New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-11
FROM BOSTON.
From An Occasional Correspondent
BOSTON. Saturday Feb q

ent, that he has bad That active though irritable
insect Tie Boston Bee, (belongng, Ibelieve 10 the
burrowiDg species known to science as the Bonju,
| Ttrrestri', TO poetry as the Humble Bee, and to
childhood as the Bundle Bee, aud remarkable
chiefly for its supnensss, its business and its use
fulness)-1 ssy / see that be has had The Bee
brandisLing its sting about his head for INV sins.
Here you will see another proof Of the truth of
what told you OF the endemic insanity which pre-
walls hereabouts known as the WebsteYomonia Y
have not seen the article Of which he speaks, but
from what be says OF it. there can be no mistake as
to its character. The Bee was think, an active
Webster paper at the time the distemper
was at its hight and before it's fury was
reduced in some degree and it's type changed
by the wholesome depletion administered by the
consultation OF physicians held at Baltimore on
the 2lst June, 1852. You will see in this instance
all the signs Of mania laid down by the faculty,
especially that of misunderstanding and msliking
their best friends, on the part Of the patients.
You will bear Inc witness as to the extreme gentle
ness and kindness which have shown to these un.
happy suferers-a course from which l shall not
be diverted by anything any of them may say in
any OF their parOXysms Like other chronic
Of mental distemperature, the case must be work
Of time Fortunately, we know from the nature
Of its exciting cause that it cannot become heredl-
taTy and affect any generations vet unborn.
believe your Own Correspondent has told you
of the action brought by young apothecarys ap
prentice against our gallant Major General Ed
mtnds Mayor Smith, and Captain Evans, for inju
res received on the day of the great triumph over
Anthony Burns. 1t seems this lad had been sen
to Boston from Roxbury by his master on an err
rand, and was passing through the streets guarded
by the company Of Captain Evans with bottle of
ink in his hand. Now there had been a rumor that
cur brave fellows were to be attacked with vitriol
and il is said that they were almost beside them
selves with fear on this account through the day.
This however, believe to be mere calumny.
But be this as it might, when the enemy was seen
approaching with the bottle in his hand, Captain
Evans, at the head of bis company, charged him
in the most gallant manner, and after severe
struggle succeeded in cutting him down and making
him prisoner. AS the city was under martial law
that day. BY order of Dictator Smith, he was, with
great justice though without shadow of law,
locked up in some dOg-hOe for twenty-four hours
or 30. The master of the lad told me that in con-
sequence of bis injuries bis mind had been sOmuch
affected that he would probably never be able to
do anything toward supporting himself and his
mother who was mainly dependent on him. BIT
what then
For things Ike that yOu know, must be
At every famous victory
il you will believe it, this abandoned youth has
found lawyers and hackers to encourage him to
bring an action against the gallant officers and en-
inent magistrate above mentioned for 800, 600
When it came on for trial at Dedham awhile ago,
Judge Herrick refused to take the responsibility
Ofruling on the law in the casc and had ireserved
for the Fall Bench which now has it under consd-
Grafton In my opinion Captain Evans was fully
justified in his course the admitted facts of the
case. For, conceive, ink is liquid much more
to be dreaded than vitriOl, by all who took
any share in the glories of that day. And |
will bet you dinner at Delmonicos the
next time / am in York, that the Supreme
etaiO vulnO Npu Will mUh
when tell you that one of the plaintiffs counsel
told me that he looked for favorable decision,
because not only justice but law was on his side
/ withhold his name, lest his extravaganza should
be an injury to him in his profession.
Your remarks on the CObun and Dalton trial
have met with general appreciation hercabout, as
far as / have heard say. The medical testimony
had faded out so much in the interval between the
commttal and the trial. that it was hardly possible
to convict them. Had the doctors held TO their
original opinion that Sumner would not have died
had il not been for the injuries, do not see now
thew could hare been convicted Of mdRSGpghter.
/ conceive that if party is inveiged on false
d retenses into an Out-0t-the-way place by Other
parties. and there injured to such an extent that
he dies within year and day, that the crime is
murder, and that the killing parties ayerrDg that
they did not mean to hurt him so much Will not
save them harmless. They took the chance OF that
when they undertook the unlawful action. AT
any rate. this seems to me common sense, II not
common law. But there is general dis
position to acquiesce in the verdict, and gen.
eral feeling that their punishment will be sufficient
for them. Several weeks close imprisonment On
charge of murder, the bad notoreiy which has
been given to them and all connected with them,
the shame and disgrace brought on their respect
able families and the injury which must result
from all these things to their prospects IN lie,
NAV satisfy the desire of poor Summers friends
for Justice. Especially the one OF them VINO
allowed his ingenious counsel, by hint and IN
uendo, to blast the character OF his chlid'Wne-a
qiddy girl of eighteen, who married him when she
sbould have been at school. Justice does not
ALWAYS require the gsllOws or the penltentlary 10
satisfy her demands.
I see YOU make great complaints among you,
of the state Of your streets. Ours were as bad as
YOURS can be, but our city government have TAKEN
strenuous measures for the amendment Oh our
WAYS. For the last week or two numerous gangs
Of iaborers have been employed in breaking up the
snow. first with plows and afterward with pick
axes, and carting it of The Common has been
entirely covered with the loads which have been
dnmped there, and which will reappear IN
Spriop in the freshness and greenh Ito use Hor-
ace Walpolesm) of the grass. They are now
pitching their loads into the docks am tod.
Thus. by beginning with the most thronged thor,
onohfares the streets have been gradually reduced
10 their natural level, to the great convenience OF
travellers. Beside this direct and public beneht,
the indirect GOOD which is done in thus furnishing
employment for hundreds of hands which would
otherwise be idle or worse, during voorhees,
Winter" is incalculable. Ii is the very best form
of public charity worth all the sOup-kltchens mat
were ever set boiling up bones. 1T belongs TO the
class of that true charity which helps the poor by
enabling them 10 help themselves and c9lIlvales
tIeir self respect, while it furnishes them and
-: .Lulro, Nth bread. so that from the plOwed