The Statue of Chief Justice Taney- Arrival of the Sculptor Rinehart. –

Among the arrivals on Monday, by the steamer Ohio, at this port, was the well-known artist, Mr. W. H. Rinehart, from Rome, by way of Southampton. Mr. Rinehart has executed a statue of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, by order of a committee appointed under an act of Assembly, of which S. Teackle Wallis, Esq., is chairman. The original act, passed in 1867, appropriates $5,000 for a suitable monument to be placed over the remaining of the late chief justice, on some suitable site in the State House yard, or in the State House itself. It also appoints the following committee to carry into effect the provisions of the act: Geo. Fred Maddox, of St. Mary’s county, (since dead;) Charles E. Trail and Hugh McAleer, of Frederick county; S. Teackle Wallis and George M. Gill, of Baltimore city, and Henry Williams, of Calvert county.

The act of 1870, chapter 454, amended the above act by appropriating, “for the completion of a bronze statue of Chief Justine Taney, to be erected in front of the State House (in addition to the appropriation contained in the act of 1867. chapter 71,) $10,000, the whole to be expended under the direction of the committee,” making $15,000. The statue arrived in Baltimore some months ago, and has not yet been unpacked. It is a sitting statue, which, if standing, would be nine feet and three inches in height. It was executed in Rome, where Mr. Rinehart, (who is a native of Maryland) has resided for fourteen years past, and was cast in bronze by Miller, at Munich.

Photographs of the statue exhibited to the General Assembly, at Annapolis, last winter, were commended as a very faithful representation of the eminent jurist. Mr. Rinehart will visit Annapolis in a few days for the purpose of locating the statue and providing for its foundation. The inauguration of the statue will take place, probably, during the last of September or first of October, when an address will be delivered by the chairman of the committee or some other eminent orator. In the meantime Mr. Rinehart proposes, after visiting his brother, in Carroll county, to visit California. Mr. Rinehart has brought home with him two of his best works, a statue of Clyte and a statuette of Antigone, which have added to his distinguished reputation as an artist. Among his other works which have added to his fame are The Woman of Samaria” and the beautiful monument to Mrs. Walters in Greenmount Cemetery, which represents a female figure dropping flowers upon her tomb. Mr. Rinehart is delighted with the cordiality of his reception since his return.