New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-07
FROM BOSTON.

FROM Orz Own CorresJcndenr
BOsToN, Monday, Feb. 4, 1856.
Your Occasional Correspondents letter about
the Webster Festival has drawn down upon Inc
the wrath Of the Irregular Eew-YOrk Core
spondCnt" Of The Daily Bee, official paper
and Know-Nohng organ. After abusing me aud
TIE TRIBUNE rOundly, be consoles himself by
reading In the Boston Police Report that have
been sent TO prison for stcaling-a fellow named
siAoway who complimented you to the best Of hs
ability by assuming the title Of Correspondent Of
The TRIBUNE es the most respectable passport to
the confidence Of the community, having lately
been arrested and convicted Of swindling NUM-
Der Of our citizens. Without any particular wish
to avert tie anger Of the Regular Correspond
ent' aforesaid, must beg TO protest against being
suspected Of irrevcrence toward Mr.. Webster.
make it a rule TO speak always with decorous
respect OF whatever deity is worshipped by the
people around me. II / had lived at Ephesus
l,sO0 years ago. and had been the Own Core
spondent Of the Roman TRIBVYE, should have
been very careful not 10 seoh at Diana.
The trial of Coburn and Dalton for killing VIII
liam Sumner has terminated to the public satisfac-
ton IN verdict Of guilty Of assault aud battery
only. 1t WIS evident from the medical testimony
that Sumner died Of sore throat and that his in
jurics from the hands Of the husbands were not
riOus The trial has been unnecessarily protracted
by the inexperience Of Judge Nash, who was ap-
pointed 10 the bench last Fall by Governor Gard
ner solely because be was 4 Known Othing. His
position at the bar was not distinguished, aud to
the public at large he had given evidence OF no
other ability than pOetical one. He made a
brilliant manifestation of his genius in shat line by
celebrating the reelection Of Gardner in parody
on Nacaulay's battle Of Ivry, which was published
in TIE Bee rev days after the election. ! will
quote Cor your dolectatiOn the trst two lines and
also q stanza Of this mertoriOus production:
Nov glory to the Lord - Hosts from whom ~ gones
AID slot, 20 our gallant ehst, our Henry d Ns'sue"
oh h,~ hearts beating when election isy
We ssw the srmy Of the Leegne drawn ous array
IN All Is rieet led oEens and al ifs bel peers
With Bur'iis~lues blsek infantry and wasoas Freess
There the brood Of false Freeo ens n our lAxe
Tie Houson sexton IN The uhd trquheoa IN hs hand
AIe - looked OF them thought Of Woroeer treseb
brupd
And our sood Ga,aness youthful hair ali dsbbeG with hi.
Ass We csd snto che living God Who rs. The fate q ~sr
To h1hi or be loly name and Henry Nsysue.'
Could Henry Of Navarro do less than give the
poet JudgesiiP'
The counsel for CObum sud Dalton we're s ID.
Parker and K. II. Dana, jr.. TIVE of the nsst eIai-
nent and experienced lawyers in che city. The
position In which they stand toward Judge Nash,
may be sptly illurrsted by remark made By
distinguished member Of the bar who had 0b-
served the progress Of the trial He said il could
only be psralleIed by supPosing difficult surgiel
operation 20 be- performed at the Massachusetts,
Hospital by Drs. Warren and BigelOw, under tue
direction Of confident yOung medical student,
well read in the looks but very little used TO
practice.
In q recent article in TIE TRIBUNE on Mr. B.
+. Hsett, the United States District Attorney
for hsS.Aohusetts, you request one Of your Boston
correspondents to send you the character Of him
drawn by The Boston Posi-. ] would willingly do
~, were it not that that character though graphic
aud elaborate ia sufficiently summed mp BY you ia
the sentence that he j. "a soldier Of fortune who
" only pretended % b. Democrat for the sake Of