New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-04-27


of them ere people as has complained OF me. Folks
in my line can bear upwards OF considerable in The
way OF epithetS without changing color, or getiiL'
mud. Bat do say, that | axes them charges
me with making too much noise in the world,
why they have got up such an antpathy az IN
my horn And | should like 10 know, ilmy lit
little lin affair troubles them so now A0w they iciN
feet rhen they come 10 hear the big trumpet, that is
to be boc at die day orJudgmeRt: calling them, just
as likely as not 10 cual-h0!c mighty sight buck
err than the one come ftoml The Mayor was
non-plussed ard the coal man went twanging on
his ways. The officer could more stand his logic
than his opponent could his horn
{" Would to Heaven" says OLLArop, writing
the night before Christmas, "woud TO Heaven
were a millionaire, JonS JACOB AsroR, for to-
morrow only and lie tells us why:
There should not be n rosy face in the Union
that should not be the brighter Tor my beneiacions.
would distribute presents to every urchin and miss
met; aud that hottest OF all Pleasures bencrolence
should nestle warmly in my bosom. Cop bless the
children unsuied by The guilcfiil contacts of the
world fresh in their feelings, simple in their de-
sires crvent in then loves, they the cmblens Of
hcsscdncss and peace. Truly, Of such is the king
dom OF Heaven; and sweetv did tho characteristic
mcekncss OF our SAVIOUR appear when he said,
Suffer little children 10 come unto me- Would
that were boy again Would that ] had my few
as it rolled on to the future; would revcl il the
light OF sparkling eyes, and the smile of lips, that
the grave has closed and scaled for ever | would
sing, aud shout and ly my kite, aud glide down the
snowy hill on my little craft, US IN days OF yore.
would ENJOY the Spring, as used once TO do; that
pleasant season, as William Lackaday, Esquire, Oh
serves in the play, when the balmy breezcs is a
BLOWN, and the primroses peeps out, and the little
birds begins for 10 sing; and | would nuke II
point 10 have no enemies. would do this without
being Joseph Surface, too; for | hold insinceIity
TO be the most detestablc OF all vices for which men
go unhung."
Here is thrust at the groiesquc pulpit olo-
qucncc which was much more common a few
years ago than now:
IIow mach verbose pomposty oflanguage, too,
do you find in the pulpit where, Of all other places,
it is most out of place. few days ago, heard an
unhewn Ambassador from the court Of Heaven as
he crcdentidii-ed himself, who had taken the Far
West in his route to the church where heard him,
use The following burst. lie was speaking Of Judas
and Bcnedi' Arnold; worthless whom he compared
together. Arnold, said he, a traitor, OF whom
you may have heard, who tried for 10 sell his 6ed'n-
try. 1t was the runaiion OF him, aud Tor VIVA, he
done he will be rewarded with inamv for his name
will sertngy 60 down to the most remoest posieri-
", kvcrcd NIL over with llell's arsenid.' Here he
looked round upon his audience with an air OF Prldc
as il he would say, There S touch for you
OLL,roD is most entertaining traveller
Nothing escapes his observation that is at all
noteworthy. He is on a trip 10 Michigan, when
he records these Incidents of Travel"
"a ludicrous incident occurred at Batava.-
There is creek in the neishborhood, which makes
upward of considerable noise after MIC ht-ia. The
English passenger, who reached the town before u.s.
by leaving the stage and walking on foot, imagined
il TO be the Falls of Niagara, from which we were
then between fifty and sixty miles He went out
and listened. My Con- said he, what oncom-
mon roaring falls them is They must ey-thcr be
very 'ich or else the winds is riz.' The mistake was
NOT corrected and the fellow retired TO rest, with his
stupid Uranium firmly impressed with the belief that
his long ears had caught the sound OF the Great
Cataract"
This scene, in crowded Western hotel, is laid
at Buffalo, in the busy season:
alt was the Eden OF weasel, the place where
lay The apartment named The Pasture, By
a iacetious ellow-travecr; and very many were
the bipcdal animals who ruminated hedward there
in. | slept opposite Spectator in Michigan lands;
and, il determined never TO be caught mapping, he
slept aciM his eyes open The effect was really
lrightfui. BY the light of the moon, streaming
through the window, saw his cunning oplics-lul
ofbargain and sale-giarins upon me. Sometimes
it seemed fall the mortal light had departed from
them; vet still they glarcd into mine. aver, with
sincerity, that those eyes never closed the live-ong
night They seemed alive-yet dead. thought oi
Coleridges lines in the Auntent slarinere:'
An orphans curse might dap to he'll
\ spirit from on high;
But OH terrible than that
Is the curse oil II dead mans eye:
Seven days seven nIshi;s Is. saw that curse
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