contemplating the utility and grandeur of these subjects, they overlook the relations-physical, social and commercial which exist between the natural divisions of their own country, and, between this and foreign lands. Like one gazing upon the distant horizon, when lighted by the rays of the departing sun, they behold all forms softened into harmony, and "all colors melted into one vast Iris of the West;" but take no cognizance of the intricate and rugged landscape which intervenes.

We would not deprive our countrymen of the pleasures which they derive from these their visions of grandeur, whether present or prospective; but would awaken a spirit of inquiry in respect to the means of realizing those dreams of national greatness, which they so much delight to cherish.

The elements essential to human wants, are distributed by a wise providence so as to induce the inhabitants of every part of the earth, through the medium of commerce, to fraternize with each other. And the physical condition of the human family, the nature of their wants, as also, the vegetable and animal kingdoms, from which those wants are chiefly supplied, are all infinitely diversified by climate; and hence the natural law, impelling the principal currents of commercial and social intercourse to flow in a northern and southern direction. But the order in which the mineral kingdom is disposed, and the peculiar adaptation of some

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