New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-07

lcfk pepper which 10 symptomntc OF high degree
Of febrile e1citation the part Of those uuforta
nSte sufferers. Just hear how my afflicted fellow.
| citizen rsyes on the subject of your poor dear
Occasional Correspondent. After doing me the
hoIOr 10 attribute, In an article headed "The
HyCua Again." my poor considerations 10 very
harmless gentleman. for whom have the highest
possible regard. and on whose good opinion | set
the GRE attest value but whose fault Of he have any
is VIGOROUSLY an excessive and inordinste anna
bily the patient proceeds 10 characterize me- in
his person. after this fashion: 1t seems my
.fmaQnity and hatred toward Daniel Webster
= could not stop at the gates Of the tomb and my
"Bsrrow, worthless and depraved soul Is con.
"stsnty at work to relieve itself OF the venom
"ous slime and SLAYER with which it is over
" charged, and which is always directed against
1.-The reputation OF the honored dead. and that the
"Choul (meaning your humble seryant) is at bis
Characteristic work again" Is itnOt dreadful
TO listen to such an explosion of frenzy "Out
"hyperbolical iend how vexest thou this man |"
Is there any cure in straw and darkness for such
d chronic CT Sc as this
The New-York writer is not so violent in his dem
onstratons, but his is no less one of unques-
tionable dsmerey. He heads his article 1.-The
Howling Of the Wolves" and Gays that your Occa-
sional Core spondent, with the malignty Of the
print TO which he belongs, attempts to heap
'Odinm on the memory of Mr.. Webster in conse
"uuence of his great speech in the Senate in sup
port of the Compromise measures" After quot
ing what seems to me most harmless paragraph
"a a specimen of my venom" the sufferer maun-
deIs on as follows:
fortunate that the fame OF the departed statesman OF
Massachusetts, not in the keeping Of these deame OF his
character He sleeps mindful OF their furious howl over
his and bis anne will stall be radiant with imPeha5e
glory long AFTER biz enemies consigned to eternal Obseur
America has had few whose overshaiowns greatness will
loom grsndy from the pse OF history or whose rePut
Ill well survive the moot malignant assaults of MS 40
tie past by sodk era eur hch made
before mssy Of his intellect while he lived
which orator statesman and patriot he reflected upon
his try than Americans reye his memory by
Joining The tsnaca which the Aboouists have set
~ b.y ,ba tn ne ~ Islander csn never reach him nor De.
om the respect due 10 Lis memory Like the sungt
reaches to the heavens and sparkle, Ia the skies"
Really some steps should be taken, if not BY
the friends of this unhappy person on his own &C
count then by the authorities TO save the pub
lie from such melancholy displays as this, and
perhaps to save him from lapsng into utter and
incurable idiocy. Prompt treatment is OF the first
importance in cases of this kind. But these
instances will pro7e to you the truth of my state
ments as TO the type and malignancy Of this latest
form of cerebral disease, which demands the
earnest ard prompt attention of science as well as
of humanity to check its ravages and mitigate lts
paroxysms.
Let us turn from these melancholy topics to
some thing little more cheerful. Well, then, you
must know we have bad very nice Qf you will
excuse the Cockneyism) new comedy produced at
the Boston Theater this week called "'Tis Ill
PLAYING with Edged Tools" 1ts powerful vice
WAS that il had moral sticking out of it from be-
ginning TO end and it had rather more ofthe nprob-
abilities one has to take for granted in the develop
nent of all plots than were absolutely necessary.
Now. imprObabilities, like lies, should BIO used
with the greatest economy, and no unnecessary
waste permitted in either case. The story turns
on the distresses iLsO which Mrs. Golde, the
Young wife of an old Wall street banker, falls by
sliding imperceptibly into gambling and stockjob.
bling. and on the designs which wicked old
bachelor POUNDS upon them, and their defeat by
yirtuOus young man. former lover OF the lady
need not say. who is rewarded by marrying the
sister of the same Out OF these materials the
author has worked out very effective play, which
keeps the attention of the audience fixed through
ont and leaves them in state OF entire satisfaction.
Perhars the most fagrsnt improbabilities among
these TO which have alluded, was the refusal OF
Col. Goldie, the banker, to take the trouble to
carry down in town $4,000, the fortune OF the
Young lady, which had just been paid in, and leav-
iro il with his wife. This was necessary, to be
sure as part Of the distress was to arise from the
wifes appropriatingit TO her own uses; but IL might
have been managed, should think, without the
shock 10 American nerves inseparable from SO un.
natural an Indifference 20 the handling of round
sum of money on the part OF any tree and en-
liehtened citizen, let alone a Newton Banker.
Then. 10 not imagine that it is common In the
world above Beecker TO have marriage ar
ranged for young lady for the same evening on
which her guardians consent has been gained and
before her own has been asked And the young
gentleman was little too 10th TO be oil with the
old love before he was with the new, to leave
an entirely agreeable impression on the mind.
With little more ingenuity applied TO tue re-
moyal of these incOpgruites, it seems to me that
it would be one of the very best OF the modern
school of plays Anl with all It's faults IL IS really
excellent.
And it was most admirably mounted and super
admirably PLAYED. Mrs. Barrow Formerly Miss
.Julia BennetD played the heroine with great
mower and delicate Discrimination; and Miss Bid
dies rendered the young slster with much spirit
and raTcete Both were admirably dressed. Mrs.
Belton acted the young man of the play extremely
well. But Mr.. Gilbert and Mr.. Barry as toe old
soldier turned banker, and the naughty old bsohe-
lor were beysnd praise. Their art was OF that
that it ceased to be art and was ma
lure itself | cannot conserve OF the best trencn
actors being more exactly the thing they pretended
to be than they were. The extent OF the seage ana
the substantial elegance of the furniture and all
the accompaniment really gave the stage the air
of the centleman's house 10 represented and one
can hare dvest oneself OF the idea That u was noe
a New.York drawing. room he had been looking
into all the evening. The name of the author has
not escaped as yet On the first night Mr.. Barry,
ON being called before the curtain, assured tho
audience that be did not know who the aui4sS'
WA, the MSS. having been sent 10 him sn6ny
mousy. 1t has bad very good run for wee
and do not see why il should not succeed as - 81
everywhere as that dreary Morality, Still vat er
Run Deep, which filled so man. theatres IS
many nights
Perhaps il lie = weakness on ny part, oi&s cor
e.. ,bs, ike a comedy TO be Flnny; ~ ia :