New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-27
WHOLE NO. 2336.


On the sois, with bis plump. handsome feet pied up
The footstool and his round face Illuminated BY
pair Of green spectsces above which rises rsther con
cetsdly snd knowingly cspscious brow, but,ressed
by very respectable organs Of iicality sits gen
ilemsn listening earnestly 10 the reading Of the Nsen
tines, fearful lest by some unsccounishe mshsp. he
should have been overlooked Beside him il hand
some intellectual looking young man evidently Of the
old srstocrstc Knickerbocksr blood who seems TO be
watching for ks Valentine quite ntenty his com
panion. He, however has no misgivng-he knows IL
will come-for he wrote IL himself lest his friend
should be forgotten. These two pcrsonsses are in
some respects remarkable Both Of high intel.
lectusl povers-one Of them entirely ambitious and
ready dispute his rights the instant with any rival
or prsteuder: the other entirely and emnen,y
selnsh-,hinkng only of his friend and how best
20 promote bis interests and advance his fame. They
the Castor and Pollux of Liiersiurethe Gemni OF
the literary Zodisc-the Damon and Pythiss OF the
drama Of real life, One OF them has produced books
which have at least been read and have furthermore
| received the compliment OF being heartily abused
The other does not write books, but he is delicate
spprros,or OF the books OF others and for certain
kind OF amibe and tender criticism hiss no rival Both
these mentor they never apart-form work in
two volumes well worth the studying.
But polka has struck up in the next room, and we
will take look at the dancers. Here Is sunny faced
smiling gentleman who don't look as If the lnkFend
had ever heard OF him, standing up with demure
lady who has evidently spilled the ink stand over her
dress and then had il dyed thatt should be all one
color The gentleman cannot stand STILL but capers
and prances about with exuberance of animal spirits
ike before the drum beats. AT length the time
comes; and shaking ais head like Newfoundland dog
about leap into the water away he plunges carrying
his partner with him into the dismsying depths OF the
dance and fairly trsmpling time out OF the music aud
kicking II into eterni,y-while his merry and intec
tious laugh lights up the with mirth. BY and by
when the dance is over, be will take you into the wine
room and tell you con6denially side shaking anec
dote which will make It's appearance in the Gossip
of next months Knickerbocker joyous happy spirit
is he and batting little unnatural bitterness toward
Pufer Hopkins, OF the best na.ured best hearted
and capitalist fellows in existence We do not dare to
mention his name, for fear Of offending his modesty
but if anybody should ask you what kind OF man is
LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK, you may show him this para
graph for your answer, and you'll not be far out Of
the way.
The ladies are scattered all about as thick stars
yet we do not know how 10 approach them There 10
the stately Mrs SEBA SMITH bending arstocr aticslly
over the center taOle hnu tdlhiDs III e''u
steady stream like an antique fountain by moonlight
and yondcr, nestled under a light shawl OF heradic
red and blue like bird escaped from its cage and al
ready longing to get back again is the spiritual and
dainty FANNY osGoop clapping her hands and Growing
like baby Next her sits as quiet as pet lamb, the
petite and pquane Mrs ELLEr her sparkling black eyes
humid with the glitter of some wicked repartee she has
been forging II she were not In Rome, you might
i ito ala nt tho table Miss her
large gray eyes ampng inspiration and her thin CULVER
ing lip prophecyng like Pythoness Yonder by the Are
place sits the darkeyed and poetic faced RACE GREEN
WOOD talking earnestly aud casting bright glsnces Of
lambert defiance around her. ii she loved yet con
temned everybody. Behind her, in q low arm chair
which sways gently to hsfmurmured tune, sits the
heart and soul OF tenderness and poetry in the plump
and temporal person of LYDIA MARIA CHILD. She
never leaves her own retreat and sings ever loudes'
and sweetest from her nest 1t Is strange that We
should have encountered her here amid this gay parade
of beauty and distinction Though well deserving
place any where by virtue of the depth and purity o.
| her genius her fervd and oermasterng worship OF
tue Beautiful and the sincerity and classic simplicity OF
her .oul yet she all seldom strays from home and
seems even now to be uneasy and restless az II she
fancied the about to compress and hatten every
! body in it-and she detests fat people.
Among such a party this ii may well be imagined
that conversation flows and sparkles necessarily, and
that eleven o'clock the hour for breaking up comes
unbiden, unexpected and unwelcome, and without
any having noticed the absence Of those stores OF
eatabes and drinksbes with which some parties at
tempt to enliven beguie their mmitigsbe dullne.s
Our company drops of one by one, without formal
leave takngs and without creating the slightest conf-
sion Notwithstanding that al these people spend their
lives in endeayorng 10 attract the attention Of the pub
hc yet there Is not of them who wouldn't shrink
in dsmsy from the idea of creating sensation in a
drawing room. Between the confidence Of the author
and the selfpossessed assurance of the woman
of fashion there is space which is seldom passed
and it is general thing that artists and authors
are in private life distinguished for nothing but quiet
and reserved demesnor.
TLese weekly literary reunions, of which during the
Winter season there three or four every week
among the different literary cotcries are peculiarly
OF New York society, which has not been initiated
elsewhere to any considerable extent-simply because
the materials wanting Newfork, /" the grand
intellectual focus of the country is the point q. which
concentrate the wandering rays Of genius from sll
quarers and our fashionable soioas will outvie
even those Of Pari, and London In the number and
quantity of the choice spirits who congresae within
TX
and lmparts the browning charm 10 New FORK society
which Gets seal Of unapproachable value and coniers
lndescrbsble force upon New York public opinion BE-
fore whose dicta the mind and intellect Of the whole
country unconsciously bow 1t Is true that certain
bitterness and excusveness of sectarianism prevail
in some other cities whose inhabitants seem to think 1t
an imperative duty to decry NewYork But they de-
ceive themselves TO the facts Their Jealousy and
ulwill are not returned by NewYork. Che can afford
to appreciate and admire everything and everybody Of
emnence or excellence and the absorbing process by
which new man or a beauty instantly becomes
merged like drop Of new rain in the river wave IL
entirely unconscious herself and arises solely from
her own inherent elements Of power and greatness In
Civilization every powerful nation must have one In
teecual center every individual must have brain,
whose motions and conceptions govern toe entire sys
tsin In the United States, NewYork 10 that center
and that brain.
~ SLICE XVII will tell the reader some
thing farther about A" Chatham Street
DEATH or OUR CHARGE d AFFAIRS AT ROxE.-
Extracts from a letter dated Rome, 18th August; IL
write this IN great Distress the sudden death of