New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-09-12
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1itcrarn Notices.


This number of the Knickerbocker is filed
with its usual attractive variety. The leading
,yice runs u brief and rather curious parallel TO
show that the Fall of Niagara on the Canada
ede is to the American, as Great Britain 70 the
United States: both," he says cot the same
MAJESTIC pattern, equally lofty, created ny the
,ame stream, and side by side but the former
more powerful, more irresistible, more ovefwhelm-
mo: while the latter possesses another KING OF
b.auty. less angry, less furious, less threatening,
hut vet grand and magnificent, and, take away
ne other fall, Incompatible" The article is
veil worth reading. "The Innocence of Gal
bv. Slave from the French Of Hugo, is com
,nenced and Meadow Farm" is brought TO q con-
c)pson "The Quod Correspondence" is contin-
ned in the old vein. The Poetry by Rockwell,
Herbert. E. B. Green and others is very good
The leading article in the Editors Table IS made
M from the capital paper in Frazer in which JEFF
rev and Clifford are made to reuiew SHAKESPEARE
and MlLroS, as they would be likely to do
thew bards of the present day, and candidates for
popuar favor instead Of names unapproachabe IN
in racy humor and interesting anecdote; we
gather from it the following:
THE PERSONAL MANNER OF WASHINGTON
"What personal presence was that of the FA-
Their OF HIS COUNTRY All accounts agree in this.
We heard an old gentleman say, not long ago,
that when clerk in Philadelphia, he used TO.
walk two or three squares every morning, to meet
WASHINGTON as he came down Market-street to
his quarters. The dignity, said he, sof his
movements, the grace of his salutation, and the
calm sweetness Of his smile, were beyond descrip-
ton or comparison Sitting the other day on
Ior, scarcely stones throw from where Andre
was captured, and not far from the little Sleepy
Hollow Church, we convcrsed an hour with
Revolutionary patriot, tremulous with the palsy
Of age who pointed out 10 US the spot, over the
Tappan Sea which lay before us, where Andre
was hung, and where, on that day, the troops
spread out thick and black long way from the
galows.' He lived at Verplanck'S Point, close
BY, when Arnold came down in his barge and
went on board the Vulture, all which he himself
saw. They fred two cannon at the barge, said
he, from this side-haylng got news OF the trea-
son by express-but the gun burst at the second
discharge and took off the legs, to the thighs OF
one poor fellow, Nho was brought to our house,
but he died in two hours The army then lay
at Bedford continued the old veteran; and
saw General Washington almost every day. He
was nobe-looking man his countenarce was
terribly pleasant. He did not talk much, but
even the little children fairly loved him and
they used to gather about the door of his mar
quee every morning to see him aud he used to
pat their heads and smile on them: 1t was beau
hful to see.' How uniform and universal is this
testimony of the eye In the recollectons of
Washington"
IMPROVEMENTS IN ORTEoEpy.-s We know not
why it u.s. but the fact is so, that many affected
persons are prone to interpolate supcrhuous let
ters into certain class of words, apparently to
make them more high.sounding than they would
otherwise be. 'Ordure ordurei gentlemen. :"
exclaimed court-crier to noisy audience the
other dav, in our hearing. That's a fine burst
What calm, beautiful torpGrd - said lispng
young lady, one evening at the National Acade-
N.Y. as she called the attention of her cavalier to
Launz's lovely Rose OF the Alhanlbra,' n
Breathing MARBLE
THOUGHTS oy SuIcIpE.-The following,
which is given as having been found on the body
Of suicide taken from the Thames in London,
though the outpouring Of a diseased and poisoned
mind, is irresistible in eloquent pathos:
"This body, if ever this body should be found,
was once thing which moved about the earth,
despsed and unne,iced and died INDECENT and
unlamented. |: could hear, see, feel, smell, and
taste, with as much quickness delicacy and force
as other bodies. 1t had desires and passions like
other bodies, but was denied the use Of them by
such as had the power and the will to engross the
good things Of this world 20 themselves. The
doors OF the great were shut upon 1t; not because
II was infected with disease or contaminated with
lntamp, but on account of the fashion Of the gar.
ments with which 1t was clothed, and the name
Ndenved from its oreiathers and because II had
not the habit of bending its knee where It's heart
owed no respect, nor the power of moving Its
tongue TO gloze the crimes or tlattcr the toes OF
men. 1t was excluded the fellowship OF such as
heap up gold and silver; not because 1t did, but
ioE tear II might, ask small portion OF Their be-
loved wealth. 1t shrunk with pain and pity from
Inc haunts OF ignorance which the knowledge 1t
possessed could not enlghten, and guilt that It's
sensations were obliged to abhor. There was but
ene class OF men with whom II was permitted to
associate, and those were such as had feelings
Shc mlsiortunes like It's own; among whom 1t
was It's hard tate frequently to suffer imposition
nom assumed worth and fictitious distress. Be-
mgs OF supposed benevolencc, capab'c of pcrceiv
Ing, loving and promoting merit and virtue, have
now and then seemed to fit and glide before it.
But the visions were deceitful. Ere thew were
distinctly seen, the phantoms vanished. Or if
such beings do exist, 1t has experienced the pc
culiar hardship of never having met with any. In
whom both the purpose and the power were fully
united Therefore, with hands wcaried with
labor, eyes dun with watchiulness VEINS but halt
nourishcd, and mind at length subdued by in,
tense study and a rciteraton OF unaccompllshed
hopes, II driven by irresistible impulse to end
once such complication OF evils