New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-09-16
FROM BOSTON.


Bosros, Sept. 10, 1867.
II 10 rather hard that you should expect an Occa-
s;onal Correspondent to write 20 you without an
Occasion for his Correspondence. If nothing rM
hsep-u, what 10 sn unlucky Correspondent
to do i b.ve been indebted TO The Courier
here for two or three occasicns for letters, and
| tsbe il rather bard that j, has net afforded me
another since NY last letter ab,ut it. / should
think We might oro6taby enter into an Alliance OF
Os-n,e, Is not of Defense presume that Sas'
j. s,ys abou: me is entertaining IL the readers OF
The C,u,ier aud know that what say about
TIE Courier is entertaining to the readers Of
TIE TRIBUNE, so should judge an arrangement,
,uch az have b1ted Of, might be reciprocaIy ben
efcial. Ard NY Spirituslist friends, too, sPpear
TO be administering TO me the very medicine pre-
scr.bed for their own case, VIZ: Tremendous
letting alone, so that sm like shuttle With
Gu. e'era battlejore TO make Tie lively and to
keep the feathers flying.
To be sure. there have been some political con-
ventions held, but there was no prospect oil iun'
and went to none of them. You know my senti-
ments IS TO the relative entertainngness OF the sight
Of brethren that agree and disagree, and OF the
issue have made up with DR.. Watts on that point.
Had there been any hope OF the Republicans quar-
reling al Worcester, when they went up there ~
ratify Mr.. BaDkt Is nomination, you may be sure
sh. ud have been on hand. Aud SO, If there had
been spy doubt about the Fremont Know Nothing
and The Gardner ditto dittOes coming together here
and falling upon each Others necks, shouldn'
have missed being in the gallery last Thursday
Had there even been any doubt AS TO the sofe, re-
Iuctant. smOrous consent of Governor Gardner to
take charge of rs all for the ensuing twelvemonth,
ny anxiety 10 have all doubts removed as to so vital
a point would undoubtedly have brought me
wherever nv uueasiness would have been the most
speedily relieved But as his E1cellency had al
ready announced the victory he had obtained over
his guberDatoral anipathes, and his sad resolution
To sacrifice all his private predictions the altar
of public duty, in his speech at Dorchester, my
mind had room only for gratitude, and none what
ever for doubt or curiosity. In short, you must be
aware iha. the game Of thimblerig is amusing only
10 two parties--thc thimble rigger and the thmble
rjggee. Nothing can well be duer to Il locker on
who has nothing stakej, and who knows exactly
under which thimble the little joker will be found.
SO did not 60 to the Know-Nothlng assemblies
last Thursday. Blu. III tell you where did go in
stead Invent with an old school fellow to visit the
spot where after the most straitest sect of OuI
religion. we were brought up, at Andover. Lord
Byron Is pleated to say:
- Dear il the s,hoolbo spot,
We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot
am sorry 20 differ in opinion with two poet,
Dr. Watts and bis Lordship, to WITT in one letter
bat truth compes me- TO call for division Of the
question ] freely admit that / shall never forget
the aforesaid spot, and that am in all probability
utterly forgotten there but cannot cOnscentiously
say that ID is dear to me in any appreciable de-
gree. hated it most cordially at the time, aud
do not feel my regard for materially mltigated by
the years which have since passed over us both.
speak only of the schooboyhood Of the spot-the
SPOT itself and its environs were not without their
merits. The view from the hill on which the school
and the Theological Seminary stand, used to be as
fine as anything could well be- OF no greater extent
| well remember its splendOr in the early Summer
morning, lying blue and beautiful, with the Mohad'
mock in the distance Il hope am not mistaken
about its being that, end the course OF the rlveI
Merrimack defined by the incense OF mist that il
sent M AZ Il, flowed But the barbarous people
have show ed this magnificent prospect no kindness
az ALL They have built their wretched houses
just where they should not, along the slope of the
hill in tn: most pr0tgate and abandoned manner,
so as to murder i by inches.
The SUNNI. of the COnsecrated Hill, a. it used to
be described in tie many prayers which formed part
of our discipline, IL very little changed from what it
was-we viii not say hOs long ago. The Common
had been inclo ed acd new brick printing. Office
built, otherwise il was all as we remembered it.
There were the fni,iar houses Of the Professors
mighty men in the eyes of boys, and terrible fol
lows in the pulpit Of the Chapel Sundays-al Of
which now know them no more. And there wss
Ire old Academy (it was the new Academy them J,
where we rad impaired unto lie our mOdicum OF
rud,meptal Latin ana Greek. To our grief and sur
mise we found il had been deserted for newer
building 90 the decGyty OF the bill, and that it was
locked 90 that We could no: get inside it. My friend
and there can be objection that can see to my
telling you that IL was Mr. n. L. Wlhs-found
ladder and beam, with which we made bridge
up 70 one Of the windows, SO that we got glimpse
o the seats we used TO sit on, and the very marks
Of the 10 :ket.kbivesf our youth yet extant upon
the desks By almost dislOcatng our necks, and
riskDg the integrity Of our legs and arms, we could
command corner Of the awful seat Of the Princi-
PSI worthy DR.. John Adams, who yet survives in q
green OLD sge. II anything eyer should happen 20
our SOILS in the lext world, that pioeous emnence
can besr witness ihst j. will not be for lack OF ex-
hor.ations 70 take care oftbem
The three buildings of the Theological Seminary
miracles of MASSIVE architecture in our younger eyes
-remaiped unchanged, ard the fine green before it
,nv s.ered by the growth Of its trees 1t was, I'M
fortunately vacation that the students IN divinity
missed the words of doctrine or Of exhortalon they
might have had from us.
Prof. aud Mrs. S.owe, on whom ne called as we
walked down the hill, were, unuckily, not at home
Their house stands finely Oh the slope OF the hll-
fronting the college grounds. Behind, they have
managed 10 save good remrsnt of the prospect
from the wholesale massacre have had occasion to
lament. Arrived 10 The village, We took gig and
drove around by our old haunts, our daily walks
Iian5 ancient neynborhood." The road round by
the Red Sp-ioe-so called from its chalybeate tnge
under tie shadow of the woody Indian RIDGE
with the River Shawsheen on the other side, Was
ils, ss we had leit Il long years ago. so was
Pomu,s Pond. +. lovely Little lske memorable for
holiday Ss bos.ings and &iu.er-evening slat1gs. It
derives he name from an old negro who lived near it
do,n 10 D7 time, having been emancipated BY