New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-08-14


Rev ORvrLLE DEWEY, to the effect that =" the
whistle of The locomotive might We. be made to
give place to a valve, which, its " ventagss" be-
ing properly governed, might discourse most
excellent music On reading this, OLLAfcD
straightway falls into rcyeric. And as ne
slept, he dreamed drcam
'Methought in my dream, that | was in the
second story parlor Of the Atlantic end P@cfc
Hotel, ana United States Halfway House, on
the very top OF the Rocky mountains. This ho-
tel WAS built of marble, with splendid Corinfhan
pillars, yraclng por;ico nearly three hundred
feet long. Meseemed had Just arrived there by
Railroad in four hours and Il helf rom Phia-
deIphia, when | rcmem5ered. as eft, TN
.ch side CT The Schuylsill that being central, as
the Thames IL in London. We cd not stop at
Pittsburgh, or any of those immense metropolis,
but whizzed at The tate nave mentioned My
destination was to the City Of Memphis, On the
shore Of the Pacific, where expected 10 arrive at
two O'Clock the next day.
"a considerable village stretched along the
mountain, although the place was not " exist
cnce three weeks oefnrc. After a sumPiIous re-
past, aud beautiful vew of tho country. East
and West which | may hereafter de'e,ibe, took
up the village newspaper 1t was entitled the
New. BABY Jon Observer and Register OF the
World The copy held in my hand bore the
date of HAY the seventeenth, nineteen hundred
and forty. 1t was sent round the place by rail-
car, and was thrown into The dwellings, by ma
chiuery, conducted by steam. The first para
graphs that struck my eye, were these, amply
embazoned, suddenly 20 catch the general eye.
Reported for the New Babylon obscrver.
TERRIFIC CIRCUMSTANCES!
1t becomes our painful but imperative and extra
ordinary duty, promulgate the facts OF disaster
which reached us 10. day, by the mail from Thebes,
ola the Perpendicular Railroad. AS party were
ascending, with the locomotive playing live ly tune,
assisted on the piano forte by another locomotive,
that had been hired by Signor Gotin preparatory
10 his first concert in NewBaby lion, religious
persons of the United States Established Mormon
Church., insisted that the tune, being irreverent,
should be changed. This offensive tune was no less
than the weknown and popular song, supposed
TO have been written in Eng land, previous 10 the
subjugation of that place by The Russans,l entitled
Proceed it, yc Crippled Ones, Babylon Nigh.
This complimentary course on The part of the loco
motive aud the genIemunly engineer with which il
associates, Missed by the Mormons, until they
were overcome by the encores OF the majority. The
locomotive was OF course embarrassed, but we un-
derstand, continued to play. One OF the Nlormons,
enraged beyond measure al this circumstance, rush
ed forward through the door-wnys OF the traln ana
wantonly turned the stop.cock of What $ become
Of Good Old Daniel = one Of the slowest tunes OF
the day. The cons. quence was, the tram proceeded
with Tine greatest discord, because the latter tune
was for the backlrack, in descending the mountain.
The result wa5 The cars were thrown OH The rails,
down prrcipice of nearly 3p0i-et; but owing TO the
exertons of Mr.. INCLINATION PLAIN, first engineer,
they were got back by his Upward Impulse Screw,
which has thus far answered admirably, stopping
cars in lair, il they run oil precipicc, aud re-
turning them safely, by means OF the patent steam
wnd-bags. which extend beneath The trains, and
destroy their gravity.
I'VE are authorized 10 state that no blame at
taches to the quicktune party; whereas the slow
tune faction were entirely i'll the wrong. Thus has
u science, invented by monk of the Unitarian or
der, in the city of Alleg HAMA, then called New
York; and which worked its way into so much re-
spect and favor, been the cause OF danger, by the
uertinaci,v of few. We trust it will not occur
again ii it do, we shall proclaim it 10 the tune oil
the Rogue's March, through The whole OF New
Babylon, in our SIeam-car Extra Ne doubt our
dastardly contemporary, OF The Warehouse OF Free-
dom and Americas Champion whose prospectus
and types arrived last night and whose first number
appears tomorrow, will endeavor 10 contradict ;his
statement. We dare him 10 his teeth 10 do co. He
knows, while the snaky blood VIRTUES III ais catt
heart, and the Taligniy OF twenty-ihree demons
1--WE think we should be justified in mentioning
state is fact; and that each member OF the quick
tune panty, in asserting his inallenable musical
rights, was as innocent as an unbegotten merlno.
But we must now turn to sadder themes. The
loss Of his young and most lovely wife, and his
own failing health, changed in good degree the
character of his thoughts, though to the last they
were mingled with quiet cheerfuntss. He de-
scribas all this, however, much better than we
could hope to do:
I" For long time, my good friend whom oc-
cupy' at present with this matter, have had my
day. dreams sadly broken in upon; IN the few
roses have gathered, | have found The cypress
mingliDg among their faded leaves; and voice,
as from the lowy leainess of an autumnal wider.
ness, has spoken ol the lost aud of the past. Whv
is it, that though the mind Gay wander, the heart
can never forget? Well could | say with him
who sings so we'll
Thou unrelentne Past.
Strong nre the barriers Iou".i tbs darE DOMAIN:
Ana ftiers. sure "nd fast,
Hold all thai enter thy Undertaking reign.
In thy abysscs hide
Beauty and sxcelencs unknown to thee
Eartns wonder and her pride
Are gathered. as tue waters 10 The sea :,
And there they rest IN dust and cold obstruction !!
Oh that those who walk about in the beauty III
the morning, with the greenness Of earth around
them, and The mysterious vitality which makes
the elements in their nostriIs would ihink of this
considering truly their coming end"
In the same strain, the irail, falling dying po-
ct pours out his sorrowfu heart, in the suejoined
most touching and beautiful lines: stanzas which
his twin.brother tells U.S. and which we cannot
doubt, came to him literally sprinkled with
c,roa d;n0 tcs n drone, They really seer1 IN sob
with grief:
AS write, can appreciate the autumn: feel
ing-somcthing holy and peculiar-prevalIing
within me. can see, by the increasing azure OF
the sky, by the enlarged clearness OF the distant
landscapes, when the eye grccts them from the
city, and by the transparent briskness of the air
at evening, that the summer has gone and the
autumn time begun. The woodlands stand in
calm solemnity, robed in that rainbow coloring
the herald of their fallen honors, and the Novcm.
al hoo