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BOEN at Watertown, in the State of Massachusetts, in the year 1831, Harriet Hosmer is the only surviving daughter of a physician, who, having lost wife and child by consumption, and fearing a like fate for the survivor, gave, her horse, dog, gun and boat, and^Jnsisted upon an out doors' life as ind^spensible to health. A fearless horsewoman, a good shot, an adept in rowing, swimming, diving and skating, Harriet Hosmer/is a signal instance of what judicious physical training will effect in conquering even hereditary taint of constitution. ^Willingly as the active, energetic child,.acquiesced in her father's wishes, she contrived, at the same time, to gratify and develop her own peculiar tastes and nnv.ny a time and oft, when the worthy doctor may have flattered himself that ^dis darling wa£ in active exercise, she knight have^bee^found in a certain clay-p not yerjp%r from the paternal resid nce. an( 8^id making early attempts at modelling Worses, dogs, sheep, men and women, any objects, in short, which at tracted he attention. Then, too, both here and subsequently at Lenox, she made good iise 0 her time by studying natural history, anH of her gun by securing spec imens for .Jerself of the wild creatures of thetioGSfifyfeathered and furred, dissecting Bomp.jj jfh. her own hands pi-eparing £itxE*ug others. The wails of the ,xoom d*?[g«jred to her special use in "the o\fd house -(at home" are covered with b/fefs, bats, butterflies and beetles, snakes itd toads, while sundry bottle3 of spirits joot aih subjects carefully dissected and P»\ A red by herself. Iviigenuity and taste too are shown in thei,use to which the young girl applied $he'»-fcggs and and feathers of the nests and birds' she had pilfered. One inkstand, in jartrrcular, a very early production, evin cing mechanical genius and artistic taste. •Taking the head, throat, wings and side feathers of a blue-bird, and having blown athen's egg, she set it on end, forming the-breast of the bird, as it were, by the "ipv'sil surface of the egg, while, through theo^en beak and extended neck, entrance TO gained to the cavity of the egg con taining the ink. In fact no one can look round this apartment, Occupied by the child and young: girl, "without at once recognizing the force and individuality of character which haVe since distinguished her. So true is it that the child is father of the man. Full of fun and frolic, numerous anec dotes are told of practical jokes perpetrated to such-an excess that Dr. Hosmer, satis fied with the progress towards health and strength his child had made, and having cndeavored,: without success, to place her under tuition in daily and weekly schools near home, determined to commit her to the care of Miss Sedgwick, of Lenox, Massachucetts. Thither the young lady, having been expelled from one school, and given over as incorrigible at another, was-accordingly sent, with strict injunc tions that health should still be a para mount consideration, and that the new pupil rhould have liberty to ride and walk, shoot aud swim, to her heart's eon tent. In wiser or kinder hands the young girl could not have been placed. Here, too, she met with Mrs. Fanny Kemble, whose influence tended to strengthen and develop her already decided tastes and predilections. To Mrs. Kemble wo have heard the young artist gratefully attribute .the encouragement which decided her to follow sculpture as a profession, and to devote herself And her life the pursuit •f art. upon Boston and Bostonians was, about this time, attributed to Miss Hosmer, while a practical joke upon a physician The rather uncertain visits of this physi-1 cian proved a source of great annoyance and some real inconvenience to his patient, inasmuch as they interfered with her rides and drives, shooting and boating excur sions. Having borne with the inconveni ence some time, she requested the gentle man, as a great favor, to name an hour for his call, that she might make her arrange ments accordingly. The physician agreed, but punctuality- is not always at the command of professional men. Matters were as bad as ever. Sometimes the twelve o'clock appointment did not come off till three o'clock in the afternoon. A playful quarrel took place between physi cian and patient, and, as he rose to take his leave and offered another appointment, Miss Hosmer insisted upon his giving his word to keep it. "If I am alive," said he, 'I will be here/' naming some time on a certain day. "Then if you are not here/1 was the reply, "I am to conclude that you are dead/' Thus they parted. The day and hour arrived, but no doctor made "his appear ance That evening Miss Hosmer rode into Boston, and next morning the papers announced the decease of Dr. Popular, both in his public and private capacity, half Boston and its neighborhood rushed *o the physician's house to leave cards and messages of condolence for the family, and to enquire into the cause of the sudden and lamentable event. In 1350, being then nineteen years of age, Harriet Hosmer left Lenox. Mrs. Sedgwick's judicious treatment, and the motive and encouragement supplied by Mrs. Kemble, had gjveu the right impe tus to that activity of mind and body which needed only guiding and directing into legitimate channels. She returned to her father's hou-:e, at Watertown, to pursue her art-studies, and to fit herself for the career she had resolved upon fol lowing.. There was at this time a cousin of Miss Hosmer's studying with her fath er, between whom and herself existed a hearty camaraderie. Together' the two spent many hours in dissecting legs and I arms, and in making acquaintance with the human frame, Dr. l.osnier havin^ erected a smali building at the bottom of his garden to facilitate these studies.— 'I hose were days of close study and appli cation Lessons in drawing and modeling •V-tbr which our young student had to repair to Boston, a distance of seven or eight miles—and anatomical studies with her cousin, alternated with the inevitable rides and boating, on which her father wisely insisted* The river Charles runs immediately before the hou e, and on this river Harriet Hosmer had a boat-bouse, containing a safe broad boat, and a fragile poetical-looking gondola, with silvered prow, the delight of her heart and the terror of her less experienced rnd unswim ming friends. The life of the young girl was at this period full of earnest pUrpos:- and noble ambition, aud the un tiring energy and perseverance which distinguish.her now in sc remarkable a degree were at this time evidenced and developed. Having modelled one or two copies from the antique, she next tried her hand on a portrait bust, and then cut Canova's bust of Napoleon in marble, working it entirely with her own hand* that she might make herself mistress of the process. Her .father, seeing her de voted to her 'studies, seconded them in every possible Way, and proposed to send her to his friend, Dr. McDowell, Profes sor of Anatomy to the St Louis College, that she might go through a course of reg ular instruction, and thus be thoroughly grounded for the branch of art she "had chosen, The young artist was but too glad to close with the offer and, in the autumn of 18oO, we find her in St. Louis, residing in the family of her favorite schoolmate from Lenox,winnins the hearts of all its members by her frank, joyous nature and steady application, and secur ing, in the head of it, what she heartily and energetically calls "the best friend I ever had." Her independence of manner and char acter, joined to the fact of her entering the college as a student, could not fail" to bring down animadversion, and many were the taifcs fabricated-and circulated anent the young New Englander, who wa« said to carry pistols in her belt, and to be pre pared to take the life of any one who inter fered with her. It was perhaps no disad vantage, under the circumstances, to be protected by such a character. The col lege stood some way from the inhabited part of the town, and in earfy morning and late evening, going to and 'fro with the other students, it is not inipossible that $he owed the perfect impunity with which she set cuventioaality at defiance to the eas au a a as tt Speak unto thtf children of Israel that they & fdti0Bx&<»-~EXODUS, BBSS Justly or unjustly, an anonymous squib charac'ter for courage and skill in the use while she labored, heart of Boston was the "immediate cause "of her I facility in his power, giving her the progress of hor: first be being sent away to Lenox. Her health freedom of the college at ail times, and oc~ Kri#th plastic,relay a having given her father some uneasiness, the gentleman in question, a physician in large practice, was called in to attend her. ST. CLOUD, STEAMS CO., MINNESOTA, HUESDAY OCTOBER 14 1858. of firearms which attended her. I per, the first creation of Dr.. McDowel, charmed with the talent 1 tug its growth beneath and earnestness of bis pupil, afforded her young mother watches st encouraging it is to find men of ability and eminence so willing to help a woman when she is willing to.help her self. The career of this young artist hitherto has been marked by the warm and generous encouragement of first-rate men, from McDowel to John Gibson, and pleasant is-i«'to find the affectionate and grateful appreciation of such kindness con verting the temporary tie of master and pupil into the permanent one of tried and valued friendship. "I remember Profess or McDowel/' writes Miss flo mer, "with great affection and gratitude, as being a most thorough teacher, as well as at all times a good friend. Through the winter and spring of 1851, in fact during the whole term, Harriet Hosmer prosecuted her studies with unre miting zeal and attention, and at the close was presented with a "diploma," or, as we in England should call it, a certificate, tes tifying her auatomical efficiency. During her stay at St. Louis, and as a testimony of her gratitude and regard, Miss Hosmer cut, from a bust of Professor McDowel, by Clevinger, a medallion in marble life size, which is now in the museum of the col lege. It is, perhaps, worthy of noLe that Clevinger and Powers both studied anato my under this professor. The "diploma" achieved, our young as pirant was bent upon seeing New Orleans before returning to her New England home. It was a season of the year not fa vorable for such travel, and, from one cause and another she failed in inducing any of her friends to accompany her. To will and to do are synonymous with some, and so Harriet Hosmer, having set her mind upon an excursion down the Missis sippi to the Oresent City, embarked her self one fine morning on board a steamer bound for. New Orleans. The river was shallow, the navigation difficult many a boat did our adventurous traveller' pass high and dry but fortune, as u.mal, was with her, and she reached her destination in safety. The weather was intensely warm, but, nothing daunted, our young friend saw all that was to be seen, return ing at night to sleep on board the steamer Kv & ifcs place by the levee, and at On her return to St. Louis, where her prolonged absence had created no little un easiness, she remained but a short time, and, bidding farewell to her kind friends, retraced her steps homeward. This was in the summer of 1851. No sooner had Harriet Hosmer reached home than she set to work to model an ideal bust of Hespur, continuing her anatomical studies with her cousin, and employing her intervals of leisure and rest in reading, writing and boating. Now followed a period of earnest work, cheered and in spired by'those visions of success, of pur pose fulfilled, of high aims realized, which haunt the young and enthusiastic aspirant, and throw a halo round the youthful days of genius which lends a color to the whole career. As Lowell wisely and poet ically says: Great dreams preclude low ends. Better to aspire and fail than not to as pire at alb Better to know the dream and grave on the plane of content with things as they are. There may be aspiration without genius, there cannot be genius without aspiration and where 'genius is backed by industry and perseverance, the aspiration of one period will meet, its reali zation in another. !.*C :., die expiration of a week returned to St. paired thither, and upon which they had Louis. Arrived there, instead of rejoin- succeeded in gaining access to seme of the ing lu friends, she took boat for the hest studios aud instruction* from '.heir Falls of St. Anthony, on the Upper Miss-1 masters, to throw these valuable oppurtu issippi, stopping on the way at Dubuque nities aside at the first obstacle that arose.-r to visit a lead mine, into which she de scended by means of a bucket, and canie very near an accident which must have in evitably resulted fatally a catastrophe which, as no one knew where she was would probably have remained a secret forever. At the Palls of St. Anthony, she went among thu Indians, much to their surprise and amusement, and brought a way with her a pipe, presented by the chief in token of amity. Shealsoaehieved the ascent of a mountain, never before un dertaken by a female, and so delighted were the spectators with her courage and agility that they insist jd upon knowing her name, that the mountain might thence forth be called after her. In a visit to St. Louis last summer, Miss Hosmer found that her rustic admirers had been as good as their word, and "Ifosmer's Height," re mains in evidence of "the little lady's" am bition and courage. the fever, and the awakening, if it must tive power. From the first, Mr. Gibson de, than to pass from the cradle to the expressed himself more than satisfied with her power of imitating the roundness and To go. to Rome, and make herself ac quainted with all the treasures"of art, an cient and modern, to study and work as the masters of both periods had studied and worked before her, this was now our youthful artist's ambition, and all the Homer made for herself, during the win CHAP, KIT, VERSE the last deg'ree oi' manipulative perfection Months and months it took, and hours and days of quiet toil and patience, but those wings of genius, perseverance and indus try, were herz. and loxe lent zest, to the work. It wais late summer in 1S52 before Hesper was fully completed. "Now," said its author to her father, "I am ready to go to Rome." "And go you shall, my child, this very autumn," was the reply. Anxious as Dr llosmtr was to facilitate in every way the career his daughter had chosen, there was yet another reason for going to Italy before winter set in. Study and nervous anxiety had made their im pression upon a naturally delicate constitu tion, and a short dry cough alarmed the worthy doctor for his child's health. October of 1852 saw father and daugh ter on their way to Europe, the St. Louis diploma and dagfierrotype of Hesper be ing carefully stowed away, in the safjst cor ner,of the portmanteau, as evidences of what the young artist had already ac hieved, when, arrived at Komo she should seek the instruction of one of two masters, whose fame, rid-wide, could only sat isfy our aspirants ambition. So eager was her desir" to reach Rome, that a week only was given to Eugkadj when, joining some friends in ['aris, the wbole party pro ceeded to Homo, arriving in the Eternal City on the evening of October 12,1852. Within two days the dagderrotypes were placed in the hands of Mr. Gibson, as he sat at breakfast in the Cafe Greco, ja famous place of resort fpr artists. Now, be it known as a caution to wo men not to enter lightly upon any career, to throw it up as lightly upon the first diffi culty which arises, that a prejudice' exis ted in Itonie against, lady artists, from the pretentions with which some had re- Mr. Gibson bad himself, it was said- been thus victimized and annoyed, and it was represented to Mis.* Hosmer as doubtful in the extreme if he would either look at the dftguerrotype or listen to the proposal of her becoming his pupil. However, tin daguerrotyres were placed before him.and. taking-thorn i'nto his hands, and found one presenting a full and the other a pro file view of the bus!, he sat some mo ments in silence, looking intently at them. Encouraged by this, the }Toung sculptor who bad undertaken to present them proceeded to explain Miss Homer's in tentions aud wishes, what she had already done, and what she hoped to do. Stili Mr. Gibson remaned silent. Finally, closing the cases, "Send the young lady to me/' said he, "and whatever I know and can teach her she shall learn." hi less than a week Harriet Hosmer was fairly installed in Mr. Gibson's stu dio, in the upstairs room we have al already described, and where she still is, though, rapidly outgrowing the space alloted to her. It is difficult, however for master and pupil, or,we should rath er say for the two friends to part for spite of the difference of years, or per haps in consequence of it, a truly pa ternal and filial affection has sprung up between the two, a source of great hap piness to themselves, and of pleasure and amusemeut to all who know and value them, from the curious likeness, yet unlikeness, which existed from the first in Miss Hosmer to Mr. Gibson, and which daily intercourse has not tended to lessen. The first winter in Rome was passed in modelling from the antique^ Mr Gibson desiring to assure himself of the correct ness of Miss Homer's eye, and the sound ness of her knowledge, Hesper evincing the possession of the imaginative and crea- softness of flesh, saying, upon one occasion, that he had never seen it surpassed, and not often equalled. Her#first attempt at original design in Rome was a bust of Daphne, quickly.suc ceeded by another of tno Medusa—the beatiful Medusa—and a lovely thing it is, faultless in form, and intense in its express ion of horror and agony, without trench ing on the physically paiuful. Wo have already spoken of the warm friend Miss 15. jree^o tn college at an times an a oc iwnn ine piasuc may a- .those tnou_-auai mount tor the tost figure she should mud- him down into die wafer Mr*- Ik casionaly bestowing upon her a private I hopes and fbars, which turn by turn [el, leaving her entirely free to select her dotofi ins are snoutin* S iecture. when she attended to eee him pre-1 chaiTn and agitate all who aspire. At I own time and subject. A statue of QSnone pare dissections for the public ones length, the clay model finished, a block of was the result, which is now in tho house niarbio \vas sought aud found, and brought home tV the shed in the garden, hitherto appropriated to dissecting purposes, but now fitted up as a studio. Here, With her own small hands, the youthful maiden short of ytature, aud delicate in make, any thing but robust in health, with chisel at the Royal Academy last year, and and mallet blocked out the bust, and sub- which won so mauy goldpn opinions froih sequently, with rasp and tile, finished it to of Mr. Crow, at St. Louis, and which gave such satisfaction to his fellow townsmen that an order was forwarded to ,\ us Ho mer for a statue for the Public Library at St. Louis, in the same liberal and eomri erate terms. Beatrice (Jenci, exhibited critics and connoisseurs, was ou its way io St. Louis, in fuinlment of this order. The summers in Rome are, as every one knows,full of danger to foreigriere. Dr. ca*y iusws» tfUKuiaea ty ner iarner, rsoiue thunderbolta caprice,w thnot position was indeed t:irtli and perplexing. Th surrendewhio her art career was the only thing which she felt to te impossible: whatever else might come, that could not, should not be. And and, exercising strict economy, start thence forth on an independent artistic career, such as many of those around her with lfss talent and training managed to carry on with success. No sooner said than done the trunks were unpacked, but ir-i ever, was the centre of attraction aad, af- martyr, who was burnt Sua yea:rs tor the first season, which was spent, at Sorrento, on the bay of Naples. Miss Hos- her friends, aud in obedience to the ex- press wish of her father, she made ar rangements for a visit to England The day was settled, trunks were packed, she was on the eve of departure, when a let- tor from America arrived, inforniinc herL of heavy losses sustained b* her father 0 .. Spen at I a wiuCft must necessitate retrenchment in I.,- but the bible ii, for time,- in the hands .i every possible way, a surrender of her ca- DanielTlodgers, Esq. oi New London. Itcon recr in Rome and an immediate return the friends she had about to accompany ..^ her departed, her father's reverses were simply and straightly announced, and she entered at once on the lino of industry and economy she and her friend had struck out. The summer passed away, and neither fever nor any form of mischief attacked our young friend. She worked hard and modelled a statue of Puck, so fall of spir it, originality and fun that it was no soon er finished and exhibited than orders to put it into marble came. It has since been repeated again and again, and du ring the past winter only, three copies have been ordered for England alone, one for the Duke of Hamilton: Thus, fairiv started on her owt has met with tha success which talent combined. with and energy, never fails to command. „_., -_L .,industry The winter ,beibre las:, while the Cenci was being put into marble, she was engaged in modelling a monument to the memory of a beautiful young Catholic' lady, which is destined for a niche in the! Church of San Andreo della Fratfcee, in theViaMerccde. close upon the piajfta di Spagha. A portrai•t full length figure of-in* the young girl, life si?.e, recliu: rpon a' low couch. The attitude is casj aud graceful, and the tranquil sleep of death is admirably rendered" in contradistinc tion to the warm sleap of life in the Ceci. Miss Hesmer has been engaged du ring the winter just past in modell ing a fountain, for which she has taken the sotry of Hylas descending for water, EDITOR A&TB PROPRIETOR lace each other, a double bam, the upper one supported by swans, receives the eas cade. At the present moment.. Shis talented and enterprising young amiss frl rk in upon a h'tif life ski sfameof Zenoffe. in preparation for nf-xt -winter, fehea rl to be modelled even larger than life and is already bespokefc for Anmricu. She It just finishing a pendant to Puck, Will-o the Wisp, which is wholly indeseibable it is said to be even superior to Puck. 0LD Hosmer having seen his daughter finally Now London, Conn. S if &etL*d, returned to America, leaving fier only fr with strict injunctions to beck some salu- I ty BIBLE The^e ,• ••-. hlft a ms he Th news came upon her iike a! °1 Epg^h Chureh in the reifri ot Edward VI. It is not djvjdeu :nt^ ,.,,- I verses, and its division into chaptevg-differs8Ia?hew'3tI she kne what to do. An only child,! from King James' Praaslation. -ud hitherto indulged in every and or Cramner's Bibli. now come inro play that true indepen-1 poleon from the public records of i.ome, dence of character which hitherto had when he deprived that dty of sc many val shown istelf mostly in wild freaks and nable manuscripts, it was Written at the tricks. Instead of falling back upon those time and on the spofc where Jesus Christ friends whose means she knew would be I commenced His ministry, by Publius Len at her disposal in this emergency, she de-'" tulus, the governor of Judea to the Senate spatched a messenger for the young sculp- of ltome—Csesar, emperor- It was thecus tor who had shown the daguerreotypes to those days for the governor to write Mr. Gibson, and who, himself dependent home any event of importance which trans upon his professional exertions, was, she pired while he held oiSeei decided, the fittest person to consult with '"Conscript Fathers:—There appeared in' as to her own future career. He obeyed these our days, a man named JestS Christ the hasty summons, and found the joyous,! w^10 laughing countenance he had always Gentiles is accepted as a prophet of great known, pale and changed, as it were, su j- truth: but His own disciples call Him the derly, from that of a young girl to a wo-1 ^ua of God. He hath raised the dead cu man full of cares and anxieties-, red ail nwnner of diseases. I is a man' could scarcely credit the intelligence^ but of stature somewhat tail and comely, with the letter was explicit, the summons home I a peremptory. ''Go I will not," was the on-! holder may bv.di love and fear. His hair !y coherent resolution he found so the I is.'rf the color of the filbert., when fully two laid their heads together Miss Hos-! ^Pe P*a'n to bis ears,whence downward, it moM' was the owner of a handsome horse, more orient of color, curling and waving and an expensive English saddle these about His shoulders in* the" middle of His were doomed at once. The ,summer in head is a seam or partition of long hair. Rome itself, during which season living [after the manner of the Nazarites. His there costs nothing, was determined upon, I forehead is plain and delicate-: His face and during those'summer months Missj without a spot or wrinkle, beautified with Hosmer should moded something so attrac- a tivc that it should ensure a speedy order, actly formed His beard is the color of his hair, and thick, not of any gresrt bight but forked. In reproving, He is-terrible in admonishing, eourteous hi speakingVe ry modest aud wise in proportion of body, welt shape i. None have been Him bush, a remarkable not for its claims to amiquity, but foriis ear ory. ii claims to be the identical look ™*3 dd*»t•»*»•. Xbeeposteri vv 1 TOTT^t}° f'^fric^ orrento on the bay of Naples Mis Her ™movoc -^erica itlr3i 1«35,bbringing the Mer- mer could not be prevailed.* upon to go out oi sight and reach ot its lordly dome and the Indians. Wfcen its owner, .- I a Hinro ii thA^m of sight and reach its lordly dome and the Indians Wfce us owne? James RotTra noble treasures of art/ The third sum- traveled, he wore it in his bosom, and when he mer came, and, listening to the advice of ^P 1 afc K£K The ago .cave it B?U j.n posterity ot that son T*. ^glit, it was his pillow, it ^-ac the of is log c=bi!- a he Thi* ffnily htsiruct-ir of 1 is children. It descended from James, through three generations of tire same na^e, TO Jutub Rodgcrs, who married Thomas Potter, of Hop kinton, Ithode island, aad has now been in tbe possession the Potter family about 100 y-sai s. a a so 2 di»ct Rodger Judith Rodgers wife ofThon:- Its present owiror lives at Potter Hill E ^e,v Testament, Psalms, and pait Journal of Commerce DESCKIFKON OF JESUS. The following epistle was tnken hyjNivv ^s living among us, and of the rudy counteaar.ee, isuch as the be- comely red His nose and mouth are tx- have seen Him weep, 3 surpassing beauty, children of men. A man, exesaffrng the a a Brother CKOf 5 I T, of the St. A ntho ny Republican, ran take our bonnet. He certainly piles it on rather thick,—on to those borrowers we mean. Truth, in spite of oar modestj) compels us to admit that, considering, all the circumstances, we pub lish rather an iaterestina: raper —and there is no mistake in the induccn ntff refered to. The Democrat caa be had by those "sensible individuals," and all oth ers by sending 82 to our address-. And i, next to the Minnesota Memtbiicait rub- ground, Miss Hosmer -. o. ««re«tcaw, ^,uu- hshed at St, Anthony, by Croffut and Clark, itpapejuste is about best North- Wester know otbft „He it hereby known to a score or two of sensible individuals who call at OUT office twenty times a week, and wish to borrow the St. Cloud Den-or,at: Th?u We have concluded not to lend tha: paper any more. We want it ourself, and then ve O I borrowing: it borrowing newspapers. Those who have been accusumud to nSad the paper here, can now get it for themselves, by sending §2,00 to Mrs Jano G.-Swisshelm. Sfe- Cloud." TVe have mentioned the passage of bil through the Sftsfeta near the close of tho late season to raise the postage on letters from thi*ce to five and ten cents. Wo have sctn tho ayea and noes, Every ttnator who vot'dfir *«r porta ft %Mt a democrat LovkviiU Jovrnol