The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-09
No. 100.

| sara at this present. 'Praps,' reader, may
advent in New York. who the ID is Shales?'
chr You shall see anon;' I was a waggish piece
of work"
Four great excitements have passed over this
community within two years-the California ex-
citcment. the fight between Tom Hyer and Yam
kee Sullivan, the Parkman mystery, and the arrival
OF Jenny Lind. These four great excitements have
been cdin with smaller excitements, "thick as the
leaves in Valambrosa;'' excteinents of few hours,
a DAY, week; then comes great nine day Won
der, gath ring head, mighty, reaistless, overwhem-
ing, and strai ightway the whole community ia sub
merged. just to think Of it, how many editors
(besde ourself, and some 90 beside themselves, -
arc now writing taking article about Jenny Lind!
Lngravers making copper heads of her music
printers rolling of her songs by the score; pianos
hammering her music arthcers sending her
whips, gloves soda water, gold pens, pickles. hats
cooking stoves, spurs, patent medicines, the works
OF Cornelius Mathews, tea-kettles, riding habits,
card cases, bouquets, and baby Jumpers. Then Wis
tiers without number; civil, military, judicial,
theological, and musical monster serenades, with
body guard of glowing firemen like illuminated
red peppers; thirty thousand dollar concerts
What, " amt we great peoples"
Can anybody inform US what has become of
" LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE?" Any one who
can give Information concerning these three French
gentlemen, who are missing, will be suitably
warded.
" What do you call publc-spirited indiwidi-
vie 2, asked one of those philosophers who gen.
orally found sitting on pile of timber, Of warm
r
public spirited indiwidivles" "Why when was
boy, it meant an indiwidivle who would do for
the public whatever he could now it means an
indiwidivle who will do the public whenever he
can"
Amid all this deluge Of harmony with which our
city has been visited, belize most of readers
have not forgotten sweet, svcry voice that some
three years ago, at the Old Park ;" used at times
to draw tears from all eyes with its exquisite pa
thos. There was strange fascination in that
voice; it WAS not for the first time heard-we trust
IT has not been for the last. Dost thou remember,
OH wonderful reader, who art now puzzing thy five
wits over this sub section, any thing like the follow
ing:
Grief ILLS the room up of my absent child,
Lies on his bed, walks up and down with me-
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me Of all his gracious parts,
Stuiis out his vacant garment with ha form;
Then have ! reason to be fond Of grief
Fare you well; had you such loss as ],
could give better comfort than you do.'
Does that recall the -? All yes, you are right
my worthy friend, it Ellen Tree,
81 stand, said western stump orator, on the
broad platform OF the principles Of ninety ght,
and palsied be my arm if desert 'em % " You
don't stand on nothin' Of the kind )" interrupted
little shoemaker in the crowd; "you stand in a
pair of my boots, that you've never paid for, and
want the money" This slight remark seemed to
lessen the value Of his " principles in the mind of
the by ISLANDERS.
Our pleasant and lively contemporary, the daily
"Ecentng Mirror" gives us literary dit, that
"Pufier Hopkins is engaged in writing his Auto
biography, after the manner of Leigh Hunt The
Mutual Admiration Society have subscribed for
the entire edition, with the exception of pre-
sentation copy, held in reserve" Will il embrace
the notice OF the writer, which We are told the au-
thor OF The Living Authors of America afhrms
was written by :" Pufier' himself Tor that work ?
Ii ought to, surely.
''Wc rode with a friend the other day, through a
rich and varied section of good old Westchester
county, to the little village of Somers- Town. on
the Sing. Sing and Danbury turnpike The town
Of Somers has given birth to nearly all the most
distinguished mcnagere and circus- e < hibitors in
the country among others, to the Turner's, those
graceful riders and "gymnastys,n whose early
home we passed on return. There is scarcely
house, noteworthy for evidences of thrift and opu
lence In its owner, but was held by 81 an exhibit
tion-man, as our friend termed il. sTbere 81 said
he, pointing To fine mansion, '' lived a menage-
man, who recently died worth hundred thou
sand collars. He made good deal of money by
marriage lie married a kind of a sgua,r, reckon,
In the West Indies about week before his com
pany left. She rich as a Jew and in less
than week she made over to him thirty thousand
hard dollars. This pretty much ali he wanted .
expect; ior when has company came away,
4e came with 'em but his wife didn't know IT,
lie came away in the Lions cage, who was a great
friend OF his and he never his wife ag'i in nor
bis child, and his wife has seen him %
The President of the English ROYAL Academy
Sir Martin Arthur Shec, r. r. s.. died recently at
Brighton, after long and severe illness, at the age
Of eighty years. IL was upon his name that Lamb
once made an awful joke. Two men at a club
house suggesting the paternity OF a picture
on the walls, when one of them remarked, I'm
wager you guinea that that picture was painted
by shee." 81 beg your pardon" said Lamb, in
bis driest manner, but would il not be gram
matical 10 say painted by herr"
Through the kindness of an obliping friend we
visited the other day the Crofon D--m, one Of
the most magnificent profane structures of its kind
in America Our route lay along the eastern
bank Of Croton Lake, by a road which looked, by
glints, upon that charming body of water, and the
bright green shores which line il on either side.
At Pines Bridge" we drew rein TO rest Billy"
the horse, and look the latest journals at See
ley's pretty I" Croton Hotel" There's big half
hogshead anear, into which the deep blue noun.
tain spring water was running with lung sound;
and there young Knick' for the first time
long blue pickerel, that fresh water shark and
Power used to sing in sThe Groves of Barney, -
"wben he went TO take howld ov him didn't he i'm
magcntly swim away" Arrived at the d--m
we examined " the works" first fcasting our eyes
upon the sliding, gliding twin-sbects OF water,
breaking into featbery foam, that pour over the
huge gran1e walls. When we were examining
the rocky entrance-way 10 the great aqueduct, We
could not help wishing that every citizen who
draws lass OF water from a Croton {" fixture"
could be where were, TO see tho commencement
Of that flood which rolls its waters along a subter-
rancau passage for forty y-three miles, before il
reaches the metropolis. We don't half enough
value our commonest blessing, half frequently
enough think of the forecaste and public spirited
enterprise that have secured thom TO and TO our
posterity.
Mr.. Macready IL about taking his sixth "last
FAREWELL Of tho stage in London. lie took four in
this country.
We glanced over, at our friend Putnam's book
store the other morning the sheets Of The Songs of
BerGngu, translated by our esteemed contempora-
ry, Mr.. Young, Of the Aibion weekly journal No.
thing need exceed the beauty Of the topography
while the broad page, and, and above all, the
frequency and exceeding beauty OF the engrsvings,
leave nothing TO be desired in an illustrated work
Of the first class That the trsnslations are feci-
tous and faithful have the best assurance in the
examples heretofore afforded US by the translator
in the columns of his widely circulated and popu-
lar journal
From the Paris correspondence Of the Southerp Lit
0drv Messenger.