New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-20
FROM BOSTON,.
THE FRANKLIN MONUMENT, AND OTHER
MATTERS.
From An Occasional Correspondent.

From An Occasional Correspondent
BOSTON, Sept. Is, 1856.
Ipromsed you in my last letter that if you COM
piled with certain conditions therein named, you
might expect to hear from HE soon again. AS l
perceive by Yesterdays TRIBUNE that you have
strictly performed your part of the contract-there
not being a single misprnt that l could discover,
nor yet anything cut out that | notlced--t Is but
fair that come up to time on my part
l suppose you would like to hear something
about the Inauguration of the Franklin Statue
yesterday; but, whether or no, you must take what
have to give you or let it alone. Well, in the first
place, the weather was perfect; it was warm ana
not too warm; the dust laid and the sun shone
with lust enough Of an occasional cloud 10 give
himself grace and variety. The streets were
swarming with peope-thc railways having oeen
employed i'll disgorging carrlage-ioads Oh human n"-
ture for A. hours before. The hcgcS were woke
bet;ucs by the ringing of bells and savo OF artil-
lery at sunrise. Happily, the sun has reformed IN
some measure those habits of incorporate carry
RISING TO which he is addicted about the Fourth oil
,July. 50 that this particular numbering OF sleep
did not put in jeopardy as many immortal souls rs
usual, through prOiaue cursng aud swearing. All
who ldu any part vi lol Ill INT pIoCcshloH~aiu ~
seemed as If 1t must absorb hall the population
had to report themselves for duty by : o'clock,
20 that early call was not amlSS Tor them A.
for the rest OF mankind (ncluding w0menhlnd and
chldknd), happy were they who had relatives or
friends with houses on the streets through which
the procession was TO pass, from the windows or
balconies OF which they could sit and look
fortably on, instead OF having to stand very idr
from at ease during lis mtermlnablc Journey.
These streets were very pre- ttIly hung with Il lgs
in various devices, and decorated with flowers, and
illustrated with notices generally tak"n from the
Proyerbal Philosophy Os FrdnklI-nIi OF NJ irtin
Farquhar Topper The procession vas headed, of
course, by the Sims Bfigld and Burns Guard
those flies We must have IN every pot Of ointment,
without escape. After they had been guped do yn
and the great men OF the City and State had passed
away (as even great men WHY, The most interest
inc mart of the affair came along IN me representa-
tives of the Trade. | had forgotten there were
So many: but they were all there, i'on the Silver
smiths with the bes utful trophies OF their wares
and the bell.iounders with mighty specimen vi
their skill and the pianO-tOre makers with curious
contrasts of the past and present OF their craft 10
NV worthy friend Professor S"amburg tthe only
colorcd artist whom obseryed), who asslduously
81 aupooed the head of n sublect-pcrhaps 1 Shoiid
rather say of d patient-for The space OF more ui'h
seven miles and OF three hours lacking nVe MINUTES
Tie contrast between the plano-iortes oi uis DAY
ard even those made thirty years ago, when Jonas
Chckering first went into thc business, was very
striking, and still more with an old haTp-lcnofu,
81 lie date Of 1919 fourteen years before Viesn