CONFEDERATE SHAFT ERECTED NEW MONUMENT IN BALTIMORE.

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Correspondence of The Observer.

Baltimore, May 2-“Glory Stands Beside Our Grief,” the superb new monument erected here to the Confederate dead, was unveiled to-day.

An immense crowd assembled at the statue on Mount Royal avenue, and Confederate colors were worn by hundreds.

Frederick Wellington Ruckstuhl was the sculptor, and this is pronounced by many the most beautiful Confederate memorial yet erected. Though born in the Blue Alsatian Mountains, Mr. Ruckstuhl was carried to St. Louis as a child and there grew up among strong Southern sympathizers. Ever since he became a sculptor he has longed to put into bronze his conception of the Confederacy. This idea was in his mind, though in rather indefinite form until suddenly one night listening to the opera Tannhauser, it came to him clear and distinct.

“The music and surroundings faded away and the Southern group stood out boldly to my mental vision,” said Mr. Ruckstuhl. “I saw the Southern soldier, having fought to his last gasp, having thrown aside all military accoutrements, even his sleeves rolled up in the desperation of a hand-to-hand encounter; I saw him falling, death-smitten in the struggle. The downward flight of glory catching with outstretched arm the falling hero, snatching his form and spirit from the mire of oblivion and glorifying his cause in ages to come.

“I made the first sketch of the group then and there,” said the artist, “and showed it to the lady who was attending the opera with me. She was amazed that I took the matter so seriously, but felt the aspiration of years had taken shape.

“Shortly after this a committee in St. Louis was selecting a design for the Springfield monument,

and I offered mine, only to have it rejected-they wanted a fighting soldier, not a dead nor dying one, they said. “But is not the cause lost and dead?’ Tasked, but they only reiterated that they wanted a fighting soldier depicted, and, much discouraged, I withdrew.”

He held to his idea, however, and at last decided to perfect it, even if he had no order for such a design. He had just completed the plaster model and was about to east it in bronze when a Baltimore lady who was interested in the monument here saw a picture of the design in a newspaper. She called on the artist and within ten days the statue had been secured for Baltimore.

A Georgia woman who lost her husband in the war writes of this memorial:

“That monument! that monument! What a glorious conception! All other Confederate monuments sink into insignificance when compared with this one. I grow nervous and feel like crying when I look long at the illustration. The figure of the soldier is typical of the young manhood of the old South-so line in form, so beautiful in features. It is best in bronze, but I should love to see it in pure white marble-pure as an angel and pure as the cause for which our heroes died.'”