New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-24
ALUMNI or THE FREE ACADEMY.


% tie Nev-York Free Academy was held last evening
at the Church of the Puritans, Chs L. MATTHEWS,
President, in tie chair.
The exercises were opened with music and prayer
by the Rev. Dr. MATTHEWS.
Prot. GEo. W. GREENE then delivered an Grafton
on The Philosophy of History. He commenced by
ouding to the for the past which Was seen
in The earliest literature and ccnrasted it with ths
American admiration for the achievements OF the
present which he recounted with considerable ervor
He considered the lite Of the world to be made up Of
many individual lives, aud that the same unhroken
round Of origin progress and decay, hsd been pur-
sued ever siIce creation. The same thfeah ran
through the soul Of human existence forever. Ile
orator concluded by addressing few remarks 10 the
Alumni present
After a March, from Meyerbeer's Prophetic, which
was EN- husis stically encOred,
The Hon. JONI G. SAKE delivered a Poem on tho
Pres, from which make a few extracts:
The PREss.
The Art of arts that, scorning humber birth,
Came a. bound Upon the wondering earth,
Fu-ar1ned and strong her instant might 10 prove
A lew Minerva from the brain Of Joye
The POwER-FREss.
Strange il the sound when first the notes begin
Where hum AZ voices blend with Vulcan's din;
The click the cauk the clangor and the sound
Ofrsttng rollers m their rapid round;
Tie whizzpg belt the harsh metallic jar.
The whispering birth Of myriad lying leaves
Gathered anon In countless molly sheayes-
Tten scattered far rs on the winged wind
The mortal nurture of the immortal mind.
AUTHORS vs.. BOOK-MAKERs.
Scarce a round dozen. at the best, remain
OfaIl hat, once among the authoritarian
Wrote books like scholars; nor esteemed 1t hard
Genius like Virtue IFS own reward
o, gertle Irying-tbou whose every grace
OF wit and learning gave the highest place
L. a. pf
In all thy dreaming didst thou ever dream
To see thy trade mere mechanic art,
Tie servile mnion of the boOkish mart
When authorship should be the merest trade,
And men make books as hats and boots are made
Didst ever dream that thou shouldst see the day
When the vexed Pres should spawn the vast array
Oftrashy tones that on The public burst
So fact they print the tenth edition first
thou hast not read them. God forbid 1t racks
Ones brain enough 90 see their brazen baeHsi
Yet thou wilt smile, know, when thou AIT told
That with each book, the buyer too il " sold;"
That soon the putting art shall all be vain,
And sense and reason rule the town again.
THE DAILY PAPERS.
Sweet to the traveller is the uIchins chimes
Proclsming " Eres your Tribune, E9alf, Times J!
Those lively records of each passing day
That catch the echo ere II dies away
OF bettle bravery sudden desth and ell
1het mortal minds can startle or appail
Letters describing festive rural scenes;
Shin news-ltoo often - news for the marines
FoTtnne's BRIGHT favor and msfortunes shocks;
Tie fall of Hungary and the fall Of stocks;
The important;page thst tells the thrilling tale
How Fmpires rise and Red Republics fail
How Englands lion lettering ia his lair,
ESSAYS in vain to fright the Russian bear;
How France bemOanng the expensive war
Would Give her 4" Louis" TO save her IONS dori
While the poor Turk, such hapless luck attends,
Cries Gracious Allah save NE from my friends :!
MODERN POETS.
While BRYANT largely gifted TO rehesrse
Ngturcg Great Eiics IN suhllmcft verse,
Carelf 70 Of al that Genius covets most,
Sticks Ike sentry to his Evening Post;
While IloLMEs, the subess of the tnneful throng,
With mirth and laug httr TO inform his song,
Perversc ueclecis his hearts resounding tones
% To 10 like Sambo--scieuce on the bones;
While cen HYPERIoS, whose other name,
Though smooth and round upon the voice otiame,
Not lis op u ant, tfanscendant and divine,
Could drill 10 order in heroic line
Fen he grown weary of bis own sweet lays,
Adds scarce a leallet to bis early bays
Ard SToDDARD, chefest Of our younger bards,
Adversely and we're at once discards,
Profcrrng wisely solid beef to bays
And rea pudding to ideal prafe;
zen highlands laureate snug III bis abode,
Just waibles forth ounGng annual ode,
Then sinks to silence, a. himself was shut,
Another Clarence in his Mslmsey out,.
Tie Poem elected the most unbounded applause.
After the Benediction portion of the audience re-
NAMED to hear an Organ Fugue by Geo. W. Morgan,
who presided at the organ.