New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-09

by sending to England for them To England" "a
claimed the lady, Speaking very quickly | thinkthr
Americans ought 10 drive the English instead Of the
English driving the Americans We dd. Madam.
IN the late var, reolnej the officer but since the
peace, We have permitted the English 70 drive Us
There Was TO more lulzzng Of the American dur.
ing the dinner He waited IN VAN. hike sam Welle,
IN g Bartell rs Plckvick." for the mex; question
COOK IN PasroSlNE
Cooke. the great trageilaa, Whose Der~on ant
! manners VIII still De remembered BY many IA New
York; endeavoFea on one occasion, at the table of
friend 10 make ms host gnsss ~ the representation
OF certain passions trOm The a>>pnei expression nj
his features Ills power Of face however was ,No
much les>ened by the VINE he had drank 10 b. SUI
cessiul The miSconcepuon OF Fear for Anger,
ana OF sympathy Tor jealousy on the mar, NJ H.,
host raised COOKS ne Look asa,n Sir - no a,
clAined. making up face that wa> a the same linn,
! malignant and Ieerlng Who : that S.r'' VS.
! pronounced 10 De Revenge Re-rcsSs' e,acula
ted the great Observation-Disclosures you tolt
| that's Lows Look aslin-,lant Won 40, tha, !, D.,
LOVE- Inc attempt 70 hishien the doubtful passion
~ addltlonai distortion was TIE last hair that broke
the canleES back The hos; mcon;non,ly fed TIE
table. leaving ms guest Alone IN hiS matilln glory
PUN.
L would have made gOod old Elias Hicks himself
.augh on first-da} 10 near our friend Beard, the
distinguished Western artist, mention he delivery 0,
4 conundrum which he once heard IN TN, STATE
tall, red-halrsi. 'seroiubiOu> scrt OF o,eryrown
boy, who was designed for the ministry. and mai
lusi obtained his parchment IRON an Eastern
tbliCgC, WAS CdllcN upon. ~ ltftilg SuNDeF IN
make speech. He eNccsed himself by saying |
don't know any speech that can say neow' He
was asked tor song No. he never c0E!i Ssas
ieOund that out when he first went 10 slagn school
However. beng hard pressed for something he
said looking NJ and twisting NaShfuilv his ions
irecked fingers, can tell conunirum that ma,e
myself las; week Il come 10 me first one alsA,
when was abed AMI made It out next day. AMI
wrote II down on piece ot paper | got II here
meow so saving. he took tom HIS walscoat.pocke,
! 4 slip of paper, and read What village IN Yors
State - the name A. the Promised Land
There some guessing. but NJ last II WIS given
up and a solution requested = . tdHd1fngrir AZ
length eNpOunded the proposer. But the COMPANY
were still much IN the dark a. ever. 'Canan.
dalgua exclaimed a dozen IN a breath why-hoy
-ukere Is there any resemblance 10 the Promised
Land Can't see the slightest Why YOU sep
said the conundmm-maScr fais j. the way ont
yeou mus, DIVIDE the word. and instead of caa.an
YOU must say Conan and throw the dalgnd away
Canaan was the Promised Land. see" A resist,
less and united gufaw followed tins forced conSr.r
ton, which the eNpounder nMstoOk for admiration
Amt IL tuSt-rate cOnundrlm said he. with vi<.
bic chuckc, that only increased the obSreperou>
cachlnation. We shouldn't ike ~ look ut 50 brigh,
an intellectual luminary rs this. cxcep, through A
piece OF smoked glass.
Samuel IIueson)
Ralph Seawulf got OF pun the other morn
ing We were riding together toward Snedeker',
matchlesS roadside inn: after young. spirited. ami
Old Knck don't draw hun IN So hard That's
the way he has been taught heretofore SAID Sea
wulk without moving muscle We rather th,nA
he didn't see the word-pay himself until We tOldhlm
of II, about IN hour aerward.
~ The CHRISTIAN EXAMlNER." Tor
July on the whole. Is a duh number. A vedeemins
feature Is Rev Henry Hedges Address the presen,
state of Ecclesiastical ChuStendom" which Is
wise. scholar-hke. and admirably wordcd proiuc.
ton Dr. Dewey has IN article on The state and
craftsmanship" a shade too ambitious IN conception
and style but containing some impressive passages.
For instance, the following blt of experience IN
Washington life Is well-told and strictly true to the
letter.
sCENE WASHINGTON
Three years ago the writer of this article passed
Winter III Washington He attended the debates o.
the House day after day perhaps he would never
have known what they were but fos that actual IN
spection lie heard men. for the first time in his life
making speeches 10 nobody and for nothing for
nothing that Is TO say that concerned the business OF
that assembly IL Is literal fact that often not hye
persons, sometimes not one person. apparently, IN
that whole house. was paying any attention 10 the
speaker. Why Shouldthey The speech-of course
their were eNceplons-but four times ont al I'VE the
speech was sort of caucus defamation the sub
stance OF which had already been SAID over
and over again twenty or thirty times, and was not
intended for the enlightenment of any body there
present Thus the session was wearlngaway One
evening, the close of II, hs writer surprised
by a VISIT from Committee of Inventors assembled
al Washington 10 obtain the passage of patent law
who came 10 ask hun If he would deliver lecture
SON the claims of inventive art the next evening,
IN the Hall of the House OF Representatives. they
thought Il would be of To their cause thus to
invite the public attention Ia u, and the time was
pressing lle was obi ged to answer that II was I'M
possible Tor him, such short notice, 10 DO a thing
entirely out of his way aud, indeed h. may say,
without any affected humility, thai their application
10 him proof enough how humble were their
means of influence Wing Committee, or Demo
cratic Committee, or Committee On the Tanf,
would have been in no such frleDdless predcament
However, they interested HIM so much, thai he toi
them he would do all he could do he would spend
the next day IN going round and speaking with me
members whom he knew Accordingly, he was gm-
~ for OF becoming " "A lobby member lie "enI
to the Speaker and 10 the most influential membersoi
the House. They all said they had no particular Cd
lection 10 the bill before them It dh require more
thorough discussion II difficult subject 10 deai
with but the great disbursement n0io was want ol
time they feared II could not be properly got before
them but If II did come up, they promised to vote
for H. II did come up II passed she House anu the
next day, the last OF the session, was lost IN the
Senate by the merest chlcanery And thus an I'M
portant measure, involving the welfare OF many
merltorlOus and worthy men. was whlstied down .h'
wind on the breath OF IDLE debate. lie 81" thr &C.
suit with PAIN and Indignation, and then Iesoseu
that, IN some form or other, he would make ms pro
test against the crying injustice of turning the nono
OF our supreme legislature into a cancusng-haiL
(SOld by &. :. Francis & Coz
~ The NoRrH-AMERcAN REVIEW,
July, opens with article on The Life Of southey,
written with the chaste and elegant proprietJ when
usually marks the best contributions TO tina, journal
Gllfllans Bards OF the Bible " is the subject Of
slashing review, interarded with all sorts OF broken
phrases that could be picked up at the ruins OF Babel
and commenting OH the faults u that risky scotch
with an atroclous mixture Of pedaniry and vie
taste, compared with which his most exubefant D.
censes are mot a circumstance" Such baoblins
puen.ties or senllites were snrely never before al
United into decent Quarterly Prof Johnston'
Notes on North-Amerca" receives deserved re-