read the invoice of her cargo thus:--

"'Sunday Mar. 22

"'Arr. Dutch brig Presto, Van Wyngarten, Rotterdam, Jan. 1.
Helvoet, 10th Had terrific gales from SW the greater part of the
passage. 40 casks gin JD & M Williams 8 sheep Chenery & Co 200
bags coffee 2 casks herrings 1 case cheese W. Winsel 1 organ JB
Upham 20 pipes 6 casks gin JD Richards 6 casks nutmegs J Schumaker
20 do gin 500 bags chickory root Order,' etc., etc.

"And this was the heralding of this greatest marvel of a high and noble
art, after the labor of seven years bestowed upon it, having been tried
and pronounced complete by the most fastidious and competent of critics,
the wonder and admiration of music-loving Germany, the pride of
Wuertemberg, bringing a new phase of civilization to our shores in the
darkest hour of our country's trouble."

It remains to give a brief history of the construction of the grand and
imposing architectural frame which we have already attempted to
describe. Many organ-fronts were examined with reference to their
effects, during Dr. Upham's visits of which we have traced the course,
and photographs and sketches obtained for the same purpose. On
returning, the task of procuring a fitting plan was immediately
undertaken. We need not detail the long series of trials which were
necessary before the requirements of the President and Directors of the
Music-Hall Association were fully satisfied. As the result of these, it
was decided that the work should be committed to the brothers Herter, of
New York, European artists, educated at the Royal Academy of Art in
Stuttgart. The general outline of the _facade_ followed a design made by
Mr. Hammatt Billings, to whom also are due the drawings from which the
Saint Cecilia and the two groups of cherubs upon the round towers were
modelled. These figures were executed at Stuttgart; the other carvings
were all done in New York, under Mr. Herter's direction, by Italian and
German artists, one of whom had trained his powers particularly to the
shaping of colossal figures. In the course of the work, one of the
brothers Herter visited Ludwigsburg for the special purpose of comparing
his plans with the structure to which they were to be adapted, and was
received with enthusiasm, the design for the front being greatly
admired.

The contract was made with Mr. Herter in April, 1860, and the work,
having been accepted, was sent to Boston during the last winter, and
s