New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-12
HILLS on POPULATION AND AUTO
GRAPHS.
From The Home JcrreQi, Aug g.


/ IyYADLo ACTHoRsHIr-rhc Authorization" as
it ID charitably called by Tile Ereniag Post under
II which "Miss Peck" labors, touching Mr.. Buffers
poen Of Nothing to Wear" is not are Al affection
of the mind a. it would naturally seem. II may be
rome consolation to Mr. Butler to know that it is
even somewhat an epidemic. We, who are older in
fhe feld could furnish him the particulars OF many
such Peck ulatioos. And. by the way, 1t would De
loss an evil II the stolen child were allowed always,
like Mr. Buffers 70 retain ats proper clothing and
ptysiognoIny. They net only steal the child, but
they mutilatc and disGgure it that the parent HIM
,eli is ashamed to own il when it comes back. We
have basket full OF these returned chapgelings-ones
our OVID, we have ever, reason to bseve-esSEhich
we will give enc az specimen. The reader Is re-
Jom".~ri,ten by \. p. Wins; and found IN most
/ school boOks-Rnd then read tue following:
tkISEs on THH DEATH or An INFANT son OF DR. L.
4 B. D, nARYNGo, n. Y.--BY MISS A. p. r.
Ala. t1os noble DO, that thou .,, ,hon ia, die
That death sheaid settle 10 Thy glorious eye;
And must be MAX the, for the silent tomb
Thon lovely one EDDIE
Co!di. tly brow, dear child! scd they are chill
How they wore wont &c ieel thy pulses Thrill.
Like fish harp..trns waning 10 caTss ,d 'uoe'
But swestlips dear Eddie'
Bu. death i. oe, Thy cradle COUGHS they shall tae s'h
or music hear, the voices Of the young,
/ And M. wi pass IL the nsuilng blush
AID ,rcir dafk tresses the soft winds flung
A Rrf po with thS sWctl voice
Shalt lisp " dear msGime." Eddie
| H,,f,rs u,ee wei: tia hard 10 give theeur
Will death SO like soft slumloI on the"
| In Thy beauty it's hard to take The cup
OF bitterness and woe PREPARED tor M
H. God hss called the young wandrres home
We have cl;pced the above from several successive
g. e,chspee papers" anc il is fairly on its way-to be
ouoted probably in or obituary notice as aspect
u en- Of" the deccsscos talent at verotlcaGon. bu'
In, We said before stolen child may b. well treated,
III ~ hns
mature also. Among others, poem first published IN
lnn srly volume of ours, and called Chlds First
Nnpre, zion Of STAR, u quoted: bodily aud correctly
in an Erglish yolu of cUecedpoetr and tdu pre-
Tie ioOuirs poem ha, becn attributed to many persons
il most objections Il Is set dow ss Asec,n W. o.
very exdnc taste which he hiss dpsyod in several publ,
a. iSasc a,is Eco e. pap TiDsTl The poem
| J. well Anowu probably. TO many OF our readers"
tue stealing Of one name and sppondng it to vile
piece Of dcggerel Of which one is wholly incapable
aud, Of this class, the Peel -ados are quite common
pied almost universally probably from its being a
sphcc. which feels the pulse for very general COM
tsnt credited TO us though we never saw il I'll it
began to pepper Us from poets Corner..' Thu,
| rcaos the beginning OF n:
1hgY cay III - ANoTdLEs NOW-h y. F. WILLIS.
That 40 more dis rm.e. shti see
o.. SAY no. .o-he would 10; trcdk
The solemn vow he pledged TO ne
They tel me, like the Diamond ray,
4 Uss!oyc-ht eye upor nun shines
1 Car Le forget those sacred hosfs.
Hhea every prayer be brcaiAed was io,ns
etc, etc., etc. :.
AID, by tue way, let lis mention here another kind
OF hsht tr ccrirC which L coniderabiy practced OF
iste viz: the manufacture Of eutogrshs Ia several
Col ctons tv- have come upon woce letters, signed
| with initials or iu, name. which, though very
| clever limitations Of our handwriting, were wheiIy
new to u.s. and which had either bcea sold for auto
/ graphs or manufactured for quiz. With what
knowledge We have Of the frequency Of this sort OF
fraud, We shoald DO exceedingly suspicious Of the
g. coIocliors Of autographs which are offered occa-
1 soraly for ssle-the finding worth while to coun-
terfet 80 humble one a. our own, making il more
AaB plobabic that those Of greater value are done
pfteLe aid bette.