New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-12
BOSTON.


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'"''p'''''' BOSTON SATURDAY, April 9, 1853.
Sweet touches of Spring have at length visited this
metropolis of the ice trade. The town having been
washed by one of the finest thundershowers
featured aof our State Fast which came off Thursday
was anything but a sour occasion. The streets and
places Of amusement thronged with short, happy
faces and what few were to be seen in the Churches
were not Of the longest The Common, which had sud
denly put on its green velvet sack for the OCCASION
covered with frOckng children and bOyant sprigs of
manhood armed with the ballclub. The Frog Pond
Fountain did its prettiest and thanks to the genial in
fuence of the day, If our people did not sufficiently
mourn National and State SINS they did not increase
them by mOrOseness and stagnatiOn.
With the loosening of the frost-bands the gentle
population that merely hybernates in Boston, begins to
pack up aud be off For these two next months, il has
leg in the country and the other in the city. The
pains which principal citizens take in cuvang and
improving their country estates, are yearly increasing
greatly for the general good And is not confined to
their properties but expands itself to the encOur
agement of agricultural and horticultural societies diff
fusing among the rural population more ambition,
knowledge, and good taste Under this influence, the
general style of architecture, fencing farming orchard
ing and gardening in the vicinity of the city, and for
indeed two hours of railroad ride in every direction
rapidly improving. This is making some amends to us
for the uncomfortable pressure of foreign population
within our watery walls
But the capital of wealthy Bostonians is not entirely
devoted to suburban extra-mura cultivation Be-
sides the liberal subscription for new and spacious
Theater where the highest creations of musical genius
will find fitting home, our old favorite the Atheneum
has taken fresh start The loud talk of giving il away
TO the City has had the desired effect 1t was no doubt
clever of its anxious particular friends and for
One am delighted with its success A subscription is
rapidly circulating in quarters where there pen-
ty of funds salted down. which is already said to have
received about $4,000 and by whchit is expected to
raise three times that amount This will enable the Ahe-
neum TO carry out its plans and make itself noble asylum
for the stuGous far higher benefit to the City than
turning into popular library its treasures for the most
part poorly adapted for such purpose The City Lii
brary will be started and accumulated on its own basis
to be filled chiefly with works useful to conduct the mil
lion forward from the point where it finds Them to high
and higher mental attachments i'm every direction
The Atheneum Library for the most part is for the
literary and scientific minor the veteran deliver and as
such it should be cherished and enriched Both nstitu-
ions equally essential to the success of our great
educational system and by separate existence will pro-
mote each others prosperity and usefulness
With the thawng out and the increasing interest in
European politics. many of leading people are pre-
pairing to cross the brine tours of pleasure or obser
walton. Among those mentioned as shortly TO embark
are Chief Justice Shaw, Judge Washburn, and Prof.
FELTON, The latter will visit Greece see with hs own
eyes the vulgar realities which remain of the classic
past and reve in the garlic breath of his ideal Ducinea
del Toboso. What disenchantment must such pill
grimage be to the worshipper of Greek lerature But
depend upon il, FELTON, will make fun out of it, if We
we're only on the spot TO enjoy the sport As for our
venerable Chief Justice he will how European lust
zee pows TO the chains He will take not the first lesson
l NOV nm that dignity and ermne not synonymous
~ sneoeshess, and that there is probably no magin
aoie form OF wickedness which human Judiciary nav
.s &c uer. W sustain What judicial inquity in the
icuen ponned fabrics Of Europe he can find To wonder
human ns,nres VI; own own courthouse chained up against
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