New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-12-22


mences with bis Political Platform addressed is Gen
TAYLOR which the President cleo, may find j, hard to
understand. We give few sparkling extracts from
the Gossip
What an exquisite month for the most part has No
vcmber been 10 us Of the metropolis Clear mild days
and lovely nights have aternstcd with two or three
slight exceptions during the last thirty days. Its
quite different In Len den, ye kn0 Hrcs the sort OF
month they have there
No sun-no moon
No noon
No aswn-no duss.lo proper time Of day
No skv-n0 earthly view
No distance looking blue
No rosd-no street.-the 'ioiher side The way
No indication, where the crescenis 20,
No top 10 any steepe,
No TecOgniOns Of familiar people
No couriesies for showing EN-
No travelling al all-no locomouon-
No mixing Of the Wayne notion,
No gO'-by land or ocean,
No msl-nO post
No news from any foreign coast
No sfk-no nng-no afternoon genuliy-
No company-no nobility;
No warmth, no cheerfulness. no heslthfu ease
No comfortable feel 10 any member.
No shaie, no shine. no butterflies, no bees,
No lnIits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds
November
Yet your true London cockney greatly Affects Just
such weather as this. DO you remember the Mapping
sailor IN the Mediterranean who called out 10 his ship
mates morning. when there happened, after SIX
months clear weather, 20 be slight fog Turn out
boys turn out Here's weather Is weather none
o. your ID blue sky
wish you to make for the church, said All Episcopal
vesrymsn one morning, to carpenter in neigh5or
ing village, two new commandmentbosrds. We want
them OF free sound timber with no knots In t. You'd
better take some OF tho out Of the command
menis then replied the carpenter, |
comm sndment board yet that wasn't full Of EN- 2
The sea serpent has been discovered again by an
English captain, officers and crew and the illustrated
London Journals contain portraits halfsize and full
lengfh of his auakpshlU acgumUauled by and
authenticated descriptions OF his person and move
ments. We have been led to believe, from our own
experience, that one may be very easily deceived in
these waterreptiles Toward the twilight of sl day
near the end Of July lsi7, Horace Greeley, old
friend Horace nov Honorable Horace Greeley, Of
the North Americ Congress.) and Old knck hereof
were seated on the broad piazza of tee dark yellow
Mission House al Michilimacknac, looking out upon
the deep deep blue waters OF the Huron, when an OBJ
iect apparently the shore suddenly attracted our
attention We both examined il through good glass
and 10 the mutual conclusion that u was an enor
nous seaserpent elevaling its head unduating i,s
humps, and hoating many rood upon the translu-
cent strait such also was the opinion of the proprie
tor of the Mission House who In ten years residence
at Mscknac had never seen the Ike before Away
went Horace, and away went Old Knick, after him
down TO the shore and but tor most tremendous Kan
and light sticking in the mud Of an intervening marsh
on the part OF the party OF the second part this de
ponent afirms and verify believes that this dcponeni
would have reached the beach aforesaid he
the said Horace did When We had arrived To- the
object which had excited our curiosity was nothing
more than the dark side Of long undulang unbroken
wave brought into clear relief by the level western
light which the had left ia his track he dropped
away over Lake Michigan We felt rather cheap As
came along back together and allowed that u
they seen a. NahAni what we bad al Macknac they
have siror that IL the sea-serpent Catch doing
anything o that kind etc.
Read this o daughter OF Wealth and ponder il
well Let IL sink into your heart OF hearts and be the
means OF awakening there some sympathy for toll
ing suffering sister who by fault Of hers Is the serf
she Is
Hark that rustic Of q dress
STIFF with lavish cOsilness
Here comes one whose cheek would 1ush
But 70 have her garments brush
Gsnsl the gf whose fingers thin
Wove tbs weary br0idery In;
And IN midnights chill and maTk
Stitched her life into the work
Sending backward from her toll
Lest her iesrs tie SILK might s0il,
shaping from her bll.er thought
Hearts ease and forgsi men.l;
SatfiLing her despair
With the eiubems W oven there
We have heard ioday of rsyengeful trick played
upon theatrical star by subordinate brother actor
whom he had offended BY his overbesriBg manner Al
rehearsal which strikes well worth recording
The shining brightly In Hamlet and the
other rejecting him In Guidenstern. In the
scene which introduces the players Hamlet II will BE-
remembered says VIII you play upon this pipe Is
My lord cannot replies Guildenstern. Il pray
YOU urges Hamlet Believe me- l cannot again
protests Guildcnstern. do besseck you, implOres
Hamlet Al this point 10 the horror Of Hamlet, and
the utter smazenent 0f the audience Guldenstern IN
stead of responding b. Hamets continuous enireaty
81 know touch Of Il my lord, took the aute and
said Well since you re 80 pressing, J u Try 70 play
you leete tune but you d be disapp inied-l sn0r
you Will and So saying, be put the pipe 70 his
mouth, aud gave the audience, who By this time
smoked him. slight touch Of Yankee Doodle -
"a Yellowplush would say. Phansy Hsmieks feel
ink. -
Isntthis striking passage from ssr,or Ressrtus b
Towns snd cities especially the ancient, failed not
= %
thereby As through long vista into the remote Time
10 nave ss II we're sctus section Of almost the
es Past brought safe into the Present and set before
your eyes There in that old city, was live emoer
OF culinary hrc put down say opy tive thousand years
ago and there burning more or less triumphAnty,
with such fuel the region yielded Il has burnt and
It'll burns and thou thyself seest the very smoke
thereof An and the far more mysterious I've EN-.
Der OF vital IRE then also put down there, and It'll
tniracuously burns sud spreads and the smoke AZ
ashes thereof in these Judgment halls and churc,
wards and its bello~sengines in those churches thou
stu and is dAme, looking out rom every zind
countsnsDce snd every hateful one, SUI warns or
scOrcAes thee
There /. good deal OF character IN Aneedote Just
relsted to US OF an Heather man Publican in Down
Eastern region. A party Of young men were making
merry in a upper room, when the landlord came up
and said Gentlemen. / wish you would make little
less noise here for there IL below who 4 very
sick
Silence ike poaiuce came,
To heal the wounded ear.
OF the sick for while but presently the rolicktng
was resumed. The landlord came up again and said
Gentlemen | wish you % make lseiie less racket
the down stairs j. dying All was now stil when
All II the door opened and Bonifsce popped
his head in to say Go ahes1 now, gentlemen make
as much noise you Ike. The man 10 dead
lis generally known we believe that deaf person.
By watching the motions Of speakers lips oan under
stsnd VIA, one 10 saying We have heard OF Quaker
woman, VITO wu deal vac sset regularly 70 80 70