New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-22


There = one did Laugh 10 bis sleep and cied murder!
That they die wake each oher stood and heard them;
But they did their prayers and dthem again 70
Macbeth sbou, the guardians of American Liberty.
The Arctic!
Byery heart knoweth its own bitterness
Every nation nouns.
American homes add another note to the wall OF
agony that hung on the dead list of Alma
Heaven incline Nicholas to peace
Grant grace to the afflicted and caution to our esp
tains
IL it our Governmout-our national spirit that is in
fault
Can we not afford powder and bells, and men 70
sound them in a fog
Must we gorge Mooch to safety for the sake of be-
ing the smartest nation in all crt alton T.
The Greeks sacrificed before Troy-the ancient
Me1icans offered their parents to their gods. Are the
victims of tho New World martyrs to religious
faith Is it thus that the great Republic seeks to
seduce the fates
Nature Is at discord, and mems minds are Ill at
ease. Whether the heavens have been troubled by
mems acts or whether the spirits Of the air have
crazed mems brains, is not the question Neverthe-
lees the RACES Of the Equinox have been forerun aud
followed by wonders as marvellous as those when
otis said the horses Of Duncan they eat each other"
" They did So 10 the amazement of mine eyes"-that
is, each mania has devoured the other
During dog-days there was the mania of vacations
and sea-baths there was the mania OF virtue at the
Academy, the mania Of war in the Cabinet, the mania
of reviews at Bouogne the mania for the march to
Berlin in the spring, and the mania for the liberation
Of Poland as the ultimstum Of the war. There has
been the incipient fever the naisssut fearfuy in'
creasiDg, aud reapsing rage Of SeyastOpe, the rap
ture and wall Of Alma. There have been the mad
cap leaps and crazy races Of Long Champs and The
Imperial prizes Of the Champ de Mans There have
been deriums for Rachel spasms for George Sand
and hysterical laugh for Barbss, the loyal enemy
" to the Government"
And yet there mania crazier than al the others
fear to turn your heads, too. | hesitate, am re-
Elective. Do I trespass on the rights Of nations
VIII England interfere Dare kindle by contagion
IL Juror that since before the cancue has possessed
US here
Iyield. The mania is too delightful, the delirium
too delicious-like the most exquisite of woman's
passions it leads TO conquest-to entire possession
Its joys, The opiurnester never more than realized
its revols not at the vscuum--it as
no sorows. Once grated, DEERE buds to hope,
BLOSSOMS 10 laltn, rpens 70 rutOn IL NOT forbid
den fruit yet it ia less charming no less pleasant.
Aside from its pleasure and its folly it has stand.
point in utility. Il has produced an epoch Of art and
artieies-Of pots and pans, papers and paintspsgo.
das-p0tickes.
Huh ] have let the cat out of the bag Never
mind-we DO not want to shake cat any more than
Mr. Dick ddyour soul is on the leap as If it hsd its
Pythagorean possessions in feline breast your
clamation is: :" / have g." 81 am hew
China, your occupations gomez
Japan and Perry, your expeditions null 70
81 have towers of porcelain"
81 am worshipped in psgods." az write my or.
" acies in POtiehe" 81 sm Poti-cho-mania, the
great Cog and Magog of the Parisians."
PO, not Poh and mania, embracing two Chinese
sneezes, Il and ehO, spell my name"
Speaking after the manner Of men, Potick0maaia
means a mania for making Chinese Potiches.
P0tieh means polish thing; thing like vase.
"Pstichomania," says my my little handbook,
is the art Of decorating glass was at Tours the
graceful capital Of Touraine. ths. this charming
caprice had its origin"
Now by this cunning trick ali the world 10 aiming to
decorate its gardens and pedestas, its saloons, chin
ney pieces tables and cupboards, with reproductions
Of the wonders Of Egypt and Etrusa, of Japan China
and Sevres. Art and caprice, the real and the sham,
arc in struggle, and the conflict Is likely 10 DO no more