New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-04

re'peCt W. would Dot tave any oui-s"u iu
his case which could be construed into arg "tat
of appreciation OF nis mer,s, and We DO Dol say
what We bave 10 saY vita any reference TO hi n
But hope tbas this custom vii be henc"ro'tn
tOncreo by breach Is emphatic az iss observance
has be-u absLrdly sna pe-hnscioasiy en'orc'd
heretofore.
To sucb an extent has this ridiculous custom
been carried that there are severs cases Do record
il, ~ hich the lsment,d d, funct had never h"el AZ
Washington at sll, having died iG the interval De-
tween the eleceou aid the opening OF the session,
but VINO vas boz ALLOW ed ol that account 70 e.
cape the clutches # iegi,stofs hungrJ for holt
days, for which they were paid the same as Tor
W rhing days TIE theory of the thing 49, w'suP-
po.., that the scnsbiles of she members oi ooth
Houses are 20 keen that the deuise OF any ooe OF
their thee hur dred and old overcOnes them to
such an extt Mt that they are iocspicated for the
trsbsacton Of business und they have mournsd
over it in sscret places for the space OF tweutylJr
hour receiving therefor the sum OF eight l'wfal
dollars (undi the old pSn all the same as II they
lad b eD dOiugit The 81 mpathctic masn atlons OF
conoCiiDg consntuenis no dout. deplcted them
wbnoeiiDg disc uso late 10 tbe Congregational bury
rg groul d, ny ditetibe on graves and worms aud
tpitsphs" or else snut up in tn r closes absorbed
IN Young's "Night Thoughts" Blairs Grave.
Sherlock On Death or Dreiincourt on the same
meisnch1y TOPIC. 1t is barely possible that, Il
led5ctd to the last anaiys 5, they might have bsen
found sOmeWh here else, AID engaged in something
Z ". Drt tbs, itt.r here there.
II w,g,r they may have passed the 'lme 1t was
tins that d Let be.org to them, and which they
had DO buslt IS ~ heip themselves to- aud help
Themselves to the wages fr days work at the
ssUe tin g. IF their aHiction was so great as to
compel them TO abstain from their business, it
should Rave led ihem = the further mornhca.lon
of las Jig from their pr dtm
Nov the fact that .hc Honorable SnoOps Of Pap
pssorash Court House in Carolina or Tennessee
had pi7en up the gho-t at specified time, though
uidolbtedjy very interesting one to the Honor
able Snoop., his wife, family Cvefster negroes
ard CT, ditOrs, was not necessa'iy OF such vital
IMPORTANCE to the people of these Unted States
that hey sbou be mulctd therefor in the SUN Of
three or four thousand dollars Or whstever the
day e pay Of both Houses and all their myrndons
used to amount to,-st least without their dlstnct
consent first asked and obtained. Aud especially
if, ss in the cages just referred to- the Hon n)rabe
Snot ps had never actually contributed his quora
to the sum total of the Collective Wisdom,
IFS subtraction from which was very
expensive calamity. The new arrange
uent, however vicious ia its conception and in It's
bringing forth, we hope will put stopper upon
this nonsense. When Honorable Gentlemen, in
stead Of sac.ifcn ne Eight Dollars of Uhcle Sanuels
money 10 the mans Of the departed SnOOps, are
asked to offer Up an entire day, without any pecu
mary correlation therefor We opprohend they will
Learn TO ecoooUzc their time aud sensi5illties
better. We rather think they will put sufficient
ccnstraint upon their grief 70 90 on and do their
business" with oue auspicous sud one dropping
ye"-aId be satisfied with cub aiming the mem
oIy Of ,he santed Snoops in string OF lachrymose
resolutions, with ut deyotng an eleemosynary
twenty fours, worth ia the eross, at their own VAL
uation of the article SONS fifteen or twenty
ihousaI dollars, more or less, a propitiatory
tfeIng over bis grave.
This adjourniDg nuisance is one that is pecui lar
to this ccunuy Not OIL. d, es it obtain in Con
gress, but the business of almost every Court is
dclp,ed often 10 the ma eria loss Inconvenience
Of p-,tics, Whenever Judge or Member of the
Bar has paid the debt OF nature. At the next
oD some wretched victim is selected as the scape
goat of the Bar, to carry, If not all, yet large
nstament Of its fooli5bness before the Bench, and
10 be come fool for the sake of tbs transparent
humbug. The Judge elegacaly responds and ac
iouIus the Court thereby masiDg the suitors, jury
men and witnesses genuine mourners for the event
vbch has thus cOmpl caied their lhevit ibe an
cOysIces. la Eng and, any number OF Members
Of Parliament sleep with their fathers, AID
10 notice is taken Of il in the House,
except to move for New Wri- On the occasion
OF some half dozen deaths such as Sir Robert
PecIs, sMr. CsnBiogs, a Mr.. Perco7al's, BE.
P,tls, notice may raye been taken of the fact b.
the House and d speech or two made regarding
thtD but the cases are exceptional, not regular.
Ard in these cases the business of the country
proceeded MS usu4, after brief eplsoocal inter
ruI ton. And so with the Courts of Justice. The
dues Of the livDg are permitted TO be inter-
fertd with by tho deaths Cf Judges or Barfisters
The custom is an absurd one and /, is worse than
absurd, for il e, in ninety cases out Of hundred,
ere hypocrisy. Most Of the cases in which it
is caritd out remind. one of the slave.dryer, one
of the most brutal Of his kind, whom an Engli.h
traveller II the South faw with broad Grape round
biz bite hat worn as mourning memorial for tbs
dea Ia Of Laayetiel The whole thing is all Ameri
cs, U ard is on, Of tnOse national idiosyncraies,
Ike Slavery ard tobscco-chewing, OF which We
csrlot nd ourselves too soon.