New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-08
FROM BOSTON.
PEMAQUID.
oud Correspondent

Ina. thinking about eventide to day, as was
.r.IL;ne along by the old State House, that 1T was
time sent you letter, and was beating my brains
for something to say when, lifting up my eyes,
saw my own paine eTblazoned on the bulletin
board Of The Boston Courier. Three steps and
three cents made me the lawful possessOr of copy
and of the Notifying knowledge that The Courier
does not mind what have said about 1t. Ihere
can be no doubt On the subject f)r there it ls down
in black aud white, in near column OF verse rery
blank) and prose 1t seems that The Courier, ike
the owners Of Warren's Backing, "keeps poet
And one emnently fitted to shine in that shining
branch Of the art-who was moved to pour forth his
soul in song on so great an occasion. MIR. Byes Is
discovered with package of TRIBUNEs before him
bemoaning himself because Of the Jesse which he
hath had given him by The Courier. 1t seems thai
my shafts,
"Thoush ,hsIpensd by myself aye bar6ed and dipped
In acrimonious veLom,"
are flung back on me-Of which, indeed, have had
a slight suspicion beforehand fall
"wth veneeful thwacks my devoted head,
ss ScS Sn YET ssI Se DSscSed point
Innocuous opens my mcphitic veins,
Tho venom miDslins with consenial streams"
After some fifty verses fully as good as these the
author ceases to begin his lines with capital letters
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will agree with me presently that like all great
poets, his prose is almost as good as his poetry.
The ghost of Or. Mather Byles enters and rebukes
his SYNONYM for taking his name and that OF The
Courier in vain. The doctor having been eminently
q gentleman as well wit, while in the flesh,
you can judge of the deEcacy of touch with which
this master-hand depicts his character by the few
following lines out of near half column: Then you
-"are fool Did you ever give anybody six
"peDce that really wanted it Then you're
ga rascal. You are practically Pagan.
You ought to get turban and robe
forthwith. and whether they take you for Pagan
a. or AN old woman doesn't much matter.
"Get rid of your loose notions, your unsufterabe
copceit, your malignant philanthropy, your less
ethan heather religion, your worse than Pagan mo-
raljty." And then the ghost vanishes, leaving
" Ryles in a state too pitiable for description"
New, must beg leave to say (and it is near IL at
night, and am just going to bed, with nobody IN
the house near me, and very ghosty old house.
too). that with all my pneumatOphobla or fear OF
Ghosts. don't think could be afraid OF such a
fellow as that, any more than if he were an editor
of The Courier. Could l express my sense OF his
barmle IS stupidity in stronger language couldn't
be afraid of such harmless spectre (please to spell
it right for Once), any more than friend OF NINE
says he could of one that spelt his name spectr.
There are one or two little things about this per-
Torrance which will notice while am up0nlt.
It ia entitled: Dialogue between Byles aud Vlsi.
ter by T.. O." Here it is the obvious purpose OF
The Courier to make the world believe that the dis
tinpuished gentleman to whom those initials belong
ia one of the "eninent hands " In its service.
Now. have long had the honor and happiness OF
tolerably intimate acquaintance with the cminent
nerson In question there being very few men Tor
whom ents rtain more unbOunded respect and az
lection. and have no hesitation in pronouncing TINS
attempt to get his name on the BACK OF Inc courier
naper n bungling forgery. When tell you tnat my
ietters to YOU have been sometimes attributed 10
him Inv Intelligent but ilinformed parties you can
;udoe whether the caliber (perhaps it were more
nroper to say bore) of The Courier is one llkey 70
1t the shot he carries in his locker. Aud can as
sure YOU, of my own knowledge, that he Is most las
tidioi,sly particular as to the company ne Keeps
Really The Courier should be satisfied with steal
inc nv IDEAS (which AIN told it is benously sus-
nected Of dopg) and them as Sir Fretful says, dls'
fourinp them so as to pass for its 0wr, rs gypses
do stolen children, without laying It's own natura
imbecilies at his door in the hope that the incoa
sderate public may father some of the rest OF III
hood mon him. However, that rather his affaiI
than mine, and will leave the subject first reassur
ing The Courier as to matter which seems to give
tia good deal of nervous anxiety, viz: that | have
some design of "smashmg it. l Z" smash 1h'
Courier 20 Not l, indeed We have too lew puo
Lie amusements in this country, for me TO deprive
the people hereabouts Of such source of harmless
qaiety. Why, bless its dear old soul, would
lust as soon think ofsmashiDg Philosopher Melien
or Pratt, the Great American Traveller
As 10 the prospects of Splrltuasm IN these parts,
should Judge, from all hear, they are looking up
If ANYTHING could organize it into an institution, II
would be the inOrdinate, enormous, preternatura
anity of The COurier's attacks upon it. Most o.
Them that is-for some were evidently Gas Wendell
Phillips says the American people do with theiI
thinking and their washing) put out OF the house u
be done up by somebody else. delusion Like Spir
itualism is Self limited Disease, and must run it
course, when it will die out Doctoring only aggra
Yates and prolOngs it. l know villages where il
was furiously epidemic fur while, but from which
il has departed entirely, by virtue Of being tremen
desperately dull dogs that nobody Of any spirit and
lyeliness can stand their society long, Aud l can
not but think that the dangers attending this excite
ment are exaggerated even by the sensible and able
men who are making serious business Of opposing
it. l do not imagine the number OF person
oyerset by it are more than are damaged b!
great political excitements. know there are case
Of insanity and of suicide of which Spritualism wa,
the immediate cause; but imagine that they could
be found on investigation to have been Of persons
whose morbid tendencies were not created by thi:
excitement, but only received development and
direction from it. This is the case with all the in.
stances that have come under my personal obserya.
ton.
And this brings me TO the friendly expostulatior
addressed to Inc several weeks ago, through youI
columns, by X, which have been hindered al
along from noticing by the press Of inpatient tOpici
that would not wait. X. thinks it hard that one III
comfortable circumstances and good health, as he
taxes II Tor granted that am, should grudge those
NsS ucHy IN these particulars the consultations they
can derive from Spiritual communications. And he
,hhks tnat The fear Of death and the grief for the
Toss o. irehds is greatly mitgated by the new
knowledge and new relations brought 10 light or es
tablished by the new phlos,nh,, ,h,nL &c II