INIUTM. 



INGRES, JEAN D. A. 



400 



Balance on i iber 1, 1866... (381,52189 

 its (lunii.u' the your 4,210,836 44 



Total $4,691,858 38 



Warrants drawn on tho treasury dur- 

 ing tlu- \ i-ur 4,446,608 64 



Balance on hand October 81st. . $156,862 79 



The total revenue of the common-school 

 fund amounted to $1,886,782.50. This vast 

 amount of monry i^ distributed exclusively for 

 tlu- hem-lit of tin- common schools. The prin- 

 cipal of tlu- fund is nearly ten millions, the 

 interest <>n which c;in never be reduced qr 

 diverted from its proper channel. 



The Indiana election occurs on the second 

 Tuesday in October. In 1867 no State officers 

 or members of Congress were chosen, but an 

 animated canvass was carried on in the various 

 counties for the election of local officers, and 

 the returns show a gain on the part of the 

 Democrats over the vote of the previous year. 



!i nt'ter the local elections in October, tho 

 Democratic State Central Committee issued a 

 call for a State convention to be held on the 

 8th of January at Indianopolis, for the pur- 

 "f nominating a State ticket for the next 

 regular election, of electing delegates to a Na- 

 tional Democratic Convention, and for the 

 further purpose of selecting candidates for 

 presidential electors for the State of Indiana. 

 A convention was held in each county on the 

 14th of December to appoint delegates to this 

 convention, which met in accordance 

 witli tho call of tho committee on the 8th of 

 January. Corresponding action on the part 

 of the Republican party was subsequently taken 

 in the year 1868. 



INDIUM. This metal has been obtained 

 from tho blue dust which condenses in the 

 zinc-works of Gosler, Germany. The dust con- 

 tains about one part of oxide of indium in one 

 thousand. To extract the metal, the deposit is 

 boiled half an hour with hydrochloric acid, and 

 the clear liquid then digested with pieces of 

 zinc for six hours at the ordinary temperature. 

 There is then deposited a black metallic pow- 

 der, which is washed with water, and which 

 contains copper, arsenic, cadmium, thallium, 

 and indium. By boiling this with a concen- 

 trated solution of oxalic acid, a solution of cad- 

 mium, thallium, and indium is obtained; the 

 latter is precipitated by ammonia, and the pre- 

 cipitate is boiled with ammonia and afterward 

 with water till tho washings contain no more 

 thallium. The oxide of indium is then almost 

 pure, containing only traces of iron, from which 

 a.sily freed, and is reduced to the metallic 

 form by the established method. 



I \ < ; I ; KS. .1 1: A x DOMINIQUE ATTGUSTK, a French 



historical painter, born at Montauban, France, 



'ubcr 15, 1781 ; died in Paris, January 14, 



l*''-7. lie first applied himself, while yet a 



child, to music, in Toulouse, but his taste for 



Sainting was so strong, that his father was 

 nally persuaded to allow him to take lessons 

 in drawing and landscape painting. He made 



such progress in these branches that he wi 

 sent to Paris, where be became the pupil of tlm 

 ;rrcat painter David, and at the ago of twenty 

 had trained in two successive years the first and 

 ! prizes of the Academy of Fine Arts, re- 

 ceiving the fir-t for his picture of "The Em- 

 bassy at the Tent of Achilles." His subsequent 

 pictures, exhibited in IKH-J, 1804, and 1805, won 

 him reputation, that of 1805 (a portrait of tho 

 Kmpcror Napoleon I.) being purchased by the 

 Government for the H6tel des Invalides. In 

 1806 he went to Rome, and remained in that 

 and other Italian cities for twenty years ; and 

 under the influence of the great masters, and 

 the soft, sunny skies of Italy he abandoned tho 

 dry, classic style acquired from David, for the 

 more glowing and lifelike characteristics of 

 the old masters. The Italians greatly admired 

 his paintings, but they were long received 

 with comparative coldness at home. There 

 was not much in them, it must be admitted, to 

 awaken enthusiasm ; they were correct, ably 

 drawn, and the idea clearly and definitely 

 brought out ; but there was nothing appealing 

 to human emotion, suffering, joy, or aspiration ; 

 they were cold and unsympathetic in their 

 tone. He preferred classical subjects, though 

 he painted a vast number of portraits. His 

 best-known pictures are "CEdipus and the 

 Sphinx;" "Jupiter and Thetis; " "A Woman 

 in the Bath;" "Ossian's Sleep;" the Sistiae 

 Chapel ; " The Vow of Louis XIII." (regarded 

 by many as his chef (Fceuvre) ; " The Birth of 

 Venus Anadyomene; " "Jesus disputing with 

 the Doctors ; " u Racine in his Court Dress ; " 

 " Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles 

 VII ; " " Stratonice ; " portraits of the Duke of 

 Orleans and of Cherubini, and " La Source, " 

 painted when he was eighty years old. He 

 also painted, on the ceiling of one of the apart- 

 ments of the Louvre, the " Apotheosis of Ho- 

 mer," and on the ceiling of the Hotel de Yille, 

 the "Apotheosis of Napoleon I." In 1829 he be- 

 came director of the French Academy in Rome, 

 as successor to Horace Veraet. In the French 

 Exhibition of 1855, at the command of the 

 Emperor, he collected all his principal works 

 from France and Italy, and an entire saloon 

 was appropriated to them. One of the two 

 great medals of honor was adjudged to him, the 

 other being bestowed on his rival, Delacroix. 

 Though reckoned a representative, and almost 

 the last, of the pure classical school as distin- 

 guished from the romantic, Ingres's place is 

 properly a middle one between tho two. His 

 early leaning and sympathies were with the 

 classicists, but his latest pictures incline, some 

 of them at least, strongly toward the school of 

 feeling and nature. His picture "La Source " 

 was in the Great Exhibition at Brompton in 

 1862, and excited more interest and admiration 

 than any other single picture in that rich and 

 varied collection. Ingres was made Knight of 

 tho Legion of Honor in 1841, Commander in 

 1845, and Grand Officer in 1855. He was raisi d 

 to the dignity of Senator in 1862, and at the 



