New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-09

is assumed at best, that Homer was wanderiay
minstrel. such profession among the Greeks be;ns
inferred from the Hymn to Apollo quoted BY Thu.
cydides. and the notices of Phemus and Deuod,
ems on the Homeric poems; but even this nsh,b,,
yagabondsge is de MED by some to the authors Ns
Iliad and Odyssey, and these lyrics are considsrA
a conperies of popular growths, written BY nobody
in partcular: sweet and strong accretions Of Tia
heroic sees. when men sang deeds of valor just u
they foueht-becsuse they could not help it-aua
thus a thousand musical offshoots were grated
upon single trunk, which finally took somebodys
name. In kindred spirit, Shakesperean thesy
has been deliberately set forth-only the Tyre is ls
out-aud we learn that pens welded BY seversl
hand, v rote Hamlet, Lear and Macbeth, the Bard
of Avon getting the credit therefor on account q
the cantsnkerous and cruel politics Of Queen Elm
beths time, which forced men to speak truths d
the tone of kings jest,r-through play house d.
gui.et-through poor devil of theatrical hanger.
on.
There is one great work Of eloquence assuming
in its proportions the grandeurs OF song heroic,
about which We thought that critics Of the school
of Horace Walpole, inventor of Historic Doubts,
had no doubts as to its authorshp-and they hsdat.
We mean, of course that unequaled prediction
the charge of Coroner Connery to the Jury in tho
Burdell case. 1t was thought that when time had
spread the mysticism Of the heroic over that lard
actually, the Midnight Murder, giving it the pro.
portions Of the best sung homicide OF Judea,
Greece or the midde-aged countries OF Europe,
that the charge Of the Connery would be like tia
Second Philippe, the Quousque tandem abuters
patienta nostra, the Give me-hberty-or death
speech. or any other electrical outpOurng of inspr-
alton at a public crisis. Connerys fame, there
fore. we considered as beg ond petty malice like the
ay in the amber. But, now there comes theory
that Connery didn't write Connery in the ssms
way that Homer didn't write Homer, and 6Aaks.
speare didn't write Shakespeare Who says be
(Connery) didn't write COnnery' Conney not
the author of Conneryl Impossible Out upoR
the historic doubter, We have had enough Of that
sort of work. DO let nc have faith and poetry.
Don't destroy Jack the Giant Killer; don't kill
Mother Goose, that lays the golden egg of childish
romance; don't say that Paulding, Williams and
Van Vert were three Samuel Sticks, and no heroes;
don't do such hard positively philosophical things.
Leave Psyche her wings. Softly. We are tos
lyric. We believe too much in the utility of imAgi
native verge and play to make war on the ided
We would have unborn babies and born bsbies
genuine and bogus, when they can read bis
tory of that trial, lisp the name Of Connsry.
We would have elegant extracts from the Charge
placed in the American Reader and the Orators
Own Book. We would have Connery go down to
a the generations as the author of COnnery. But
COnnery would not have it himself. COnnery is net
the author Of Connery. He is! we hear some oas
excsim; it is simply bis Irish mOdesty. No; As
case is clear. Connery has certified before To
Marine Court that he, the said Connery, is not The
author of it, the said Connery. The body Of him,
Connery, and the body Of il, Connery, brought
into Court in this wise:
William Harrison, esq, Of English birth sN
American adoption, wrote COnnery for Conneg
because COrnery could not write Connery for bin
self. He, the said Harrison. wrote COnnery IN
two days and two nights Age of the Submarine
Telegraph, what speed He wrote COnneT tor
CODnery in his, Connery's, EXTREMIST need. Inc
eyes of several continents were upon the Coroner
fortune, fame seem buckled on bis back. he MA
the opportunity for making Of the first Poeneo-
juridica regulations Of the age (has no not msss
it }, only he was not equal to fine writing. Whh
was 10 b. done? Heaven 10 bountifdl. Harrison
turned up. With powers of investigation equal to
q dredging machine; with rhetoric penchant and
opulent; with chirography quick as light Harrisoa
in two dirty little days and nights wrote the whos
Of Connery and then it is published. Instantly.
New York and all the cities whittier went
her ests-cradles Of electrical communications, hsA
with the literary flames of CoDnery. He Conner,
it Connery, are on every tongue. But where, d!
where is Harrison the while Harrison gets from
him (COnuery) ten dollars for writing it. Goa
merry Read the evidence as it appears 10 the 10
port published in another page Of this days TRiB
uNE-" Marine Court; William Harrison agt. Ed
ward DOwpes COnLery" Therein rs set forth nov
the said Harrison really thought that the man who
stole lis good name as author did steal trash, for
be was ready to hand it over to him (COnnery) for
purse-but not for a begearly one Of ten dollars.
In the complaint on contract by the plaintiff, VII
linn Harrison, it appears that the said defendant
"then," that is, or about the 18th day Of Feb
ruary, A. d. 1851, and there that IT, here
in the City os New.Y York, "was unable to pre-
"psre such, his charge and direction to tho
"said Jury, end requested, retained aud
employed the plaintiff to draw up and pre-.
pare the came to be read and delivered by the Do
" fendant as bis charge aDd direction to the JuG.
8 Az at the same time undertook AID promised this
plaintiff that, if this plaintiff would draw up sd
prepare the said charge, he, the said defsndsk