The northern tribune. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1847-1855, 1848-03-01

VOL. III. =. NO. lO2.
dc adjourn to Saturday next, the day appoint
go for the FUNERAL
Before the question was taken, Mr.. Holmes
of South Carolina, rose and paid noble trib-
ute to the virtues and talents of the illustrious
dead.
Mr.. Newhall moved the following addition
al resolution:
Resolved, That the seat in this hall just va
Gated by the death of the late John Quincy
Adams, be unoccuped for thirty days, and
that, together with the hail. remain clothed
with the symbol of mourning during that
time
Mr.. Tallmadge of New York, introduced the
following additional resolution:
Resolved, That the Speaker appoint one
member of this House from each State and
Territory, as committee to escort the remains
of our venerable friend, the honorable John
Quincy Adams, to the place designated by his
friends for his interment.
All the above resolutions were unanimous
lysagreed to.
.
announcement of the death of the Hon. John
Quincy Adams be entered on the Journal
This also was agreed to unanimously, and
then the House adjourned to Saturday.
A Night with Burns.
In Ainsworth's London) Magazine there is
an account of " A Night with Burns" by
DR.. Shelton Mackenzie, which, although too
much concocted after fashion that is the
vice of magazines, is characteristic and en-
tertainng, and cannot but interest our readers:
One Andrew Horner, resident in Carlisle,
went to Glasgow to publish a volume of poems
much admired by himself. Oddly enough, on
his way home, he strayed out of the direct
road into Ayr, where he met with Burns at
public house, and some boon companions
set the poet Grant and the poet resident Whose
fame was then unmade) to try their strength
in match of verse-making. An epigram
was the subject chosen, because, as Andrew
argued, "i it is the shortest of all poems.'' In
compliment to him, the company resolved
that his own merit should supply the theme.
He commenced
''ln seventeen hundred thretty-nine-"
and lie paused. He then said, " Ye see that 1
was born in 1879, the real date was some
years earlier, so make that the commence
ment." He then took pen in hand, folded
his paper with conscious air of authorship,
squared himself to the table, like one who
considered it no trife even to write letter,
and slowly put down, in good round hand,
as if he had been making out bill of parcels.
the line
{" In seventeen hundred thretty p
but Beyond this, after repeated attempts, he
was unable to advance. The second line was
the Rubicon he could not pass. At last,
when Andrew Homer reluctantly admitted
that he was not quite in the vein, the pen
ink and paper were handed to his antagonist.
BY him they were rejected, for he instantly
gave the following vava voce-.
+" In seventeen hundred thretty nine,
The devil CAT stuff to maxi swine,
And put it in n corner;
But shortly after changed his plan,
Made it something like man,
And called it Andrew Horner."
The subject of this singing stanza had the
good sense not to be offended at his satire,
cheerfully paid the wager set too for nights
revelry with his new friends, and thrust his
poems between the bars of the CRATE when
"the sma' hours came on to four in the
morning" AS his poetic rival then kindly
rolled up the hearth-rug in quiet corner of
the room, to serve as the pillow for the van-
pushed rhymster-then literally carpet
knight-the old man. better prophet than
poet, exclaimed. "Hoot man, but yell be